My dad introduced me to this anime when I was 13-ish; I always saw a large painting of Priss on her motorcycle in his bedroom growing up and I was like "oh!! That's the lady that was in your bedroom" lmao and we watched it together and I loved it. For his birthday that year I learned Konya wa Hurricane in full Japanese and sang it to him for fun :) still know all the lyrics
@Uncle_Ruckus_ Japan in the 80's was doing crazy good in industry, and their economy was going through a huge boom. However, due to a myriad of economic issues regarding inflated real estate and asset values, their boom was considered a case of a growing bubble, and when that bubble burst in the early 90's, it brought with it a huge economic crash the country still hasn't recovered from fully. For a local comparison, the surprise mortgage bubble here in the States, where lenders kept giving out mortgages they knew couldn't get paid in full while also reporting massively overvalued real estate holdings, eventually led to the notorious 2008 crash.
@@JackgarPrime It got to the point that Japanese corporations, and even individuals, were buying entire skyscrapers in all major cities in the USA. Speculation on real estate in Tokyo was to such an extent, that the land and buildings in the Japanese imperial palace and gardens, was appraised at a value greater than that of the entire state of California.
That vibe IS anime. The anime the world thinks of when they think of Anime. Outside of some teens and twenty year olds to early 30 year old Americans, Canadians, and Europeans interested in the modern Anime fads. Most of the world were introduced to 60s 70s and *especially* eighties Anime from television. Even more people have seen 80s Anime images in other context. Really 80s Anime is *the* Anime, not some part of a whole. You've got Anime leading up to the mid eighties and Anime that is post mid eighties. It's like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan show, you may hold Sergeant Pepper or the White Album in high regard, but for the majority of the human race that _is_ the Beatles. Marilyn Monroe pushing down her skirt in the seven year itch is more Marilyn Monroe than the real human Norma Jean could ever really be...it's beyond any understanding of evolution. My mom can identify these as Japanese cartoons and so can a millennials child, but my mom has no idea what she's looking at when you show her about half of modern Anime. ...and when she would know, it would be because the particular work you showed her retains elements developed mostly in the 60s 70s and 80s and were refined mostly in the eighties. People call Elvis the king of rock and roll because he was called that before the rock and roll we came to know began. Elvis didn't play electric guitar solos with a distorted guitar..THAT *is* Rock and Roll. Sometimes the thing in the middle _is_ the thing. Like B.C. and A.D.
Damn this is amazing, possibly the most aesthetic and creative thing I've ever seen. I can't even imagine the amount of work they put into this video, so creative, expressive, wild, and unique, this truly is an EXPERIENCE ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏 fuccccccc
They said it couldn't be done -- ripping off Streets of Fire, Blade Runner, Aliens and Terminator all at the same time -- and then there was _Bubblegum Crisis._
Love the original BGC. Still have all the original soundtracks after all these years. This particular opening was in part inspired by the 80's flick "Streets of Fire." Look up the opening of that movie - the Boomer here facing off against the cops even resembles a young Willem Defoe from the movie.
One of the biggest things I miss about '80s anime is the depth. In 5 minutes your immersed in a world where you completely understand the tone and the vibe, which it seems alien yet somehow familiar. Art in its most visceral form.
And brutally efficent in getting you up to speed on the important things, even if you don't know why they're important just yet. I don't know art, but BGC has always been a personal favorite.
@@JinnaiT That's the thing. I'm trying to watch new Anime and I just lose interest within moments, or at the second episode. The older anime (even just early 2000s) really immersed me more and drew me in. It might just be a problem with me, but that's how I feel.
There is a reason Anime got so popular. And it was because of series like this. The 90's anime was amazing and the bubblegum crisis was one of my favs. I loved the music too.
@@matiasfpm Technically it was concluded with "Bubblegum Crash", but there was Lotsa behind-the-scenes drama and industry silliness. You can find out exactly why just by searching youtube :)
@HellWaffen Anime started really getting popular in the late 90s. That was way before the whole woke thing that's been ruining media for the past couple of years.
I'm an illustrator who tries to emulate te art styles from the 80's and 90's. The colouring is one of the main requirements to make a cool retro styled anime art.
@@polly_sacharrideAnd then there's the basic premise involving hunting down dangerous rogue synthetic humans and in the process occasionally being confronted by questions of what defines 'humanity.'
For me, the year was 1990. I was attending the Chicago Comic-con (now Wizard World Chicago) for the first time. As I was going through the various dealer sections, I came across this vendor with a lot of VHS tapes. Not realising they were bootleg fansubs at the time, one title, called "Bubblegum Crisis" caught my eye. The vendor through in the first ep into a vcr and tv setup he had and played it through the opening till Luna was coming out of Hot Legs. I bought it right there and have never looked back.
For me it was one comic book store that would get monthly shipments of subbed VHS OAVs from Animego. Bubblegum Crisis, Kimagure Orange Road and Vampire Hunter D were among my early anime titles.
@Lazarus Hernandez Kimagure Orange Road! No there's a series that bring back the nostalgia. I especially love it because it resolved the story with that excellent movie.
My mind was already blown when they busted out the cover in the episode. I was thoroughly unprepared for that, and had one of those critic-from-Ratatouille flashbacks.
Damn this is amazing, possibly the most aesthetic and creative thing I've ever seen. I can't even imagine the amount of work they put into this video, so creative, expressive, wild, and unique, this truly is an EXPERIENCE ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏 nice asf
Same here! The Soundtrack itself changed my life in so many ways, taste of musik, found new frieds who liked anime the same way i do... the clubs i used to visit in my youth.
Japanese lyrics: (Did you know?) Arashi no highway (Did you dream?) hashiri tsuzuketa (Did you lie?) togireta yume no yukue sagashite (Did you know?) nigai maboroshi (Did you dream?) subete no uso wo (Did you lie?) senaka de hajiki tobashite (No, no, no, my heart) Big city kodoku na heart to heart minna ai no mayoigo Big city namida wa day by day nemuranai omoi wo yusaburu dake (I want your love) Kon'ya wa Hurricane anata ni Hurricane tsutaetai no Loving You... (Loving You) kon'ya wa Hurricane kanjite Hurricane sugao no mama touch! Give me touch! [Instrumental] (Did you know?) Kotoba no datsu (Did you dream?) nageau dake ja (Did you lie?) mune no itami wa wakari aenai (Did you know?) oshiete hoshii (Did you dream?) nani ga anata no (Did you lie?) hitomi wo kumoraseru no ka (Sin~ Sin~ Singe your heart) Big city chigireta heart to heart yoru ni odori tsukarete Big city utsuro na day by day sasayaka na nukumori machikogareta (I want your love) Kon'ya wa Hurricane anata ni Hurricane tsutaetai no loving You... (Loving You) kon'ya wa Hurricane mou ichido Hurricane dakishimetai touch! Burning touch! [Instrumental] Big city kodoku na heart to heart minna ai no mayoigo Big city namida wa day by day nemuranai omoi wo yusaburu dake (I want your love) Kon'ya wa Hurricane anata ni Hurricane tsutaetai no loving you... (Loving you) kon'ya wa Hurricane kanjite Hurricane sugao no mama touch! (I want your love) Kon'ya wa Hurricane (kon'ya wa Hurricane) anata ni Hurricane (anata ni Hurricane) tsutaetai no loving you... (Loving you) kon'ya wa Hurricane (kon'ya wa Hurricane) mou ichido Hurricane (mou ichido Hurricane) dakishimetai touch! Burning touch! Give me touch! Burning touch!
I totally love the direction done here. The song playing in the background as the cops are trying to subdue a rogue cyborg. Totally felt like watching a Hollywood action movie of that era because of the alternating scenes going back and forth between the concert scene and a scene of carnage.
I never watched Bubblegum Crisis, but MAN I miss this art style! And sound and feel of the music from those days? Bru, the nostalgia is STRONG with this one.
@@bleachno9 I think people seeing the rate of progress at the time made them think a lot about how things could be in the future. But once technology slowed down in the 2000's and more regulations came into play, most people realized that things aren't really going to change too much anymore so the theme wasn't as prominent.
@@Bristecom slow down? Regulations? 🤣🤣🤣 Oh god you're one of those people. As if Moore's law isn't still a reliable prediction that has technology constantly evolving. Get the fuck back to whatever hole of right wing edgelord, ill informed UA-cam manbabies you crawled out from. 😂😂😂😂
Always loved the song, when I first saw Bubblegum Crisis, on VHS. The instrumentals sound like something produced by Jim Steinman and the singer's vocal range is close to people like Laura Branigan and Martha Davis, of The Motels. Very "80s," but in the best connotation.
First the Crisis then the Crash. When one says, "they don't make them like this anymore", this is what they are referring too. A sad thing that this too.
I woke up this morning and wanted to hear this song only to find out the same day it's been featured in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off! Bubblegum Crisis was the first show that got me into Anime. And Scott Pilgrim was the first Manga I ever read. Crazy awesome day!🎤
I just finished Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and as soon as I heard the music I was SHOCKED! Like oh my god I love this song so much, I listen to it way too often. It was so nice to hear it in another show I also loved!!
@@scriptyshake Absolutely blew my mind to hear this being played on my speakers from another context like this. I'll admit, I haven't been so in love with the new 'adaptation', but it's definitely trying its hardest to win my heart.
We got the original song in the credits 💙 Follow up: I just finished watching the series and had to re-watch Ep7 "2 Scott 2 Pilgrim" Don't mind 37 year old me, having an existential crisis with the uncanny similarities to my life and clearly same taste in music.. I love the new series just as much as the Movie and the Manga PS: Thanks for all the likes! I have my own YT channel and sadly never got that many likes on a comment before..😅 "It's a Bop, right! Over a hundred views!"
@Youre Gonna Need a Bigger Boat "Boomer" isn't made up. "Boomer" is a reference to the Generation that had it good after WWII and are still with us, as they're all part of the "baby boom" that happened after WWII. Even though most of the people doing the complaining are younger than "boomers".
Sadly the universe could barely contain such awesomeness. If anyone ever tried...well, reality bursting at the seams has a way of warping such attempts to the point where they suck.😢 i know what you mean, though. It'd be awesome to see something like this done in a live action feature.
The eyes while still a bit big, weren't unrealistically big with current anime, that and there's an actual nose instead of bump on the face. In other words, the characters back then are more realistic in the face compared to the current anime characters.
Because your mom thought "Cartoon = For kids". I had the same reaction from my sister-in-law when she checked what i was watching: "A cartoon? But... but... It's not for children!" I was watching "Vampire Hunter D" :D :D :D
@@nosfonader8792 This isn't a nod, this was MADE in the 80s. The first BGC 2032 OVA, "Tinsel city" (which is mostly referenced in this AMV), was released in 1986. Now, while the 2010s shows like Gundam Unicorn or Gundam: The ORIGIN are _stylized_ as a nod to the 70es and 80es when most of the UC-era shows were made (even Char's Counterattack was 1988), BGC 2032 IS the 80s show. Only the two last OVAs out of eight were made in the 90s, before the burst of the "bubble economy" made high-value OVAs like that uneconomical.
This intro is a homage to the intro from "Streets of Fire", which I definitely recommend checking out. Some of the shots are directly taken from that movie.
Scott Pilgrim brought me BACK here. Never thought I'd hear Will Forte cover this, but such is the world. If Melissa Villasenor covered Cruel Angel Thesis my life would be complete.
@@domanyjo7717 This is like the Marvel effect on music. Now it's impossible to listen to AC/DC without hearing "THAT'S THE SONG FROM IRON MAN!" It's annoying that now this will just be "ThE sONg FrOm SCoTt PIlGRiM".
I remember when this came out and people were getting their first "RAW" bootlegs. You find someone to had something and you traded something good for what they had. When people first saw this they were to amazed. You had a bizarre title, set in cyberpunk future, a rave performance that blew you out of your seat (and still holds up to this day) and then the action starts where you got the city's police department and riot squad is trying to stop some rampaging cyborgs courtesy of the corporation Genom. You wonder what the hell is all this about. Until you find out that Priss the lead vocalist of the Replicants (which is a nod to Blade Runner) is also a member of the city's mercenary force for good against the Genom's cybernetic fiasco. I'll say this that out of the entire series which is laden with 80's synth pop 'Koniya wa Hurricane' IS THE best song on the entire album. LOL!! Gotta love Leon, he loves the music but he just can't get the girl.
Damn this is amazing, possibly the most aesthetic and creative thing I've ever seen. I can't even imagine the amount of work they put into this video, so creative, expressive, wild, and unique, this truly is an EXPERIENCE ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@kidrobot. I think it did. I did manage to fine the OSTs for the vocals but thd soundtracks themselves and there were 7 of them were not only the hardest to find but the most expensive.
They hooked him up with a dialect coach. He took it seriously. The joke sprang from Grabinski and O'Malley's mutual love for Streets of Fire. O'Malley said, hey, Bubblegum Crisis probably referenced this. That gave Grabinski the idea of having the song in that scene be Konya wa Hurricane.
Kenichi Sonoda (Gunsmith Cats, Riding Bean) Urushihara Satoshi (Plastic Little) Masami Obari (Fatal Fury) Shinji Aramaki (Mecha designer on every anime in the 80's & 90s) Hiroaki Gouda (Onegai Teacher) So many legends worked on Bubblegum Crisis before creating their own classics.
The beginning, where the guy threw the cigarette and the music started playing, I knew I was about to witness real cinema. I don't thing I've ever seen a stronger 5 minute beginning in anything I've ever watched. Perfection.
I am so glad people still watch and listen to this great anime. I watched it when it came out in the 80’s. I do not even need the subtitles anymore. I have all the music related to Bubblegum Crisis on my MP3 player. Thank you for doing this.
Robert McMillan I completely agree with you. The voice actress of Priss sung the song. The other voice actresses also did some singing with other songs.
I love this song since I heard it I couldn't stop listening to it over and over again .. the beautiful voice of the singer with that power and kindness that she puts into her, has no comparison. July 2, 2020.
I don’t know anything about this show, but this opening sequence reminds me a little bit of the beginning of the Walter Hill movie, “STREETS OF FIRE.” Very cool.
@@Mrwizard-ck7oe Looks like someone at cdp red is a giant (and old) weeb... Which is good, the more references/ good inspirations the game will have, the better.
The outfit of the singer is stunning,i think i will use it for a character of a story im writing. And the song and the animation are insanely good, i love the urban 80s vibes.
The Karen thing is the most inane meme of this year. Why is it that everyone who uses the word Karen is ten times more annoying than the person they’re calling a Karen
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster Because they’re posers. I’m a boomer (Well, born in 1994) since I still call Karens a f*cking Becky, Brad, Miss Ann, and Mister Charlie.
@@whathell6t we will always find a term for those people in the 1990's they were the soccer mom, the 2000's they were the Becky, 2010s they were the Janet, in the 2020's they are the Karen,
I never watched this show as a teen because from the title alone I thought it revolved around a crisis situation where the world was all out of bubblegum. I sure am an idiot.
All this time later, one of the songs I've loved most in my life (and all the little touches in the anime shown above are exceptional too, thought so then, still do).
Whenever I write my novel series, a lot of the style and vibes that I imagine my series is a lot like this anime and one day, I hope this vibe will be resurrected one day, but when will be a time of long wait.
Wow, anime Lita Ford goes HARD. Jokes aside, though, this is a famous retro anime I've _heard_ about like crazy but never actually saw. I should probably look it up, now that I know how awesome it looks. :)
After all these years the BGC soundtracks and vocals are still my all time favorite anime music. So many memorable songs that never get old no matter how many times I listen to them. 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍
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Hey this was inspired on streets of fire opening sequence? So familiar o.O
Or download the best version from nyaa: nyaa.si/view/1137627
i own the dvd's....
Why am I surprised that it is not available in my country? Is it available for NA only?
Free on tubi
In 5 minutes, we are introduced to the characters, the plot, the setting, and the music.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤣😂🤳😭FACTS
In 7 minutes if you watch the anime.
That's good filmaking in a nutshell. To give the audience information in a clear and direct way.
Way better than an info dump
It's typical 80's music video at it's best. How better to setup the story?
Kid: "Ok, boomer"
Boomer: rips off skin and shoots a laser from its mouth
LMAOO
IMA FIRING MAH LAZAH!!!!
Millennial and boomers rejoice in an allegiance to stop the zoomers.
"There's your "boomer " for ya"!!!
just like a judas priest album
My dad introduced me to this anime when I was 13-ish; I always saw a large painting of Priss on her motorcycle in his bedroom growing up and I was like "oh!! That's the lady that was in your bedroom" lmao and we watched it together and I loved it. For his birthday that year I learned Konya wa Hurricane in full Japanese and sang it to him for fun :) still know all the lyrics
How cool
Awesome & precious memory!
This is so rad I hope I ever get the chance to share that to my offspring
Somehow, the 80s were even more 80s in Japan. Well done.
Look up REBECCA - Vanity Angel. This confirms it.
People were going wild during the bubble period
@@JackgarPrimewhat's the bubble period?
@Uncle_Ruckus_ Japan in the 80's was doing crazy good in industry, and their economy was going through a huge boom. However, due to a myriad of economic issues regarding inflated real estate and asset values, their boom was considered a case of a growing bubble, and when that bubble burst in the early 90's, it brought with it a huge economic crash the country still hasn't recovered from fully.
For a local comparison, the surprise mortgage bubble here in the States, where lenders kept giving out mortgages they knew couldn't get paid in full while also reporting massively overvalued real estate holdings, eventually led to the notorious 2008 crash.
@@JackgarPrime
It got to the point that Japanese corporations, and even individuals, were buying entire skyscrapers in all major cities in the USA. Speculation on real estate in Tokyo was to such an extent, that the land and buildings in the Japanese imperial palace and gardens, was appraised at a value greater than that of the entire state of California.
80's anime has a certain vibe
That vibe IS anime. The anime the world thinks of when they think of Anime.
Outside of some teens and twenty year olds to early 30 year old Americans, Canadians, and Europeans interested in the modern Anime fads.
Most of the world were introduced to 60s 70s and *especially* eighties Anime from television.
Even more people have seen 80s Anime images in other context. Really 80s Anime is *the* Anime, not some part of a whole.
You've got Anime leading up to the mid eighties and Anime that is post mid eighties.
It's like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan show, you may hold Sergeant Pepper or the White Album in high regard, but for the majority of the human race that _is_ the Beatles.
Marilyn Monroe pushing down her skirt in the seven year itch is more Marilyn Monroe than the real human Norma Jean could ever really be...it's beyond any understanding of evolution.
My mom can identify these as Japanese cartoons and so can a millennials child, but my mom has no idea what she's looking at when you show her about half of modern Anime.
...and when she would know, it would be because the particular work you showed her retains elements developed mostly in the 60s 70s and 80s and were refined mostly in the eighties.
People call Elvis the king of rock and roll because he was called that before the rock and roll we came to know began.
Elvis didn't play electric guitar solos with a distorted guitar..THAT *is* Rock and Roll.
Sometimes the thing in the middle _is_ the thing.
Like B.C. and A.D.
Damn this is amazing, possibly the most aesthetic and creative thing I've ever seen. I can't even imagine the amount of work they put into this video, so creative, expressive, wild, and unique, this truly is an EXPERIENCE ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏 fuccccccc
90s please
not just 80's anime, 80's EVERYTHING: Music, movies, trends and people!
@Jale The Village Troublemaker hand drawn by humans vs sterile CG crap.
They said it couldn't be done -- ripping off Streets of Fire, Blade Runner, Aliens and Terminator all at the same time -- and then there was _Bubblegum Crisis._
If you say it
Forgot about RoboCop or at least the 2rd movie.
I fully thought this was a joke song in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, not an incredibly deep cut to a classic anime.
The ending song for the episode is the original version!
Right! I was like "damn they really nailed this!" 🤣
Shout out to Google voice search for finding this😂
Love the original BGC. Still have all the original soundtracks after all these years. This particular opening was in part inspired by the 80's flick "Streets of Fire." Look up the opening of that movie - the Boomer here facing off against the cops even resembles a young Willem Defoe from the movie.
@@genghispecan nice, references within references.
One of the biggest things I miss about '80s anime is the depth. In 5 minutes your immersed in a world where you completely understand the tone and the vibe, which it seems alien yet somehow familiar.
Art in its most visceral form.
And brutally efficent in getting you up to speed on the important things, even if you don't know why they're important just yet. I don't know art, but BGC has always been a personal favorite.
to be fair it was the 80s in the 80s, a 20s anime can immerse you in a 20s vibe and you wouldn't know as you are in the 20s
@@JinnaiT That's the thing. I'm trying to watch new Anime and I just lose interest within moments, or at the second episode.
The older anime (even just early 2000s) really immersed me more and drew me in. It might just be a problem with me, but that's how I feel.
@@crayboxes7731 I keep up with seasonal anime and out of the whole season I actualy watch maybe... 2 shows? 3?
Well said. Oh how i miss this style of anmie.
There is a reason Anime got so popular. And it was because of series like this. The 90's anime was amazing and the bubblegum crisis was one of my favs. I loved the music too.
This person speaks the truth! Bubblegum Crisis is a masterpiece!
So why it was cancelled?
The anime is cool, sure, but it isn't part of the reason anime got so popular. Not in the east, nor the west.
@@matiasfpm Technically it was concluded with "Bubblegum Crash", but there was Lotsa behind-the-scenes drama and industry silliness. You can find out exactly why just by searching youtube :)
@HellWaffen Anime started really getting popular in the late 90s. That was way before the whole woke thing that's been ruining media for the past couple of years.
That is the most beautifully animated sequence of a girl putting on a miniskirt I have ever seen.
I've always loved Priss's look of frustration at trying to squeeze into her top.
Wish I was that miniskirt!
And very accurate.
Riding bean does something similar
I genuinely consider Priss Asagiri to be one of the hottest women in Anime.
I prefer this artstyle to the great majority of today's anime.
Me too mate! The best era
I mostly miss the coloring. Now it's mostly pastels instead of these deep dark colors, and it's not even because of the switch to digital.
Me too. And as said. The coloring is also amazing from this era. Love it.
I'm an illustrator who tries to emulate te art styles from the 80's and 90's. The colouring is one of the main requirements to make a cool retro styled anime art.
Me too..also colors...looks more simple...now everything is grafic tablets.
Couldn't believe it when I heart it in the Scott Pilgrim anime! What a throwback!!
- How much 80s vibe do you want in your anime sir?
- YES
Of course it has 80s vibes. It was made in 1984
😄
@@ShadowMoon878 considering it was released in 1987, they sure took their sweet time on it 🙄
@@christophersummers1939Quality takes time.
What do you mean, "YES" ?
That makes no sense.
Is this supposed to be humor, because it's not working.
Bubblegum Crisis still has the best soundtrack of any TV series till this date 🤩🥰
Samurai Champloo, Macross plus, just to name a few.
I love that Priss and the Replicants is a direct reference to Blade Runner
Ok thank god, I thought I was losing my mind lol.
There are Blade Runner references throughout, some of the most notable being things Pris and the Replicants, Leon and the design of the Genom tower.
@@polly_sacharrideAnd then there's the basic premise involving hunting down dangerous rogue synthetic humans and in the process occasionally being confronted by questions of what defines 'humanity.'
For me, the year was 1990.
I was attending the Chicago Comic-con (now Wizard World Chicago) for the first time. As I was going through the various dealer sections, I came across this vendor with a lot of VHS tapes. Not realising they were bootleg fansubs at the time, one title, called "Bubblegum Crisis" caught my eye. The vendor through in the first ep into a vcr and tv setup he had and played it through the opening till Luna was coming out of Hot Legs.
I bought it right there and have never looked back.
This young one humbly bows to the old anime master
For me it was one comic book store that would get monthly shipments of subbed VHS OAVs from Animego. Bubblegum Crisis, Kimagure Orange Road and Vampire Hunter D were among my early anime titles.
I think I first saw this at a con as well, but they were playing it. I had to find out what it was :)
@Lazarus Hernandez Kimagure Orange Road! No there's a series that bring back the nostalgia. I especially love it because it resolved the story with that excellent movie.
Show us the ways sensei!
The Future is the 80s, apparently.
Would not even complain. Have fallen in love with this style and love 80s rock and metal.
they stole that future from us
80s will be awesome till the 2080s
Yeah, people keep saying that the 80's is coming back.
Still waiting though.
God, if only.
Watching Bubblegum Crisis for the first time and the show is pure crack. Love it. The animation, characters, action all feel fresh.
Feb. 2021
it's not a show, it's an ova here.
@@Lancor84 ova can be a show.
You watched this version, or the "Tokyo 2040" version?
@@CSLucasEpic OVA, Parasite Dolls, Ad Police Files, 2040, seen it all except A.D.Police the original ova.
yeah, helps to rest from endless isekai and popsy shounen bullshit
My economics professor sent this link to our entire class. This dude is cool.
That's awesome!
Coolest professor ever!!!!
Cyberpunk, and especially this, really does comment on economics, if not just visually.
Super professor xD
@@nivriannunezki1095 YES!!!
Anyone else lose their mind when this played during the credits of Scott Pligram Takes Off episode 7? 🥰🤘🤘
My mind was already blown when they busted out the cover in the episode. I was thoroughly unprepared for that, and had one of those critic-from-Ratatouille flashbacks.
This one scene was all it took for this to become one of my favorites of all time, and this was only the beginning of the first episode!
Damn this is amazing, possibly the most aesthetic and creative thing I've ever seen. I can't even imagine the amount of work they put into this video, so creative, expressive, wild, and unique, this truly is an EXPERIENCE ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏 nice asf
Same here! The Soundtrack itself changed my life in so many ways, taste of musik, found new frieds who liked anime the same way i do... the clubs i used to visit in my youth.
and here I am, 34 years later still bopping along to this.
@@ichibanhentaiotaku9242 А ТЫ СЛУЧАЙНО НЕ ЗНАЕШЬ КАК НАЗЫВАЕТСЯ ЭТО ДЕТСКОЕ АНИМЕ А ИЛИ НЕТ ПРОСТО ИНТЕРЕСУЮСЬ А?:)+:-)
Man , I'm 19 and love animes like this and city Hunter❤😂.
Flashing back to being a teenager in the 90s and watching this for the first time, it just blew my fucking mind.
80s and 90s anime illustration outdoes everything today.
I disagree
@@Dr.HooWho today most animes r loli girls... which is annoying. We will beat those stupid loli
Adam Paula Uh. Have fun beating up children then?
U damn right!!!
@@robertnomok9750 agreed - what the hell happen to anime??
Japanese lyrics:
(Did you know?) Arashi no highway
(Did you dream?) hashiri tsuzuketa
(Did you lie?) togireta yume no yukue sagashite
(Did you know?) nigai maboroshi
(Did you dream?) subete no uso wo
(Did you lie?) senaka de hajiki tobashite
(No, no, no, my heart)
Big city kodoku na heart to heart
minna ai no mayoigo
Big city namida wa day by day
nemuranai omoi wo yusaburu dake
(I want your love)
Kon'ya wa Hurricane
anata ni Hurricane
tsutaetai no Loving You... (Loving You)
kon'ya wa Hurricane
kanjite Hurricane
sugao no mama touch!
Give me touch!
[Instrumental]
(Did you know?) Kotoba no datsu
(Did you dream?) nageau dake ja
(Did you lie?) mune no itami wa wakari aenai
(Did you know?) oshiete hoshii
(Did you dream?) nani ga anata no
(Did you lie?) hitomi wo kumoraseru no ka
(Sin~ Sin~ Singe your heart)
Big city chigireta heart to heart
yoru ni odori tsukarete
Big city utsuro na day by day
sasayaka na nukumori machikogareta
(I want your love)
Kon'ya wa Hurricane
anata ni Hurricane
tsutaetai no loving You... (Loving You)
kon'ya wa Hurricane
mou ichido Hurricane
dakishimetai touch!
Burning touch!
[Instrumental]
Big city kodoku na heart to heart
minna ai no mayoigo
Big city namida wa day by day
nemuranai omoi wo yusaburu dake
(I want your love)
Kon'ya wa Hurricane
anata ni Hurricane
tsutaetai no loving you... (Loving you)
kon'ya wa Hurricane
kanjite Hurricane
sugao no mama touch!
(I want your love)
Kon'ya wa Hurricane (kon'ya wa Hurricane)
anata ni Hurricane (anata ni Hurricane)
tsutaetai no loving you... (Loving you)
kon'ya wa Hurricane (kon'ya wa Hurricane)
mou ichido Hurricane (mou ichido Hurricane)
dakishimetai touch!
Burning touch!
Give me touch!
Burning touch!
I totally love the direction done here.
The song playing in the background as the cops are trying to subdue a rogue cyborg.
Totally felt like watching a Hollywood action movie of that era because of the alternating scenes going back and forth between the concert scene and a scene of carnage.
Bubblegum Crisis. That's a name I haven't heard in over 20 years.
Missed a perfect opportunity to quote Star Wars
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... a long time
30 years now
@@epochseven4197 Pizza Time
I never watched Bubblegum Crisis, but MAN I miss this art style! And sound and feel of the music from those days? Bru, the nostalgia is STRONG with this one.
this anime had vibrant animation
this is true gem from the 80s although the days of cyberpunk anime are long gone at least in my opinion.
Its all our modern day reality now, except nowhere near as cool
@@bleachno9 good point
Maybe after WWIII they make new ones
@@bleachno9 I think people seeing the rate of progress at the time made them think a lot about how things could be in the future. But once technology slowed down in the 2000's and more regulations came into play, most people realized that things aren't really going to change too much anymore so the theme wasn't as prominent.
@@Bristecom slow down? Regulations? 🤣🤣🤣 Oh god you're one of those people. As if Moore's law isn't still a reliable prediction that has technology constantly evolving. Get the fuck back to whatever hole of right wing edgelord, ill informed UA-cam manbabies you crawled out from. 😂😂😂😂
OMG The Clash At Demon Head scene is inspired by this, and then they put the song in the Scott's anime. AWESOMEEE
I had such a grin on my face when that scene popped up in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
Which one?
The movie Scott Pilgrim live action
@@inferno9103
Partially, also inspired by Metric themselves
@@inferno9103 the part where Scott Pilgrim makes a youtube video band with the two twins.
Always loved the song, when I first saw Bubblegum Crisis, on VHS. The instrumentals sound like something produced by Jim Steinman and the singer's vocal range is close to people like Laura Branigan and Martha Davis, of The Motels. Very "80s," but in the best connotation.
Priss & The Repricants
Must be a reference to Brade Runner
It is. So is the name Priss.
The whole scene is also right out of Streets of Fire (which also began with a rock concert).
I rike your comment my friend
"He say you Brade Runnah!"
That made me raugh out roud
First the Crisis then the Crash. When one says, "they don't make them like this anymore", this is what they are referring too. A sad thing that this too.
This era just had so much charm and feel that I can't put into words.
After all these decades, still one of the greatest show openings ever.
I woke up this morning and wanted to hear this song only to find out the same day it's been featured in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off!
Bubblegum Crisis was the first show that got me into Anime.
And Scott Pilgrim was the first Manga I ever read.
Crazy awesome day!🎤
I just finished Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and as soon as I heard the music I was SHOCKED! Like oh my god I love this song so much, I listen to it way too often. It was so nice to hear it in another show I also loved!!
@@scriptyshake Absolutely blew my mind to hear this being played on my speakers from another context like this. I'll admit, I haven't been so in love with the new 'adaptation', but it's definitely trying its hardest to win my heart.
I freaked out, and then made my housemate listen to this.
Who knew Old Scott and the Twins could rock?
The new scott pilgrim was an insane disappointment..
We got the original song in the credits 💙
Follow up:
I just finished watching the series and had to re-watch
Ep7 "2 Scott 2 Pilgrim"
Don't mind 37 year old me, having an existential crisis with the uncanny similarities to my life and clearly same taste in music.. I love the new series just as much as the Movie and the Manga
PS: Thanks for all the likes! I have my own YT channel and sadly never got that many likes on a comment before..😅
"It's a Bop, right! Over a hundred views!"
Can't believe that this "It's a boomer" line hasn't been a massive meme by now
It might have been better if Pross had actually said "OK Boomer" at some point... :)
Give it time, it's gonna happen
Damn Boomers ruining everything!
@Youre Gonna Need a Bigger Boat OK Boomer.
@Youre Gonna Need a Bigger Boat "Boomer" isn't made up.
"Boomer" is a reference to the Generation that had it good after WWII and are still with us, as they're all part of the "baby boom" that happened after WWII.
Even though most of the people doing the complaining are younger than "boomers".
Best intro ever...gives you goosebumps...masterpiece...wish we had directors that could make this possible in movies
Sadly the universe could barely contain such awesomeness. If anyone ever tried...well, reality bursting at the seams has a way of warping such attempts to the point where they suck.😢 i know what you mean, though. It'd be awesome to see something like this done in a live action feature.
@@deathgyunos294 they tried about 10 years ago. Nothing came out of it tho ;(
Why are 80s Anime chicks hotter than current anime chicks? I think there was just a more realistic sense of style back then.
No lolis in sight. They are actually adults.
Back when women in anime were feminine and men were cool af.
Because 80s style and 80s haircuts were more feminine and more sexy in real life
That's accurate.
The eyes while still a bit big, weren't unrealistically big with current anime, that and there's an actual nose instead of bump on the face. In other words, the characters back then are more realistic in the face compared to the current anime characters.
All these years and I still get goosebumps when she starts singing.
내 어릴적 VHS 시절, 최고의 OVA는 버블검크라이시스, AD폴리스, 나이트세이버즈 메카닉 진짜 쩔었음
I still don’t know how I convinced my mom to get me this when I was like 9-10
Explain
Because are parents considered them "Chinese Cartoons", lmao.
Because your mom thought "Cartoon = For kids". I had the same reaction from my sister-in-law when she checked what i was watching: "A cartoon? But... but... It's not for children!" I was watching "Vampire Hunter D" :D :D :D
@@FrikInCasualMode wow that
What an Amazing anime
Was actually one of the first DVDs I ever got.
You couldn’t get anymore 80s if you tried
Wat?
Games4us Meaning if you knew what 80s metal bands looked like this was an obvious nod to them
@@nosfonader8792 This isn't a nod, this was MADE in the 80s. The first BGC 2032 OVA, "Tinsel city" (which is mostly referenced in this AMV), was released in 1986. Now, while the 2010s shows like Gundam Unicorn or Gundam: The ORIGIN are _stylized_ as a nod to the 70es and 80es when most of the UC-era shows were made (even Char's Counterattack was 1988), BGC 2032 IS the 80s show. Only the two last OVAs out of eight were made in the 90s, before the burst of the "bubble economy" made high-value OVAs like that uneconomical.
If they have a crippling crack addiction and/or have HIV than you got bingo
Jem and the Holograms say hello.
This intro is a homage to the intro from "Streets of Fire", which I definitely recommend checking out. Some of the shots are directly taken from that movie.
“Modern anime has the cutest girls and the best fanservice”
Priss: Hold my hairspray.
::laughs in Puma Twins:::
@@JnEricsonx Wow! I see you're a man of culture as well. Anna's and Uni's mane sure is gorgeous.
@@jsmith6599 Been in love/lust with them since 1994 when i was getting into anime.
it even went up to 11 when they introduced Sylvie, Anri, and Eve.
You know its a big can of Aquanet too
I didn't think I'd see this song in Scott Pilgrim, I was pleasantly surprised.
Scott Pilgrim brought me BACK here. Never thought I'd hear Will Forte cover this, but such is the world. If Melissa Villasenor covered Cruel Angel Thesis my life would be complete.
The “I knew this song before Scott Pilgrim takes off” button
Hello hello can I join 👀
I knew this for near 30 years.
pov: we dont care
Well I knew this song AFTER Scott Pilgrim!
@@domanyjo7717 This is like the Marvel effect on music. Now it's impossible to listen to AC/DC without hearing "THAT'S THE SONG FROM IRON MAN!" It's annoying that now this will just be "ThE sONg FrOm SCoTt PIlGRiM".
to this day Priss is still my fav of the girls. Thanks for this, it's nice hearing it again in good quality!
А ТЫ НЕ ЗНАЕШЬ СЛУЧАЙНО КАК НАЗЫВАЕТСЯ ЭТО ДЕТСКОЕ АНИМЕ А ИЛИ НЕТ ПРОСТО ИНТЕРЕСУЮСЬ А?
Future Scott sent me here!
Old Scott send me here
The art and music are amazing. Now you can’t see this anymore.
Amazon probably has a DVD box set.
I remember when this came out and people were getting their first "RAW" bootlegs. You find someone to had something and you traded something good for what they had. When people first saw this they were to amazed. You had a bizarre title, set in cyberpunk future, a rave performance that blew you out of your seat (and still holds up to this day) and then the action starts where you got the city's police department and riot squad is trying to stop some rampaging cyborgs courtesy of the corporation Genom. You wonder what the hell is all this about. Until you find out that Priss the lead vocalist of the Replicants (which is a nod to Blade Runner) is also a member of the city's mercenary force for good against the Genom's cybernetic fiasco. I'll say this that out of the entire series which is laden with 80's synth pop 'Koniya wa Hurricane' IS THE best song on the entire album. LOL!! Gotta love Leon, he loves the music but he just can't get the girl.
Damn this is amazing, possibly the most aesthetic and creative thing I've ever seen. I can't even imagine the amount of work they put into this video, so creative, expressive, wild, and unique, this truly is an EXPERIENCE ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏
i remember these on vhs sets
i recall the spine made an image after collecting all of them i think
@@kidrobot. I think it did. I did manage to fine the OSTs for the vocals but thd soundtracks themselves and there were 7 of them were not only the hardest to find but the most expensive.
Never in a million years would i expect Will Forte to poorly sing this in another show.
Poorly?
It was a bop.
@@TheUraniumCore105 views!
They hooked him up with a dialect coach. He took it seriously.
The joke sprang from Grabinski and O'Malley's mutual love for Streets of Fire. O'Malley said, hey, Bubblegum Crisis probably referenced this. That gave Grabinski the idea of having the song in that scene be Konya wa Hurricane.
Kenichi Sonoda (Gunsmith Cats, Riding Bean)
Urushihara Satoshi (Plastic Little)
Masami Obari (Fatal Fury)
Shinji Aramaki (Mecha designer on every anime in the 80's & 90s)
Hiroaki Gouda (Onegai Teacher)
So many legends worked on Bubblegum Crisis before creating their own classics.
Whoever did the edit of the Hot Legs club logo followed by the shot of Priss putting her boot on was either brave, foolish or some kind of genius....
Man this anime had me into cyberpunk long before it got its modern resurgence!
This is so 80's I'm sweating hairspray and shitting leg warmers.
The beginning, where the guy threw the cigarette and the music started playing, I knew I was about to witness real cinema.
I don't thing I've ever seen a stronger 5 minute beginning in anything I've ever watched. Perfection.
This was the most iconic intro I've ever seen.
Bubblegum Crisis was one of my first introductions to Anime back in the 90's, and this song remains one of my favorite Anime Theme songs to this day.
Man I miss the art style of 80’s and 90’s anime.
Golden Era
I am so glad people still watch and listen to this great anime. I watched it when it came out in the 80’s. I do not even need the subtitles anymore. I have all the music related to Bubblegum Crisis on my MP3 player. Thank you for doing this.
Mad Machine is one of the Greatest songs of all time.
Robert McMillan I completely agree with you. The voice actress of Priss sung the song. The other voice actresses also did some singing with other songs.
Priss and the Replicants, eh? Somebody's showing their source material, which I heartily approve of.
Nooo, it’s Priss and the REPRICANTS! A “repricant” is a totally different entity than a “replicant”, not at all copyright similar! 😂
Might also be a fact of not speaking/writing English as a first language, to be completely fair to 'em.
80's Anime designs are just special, story and animation were never that amazing for tv shows, but goddamn the art-style was.
Who is here after watching Scott Pilgrim Netflix series because they didn't get a certain reference? XD
PopRock 80's and ciberpunk! the greatest amalgam!
I love this song since I heard it I couldn't stop listening to it over and over again ..
the beautiful voice of the singer with that power and kindness that she puts into her, has no comparison.
July 2, 2020.
Yes! Bubble Gum Crisis is awesome. Great stories great music
It's back! And it was on my recommended feed!
(I swear this video just disappeared from UA-cam a good while back.)
I don’t know anything about this show, but this opening sequence reminds me a little bit of the beginning of the Walter Hill movie, “STREETS OF FIRE.” Very cool.
here's hoping Cyberpunk 2077 will have tons of easter eggs about this beloved anime!!!
Was thinking exactly the same thing the other day while seeing this ep. Let's 🤞🏻till the release.
@@Mrwizard-ck7oe Looks like someone at cdp red is a giant (and old) weeb... Which is good, the more references/ good inspirations the game will have, the better.
@@Mrwizard-ck7oe Which ad and where in it?
@@CynicalOldDwarf I think it was the 2017 trailer, the suit of police shooting the robot girl is pretty much the same of ADPD.
I'm from the future, the game turned out to be shit
The outfit of the singer is stunning,i think i will use it for a character of a story im writing. And the song and the animation are insanely good, i love the urban 80s vibes.
I love that “priss and the replicants” is a blade runner reference
Nothing tops this era of story telling and music. I wish these times could come back.
we will never get these vibes back....maybe in far future
this was one of the first anime i watched as a kid, and i fell in love with the series because of this intro. an absolute classic.
25 years ago I copied this song from VHS to my portable DAT player and raced through the city at night on my bike 😅
thank you for introducing me to this amazing song
3:08 It makes me a great resemblance to the terminator of the 1984 version
God I love 80-90s cyberpunk stuff.
Fun Fact: Priss predates the first published appearance of Johnny Silverhand by one year.
IIRC, Bob Talsorian said that he had seen this.
@@andreytupkalo6986 it'd be real hard to have not seen it since RTG published a licensed Bubblegum Crisis rpg
Johnny Silverhand yes, but I see it as plagiarism of Automatic Jack (William Gibson's Burning Chrome 1982)
@@YoshYouYube Bubblegum crisis takes more from Blade Runner and Streets of Fire
@@drsatanrx And I fully agree - but about plagiarism I meant Johnny Silverhand not BGC.
"It's a boomer, Leon"
At least it wasn't a Karen
Ok, Joe. Stop being a sheep.
No no, he got the point
The Karen thing is the most inane meme of this year. Why is it that everyone who uses the word Karen is ten times more annoying than the person they’re calling a Karen
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster
Because they’re posers.
I’m a boomer (Well, born in 1994) since I still call Karens a f*cking Becky, Brad, Miss Ann, and Mister Charlie.
@@whathell6t we will always find a term for those people in the 1990's they were the soccer mom, the 2000's they were the Becky, 2010s they were the Janet, in the 2020's they are the Karen,
god, ive been listening to this on repeat for hours. i forgot how incredibly 80s this was and i love it.
I never watched this show as a teen because from the title alone I thought it revolved around a crisis situation where the world was all out of bubblegum. I sure am an idiot.
All this time later, one of the songs I've loved most in my life (and all the little touches in the anime shown above are exceptional too, thought so then, still do).
Anime from the 1980s and 1990s had a look and feel to them that surpasses the stuff we get nowadays.
"Priss and the Replicants?" O_O I gotta watch this anime now! :D Blade runner references and the beginning music sounds like "Streets of Fire!"
They don't make anime like this anymore.
Whenever I write my novel series, a lot of the style and vibes that I imagine my series is a lot like this anime and one day, I hope this vibe will be resurrected one day, but when will be a time of long wait.
have u seen megalo box?
Now is better
Laughs in Claymore, GITS and Appleseed XIII. Also...
Ok boomer 😎
@@illegalalien6542 GITS?
One of the best opening scenes in anime! Never thought ciberpunk would make me feel nostalgic lol
The 80s were superior, we devolutioned
I miss seeing 80's influence on anime.
No lie Scott Pilgrim brought me here
Damn, what's it take to bring back animation like this??
Money
For starters, fewer folks wrapped in cottonwool.
ww3
The Kardashians tweeting non stop about it and other reality TV stars doing the same so every fyckwit follower will follow suit.
Really really really good economic situation.
Wow, anime Lita Ford goes HARD.
Jokes aside, though, this is a famous retro anime I've _heard_ about like crazy but never actually saw. I should probably look it up, now that I know how awesome it looks. :)
After 30 years, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off sent me back here.😅
After all these years the BGC soundtracks and vocals are still my all time favorite anime music. So many memorable songs that never get old no matter how many times I listen to them. 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍
Thanks Arin
What a way to begin an anime ep, such a bop
Aachen,werd ich nie vergessen,den Eröffnungssong-Big City...😮
I was baffled when I heard Scott Pilgrim cover this song in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off!!! Duuuuude!