A.D. Police: Dead End City
| A.D. Police Files | |
United Kingdom DVD cover from Manga UK
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| Genre | Cyberpunk, Detective fiction, Horror |
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| Original video animation | |
| Directed by |
Takamasa Ikegami (File 1) Akira Nishimori (File 2 & 3) |
| Written by |
Sho Aikawa Tony Takezaki |
| Music by | Takehito Nakazawa, Kaoru Mizutani |
| Studio | Artmic & AIC |
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| Released | May 25, 1990 – November 22, 1990 |
| Runtime | 26 minutes per episode |
| Episodes | 3 |
A.D. Police Files is a three-part original video animation produced by Youmex and animated by Artmic and AIC. It's a spin-off of the Bubblegum Crisis series. Due to the legal conflict between Artmic and Youmex, the production of the series was stopped with only three complete episodes made.
Chronologically set before the events narrated in Bubblegum Crisis, it tells about AD. Police inspector Leon McNichol's early days in the AD. Police when he was a mere officer.
At the beginning of the episode, a heavily-wounded Leon, who is still part of the regular police force, faces down and manages to kill a rampant female Boomer. The action then cuts to a later incident, where regular police are attempting to subdue an older-model female Boomer that has gone rampant in a local tea shop. The Boomer proves too tough for them to take down, killing and injuring several officers, and the A.D. Police are called in to assist. Several AD officers rush the synthetic and attempt to physically shut it down. Alles, one of the A.D. Police's veterans, is shot dead when the Boomer slips out of the squad's control. Having obtained the shop owner's permission, the squad commander orders the boomer to be destroyed by firing squad. Later, as the squad mourns Alles, an administrative official calls the legitimacy of his death into question. He says that after some investigation, there were no faults found in the tea shop boomer's programming, it was simply overworked, and could not be at fault for going haywire. He says that Alles knew the boomer that killed him, frequented the tea shop regularly, and theorizes that he had tampered with the synthetic to kill him so that his family could collect on his large life insurance policy. Leon and Gina both disagree with this claim, and aim to prove it incorrect. They set out to show that other local boomers had hidden faults as well. They make a visit to a hacker contact of Gina's who is able to provide them with a list of possible users that have been illegally recycling old and decommissioned boomers. Meanwhile, they are shadowed by an unknown female, who is revealed to be the boomer Leon killed when he was with the regulars, obsessed with finding him. Gina and Leon split up to follow separate leads on boomer recycling operations. After interrogating a shady factory owner, Gina discovers that the original, recycled boomer was part of an underground sex trafficking business. Leon is stalked by his boomer, but does not recognize her, instead taking her for a common prostitute. The boomer begins erotically fantasizing about Leon killing her again, is driven mad with bloodlust, and attacks him, hoping that he'll shoot her again. In the ensuing fight, Leon is again injured, and runs out of bullets. Just as the psychotic boomer is about to kill him, Gina arrives and puts a round through her head, saving him. The episode ends with Leon questioning whether humans have a place in the city, or whether it belongs to the boomers.
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