Burn Up Excess - Crimes and Missed Demeanors (Vol. 2)

The frenetic IBurn Up Excess/I television series (1997) was the second follow-up to the original IBurn Up/I OAV (1991). Rio, Lilica, Maya, Maki, and Yuji of the Tokyo Police Warrior Team continue to battle various lowlifes and sleazebags, most of whom are somehow linked to the femme fatale Miss Ruby. In "An Idol Never Sleeps," a pop singer haunted by a stalker crosses paths with an international arms smuggler. The episode-long flashback "Rambo! Bravo!" explains how the ditzy, perennially broke Rio Kinezono became a member of the elite Warrior team, despite her disastrous record at the Police Academy. Rio, who makes Mihoshi in ITenchi Muyo/I sound like an intellectual, jiggles her way through these misadventures in a variety of minimal outfits. IBurn Up Excess/I is definitely not PC, but some iotaku/i delight in its cheerfully unabashed sexism. Rated 15 Up: Nudity, profanity, violence, sexual humor, alcohol use. I--Charles Solomon/I