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Nigel Kirkland
is a 1998 Japanese cyberpunk anime television series produced by Anime International Company, AIC. It is a reboot of the 1987 original video animation, OVA series ''Bubblegum Crisis'', which focuses on the Knight Sabers, a rogue vigilante group made up of four women who use powered suits to fight rogue Boomer robots made by the megacorporation Genom. ''Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040'' premiered on TV Tokyo on October 8, 1998, where it ran until its conclusion on March 31, 1999. Toshiba EMI released the series on VHS and Laserdisc across 13 volumes, each containing two episodes. The first volume was released on January 21, 1999; the final volume was released July 26, 2000. The series was later released on DVD, however the Japanese versions were simply the American DVD releases encoded to play for DVD region code#Region codes and countries, Region 2. The series was positively received by critics, with some deeming it an improvement over the original OVA series. Plot Like its pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech". It features futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner (novelist), John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of technology, drug culture, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction. Comics exploring cyberpunk themes began appearing as early as Judge Dredd, first published in 1977. Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel ''Neuromancer'' helped solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture. Frank Miller's ''Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubblegum Crisis (role-playing Game)
''Bubblegum Crisis'' is a near-future cyberpunk role-playing game published by R. Talsorian Games in 1996 that is based on the anime television series ''Bubblegum Crisis''. Publication history R. Talsorian Games (RTG) had originally been founded by Mike Pondsmith in 1986 to publish the anime role-playing game '' Mekton''. RTG then went on to other non-anime products such as ''Cyberpunk 2020''. It was not until ten years later, in 1996, that RTG re-entered the anime-related role-playing game market with ''Bubblegum Crisis'', which would be the first RPG produced among several anime properties licensed by the company. In his 2011 book ''Designers & Dragons'', author Shannon Applecline noted that this was the first game to use the company's new Fuzion rule system, and said the game "marked a new push into anime for the company, bringing it back to its roots". Three books in total were printed in this series; "Bubblegum Crisis: Mega-Tokyo 2033" (the base rulebook, set in the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon McNichol
is a 1987-1991 Japanese cyberpunk original video animation (OVA) series produced by Youmex and animated by AIC and Artmic. The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight numerous problems, most frequently rogue robots. The success of the series spawned several sequel series. Plot The series begins in late 2032, seven years after the Second Great Kantō earthquake has split Tokyo geographically and culturally in two. It also forced the United States of America to annex Japan with the legitimate goal of keeping the peace and preventing it from descending into anarchy. In the first episode, disparities in wealth are shown to be more pronounced than in previous periods in postwar Japan. One of the series' themes is the inability of the department to deal with threats due to political infighting, red tape, and an insufficient budget. The main adversary is Genom, a megacorporation with immens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nene Romanova
The following is a list of characters from the Japanese anime franchise ''Bubblegum Crisis''. and allies The Knight Sabers are a vigilante and mercenary team of four young women. To enhance their natural abilities, they each wear a Hard Suit — each of them specialized in its equipment and performance according to the respective wearer's field combat role. They were recruited by Sylia Stingray to battle the corrupt Genom corporation that dominates their home city of Megatokyo and which was responsible for her father's death. In order to finance their activities, the Knight Sabers also accept paying jobs as bodyguards or mercenaries. Their main activity is fighting out-of-control boomers, half biological/half-mechanical robots built by Genom. Sylia Stingray (spelled Silia in ''Bubblegum Crisis'') is the 22-year-old ringleader of the Knight Sabers. She is a Hafu of British descent. Very calm and cool-headed, she does not show much emotion. She is the daughter of Dr. Katsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega-corporation
Megacorporation, mega-corporation, or megacorp, a term originally coined by Alfred Eichner in his book ''The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics'' but popularized by William Gibson, derives from the combination of the prefix ''mega-'' with the word ''corporation''. It has become widespread in cyberpunk literature. It is synonymous with syndicate, globalist- or transnational capital. It refers to a corporation (normally fictional) that is a massive conglomerate (usually private), holding monopolistic or near-monopolistic control over multiple markets (thus exhibiting both a horizontal and a vertical monopoly). Megacorps are so powerful that they are above the government laws, possess their own heavily armed (often military-sized) private armies, are operators of privatized police forces, hold "sovereign" territory, and even act as outright governments. They often exercise a large degree of control over their employees, taking the idea of "corporate culture" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
