And, surprise, instead of giving an end to the cult BC 2032, we got a real new anime, starting over at the beginning of the whole story. Years passing, a real fandom rose (especially in Europe and in the United States), producing fanzines, mangas, comics, some by professional studios (for example a Bubblegum Crisis comics by Dark Horse). Fans waited until 1998, when AIC developed a new project : Bubblegum Crisis : Tokyo 2040. They split, and one of them continued the OVA under a new title : Bubblegum Crash – but shortly afterwards, it ended by going to court, and the Bubblegum Crisis Licence was left unexploited. It seems that the real problem was about royalties between co-producers, involving two different studios. Got it?)īC 2032 was planned as a series of 13 episodes, but production stopped at 8, officially because of a poor success (in Japan). (To make it easier to read, I mean, to write, from now on I’ll use acronyms : BC 2032 or BC 2040 – BC doesn’t mean before Christ. Now let me talk about Bubblegum Crisis : Tokyo 2040, not a sequel but a remake of Bubblegum Crisis : Megatokyo 2032.
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