Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 - Characters

Characters

Many of the characters are similar to those in the OVA series.

See also: List of Bubblegum Crisis characters

Priss Asagiri (プリス・S・アサギリ, Purisu Esu Asagiri?)

• Voiced by: Yu Asakawa (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)

Priss is the strongest member of the Knight Sabers, specializing in heavy assault. The vocalist of an underground rock band, she lives in the slums of the town in a trailer truck and is a distrustful loner who is rarely seen with her fellow Knight Sabers. She hates the AD Police because they broke her favorite CD when they destroyed a factory she lived in. AD Policeman Leon McNichol is attracted to her, but she initially mocks him. As the series progresses, her view changes as they both encounter each other in various dangerous situations and they helped each other. She also begins to become more friendly with her fellow team mates, though she always retains some distance with them and is very protective of her privacy. Eventually, after realizing Sylia loved Nigel, Priss allowed them both to be together and she eventually developed a romantic relationship with Leon. After Galatea's attack on Tokyo and learning the true nature of their hard-suits are boomers, she at first becomes resistant in returning to the Knight Sabers as well as helping out Sylia; after Galatea's attacked Japan and risked the lives of her friends, she returned to the Knight Sabers to defeat Galatea. After defeating Galatea, she was stranded in space and left to die; Galatea offered her a chance to live, by joining her, but it's unclear does that mean is Priss merged with Galatea or it did Galatea merely used her powers to save Priss and left her personality intact.

Linna Yamazaki (リンナ・ヤマザキ, Rinna Yamazaki?)

• Voiced by: Rio Natsuki (Japanese), Kelly Manison (English)

Farm girl Linna traveled to Megatokyo to become a Knight Saber and to get away from her overbearing family. An office lady for the Hugh-Geit Corporation, she is constantly harassed by her bosses but continues to be a positive, friendly, and outgoing person who dreams of helping others. After joining the Knight Sabers, she forms a close sisterly relationship with Nene.

Sylia Stingray (シリア・スティングレイ, Shiria Sutingurei?)

• Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Laura Chapman (English)

An enigmatic billionaire, and the founder of the Knight Sabers, Sylia is the daughter of Dr. Katsuhito Stingray, the man who invented Boomers. Implants in her brain were used to create both Galatea and Mackey and her brain patterns were used in the creation of Boomers thus strongly relating her to boomers, but she sees them as an abomination as her mother did. She acts as ground support for the Knight Sabers. She is in love with Nigel Kirkland, a sullen mechanic who was an engineer on the Boomer project who helped her design and build the hard suits. Sylia owns and operates an upscale clothing boutique called Silky Doll, which also serves as a front for the Knight Sabers HQ. Sylia suffers from regular flashbacks; most stem from her extremely complicated and disturbing childhood involving her mother's death and the cruel experiments her father conducted on her. She rarely dons her hardsuit or enters combat.

Nene Romanova (ネネ・ロマノーヴァ, Nene Romanōva?)

• Voiced by: Hiroko Konishi (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)

An 18-year old perky and naïve hacker who is employed as an operator for the AD Police, Nene is a genius with computers and routinely hacks into military networks. She is recruited for the Knight Sabers after she hacks Sylia's computer trying to learn more about them. She primarily works on sensor ops, battlefield communications, ECM and ECCM. As the series progresses, Mackey develops a crush on her, despite the fact that she is three years older than him. The two eventually become good friends, although their relationship remains platonic.

Leon McNichol (レオン・マクニコル, Reon Makunikoru?)

• Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)

Leon is a frustrated but dedicated cop, with a tendency to rush in without thinking. Having worked his way up from the normal police, Leon sees himself as the protector of the local citizens and initially dislikes the vigilante nature of the Knight Sabers. He meets and becomes a big brother figure for Nene and falls in love with Priss. He is unaware of her being a Knight Saber until later in the series, but when he learns the truth he keeps it to himself. At the end of the series, Priss returns his feelings.

Daley Wong (デイリー・ウォン, Dirī Won?)

• Voiced by: Yūji Ueda (Japanese), Chris Patton (English)

Daley is Leon's partner, and a highly skilled investigator who actively questions the contradictory nature of the AD department's relationship with the Knight Sabers. Towards the end of the series, he disappears without explanation, although it is likely that he chose to evacuate the city after he helps ensure that the boomer menace cannot spread any further.

Nigel Kirkland (ナイジェル・カークランド, Naijeru Kākurando?)

• Voiced by: Ken Yamaguchi (Japanese), John Gremillion (English)

A former engineer, Nigel worked on the Boomer Project with Sylia's father and Brian J. Mason, then later helped Sylia design and build the hard suits. Now a mechanic, he helps maintain the hard suits. He is romantically involved with Sylia, but because of his quiet, sullen nature he is called the "man of a thousand grunts" by other characters and his true feelings for Sylia are unknown. Mackey becomes his protege and one of the few people Nigel seems to consider a friend. At the beginning of the series, Priss appears to be infatuated with him, though he does not react to her flirtations. However, he later creates a "Motoslave" (motorcycle that can transform into an exoskeleton for Priss's hardsuit) specifically for her that, using Nigel's voice, says it wishes to protect Priss. Both Priss and Sylia is attracted to Nigel, however, Nigel never showed preference for either one. However, Sylia was more emotionally desperate to have Nigel and Priss gave up on Nigel since she has Leon. Nigel would later build more advanced Hard-Suits for the ladies in their battle against the mad-boomers and eventually Galatea.

Mackey Stingray (マッキー・スティングレイ, Makkī Sutingurei?)

• Voiced by: Kouki Miyata (Japanese), Spike Spencer (English)

Mackey was initially introduced as Sylia's younger brother, however, he's actually a male doppelganger version of Sylia. Created by Sylia's father, in his quest for advancing artificiality, Mackey is neither fully human nor boomer; he's a prototype that was deemed too human and considered a failure. However, he wasn't discarded and was kept around to be a false little brother to Sylia and she accepted Mackey as such. Mackey is depicted as being a naïve, inquisitive and awkward young man who loves machinery and computers; due to his artificial nature, he can never age and remains forever in his mid-teens form. After surviving the infamous earthquake, Mackey reunited with Sylia and walked right into her Knight Saber Operation. Although reluctant at Mackey's infatuation with machinery and getting involved in her affairs, she eventually accepted it and allowed him to tag along with the Knight Sabers and eventually formed a good relationship with Nene and Nigel. As the series progresses, his origins was revealed as well as his connection with Galatea.

Brian J. Mason (ブライアン・メイスン, Buraian Meisun?)

• Voiced by: Jōji Nakata (Japanese), Andy McAvin (English)

A ruthless corporate shark who works against the wishes of Rosencreutz, Mason believes the human race should go away and that Boomers should become the new dominant species and uses Genom's spaceborne solar generator and earthborne energy storage project to search for the underground laboratory that housed the Sotai project (Galatea). He once worked on that boomer project with Sylia's father and Nigel Kirkland. Because of his traumatizing past, he is a bitter man. He adopted Galatea in hopes of using her. To fulfill his wish, in a manner he does not want, she changes him into Boomer-Human hybrid, then fuses him into a wall to be hung up high above Megatokyo so that he can observe Galatea's plans for Tokyo and the world.

Quincy Rosenkroitz (クインシー・ローゼンクロイツ, Kuinshī Rōzenkuroitsu?)

• Voiced by: Tadashi Nakamura (Japanese), John Swasey (English)

The GENOM Chief Executive Officer, Quincy wishes for humans and Boomers to live together peacefully. Though suspicious of Mason's activities, he believes he can control and maintain Mason. With his body badly decayed, he uses tubes and wires to keep him alive, afraid of using more advanced implants. Mason's boomer secretary later kills him by disconnecting a vital cord in his life-support system. He shares his surname with Christian Rosenkreuz, legendary founder of the Rosicrucians.

Kuzui (クズイ, Kuzui?, Kusui in ADV dub)

• Voiced by: Takehiro Murozono (Japanese), Lew Temple (English)

Kuzui is a double-agent inside GENOM who passed information to Sylia in exchange for money, but was also aiding Mason in his search for Galatea. He is willing to sell his services to the highest bidder and states that he has no ethics. On Mason's orders, he tells Sylia about the search for Galatea so that she could find it for Mason. Shortly afterwards, Mason has him murdered.

Galatea (ガラテア, Garatea?)

• Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Laura Chapman (adult), Kira (child) (English)

Galatea, also called Sotai, who shares her name with the wife of the king of Cyprus, is a secret Boomer Project started by Sylia's father, Dr Stingray. She becomes the main antagonist of the series. It is revealed in flashback that she was grown from an implant inserted into a young Sylia's brain against Sylia's mother's wishes, that Dr Stingray asked her to go into stasis when she started to function strangely and that she killed Dr Stingray while still complying and that Genon caused the great earthquake in order to seal her in and prevent her contaminating boomers for her own design. When she is initially seen, she has an appearance like that of a prepubescent Sylia. She is released from stasis by Mason and rapidly matures from her childlike appearance to an adult almost identical to Sylia. After her plans are revealed her hair turns black and her eyes change to red. Late in the series, her mind begins maturing and she begins questioning the meaning and purpose of her existence. At the end of the series, Priss helps her find her path, and Galatea, in turn, saves Priss's life.