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It's difficult to get past the notion that sits in an odd place insofar as assessment is concerned. Upon its initial release, the show drew plenty of comparison to the original – a straight to video work that had, by that time, seen its earlier instalments sneak past a decade in age – that it was reinterpreting, its identity an amalgamation of flashes of the past and a desire to appeal to the future. And, at the turn of the millennium, this was largely understandable, appropriate even. The original Bubblegum Crisis may serve as but a footnote in the growing catalogue of anime classics, but it was also among the scant few legitimate releases that could be purchased locally in Australia during those hazy days of the VHS. 2040 by comparison, was a modern spin on what felt like a relic; a contemporary product set to do battle with nostalgic memories. It is therefore, a mite disconcerting to think that 2040 has now itself, passed ten years of its (not just yet) mortal coil. At this point, backed by a recent re-release, it's living its own life.

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A life that is for many people, surely divorced from its own heritage. This independence causes some questioning over just how much has changed. When 2040 first rolled around, the original was already looking very much a product of its era: the soundtrack, the character designs, the plot sensibilities, the hairstyles – no amount of CG re-touching could hope to give it a modern chic.

But, while the 80's flavour of the OAV may constitute a near genre-like classification all to itself, what with all the nipping it did around Blade Runner's ankles, 2040 presently feels lost in a flux of almost-but-not-quite timelessness. While the original character designs wore day-to-day outfits that draw obsessive detail from the worst decade in fashion, their modern counterparts walk a stark contrast of simple designs and clean colours; where streets were painted with decrepit sketchiness, colour is now bold and smooth; where synth pop-rock once reigned, there now stands Sekiria's rock-ish soundtrack, one with enough breathing room that even it defies easy era classification. Allow your imagination to toss in some polygons for the mechanical designs, change the aspect ratio and saturate the odd scene with CG light sources, and BGC 2040 could easily be mistaken for a show produced just this year past. All of which creates some bizarre believability problems – while just a glance is enough to tell that the original Bubblegum Crisis was a product of a time that though people would still use phone boxes in the far flung future, 2040's more contemporary appearance makes the bulky nature of much computing equipment – to say nothing of the total lack of smart-phones (although it tepidly does flirt with the idea) – seem bafflingly out-of-touch.

But to dwell on this too much might be unfair. This is a show about powerful corporations corrupted with evil agenda, and it is all backed by the general anime logic that futuristic technology must always eventually equate to robots. And, also according to rote anime logic, robots always lead to problems.

While the original Bubblegum Crisis introduced a stack of concepts and characters that it was happy to leave largely unexplored in the name of high-octane action sequences involving robots blowing up a lot of helicopters, 2040 makes a deliberate effort to breath life into everything that could have been considered underutilised. This is apparent from the very beginning, where viewers discover that Linna Yamazaki – a character largely left on the sidelines in the OAV – has been given the leading role. Having just moved to Tokyo from a small rural town, she is out to prove that a 'hic' (a term that, mercifully, only appears in the ) can succeed in the city and, more importantly, has a burning desire to track down the Knight Sabres – an all-female vigilante group that dons specialised hardsuits in order to pacify occurrences of Boomers (robots) going rogue. The first few episodes are used to set up this scenario and to establish how Linna – surprise, surprise – becomes a Knight Sabre herself. Despite several bursts of action, these opening episodes nonetheless feel a little slow. This is largely down to the show taking its time to get all the pieces in play, and failing to do the best job of foreshadowing what's to come, or even what came before – Tokyo was largely destroyed by an earthquake, you say?