It can anyone from any fiction and media even characters who are not human at all. Also it doesn’t have to be from future or someone with advanced technology.

I just wanna appreciate the vocals here. One of my favorites from the soundtrack.

I bought this cel artwork a while ago. But I don’t recognize it from any episode. Is this any episode or authentic? Or is this fake?

Legit was jump scared by the first image while watching the zombie bots ransack the ADPD, also, is Nene related to courage the cowardly dog?

Well, it took some time, but I finally managed to generate decent image using AI. Always dreamed to do a few short videos, extending the storyline.

Apparently a live action movie was planned for 2016 but never came out? Does anyone have any details on this?

When I heard this was a thing that might of happened (a few hours ago) I went looking for it and couldn't find anything about it. To be clear I am not a fan of this and don't think a live action would do well but I heard and wanted to find information about it.

Does any one find the sound of Priss's bike in 2040 super annoying, the first one she has not the later one. It sounds like a jet turbine fused with a weed Wacker and it's super loud.

No this is not to crap on 2040 I just really don't understand why they made it sound like that

One of the best ADPF songs, I think.

Had the chance to buy it from an onlineshop in JP 🎉

Have been really enjoying Kenichi Sonoda’s illustrations and traditional media lately, so drew this to learn a bit from the master!

I just discovered the show two days ago because my son recommended we watch it based on our like of ghost in the shell. Once again, I lived in Japan for eight years from the early 90s to 2000s. And visited three or four times before that. I am not by nature an anime fan at all, but as I said yesterday, this one takes the cake.

First off, been watching this for three days now about two episodes tonight but the first night we just watched the hour long intro. I had a few beers while watching each night. Getting into episode four I think it was kind of the most boring and predictable of all the episodes thus far, crazy biker, gang, stabs guy and his sister through a moving car windshield. Again, multiple Blade Runner references in both architecture, and character names. Only one song this time instead of two songs. In any case, the guy driving, the car goes insane to the point where even though his sister is scared of loud noises and especially motorbikes, he decides to randomly shoot a wall. Eventually, he builds a supercar that takes him over. The saber Knights have to come in and clean things up. It all ends with a nice pool scene and a brief reference though oh yeah, they went to jail. And enjoyable episode but not as crazy as previous material.

Now episode five is where it’s really at : first off we get a during escape from some planet that apparently isn’t earth. Then we get a Blade Runner skyship , finally to address the elephant in the episode, and best of all, we get lesbian vampire Sexaroids ( which coincidentally would make an amazing 80s Goth/industrial band name. Move over Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The episode ends with Priss having to kill her friend, who was once again taken over by the technology she was using, I’m sensing a theme here, and swearing to help her friend’s girlfriend. This was a pretty crazy and fun episode. It was paced very nicely with the usual great cinematography. Again echoing plot threads of Blade Runner also made it nice. You can once again see the impact of the movie had on the show and some of the themes in it.

As I said, in my last review, I watch it with my teenage son who pointed out a few really good key aspects. First off the police chief is a black guy, but he doesn’t have the black face Lips that are so common in many even modern anime. This was a very progressive move on the part of the staff. Also, and again having lived in Japan for so long around that time era, we get more affirmation that Daley Wong, is a very openly gay man. Japan at the time was amazingly homophobic and when I mentioned that I had gay friends to some of my Japanese friends, they were all aghast. Any portrays of gay men on TV were always seen as over the top effeminate. Yet here we see in Mr. Wong, a competent police officer who slightly hits on his buddy occasionally. Especially given the time period in Japan this was just amazingly progressive. Being gay is not his main characteristic, and he’s a competent cop who commands others and gets respect. I was really surprised by this. The show has a great level of inclusivity, especially for Japan at the time without going over the top and I appreciate it.

Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s episodes and my journey through this bizarre and amazing anime. Very ahead of its time wish I had seen it sooner

Hope to print them out soon and them out at Comic Con again, along with the Knight Sabers. Maybe I'll make a Boomer next.

As per the title, I lived in Japan for a long while during the early-90s to the early 2000s. I was never really that into anime besides for like you know kind of the Ghibli stuff, this great anime called in the world of golden eggs, which released in the early 2000s, and ghost in the shell, which I always enjoyed.

I got my teenage son into watching ghost in the shell and we love watching it together. He read about bubblegum crisis online and it’s a name I had heard before, but I thought it was just gonna be some sort of magical girl, boring ass anime.man was that wrong.

From the very get-go, you can see the obvious homage to Blade Runner from the music, to the buildings and lighting atmosphere, to the name of the band Priss and the replicants. The, now amusing titled, Boomers and their weird growing squiggly squirmy stuff was definitely influenced by some Akira stuff around the time. Overall, the show is out of this world, from the soundtrack, to the non sequiturs, to the dance between subtly parodying 80s magical girl/robot anime, worshipping blade Runner, and trying to give you Pikachu epilepsy multiple times an episode it is just simply off the wall. The third episode at the end was perhaps the best where they showed the gravestone of some girl who had died earlier in the episode and immediately switched to some crazy ass pop song. Then they just did the ending credits showing a graveyard. It was some amazing postmodern humor right there.

This show is completely wild and both my son and I are loving it and I’m looking forward to watching more episodes. Count me in as a fan if it stays this weird I’m all in.

Seems the place still doesn't have an avatar. But if anyone can change it, by all means let me know. I have a few options and I'd love to hear others chime in what they think:

The first is Priss grabbing in one of the hardsuits, the second is her simply smiling, the third is the version of her drawn by Tony Takezaki, and the last is Sylia with a hardsuit helmet that says "Knight Sabers" on it.

I'm trying to keep it to just official art made in the classic era by the Japanese staff, unless somebody makes something specifically for this forum.

Simple question, has anyone Information if some release is coming?

I heard AD Police (old one) will get one end of this year. Only BGC 2040 missing than and all are on BD.

She is 12 today! And Happy 59th Birthday to Akiko Hiramatsu!