From there, let’s say everything goes horribly wrong. Your arm is torn off, your satellite beam blast nails YOU instead, and you get a bullet in your head just when you almost salvage some dignity! Then to top things off you fall off possibly the largest man-made structure on the planet, the friggin' GENOM tower!!!!!

Would you be bitter? I thought so... THUS comes the Sequel to the definitive cyberpunk 8 part OAV series:

Following the Lawsuit that killed the previous series, Sonoda and Artmic got together and created this 3-part series which is meant to act as closure for the BGC (many would argue that it instead bastardized it, but that's for another time and soapbox). Years later we see our lovely ladies have moved on in life, Mackie's gone off to Europe and either everyone forgot about Genom or it simply disappeared! Things are pretty tame until a certain Hyperboomer comes back to tear things up and bring Megatokyo to its knees!!! In a complex and twisted series of events, the toughest opponent the Knight Sabers had ever faced comes back and begins to manipulate people for mysterious reasons. The girls have more widget related stuff this time around with improved suits, a new gunship, tons of neat gadgets (particularly for Priss' suit) and, of course, some new clothes.
While not the most memorable portion of the BGC Universe. It stood out for the primary reason that it ENDS the series. That's probably the only thing it really had going for it since the production values (story, audio, visuals, etc.) took a back seat for this obviously rushed project. A must see for any BGC completist who bemoans the hanging conclusion to the original series or wants to see why people turn their noses up when they hear Crash mentioned as continuity.

The 3-part series is available on one tape (dub or sub) and on DVD from Animeigo in "The complete Crash collection", pick it up at your local DVD retailer for $24.99 (price seen at Suncoast Video).
I picked up the Total Crash Collection DVD in late July of '03 so expect a review sometime soon.

Bubblegum Crash Reviews, by X. Luevano

• Illegal Army - A band of mercenaries is raiding places all over Megatokyo for all sorts of high-tech gadgetry. Meanwhile, the KnighSabers are going through internal conflicts as Sylia is nowhere to be found and Priss and Linna are so elated with the way their careers are going that they're considering leaving the team! Can Nene find Sylia AND keep the KnightSabers from parting ways in time to stop the group known as the Illegal Army?!?
  
• Geo Climbers - A prototype boomer which can actually break the barrier between human and machine (I thought Anri & Sylvie covered this thing already...) is stolen and then accidentally set free to wander Megatokyo. Priss finds the boomer, but a band of hardcore boomer soldiers is hot on their tail. Can Priss save ADAMA and is a boomer really that much of a concern for her?
  
• MELTDOWN - A stupidly powerful boring machine is drilling its way into a Nuclear power plant so big it could not only wipe out Megatokyo, but kill off the entire human race! The clock is ticking! Can the Knightsabers stop the machine and defeat not one but 4 Largos???

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