Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Bubblegum Crisis 2032, Bubblegum Crisis 2033 Japanese: バブルガムクライシス
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Type: OVA
Episodes: 8
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Feb 25, 1987 to Jan 30, 1991
Duration:
41 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company
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Ranked: #12892
Popularity: #1101
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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 is both the remake and the alternative version of Bubblegum Crisis.
The latter is shorter (8 OAV) and older, while Tokyo 2040 is newer and longer (24 episodes).
Both have lots of mecha and sci-fi elements, fighting babes, and great music.
The protagonists are the same even if their appearance is different.
The 1999 remake, which has a more coherent 'flavour' and sense of overarching plot, is interesting to contrast to the 1987 original, with its superior design ethos and greater sense of atmosphere.
Both are alternate timelines of each other so they don't go directly hand in hand, like many other series (GITS, the movies and SAC for example). While 2040 is superior with a stronger sense of direction and a bigger overall plot rather than being randomly episodic, it suffers in a few area's that the original exceeds in, namely the atmosphere, the music especially (fans know what I mean), and the "Boomer" designs were really generic throughout the whole thing The original manages to give off a slightly stronger cyberpunk feel to it. Regardless, if you like either or chances are you'd like the other, the OVA has a nostalgic charm to it while 2040 goes more in depth with the characters. Solid original stuff here.
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Both are 80's classic Cyberpunk gems that everybody should see.
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In both animes the protagonists wear special suits to fight evil. Both evils are man-made, mechanical and biomechanical monsters that are bent on world domination. The Knight Sabers wear mechanical suits to battle boomers, evil machines. Sho wears a biomechanical suit to fight biomechanical monsters, and also formerly human. Both, Knight Sabers and Sho, use suits that are much more powerful and the evil organizations want the suits for themselves.
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Near-future urban violence involving high-tech armor suits.
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Very different settings, but both feature a lot of similar themes. Both feature a lot of top notch action, sci-fi elements (way more of this in BGC, cyberpunk included), and very strong female leads. Birdy herself could probably take on the whole squad of Knight Sabers! Both shows also balance in the action and plot with a good deal of humor and it works really well. All topped off with really top notch production values, these are really good examples of classic OVA's.
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Both products of the 1980's OVA boom, Bubblegum Crisis and Megazone 23 are each tales of man's ambiguous identity in a not-so-distant future.
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This is the sequel to the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA.
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Let's say there was one sole Knight Saber in Bubblegum Crisis and her name was, Iria. Both are fun sci-fi's with females that kick ass basically, they don't offer incredibly mindblowing plots, drama, aren't very deep or complex, or whatnot, but the quality is there along with great production values for their time with excellent action and sci-fi settings/designs. All around classic sci-fi.
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