Bubblegum Crisis/YMMV

Bubblegum Crisis / Bubblegum Crash / AD Police Files

 * Characterization Marches On: In Bubblegum Crash!...
 * Priss starts using ore instead of watashi as a first person pronoun, which she hadn't done before her voice actress was replaced. Her animosity to the idea of Adama being a boomer who thinks exactly like a human is inexplicable considering her previous relationship with Sylvie.
 * Nene Took a Level in Badass, right after OVA 8 gave her A Day in The Spotlight episode that was all about how she didn't need to be a conventional badass.
 * Complete Monster: Bryan Mason/Largo
 * Contested Sequel: Bubblegum Crash.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome:
 * OVA series: "Kon'ya wa Hurricane", "Mad Machine", "Asu e Touchdown", "Victory", "Crisis ~ Ikari o Komete Hashire", "Akuma no Tenshi no Kiss", "Bara no Soldier", "Mysterious Night", "Rock Me", "Say Yes!", "Never The End", "Bye Bye My Crisis", "Chase the Dream"
 * Bubblegum Crash!: "Hateshitenai Tabi" (OP)
 * AD Police OVA: "Dead End City" (OP)
 * Ear Worm: Funky Doll, the BGM that plays during the aerobics scene in episode 2 and during Nene's work montage in episode 8. Basically everything aerobics is, was, and will be distilled into three minutes of music.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Largo. Madigan doubles as a hot secretary.
 * Ho Yay: Many fans speculate that Sylia might have a romantic interest in Priss.
 * Moe: OVA!Nene was a moe character 10 years before the word was invented. Interestingly, even though 2040!Nene was created only two years before moe was invented, she doesn't really qualify, being more of a Screwy Squirrel.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Largo. Most notably when he lies to Anri about Sylvie's death, and convinces her to stab Priss. He follows up after Priss' apology by laughing off both Sylvie's sacrifice and delivering a Motive Rant for the previous episode. And when Anri Takes the Bullet for Priss, all the would-be Boomer Messiah has to say is that "it's" Just a Machine. After all of this, He Must Die!
 * Sequelitis
 * Serial Numbers Filed Off: "The Man Who Bites His Tongue", the third episode of the A.D. Police OVA series, is a blatant ripoff of RoboCop (but both Darker and Edgier and Hotter and Sexier).
 * The Woobie: The sexaroid girls from the fifth OVA, Sylvie, Anri, Meg, Lou, and Nam. The latter three provide a Heroic Sacrifice so Sylvie and Anri can get to Earth.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: As well as an Anti-Villain, Sylvie has to resort to killing people to supply Anri with blood after she's injured in their escape. And then the battle mech she's been using goes into auto pilot after it believes Sylvie has died in combat, which leaves Sylvie helplessly begging the machine to stop fighting Leon and the Knight Sabers. The only way to stop the mech from overheating and eventually self-destructing was for Sylvie to actually die. And Priss was the one who put Sylvie out of her misery.

Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 / AD Police: To Serve and Protect / Parasite Dolls

 * Crowning Music of Awesome:
 * BGC Tokyo 2040: "y'Know" (OP), "Idea", "Bukkirabou na Ai ni Oboreta", "Waiting For You" (ED), "Ame", "DGR-1"
 * AD Police TV: "Toki no Naka de" (ED; in a rare example of the ending theme being better than the opening, even ADV used it in all of its trailers for this series.)
 * Die for Our Ship: 2040!Leon. Yeah, there IS Les Yay between Linna and Priss, but bringing down Leon for that is NOT helping the cause.
 * Jump the Shark: In theory, it was a good idea for 2040 to finally show MegaTokyo getting devastated by a Robot War, but look at what happened to Priss in that episode: she gets attacked by berserk mini-Boomers shaped like clown dolls, she can't fend them off without her hardsuit, and she has to get rescued by Leon, after which she blushes and goes all dere-dere over him. It all seems to be symptomatic of 2040's inability to take its own premise seriously.
 * Villain Decay: At the end of Parasite Dolls,.

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