Summary: >

When the city has problems that they can no longer handle, the mayor calls up team Warrior to get things done. Usually soon after additional budget allocations have to be made to pay for the cost of the destruction they leave behind. It's a good thing there's only 6 of them!

There's Lilika, the spoiled rich girl who had everything, but got bored with it so decided to become an uber computer hacker for the police instead. Maki, the woman with an iron will who acts as the brains and quite often ends up refereeing the team and keeping them from leveling the city. Rio is the all around action kung-fu babe. Maya is the gun toting maniac who is manly with the police so she can lawfully shoot at people. Nanvel the science wiz who always has a new invention for the team to try out. And Yugi, the guy who is... hopeless, and basically drives them all around.

Team Warrior is called up to handle a job of "terrorists" that take over a hotel, but these guys don't seem pro enough to have pulled off a heist of this nature. Then there was the abduction of a virtual idol. These don't seem related until there is an assault on the police station itself. The virtual drug syndicate is pulling the strings, but they may have finally crossed paths with the branch of law enforcement that will be able to stop them.

Thoughts: >

The original Burn Up was an action based anime that was a bit too serious, and on top of that didn't have much of a plot. Burn Up W doesn't seem to have much in common with the original except a few passing design ideas. For the most part Burn Up W is a simple formula of police babes, big boobs and action. While it does lack substance, it's still pretty fun and one of those titles I've always liked.

The character that really made the title for me was Maya. She's an over the top gun maniac who is only a part of team Warrior so she can have a few more chances to shoot at people and blow stuff up. The problem is that she rarely gets to do so and is barely able to hold herself back from random rampages, and when she is finally unleashed, doles out destruction with glee.

The first two episodes are mostly an action comedy formula, but the second two episodes are more serious, dark and action based. Surprisingly Burn Up W managed to pull that off pretty well. As for the other attributes, well the animation is decent but not exceptional. The character designs are good, but in an unusual style for a 90's anime considering how exaggerated the females are. I was not impressed by the dub which was an early ADV effort, but it was mostly tolerable.

Overall Burn Up W is a decent fluff title that's a lot of fun, with some pretty good action, not exceptional at anything. It's not entirely conclusive (continued in Burn Up Excess), but it does wrap up what it needs to reasonably well. One of those titles I always liked, but I'm not sure why I like it more than most fan service oriented titles of this nature.