Bubblegum Crash

After going their separate ways, the four women in powered suits have quietly scattered — the leader vanished, the rock vocalist drifting between shady managers, the aerobics instructor dabbling in stocks, and the tech whiz still grinding away at the AD Police. The Knight Sabers are done. Then MegaTokyo starts falling apart again. A mercenary group in advanced armor is hitting high-tech companies and stealing rare components, Boomers (the city's humanoid robots) are glitching out in violent ways, and something underneath all of it points toward a dangerously sophisticated artificial intelligence being built by someone with resources and no good intentions. Sylia Stingray resurfaces, and the team reluctantly reassembles. This 3-episode OVA picks up where Bubblegum Crisis left off, so if you've watched that and want more of the same cyberpunk MegaTokyo atmosphere with the Knight Sabers front and center, this is exactly what it sounds like. The pacing is tighter since it's only three episodes, and the story leans into both the external threat and the quiet tension of a group that isn't sure they still work as a unit. If you liked Ghost in the Shell's near-future corporate dystopia or Appleseed's mix of mech action and social unease, the world here scratches a similar itch. The soundtrack holds up, the powered suit designs are distinctly late-80s-into-early-90s, and the whole thing has that grounded, adult-cast energy where the characters have actual lives outside the fighting.