It's very 80s in most ways and there are a number of directors and producers who were relatively new or outright cut their teeth directing some of the OVAs (Masami Obari comes to mind and is SUPER obvious when you see them). There's some cheesecake like panties once in a blue moon and there are maybe 2 instances of outright nudity that I can recall, but it's nothing truly awful and pandering like you see nowadays. The obvious Blade Runner references and nods are actually well-played to the point where I was hoping in BR2049 they would have just acknowledged the Japanese Genom corp as a competitor to Replicants, even if only in passing, to bring them all into some weird soft-canon of awesomeness. Pictures, model sheets, gear, biography, personality, RPG stats. At the least it kind of answered the question of if Sylia is a boomer or at least augmented in some way like how in Blade Runner Deckard was all but told to be a replicant, in the end. Character profile for Priss Asagari from the Bubblegum Crisis anime and OVA. To be honest, I enjoyed 2040 a lot, as well, even if it went in some odd directions. It's a shame the production woes and then.
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