6.5Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestThe Knight Sabers seem to have all under control, until "ace reporter" Lisa Vanette threatens to reveal the true identities of the girls. Plus, GENOM's got some brand new, specially created Boomers, with weapons aimed directly at the Sabers.
MegaTokyo 2033: Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo. When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined. Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.
Score
Kinuko Oomori's vocals practically invented anime synth-rock.
Production
OVA budget meant no shortcuts—every frame drips atmosphere.
Costume
Those hardsuit designs defined power armor aesthetics for decades.
Kinuko Oomori
Priscilla Asagiri (voice)
Akiko Hiramatsu
Nene Romanova (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Sylia Stingray (voice)
Michie Tomizawa
Linna Yamazaki (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Mackey Stingray (voice)
Kenyu Horiuchi
Daly Wang (voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Leon McNichol (voice)
Shuichi Ikeda
Brian J. Mason (voice)
Masaharu Sato
Chief Todo (voice)
Kiyoshi Kawakubo
Quincy Rosenkreutz (voice)
Kazuyuki Sogabe
Largo (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Fargo (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bubblegum Crisis is essentially Blade Runner: The Anime with a feminist sentai twist, created when OVAs had theatrical budgets and zero broadcast restrictions.
The series was canceled due to legal disputes between studios, leaving episode 8 as an abrupt finale—explaining why the planned 13-episode arc never resolved Largo's true identity or Genom's ultimate scheme.
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