Bubblegum Crisis
| Bubblegum Crisis | |
Bubblegum Crisis poster
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バブルガムクライシス (Baburugamu Kuraishisu) |
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| Genre | Action, Mecha, Cyberpunk |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by |
Katsuhito Akiyama
(chief director)
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| Produced by | Junji Fujita Toru Miura |
| Written by | Toshimichi Suzuki |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Artmic & AIC |
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| Released | February 25, 1987 – January 30, 1991 |
| Runtime |
330 minutes (total)
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| Episodes | 8 |
| Original video animation | |
| Bubblegum Crash | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Ishiodori Hiroyuki Fukushima |
| Produced by | Toshimichi Suzuki |
| Written by | Emu Arii |
| Music by | Takehito Nakazawa Michihiko Oota |
| Studio | Artmic |
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| Released | May 25, 1991 – December 21, 1991 |
| Runtime |
140 minutes (total)
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| Episodes | 3 |
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Bubblegum Crisis (Japanese: バブルガムクライシス Hepburn: Baburugamu Kuraishisu?) is a 1987 to 1991 cyberpunk original video animation (OVA) series produced by Youmex and animated by AIC and Artmic. The series was planned to run for 13 episodes, but was cut short to just 8.
The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight various problems, most frequently rogue robots. The success of the series spawned several sequel series.
The series begins in the late 2032, seven years after the Second Great Kanto earthquake has split Tokyo geographically and culturally in two. During the first episode, disparities in wealth are shown to be more pronounced than in previous periods in post-war Japan. The main antagonist is Genom, a megacorporation with immense power and global influence. Its main product are boomers—artificial cybernetic life forms that are usually in the form of humans with most of their body's being a machine; also known as cyberoids. While Boomers are intended to serve mankind, they become deadly instruments in the hands of ruthless individuals. The AD Police are tasked to deal with Boomer-related crimes. 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 setting displays strong influences from the movies Blade Runner and Streets of Fire. The opening sequence of episode 1 is modeled on the opening sequence of Streets of Fire. The humanoid robots known as "boomers" in the series also resemble Terminators cyborgs from the Terminator film.
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