

But once again, it's the music that really sets this series apart, and the opening song, Say Yes is worthy of radio airplay (except that the requisite guitar solo in the middle is rather cheesy), and the ending theme, Never the End is an absolutely wonderfully produced number. Sonoda's mechanical designs are top-notch, and he comes up with some more unique designs for this episode. Animation quality has also improved over previous efforts, and the characters are beginning to lose their line-drawing appearance. Acting is also above average, though I had to take exception to the stereotyping of the Gulf & Bradley president - not all company big-wigs from the deep south look like a throw-back from The Dukes of Hazzard. This epsiode features much stronger writing than previous efforts, and touches aspects of human motivations and need - specifically, grief, responsibility, revenge and fulfillment. Consequently, Linna features very prominently in this episode. Vision (Reika Chang) is Irene's older sister. I guess we'll never know.Įpisode 7 ties in with Episode 2 ( Born To Kill), in which Linna's friend Irene Chang was killed by one of Mason's boomers. The end result could have been interesting - Omori Kinuko has a much stronger acting voice, but a very limited singing voice, while Hashimoto Maiko's acting voice isn't as strong, but she has a much more melodic singing voice, plus her acting voice is much more versatile. Reika Chang) was to replace Priss in the lead role. Because of this, the initial plans were to kill off Priss' character, but in the end, this was not done. McLaren.ĭue to contractual problems, Omori Kinuko (Priss) was unable to sing solo for the remainder of the Bubblegum Crisis series after OAV 6. Shaken by the recent events, the Knight Sabers are hired as bodyguards for Dr. At the same time, the crab-like mecha once again appears, this time attacking the Genom laboratory at which McLaren is working.
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Meanwhile, after years of silence, the mysterious rock star, Vision, has come out of hiding and performing on a live tour in Japan.

McLaren head a team at Genom's military research labs in Tokyo, Japan. Richard McLaren, the chief project scientist for Genom's new military super-boomer project. In the year 2033, a strange crab-like mecha attacks a group of executives at the Gulf & Bradley building in Houston, Texas. Bubblegum Crisis Episode 7: Double Visionĭistributed by: TOEMI (Japan), AnimEigo (North America)
