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BERSERK EVA
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Is Bubblegum Crisis worth taking a look at? I've heard its good and read the review on the site but is it worth buying to add-on to your anime collection?
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Case
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If you like the sound of philosophy involving the human species' right to exist (read: If you like X/1999) and can put up with slightly dated artwork, the original BGC is excellent. Easily one of my top three favorite series of all time. animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=921 Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 I can't speak for. I haven't watched it yet because some people seem to think that it pales in comparison, and nobody thus far has been able to prove otherwise. 
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tobalt
 Posts: 8 Location: Los Angeles |
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I liked BGC 2040. Very much to be exact. I guess I'm one of the few who appreciated it so. *Hugs BGC2040 DVD Box Set*
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radioactivemouse
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There's 2 different series: BGC and BGC 2040 (there are other spinoffs, but I'm talking about those two right now).
I'm more of a fan of the original BGC. I didn't really like the 2040 storyline...they just have to explain waaaay too much. To me it bogs down the story. I also grew up on the original myself. |
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Cassandra
 Posts: 1356 Location: Birdsboro, PA |
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I looooooooooooooove the original BGC. I saw the second and third episodes of 2040 on The Anime Network (don't ask me why they didn't show the first episode) and so far it's looking pretty good. I already own BGC and now I want to buy 2040....need...more...money....
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Tiresias
Posts: 353 Location: Illinois, USA |
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2040 is pretty good. Both me and my wife thoroughly enjoyed the original BGC, and coulda done without BGC Crash, but when it came to BGC2040, we split ways. She didn't like the way they changed the main characters attitudes or appearances and she kept comparing it to the original. Yet again though, another one of those series that if you watch the original then the new one, you kinda have to forget about the old one or you might not enjoy the new one. Snce they both start out along the same kinda storylines, my wife kept sticking to the fact that the first 10 or so episodes seemed like hack job remakes of the original episodes. I still enjoyed both though, even though like my wife I did miss the kinda sexual tension between Leon and his partenr Daily from the original series. It did seem like they were trying to make the character more PC since in the original Daily seemed to be gay, whereas in the new one he wasn't.
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Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Personally I think BGC has a fan following for the same reason the original Heavy Metal movie does: because is shows genre stuff in animated form that we hadn't previously seen animated. Not because it's good. So try before you buy.
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SuperSkylineGTR
 Posts: 471 Location: Chicago, IL |
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[quote="BERSERK EVA"]Is Bubblegum Crisis worth taking a look at? I've heard its good and read the review on the site but is it worth buying to add-on to your anime collection?[/quote]
Yes, both the original and 2040 are good. You can get both box sets pretty cheap too. |
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Ataru
 Posts: 2349 Location: Missouri (Strikeman) |
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Bubblegum Crisis is on the frist 3 anime series I saw a number years ago and still one of my fav. Crash was not that bad, but not that good, mostly not that good. BGC 2040 is okay, but I don't like as much as I did with Crisis.
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Craeyst Raygal
 Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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If you like glossy animation, angst, and a lot of episodes. Get 2040.
If you like a classic that launched the careers of some of anime's brightest creative geniuses (like Kenichi Sonoda, creator of Gunsmith Cats) that has a great soundtrack, stellar (for its time) animation, and classy humor, then get the orginial OAV. Simple as that. |
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Despite my own snippiness about BGC, I'm cool with people liking it. And I certainly don't deny Sonada's talent. But one of anime's brightest creative geniuses? Overpraise makes the subject look worse. |
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thebaron
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The only reason I have any of the new BBC is that they were like under 5 bucks at the death of National Record, but I have not even bothered with watching them yet.
Remakes have generally been horrible from the few I have watched. |
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Craeyst Raygal
Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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Okay, maybe I did go over board with Sonoda. But you're forgetting another gentleman who did some go between work on BGC in the art department. Masaki Kajishima was a minor member of the BGC staff before he went on to pen and direct another minor OAV in 1992.
Tenchi Muyo. |
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Tenchi Muyo.
Which sucks. |
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Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Okay, that was silly, but seriously, at best Tenchi is a popular riff on Ranma, BGC, OMG, etc. Even if you love it, it ain't a work of genius. I love Ranma, but I wouldn't call it genius-level.
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