| A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve | |
 North American DVD cover of A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve (Complete Series) | |
| アドバンスドポリス (Adobansudo Porisu) | |
|---|---|
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hidehito Ueda |
| Written by | Yasuko Hoshikawa |
| Music by | Yoshinobu Hiraikawa |
| Studio | AIC |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 7, 1999 – June 30, 1999 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Related works | |
A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve (アドバンスドポリス, Adobansudo Porisu) is a 1999 cyberpunk anime television series. It is set in a rebooted universe of Bubblegum Crisis, as it is a prequel to the series reboot, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040.
A.D. Police began as a three-part OVA series seen as a prequel to the Bubblegum Crisis series that was called A.D. Police Files released in 1990. Nine years later the production team decided to use the world view/ background of the original A.D. Police and fleshed it out a bit more, making an anime series consisting of 12 30-minute episodes. By updating the storyline as well as adding more updated elements of reality that have to do with the coming of the new millennium, the makers of the new A.D. Police series sought to create a series that surpassed its predecessor.
In the not-too-distant future VOOMERS (VOodoo Organic Metal Extension Resource), robots manufactured by the Genom Corporation, take care of most of the manual labor in Genom City. Recently the VOOMERS have been malfunctioning and becoming BOOMERS, crazed robots who are often involved in many violent and criminal activities. This is when the A.D. Police comes into play. They are Genom City's anti-robot crime division, specially trained to deal with VOOMER-related situations. Kenji Sasaki is one of the A.D. Police's most skilled officers. His biggest problem is that he doesn't follow orders and his partners either end up getting killed or seriously injured. Enter Hans Kleif, Kenji's newest partner and an amnesiac who was recently transferred to Genom City. Together the two must overcome their differences, fight their past demons, and come together to ensure that Genom City survives the onslaught of the BOOMERS.
A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve is available in North America in a 2-disc special edition DVD from ADV Films. The original series is on DVD from Animeigo.