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Stream Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Genesis Online.
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BUBBLEGUM CRISIS is one of the most beloved anime series of all time. It features the exploits of four beautiful vigilantes in powered armor-suits battling renegade androids and the evil Genom corporation. BGC 2040 is not a continuation of the original series, but rather a brand-new re-telling of the story with an expanded plotline, more mature themes, a darker mood, and start-of-the-art modern animation. The characters are basically the same, but they are given new appearances and attitudes.
Anyone who loved the original BGC will probably love BGC 2040 even more–it has everything the original series had, but more and better. BGC 2040 is so well-done that even people who didn’t care for the original might like this new series. The DVD release doesn’t appear to promise much in the way of extras, but it will feature multiple voice channels and subtitles. The Japanese voice actors are so superior that they must be heard for the maximum viewing experience–it’s worth putting up with the subtitles to hear them voice their wonderful characters Sylia, Linna, Priss, and Nene.
The hard suits may look the same, but the faces have changed…
Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 is not a sequel to the classic Bubblegum Crisis, but a recreation of the characters and story concept into a new series. The hard suits will look familiar to fans of the original Bubblegum Crisis (BGC), but almost everything else has been re-done. Fans of an original always fret (and rightfully so) when a re-make appears on the scene, but this first release in the series is quality work and prime anime.
So what’s the same and what’s different? Looking just at the broad strokes, most of the major characters are the same as from the original BGC. Although you’re in for some changes, Sylia, Priss, Nene, and Leon are all fairly familiar and in-keeping with the same basic roles you remember, only changing as you look closer. Linna is the big surprise out of the bunch. In the original series, she was the Knight Sabre who was always just “there” (never any stories about her or any depth of character). In 2040, she’s become the central character. The storyline of this first DVD in the series is how Linna comes to Tokyo and eventually joins the Knight Sabres. Of the rest of the cast, Priss has gone from aloof and rough to almost completely cold and detached, hardly uttering more than a half-dozen lines an episode. Leon, too, has gone down on the happiness scale, becoming more brooding and angry. Sylia has gone the other direction, seemingly more flighty, although no less driven and showing some extreme emotions. Nene is probably the least changed of the group, gaining just a bit more aggressiveness. The music has moved away from pop to get a bit more techno. It doesn’t have the same “big 80s” catchiness the original series soundtrack had, but it’s still good stuff.
2040 is probably a cut ahead of the original with respect to the animation. The work is sharper and more detailed, showing that it’s up to speed with the times. Another plus is the storyline with the “boomers” (the robots/androids that the protagonists hunt down when they go berserk - ‘Blade Runner’ is one of the influences for the original BGC). This is the central premise of the story, after all, and was one point in the original that sometimes came across as a bit weak. In the original, the boomers were all but invisible except when they “went bad.” You’d occasionally see them as bodyguards or hear of them being used for the military, but otherwise you never saw them unless the Knight Sabres were fighting them. It never seemed like they had a use in society which justified the risk of their going berserk. 2040, however, shows the boomers and their visible role in society, kicking up the believability of the story a notch, and so far seems to be laying out more of a justification for “mad” boomers (something else the original glossed over a bit).
Lastly, I can think of a couple of things on the negative side. One is just a small complaint about the transfer to DVD - in doing so, they kept in the commercial “headers” that ran just before and after what I presume were station breaks when this was originally aired on Japanese TV. The headers feature a prominent music rift and get pretty annoying after the second time or so (especially as they are just randomly there in the middle of the episode). Why leave these in? Somebody dropped the ball in not trimming those out, I’d say. The other worry is the new feature of the hard suits having a short battery life. This may be ok and seems more realistic, but it smacks of bad ’70s sci fi TV where the hero always had some annoying weakness that came up EVERY SINGLE episode. An Achilles’ heel is fine, but overuse gets old fast. Hopefully they won’t overdo it. Overall, some great anime and nothing to diminish the original BGC. This one gets a place on the shelf all its own. Bring on volume 2, and if you haven’t seen the original, go get that too!
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