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[[File:Sabers.jpg|frame| Left to right: [[Plucky Girl|Linna Yamazaki]], [[The Captain|Sylia Stingray]], [[Biker Babe|Priss Asagiri]], [[Playful Hacker|Nene Romanova]].]]
{{quote|''"Or: 'What if [[Joan Jett]] and [[wikipedia:Coco Chanel|Coco Chanel]] became New Wave terrorists?'"''|'''Shadowjack''', RPG.net forums, "[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=485481 Speaking of women sentai groups... Bubblegum Crisis]"}}
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Originally plotted for 13 hour-long episodes, ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' was forced by a mixture of budget issues and internal politics between the two studios producing the show to cease production with the 8th episode (which [[Cut Short|wasn't an ending at all]]). A 3-hour sequel series, ''Bubblegum Crash!'', is believed to be a compressed version of the plot of the remaining five episodes, but is generally [[Fanon Discontinuity|considered to be inferior to the original]].
In 1990, a [[Prequel]] series,
It was "reimagined" in 1998 as the TV series ''[[Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040]]'', but the result bears almost no resemblance to the earlier show. It kept the [[Broad Strokes]] of the premise and the hardsuit designs, but broadly changed the character designs and personalities, and went off in a different direction from the original series. This version began with Linna as an [[Office Lady]] who moved to Tokyo to join her heroes, the [[Shrouded in Myth|mysterious]] Knight Sabers.
In 1999, a second AD Police series: ''[[AD Police: To Serve and Protect]]'', was released. A third [[OVA]] focusing on the AD Police,
In 2008, the company AIC announced that they'd signed an agreement to let a Singaporean studio begin production of a live-action version of ''Bubblegum Crisis'' -- which has ballooned into a coproduction between six countries (including Australia and China), planned for release in 2012. [[Development Hell|It has yet to materialize.]]
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* [[Action Girl]]: All the Knight Sabers, but mostly Priss and Linna.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Nene went from being a redhead to a blonde in ''2040''; Sylia became a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] instead of a [[Brainy Brunette]].
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