Bubblegum Crisis | |
バブルガムクライシス (Baburugamu Kuraishisu) | |
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Created by | Toshimichi Suzuki |
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Produced by | Junji Fujita Toru Miura |
Written by | Toshimichi Suzuki |
Music by | Kōji Makaino |
Studio | Artmic & AIC |
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Released | February 25, 1987 – January 30, 1991 |
Runtime | 330 minutes (total)
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Episodes | 8 |
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Bubblegum Crisis (Japanese: バブルガムクライシス, Hepburn: Baburugamu Kuraishisu) is a 1987 to 1991 cyberpunk original video animation (OVA) series produced by Youmex and animated by AIC and Artmic.[3]
The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight numerous problems, most frequently rogue robots. The success of the series spawned several sequel series.
Straight-up action cyberpunk helmed by a group of hard-suit wearing female vigilantes known as the Knight Sabres, Bubblegum Crisis has aged amazingly well, and it's been aging for a while now as its first chapter dates back a full twenty years to 1987.
Bubblegum Crisis is, quite simply, an institution to the anime world. Probably the best-known Girls-With-Guns anime