Bubble Gum Crisis - Tokyo 2040

[mundens]

I'd never watched the entire series of Bubblegum Crisis until this evening. I've spent most of the last three nights doing so. This is a great series that holds up extremely well seeing as it was produced over ten years ago.

Things I like about it :

• Megatokyo - Yup, we saw it here first
• Pris - Classic mercenary tough girl, a rock singer, biker chick, and hot. I think a line from her in the second to last episode as she floats, momentarily alone, in space preparing for the big showdown, sums her up:
  What the hell am I doing here? No-one is paying me, no-one even asked me to do it...
• The scenes when all the guys are left sitting at base worrying about the girls in combat.
• 2001 references.
• A Sky Hook! A technological singularity! Re-entry Dolphins!
• A happy ending (including non-gratuitously naked women singing on beaches*.)
• A series where every episode is named after an album or song by a rock/punk band
  
  1. Can't Buy a Thrill (album by Steely Dan)
  2. Fragile (album by Yes and the name of a song by Sting, an album by the South African band Seether, and an album by Dead or Alive)
  3. Keep Me Hanging On (song by The Supremes from the album The Supremes Sing Motown; covered by Vanilla Fudge and Kim Wilde, among others)
  4. Machine Head (album by Deep Purple, also the name of a thrash metal band and a song by the band Bush)
  5. Rough and Ready (album by Jeff Beck)
  6. Get It On (song by T. Rex; covered by Power Station, various bands have also released songs with the same title)
  7. Look at Yourself (album by Uriah Heep, also the title track of the same album)
  8. Fire Ball (album by Deep Purple, also the title track of the same album)
  9. My Nation Underground (album by Julian Cope)
  10. Woke up with a Monster (album by Cheap Trick, also the title track of the same album)
  11. Sheer Heart Attack (album by Queen, also the name of a song from the Queen album News of the World)
  12. Made In Japan (album by Deep Purple)
  13. Atom Heart Mother (album by Pink Floyd; also the title track of the same album, a six-part suite)
  14. Shock Treatment (song by The Ramones from the album It's Alive)
  15. Minute by Minute (album by The Doobie Brothers, also the title track of the same album)
  16. I Surrender (song by Cheap Trick from the album Heaven Tonight)
  17. Moving Waves (album by Focus, also the title track of the same album)
  18. We Built This City (song by Jefferson Starship from the album Knee Deep in the Hoopla)
  19. Are You Experienced? (album by Jimi Hendrix, also the title trackof the same album)
  20. One of These Nights (album by The Eagles, also the title track of the same album)
  21. Close to the Edge (album by Yes, also the title track of the same album)
  22. Physical Graffiti (album by Led Zeppelin)
  23. Hydra (album by Toto, also the title track of the same album and the name of a southern rock band)
  24. Light My Fire (song by The Doors from the album The Doors)
  25. Walking on the Moon (song by The Police, from the album Reggatta de Blanc)
  26. Still Alive and Well (album by Johnny Winter)
  
  

There's a pile of other stuff I like about it too, but late and I need to go to work in the morning.

*Which as it's late, and I'm half asleep and silly with sick and cold and animé after glow, makes me wonder, why is it that almost every woman I've been close to, even if just as a friend, has at some point sung in my presence? Some of them to me, some to the night, some to the mike. Even the ones that don't Singstar. And why do so many of them write beautifully? And so many of them produce wonderful art? Really, it doesn't matter why, I'm just lucky they do, and grace me with their creations. Heh! So egocentric. Like, most of the guys I know, know the same women, so it's not like I'm special or anything. And if I think about it, many of the guys do these things too. Though not very many guys have sung to me... grin. I should go to bed before I get myself in more trouble. It's sorta like posting while drunk, only not. Now I'm seeing angels out of the corner of my eyes and feeling Her presence. Yes, definitely time for bed.