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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

TV series
1998–2000
1 season
SBS
Action & Adventure
Animation
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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6.7 TMDB worldwide · 39 ratings

MegaTokyo 2040: Tokyo’s workforce is riddled with robots that tend to go on destructive killing sprees. Four young women gear up in cybernetic suits to battle an evil corporation’s bionic pawns while its grip on the city threatens to strangle humanity. In order to shut down an android uprising, these heavy metal heroines flirt with a critical meltdown in an adrenaline-fueled death match between woman and machine!

About the show

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (バブルガムクライシス TOKYO 2040, Baburugamu Kuraishisu TOKYO 2040) is a 1998 Japanese cyberpunk anime television series produced by AIC. It is a reboot of the 1987 OVA series Bubblegum Crisis. It focuses on the Knight Sabers, a rogue vigilante group led by billionaire Sylia Stingray and three other women who use powered suits to fight rogue Boomer robots made by the megacorporation Genom, which has awakened an extremely powerful Boomer prototype made by Sylia's father that possesses the ability to destroy all life on Earth.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 premiered on TV Tokyo on October 8, 1998, where it ran until its conclusion on March 31, 1999. Toshiba EMI released the series on VHS and Laserdisc across 13 volumes, each containing two episodes. The first volume was released on January 21, 1999; the final volume was released July 26, 2000. The series was later released on DVD, however the Japanese versions were simply the American DVD releases encoded to play for Region 2.

The series was positively received by critics, with some deeming it an improvement over the original OVA series.

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