AnimEigo has announced that it will be releasing the 1991 OVA series Bubblegum Crash on Blu-ray home media disc on January 21, 2025. The series is a sequel to the 1987 OVA series Bubblegum Crisis.
The new release contains all 3 episodes in the series: “Illegal Army,” “Geo Climbers,” and “Melt Down.” It features a full restoration of the second episode (“Geo-Climbers”), along with new high-definition upscales of episodes one and three. The Blu-ray also comes packaged with a newly designed slipcover, which is exclusively available for purchase from the MediaOCD webstore.
Other bonus features for the new Blu-ray release include:
- • Liner notes
- • Trailer and restoration demonstration
- • 1080p / Japanese 2.0 LPCM / English & German subtitles / Region Free
- ○ Dubbed Audio: English (US, Stereo), Japanese, English (UK, Stereo), Castilian Spanish
- • Running Time: 138 minutes / Age Rating: 13+ / Audio: Japanese Stereo (subtitled) / Aspect ratio: 4×3
Bubblegum Crash is produced by Artmic and Artland and takes place a year after the original story in Bubblegum Crisis.
AnimEigo describes the main synopsis of the Bubblegum Crash OVAs as:
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.
Source: press release
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