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.
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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.
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Aside from the 2012 one-shot manga and the hiatus Bubblegum Crisis live-action movie that was announced in 2009 however the franchise itself did a reference in one Regular Show episode called "Brilliant Century Duck Crisis Special".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. The Franchise itself was completely forgotten, obscured and there's is no another Bubblegum Crisis ever since. As of this writing, none of the production materials for the show have ever been released, whatsoever. Not a great deal of information on the series has come to light, though it was revealed that 26 episodes had been scheduled for production, each with a runtime of 25 minutes (not unlike its predecessor).Īt 2007's Anime Central convention, ADV co-founder Matt Greenfield revealed that the series had been put on hold in an effort to try and have all of the key staff members from Tokyo 2040 reprise their respective roles and that prior commitments of said staff members were the reason for the series' delay.ĭue to the dissolution of ADV Films in late 2009, it is assumed by most (though, technically, never officially confirmed) that the series has been shelved indefinitely. Following the success of the 1998-2000 anime series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (a re-imagining of the 1987 OVA series simply titled Bubblegum Crisis), an announcement was made by the now-defunct ADV Films (producers of the aforementioned Tokyo 2040) in late 2002 that a follow-up series had been put into pre-production, aptly titled Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2041 and that it was to be marketed to investors at France's MIPCOM trade show of the same year.