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Bubblegum Crash: Total Crash Collection

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To straighten out some of the people that reviewed this that clearly don't know what they're talking about - this is the second "Bubblegum" series to be produced.

First, there was simply "Bubblegum Crisis", then there was "Bubblegum Crash" and finally there was ADV Films' "Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040"

While ADV Films' Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 is arguably the best of the series (simply because it's newer and has the advantage of improved animation technology), the first two series stand up surprisingly well on their own.

Both the original Bubblegum Crisis and Bubblegum Crash series are considered by many today to be "classics", including myself.

Bubblegum Crash does take place "in continuity" after the original Bubblegum Crisis series, so I'd recommend wathcing that series prior to watching this one for the full effect. You could certainly watch Crash by itself, though.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 is a "re-visioning" of the original Bubblegum Crisis series and does not really fit into the same continuity as the original Crisis and Crash.

So, now that I have the continuity covered, I'll say that of the three different series, Bubblegum Crash is the weakest of them all. It's still a "classic" though, that hardcore fans like me will always love.

The on going continuation of the original Bubblegum Crisis. This gives a few last episodes of what was going on in the series. You don't have to buy it to understand the last of the series, but I highly recommend getting it just for the last episodes.

It is the year 2034 A.D. The story of the Knight-Sabers (Bubblegum Crisis sereis) is not yet over. In this three-episode mini-series, an old enemy returns to settle the score!
English/Japanese Audio w/ subtitles

Content Warning: Contains Violence & Mild Profanity.

Bubblegum Crash 1 - Illegal Army - A paramilitary group commits a number of daring thefts, but it's all a cover for their real objective - a new AI program that promises to revolutionize Boomer design.

Bubblegum Crash 2 - Geo Climbers - Only two men survive from the original team who helped Professor Stingray create the Boomer technology. Now one of them is dead, and his breakthrough prototype, ADAMA, is being framed for the crime!

Bubblegum Crash 3 - Melt Down - The boomers are rioting, and a nuclear boring machine is heading straight towards MegaTokyo's fusion reactor! Only the Knight Sabers can avert the apocalypse, and in order to do it, they'll have to defeat an old enemy - not once, but three and a half times!

A great editon to compliment your Bubblegum Crisis Collection!

After a split between Artmic & Youmex, Youmex proceeded to a sequel on their own, Bubblegum Crash which ran three OVA episodes and is conjectured that it was a shortened version of how Crisis was to end. Artmic promptly sued Youmex, cutting Crash short and tying the entire franchise up in legal issues for the next several years.

I think this anime was awesome. This is definetly for Bubblegum Crisis 2040 fans. 2040 was the first bgc anime I watched. Even though I saw Bubblegum crash after 2040, I loved Bubblegum series even more. I recommend seeing both. Highly. Awesome anime. I hope the rumors are true about possibly another Bubblegum in the future. 5 stars!

It's the latter half of the twentieth century, and hi-tech humanoid robots called "Boomers" have freed the citizens of MegaTokyo from all types of drudgery. Unfortunately, cheap Boomers often go haywire, and when they do, the city calls on the Special Felony Crimes Elite Team known as the AD Police. And when things get too hot for even the AD Police force to handle, they call on the hardsuited ladies of the Knight Sabers: Sylia, Priss, Linna and Nene. Their story is told in this exciting three-chapter saga...which is entitled `Bubblegum Crash' despite the fact that it has nothing whatsoever to do with bubblegum. As you probably already know, `Crash' is the sequel to `Crisis' (see Bubblegum Crisis: Remastered Edition)...and that didn't involve bubblegum either.

In the first episode, red-eyed Colonel Lando and his `Illegal Army' of power-suited mercenaries rob the Groly Bank of thirty billion dollars' worth of gold bullion after mercilessly cutting down Bogarde the Boomer in a hail of blue machinegun fire. The AD Police are powerless against the gang's military mobile suits because their stubborn new Chief refuses to approve the use of heavy equipment due to the risk of civilian casualties. So, officers Leon and Daley hang out at the local diner, where the cute Boomer waitress serves up a mean cup of coffee--literally! "Even though they look like human beings," Leon complains, "they've got no more brains that an orangutan!" Meanwhile, Priss is in the recording studio working on her debut album while very effectively fending off unwanted advances from her amorous, goateed producer. Linna has given up aerobics for a lucrative position at a securities firm. And "little miss cyberpunk," Nene, is busy at her computer digging up data on Lando and his power-suit army, and tearfully dreading the possible break-up of the Knight Sabers in the wake of team-leader Sylia's unexplained absence.

Part 2, `Geo Climbers,' centers around the irascible Priss and her unrelenting anti-Boomer sentiments. "I hate Boomers and all the jerks that make `em," she proclaims. The motorcycling singer's prejudice is challenged when she looses a game of rock-scissor-paper to Linna and Nene, and is sent into the sewers to rescue Adama, a noble second-generation Boomer falsely accused of a brutal murder at the laboratory where he was assembled. Although he has no moving mouth parts, Adama possesses a special AI that gives him a conversational ability indistinguishable from that of a human (aside from the metallic echo). Together, Priss and Adama must battle the fiendish Dr. Yuri's collection of ruthless, heavily-armed combat Boomers on their way to Geo City, while ignoring the MC Hammer video playing on the huge outdoor TV screen.

The trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion in `Meltdown,' as DJ Tommy, the Max Headroom-inspired newsman, reports on the city's latest Boomer riot. Construction Boomers are going berserk after having their batteries recharged, yelling, "All power to the Boomer revolution!" before smashing everything around them to crumpled bits and tossing massive I beams through car windshields. Garbage collecting Boomers are throwing dumpsters at terrified citizens, and that cute Boomer waitress is making her coffee meaner than ever! The AD Police force is swamped with Boomer complaints, and before they can even think about taking action, a trio of angry military combat Boomers has plowed through their headquarters in an enormous truck. The maniacal malfunctioning machines are headed straight for the armory, intent on blowing the Advanced Police building to smithereens! "Knight Sabers, it's showtime!"

`Bubblegum Crash' may not be as great as its predecessor, but it's still great...with appealing animation, a stylish opening montage, slick mecha designs, and lots of "totally faboo" music, sung in both Japanese and English. The `Total Crash Collection' DVD from AnimEigo includes a plethora of full-color and black-and-white paintings and sketches, and comes with an insert that lists the Japanese lyrics to all the songs, along with their English translations. This anime contains brief nudity (in `Meltdown'), gunplay, and occasional S-word use.

"Tonight, the never-ending journey is waiting for you. Time to wake up all the dreams asleep in your heart."

This movie is the 3rd part in the Mega Tokyo Trilogy (AD Police Files, Bubblegum Crisis, Bubblegum Crash). Since the incident with Largo and the Sexaroids, intelligent boomers have been removed from society to make sure no more of those "incidents" happen again. This brings up an interesting question of ethics since some of the boomers in BGC had full AI that placed them on the level (some surpassing) of humans. I found the new hardsuit designs to be rather pleasing along with the new style of music for the series. Overall it was a good series for people who are technologically inclined, along with politically and socially aware of the world from the 1980's to modern day. I reccomend it to people that fall in those catagories.

Bubblegum Crash (1-3) sci-fi/action. Even though it takes place in the same universe as the Bubblegum series, Crash is a disappointment. The quality in this series is very poor and insults the other BBGC series. The characters didn't act like themselves. Sylia isn't moody anymore, now she's very friendly and has an upbeat attitude. Same goes for Priss, she was happy and laughs a lot which was not consistent with the other series where she was always dead serious about her job. And the voice actress for priss is different as well, she is not bad but her singing is not as good as the other actress, who made very good sound tracks for the show. Nene isn't cute or bubbly anymore, now she's a bit like a tomboy, I really missed the old Nene character. Not to mention the fact that they all look different too- they are all less attractive looking. In addition to the human characters being different, so are the "boomers". The boomers seem dumber with very little intelligence, they all talked like programmed machines and not like advanced A.I.. which didn't make sense in the continuity because if Crash takes place after BBGC 2040, then the boomers should have been smarter and more advanced, but here they seem to have de-evolved back to primitive robots. This also affected the action sequences. The action scenes weren't as intense because the Knight Sabers easily destroyed the dumb enemy boomers. Actually that's just one of my many complaints about Crash. Lack of intensity! The overall designs and atmosphere of previous series are missing in crash. It no longer has that gritty Bladerunner-like quality. Now everything is bright and colorful. Also there was: cheap animation with a low framerate, cheap sound fx, subdued sound fx, out of sync dialog with character's lip movement (in both japanese and english dialog), snail pace story, unattractive characters, lousy dubbing in english. They even toned down the blood and gore. The story was boring as heck. A roboticist created a new kind of robot named, Adama. It was more intelligent and acted almost human, everybody wants to get Adama for themselves, so the Knight Sabers step in and protect Adama and save the city blah, blah, blah...The story and the overall quality of Crash is much inferior and cannot compare the other series. And watching Crash for the sake of seeing the ending is not really important, because it doesn't have good continuity. Good for teens and adults. Ends on episode 3.

This series was released after the original BGC and was meant to clean up the details that were left hanging from the original series. This is not an extension of BGC 2040 which I own. BGC 2040 was released by ADV films, this series was released by AnimEigo.