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The weathered rock of Gainax, still standing strong.
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*"As long as you live, tomorrow will come."*
*Gunbuster* is both the last relic of another era and the progenitor of an entire lineage of anime that draw from it to this day (*Neon Genesis Evangelion*, its own sequel *Diebuster*, and *Gurren Lagann* being just the most…
Read full review on AniList →It's like someone murdered a 24 episode mecha show and used it's mutilated corpse to make Gunbuster.
First off I want to say I legitimately enjoyed Gunbuster. Quite a bit in fact, which is why I'm giving it the _positive_ rating of 5.7 (you'll see why later). This review is gonna be pretty loosey goosey eating a sandwich because I don't care that much about it I just kinda want to get my thoughts o…
Read full review on AniList →A fantastic show representative of the mecha genre in its early stages.
In this universe humans have mastered the technology capable to travel at light speed and warp objects through space. However, humanity is challenged by a species of space-traveling aliens which sole purpose is rid the universe of humans. The brightest and strongest students around the world are tas…
Read full review on AniList →Gunbuster has a well-deserved reputation as the mother of a certain type of mecha show and viewpoint
Growing up is a really fascinating process. Try telling a 15 year old that there are foundational, fundamental things that they can’t grasp about the world and the response you’ll get will very likely be incredibly strong pushback. I was the sort of teenager you couldn’t tell anything to; I had ever…
Read full review on AniList →Remembering you, 12,000 years in the future
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Another preliminary warning: <a>I'm not a mecha *otaku*.</a> Sorry, not sorry.
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Read full review on AniList →The greatest dramatic anime with short episodes.
In my discovery of the work of the Ova affecting the aneurysm, I have always seen beautiful and excellent works from time to time, but I have found a buried treasure that no one has noticed, and a few of his witnesses, and for me, I see this Ova as one of the most beautiful development I have ever s…
Read full review on AniList →Seemingly random yet surprisingly hard Sci-fi parody inside a Mecha genre.
Watching Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster was a strange endeavour. It was like drinking strange looking "drink" made by your 8 year old cousin just to realise that it's actually pretty dope. Like the amount of strange and seemingly random things that were put into it actually ends up making a strangely entic…
Read full review on AniList →...And then Gunbuster came and showed me how to love Mecha. (Spoilers)
Mecha does not interest me, Mecha does not make me cry, Mecha is boring and I don't understand it.
And then Gunbuster came and showed me how to love Mecha.
SPOILERS!!!!
Noriko and Amano are picked to be pilots of giant fighting robots. While Amano trains hard everyday to work her way to the top, No…
Read full review on AniList →Messy and gross, featuring zero logical structure
Gainax is a monolith in anime history. You would find no one to dispute that. The studio produced arguably one of the most influential anime ever, Neon Genesis Evangelion, to mass acclaim. So it’s no surprise that the studio has garnered a cult following due to its legacy. But for this review and se…
Read full review on AniList →Building blocks of a great show, just lacking in time to develop them.
I would have to say that Gunbusters has the building blocks necessary to make a very good character driven mech show. It is something that really wanted to do more than it had the episodes to do, and therefor suffers a fair bit. Character development that had major effects on motivations and repercu…
Read full review on AniList →It’s one of Gainax’s best shows, even if that honor is slowly becoming more dubious
In the distant future of 2006, Mankind had only recently made it’s first steps towards exploring the vast reaches of space. Well, that, or it’s 2016 and we haven’t even set foot on Mars yet, you can pick which world line sounds cooler. Anyway, with huge advancements in our understanding and manipula…
Read full review on AniList →A short gem that showcases the talents of early Gainax
Gunbuster is a sci-fi/mecha title by Studio Gainax and directed by Hideaki Anno. It’s a futuristic title initially set in the year 2023, where high school age students are enrolled in training camps to learn how to pilot fighting robots. The reason? A swarm of alien creatures determined to eradicate…
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