To the unsuspecting eye Maki, Reimi and Yuka may not look like ace crime fighters, which might explain why they're stuck on traffic patrol instead of more "exciting" police duties. All that changes when Yuka gets herself kidnapped by a white slave organization run by a politically connected businessman who's got the rest of the police cowed. Now it's up to Maki and Reimi to don skin-tight battle armor, liberate a tank, and make sure that a certain slaver learns that when you play with fire, you're going to get your ass burned!
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn mechanical animation of that tank sequence slaps harder than it should.
Costume
The 'battle armor' designs are doing SO much heavy lifting. Iconic nonsense.
Director
Yasunori Ide
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burn Up! launched a minor franchise and exemplifies the 'girls with guns' boom in early '90s OVA market, where direct-to-video releases allowed racier content than broadcast TV.
Director Yasunori Ide would later work on much tamer fare like Digimon—imagine explaining this one to those fans. Norio Wakamoto's villain performance as McCoy became an early meme in Japanese fandom for its sheer hamminess.
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