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Cardcaptor Takato



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:44 pm Reply with quote
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This booklet also provides multiple corroborations of the point that Bubblegum Crisis was never "planned" for any longer, preset amount of episodes. Though it does eschew virtually all mention of Youmex, so even that perspective must be taken with a grain of salt.
That’s interesting because the story I always heard was the OVAs were originally planned to be longer but they didn’t sell well enough in Japan and the show was always bigger in America, so we got the lower budget sequel Bubblegum Crash as a result. It does feel like they were setting up for a bigger storyline involving Sylvia spoiler[possibly being a Boomer ] which seems like an idea that was later reused in the TV reboot but spoiler[changed to Mackey being a Boomer instead]But we’ve had many of these supposed stories about anime that did better in the US than Japan debunked over the years so it wouldn’t surprise me too much if that were the case.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 1:51 pm Reply with quote
Curious you say that because I always heard that the story was originally meant to reach 13 episodes.

Bubblegum Crash... It had some potential, and I don't hate it, but I cannot forgive how it practically contradicts the best arc in Bubblegum Crisis, or even episode 1, for that matter.

Or did I imagine Sylvie and Anri? And the spoiler[boomer girl] from the first episode?

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Ah, Bubblegum Crisis. The anime that boldly answers the questions: Do you remember Blade Runner? Do you remember Streets of Fire?

One of my favorite anime. I especially love the raw quality of Kinuko Omori's voice acting as Priss and the expert voice acting of Yoshiko Sakakibara as Sylia. My favorite episodes were actually directed by Masami Obari! Probably the best things he ever did, by the way, though that's not a particularly high bar.


I just checked which episodes were directed by Obari-san. Episodes 5 and 6 are the peak of the show, and you could make a whole show out of the premise of those same two episodes.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:07 pm Reply with quote
Man, I remember watching this on a DirecTV channel back in the mid-nineties...Encore, maybe? I caught the opening of the second episode ("Mad Machine", which remains the song I identify the series with), liked what I saw, and recorded it to ye olde VHS tape from the western time-delayed feed later that night.

I never realized Crash was out until many years after that, which I've yet to actually see. But I was pleasantly surprised to find during the early days of DVD that there was a more fleshed out "remake" available in Tokyo 2040. I still have the original boxed set of that from Suncoast back in the day....

Ah, good times.
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Koroto



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 11:33 am Reply with quote
Cardcaptor Takato wrote:
That’s interesting because the story I always heard was the OVAs were originally planned to be longer but they didn’t sell well enough in Japan and the show was always bigger in America, so we got the lower budget sequel Bubblegum Crash as a result.


AFAIK, that was mostly Artmic splitting up with Youmex (that explains why they couldn't get Priss' original VA), but considering a lot of bridges were burnt and there are multiple versions of what supposedly happened, who knows.
In an old PA issue from the 90s I have (I think? I don't remember where I read it - I remember it was published a few months before Genocyber was released) Suzuki from Artmic mentioned they had a general idea on the number of episodes from the beginning, but could have been just him saying something not true.
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