Details & Synopsis
MegaTokyo, 2032. Genom owns the city, Boomers do the work, and when the machines go bad the police are usually outmatched before they arrive. The Knight Sabers are what happens next: four women in powered armour taking jobs the system cannot handle and occasionally making the system itself the target.
Bubblegum Crisis arrived on VHS between 1987 and 1991 as eight OVA episodes with money on the screen, Priss on the microphone, and exactly the kind of cyberpunk future the late 1980s thought was waiting for us. Neon streets. Corporate towers. Women with day jobs climbing into hardsuits after dark. The music is not decoration. The opening performance of Konya wa Hurricane tells you what show you are watching before the first fight starts.
It was also one of those titles you learned through copies of copies. The original release stalled before its planned ending, the rights became a mess, and Western fans spent years piecing together whichever tapes, laserdiscs, subtitles, and DVD releases they could find. That unfinished quality became part of the experience. Eight episodes, several different production moods, no real conclusion, and still enough style and character to outlive shows that got twice the room.
This is not cyberpunk as a label pasted onto a police procedural. This is the thing people were trying to describe when they used the word.
Bubblegum Crisis arrived on VHS between 1987 and 1991 as eight OVA episodes with money on the screen, Priss on the microphone, and exactly the kind of cyberpunk future the late 1980s thought was waiting for us. Neon streets. Corporate towers. Women with day jobs climbing into hardsuits after dark. The music is not decoration. The opening performance of Konya wa Hurricane tells you what show you are watching before the first fight starts.
It was also one of those titles you learned through copies of copies. The original release stalled before its planned ending, the rights became a mess, and Western fans spent years piecing together whichever tapes, laserdiscs, subtitles, and DVD releases they could find. That unfinished quality became part of the experience. Eight episodes, several different production moods, no real conclusion, and still enough style and character to outlive shows that got twice the room.
This is not cyberpunk as a label pasted onto a police procedural. This is the thing people were trying to describe when they used the word.
Alt Title
バブルガムクライシス
Studio
Artmic / Youmex
Network
OVA
Aired
1987 - 1991
Episodes
8
Genre
Action, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi
Status
Completed
Guides and reference pages for this series. More coming.
