Bubblegum Crisis by Kenichi Sonada

My favorite anime that inspired me to pursue mechanical engineering. I was blown away by the characters, the storyline, and most of all, the technology.

Here's the plot summary from http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=201

In the near future, Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo. When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined. Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.

My favorite character is Sylia Stingray, who creates a group of mercenaries equipped with her technological creations to counteract Genom's illegal activities.

Sylia Stingray

from http://www.absoluteanime.com/bubblegum_crisis/sylia.htm

Sylia Stingray is the leader and benefactor of the Knight Sabers. Her ingenius tactics and extensive knowledge of technical sciences, medical procedures, etc., has kept her organization, the Knight Sabers, together. Sylia is exceptionally attractive, but this is matched by her cold, dangerous nature that led her to kill two men.

In the year 2022, the dawn of boomer technology, Doctor Stingray was assassinated by the treacherous Genom Corporation. After their father's death, Sylia and her little brother were all that was left of their family. Sylia inheritted her late father's huge fortune as well as an enormous amount of data concerning her father's research. All this data was directly input into her brain (this technique was also part of Doctor Stingray's boomer technology). In this way, Sylia was reborn as a kind of "super-lady".

Soon, Mega Tokyo was being terrorized by Genom's boomers. Sylia, upset at such an abuse of her father's technology, decided to bring down Genom and its boomers. In the year 2030, with the completion of her "hardsuit" design (a compact and powerful armored soldier), Sylia began to recruit women for her group of punishers, the Knight Sabers.

Sylia is an incredible fighter, the most efficient from the group, and uses the most brutal methods out of the Knight Sabers for bringing her opponent down. She has a thirst for revenge that cannot and will not be quenched until GENOM is brought down. She is haunted by the 'death' of the first man she killed, Brian J. Mason, and her ties to him suggest that she, too, may be a Cyberdroid.