Gunbuster | KYOTO VIDEO 

Just wanna draw to your attention how Gunbuster was released. Two episodes on VHS every few months. The arc of dad revenge is there so that the first two episodes have a cohesive arc. Smith dies in 3 to give her the push to use Gunbuster in 4. And then the final two episodes are the final two battles. I can see what you mean, while marathoning it's a weird pace, but if you watch it in blocks of two it feels like 3 two-parters and I dig that

just gonna add that the last ova being black n white was a deliberate artistic choice, as many animators had said it, animating in black n white with that level of detail is actually more expensive than doing it with color, other than that the rest of the video is criminally underrated and one of my favorites, as well as Gunbuster itself.

Ahhhh this video is criminally under-viewed. All these videos are criminally under-viewed! Subbed! I used to have this thing I'd do when I was in college and had time/energy for three movie/media nights a week. We'd watch two episodes a week of an arc I called 'Gainax 101: Killing Super Robots and Bringing Them Back to Life' (it was art school practice to give everything a nasty pretentious title) where we'd watch Gunbuster, then Evangelion, then Diebuster, then Tengen Toppa, which had just come out. It's sort of emotionally exhausting to go through it all, but I think we made the circuit three times with new people before I finished school. I really see Gunbuster as an amazing feat of classic animation, like you put it so nicely, 'a standard of anime's golden age'. There's such an incredible energy to it all, and despite everything that by all rights usually lead to a narrative mess it's amazingly tight. Anyways, cheers! I really enjoy these videos, I'll keep watching them!

Discotek Media announced that a fully remastered release of Gunbuster complete is coming to Bluray in 2022. I cant wait! It even trended on Twitter.

"welcome home" and piano music make you cry like a bitch. this is truth. also, watching gunbuster, eva, and gurren lagann in order is just perfect. the creative fan work, the deconstruction and the resurection celebration. diebuster's ending is also a necessary watch.

Whenever I’m bored I go watch one of your videos, it got me back into collecting retro anime. Still thee best channel on youtube

It's really weird watching retrospectives of shows you remember waiting with anticipation for as each volume was released. It also makes you realize how much time has passed; sorta' like Gunbuster's time physics in reverse where years (decades actually) have flown by which seem like a short time to you, is looked on like ancient history to a generation that probably wasn't even born yet when these shows were created (wow I actually witnessed the "golden age" of anime first hand!) I'm glad that people can still watch these shows and be moved and excited by the passion that was often put into them by pioneers that were figuring it all out, and Gainax was definitely an inspiration to many of us who had dreams of being creators ourselves because that's exactly what the Gainax team was; fans like us. Even today watching the last ep of Gunbuster can still attract a speck of dust to my eyes.

I still can't believe an English dub of this is finally coming out soon

That ending though Gunbuster/diebuster is my favorite anime of all time. It's amazing how much the two series blend so well together, and I don't know of any other story where the ending is revisited twice!

Great analysis on a masterpiece of an anime. However, one of the most overlooked parts about Gunbuster is how much it borrowed from Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers. Just like the aliens in Starship Troopers, the space monsters are giant insects capable of interstellar travel. Also, the Noriko vs. Kashiwara fight references a chapter in Starship Troopers when Johnny Rico turned off the monitors of his powered suit during a training exercise.

just finished watching this recently, and you summed up what I thought very nicely, just a wonderful and inspiring OVA through n' through despite it's flaws.

Today, I found out two things: that watching the ending still makes me cry with the same feelings I had the first time I watched it and that Diebuster exists.

Gunbuster is one of those shows that doesn't leave you. even after watching it all those years ago, you still comeback to it over and over again. Plus that ending has never failed to make me tear up every single time. The last episode being in black and white was pure genius, but it would have been nicer if they remade some of the scenes to include more action sequences and animation. I love noriko so much

This anime was interstellar before interstellar. The story was decades ahead of its time.

You know, I would say that looking back on the plentiful pacing issues of early Gainax, it is fairly clear how this was the perfect studio to create Imaishi, one of the rare directors that can have absurdly fast pacing work to better a story without harming it, even if not all of the time

I teared up just seeing the ending again! Having rewatched this series since it was released and being of the generation that was first introduced to anime in the early 80s...Gunbuster holds up forever!

gunbuster has a special place in my heart that causes me to cry everytime i see that ending man. Great video!

glorious video, I almost cry

Whem i watched gunbuster's final, i thought "wow, this mecha anime made me cry"

Hey! I really enjoyed this vid, thanks. I know I'm two years late but... lemme add something. The final episode was made in black/white not because of budget restrictions, but because of artistic reasons. They thought the black hole bomb was near-impossible to depict in color. Too beeg and stronk. Additionally, it makes the events look more "historic" and marks the timeskip. Actually, painting a celluloid in monotone B/W takes about the same amount of time as colouring it any other color. Paint your car red or paint it black, it'll be the same price. It is in fact more likely that this episode cost more to the studio. It was longer, more ambitious, and damn kino. Aim for the top!

Good vid! But definitely adjust those sound levels, your narration is competing with the bg music all the time, and especially during the vocal music.

I get teary eyed in the last 3 episodes. Okay, last 5 or 6 episodes. The ending gets me every single time. I weep uncontrollably every single time Noriko's eyes widen as she sees the lights of the Earth coming on to spell it out in a 10,000 year old (likely) dead language. She starts the series looking up at the stars wondering what's out there, and ends it becoming one herself returning to the home that she has saved. I love Gunbuster so much. 11/10. If they cut out the gratuitous nudity every single episode, easily 15/10. lol Even just listening to the music in my car will get me really emotional and unable to prevent myself from choking up. It's probably dangerous actually. lol

Gunbuster is the GOAT.

Goddamn.......just watching this and the moment the ending is coming, IMMEDIATELY TEARS in my eyes, I have watch this......like 1000 times now....and even in reviews always hit me, this and Diebuster combine, make me a mess of tears and melancholy feelings, to this day, my favorite ENDING of any anime ever made. Gunbuster is not the prototype of anything, IS THE INSPIRATION is the corner stone of Gainax, literally the heart of this studio to me, if I ever have to recommended 1 Gainax story to anyone, this will always be the one, over Evengelion, FLCR, or even Tengen Toppa, Gunbuster is what made Gainax, GAINAX.

so as a fan Uncle Nagai and Uncle Ishikawa Gunbuster and Gurren Laggan has always being my favorates since they take some of the coolest element of Getter Robo, form the combination/transformation of Gunbuster to the over the top Drill Mania of Gurren Laggan. all your videos are a must watch and Ill be on the look out of a propper Getter Robo video. and I say Getter instead of Mazinger since Getter has always being the darkest in terms of story and characters.

The ending seems so bittersweet and all but I couldn't help but notice the イ in オカエリナサイ was flipped.

Yep. Excellent channel man. At least 7 or 8 anime to be checking out . Thank you kindly.

Just pre ordered the OVA’s Blu-ray’s finally

Watched it all in one sitting, high and drunk. It was mind blowing.

Gonna pour one out for the legendary anime studio as it has gone bankrupt

I got into Gunbuster recently and I didn't even know it was from Gainax at first. I like it from this old-style fanservice and having that good 80s, or 90s, look (although I mistook this as something from the 90s due to the design, but it's quite good). My only problem is that it didn't get an English dub. I could and personally think Laura Bailey befits Noriko well.

One detail that was admittedly pointed out to me was that the Japanese when not in subs is technically improperly spelled as an intentional creative choice, as in though it's mostly correct the Japanese they knew is probably an extinct language due to the way language changes over time. A little detail but an amusing internal consistency note.

Outstanding summary earned a subscription. Thank you.

It is still one of the best animes.

As jazzed as I was to see all of this Gainax goodness served to me, I admit the clip that brought the biggest smile was Abenobashi's

Shheeeesh. I haven't seen it, and since I wasn't planning to, I watched the spoiler alert ending here. I'm tearing up too. Wow.

I just watched the first episode of Gunbuster, after having seen some episodes of Aim For the Ace, and I got to agree with the pacing being a little to quick. They literally copy lots of story beats from the first few episodes of Aim For the Ace and cram it all into the first episode. Although, it's not too bad. I'll have to check out the whole series when Discotek releases their Blu-ray next year with a new English dub.

The ending is always make me 😭😭

Once again, I must say a great review, but I have one minor criticism, I feel you spend a bit too much time nitpicking what are minor flaws in the grander scheme of things. Not every classic anime is perfect, I understand, but I feel you could shorten these segments down to a few seconds as opposed a minute or so.

Here is lesser known lore between gunbuster and diebuster, like in 2048-2100: Next Generation Light Novel begins here Buster Machine 3 is built. Debate over whether or not to leave the earth begins. Gunbuster Episode 6. The half that want to leave earth do so, and colonize Sirius. Remnants of an alien civilization discovered. The 'Sirius Alliance' is formed and wants freedom from the overall Human Empire. Thanks to the ancient aliens they discovered Energy of the Spiri Sirius Alliance figures out how to weaponize it. They no longer need computers Earth refuses independence as they ran out of resources in the war with the Space Monsters, plans 'violent crackdown'. Earth starts with a tech and numbers advantage, but has no industrial capacity anymore. Presumably, they build Nono here, as the last weapon created on earth with pre-Sirius War tech. Sirius War begins. 2100-2480 Earth is losing war; both sides have undergone a massive tech slide. Jung Freud and the Eltrium Fleet come back the earth Empire tries to order them order them around but they overthrow the Earth Empire and establish a federation. Jung is elected president of Earth shes a called the hero of all humanity. clones of Kazumi Amano, Noriko Takaya, drive the sizzler against Sirius Alliance Ceasefire is called. Accepted. Mission to retrieve the Gunbuster is launched. Fails as humanity can no longer understand the pre-war tech to do so. Jung enters cryo sleep, a mass scramble to recover pre-war tech begins, s War restarts. 2480-14292 Sirius War has stalemated. Earth discovers an old Super-Excelion. Produces Two 'Werutoriumu' class ships based on it. Next Generation Manga begins here. The 'Great Attractor', a being claiming to be God, attacks the Sirius System. Begins drawing in all of the particles in the universe towards it. Jung reawakened, leads fleet consisting of the two Werutoriumus, and Buster Machines 4 and 5, built with pre-war tech, to fight it. Buster Machine 7 is not noted, as she wasn't thought up here. 6 doesn't show up for similar reasons. No one knows because manga and the light novels were canceled. Warp Tech sealed away at some point here Then Diebuster happens

4:03 | The Top Gun music. *Respect!*

My first love, And somehow the most bittersweet.

Beautiful, the anime is really beautiful

Great profile on this series. You pointed out how short the Gunbuster series is kind of hurts the story. That's why it's nice that it's still available at all but the movie version makes a short series even shorter and cut out even more stuff.

Twilight by ELO is such a banger.

Gunbuster is awesome

Great video!

In 3 years you can do a reach for the top 2 video. another series that was rushed

The music when the lights turn on sounds like ABBA

USS Exelion NCC-74701. Thank you Gunbuster😊

Yeah the story was a bit cluttered, I excepted the soviet girl to slowly come to work with the main character over the course of the series (cliche i know), but they had that stuff wrapped up by episode 3.

my first ASMR as a high schooler was ep.5 transformation

i love this anime. i just wish that the girls were all aged up a bit from the getgo. i cant help feeling kind of gross about seeing clearly drawn fanservice of young teenagers. especially knowing it was all orchestrated by and for the gaze of older men. really offputting. but god damn is this series a masterpiece

My dude I love your content but for the love of everything that is good MIX YOUR AUDIO BETTER So many times in the intro then the white noise bit at 20:00 if far too high DX

around 26 years left.....

wait the incredible looney toons person makes anime videos, who are you!? youre incredible

Can someone pls tell me the name of the song used at the start of the intro? Thx boyz

Sorry, but your thesis of black and white as a cost cutting measure is plain wrong.To draw and colorize this stuff is as expensie than in color. (And perhaps, this was colorized and then made black and white during photography/post production.) And it might make the process of actually drawing that stuff harder. Doing contrast in black and white is a more delicate process.(Manga is more stylized than that, and uses a lot more whitespace.)

What are the anime featured in the intro of the video? I recognize some of them, but I'd like to know all of them! They look cool! :O

Bro I don't think that censor bar is the kind that works more than once?

yo when's daibuster?

I got a legit pop seeing MissMab's ratings panda pop up as a censor bar, well done XD

What is the song from that Jiggle AMV you spliced in around six minutes in? I’ve been looking for that song (and that amv tbh)

So Gunbuster black and white is "stylistic" despite being necessary (and i agree on that) while NGE still frames are only out of necessity, despite being even more symbolic than GB b&w. Ok.

Jung Freud looks very similar to Haman Karn

could you stop using a that loud static as a transition

Coachie 🤣

Please Netflix never dare to live adapt this

DaiconIV….man o man

Excelent explication!!

What anime is that at 14 seconds?

I ship Noriko x Kazumi

Eva sucks, though.

IMO the only real flaw Gunbuster has is totally unnecessary bare tit in the culmination of the last episode, and maybe ep1 is somewhat boring. Everything else is great or at least fine.

Oof, i'm going to have to skip this review. I absoutely DESPISE Hideki Anno and I think Evangelion in particular is quite possibly the worst piece of steaming trash I've ever seen in my life. So i'm not about to sit here and watch this guy get praised for anything he's ever done, when I am convinced he is absolutely a talentless hack and not even worthy of remembrance.

When the words "Twelve Thousand Years Later" appeared on screen, my heart just shattered. But then Jung's Welcome Homɘ grew it back so quickly I just got a cardiac arrest and died anyway. And now I'm a permanent resident in Mecha Heaven.