![]() ![]() That series set up the core concept of the Knight Sabers-four women in sexy powered armor, fighting robots called boomers (or voomers, depending on who you ask) and uncovering the sinister machinations of dubious megacorporation Genom. ![]() However, it also meant that people who worked on these shows like Konaka had rather more freedom than creators of previous generations, whose work had been primarily targeted at kids.īubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 had another, much more obvious progenitor in the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA series, released sporadically between 19. As a result, a lot of the shows that emerged in its wake were staggering under the weight of their garbled, half-baked, heavy-handed political, philosophical and/or religious themes by the end of their run. Konaka- Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 exists under the shadow of Neon Genesis Evangelion.įollowing its release in 1995, Evangelion had blown apart the model for what anime series were supposed to be and who they were for. Like a lot of anime series from the late-1990s-like 1998’s Brain Powerd, as well as shows like Serial Experiments Lain and Gasaraki that featured BGCT2040 writer Chiaki J. At the same time, it’s also a wonderful show in ways that are intimately tied together with its flaws. ![]() Let’s be clear: Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 isn’t a very good show in a lot of ways.
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