Danica Davidson
September 23, 2024 
Bubblegum Crash, the sequel to Bubblegum Crisis, is getting a Blu-ray home video release thanks to AnimEigo. It arrives on January 21, 2025, and is available for pre-order.
Bubblegum Crash is an OVA that came out in 1991, four years after Bubblegum Crisis. It consists of three episodes titled “Illegal Army,” “Geo Climbers” and “Melt Down,” with “Geo Climbers” receiving a full restoration. There are also HD upscales for the other two episodes. If you get the OVA through the MediaOCD online store, you’re also able to get an exclusive slipcover.
The Blu-ray will have liner notes, plus a trailer and restoration demonstration as its bonuses. It offers audio in English, Japanese, and Castilian Spanish, as well as subtitles in English and German. It’s rated 13+ and has a total running time of 138 minutes.
AnimEigo has previously released titles like Urusei Yatsura, Kimagure Orange Road, Oh My Goddess!, and, of course, Bubblegum Crisis.
AnimEigo gave this description for Bubblegum Crash:
Bubblegum Crash Plot
Times are changing in MegaTokyo. Boomers are no longer seen as a scourge, but rather, the city’s saviors – heralds of a new, prosperous era. With the Knight Sabers’ mission supposedly accomplished, their leader, Sylia, suddenly disappears, leaving the team to go their separate ways. In the meantime, a dangerous cabal of power-suited mercenaries start hunting for a revolutionary AI that’s about to change the world. Keenly aware of the consequences, Sylia gets the band back together. Equipped with even bigger and badder hard suits, the Knight Sabers now find themselves entangled in a conflict seemingly orchestrated by a voice from the past.
AnimEigo gave this description for itself:
Established in 1989, AnimEigo, Inc. is not only one of the first companies to release anime in the United States and Canada, but also one of the first companies to release significant numbers of high-quality Japanese live-action films. Over the last 35 years AnimEigo consistently broadened the market for Japanese films by finding audiences for entire new genres of films.
Source: Press release
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
