It was decided to commission a re-telling of the original OVA, almost certainly because that anime was never properly finished. With so much pedigree and historical significance it’s a no-brainer that I review it now.īut instead I’m going to review its 1998 remake.
The show is still popular today, having recently been the subject of a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring it to Blu-Ray. It was one of the late 80s/ 90s anime exports that gained a cult-like fandom from collage age Generation X-ers (because there was once a time where Gen-X-ers were young and hip, apparently) that directly led to the anime boom of the early 2000s. Furthermore Bubblegum Crisis was a pretty important anime for American audiences as it was from the same era of cartoons brought over cartoons like Akira and Project A-ko. Since then there has been a (less critically revered) sequel to try to tie the loose ends up, called Bubblegum Crash, as well as numerous spin-offs, prequels and adaptations. This was due, it would seem, to in-fighting within the studios producing it, budgetary problems and supposed a lack of initial popularity in Japan. Despite this it’s initial run was cut short from thirteen episodes to eight leaving it unfinished.
#TV TROPES BUBBLEGUM CRISIS SERIES#
Heavily influenced by Blade Runner this series is considered to be both a groundbreaking and classic anime series. Set in and futuristic cyberpunk setting the series focused on a group of women who used mechanical suits, to battle against rogue robots called “ boomers” and the evil mega corporation Genom. Let’s rectify that today with Bubblegum Crisis.īubblegum Crisis was an eight episode OVA (original video animation a "straight to video" sort of deal with more prestige) released in Japan starting in 1987. I probably don’t talk enough about classic anime on this blog.
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