This anime (more than Gall Force) was considered something like a groundbreaking for opening the way for groups of female heroines.
The story is set in Megatokyo year 2032, a blade runneresque society where androids are quite developed to even look like normal humans, except that they do not have the hability to speak.
Our heroines are an secret and independent force called the Knight Sabers, with some high developed suits and they do the work that the cops, in this case the special force of the police, the AD Police, can't do. Which is mainly to fight the androids that went berserk and the other kind of special cases just like Rick Deckard did in it's Blade Runner Universe.
We have four main girls here; Stylia, the calm intelligent and founder of the group, Priss, which is also a popular singer in bars and it's the "action" girl of the group, Nene, the infiltrated girl in the police but pretty coward and annoying in the action field and Linna, the average girl.
We also have Leon McNichol, the AD Police detective which is interested in Priss the singer and he turns out to be a pretty dependable and interesting character (thus leading into his own OVA series).
The overall mood of the series runs smoothly ranging from comedy to dramatic and cyber punk obscure scenes and the story flows without much relation from one episode to the other making the series quite episodic, there are indeed some episodes that are stronger than others, but in the end they tend to be a "Case of the Day" alone episode type of stores with just small links between them.
We have either good characters like Priss Leion and Styllia and annoying characters like good for nothing Nene, though she redeems herself in the last episode which was also a nice way of putting things.
Oh yeah, the opening scene of the first OVA is simply great, with Priss singing her popish 80's cheesy songs and showing some police scenes in between. Classic. Hearing that music these days sounds pretty nostalgic.
It is definitive a classic anime sci-fi of the 80's and a must watch nevertheless. The classic Blade Runner atmosphere just can't be ignored. Recommended.
Rate; 7.2/10
