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[[File:Bubble2040.jpg|frame|The Knight Sabers of ''Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040'': Sylia (top), Nene (left), Linna (right), Priss (bottom, and in the blue hardsuit)]]
The 1998 "reimagining" of the classic [[OAV]] [[Anime]] series ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''
Linna Yamazaki is an [[Office Lady]] who has moved to Tokyo to pursue both her career and the [[Urban Legends]] known as "The Knight Sabers" -- a small group of women in [[Powered Armor]] who protect the city from rogue boomers. She witnesses a Boomer going rogue, causing destruction and attacking people, and watches as Tokyo's elite AD Police fail to contain it only for the Knight Sabers to appear and save the day. With the Sabers confirmed to be real, Linna tracks the group down and joins them as a close combat specialist. The group is an eclectic one: Priss Asagiri, a punk rocker and heavy assault specialist; Nene Romanova, a perky hacker who handles sensors, ECM and battlefield communications; and billionaire Sylia Stingray, founder and leader of the Knight Sabers, who [[Mission Control|rarely enters the field]]. Supporting them is Nigel Kirkland, an engineer who helped create boomer technology.
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* [[Action Girl]]: All the Knight Sabers, but mostly Priss and Linna.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Nene went from being a redhead to a blonde in ''2040''; Sylia became a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] instead of a [[Brainy Brunette]].
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: While many people debate whether the original or new series is best, what they ''don't'' debate is that Linna [[Took a Level in Badass|took twenty levels of badass]] in ''2040''. While in the original series she was a ditzy, materialistic and (to most of the series' plot) inconsequential character, in ''2040'' she's a much more down-to-earth girl with a strong personality and a hidden intolerance
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: The rogue boomers.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: ''2040'' has a full-scale invasion of the Sabers' base once {{spoiler|Galatea starts the [[Robot War]]}}.
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* [[Body Horror]]: An important aspect of the OVA Boomers' design that was unfortunately absent from ''2040'''s Boomers.
* [[Broad Strokes]]: ''2040'' vs. the original. Provoked reactions of [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] from some fans of the OVAs.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Most of the characters have names (and appearances in some cases) that suggest they're of mixed ancestry, but they still all speak Japanese and are pretty obviously Japanese culturally. Part of this has to do with [[Cyberpunk|the show's genre]] and ''Japan's'' take on impending multiculturalism (well, for [[The Eighties]] at any rate).
* [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]] - Each Saber has a different colour that identifies them:
** Sylia, White/Bluish-white and Blue
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* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Daley.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Linna
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Tokyo is much cleaner and shinier in ''2040'' than the original OVAs -- at least before the [[Robot War]].
* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: To the hardsuits.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: Priss may get up to level 6 with amateurish punk songs like "Bug List".
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