Anime World Order Show # 245 – If Sylia Stingray Can Destroy Evil Boomers, What’s Stopping Victoria’s Secret

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As the Fall 2025 anime season approaches, we talk about our favorites of Summer 2025 before Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, the 3-part sequel to Bubblegum Crisis which we reviewed roughly 17 years ago.

Introduction (0:00 – 50:50)
We start off by reading an email from a listener who watched Aim for the Top! Gunbuster for the first time as a result of our review from…wait, two years ago?! Incidentally, Discotek’s license for Gunbuster is about to expire, so buy the Blu-Ray now while it’s still available if you haven’t already done so. We mull over the possiblity of setting up some ranked choice polling for listeners to weigh in with their seasonal Top 3, revisiting past titles from the earliest days of the podcast, doing separate YouTube-friendly edits of the reviews, and getting some new merchandise made. The latter is derailed by the same thing that’s derailing more or less every pop culture hobby pursuit in the United States: the elimination of the de minimis exception.

With the Fall 2025 anime season upon us, we’ll be doing a trailer watch-along on 09/27/2025 at 3:00 PM on our Discord. There’s no way to record these to VOD for later viewing, so join us if you can. Hopefully, we didn’t screw up our server boosts and the Discord Stage still has enough slots for everyone. Hopefully also there’s no outlandishness with Discord’s servers the way there was during Otakon. Due to our con reports for Otakon, AFO, and such we never did get to weigh in on the Summer 2025 anime season, so we do so here. Marvel at how few of the most popular titles of the season we saw any of at all! We’ll be sure to add them to the backlog…

Review: Bubblegum Crash! (50:50 – 2:03:06)
After some required convincing of Daryl and Clarissa, Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, which has never exactly held the most sterling of reputations among anime fans. Considering the last time we talked about anything related to Bubblegum Crisis was 15 years ago when we reviewed the AD Police Files OAV, it seems the time was right especially when one considers AnimEigo’s recent release of the series on Blu-Ray. If you order directly from the MediaOCD store, they throw in a slipcover! Remember: only deranged lunatics throw away the slipcover when they buy something on home video!

The opening to Bubblegum Crash! is the closest it gets to feeling like Bubblegum Crisis.

For the record, this upgrade to Nene’s hardsuit precedes Tekkaman Blade

It made sense in the AD Police Files prequel, but Boomers looking like obvious robots is weird here. Look, we get that you made this after doing AD Police Files but still

In the grim darkness of the cyberpunk future, copaganda reigns unchecked. Imagine if the real world were like–oh wait

The Turbografx 16 game has an English language patch. But how crazy would it be for such heavily funded and militarized police forces to do nothing in the face of danger–oh wait

As was the style at the time, all of the English readouts consist of random oddities.

Sylia Stingray doesn’t have much to do in Crash!, but at least she still looks good doing it

In 2025, it’s quite likely that more ladies are into Priss than gentlemen

One Reply to “Anime World Order Show # 245 – If Sylia Stingray Can Destroy Evil Boomers, What’s Stopping Victoria’s Secret”

As someone who had a job where I could watch anime while working, it was possible to watch everything in the season while doing some backlog but I ended up watching everything on 1.5x speed. 2x speed ended up being too hard to read most subs along with the changes of the music. I usually watch episodes at 1x speed until I passed the OP where I went into 1.5x speed until I get to the ED and go back down to 1x speed.

Now that I have a job where I can’t really watch anime while doing my job except for during lunch along with most of my weeknights being occupied by other things, I can’t really keep up with everything. I still want to find new shows but I been thinking I rather keep up with old favorites than try to watch new shows.

So yeah it’s really hard to keep up with everything unless your job allows you to watch anime or a full time content creator in the animesphere because the normal person can’t do it.