"Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040" (1998) TV series 1998-

Director:

Hiroki Hayashi

Writer:

Chiaki Konaka (screenplay)

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Action | Animation | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Set in 2039-2040, This series is set in Megalo City, a city built over the ruins of Tokyo. Boomers,...

Plot Keywords:

Superhero | Cyberpunk | Anime | Power Armor | Number In Title

Cast

Yu Asakawa

...

Priss Asagiri (unknown episodes)

Series Directed by
Hiroki Hayashi		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
Chiaki Konaka		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Matt Greenfield	....	producer (26 episodes, 1998-1999)

Series Original Music by
Koichi Korenaga		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
David Grundy		(unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Rick Villa	....	adr recording engineer (unknown episodes, 1998)

Series Animation Department
Eiji Suganuma	....	animator: opening sequence (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• AIC
• Victor Company of Japan (JVC)

Distributors

• ADV Films (1999) (USA) (video)
• FUNimation Entertainment (2011) (USA) (all media) (re-issue)
• Madman Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Argentina:29 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:16 | UK:12 | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (some episodes) | Canada:G (Quebec) (some episodes) | New Zealand:M (some episodes) | New Zealand:PG (some episodes)

Company:

AIC

Trivia:

Set six to seven years after the original Bubblegum Crisis, but this series is quite different in its continuity with the original. The first few episodes deal with Lina Yamazaki searching for and joining the Knight Sabers, but in the original series, Lina was already an established member of the team.

Goofs:

Continuity: In "One Of These Nights", Leon's weight trainer glove disappears from his hand in the close up of him showing Priss the video scan of the soldiers who are moving in to Tokyo to fight the boomer plague.

Quotes:

Nene Romanova:Come ON, Priss! We have to hurry, come on!
Priss S. Asagiri:SHUT UP or I'm going to spank you.
Nene Romanova:[Scoffs] I'd like to see you TRY!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in I.K.U. (2000)

Soundtrack:

Waiting For You

Animation that covers as many bases as it can.

Half decent TV series that cover a whole range of topics, mainly those of science and morality. Do robots have a soul? Some very interesting side stories apart from the main Knight Saber fights (the wife cheating episode sticks to mind) to some very long drawn out battles towards the end of the series (Knight Sabers versus Galatea).

It's Tokyo in 2040, seven years after the huge earthquake that devastated the metropolis. Boomer technology used by Genom to make the new Tokyo are now a nuisance to some humans and treat them horribly. But these Boomers have a tendency to go 'mad' and Genom enlists the AD Police to fix the problem. Unfortunately, the AD Police have to get there before the Knight Sabers do; a rogue squadron of Boomer haters that destroy the mad ones.

Later on in the series, the whole idea of fusion takes the whole story further by leaps and bounds and the story, though sped up really fast, maintains an episodic feel so no one feels too lost. The character growth is done well and overall, BUBBLEGUM CRISIS: TOKYO 2040 is a good and most needed update to a cult classic anime.