{"id":982,"date":"2004-11-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/ask-john-why-is-burn-up-scramble-so-different-from-burn-up-w\/"},"modified":"2004-11-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-is-burn-up-scramble-so-different-from-burn-up-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-is-burn-up-scramble-so-different-from-burn-up-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why is Burn-Up Scramble So Different from Burn-Up W?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/strong>
\nWhy did they change the characters for Burn Up Scramble? They made the gun-toting Maya more feminine, Rio, who was just always in debt, is obsessed with getting herself a man and getting good luck, and Yuji, they made him the chief of police! But he’s still crazy about Rio, but he has a clinging secretary, though. I mean, what gives with all these changes? They seem to have made them even younger-looking.<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong>
\nBurn-Up has always been a very diverse franchise. Many newer anime fans may not recall the original 1991 Burn-Up OAV, released in America on VHS by AD Vision. That original stand alone OAV stared Maki, Reimi and Yuka in a cute, mildly funny, and also somewhat violent action story about the girls trying to bust a white slavery ring by using one of their own as bait.<\/p>\n

The 1996 Burn-Up W OAV series was a complete departure from the original short. The cute and child-like appearance of the original OAV character designs, and the combination of mild situational comedy and serious police action in Burn-Up gave way to taller, skinnier characters with enhanced bosoms and even less brains. While the original Burn-Up wasn’t a masterpiece, it played as a humorous police action OAV. Burn-Up W moved into the realm of parody by exaggerating its character personalities and including references to other anime titles. Burn-Up W also focused much more attention on its comedy than on its story development.<\/p>\n

The 1997 Burn-Up eXcess television series was a loose re-make of the Burn-Up W OAV series, retaining the same characters but more evenly balancing the elements of parody and story.<\/p>\n

There was a five year gap between the original Burn-Up and Burn-Up W, during which time the look and tone of the franchise was extensively re-vamped. In fact, the only similarities between Burn-Up and Burn-Up W were the series title and the fact that both shows were about policewomen. Six years after the conclusion of Burn-Up X, the franchise was once again redesigned, although this time not quite as extensively. Burn-Up Scramble had the same character names and same tone as Burn-Up X, although its character design changed and character personalities and relationships were redesigned.<\/p>\n

Considering the dynamic, rapid pace of the anime industry and its Japanese fans, it’s actually amazing that the Burn-Up franchise has had four incarnations over the past 13 years. With a lifespan so long in an industry within which it’s common for fans to lose interest in a series after a year, it was probably vitally necessary for AIC Studios to design three distinct generations of the Burn-Up anime franchise in order to attract and maintain viewer interest. The differences in the three generations of Burn-Up anime reflect the fact that the Burn-Up, Burn Up W and X, and Burn-Up Scramble shows were targeted at whichever generation of anime viewers was current at that time. Since the Burn-Up anime has never apparently tried to maintain continuity, it’s logical to presume that the Burn-Up Scramble series is simply the latest stage in a continuously evolving anime franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question: Why did they change the characters for Burn Up Scramble? They made the gun-toting Maya more feminine, Rio, who was just always in debt, is obsessed with getting herself a man and getting good luck, and Yuji, they made him the chief of police! But he’s still crazy about Rio, but he has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}