While they wait, Priss and Linna's careers suffer serious setbacks, spurring them both to get back into their suits, with Linna having a personal grudge to settle. Sylia has planted false information concerning the whereabouts of one of the components, and is waiting for Lando to take the bait. Zone Corporation, makers of Boomer brains, have hired them to safeguard the remaining two components of their newly-devloped, top secret AI from theft by the Illegal Army, who have been robbing the banks where the components were concealed. Thus placated, they waste no time in devouring the feast Sylia has laid out.Īfterwards, in a leisurely sauna session, Sylia explains their current contract. Sylia explains that, far from breaking up, the new hardsuits are ready and it's time to go back to work. When they arrive, Sylia entreats them to eat, but, convinced that this is the Knight Sabers' last supper, they insist that Sylia tell them what she wants to talk about. She asks Nene to bring Priss and Linna to her suite at the Imperial Hotel, which is where she's staying while her building undergoes renovation.
Suddenly, Sylia appears on the screen of the video game console, acting like all's right with the world. Like Leon, Nene tries to burn off her frustrations. The voice tells him the AI is essential to their project. Lando that he has done well in securing the first two components of a new artificial-intelligence unit, but that they are useless without the remaining two. Lando, were supposedly wiped out in a failed operation the year before.Įlsewhere, a mysterious voice tells Col. There the trail ends, because the Illegal Army, and their leader, Col. Modified versions of the suits then turned up in the hands of the Illegal Army, a mercenary outfit with a penchant for turning up in the world's hot spots. Originally developed by the EC three years before, further development was halted when initial tests revealed design flaws. Leon tries to blow off some steam at the firing range, but loses his cool and nearly shoots Nene when she comes to tell him that she has successfully tracked down some data on the powered suits. Meanwhile, the powered suits commit a second robbery, clearly taking something else besides gold. Nene becomes convinced that the Knight Sabers are all but dead and buried, and decides to make do with AD Police. The sudden disappearance of Sylia is of great concern to her, but Priss and Linna don't seem to care. Over dinner that night, Nene expresses her disgust at Priss and Linna's self-indulgent behavior. Linna is now working for a stock brokerage, where she has developed a taste for insider trading. Afterwards, her manager tells her that she's going to get her big break. That evening, Priss is making a demo tape of one of her songs for a group of record company executives.
Leon and Daley ask their new Chief to petition the Diet for permission to use AD Police's own mobile suits, permission they now need due to AD Police's history of accidentally causing mayhem and destruction.Īfter a somewhat less than pleasant encounter with the latest in cheap labor at a coffee shop, Leon and Daley discuss what has become of the Knight Sabers, from whom nothing has lately been heard. With Leon and Daley in charge, AD Police attempts to apprehend the crooks, but air support arrives too late to prevent them escaping in their own helicopter. One evening, Glory Bank receives some unwelcome after-hours customers: a gang of robbers decked out in advanced powered suits. It's very 80s in most ways and there are a number of directors and producers who were relatively new or outright cut their teeth directing some of the OVAs (Masami Obari comes to mind and is SUPER obvious when you see them).It is the year 2034 A.D. There's some cheesecake like panties once in a blue moon and there are maybe 2 instances of outright nudity that I can recall, but it's nothing truly awful and pandering like you see nowadays. The obvious Blade Runner references and nods are actually well-played to the point where I was hoping in BR2049 they would have just acknowledged the Japanese Genom corp as a competitor to Replicants, even if only in passing, to bring them all into some weird soft-canon of awesomeness. At the least it kind of answered the question of if Sylia is a boomer or at least augmented in some way like how in Blade Runner Deckard was all but told to be a replicant, in the end. To be honest, I enjoyed 2040 a lot, as well, even if it went in some odd directions. It's a shame the production woes and then.