And as a gigantic machine drills its way to Mega Tokyos main nuclear power plant, they meet again with an old and deadly enemy.The year is 208X. Unexpectedly, Sylia resurfaces and prepares her teammates for battle. But at the same time, parts of a unique artificial intelligence are stolen by several villains acting under the orders of a mysterious voice. It is set in 2034, and the Knight Sabers seem to be finished each of its members - except Nene - have seemingly drifted off to pursue their own goals. Youmex promptly sued Artmic, cutting Crash short and tying the entire franchise up in legal issues for the next several years. After the split between Artmic and Youmex, Artmic proceeded to make a sequel on their own, Bubblegum Crash, which ran three OVA episodes and is conjectured that it was a shortened version of how Crisis was to end. The first of them was the three-part OVA Bubblegum Crash バブルガムクラッシュ!, Baburugamu Kurasshu!.
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The success of the series spawned several sequel series. Kevin Siembiedas becoming aware of "Boomers" being already in use in this caused him to changed his planned name for the Rifts RPG which he had named after the "Boom Gun"–wielding power armor which was also renamed to Glitter Boy. Hayashi said that Mackey is "sort of" the original model for Tenchi. This idea then became the basis for Tenchi. He also said that there was a trend to have a bunch of characters of one gender and a single one of the other gender, and asked what if Mackey Sylias brother was a main character, reversing the Bubblegum scenario. Serious fighting, complicated human relationships, and dark Mega Tokyo." They thought it would be fun to create some comedy episodes with ideas like the girls going to the hot springs, but it was rejected by the sponsors. In an interview with AIC, Hayashi described Bubblegum Crisis as "a pretty gloomy anime. Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi, who both worked on the Bubblegum Crisis OAVs, cite the show as being the inspiration for their harem series Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki. 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 collectors 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. 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.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.
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.
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