Burn-Up Scramble

Burn-Up Scramble is a 2004[1] 12-episode anime television series directed by Hiroki Hayashi. Though the basic premise is in keeping with its predecessors (Burn Up!, Burn-Up W and Burn-Up Excess) it is an entirely new series with some new and some old characters, and a very different art style.

Like Burn-Up W and Burn-Up Excess, the series centers on a busty police officer and martial artist name Rio Kinezono, leader of the super-secret squad known as Warriors. She just wants to find love in her life... so much so that she often changes around her living arrangements just to attract the right man. So far, the only man she was able to attract is her perverted superior, Yuji Naruo... and he's being protected by Matsuri Tamagawa, his overly-zealous girlfriend. Her Warriors teammates are Maya Jingu, a quiet girl but an extreme gun-nut, and Lilica Evett, a shy and insecure telepath.

In this series, Rio Kinezono is more interested in pursuing romance than fashion, as in the earlier series. Her martial arts abilities are enhanced, and she is even able to dodge bullets fired at her. The Maya Jingu character design has changed quite a bit; she has longer hair, shorter and less well-endowed. Lilica Evette is a shy, insecure, and slightly clumsy psychic rather than the cheerfully energetic computer and tech expert.

Characters

Although many of the characters in Burn Up Scramble share the same names as characters from Burn Up W and Burn Up Excess, they have undergone various changes in terms of art design, personality, and plot.

Rio Kinezono

Rio is the volatile leader of the Warriors, blond and large-breasted. Rio is just as good at physical combat as her previous incarnation and is now able to dodge bullets. She is the character that most resembles her counterpart from W and Excess. She bears very similar character designs and personality traits, now she is more driven to seek a happy love life than her previous obsessions with fashion and spending in the earlier series.

Maya Jingu

Maya is an expert marksman but is more softly spoken and level-headed than in the earlier series. Visually, her character design has changed quite a bit; she now has long dark hair woven in a plait and is less well-endowed.

Lilica Evette

Lilica is a shy, insecure, and slightly clumsy psychic, but when she gets drunk, she becomes more uninhibited and somewhat daffy. She looks up to Rio, addressing her with the honorific 'senpai'. Because of the possible danger her powers present, Lilica is outfitted with magnetic wrist and ankle restraints. Her character has changed the most from her previous version. The new Lilica is around the same height as Rio, has a figure to match, short orange hair, and a tanned complexion, while the previous Lilica was shorter, flat-chested, and sported pink hair.

Warriors Commander

The unnamed Commander is the creator and commander of the Warriors. She answers to the Central Police Council, and gathers Rio, Maya and Lilica to form the Warriors and hands out their assignments.

Yuji Naruo

Yuji holds the rank of Head Chief in the Metro Police Section 8 Branch. He is portrayed as a smart, well-educated officer from a wealthy family and obsessively pursues Rio romantically, even at work. In the previous series, he was a low-level perverted policeman. He still serves as comic relief in the series.

Matsuri Tamagawa

Matsuri is Yuji's current girlfriend, and a police officer as well. While she is oblivious to Yuji's attentions to Rio, she perceives Rio as a threat to her marrying Yuji in the future. She is constantly threatening Rio to stay away from him, oblivious to the fact that Rio is not interested in Yuji.

New Warriors

The New Warriors are genetically modified women with superhuman strength gained via drugs, and their skills are based on data obtained by monitoring Rio and Maya's earlier missions. They were created in a collaboration between the Central Police Council and criminals, using illegal human experiments and funding.

type	tv series
director	Hiroki Hayashi
writer	Sumio Uetake
music	Kazuo Nobuta Toshihiko Sahashi
studio	AIC Spirits
network	AT-X
first	January 12, 2004
last	March 29, 2004
episodes	12

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