#Bubblegum crisis live action series
Both the original series and Tokyo 2040 are available on Hulu. style.Īdditionally, AnimEigo ran a very successful Kickstarter to fund a Blu-ray release of the original series. The most recent installment in the franchise is a one-shot 2012 Light Novel, Bubblegum Crisis: Hard Metal Guardians, note or "Carbide/Super Steel Guardian Angels," which reimagines the story High School A.U. However, the complete lack of news in over a decade since its announcement suggests the project entered Development Hell, and has probably since been silently cancelled. Fan reaction seemed to be skeptical (especially with the reported $30 million budget), yet hopeful - especially with the possibility of another anime revival as a tie-in. In 2008, the company AIC announced that they'd signed an agreement to let a Singaporean studio begin production of a live-action version of Bubblegum Crisis - which has ballooned into a coproduction between six countries (including Australia and China), planned for release in 2012. This project probably died when ADV went bankrupt and reorganized itself into Section 23 Films. For a time there was talk of a sequel series, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2041 that ADV Films would have been more involved with in terms of production and story, but it never materialized. A third OVA focusing on the AD Police, Parasite Dolls, was released in 2003. In 1999, a second AD Police series: AD Police: To Serve and Protect, was released. This version began with Linna as an Office Lady who moved to Tokyo to join her heroes, the mysterious Knight Sabers. It kept the Broad Strokes of the premise and the hardsuit designs, but broadly changed the character designs and personalities, and went off in a different direction from the original series.
#Bubblegum crisis live action tv
It was "reimagined" in 1998 as the TV series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, but the result bears almost no resemblance to the earlier show. In what is certainly a coincidence, the OVA production roughly corresponds to the peak (and burst) of Japan's Bubble Economy (1988-1991). The mid-21st-Century society depicted in the show appears to be approaching a similar crisis point. Most commentators believe that it refers the point in blowing a bubblegum bubble where it has equal chances of exploding all over your face or collapsing limply. Opposing GENOM and its plots are the Knight Sabers - four women in astoundingly advanced powered combat suits, led by Sylia Stingray, the daughter of the scientist who invented boomer technology and who was murdered by GENOM's agents when they stole it. In the early 2030s, the world economy (and some of its politics) is controlled by the megacorporation GENOM, whose primary product is the boomer - humanoid robots that can be manufactured for any purpose from cheap labor to prostitution to heavy combat. According to Bleeding Cool, a 3D live-action adaptation of Bubblegum Crisis is in the works, with Anthony Lamolinara in the director's chair.One of the groundbreaking anime series to come out of Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bubblegum Crisis is a Film Noir/ Cyberpunk epic with superhero subtexts (especially Iron Man), heavily influenced by the films Blade Runner, The Terminator, and Streets of Fire. Best remembered for its distinctive, slinky character designs by Kenichi Sonoda, Bubblegum Crisis spawned several spin-offs (including Bubblegum Crash), tie-in videogames and a Dark Horse comic series courtesy of writer/artist Adam Warren. Set in a 2033 Tokyo torn in two by an earthquake, the anime introduced the Knight Sabers, a quartet of female mercenaries, and related their ongoing battle against the Genom Corporation and their army of robots called Boomers. Starting as an Oav (Original Animation Video) series in 1987, Bubblegum Crisis could be best described as an animated take on the future-noir of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. 80s cyberpunk anime series Bubblegum Crisis is set to become a 3D live-action movie… Unless you're seriously into 80s anime, you may not have heard of Bubblegum Crisis.
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