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| Decent start, visuals are pretty good and the uniforms too... |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Great lightning kick to Kashiwara I guess hard work does pay off as always and jealousy pays you shit. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Awesome, classic 80s anime! I loved it's campiness and just plain 80s coolness. |
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| I think this was a pretty enjoyable first episode, yet felt rushed. Could have been developed in 2 episodes to explain some stuff better. I also can see so much of the early spirit of old Gainax that later developed into other classic series + their Trigger legacy wich leads to how some characters from LWA were made: Ako is partially an updated version of Noriko just to start. Good stuff. Great music. Impressive animation. Fun fights! |
MichaelJacksonFeb 24, 2018 7:04 PM
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| Lmao that was really ridiculous but oddly motivating too.. |
| This is so cheesy I love it |
| That was a very enjoyable episode for me. I instantly fell in love with character designs and moments like Noriko's training, the depiction of bullying etc. But the most surprising moment for me was Norio Wakamoto as Oota's seiyu! Coincidentally, I'm watching Gunbuster right after Legend of the Galactic Heroes, where Wakamoto shined as Oskar von Reuenthal, and now he strikes with his brilliant voice again! Oh, and boob physics was pretty amazing, too |
St0rmbladeMay 3, 2019 3:12 AM
| This first episode is copy-paste of 70s shoujo anime Ace wo Nerae! (its even in the name Top wo Nerae!), but with mecha and outfits that appeal to boys. Having mechas train like school girls and hearing the voice of school girls with the visual of giant robots fighting is part of the comedy. |
| lol what are those uniforms Plot armor was strong here, albeit with all of that training. But let's see Noriko surprise us. |
| Felt like watching some classic today ! But to be honest, this first episode didn't really live up to my expectations. It wasn't boring despite being almost 30 minutes long so there's at least that, bht I feel like everything's going too fast and the show didn't take time to really introduce Noriko as a person. It's just the first episode so I'll wait and see but I hope this issue will be solved. This show still has the charm a lot of oldschool shows have, I really like that, especially when it comes to the characters' expressions. |
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| I can definitely see the roots of Akko and Lotte in Noriko and Kimiko, respectively. A klutz student who's glasses-adorned teacher sees potential in. Love that it mixes Real Robot and Super Robot; these are cadets mainly preparing to pilot mass produced weapons of war but then has the robots actually do pushups and situps, hilarious. 2023 rewatch in dub |
Fortress_MaximusAug 19, 2023 7:15 AM
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| I like a good underdog story, but I fail to see and understand how the coach was able to identify talent. Maybe he has a third eye in his cane, for talent finding or something. |
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| Well, can't decode if this was a blatant plagiarism of Ace wo Nerae! or just a parody or "tribute", because the entire episode was exactly as the first part of that anime. Hope that from the next episode becomes its own thing. |
| This feels like a massive product of its time that doesn't really take itself too seriously and I love it for that |
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| don't know what to say about the first 5ish minutes but it set up for some pretty good exposition later. The only thing I'm finding hard to tolerate are the graphics, for fuck's sake they haven't aged well |
| Lol at the mecha doing push-ups. Very enjoyable vibes and visually it doesn't look like an 80s anime at all, it look more from the 90s |
| Okay ep. Average. Full of stereotypes and tropes. Only thing special about it is the aesthetics, wonderful animation, and the OST - especially that fucking banger of an opening. I heard good things about it so I hope it gets better. |
Monkey_BusinessAug 26, 2022 5:28 AM
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| I don't think I have ever seen a motivational working out montage of a mech suit before, definitely a first haha. I'm almost sad that the other episodes will be in space, we are going to be missing out on a bunch of beautifully drawn beaches and sunsets ;_; |
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| Gunbuster, yet another anime from Gainax but a much shorter series than either Evangelion or Gurren Lagaan. I can tell it’s a vintage anime just from the animation and character designs alone. So much so that I just all up for that 80s aesthetic. The coach is a badass, not only because he looks cool looking with the scar on one eye and the cane but also the fact that he was a survivor of the attack at the beginning. It is a show that doesn’t really take itself seriously because giant robots doing pushups in a playground. Need I say more? XD It’s a great start, builds up the setting and main cast nicely so I’m honestly keen on watching more of this. |
| Watashi no Papa. Takaya Noriko. December 20, 2015. Oh snap! He died. Dat date. Space monsters? Noriko will become a space pilot. Mecha's doing push up's? A girl is watching. Kimiko. 200! Onee-sama. Onee-sama comes out. Noriko. Oota da! Dat voice! Norio!!!!!! Good start. Today is October 7th. Happy 35th anniversary to Gunbuster. This is my first watch. The amount of times I've seen this series through small clips or images starting from the 2000's and I had no interest to watch it despite my love for mecha and knowing Anno worked on this, plus the fact that this series is well known... It's crazy that I waited this long. I saw that the 35th anniversary date was coming and marked my calendar. With that said... OP and ED are good. Funny how Noriko is voiced by Noriko and the OP/ED is by Noriko. Noriko masterrace. It's crazy that within the 1st minute, the story is connected to me personally. This is fate. I was meant to watch this. Noriko is so cute when she makes that sad look with her eyes. Dat gym uniform is FIYA!!!! Seeing the mecha do push up was a surprise. I laughed. Seeing Kashihara's facial expressions during the battle makes me miss 80's and 90's anime so much. You don't see that much or at all in this era of anime. |
| If you see that my post is exactly 1 month old (or more) from when it was posted... Don't waste your time, especially when you want to reply with something petty & insignificant. Assume that I've moved on (because I have). |
| I like it, the mc too, this late 80's animation is really something for classic mecha stories, now GO TO SLEEP ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ (the joke is that i'm pressing with my head the keyboard) |
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| that art, that color palette, the music, the flashing lights, the whole aesthetic, DELICIOUS Noriko delicious to match ^_^ even psycho girl had a happy ending already, feels good |
| actually very cool, didn't gave it enough credit |
"Fear and Doubt are signs of a strong heart" ~Jack Skellington, Kingdom Hearts 2 |
| Her daddy has the fastest ship in the universe. The far off year of 2015. Alien hostels so they say. The robots are doing doing push-ups. The sixth is lucky. Bullying from within robots. He claims the real soldiers don’t use training wheels, even to learn. She wins something she didn’t earn. They will understand once they see the buster machine. They are using the revolutionary lost technology of translating the words on the screen most of the time. They prank her along multiple dimensions. She is running an iron sandals. Of course she doesn’t have the talent now but she has years to develop it. She starts putting in the work. An obviously evil invitation. She is going to fight with her eyes closed because having them open, makes her worry too much. With one cake she wins. The robot lets out steam. They are going to the advanced machine assault squad. She heads off towards the moon. 3 |
| It's only 6 episodes so the plot goes by quickly but I still like it. Despite the naive plot this whole pathos is funny. I haven't seen anything more absurdly funny than training in mechanical armor that involves running and push-ups xDD besides their fight was comical, the blonde bullies the MC and slaps her robot xDD It looks like something really goofy and funny, I was also surprised that the animation is really good, I just hope for more ecchi, it's not serious anyway and the heroines are already sexualized so well... you can go all out xD 4/5 |
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