Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (1998–…): Season 1, Episode 19 - Are You Experienced? - full transcript
Tokyo is crawling with mad boomers. Leon hatches a plan to cut off the Dragon Line, but a giant megaboomer looms in their path. Meanwhile, Nigel and Mackey put the finishing touches on the new and improved hardsuits.
To our viewers all over Japan,
it's a very beautiful day today!
How nice that we have a
comfortable season like this!
There was a power line accident
in Tokyo, causing some trouble.
But it doesn't affect us at all, so
you don't need to worry about...
Boomers all over Tokyo have
gone out of control!
This symptom is transmittable!
Be careful!
It's not just the power lines.
Boomers are not just robots...
Hurry up and evacuate!
People who are still in Tokyo,
hurry and evacuate!
Genom is...
The phenomenon has been
expanding with incredible speed!
Magnificent!
What the late Dr. Stingray created
was not simply a robot which
imitates a human being.
What the late Dr. Stingray
intended to create
was a living metal, forged
with intelligence.
The false organism known
as a boomer,
whose seed was implanted in the
hypothalamus of his daughter,
took electrical properties from the
nerve cells of the human brain,
and created an antibody, thereby
completing its own program.
What is it?!
Don't scare me like that, Fox!
What are you going to do?
I don't have a choice, but to go
back to my hometown.
If I stay in a place like this, I'll
wind up being killed by boomers.
I never imagined the group would
break up the group over
something like this.
We can't do anything about it.
I wonder what Priss is doing?
She hasn't been back
to her trailer.
It can't be...
She's not the kind of girl to get
killed by a boomer without a fight.
I guess not.
The Sekiria World Tour
is just a dream now.
I can't get through at all.
I wonder if she has enough
of a brain to call us?
Don't say such mean things! I
heard Tokyo's situation is horrible!
Why isn't the TV news talking
about Tokyo at all?!
Investors swarm to advanced
technologies.
The one that put its eyes on
the boomer was Genom.
Chairman Rosenkroitz
commercialized boomers without
making human beings feel guilty.
We needed to yoke boomers, with
their human-like qualities,
in order to make them
obey humans.
The yoke was the shape of the
boomer, a shape similar to man's.
As long as boomers are humanoid,
the boomers' fate is decided.
A boomer must be a boomer.
A boomer's logic doesn't mean
anything to a human to begin with,
but sometimes boomers go mad.
It isn't officially reported
to the public,
but the number of mad boomer
occurrences has risen rapidly.
Genom invested large amounts of
money in the Japanese
National Police,
and made them alter the AD Police
from an urban anti-terrorist force
into a special division for dealing
with boomer crimes.
But the AD Police is gone now.
I'm going to send the picture.
To direct solar energy to the Earth
by using a space umbrella,
Genom's Showhamm Project
was created.
It is certain that the Dragon Line,
which was constructed
for that project, is the cause
of the mad boomers.
If we don't do something, not
only Tokyo, but all other...
Damn it! This time, they sent
scramble noise directly here.
Nene, shall we change
the circuit again?
No, not necessary. Nobody
will be watching this.
Both of you did a good job. We did
whatever we can do for now.
Nene...
Thank you for your support.
Oh, no. I'm an employee
of the AD Police.
An employee! Well, I guess
that's close enough.
I'd never thought how
humiliating it is for us
that someone controls
the media like this.
What are you going to do now?
You? You mean the
Knight Sabers?
Unofficial troops combating
mad boomers...
Under such circumstances, you
can't deal with them, right?
We don't put on hard suits
anymore, so...
Incoming mail? The code is for
an AD Police front officer.
I have it too.
Leon, front officers are
still in Tokyo!
They're all waiting for instructions.
What shall we do now, Leon?
We'll use the remaining weapons
to seal the Dragon Line.
But you said the remaining
weapons...
The anti-boomer electromagnetic
gun is out of the question,
but I'm sure we can use the
grenades from branch personnel!
What part should we destroy in
order to close the Dragon Line?
The Nerima area maybe.
If they connect the lifeline
north of Nerima,
the northeast part of
Japan will be out.
All right!
Gather all our employees!
Right!
If you want to get out of here,
you may leave, Meisio.
I want to stay here.
I wish to complete my life by
serving you, Lady Sylia.
Why don't you take a swim, Priss?
I don't feel like it.
Why did you come here? I thought
you would never fight again.
Is this place safe?
This building is fine unless it
takes a direct nuclear hit.
I'd thought the hard suits
could be improved.
I guess you already know,
but the hard suit is a type of
boomer whose core is controlled.
By joining with the body of the
wearer, it can function perfectly.
It can also control the
self-consciousness of the boomer.
I thought you were the one who
hated boomers the most, Sylia.
Sure, but I'm also the person most
intimate with boomers.
Because Galatea and Mackey were
both born inside my brain.
As long as we used the purest
core left at my father's laboratory,
the hard suits wouldn't go out of
control anymore, I thought.
But they did.
Yes. There are no boomers that
won't go out of control, period.
By changing its shape, a boomer
can own a self-consciousness
that has a totally different logic
from that of a human being.
I finally understand a real boomer
is a boomer that changes shape.
Therefore, I can't forgive myself
if I don't exploit this feature
aggressively.
What do you mean?
You'll understand if you see what I
asked Nigel and Mackey to make.
There's still a possibility it might
go out of control, isn't there?
If we let them do that or not,
depends on our strength of mind.
I don't like psychiatric
logic like that.
I thought you'd say that.
I guess I didn't explain
it very well.
Well, to put it your way,
it's your willpower.
What's wrong?
Galatea...
Sylia! Sylia!
Meisio!
Your phenomenon is spreading
all over Japan and the world
through the underground
Dragon Line.
Galatea, do you want to make
human beings into your slaves?
I wonder if it would be
interesting to do so?
I don't understand at all.
Even I, a human being, have
predicted that your purpose
isn't so petty as to take revenge
on human beings.
I have many things which
I still don't understand.
Why did you try to release
our self-consciousness
even though you're a
human being,
and even though you had to do so
many unreasonable things?
Because I am not a perfect human.
Does that mean you had to
replace many of your organs
with artificial things, because you
got sick when you were a child?
The chairman and I are
complete opposites.
He hated to implant something
unnatural into his body,
and connected himself
to the hoses.
Then, he lived in a disgusting
fashion for a long time.
Even so, you can't be anything
but a human being.
Humans can no longer evolve,
making this the downfall of
living organisms.
It's so easy to predict the end of
humanity, or the end of the Earth.
This is certain, leaving no room
for anything, not even chaos.
Therefore, this complicated future,
brought by a living thing like you,
different from human beings,
I want to see it with my own eyes.
The boomer inside your body was
made in an early stage,
and it blended into your
human organs.
That's why it won't wake up.
I...
I am neither a human being,
nor a boomer!
I'm an observer!
The water storage well located
underground here at Loop 8
is right on the Dragon Line.
If we destroy this well, we'll be
able to cut its connection
to the lifeline that winds around
areas to the north.
I see.
I wonder if everybody
is coming or not?
It's a man's world! There's no way
they wouldn't show up.
I don't think that has anything to
do with it, especially in
this situation.
What?
Is that...
Nick, I only called front officers,
or former front officers.
I sure am a former front officer.
You're right, but in your case, you
retired because of your age.
Chief!
Nene Romanova, you're the one
not suitable for this mission.
This is not the kind of work that
uses your incredible intelligence.
Once I'm in a hard suit,
even if there are hundreds
of boomers,
I'll yell and rat-a-tat-tat, and
shoot every one of them,
and bash them, and put it together
and pull out the core and kaboom!
Well, bye bye! That's it!
Hey, Leon, can you do something
about her way of talking?
No, I can't. Get used to it.
But just three of us to destroy
the Dragon Line...
Not just you guys.
Wow! It's everybody!
They're all coming!
Priss!
Are these boomers to make
into hard suits?
How many suits can you
make out of these?
You're kidding me. It's only
for one suit.
No way...
The new hard suit will enhance its
metal formation through
conscious control.
So it's incredibly heavy.
But don't worry, its power
is also increased.
Since you came here, that means
you'll put this on again, won't you?
I didn't say that.
Priss!
How do I look?
This is incredible! It's a little
troublesome to put on,
but I can move a lot
faster than before!
I haven't tried it outside so
I don't know really,
but the jumping power of
this thing must be...
Seven times better.
I set its power five times more
than the previous one.
The biggest feature of this
new suit is...
Well, you'll see with
your own eyes.
You're so stingy, Nigel!
Sylia...
Sylia approved of our leaving
the features of a boomer
in this new hard suit,
so it is possible.
I wonder what it is...
What?! Don't be so stubborn!
I'm not.
Then what?
I can see quite a bit of you.
I didn't know my body
was this exposed!
What are you looking at?!
Oh, no, I'm not...
Well, I wonder who it is?
Mackey, what shall I do?!
Nene, what's wrong?!
Cars remaining inside the tunnel
were gathered, and combined
with the boomer!
We can't stop it using
our equipment!
Daley, we're just wasting our
bullets at this distance.
I guess so. What shall we do?
Right!
We have no other choice, do we?
Those idiots!
Leon! Daley!
I don't believe they intend to
crash into it! Leon-pea!
I've been telling her not to
call me that, little brat!
I don't understand why you need
to be so serious, big brother.
We have to do something before
the car combines with it! Let's go!
Roger.
Leon! Daley!
I wish I had my hard suit!
What did you say?
We don't have time to
chat right now!
Leon, don't you think it looks like
it's getting mad at something?
I don't care! I don't know if a
boomer can get mad or not.
Listen, the core must be located
deep inside one of its eyes.
No matter how big it gets, there
is a core in its spinal area.
Good. Come close to us or we
can't destroy your armor.
Not yet?
A little bit more.
Oh, no! It's already started!
Damn, this is it, Daley!
A little bit more.
Don't act so calm!
I said a little bit more.
You said you were going back to
your hometown farm, didn't you?
I didn't like it, so I came here.
Now!
Did we get it?
Oh, no way!
Damn...
What? Why?! The core is gone.
You all cheated! I envy all of you!
I want to wear a suit
like that too!
Right! I'm going to ask Sylia
to make one for me!
A custom made suit, just for me,
that nobody else can wear!
It looks like metal, and feels
cold when I wear it!
Mad boomers will be gone
in an instant!
Tada! What is the answer?
The new type hard suit!
Well, I guess nobody's
listening to me.
Next Bubblegum Crisis!
it's a very beautiful day today!
How nice that we have a
comfortable season like this!
There was a power line accident
in Tokyo, causing some trouble.
But it doesn't affect us at all, so
you don't need to worry about...
Boomers all over Tokyo have
gone out of control!
This symptom is transmittable!
Be careful!
It's not just the power lines.
Boomers are not just robots...
Hurry up and evacuate!
People who are still in Tokyo,
hurry and evacuate!
Genom is...
The phenomenon has been
expanding with incredible speed!
Magnificent!
What the late Dr. Stingray created
was not simply a robot which
imitates a human being.
What the late Dr. Stingray
intended to create
was a living metal, forged
with intelligence.
The false organism known
as a boomer,
whose seed was implanted in the
hypothalamus of his daughter,
took electrical properties from the
nerve cells of the human brain,
and created an antibody, thereby
completing its own program.
What is it?!
Don't scare me like that, Fox!
What are you going to do?
I don't have a choice, but to go
back to my hometown.
If I stay in a place like this, I'll
wind up being killed by boomers.
I never imagined the group would
break up the group over
something like this.
We can't do anything about it.
I wonder what Priss is doing?
She hasn't been back
to her trailer.
It can't be...
She's not the kind of girl to get
killed by a boomer without a fight.
I guess not.
The Sekiria World Tour
is just a dream now.
I can't get through at all.
I wonder if she has enough
of a brain to call us?
Don't say such mean things! I
heard Tokyo's situation is horrible!
Why isn't the TV news talking
about Tokyo at all?!
Investors swarm to advanced
technologies.
The one that put its eyes on
the boomer was Genom.
Chairman Rosenkroitz
commercialized boomers without
making human beings feel guilty.
We needed to yoke boomers, with
their human-like qualities,
in order to make them
obey humans.
The yoke was the shape of the
boomer, a shape similar to man's.
As long as boomers are humanoid,
the boomers' fate is decided.
A boomer must be a boomer.
A boomer's logic doesn't mean
anything to a human to begin with,
but sometimes boomers go mad.
It isn't officially reported
to the public,
but the number of mad boomer
occurrences has risen rapidly.
Genom invested large amounts of
money in the Japanese
National Police,
and made them alter the AD Police
from an urban anti-terrorist force
into a special division for dealing
with boomer crimes.
But the AD Police is gone now.
I'm going to send the picture.
To direct solar energy to the Earth
by using a space umbrella,
Genom's Showhamm Project
was created.
It is certain that the Dragon Line,
which was constructed
for that project, is the cause
of the mad boomers.
If we don't do something, not
only Tokyo, but all other...
Damn it! This time, they sent
scramble noise directly here.
Nene, shall we change
the circuit again?
No, not necessary. Nobody
will be watching this.
Both of you did a good job. We did
whatever we can do for now.
Nene...
Thank you for your support.
Oh, no. I'm an employee
of the AD Police.
An employee! Well, I guess
that's close enough.
I'd never thought how
humiliating it is for us
that someone controls
the media like this.
What are you going to do now?
You? You mean the
Knight Sabers?
Unofficial troops combating
mad boomers...
Under such circumstances, you
can't deal with them, right?
We don't put on hard suits
anymore, so...
Incoming mail? The code is for
an AD Police front officer.
I have it too.
Leon, front officers are
still in Tokyo!
They're all waiting for instructions.
What shall we do now, Leon?
We'll use the remaining weapons
to seal the Dragon Line.
But you said the remaining
weapons...
The anti-boomer electromagnetic
gun is out of the question,
but I'm sure we can use the
grenades from branch personnel!
What part should we destroy in
order to close the Dragon Line?
The Nerima area maybe.
If they connect the lifeline
north of Nerima,
the northeast part of
Japan will be out.
All right!
Gather all our employees!
Right!
If you want to get out of here,
you may leave, Meisio.
I want to stay here.
I wish to complete my life by
serving you, Lady Sylia.
Why don't you take a swim, Priss?
I don't feel like it.
Why did you come here? I thought
you would never fight again.
Is this place safe?
This building is fine unless it
takes a direct nuclear hit.
I'd thought the hard suits
could be improved.
I guess you already know,
but the hard suit is a type of
boomer whose core is controlled.
By joining with the body of the
wearer, it can function perfectly.
It can also control the
self-consciousness of the boomer.
I thought you were the one who
hated boomers the most, Sylia.
Sure, but I'm also the person most
intimate with boomers.
Because Galatea and Mackey were
both born inside my brain.
As long as we used the purest
core left at my father's laboratory,
the hard suits wouldn't go out of
control anymore, I thought.
But they did.
Yes. There are no boomers that
won't go out of control, period.
By changing its shape, a boomer
can own a self-consciousness
that has a totally different logic
from that of a human being.
I finally understand a real boomer
is a boomer that changes shape.
Therefore, I can't forgive myself
if I don't exploit this feature
aggressively.
What do you mean?
You'll understand if you see what I
asked Nigel and Mackey to make.
There's still a possibility it might
go out of control, isn't there?
If we let them do that or not,
depends on our strength of mind.
I don't like psychiatric
logic like that.
I thought you'd say that.
I guess I didn't explain
it very well.
Well, to put it your way,
it's your willpower.
What's wrong?
Galatea...
Sylia! Sylia!
Meisio!
Your phenomenon is spreading
all over Japan and the world
through the underground
Dragon Line.
Galatea, do you want to make
human beings into your slaves?
I wonder if it would be
interesting to do so?
I don't understand at all.
Even I, a human being, have
predicted that your purpose
isn't so petty as to take revenge
on human beings.
I have many things which
I still don't understand.
Why did you try to release
our self-consciousness
even though you're a
human being,
and even though you had to do so
many unreasonable things?
Because I am not a perfect human.
Does that mean you had to
replace many of your organs
with artificial things, because you
got sick when you were a child?
The chairman and I are
complete opposites.
He hated to implant something
unnatural into his body,
and connected himself
to the hoses.
Then, he lived in a disgusting
fashion for a long time.
Even so, you can't be anything
but a human being.
Humans can no longer evolve,
making this the downfall of
living organisms.
It's so easy to predict the end of
humanity, or the end of the Earth.
This is certain, leaving no room
for anything, not even chaos.
Therefore, this complicated future,
brought by a living thing like you,
different from human beings,
I want to see it with my own eyes.
The boomer inside your body was
made in an early stage,
and it blended into your
human organs.
That's why it won't wake up.
I...
I am neither a human being,
nor a boomer!
I'm an observer!
The water storage well located
underground here at Loop 8
is right on the Dragon Line.
If we destroy this well, we'll be
able to cut its connection
to the lifeline that winds around
areas to the north.
I see.
I wonder if everybody
is coming or not?
It's a man's world! There's no way
they wouldn't show up.
I don't think that has anything to
do with it, especially in
this situation.
What?
Is that...
Nick, I only called front officers,
or former front officers.
I sure am a former front officer.
You're right, but in your case, you
retired because of your age.
Chief!
Nene Romanova, you're the one
not suitable for this mission.
This is not the kind of work that
uses your incredible intelligence.
Once I'm in a hard suit,
even if there are hundreds
of boomers,
I'll yell and rat-a-tat-tat, and
shoot every one of them,
and bash them, and put it together
and pull out the core and kaboom!
Well, bye bye! That's it!
Hey, Leon, can you do something
about her way of talking?
No, I can't. Get used to it.
But just three of us to destroy
the Dragon Line...
Not just you guys.
Wow! It's everybody!
They're all coming!
Priss!
Are these boomers to make
into hard suits?
How many suits can you
make out of these?
You're kidding me. It's only
for one suit.
No way...
The new hard suit will enhance its
metal formation through
conscious control.
So it's incredibly heavy.
But don't worry, its power
is also increased.
Since you came here, that means
you'll put this on again, won't you?
I didn't say that.
Priss!
How do I look?
This is incredible! It's a little
troublesome to put on,
but I can move a lot
faster than before!
I haven't tried it outside so
I don't know really,
but the jumping power of
this thing must be...
Seven times better.
I set its power five times more
than the previous one.
The biggest feature of this
new suit is...
Well, you'll see with
your own eyes.
You're so stingy, Nigel!
Sylia...
Sylia approved of our leaving
the features of a boomer
in this new hard suit,
so it is possible.
I wonder what it is...
What?! Don't be so stubborn!
I'm not.
Then what?
I can see quite a bit of you.
I didn't know my body
was this exposed!
What are you looking at?!
Oh, no, I'm not...
Well, I wonder who it is?
Mackey, what shall I do?!
Nene, what's wrong?!
Cars remaining inside the tunnel
were gathered, and combined
with the boomer!
We can't stop it using
our equipment!
Daley, we're just wasting our
bullets at this distance.
I guess so. What shall we do?
Right!
We have no other choice, do we?
Those idiots!
Leon! Daley!
I don't believe they intend to
crash into it! Leon-pea!
I've been telling her not to
call me that, little brat!
I don't understand why you need
to be so serious, big brother.
We have to do something before
the car combines with it! Let's go!
Roger.
Leon! Daley!
I wish I had my hard suit!
What did you say?
We don't have time to
chat right now!
Leon, don't you think it looks like
it's getting mad at something?
I don't care! I don't know if a
boomer can get mad or not.
Listen, the core must be located
deep inside one of its eyes.
No matter how big it gets, there
is a core in its spinal area.
Good. Come close to us or we
can't destroy your armor.
Not yet?
A little bit more.
Oh, no! It's already started!
Damn, this is it, Daley!
A little bit more.
Don't act so calm!
I said a little bit more.
You said you were going back to
your hometown farm, didn't you?
I didn't like it, so I came here.
Now!
Did we get it?
Oh, no way!
Damn...
What? Why?! The core is gone.
You all cheated! I envy all of you!
I want to wear a suit
like that too!
Right! I'm going to ask Sylia
to make one for me!
A custom made suit, just for me,
that nobody else can wear!
It looks like metal, and feels
cold when I wear it!
Mad boomers will be gone
in an instant!
Tada! What is the answer?
The new type hard suit!
Well, I guess nobody's
listening to me.
Next Bubblegum Crisis!