Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
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バブルガムクライシス TOKYO 2040
(Baburugamu Kuraishisu TOKYO 2040)
GenreCyberpunk, action, mecha
Created byAIC
Anime television series
Directed byHiroki Hayashi
Produced byShigeaki Komatsu
Hiroaki Inoue
Shōichi Kumabe
Written byChiaki J. Konaka
Sadayuki Murai
Music byKōichi Korenaga
StudioAIC
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
Original run October 8, 1998 March 31, 1999
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (バブルガムクライシス TOKYO 2040, Baburugamu Kuraishisu TOKYO 2040) is a 1998 cyberpunk anime television series produced by AIC. It is a reboot of the 1987 OVA series Bubblegum Crisis, which focuses on the Knight Sabers, a rogue vigilante group made up of four women who use powered suits to fight rogue Boomer robots made by the megacorporation Genom.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 premiered on TV Tokyo on October 8, 1998, where it ran until its conclusion on March 31, 1999. Toshiba EMI released the series on VHS and Laserdisc across 13 volumes, each containing two episodes. The first volume was released on January 21, 1999; the final volume was released July 26, 2000.[1] The series was later released on DVD, however the Japanese versions were simply the American DVD releases encoded to play for Region 2.[2]

The series was positively received by critics, with some deeming it an improvement over the original OVA series.

  1. ^ "Releases" (in Japanese). Anime International Company. Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  2. ^ "Releases" (in Japanese). Anime International Company. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2009-01-21.