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Ad Police Files 1-3 | 
| Actor: Ad Police Files
Studio: Animeigo
Category: Video
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 102236
Format: Animated, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Edition: Vhs Video
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1565671880
UPC: 737187002847
EAN: 9781565671881
ASIN: 1565671880
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Publication Date: February 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 3 episodes on one tape August 25, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this was a good tape all 3 episodes on one tape. I think the tape was 90 or 75 minutes however it was worth the time also a good price.
 Hard-edged sci-fi anime spun off from BUBBLEGUM CRISIS July 21, 2003
Brian Camp (Bronx, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A.D. POLICE FILES (1990) is a three-part OAV spin-off of BUBBLEGUM CRISIS (1987), the anime cypberpunk sci-fi classic about battles with "Boomers"--androids run amok--waged by the costumed female crime-fighters, the Knight Sabers, in Mega-Tokyo in 2032. A.D. POLICE is set a few years earlier and focuses on members of the title police unit as they combat Boomer crimes at a time when humans and Boomers (who range from strictly mechanical creations to replicas of beautiful women) have become mutually interdependent. This series is grittier and more bloody than BUBBLEGUM CRISIS and is designed more along the lines of a crime thriller with sci-fi elements. Its mixture of sex, violence and cybernetics, all done in sharp, cleanly executed style, should please fans of harder-edged sci-fi anime of the 1990s. The chief protagonists in these episodes are two women officers. Gina Marceau is one tough, no-nonsense A.D. cop and she stars in the first and third episodes, "The Phantom Woman" and "The Man Who Bites His Tongue." Interestingly, her partner is none other than rookie cop Leon Nichols, who figures more prominently as the Knight Sabers' sometime ally in BUBBLEGUM CRISIS and its sequel, BUBBLEGUM CRASH. The young and naive Iris Cara, a member of the regular police, is the lead investigator in the second episode, "The Ripper," in which she encounters a female CEO whose naked ambition has lethal side effects. Each of the episodes deals in some fashion with the question of body parts, either Boomer parts being recycled illegally or humans trading organs and limbs for cybernetic ones. The animation and visual design are a lot stronger on detail and realism than the simpler, bolder graphics of the 1980s-style BUBBLEGUM CRISIS. The earlier series was, in some ways, more fun to watch, and had much more mecha-on-mecha action. A.D. POLICE, on the other hand, may be tough going for the more squeamish viewers, but it's ultimately a more sophisticated work (and leaves out those intrusive songs!). It's also more tightly written, thanks, partly, to screenwriter Noboru Aikawa (PEACOCK KING, VAMPIRE PRINCESS MIYU, THE HAKKENDEN), who wrote the first two episodes here.
Prequel April 9, 2003
This is the AD Police Origional OVA's set, containing volumes 1-3. These OVA's are a prequel to the Bubblegum Crisis Storyline.
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