Take the cartoon band Josie and The Pussycats, give them guns and hot motorbikes, toss them into a Bladerunner cityscape, and you've got The Knight Sabers - crime-fighting popsters from the Japanese animated video series Bubblegum Crisis. The series centers around Priss, a singer, and her pals Sylia, Linna, and Nene. When they're not being pop stars, aerobics instructors, cops, and fashion designers, they're superheroes.
Bubblegum Crisis offers a unique combo of high-level animation and nonstop rock-video-like images. The adolescent style relies more on tension and momentum than crushed skulls and rent limbs.
If you crave a little more interaction, the Bubblegum Crisis CD-ROM is a screen saver loaded with more than 100 sound and video clips from the animated series. A video jukebox also offers a concert, Hurricane Live 2032.
Whether you want to rock out or just watch stuff blow up, you'll find that the
Bubblegum Crisis, Mac and Windows: US$34.95; video: $24.95, laserdisc: $39.95. AnimEigo: (800) 242 6463, +1 (910) 251 1850.
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