The reason for the lack of development is because they had very tight time constraints for the episodes on account of their tight budget, so the decision was "story or action?" and they went action - with background material and character development done in what the creator dubbed 'media mix' and released in novels and audio dramas. But these were never translated into the west! Star Wars been doing the same thing ever since Shadows of the Empire, each prequel included background characters in the film that were then developed in supplemental material.
I own Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. Each and every one of them was amazing. I'm 13 currently and watched Bubblegum Crisis when I was in 1st grade. I had no idea that it was anime when I watch Sailor Moon. Bubblegum Crisis was my life and still is. It makes me kind of sad that the biggest of anime youtubers don't know this masterpiece. Bubblegum crisis was also how I started drawing the anime or scenery I do currently for fun! ^×^
Priss is awesome, but Nene is my favorite. Especially in ep 8 and Bubblegum Crash. Great channel, great content, just found it out. Regards from an 80's born cult classic anime loving wierdo currently living in Japan.
When Bubblegum Crisis came out back in 1987 in Japan, it was ahead of it's time !! In most Japanese anime stories the writer expects the audience to already have knowledge of ideals etc.. from other science fiction stories !! Bubblegum Crisis was based on the world of Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of electronic Sheep by Philip K. Dick) !!!
The appeal is staring the audience in the face: the aesthetic. It's a really freakin pretty show. It doesn't have to go any deeper than just appreciating the animation. I'm honestly surprised this aspect has gone so overlooked in this video - not once was the animation or design aethetics ever mentioned, and those are huge factors for anime fans both old and new.
Are you here because Edgerunners got you into the mood to watch Cyberpunk anime like me? I can confirm what you said. The animation gets progressively better which is really weird because Japan went into finantial crisis at the beginning of the 90s. Maybe that's one reason why it was left incomplete Edit: The video talked about the situation in Japan too, I seriously didn't know 🤣
Lol Oh youngins talking bout the 80's shaking stick. Seriously though one of the ironies while Japan seemed to be running with the whole 'Merician thing, Jeans, Blondes, Bike Gangs... Americians thought Japan would buy us out, All our electronic goods were from Japan (watches, tape players, TV's...) Factories going overseas, car makers loosing to Japan, Books like the Z Machine or Mushashi's 5 Rings, Movies like Blade Runner and Gung Ho etc... (Kinda like Arabs in the late 70's early 80's)
I love abstract or now-obscure things like this and I swear the week I learned about Max Headroom and the Mad Headroom Incident, this video originally came out. Once I finally was convinced Max Headroom references were done following me, Muse made their music video for Dig Down.
It's really not abstract. Like, at all. It was a pretty direct and obvious reference, and the later reference to the broadcast hijacking was also completely straightforward, arguably not even a reference so much as just bringing it up directly. Not to mention, Max Headroom was incredibly popular and is widely known and recognized to this day. Exponentially more people know Max Headroon from the character itself than from the broadcast hijacking incident, which, while being pretty well known itself at this point, is nowhere near as ubiquitous as Headroom himself.
@@kaydwessie296 It really is very much _not_ obscure. Max Headroom is incredibly well-known. Even the broadcast hijacking incident is well-known by now.
Great video! Mad respect to the Bubblegum Team, I second that part that it definitely scratched an itch nobody knew they had. It's a series that will be impossible to replicate now.
This is one of my favorite anime. Watched it back then and still watch it now. Still my absolute favorite anime soundtrack..the original Japanese not the English versions... I give them credit for the doing the dubs but the subtitles version is really the way to watch it...the original voice actors are just so much better. So glad I got the Blu-ray when it was avaialble.
I would have to agree that what people love about Bubblegum Crisis is how aggressively 80s it is. The synthpop songs, the cyberpunk world, the art style, and so on. Though I'm a big cyberpunk fan, it wasn't for me. I could only watch it subbed, though. I'm a fan of quite a lot of dubs, but the dub for Bubblegum Crisis is absolutely awful, and can go chill with Speed Racer's equally bad dub. The only highlight it has is the actually rather decent English covers of the songs.
I will always treasure the dub for being the first time I heard the word "bullshit" coming out of a "cartoon"4 from Priss of course, Made my skin ripple from the neuron activation. It's where I began to realize what I rented from Blockbuster wasn't like other animation. I didn't even know what anime was. Suddenly I realized they made these for adults, and the dub made sure of that.
Bennet the Sage - the Little Girl was Actually created by USSD not Genom and she was part of the Killer Doll Program. the Little girl is a Remote Targeting System designed as a Infiltration Unit. the Little Girl can Interface with the Killer Satelites in orbit controlled by USSD. Mason had the Little Girl kidnapped in order to get the Killer Satelite black box in the Little Girl. later after she is Terminated the Black Box is Recovered and Mason installed in a Super Boomer in EP 2. the Boomer is Defeated by the Knight Sabers but the Black Box goes missing........until EP 5 RED EYES. where the Reborn Mason installs the Black Box inside himself. Largo is Terminated by the Knight Sabers . or so they think.............
When I first saw Bubblegum Crisis around 1995 I was completely blown away, and it was my entry point into anime. No anime has blown me away so completely. I don't think it needs better writing- if anything it needs worse writing. It is an exercise in aesthetic. It is like a painting. It's about the feel, not the story. It sweeps you away with optimism, excitement, girls, explosions, motorcycles, robots, songs. That's all it is, that's what it is, and as such it's awesome.
Kinda expensive these days? It's cheap AF these days compared to the past. $30 for 30 minutes of subbed anime wasn't abnormal. What do you pay for new anime releases?
Yeah, trying to grow the market by overcharging for volumes on VHS was not a good business model. The companies villified fan-subbers instead of making sure young (and not so young) fans could afford them.
21:20 If you ever cover Initial D, I'd say that's another anime where music is crucial to the experience. Which is important to note, since the original dub (you seem to use dubs whenever possible) took out the Eurobeat music that defined the show. I think the later dub release fixed that, but definitely something to look out for if you ever get to that series.
@BennettTheSage Just a little question, when will you go on with the Bubblegum Chronicles video? I'd like to see what you think of Bubblegum Crisis 2040...
Wow. I searched for Bubble Gum Crisis Making Of and found an in depth analysis about why I love the show. And you're right, I didn't know I needed that itch scratched.
Im a 54yo Otaku, BGC is still one of my Top favs animes till this day. Streets of Fire was the very first movie we rented when my parents bought us our fist VHS player. 🤘 BABYMETAL Forever 🤘🤘🤘 All hail The Fox God
Oh God, I love Bubblegum Crisis.... its pure 80s Nostalgia Awesome. Seriously, all it was missing really was a volleyball match set to a Kenny Loggins song...only instead a Cindi Lauper-style number.
Seriously I’d never heard the Bubblegum Crisis OP before, but now that I have I cannot help but wonder how the hell it doesn’t top quite a few best anime OP lists!
Yeah, the. English versions of the songs are not half bad, but there not even half as good as the original versions. I've loved this anime since the mid 90's got the DVDs in early 2K. I love the first half of 2040, but the fact that show got a conclusion gives that series a little edge over the OVA series.
Its the enthusiasm for itself but also BC was made and released during the peak of the 80’s OVA boom. The era that brought us Akira, Gundam 08th MS Team, Golgo 13, Cyber City Oedo, Armitage and many more that you’ve mentioned. There’s a visceral, thunder energy that emerges with the combination of the high contrast art style with elements of noir, the superb mechanical design, brutalist architecture, the rock and synth music, Bubblegum Crisis, as far as I’m concerned is peak cyberpunk. Along with the high-tech/low-life ethos of cyberpunk as a genre, the story and dialogue of the show is so loose, written with such abandon, it’s high on style and the writers don’t seem in the least concerned about bogging you down with seriousness. Its a trip, man. Its addictive. I just want more of this.
I love watching these video's and having my blu rays of Riding Bean, Gunsmith cats and Bubblegum Crisis :). I don't know if people listen to Sage, but I am glad! Thanks Sage!
I found a DVD of Bubblegum Crisis the original series via Madman Entertainment special edition where they had all the movies that were made in one DVD collection. They even included interview from Madman Entertainment as this was their first Anime they licensed for Australian VHS release back in 1996. So at least that was a special one in my collection.
I totally agree with the idea that what makes it appealing is just how naive the whole show is. It's totally unapologetic about it. It doesn't need any kind of justification for the sheer amount of stuff it crams into its episodes; it's just fun and completely over-the-top. In fact it's so over the top that giving it a more sensible story or a justification for what happens would have probably detracted from the show. Why does Priss' bike turn into a robot while jumping off a cliff and grabs her midflight? How can Leon always keep his cool (and his useless gun) while his colleagues get torn to pieces and entire city blocks get leveled? Who cares, it's just cool!
This made me think back to old SunCoast and Sam Goody prices. Good thing we have Retro Crush and UA-cam to be able to watch old anime from our younger years.
I have a “first time I saw bgc” story. I was at a comic shop in 1990 and was asking about a manga title, I think it was either Lum or Outlander. Anyhow, a guy overhears me asking about it and comes over to start a conversation. He asks if I watch anime and I tell him not since Robotech went off the air. He offers to loan me some vhs tapes and so we exchange numbers and addresses and I’ll be dammed if he wasn’t legit my next door neighbor. BGC was the first show he lent me, straight up 4th gen vhs copy with no subtitles or dubbing. I didn’t actually know the story for like another 20 years when I finally got a dvd copy.
The names on the map were done to exploit absence of fluency. The devs needed text, and they figured "most Japanese aren't facile in English, so let's put Meg Ryan overtop of 8th Street". I saw something similar in the MAD OX power armor OVA - they had copypasted text from an instruction manual under a US Marines warning label because they needed filler. I laughed so hard, but it's evidence of a shared mindset between East and West - when you need squiggles to fill space, use a different language.
It made me want to cry when I realized something: When we buy box sets of anime, we become the caretakers of that medium. Please love your medium, be it anime, movies, manga or comics. You become the bastion of salvation for future fans and creators. ❤
"Does Venus wars, lily cat or demon city Shinuku really deserve to be rereleased before the previous titles I listed?" You're asking the wrong person this question cause I'd non hesitantly say yes.
It has really great animation, and that is also really important when that is one of the selling points of the artform. I know a lot of MAL users and anime fans in general seem to underrate the actual animation part of the artform but it really, really is important.
And now here's my story about how I was introduced to Bubblegum Crisis: UA-cam's algorithm recommended me a video of the opening theme song in Japanese, with a robot fight going on at the same time, and I. Was. HOOKED.
Are you still planning to do videos on the rest of the series within this universe? I just checked your channel and was a little bummed to see that you haven't at least done 2040
I always thought the Bubblegum Crisis name came the movie "They Live" in the USA. I am here to kick ass and chew Bubblegum and I am all out of Bubblegum was where the name was from. There for a Bubblegum Crisis. That was the anime that got me highly addicted to anime. I rented the VSH tapes at the video store many times. Had bad copies of them so I watched tell I had money again to rent them. Ranma 1/2 as well. And Project Ako. Those were great days. I watched them so many times over and over. And now I got them all on DVD and Blue Ray.
Solid B-. I enjoyed it. Though I think "discretion" is a vocabulary word we might want to review as in also the context it was used. I don't think they could take down these robots "quietly" nor were they expected to. I think they meant just not speak to the press. First video watching for me, will definitely watch more. I want to know what type/level of sexual frustration I am watching here. Reminds me of myself before gym memberships and dieting. Gotta love the snarky domination overweight nerd trope.
"The Antagonists plans rely upon the authorities being incompetent..." To be fair, ALL CRIMINAL'S PLANS rely on incompetent authorities, and generally speaking the decay of civilizational institutions is what gives the criminal syndicates their opportunities in the first place. So by criticizing the criminal relying upon the authorities being incompetent, you're putting the Chicken before the egg. That's actually a pretty standard feature of the cyberpunk genre so can you really fault a work from a genre following genre conventions?
Two episodes for $30? Man, I got one episode for $30 when I was watching Oh! My Goddess. You kids had it easy. (Nah, that was in the same era, but f*** that price for OMG)
I'm actually disappointed. Your coverage of Bubblegum Crash was a much more through review of the characters and stories. This seems just like a history lesson regarding Artmic and Youmex, and and overview of the series. Seriously, no comments at all about Vision's character arc, or Anri and Sylvie's struggle? Shame. Shame!
As I have written before, Quincy wants to be immortal and immoral. He wants what he wants, wants it now, and doesn't want to be stopped, and all we can do, in theory, is to present our asses and hope not to die.
Bennet the Sage - Mason was in EP 1 - 3 he was killed by Silia Stingray. but he is Reborn as Largo and gets more upgrades. Almost kills Priss in EP 5 Red Eyes. but Priss gets her New Suit. the Knight Sabers kill Largo .....so the think until Bubblegum Crash. where they face A Trio of Largos.
So how did Fax Headspace get his name? Did he go to change the toner in the combination fax machine/printer and got his head stuck, causing irreparable swelling that put him in a coma? I'm thinking too much about this.
Rented the dub of Ep1 from Blockbuster. Watched it and immediately rewound to watch again. It also got me into "fandom" rec.art.fan.bgcrisis usenet group
There's still nothing like this after 34 years
Japan had it's golden age of animation between 1985 and 1998.
All film needs to be preserved no matter what.
The reason for the lack of development is because they had very tight time constraints for the episodes on account of their tight budget, so the decision was "story or action?" and they went action - with background material and character development done in what the creator dubbed 'media mix' and released in novels and audio dramas. But these were never translated into the west!
Star Wars been doing the same thing ever since Shadows of the Empire, each prequel included background characters in the film that were then developed in supplemental material.
"Its like reading a fanfiction written by a 9 year old that has Goku in it"
So it's like reading Ready Player One?
Wesley Foxx oh SNAP!
😂😆🤣
Exxept Goku is that world is a Gundam lol
ooooooh! Nice!!!
I own Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. Each and every one of them was amazing. I'm 13 currently and watched Bubblegum Crisis when I was in 1st grade. I had no idea that it was anime when I watch Sailor Moon. Bubblegum Crisis was my life and still is. It makes me kind of sad that the biggest of anime youtubers don't know this masterpiece. Bubblegum crisis was also how I started drawing the anime or scenery I do currently for fun! ^×^
Awesome! Now your 15 growin’ up huh! Hope you still love Bubblegum Crisis!
This anime had good music.
Priss is awesome, but Nene is my favorite. Especially in ep 8 and Bubblegum Crash. Great channel, great content, just found it out. Regards from an 80's born cult classic anime loving wierdo currently living in Japan.
When Bubblegum Crisis came out back in 1987 in Japan, it was ahead of it's time !! In most Japanese anime stories the writer expects the audience to already have knowledge of ideals etc.. from other science fiction stories !! Bubblegum Crisis was based on the world of Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of electronic Sheep by Philip K. Dick) !!!
The appeal is staring the audience in the face: the aesthetic. It's a really freakin pretty show. It doesn't have to go any deeper than just appreciating the animation. I'm honestly surprised this aspect has gone so overlooked in this video - not once was the animation or design aethetics ever mentioned, and those are huge factors for anime fans both old and new.
Are you here because Edgerunners got you into the mood to watch Cyberpunk anime like me?
I can confirm what you said. The animation gets progressively better which is really weird because Japan went into finantial crisis at the beginning of the 90s. Maybe that's one reason why it was left incomplete
Edit: The video talked about the situation in Japan too, I seriously didn't know 🤣
Lol Oh youngins talking bout the 80's shaking stick. Seriously though one of the ironies while Japan seemed to be running with the whole 'Merician thing, Jeans, Blondes, Bike Gangs... Americians thought Japan would buy us out, All our electronic goods were from Japan (watches, tape players, TV's...) Factories going overseas, car makers loosing to Japan, Books like the Z Machine or Mushashi's 5 Rings, Movies like Blade Runner and Gung Ho etc... (Kinda like Arabs in the late 70's early 80's)
"gather as much money and power and then die with a middle finger stretched ou"
so like every billionaire ever
Finally someone acknowledges the existence of streets of fire. I NEED A HERO.
Holy shit, that was an abstract refrence. Moment I heard that new character's name I was like, "Oh shit, its the Max Headroiom incident."
I love abstract or now-obscure things like this and I swear the week I learned about Max Headroom and the Mad Headroom Incident, this video originally came out. Once I finally was convinced Max Headroom references were done following me, Muse made their music video for Dig Down.
It's really not abstract. Like, at all. It was a pretty direct and obvious reference, and the later reference to the broadcast hijacking was also completely straightforward, arguably not even a reference so much as just bringing it up directly.
Not to mention, Max Headroom was incredibly popular and is widely known and recognized to this day. Exponentially more people know Max Headroon from the character itself than from the broadcast hijacking incident, which, while being pretty well known itself at this point, is nowhere near as ubiquitous as Headroom himself.
@@kaydwessie296 It really is very much _not_ obscure. Max Headroom is incredibly well-known. Even the broadcast hijacking incident is well-known by now.
Great video! Mad respect to the Bubblegum Team, I second that part that it definitely scratched an itch nobody knew they had. It's a series that will be impossible to replicate now.
They're...Charlie's Angels in Hardsuits!
Now there owned by NBC Universal Japan
This is one of my favorite anime. Watched it back then and still watch it now. Still my absolute favorite anime soundtrack..the original Japanese not the English versions... I give them credit for the doing the dubs but the subtitles version is really the way to watch it...the original voice actors are just so much better. So glad I got the Blu-ray when it was avaialble.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND PRETEND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE SAYING! I'LL STICK TO THE DUB!
@@Nihilism110 do you idiot know subtitles?
I would have to agree that what people love about Bubblegum Crisis is how aggressively 80s it is. The synthpop songs, the cyberpunk world, the art style, and so on. Though I'm a big cyberpunk fan, it wasn't for me. I could only watch it subbed, though. I'm a fan of quite a lot of dubs, but the dub for Bubblegum Crisis is absolutely awful, and can go chill with Speed Racer's equally bad dub. The only highlight it has is the actually rather decent English covers of the songs.
I will always treasure the dub for being the first time I heard the word "bullshit" coming out of a "cartoon"4 from Priss of course, Made my skin ripple from the neuron activation. It's where I began to realize what I rented from Blockbuster wasn't like other animation. I didn't even know what anime was. Suddenly I realized they made these for adults, and the dub made sure of that.
Cyberpunk babes, violence, and awesome pop rock music. That's why we loved it.
Bennet the Sage - the Little Girl was Actually created by USSD not Genom and she was part of the Killer Doll Program. the Little girl is a Remote Targeting System designed as a Infiltration Unit. the Little Girl can Interface with the Killer Satelites in orbit controlled by USSD. Mason had the Little Girl kidnapped in order to get the Killer Satelite black box in the Little Girl. later after she is Terminated the Black Box is Recovered and Mason installed in a Super Boomer in EP 2. the Boomer is Defeated by the Knight Sabers but the Black Box goes missing........until EP 5 RED EYES. where the Reborn Mason installs the Black Box inside
himself. Largo is Terminated by the Knight Sabers . or so they think.............
Yeah, but that never really got explained in the anime. I only found that kind of info in the RPG sourcebook.
Mark Plott NERD!!!!!! 🤣
I really liked that segment about the 80s. It was like a really awesome history lesson with badass music in the back
When I first saw Bubblegum Crisis around 1995 I was completely blown away, and it was my entry point into anime. No anime has blown me away so completely.
I don't think it needs better writing- if anything it needs worse writing. It is an exercise in aesthetic. It is like a painting. It's about the feel, not the story.
It sweeps you away with optimism, excitement, girls, explosions, motorcycles, robots, songs. That's all it is, that's what it is, and as such it's awesome.
"And we LIKED IT!"
"...No we didn't..."
I don't like how anime is kinda expensive these days, i can't imagine trying to buy anime in the 90's/80's.
See also, the comic speculator boom. Sometimes stuff gets the price far too inflated for no good reason.
Kinda expensive these days? It's cheap AF these days compared to the past. $30 for 30 minutes of subbed anime wasn't abnormal. What do you pay for new anime releases?
If you didn't have money, it was a real labor of love, especially considering how tough it could be to find other otaku information.
Yeah, trying to grow the market by overcharging for volumes on VHS was not a good business model. The companies villified fan-subbers instead of making sure young (and not so young) fans could afford them.
RETURN
TO A VISION
OF A FUTURE
WHERE THE 80'S...NEVER...ENDED!!!
21:20 If you ever cover Initial D, I'd say that's another anime where music is crucial to the experience. Which is important to note, since the original dub (you seem to use dubs whenever possible) took out the Eurobeat music that defined the show. I think the later dub release fixed that, but definitely something to look out for if you ever get to that series.
Can we mention that the sprawling Tenchi Muyo franchise started out as a Bubblegum Crisis spin off that became its own monster
Love how that talk about the 80's was all sorts of endgame Metal Gear Solid 2 levels of explaining and exposition
Awesome
Good to have this one back, it’s been too long
@BennettTheSage Just a little question, when will you go on with the Bubblegum Chronicles video? I'd like to see what you think of Bubblegum Crisis 2040...
Voltron, Robotech, Bubblegum Crisis, Macron 1 and Gunbuster were great.
Wow. I searched for Bubble Gum Crisis Making Of and found an in depth analysis about why I love the show. And you're right, I didn't know I needed that itch scratched.
Im a 54yo Otaku, BGC is still one of my Top favs animes till this day. Streets of Fire was the very first movie we rented when my parents bought us our fist VHS player. 🤘
BABYMETAL Forever
🤘🤘🤘
All hail The Fox God
Oh God, I love Bubblegum Crisis.... its pure 80s Nostalgia Awesome. Seriously, all it was missing really was a volleyball match set to a Kenny Loggins song...only instead a Cindi Lauper-style number.
It's 100% the 80's nostalgia my dude
Seriously I’d never heard the Bubblegum Crisis OP before, but now that I have I cannot help but wonder how the hell it doesn’t top quite a few best anime OP lists!
Yeah, the. English versions of the songs are not half bad, but there not even half as good as the original versions. I've loved this anime since the mid 90's got the DVDs in early 2K. I love the first half of 2040, but the fact that show got a conclusion gives that series a little edge over the OVA series.
Its the enthusiasm for itself but also BC was made and released during the peak of the 80’s OVA boom. The era that brought us Akira, Gundam 08th MS Team, Golgo 13, Cyber City Oedo, Armitage and many more that you’ve mentioned. There’s a visceral, thunder energy that emerges with the combination of the high contrast art style with elements of noir, the superb mechanical design, brutalist architecture, the rock and synth music, Bubblegum Crisis, as far as I’m concerned is peak cyberpunk. Along with the high-tech/low-life ethos of cyberpunk as a genre, the story and dialogue of the show is so loose, written with such abandon, it’s high on style and the writers don’t seem in the least concerned about bogging you down with seriousness. Its a trip, man. Its addictive. I just want more of this.
I love watching these video's and having my blu rays of Riding Bean, Gunsmith cats and Bubblegum Crisis :).
I don't know if people listen to Sage, but I am glad!
Thanks Sage!
I found a DVD of Bubblegum Crisis the original series via Madman Entertainment special edition where they had all the movies that were made in one DVD collection.
They even included interview from Madman Entertainment as this was their first Anime they licensed for Australian VHS release back in 1996.
So at least that was a special one in my collection.
I totally agree with the idea that what makes it appealing is just how naive the whole show is. It's totally unapologetic about it. It doesn't need any kind of justification for the sheer amount of stuff it crams into its episodes; it's just fun and completely over-the-top. In fact it's so over the top that giving it a more sensible story or a justification for what happens would have probably detracted from the show. Why does Priss' bike turn into a robot while jumping off a cliff and grabs her midflight? How can Leon always keep his cool (and his useless gun) while his colleagues get torn to pieces and entire city blocks get leveled? Who cares, it's just cool!
This made me think back to old SunCoast and Sam Goody prices. Good thing we have Retro Crush and UA-cam to be able to watch old anime from our younger years.
I have a “first time I saw bgc” story. I was at a comic shop in 1990 and was asking about a manga title, I think it was either Lum or Outlander. Anyhow, a guy overhears me asking about it and comes over to start a conversation. He asks if I watch anime and I tell him not since Robotech went off the air. He offers to loan me some vhs tapes and so we exchange numbers and addresses and I’ll be dammed if he wasn’t legit my next door neighbor. BGC was the first show he lent me, straight up 4th gen vhs copy with no subtitles or dubbing. I didn’t actually know the story for like another 20 years when I finally got a dvd copy.
Cause bgc was fucking awesome and it's music is simply some of the best around.
Best Soundtrack ever
The anime is beautifully drawn
This is such thorough deep dive. I always thought it was an odd choice to end the original series with ep. 8 “scoop chase”
(Now I know why) 👍🏻
HOLY SNAP THAT INTRO!
I been meaning to learn about BBC, This is a good way to see it.
You may not want to go around telling random people on the internet that you want to learn about BBC.
The names on the map were done to exploit absence of fluency. The devs needed text, and they figured "most Japanese aren't facile in English, so let's put Meg Ryan overtop of 8th Street". I saw something similar in the MAD OX power armor OVA - they had copypasted text from an instruction manual under a US Marines warning label because they needed filler. I laughed so hard, but it's evidence of a shared mindset between East and West - when you need squiggles to fill space, use a different language.
I loved this anime in all it's incarnations I loved Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash, and the reboot Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Venus Wars is a masterpiece.
That's what I'm saying. Wtf
It made me want to cry when I realized something: When we buy box sets of anime, we become the caretakers of that medium. Please love your medium, be it anime, movies, manga or comics. You become the bastion of salvation for future fans and creators. ❤
"Does Venus wars, lily cat or demon city Shinuku really deserve to be rereleased before the previous titles I listed?" You're asking the wrong person this question cause I'd non hesitantly say yes.
It's funny, I'm currently watching this at my local anime club. That's how I know about it.
Nice!!
20:54 - 21:00: I have no idea that Arin Hanson sings this song and by the sound of it, it's actually pretty good.
Ha! It does sound like Egoraptor.
I'm glad Memories got rereleased along with Megalopolis. I actually have the Memories boxset on laserdisc and it is soooooo beautiful.
Venus wars completely deserves to be re-released first. That movie is tons of fun and unlike Sage the reporter does not bother me.
It has really great animation, and that is also really important when that is one of the selling points of the artform. I know a lot of MAL users and anime fans in general seem to underrate the actual animation part of the artform but it really, really is important.
The way I see it, this series pretty much ends at the episode where Priss gets her new suit since the series never ended proper.
I'd love to see him do a review of Martian Successor Nadesico sometime.
in my country this was a 7 AM cartoon back in 2000
I love the new intro!
Oh god, I had forgotten paying 15 bucks for 2-3 episodes..... WHY did you remind me?
And now here's my story about how I was introduced to Bubblegum Crisis: UA-cam's algorithm recommended me a video of the opening theme song in Japanese, with a robot fight going on at the same time, and I. Was. HOOKED.
2:07, always nice to see editing tricks like that!
Are you still planning to do videos on the rest of the series within this universe? I just checked your channel and was a little bummed to see that you haven't at least done 2040
Is that Cinema Snob as voice cameo?
love your videos man.
I always thought the Bubblegum Crisis name came the movie "They Live" in the USA. I am here to kick ass and chew Bubblegum and I am all out of Bubblegum was where the name was from. There for a Bubblegum Crisis. That was the anime that got me highly addicted to anime. I rented the VSH tapes at the video store many times. Had bad copies of them so I watched tell I had money again to rent them. Ranma 1/2 as well. And Project Ako. Those were great days. I watched them so many times over and over. And now I got them all on DVD and Blue Ray.
lol We got Bubblegun Crisis here in Brazil via Locomotion. Good Times
I'm really surprised you haven't covered Bastard!! yet.
cant wait for Tokyo 2040
Christopher Brown I first watched Tokyo 2040 when it aired on Starz/Encore.
Man, that was an awesome run. The Knight Sabers deserve tae be seen as awesome.
That was the very first anime I ever watched! It was the same channel and everything. That's one dvd set I will never get rid of. I still love it. :D
Charlene Alyssa Ingram in Australia it was on Adult Swim
Still waiting
AND WE LIKED IT!
Sage: No, we didn't.
Me: No we didn't.
Probably everyone else who collected anime: No, we didn't.
These ladies can kick some serious butt!!!
Oh my god, I forgot the Blasters were in Streets of Fire. I'm gonna have to watch that again one of these days.
Solid B-. I enjoyed it. Though I think "discretion" is a vocabulary word we might want to review as in also the context it was used. I don't think they could take down these robots "quietly" nor were they expected to. I think they meant just not speak to the press. First video watching for me, will definitely watch more. I want to know what type/level of sexual frustration I am watching here. Reminds me of myself before gym memberships and dieting. Gotta love the snarky domination overweight nerd trope.
That sealab clip
But, if you tried to pet a kitten. You'd crush it.
YAY!!!! Thank ya Sage!!
"The Antagonists plans rely upon the authorities being incompetent..." To be fair, ALL CRIMINAL'S PLANS rely on incompetent authorities, and generally speaking the decay of civilizational institutions is what gives the criminal syndicates their opportunities in the first place. So by criticizing the criminal relying upon the authorities being incompetent, you're putting the Chicken before the egg. That's actually a pretty standard feature of the cyberpunk genre so can you really fault a work from a genre following genre conventions?
thank u for the fire recommendations
Two episodes for $30? Man, I got one episode for $30 when I was watching Oh! My Goddess. You kids had it easy. (Nah, that was in the same era, but f*** that price for OMG)
When I was around eight or nine, my great-aunt got me a vhs tape of yugioh that had either five or six episodes on it for about $36-$39 dollars
4:22 "WITNESS ME!" But really, ugh, I can't imagine what that stuff tastes like.
Gunsmith Cats is getting a Kickstarter. ^.^
Sweet!!
And since this video, both Memories and Gunsmith Cats have had Blu-Rays.
YES ITS BACK!
I'm actually disappointed. Your coverage of Bubblegum Crash was a much more through review of the characters and stories. This seems just like a history lesson regarding Artmic and Youmex, and and overview of the series. Seriously, no comments at all about Vision's character arc, or Anri and Sylvie's struggle? Shame. Shame!
What?
Are you telling me that Bubblegum Crisis isn't a documentary of the bubblegum shortage of 1987!?😳🤯😏😉
Oh headroom
Did you do a review about BGC 2040?
Btw it's nice to see Marz Gurl again.
Bubblegum crisis kick ass. 😀👍
I believe Quincy's master plan is to be infinitely rich, and immortal in a boomer body
Hello person who is the most recent comment, do u know what anime/movie is around 2:30 any help would be appreciated
@@groove9899 Seems like Jin Roh the Wolf Brigade.
@@stanleyteriaca2184 yess thank you, i just found out and came back to edit my comment out of moral obligation....have a nice life friend!
As I have written before, Quincy wants to be immortal and immoral. He wants what he wants, wants it now, and doesn't want to be stopped, and all we can do, in theory, is to present our asses and hope not to die.
Bennet the Sage - Mason was in EP 1 - 3 he was killed by Silia Stingray. but he is Reborn as Largo and gets more upgrades. Almost kills Priss in EP 5 Red Eyes. but Priss gets her New Suit. the Knight Sabers kill Largo .....so the think until Bubblegum Crash. where they face A Trio of Largos.
Bubble gum crisis and dirty pair are my dirty pleasures.
So how did Fax Headspace get his name? Did he go to change the toner in the combination fax machine/printer and got his head stuck, causing irreparable swelling that put him in a coma?
I'm thinking too much about this.
Rented the dub of Ep1 from Blockbuster. Watched it and immediately rewound to watch again. It also got me into "fandom" rec.art.fan.bgcrisis usenet group
A CD for EVERY EPISODE!?
That's 1 more than the Giant Robo Animation CDs!
Now i want the man in the high castle anime now
As he says it, I look at my Blue ray of Gunsmith Cats.
Oi, don't be too tough on Nene! She was my very first waifu!
Siiiigh... I remember having this classic on VHS... siiiiiigh
Carl
Hell, I still have the Crisis & Crash OVAs subs in the VHS hard clamshell cases from back in the day.
I lost mine when I moved :'(
wait, for how long now has sage been a budokai tenkaichi 3 mod?
the new anime abandon intro. he looks like a custom character mod made for dragonball z budokai tenkaichi games
2 episodes in one VHS for $30.00...Whenever i bought Evangelion on VHS when anime was only found in Suncoast.