What I found interesting was that this didn’t involve female characters taking on “masculine” roles or vice versa. Our heroes must figure out what’s going on and stop it!Īll of the principal characters are women, with male characters firmly relegated to various supporting roles. The shadowy cyberpunk megacorporation that manufactures Boomers plans to foment an uprising and usher in a posthuman, Boomers-only future. In the near future, society makes extensive use of so-called Boomers, human-seeming androids which are basically a combination of the replicants from Blade Runner and the Terminator. I liked it better than Ghost in the Shell, especially the tedious Stand Alone Complex. Bubblegum Crisis consistently chooses style over substance, which I think suits the aesthetics-first cyberpunk subgenre well. There was a full 26-episode reboot in 1998 which I haven’t seen and don’t intend to watch.
After watching it I believe it is underrated as an influence on cyberpunk aesthetics - neatly bridging the relentlessly gritty Blade Runner and Neuromancer with the more rounded views of 1990s-2000s “post-cyberpunk” like Islands in the Net or, of course, Ghost in the Shell. The original anime ran a truncated 8 episodes from 1987 - yes, before the release of Akira - to 1991, with a three-episode OVA released in 1991. Bubblegum Crisis is a cyberpunk Super Robot-ish anime about a team of female “mercenaries” (the mercenary ethic is hardly on display here) called the Knight Sabers.
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