There are eight soundtrack releases (one per OVA), as well as numerous "vocal" albums which feature songs "inspired by" the series as well as many drawn directly from it. The series is currently available for streaming on Night Flight Plus. The series was released on a regular edition Blu-ray on September 25, 2018. The company later successfully crowdfunded a collector's edition Blu-ray release through Kickstarter in November 2013. A digitally-remastered compilation, featuring bilingual audio tracks and production extras, was released on DVD in 2004 by AnimEigo.
Īn English dub of the series was produced beginning in 1994 by AnimEigo through Southwynde Studios in Wilmington, NC, and released to VHS and Laserdisc beginning that year. Bubblegum Crisis was aired in the US when it first aired on PBS affiliate Superstation KTEH in the 1990s, and STARZ!'s Action Channel in 2000. While anime has become much more popular in the years since, in 1991, it was still mostly unknown as a storytelling medium in North America. The series is notable in that it was one of the few early anime series that were brought over from Japan unedited and subtitled in English. In North America, AnimEigo first released Bubblegum Crisis to VHS and Laserdisc in 1991 in Japanese with English subtitles. super-weapon have to do with it?Ī group of fake Knight Sabers are ruining the group's reputation, leading to a fight against a returning foe.Ī singer with a vendetta comes to Megatokyo, and brings some heavy firepower with her.Īn ambitious technical scientist and an aspiring reporter both plan to make their names at the expense of the Knight Sabers, and of all people, Nene is caught right in the middle. And what do a pair of escaped love-doll androids, Priss's new friend Sylvie and the D.D. Mason.Ī racer modifies his car into a weapon of vengeance against the biker gangs of Megatokyo, but the car soon develops a mind of its own.Ī killer is draining victims of their blood, but this is no vampire. The Knight Sabers attack Genom Tower to put an end to the machinations of Genom executive Brian J.
The Knight Sabers are hired to rescue a little girl from a group of kidnappers, but the girl is far more than she seems.Ī friend of Linna's threatens to expose Genom secrets that led to the death of her fiancé, but Genom plans to silence her, first. Patrick Lawlor, Jack Bowden, Jay Bryson, Kevin Reilly, Marc Garber, Marc Matney, Michael Sinterniklaas, Scott Simpson, Sean Clay, Sophia Tolar, Steve Lalla, Steve Rassin, Steve Vernon, Zach Hanner Due to legal problems between Artmic and Youmex, who jointly held the rights to the series, the series was discontinued prematurely.Įnglish: Amanda Tancredi, Chuck Denson Jr., Chuck Kinlaw, David Kraus, Eliot Preschutti, Gray Sibley, Hadley Eure, Hank Troscianiec, J. The OVA series is eight episodes long but was originally slated to run for 13 episodes. Obari would also go on to direct episodes 5 and 6. Masami Ōbari created the mechanical designs. Kenichi Sonoda acted as character designer, and designed the four female leads. However, he met Junji Fujita and the two discussed ideas, and decided to collaborate on what later became Bubblegum Crisis. The series started with Toshimichi Suzuki's intention to remake the 1982 film Techno Police 21C. Suzuki explained in a 1993 Animerica interview the meaning behind the cryptic title: "We originally named the series 'bubblegum' to reflect a world in crisis, like a chewing-gum bubble that's about to burst." Production The humanoid robots known as "boomers" in the series were inspired by several movies, including Replicants from the aforementioned Blade Runner, the titular cyborgs of the Terminator film franchise, and the Beast from the film Krull. The opening sequence of episode 1 is even modeled on that of the latter film. The setting displays strong influences from the movies Blade Runner and Streets of Fire. One of the series' themes is the inability of the department to deal with threats due to political infighting, red tape, and an insufficient budget. The AD Police (Advanced Police) are tasked to deal with Boomer-related crimes. While Boomers are intended to serve mankind, they become deadly instruments in the hands of ruthless individuals. Its main product are boomers-artificial cybernetic life forms that are usually in the form of humans, with most of their bodies being machine also known as "cyberoids". The main adversary is Genom, a megacorporation with immense power and global influence. During the first episode, disparities in wealth are shown to be more pronounced than in previous periods in post-war Japan. The series begins in late 2032, seven years after the Second Great Kanto earthquake has split Tokyo geographically and culturally in two. See also: List of Bubblegum Crisis characters
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