For real though: if you've ever played a beat-'em-up or watched an anime released between 1986 and 1998 and you HAVEN'T seen Streets of Fire, go watch this movie and then understand it was basically the single biggest release in 1984 in Japan: youtube.com/watch?v=vVNXpQOHnA

The degree to which Bubblegum Crisis in particular is cribbing from this film in terms of visual language has to be seen to be believed.

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@hystericempress I would fucking LOVE to do that as a double feature and get the grand commentary tour from you if I ever get to visit Seattle again. <3

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