Set a few years before Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, A.D. Police chronicles the tales of Mega-Tokyo's special police division designed to control rogue Boomers in the city. A.D. Police Officer Kenji Sasaki faces a major dilemma: he loses another partner to a rabid boomer. A day after he's sent off-duty, he receives a new partner in the form of German cop Hans Kleif. Funny thing is that Kenji sucker-punched Hans at a bar the night before. Not only does Kenji face the everyday task of controlling Boomers, he has to learn to adjust with his new partner.
A.D. Police should have been an easy win for me—set in the same universe as Bubblegum Crisis and sharing the same premise of a specialized police unit fighting rogue boomers, it had all the ingredients I normally enjoy. But for reasons I still can’t fully pin down, this series just didn’t work for me. Maybe it was the flatter character designs, which lacked the grit and personality of the earlier OVA. Maybe it was the overall production quality, which felt noticeably weaker and less atmospheric. Or maybe it’s simply that A.D. Police Files set such a high bar with its darker tone, sharper writing, and more mature storytelling that this series felt like a diluted version in comparison. The episodes tried to explore similar themes—technology, morality, corruption—but without the same weight or emotional impact. In the end, it never clicked with me, and remains one of the few cyberpunk anime entries I couldn’t connect with.
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A.D. Police
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November 22, 2025A.D. Police should have been an easy win for me—set in the same universe as Bubblegum Crisis and sharing the same premise of a specialized police unit fighting rogue boomers, it had all the ingredients I normally enjoy. But for reasons I still can’t fully pin down, this series just didn’t work for me. Maybe it was the flatter character designs, which lacked the grit and personality of the earlier OVA. Maybe it was the overall production quality, which felt noticeably weaker and less atmospheric. Or maybe it’s simply that A.D. Police Files set such a high bar with its darker tone, sharper writing, and more mature storytelling that this series felt like a diluted version in comparison. The episodes tried to explore similar themes—technology, morality, corruption—but without the same weight or emotional impact. In the end, it never clicked with me, and remains one of the few cyberpunk anime entries I couldn’t connect with.
