First of all, I have to say I don't know Bubblegum Crisis and I'm definitely not interested in that series.
This one seemed to be more down my alley, but it was very disappointing.
Story wise it had some interesting aspects, with the premise of the cyborgs going rogue, there were some other bits that could have been worked out more, but not much was done with it.
I always like the cyberpunk setting, and this one had some good moments where the atmosphere was enjoyable for me.
But then, the characters are too bland, very little effort was put into the visual or writing design, with the last episode being a rip off of Robocop (as so many say), I thought it was the strongest character of the whole series, at least it has something going on..
The action was also very bland, I don't remember any of it being particularly interesting, the pace is boring and most of the dialog is cringe.
Of course there has to be misogyny, since is a Jap animation, but sometimes it goes too far or is unnecessary, and this is one of those cases.
The art is decent but nothing extraordinary. I was also attracted to the series by the advertising posters, which look amazing, but nothing on that style is on this series.
Something that particularly bothered me was the music. Terrible. Specially because they play music with lyrics during parts of the story when characters are explaining what's going on! I struggled to understand any of the dialog, and I thought it was such an amateurish thing to do, I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. On the rest of the time, the music was completely out of mood and VERY off putting to the action. Unbelievably bad musicalization.
Overall a very mediocre and boring series, wouldn't recommend it.
