Quote:BGC 2040 is not related to the original BGC.So sayeth Jeanne Hedge, back in August 1999. And she was kind enough to let me add that to the BGC FAQ I maintain, too...
BGC 2040 was never intended to be related to the original BGC.
Different timeframe.
Different storyline.
Different background stories.
Different character attitudes.
Different designs.
Different music.
Different Universe.
About the only thing that's the same are character names, and that the Knight Sabers, the AD Police, and Genom are all in the city of Tokyo (which also has a different name depending on series)
Of course, it looks like the AD Police of the ADP TV series is not any more related to the ADP of 2040 than it is to the ADP of classic BGC/BGCrash/ADP. That is to say, it ain't. Yet another alternate universe.
Think of it like Tenchi or Patlabor. All those series, with apparently the same characters, but the series have nothing to do with each other because they're all set in different universes.
Better yet, think of it like Dirty Pair vs Dirty Pair Flash. Both feature characters named Kei and Yuri who work for WWWA, but that's where any resemblance ends. Different universes.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012