Someone else translated some 2040 side material, but it's all very minimal and none of it is good, so... very 2040, that.

Hard Metal Guardians: The 2012 Light Novel that has the Sabers as high school girls and... I can't tell if this is a licensed web novel fanfic, or just a naked attempt to revive the franchise by being the most 2012 LIGHT NOVEL Crisis can be.

Priss is a Light Music rocker, whacks a Boomer with a guitar; Nene is small and cute and there's a weirdly more innocent Kuroko-Misaka dynamic between them; Linna is the heiress of a keiretsu who also works at a maid cafe all the same; the Hardsuits have a goth loli dress alt form before they become hardsuits. It's bizarre. And perhaps it has merit because of that!

1980s Light Novel 1 - Silent Fanfare: Drawn up by showrunner Toshimichi Suzuki himself, Silent Fanfare could very well take place between OVAS 2 and 3, and is great because it feels like a canon lost episode. The Sabers are trying to find a way to remotely monitor Boomers for the AD Police when they track a Boomer trying to seduce and interrogate a GENOM employee. Meanwhile, Priss stumbles across an innocent child who seems oddly tied to Boomer rampages. The story that follows touches on the 'what is Sylia' question, and even has an interesting bit of thematic bite against the idea of global unified culture and the 'global village'. It's great, it really is, there's a whole third of the book where the Sabers need to handle just one Boomer without killing it while also fighting it in a super skyscraper on the verge of being blown up by the police. So much other wacky stuff happens: The Sabers blackmail Quincy and Mason right to their face, Linna is a midnight aerobics show DJ and handles it as extra-ly as possible, etc.

1980s Light Novel 2 - Break Down-48: The lesser of the novels, Suzuki says in the afterword that this came about while he was writing Red Eyes as a weird side project. It seems to be its own continuity, and is oodles more hyperbolic - GENOM Tower is destroyed, Sylia communes with a Boomer mind, nothing appears to be strictly canon but rather a compressed and exaggerated version of it. It's fun, and it's interesting, but never coheres.

Audio Drama - Soldier Blue: Audio was ripped to the archive by some shmuck I used to internet-know and wish I didn't, script was translated here. This is an infamous bridging story between Crisis and Crash where Sylia has a psychotic episode she needs to enter her own mindscape to handle, where she realizes Largo's Back. The audio's actually pretty good, no one can accuse Yoshiko Sakakibara of not knowing how to fucking act. But the intent and the script are both lackluster. It's Crash, man. It's... it's adequate.

Audio Drama - To Love-Ru Wars: Two separate comedy bits. First link is to text files to follow along, second is to the audio itself. One is about the gang needing to go on a variety show to catch a TV hijacker; the other has Sylia head off to Paris and leaves Linna in charge of raising funds for the team. Shenanigans Ensue. Actually pretty funny, especially the second part.

Audio Drama 2 Watch out! Knight Sabers Haven't listened to the whole thing, appears to involve a boyfriend of Nene’s being blackmailed by GENOM. Also where the image of Nene in a pool and her hair wet, among other things, comes from.

The 1991 B-Club: You know, one of the big art books from Japan. Use a pdf of the actual book and follow along. Admittedly poorly machine-translated.

Anyway, it’s great because it has translations of interviews with the Saber voice actresses: apparently they had a GREAT time in the old Holiday in Bali special, grew as friends. It’s really sweet. Also Sakakibara sounds very philosophical in a way that is so charming. It makes sense Mamoru Oshii used to go out of his way to give her voice roles; I feel like they talk in similar ways.

The guy who did all this has an ongoing translation project for Go Go Sabers but it remains somewhat incomplete. Anyway, I'm throwing this at the forum because it's all amazing stuff, and even if The Iron Age is inactive, Crisis still has a foundational impact on UF and other work, so we ought to honor it a bit more, right?