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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] / [[Retroactive Recognition]]:
** In the Japanese version of the OVA, Sylia is played by [[Yoshiko Sakakibara]], the actress for [[Hellsing|Integra]] and [[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind|Kushana]].
** Linna shares a voice with [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Mars]] and [[Sakura Taisen|Sumire Kanzaki]] -- [[Michie Tomizawa]].
** Nene's [[Akiko Hiramatsu|voice]] went on to substitute for [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Pokémon (anime)|Musashi/Jesse]], not to mention voicing [[Keroro Gunsou|Aki Hinata]], [[You're Under Arrest|Miyuki Kobayakawa]], and [[Azumanga Daioh|Yukari]] full-time.
** [[Megumi Hayashibara]] herself shows up very briefly as a doomed sexaroid.
** Leon is played by [[Toshio Furukawa]], the actor for [[Urusei Yatsura|Ataru Moroboshi]] and [[Dragon Ball|Piccolo]].
** Mackie's actor, [[Kenyuu Horiuchi]], went on to be [[Metal Gear Solid|Raiden]]... and ''[[Naruto]]'''s Pain.
** [[Aya Hisakawa]], [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Mercury's]] voice, also shows up in one episode.
*** This may be the first time that Akiko Hiramatsu and Aya Hisakawa worked together, but it was [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/compare.php?person_list=854-503 definitely not the last].
* [[Names to Know in Anime]]: [[Kenichi Sonoda]] did the character and hardsuit designs for the original series. Hiroki Hayashi directed the fourth OVA episode before going on to ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''. Masami Ohbari (''[[Gravion]]'', the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' anime) directed the episodes "Moonlight Rambler" and "Red Eyes," and Satoshi Urushihara supervised and was "guest character designer" for the episode "Double Vision." See also the [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] entry.
* [[Screwed by the Network|Screwed By Internal Politics]]: After the eighth OVA episode, various disputes caused the two major studios involved with BGC, Artmic and Youmex, to split, causing the immediate cancellation of any other original-run [[OVA]]s. Who is to "blame" is debatable, but the split is what led to the franchise going [[Off the Rails]] and led to relative disasters like ''Crash!''
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Streets of Fire]]'', ''[[Blade Runner]]'', ''[[Top Gun]]'', ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]],'' [[Marvel Comics]], and others.
** The Boomers' metallic skulls with glowing red eyes are reminiscent of ''[[The Terminator]]''{{'}}s endoskeleton. 
** The weapons the AD Police carry are clearly the pulse rifles from ''[[Aliens]]''. The way Sylvie kills the last Doberman with [[Weaponized Exhaust]] is also a reference to the first ''[[Alien]]'' movie.
** The mere existence of ''Priss'' (and her backing band, the Replicants) needs to be mentioned here. Especially since she first appears to us as a [[Blade Runner|wild-haired blonde]]. (The joke is that it's a wig, of course.) Leon is also named after one of the replicants from ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
*** AD Police headquarters looks ''exactly'' like the police headquarters in ''[[Blade Runner]]'' as well
** The bands, Priss and the Replicants and Vision and the Revengers, are shout-outs to ''[[Streets of Fire]]''{{'}}s Ellen Aim and the Attackers.
*** The female head of Genom security is named Madigan, a possible [[Shout-Out]] to actress Amy Madigan who had a supporting role in ''[[Streets of Fire]]''.
** BGC features a red-haired Romanova. [[Iron Man|A certain hardsuit-wearing hero]] features a red-haired Romanova as a secondary character. Hilariously, though, the two could not be more dissimilar otherwise (Nene is a [[Playful Hacker]] who isn't that great at the physical violence while Black Widow is, well, a bigger [[Action Girl]] than Priss).
** A neon sign in the background of the first episode reads "MZ 23". ''[[Megazone 23]]'' was AIC's previous project before starting BGC.
** The AD Police's Roadblock "truck" in ''Revenge Road'' is named Lulu Belle.  {{spoiler|That's Bogart's tank in ''Sahara''.}}
** When Sylia meets her informant Fargo in a Ferris Wheel car, she asks him if this makes him feel like [[The Third Man|Harry Lime]].
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Kinuko Oomori, the original voice for Priss in the OAVs, was originally contracted for the first six episodes, and her character was going to be killed off at the end of episode 6, but due to popular demand, Priss was kept alive at the last minute.
** Vision's song, "Say Yes", played at the beginning of episode 7, alludes to Priss's supposed death.
*** According to some accounts, the problem wasn't that Oomori was contracted for only 6 episodes, but instead that her recording label was pitching a fit that she was singing in the OAVs in violation of what may have been an exclusivity clause in her contract (Kinuko Oomori isn't an actress, ''per se'', instead she's a singer who's remembered for her one big role in an anime franchise, in much the same fashion as [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Mari Iijima]]) and demanded Oomori leave the series. According to this account Priss indeed was to be killed off in Episode 6, but a last-minute compromise between the label and Youmex/Artmic spared her, and Oomori was allowed to finish up the balance of planned episodes on the condition that she perform no more solo songs.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: The [https://bubblegumcrisis.fandom.com/wiki/Bubblegum_Crisis_Wiki Bubblegum Crisis Wiki].

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