Not originally a hit in its decade of release, but gaining accolades over time after a bajillion re-cuts, 1982s Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott was an adaption of Philip K. Three titles of the 80s helped shape one anime in particular. While Hollywood was definitely cranking out quality content to both US theaters and abroad, an interesting thing to note is the overall influence that some of these movies had on other mediums, specifically anime. The 80s offered plenty of reasons to go to the cinema, and the fraction of the films mentioned above still hold up as all-time greats, game changers, or cult classic brain popcorn to this day. Star Trek films with the original cast had a long, lucrative run during the period Back To The Future I and II took viewers on a temporal roller coaster a streak of Jason Voorheese slasher sequels thrilled audiences three Rambo actioners lit up the screen Predator, ‘nuff said the original Star Wars trilogy completed itself gloriously Critters, and both C.H.U.D. However, no further developments have been announced.Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of the greatest decade since cuneiform!Ī profound understatement would be saying that the 80s was a good decade for film. The production staff was said to have consulted with the original anime's staff members, Shinji Aramaki and Kenichi Sonoda, to help maintain consistency with the world of the original. The film was expected to be released in late 2012 with a budget of 30 million. A production agreement was signed at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
In May 2009 it was announced that a live-action movie of "Bubblegum Crisis" was in the early stages of production.
In 1998, the series was remade into a 26 episode television series called Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. The success of the series spawned several sequel series. Nearly all of the music is available, as there are 8 soundtrack releases (one per OVA), as well as numerous "vocal" albums which feature songs "inspired by" the series as well as many drawn directly from it. Animeigo successfully crowd-funded the show for a North American Blu-ray release, on Kickstarter in November 2013. While anime has become much more popular in the intervening years, in 1991 it was still mostly unknown as a storytelling medium in North America.Ī digitally-remastered compilation of the original series' episodes, featuring bi-lingual tracks and production extras, was released on DVD in 2004 by AnimEigo Inc. Due to legal problems between the two studios who jointly held the rights to the series, Artmic and Youmex, the series was discontinued prematurely.īubblegum Crisis is notable also in that it was one of the few early anime series that were brought over from Japan unedited and subtitled with English captions that still have a great deal of popularity today. The OVA series is eight episodes long but was originally slated to run for 13 episodes. Obari would also go on to direct episode 5 and 6. Masami Obari created the mechanical designs. Kenichi Sonoda acted as character designer, and designed the four female leads. However, he met Junji Fujita and the two discussed ideas, and decided to collaborate on what later became Bubblegum Crisis. The series started with Toshimichi Suzuki intention to remake the 1982 film Techno Police 21C. Explaining that "we originally named the series "bubblegum" to reflect a world in crisis, like a chewing-gum bubble thats's about to burst." Suzuki explained in a 1993 Animerica interview the meaning behind the cryptic title. The humanoid robots known as "boomers" in the series also resemble Terminators cyborgs from the Terminator film. The opening sequence of episode 1 is modeled on the opening sequence of Streets of Fire. The setting displays strong influences from the movies Blade Runner and Streets of Fire. One of the series' themes is the inability of the department to deal with threats due to political infighting, red tape, and an insufficient budget. The AD Police are tasked to deal with Boomer-related crimes. While Boomers are intended to serve mankind, they become deadly instruments in the hands of ruthless individuals.
Its main product are boomers - humanoid robots used for manual labor and military purposes. The main antagonist is Genom, a megacorporation with immense power and global influence. During the first episode, disparities in wealth are shown to be more pronounced than in previous periods in post-war Japan. The series begins in the late 2032, seven years after the Second Great Kanto Earthquake has split Tokyo geographically and culturally in two.