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Bubblegum Crash review by dinieyfauzi

Overall rating (8)
Story (7)
Sound (8)
Character (5)
Animation (8)
Enjoyment (8)

"must watch!!"

When Bubblegum Crash was originally released, there was something of an uproar over it. With it being a sequel series, there was already the usual trepidations about it. To make it worse, the fan-favorite voice actress for Priss wasn't interested in reprising the role, so they got someone new for it. While a new actress isn't an unheard of problem when you move between series and production crews, it caused more concern with this kind of show since the actress needed to be a singer, and the songs were a big part of the shows popularity.

And when people discovered that instead of the 80's style "rock" music that was employed in the original was going to be replaced by some ballad style "rock" music, it didn't get any better. With this factor and the retread plot used, many fans dismiss Bubblegum Crash pretty quickly as a bad show.

I think that the show is more western oriented than the original. Amusingly, you can see this in the first minute or so of the show. Once you get past the rather nice looking CG city view and into the animation side of the show, there's a flyover of a billboard that reads "American Popcorn". That's what this show feels like, an American popcorn movie sequel. Team comes back after hiatus, new villain that's tied to an old villain, formulaic plot ensues.

It's been several months since the events last seen in Bubblegum Crisis and things have changed. Linna has moved out of the aerobics life and into the stock market and is making big bucks really fast. Priss has changed her style of music somewhat and is close to making her pro debut and getting a contract while Nene still holds down a job at the AD Police. But Sylia seems to have gone missing and in general, the old team essentially seems to no exist, though the remaining girls do get together as friends.

It's at this time that the Illegal Army, a group that uses some high-grade military combat suits that are modified, begins to make various hits throughout MegaTokyo by robbing banks. On the surface, they don't look more than common criminals in gear that nobody, even the AD Police, can take down. But under the cover of the bank robberies they're stealing parts to an advanced new AI system that's being developed by several companies.

It's when this gets truly serious that one of the companies offers a contract to Sylia for the Knight Sabers and she ends up bringing them out of their "brief vacation" as she calls it. She had taken the downtime to revamp their suits and their operations to take on the new kinds of evil out there in the world. So it's with a fair amount of gusto, after some predictable scenes, that the girls are once again back in the saddle and taking on the enemy suits.

The shows do a nice job of getting around the various locals of MegaTokyo, probably a bit moreso than the some what bland same landscapes we saw with the original series. The addition of the talking and advanced boomer AI unit that ends up under Priss' attention is reminiscent of some stuff in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 as well. Unfortunately, that's what a lot of Bubblegum Crash is; a series of scenes and mini stories that feel like they've already been done in the series already.

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