As great as the action in Gunbuster is, the very best part of it isn't even an action scene. It's the start of Episode 5, where Noriko and company return to Earth from their first tour of duty, and find that traveling beyond the speed of light has caused a severe time dilation effect; while only a few weeks or months have passed for them, 10 years have passed on Earth, and Noriko runs into Kimiko, her best friend from high school, who is now a grown woman in her late 20's with a 4-year-old daughter. The entire sequence is utterly fucking heartbreaking, and Anno perfectly drives it home with a simple but amazing piece of visual storytelling: Noriko and Kimiko head to a playground to catch up together, and sit down on the swings to talk. Noriko is swinging back and forth the entire scene, chatty and excited, while Kimiko just sits still and looks like she's on the verge of tears, then somberly begs Noriko to try and get her daughter a place on the Earth evacuation ship, since it very much looks like they might lose the war. Noriko is still only a kid, full of cheer and optimism, happy to play on the swings, while Kimiko has fully grown up into the weary, cynical, realist mindset of a parent staring down the barrel of total genocide, and has no use for play anymore. It's such a fucking fantastic scene. Anno seriously came out swinging.
@@alamrasyidi4097 It's also a major theme in the classic sci-fi novel "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, which I'm positive was a huge influence on Gunbuster.
I always thought that the reason they did it in black and white was because the whole episode is a tribute to "The Battle of Okinawa" that movie Anno loves, there is even a direct reference, the scene in which they show the casualties with text on the screen.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots By the way, did you read that blog about the "imperialistic subtext of Gunbuster"? it didn't convince me but I thought it was interesting. animekritik.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/imperialism-translation-gunbuster-introduction/
Not come across that one before. It's definitely a hot take, but I dunno if I follow the writer's reasoning. He's also throwing about speculations about why Evangelion is darker (he's linking it to Japan's loss of economic dominance?) when Anno's gone on record stating that it was Aum Shinrikyo's attacks in Tokyo, and this forcing him to re-write large sections of the series, that really pushed him over the edge.
Good, detailed video but I think these guys missed the crucial point that Gunbuster was a send-up of everything that came before it, not a rip-off. How do you satire super robot anime? Take it super seriously. I've probably watched Gunbuster a dozen times over the last 30 years and I have to say that the more serious mecha anime I watch the more jokes and references I catch. This is especially true now that I've digested Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta. Also as a final note I was surprised that the reference point for why Mikimoto is famous was 0080 and not, say, Superdimension Fortress Macross?
It’s hilarious because only hardcore Gundam fans even saw WAR IN THE POCKET when it came out (and even today) but MACROSS was an international phenomenon after it was reworked into ROBOTECH.
Small note about the Mazinkaiser comparison: Mazinkaiser wasn't released until 2001, while Gunbuster released back in 1988. So if anything, Mazinkaiser is ripping off Gunbuster in this scenario
They don’t even look alike, which is what’s even more stupid about the comparison. All the Mazinger models (including Grendizer) have “faces” with 2 eyes, a non-functional nose, and a “mouth” (grill). Gunbuster has no features resembling a human face, whatsoever. 😂
@@user-fg7yh3ez8h the Gunbuster actually looks more like the Getter Robo, it has the same stripes on the limbs, the two horns on the sides of the head and so on
He ran out of money slightly later in production with Gunbuster. They at least were able to animate the last episode, even if they didn’t have money for ink 🤣
18:40 Technically, Mazinkaiser specifically as a design came later than Gunbuster. As a matter of fact, the SRW series (from which Mazinkaiser came) didn't exist yet by the time Gunbuster was released.
Anno is like the Japanese equivalent of Stanley Kubrick, the man is very talented as a director no doubt, but his mind is deeply disturbed, the complexity of the lores he created isn't something an average director could come up with. In a way he's like a savant, creativity requires a certain level of talent, but even amongst talented individuals there are things that a savant can interpret better while an ordinary person cannot grasp the concept The show also casted some of the seiyuu industry's best veterans, namely Hidaka Noriko, Sakuma Rei, and Kawamura Maria. Hidaka's anime counterpart is also credited as the very first hot blooded girl in anime (though technically Hidaka had already started playing Akane in Ranma 3 months earlier, and both characters do share similar traits) It helped to grew their fame even more
This video made me go into a deep dive into lesser known lore, 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
Rob absolutely ruins this video. Not because I disagree with what he's saying but because so many of his arguments boil down to something totally uneducated (the Gundam comment for example) or just "I don't like it". Which is fine and good, but you can still dislike something and appreciate the merits. Also, while he harped on the fanservice, you guys failed to mention (or realize) that Gunbuster was the first instance of the Gainax bounce. So, you can thank Gunbuster for pioneering anime boob physics. Just another instance of Gunbuster's influence. Thanks for making the video tho!
Stopped at 11:58. Time dilation is core to the story. It can't be removed and you have "Gundam." I get it if you didn't like it, but you just didn't plain understand it.
This is the first video I've watched from this channel. Having watched Gunbuster multiple times over the past 15 years.. Rob is just an idiot. He really shouldn't be reviewing anime.
Yeah the other guy is a moron. Can’t subscribe because this guy obviously cried like a baby that it wasn’t Star Wars and stopped paying attention. If that’s how this show is then I’m out. Shame
It really was baffling that beardo could have a take that bad. I guess he was looking at his phone instead of the anime or something if he didn't understand how central to the story the time dilation was.
So many baffling takes by Rob; bringing up Star Wars when discussing hard science? Not thinking time dilation was necessary? He was definitely in the wrong mindset when watching it. It's okay to not like something, but damn, his takes just didn't have any substance whatsoever. He might as well have said he didn't like it because it doesn't have green dinosaurs.
I feel like a broken record because on every video I want to say that you two are incredible and I thoroughly enjoy watching you videos - even if it is just an elongated bumbling around facts and options in an attempt to review a certain media - it's incredible.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots still the best review of gunbuster out there tbh, somehow it bacame an underground anime and i dont see that many people talking about it so props to yall
I think the aliens in gunbuster are the best “antagonists” for the show, because we don’t focus on them, the focus is on the characters they’re just an object to shoot at. Plus they look really fkn cool
The true antagonist here is Albert Einstein ……or rather the concept of time dilation where the scale and speed of combat ensures the girls who enrolled in the fight against the space alien monsters can never live like normal anymore
You all inspired me to rewatch the original UC Gundam, which I watched over a decade ago. The nostalgia makes me more accepting of my inevitable death. I watched Gunbuster around then too. And I'm glad someone else likes Patlabor. Keep on the obscure shit.
Rob is viewing this as a person who has seen these characters done, over and over. Whereas I saw this when they were fresh. Fantastic story, great characters, beautiful animation, cool mecha and tech, and a story that is heart wrenching at times, yet aspirational in the end.
In 1988 the characters where not terribly overused, for anime. Of course they are almost all a stereotypes of monomythical proportions but the show pulls this off in such a believeable way.
Pretty sure youtube has a timer on your guys videos because this is the second video in a row where I've gotten this in my recommended a month after its been uploaded. Also good video as always and on one of my favourite animes too
Another video, another banger..... Also another missed opportunity to watch: Robot Carnival Five Star Stories Bubble Gum Crisis Black Magic 088 Patlabor Gunhed Robot Jox Keep up the good work boys, and keep telling me about things I like!
Gunbuster is the shit. It shows the trends back then but also ages well. A bit too sexually graphic - a lot of unneeded bounces and nudity - than it has to be, but such was anime then (and now).
I recently watched this for the first time (the new blu-ray), and I have to echo Nerv Shirt Man in that I was expecting a lot more out of this show. I liked most of the character stuff, and the quirks of space travel resulted in a hefty gut-punch or too (not to mention a pretty bittersweet ending), but I was expecting some serious fireworks from it, and I just never got those.
Nerv Shirt guy was wrong. His arguments about it was nothing but derivative I find no gas for. I bet he thinks that Because Simba the White lion exists, that Lion King was derivative and so was Father of the Pride. They aren't. Simpsons did it does not mean no one gets to do anything because Simpsons did it first. It means that if you do it well you get to do it. Also, This was the show that stared the Ganax Pose and the Ganax Bounce.
Wait you're making reasonable arguments to disagree with him and you didn't even call him an asshole whilst you were doing it. This isn't how I thought RUclips comments work.
I'm aware its a really long watch and you guys have suffered through some long shows, but please do one of the VOTOMS shows (the original or Mellowlink) I would love to hear your take on it!
VOTOMS is absolutely a show we intend to cover at some point: it's come up several times when we've been chatting about things we ought to watch/discuss. So hopefully we'll have a video on it some time soon.
So Rob is 100% right about JJ Abrams but 100% wrong about Gunbuster. Its art and design are excellent and the story is beautiful and bittersweet. His complaint is that its too slow, which is the dumbest complaint he could have.
I was never into these mecha shows as a child but I'm starting to enjoy them. The 80s and 90s anime. Especially the OVAs. The dub can be bizarre and sound odd but the art style is great. Take California Crisis for instance. I find the art style beautiful and the music builds onto the aesthetic. The story might not be anything brilliant but I do like the characters. Unfortunately they use the lazy looking animation now where the characters barely blink or show facial expressions. The CGI used looks plastic but I'm not sure what it is called. I'm not against CGI as it can make be used in amazing ways but on shows like the new Rugrats and reboots of anime classics, it looks cheap and awful even through it probably is not cheap. Boah the Bioweapon is also a good film. Glad they made him playable in JoJo Bizarre Adventure ASBr. 80s/90s OVAs are my favourites.
great video ( i love anno's old works ) btw i recommend you to play a video game called Xenogears because it is similar to evangelion but with the world building of legend of the galactic heroes. no really xenogears is the greatest mecha ever
I couldnt get into Gunbuster. I like the world and the animation but the over the top nature of scantily clad girls with the somber time dilation story just gave me tonal whiplash. I think Ill stick to votoms for my hard science show.
PATLABOR by comparison is often laborious. There’s a lot of redundant talking in the series which goes to waste because of the time scale of the narrative, which is relatively short. The time scale of the GUNBUSTER narrative expands with each episode. Conversations between characters often circle the concept of living in the same relative time. These conversations are purposefully redundant because they are happening years apart from one another and for some the conversation happened only weeks ago but for the others it was years ago.
I watched it because I was looking for something similar to tengen toppa and i watched and enjoyed it tgen i found out it was made from the evangelion guy.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots no offence but you guys make it seem like you where just tired or in a bad day when watching the anime. The series is legendary for a reason.
hey, now that you've reviewed something owned by "bandai namco" then surly now you can review "obsolete".....please, i think this show is amazing and its criminal that it has barely gotten any attention from any anime reviewers/community (and i doubt its because of legal fears, but more it was a youtube only release).
That's one of Urobuchi's recent projects, if I'm remembering correctly? We've got a backlog big enough to bludgeon my hopes and dreams to death with, but I'll definitely try to check it out.
I think Gunbuster didn't work for the other dood, sorry i didn't care enough to listen to names :P because he's seen the progression of his, kinda like watching sword art online after all the shit we've seen "oh cool another one" but at the time.. it was shit.. but also a new concept.. ish.. lol or at least a new fanbases introduction to that story. So had this been one of the first he'd seen i think it'd hold a place in his heart above other anime, its a good story though losing your life through time, any time based story is really good.. we often lose track of friends and people and we miss much of their lives busy with our own..
You might be onto something there, mate. I think anyone who's got older and lost touch with people who were once incredibly close to them can relate to a story like Noriko's.
HEY NOW! 18:40 Mazinkaiser didn't exist at all until the late 90s in Super Robot Wars F FINAL on the Sega Saturn! If anything, Kaiser ripped off Gunbuster!
Okay, WHAT THE FUCK? How does a channel with video this high quality only has 1.6k subs and this video only has 995 views? Also I've just finished watching 6 episodes and I gotta say, Anno you goddamn genius. There's sci-fi, there's giant robot, there's science stuff, there's character development, there's boobies, it has a good theme and they've successfully told a great story. And there's so much more that I couldn't even describe with my limited vocabulary. Also Gunbuster itself is cool as hell.
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Robert, when are you going to make some videos on games you play as well?
We Heart Giant Robots lol. It’s actually not bad or hard to understand once you sit down and remove any stereotypes or ideas from the first couple episodes. As the show goes on it gets really good. The ending sucks but it’s to be expected.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots first season is baller!! Before the director had to step away, that is.. They get a new guy in season two that does a serviceable job, but the story gets needlessly complicated and meta in season two. I don't think he even bothers to answer the questions crafted in season 1 lol. A shame really. The series is nearly perfect in my eye. Has a very distinct style that separates it from other mechas of its time. I honestly think you guys would dig it.
My lord, the footage... what is that- VHS, PAL, bootleg, R1/R2UK animation? Have some respect for the art form gentlemen. But I digress. Gunbuster is definitely style over substance, as she starts the series crying, and ends on the same note. In-fact, she has more in common with a Pokemon than she does a human being. COACHEE! COACHEE!
OH i'm also a Fan of hating that HACK, introducing mystery boxes then filling them with horseshit ready to open, but every reboot he touches turns to shit, most of all Star...not wars.
lazy review by dollar store bevis and butthead, i miss Douchebag Chocolate
me too, man
The Gunbuster is basically the god of all zeon mobile suits while the Ideon is the god of the GM suits.
Round and thicc vs angular and thicc.
As great as the action in Gunbuster is, the very best part of it isn't even an action scene. It's the start of Episode 5, where Noriko and company return to Earth from their first tour of duty, and find that traveling beyond the speed of light has caused a severe time dilation effect; while only a few weeks or months have passed for them, 10 years have passed on Earth, and Noriko runs into Kimiko, her best friend from high school, who is now a grown woman in her late 20's with a 4-year-old daughter. The entire sequence is utterly fucking heartbreaking, and Anno perfectly drives it home with a simple but amazing piece of visual storytelling: Noriko and Kimiko head to a playground to catch up together, and sit down on the swings to talk. Noriko is swinging back and forth the entire scene, chatty and excited, while Kimiko just sits still and looks like she's on the verge of tears, then somberly begs Noriko to try and get her daughter a place on the Earth evacuation ship, since it very much looks like they might lose the war. Noriko is still only a kid, full of cheer and optimism, happy to play on the swings, while Kimiko has fully grown up into the weary, cynical, realist mindset of a parent staring down the barrel of total genocide, and has no use for play anymore. It's such a fucking fantastic scene. Anno seriously came out swinging.
ikr! time dilation drama is honestly such an amazing dramatic niche. the only other time i saw it pulled off other than this anime is Interstellar
@@alamrasyidi4097 It's also a major theme in the classic sci-fi novel "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman, which I'm positive was a huge influence on Gunbuster.
I always thought that the reason they did it in black and white was because the whole episode is a tribute to "The Battle of Okinawa" that movie Anno loves, there is even a direct reference, the scene in which they show the casualties with text on the screen.
They definitely did it for artistic reasons, so that would absolutely make sense.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots By the way, did you read that blog about the "imperialistic subtext of Gunbuster"? it didn't convince me but I thought it was interesting.
animekritik.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/imperialism-translation-gunbuster-introduction/
Not come across that one before. It's definitely a hot take, but I dunno if I follow the writer's reasoning. He's also throwing about speculations about why Evangelion is darker (he's linking it to Japan's loss of economic dominance?) when Anno's gone on record stating that it was Aum Shinrikyo's attacks in Tokyo, and this forcing him to re-write large sections of the series, that really pushed him over the edge.
Good, detailed video but I think these guys missed the crucial point that Gunbuster was a send-up of everything that came before it, not a rip-off. How do you satire super robot anime? Take it super seriously.
I've probably watched Gunbuster a dozen times over the last 30 years and I have to say that the more serious mecha anime I watch the more jokes and references I catch. This is especially true now that I've digested Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta.
Also as a final note I was surprised that the reference point for why Mikimoto is famous was 0080 and not, say, Superdimension Fortress Macross?
It’s hilarious because only hardcore Gundam fans even saw WAR IN THE POCKET when it came out (and even today) but MACROSS was an international phenomenon after it was reworked into ROBOTECH.
Small note about the Mazinkaiser comparison: Mazinkaiser wasn't released until 2001, while Gunbuster released back in 1988. So if anything, Mazinkaiser is ripping off Gunbuster in this scenario
They don’t even look alike, which is what’s even more stupid about the comparison. All the Mazinger models (including Grendizer) have “faces” with 2 eyes, a non-functional nose, and a “mouth” (grill). Gunbuster has no features resembling a human face, whatsoever.
😂
@@user-fg7yh3ez8h the Gunbuster actually looks more like the Getter Robo, it has the same stripes on the limbs, the two horns on the sides of the head and so on
One of the all time greats of its genre. One of the best endings in anime ever.
Gunbuster is proof that Anno can make a great anime AND stick the landing. Gunbuster is his best, evangellion doesn't even come close.
spicy take
He ran out of money slightly later in production with Gunbuster. They at least were able to animate the last episode, even if they didn’t have money for ink 🤣
@250 Long John I used to think that too but apparently that's not the case. They shot the last episode in black and white on purpose.
@@jhnoakezThat´s an absurd take. Grey paint cost as much as any other color.
I noticed that the longer a series goes the harder it is to stick the landing
This channel is too high quality to have only 1,500 subs
It's probably cos we never upload.
18:40
Technically, Mazinkaiser specifically as a design came later than Gunbuster. As a matter of fact, the SRW series (from which Mazinkaiser came) didn't exist yet by the time Gunbuster was released.
That's my (editor lad) bad, tbf to Rob. The picture he posted was tiny so I went a-googlin'.
I was about to leave a comment about this lol but saw this lol 😅
Anno is like the Japanese equivalent of Stanley Kubrick, the man is very talented as a director no doubt, but his mind is deeply disturbed, the complexity of the lores he created isn't something an average director could come up with. In a way he's like a savant, creativity requires a certain level of talent, but even amongst talented individuals there are things that a savant can interpret better while an ordinary person cannot grasp the concept
The show also casted some of the seiyuu industry's best veterans, namely Hidaka Noriko, Sakuma Rei, and Kawamura Maria. Hidaka's anime counterpart is also credited as the very first hot blooded girl in anime (though technically Hidaka had already started playing Akane in Ranma 3 months earlier, and both characters do share similar traits) It helped to grew their fame even more
This video made me go into a deep dive into lesser known lore, 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
Rob absolutely ruins this video. Not because I disagree with what he's saying but because so many of his arguments boil down to something totally uneducated (the Gundam comment for example) or just "I don't like it". Which is fine and good, but you can still dislike something and appreciate the merits.
Also, while he harped on the fanservice, you guys failed to mention (or realize) that Gunbuster was the first instance of the Gainax bounce. So, you can thank Gunbuster for pioneering anime boob physics. Just another instance of Gunbuster's influence. Thanks for making the video tho!
Bruh what you talking about, Rob ruins every video. That's his job.
Stopped at 11:58.
Time dilation is core to the story. It can't be removed and you have "Gundam." I get it if you didn't like it, but you just didn't plain understand it.
This is the first video I've watched from this channel. Having watched Gunbuster multiple times over the past 15 years.. Rob is just an idiot. He really shouldn't be reviewing anime.
Yeah the other guy is a moron. Can’t subscribe because this guy obviously cried like a baby that it wasn’t Star Wars and stopped paying attention. If that’s how this show is then I’m out. Shame
It really was baffling that beardo could have a take that bad. I guess he was looking at his phone instead of the anime or something if he didn't understand how central to the story the time dilation was.
So many baffling takes by Rob; bringing up Star Wars when discussing hard science? Not thinking time dilation was necessary? He was definitely in the wrong mindset when watching it. It's okay to not like something, but damn, his takes just didn't have any substance whatsoever. He might as well have said he didn't like it because it doesn't have green dinosaurs.
I feel like a broken record because on every video I want to say that you two are incredible and I thoroughly enjoy watching you videos - even if it is just an elongated bumbling around facts and options in an attempt to review a certain media - it's incredible.
a gunbuster review without mentioning diebuster? damn, it do be like that
Do you have any idea how hard it is to wrangle a pair of idiots for long enough to get six episodes watched, never mind twelve?
@@WeHeartGiantRobots yknow what, true that
@@WeHeartGiantRobots still the best review of gunbuster out there tbh, somehow it bacame an underground anime and i dont see that many people talking about it so props to yall
I think the aliens in gunbuster are the best “antagonists” for the show, because we don’t focus on them, the focus is on the characters they’re just an object to shoot at. Plus they look really fkn cool
would been nice to have one extra ep for character development and aliens
basically another ep2
but for 6 eps they did the best they could have
The true antagonist here is Albert Einstein
……or rather the concept of time dilation where the scale and speed of combat ensures the girls who enrolled in the fight against the space alien monsters can never live like normal anymore
Wow Battle Athletes must have just traced from some of these character designs
Tactical Combat Leotards, the staple of future BDUs.
dont read MAL comments - they will make your eyeballs vomit
Truer words have never been spoken of MAL.
Do they trash on it? I really hope not
@@supersomeone9032 I'm sure they do, basically anything older than 1990 they usually say they just cant watch it cos the art is 'so bad' :s.
You all inspired me to rewatch the original UC Gundam, which I watched over a decade ago. The nostalgia makes me more accepting of my inevitable death. I watched Gunbuster around then too. And I'm glad someone else likes Patlabor. Keep on the obscure shit.
Awesome nostalgic old shit is kinda becoming our staple, it seems. And I am okay with that.
Oh hey, something that I asked for actually happened. Thanks guys, absolute banger of a video.
We may be slow as hell, but we do try and listen to the requests. Glad you enjoyed my dude.
Rob is viewing this as a person who has seen these characters done, over and over. Whereas I saw this when they were fresh.
Fantastic story, great characters, beautiful animation, cool mecha and tech, and a story that is heart wrenching at times, yet aspirational in the end.
You're being very generous to Rob here.
I just think he's dumb and wrong.
In 1988 the characters where not terribly overused, for anime. Of course they are almost all a stereotypes of monomythical proportions but the show pulls this off in such a believeable way.
Pretty sure youtube has a timer on your guys videos because this is the second video in a row where I've gotten this in my recommended a month after its been uploaded. Also good video as always and on one of my favourite animes too
This anime and the protagonist sound right up my alley! Will be checking it out soon. Thank you for this fun video talking about it!
This video is amazing. Keep up the good work. Subbed
3:27 that hits different now
Oh cool, my past self just made me sad.
Another video, another banger.....
Also another missed opportunity to watch:
Robot Carnival
Five Star Stories
Bubble Gum Crisis
Black Magic 088
Patlabor
Gunhed
Robot Jox
Keep up the good work boys, and keep telling me about things I like!
Given how that's now the third time Rob's mentioned Patlabor, we really ought to get round to covering it already.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots Its a quality show with some good navel gazing.
Gunbuster is the shit. It shows the trends back then but also ages well. A bit too sexually graphic - a lot of unneeded bounces and nudity - than it has to be, but such was anime then (and now).
Trust me it was all needed
Short answer: yes. Long answer: yeeeesss
I recently watched this for the first time (the new blu-ray), and I have to echo Nerv Shirt Man in that I was expecting a lot more out of this show. I liked most of the character stuff, and the quirks of space travel resulted in a hefty gut-punch or too (not to mention a pretty bittersweet ending), but I was expecting some serious fireworks from it, and I just never got those.
on a long enough time frame, we had to find someone who agreed with Rob
Nerv Shirt guy was wrong. His arguments about it was nothing but derivative I find no gas for. I bet he thinks that Because Simba the White lion exists, that Lion King was derivative and so was Father of the Pride. They aren't. Simpsons did it does not mean no one gets to do anything because Simpsons did it first. It means that if you do it well you get to do it. Also, This was the show that stared the Ganax Pose and the Ganax Bounce.
Wait you're making reasonable arguments to disagree with him and you didn't even call him an asshole whilst you were doing it.
This isn't how I thought RUclips comments work.
Sees title, thinks: yes.
End of story.
I'm aware its a really long watch and you guys have suffered through some long shows, but please do one of the VOTOMS shows (the original or Mellowlink) I would love to hear your take on it!
VOTOMS is absolutely a show we intend to cover at some point: it's come up several times when we've been chatting about things we ought to watch/discuss. So hopefully we'll have a video on it some time soon.
Short answer: YES!!! 😍😍😍
So Rob is 100% right about JJ Abrams but 100% wrong about Gunbuster. Its art and design are excellent and the story is beautiful and bittersweet. His complaint is that its too slow, which is the dumbest complaint he could have.
Oh cool. Only took 3 weeks before i got a notification this upload.
4:15 video start
Nice review
Cheers mate.
The English dub bluray was just announced from Discotek. Coming in April!
I was never into these mecha shows as a child but I'm starting to enjoy them. The 80s and 90s anime. Especially the OVAs. The dub can be bizarre and sound odd but the art style is great. Take California Crisis for instance. I find the art style beautiful and the music builds onto the aesthetic. The story might not be anything brilliant but I do like the characters. Unfortunately they use the lazy looking animation now where the characters barely blink or show facial expressions. The CGI used looks plastic but I'm not sure what it is called. I'm not against CGI as it can make be used in amazing ways but on shows like the new Rugrats and reboots of anime classics, it looks cheap and awful even through it probably is not cheap. Boah the Bioweapon is also a good film. Glad they made him playable in JoJo Bizarre Adventure ASBr. 80s/90s OVAs are my favourites.
i liked this video but did the one co-host even watch this show? the time dilation is the core of the entire shows dramatic arc
my man's still got it
Great video! Glad I found you guys. What is the blue grid video video from?
Dave's flailing attempts at using Blender, basically
@@WeHeartGiantRobots I love it!!!!
great video ( i love anno's old works )
btw i recommend you to play a video game called Xenogears because it is similar to evangelion but with the world building of legend of the galactic heroes.
no really xenogears is the greatest mecha ever
Goddamn, I didn't realise how old the Xeno franchise was.
I couldnt get into Gunbuster. I like the world and the animation but the over the top nature of scantily clad girls with the somber time dilation story just gave me tonal whiplash. I think Ill stick to votoms for my hard science show.
I love when dave is stomping on rob, and then rob says something really quite deep and insightful.
great video.
That's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said about Rob.
Stop it. Immediately.
tl;dw: the answer's "fuck yeah"
PATLABOR by comparison is often laborious. There’s a lot of redundant talking in the series which goes to waste because of the time scale of the narrative, which is relatively short. The time scale of the GUNBUSTER narrative expands with each episode. Conversations between characters often circle the concept of living in the same relative time. These conversations are purposefully redundant because they are happening years apart from one another and for some the conversation happened only weeks ago but for the others it was years ago.
I watched it because I was looking for something similar to tengen toppa and i watched and enjoyed it tgen i found out it was made from the evangelion guy.
God I wish you did solo videos
We'll get Rob to work on his solo Gunbuster hot takes video ASAP, we got you.
I expected that you guys talked about Ace wo Nerae which basically inspired all of Gunbuster
We did have a chat about that but I'm pretty sure it just devolved into a long ramble about Top Gun.
That happens a whole lot when we record.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots lol I guess tennis matches at 5 frames per episode wasn't interesting enough
Nah we just have absolutely no attention span.
YES IT IS. GO WATCH IT. NOW.
I always fucking forget they animated the Medaka Box anime
Yeahhhhh buddy!!
LIGHT WEIGHT.
yes
Can you do diebuster as well?
they did the getter G pose
I literally played Gravity Rush in an exposición.
And never heared about it again until now.😄
2 extremely uncultured fellas talking about a masterpiece in a nutshell
I mean we've been called far worse in this very comments section, so I'll take it
@@WeHeartGiantRobots no offence but you guys make it seem like you where just tired or in a bad day when watching the anime.
The series is legendary for a reason.
Hey man one of us loved it.
The other just subsists on a diet of protein powder and Kyriakos Grizzly videos.
Holy fuck you guys need more attention
I dunno, I kinda like our little obscure shitposting corner of RUclips. It's comfy.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots hmm cant argue with your assessment
hey, now that you've reviewed something owned by "bandai namco" then surly now you can review "obsolete".....please, i think this show is amazing and its criminal that it has barely gotten any attention from any anime reviewers/community (and i doubt its because of legal fears, but more it was a youtube only release).
That's one of Urobuchi's recent projects, if I'm remembering correctly? We've got a backlog big enough to bludgeon my hopes and dreams to death with, but I'll definitely try to check it out.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots cool, the series is only one part right now and is easily binged in about an hour
We are giving birth to a girl soon. Gunbuster will be required watching
how could the monsters be better
Is there anything equivalent in the UK or anywhere in the western world to this, animation-wise.
I think Gunbuster didn't work for the other dood, sorry i didn't care enough to listen to names :P because he's seen the progression of his, kinda like watching sword art online after all the shit we've seen "oh cool another one" but at the time.. it was shit.. but also a new concept.. ish.. lol or at least a new fanbases introduction to that story.
So had this been one of the first he'd seen i think it'd hold a place in his heart above other anime, its a good story though losing your life through time, any time based story is really good.. we often lose track of friends and people and we miss much of their lives busy with our own..
You might be onto something there, mate. I think anyone who's got older and lost touch with people who were once incredibly close to them can relate to a story like Noriko's.
HEY NOW! 18:40 Mazinkaiser didn't exist at all until the late 90s in Super Robot Wars F FINAL on the Sega Saturn! If anything, Kaiser ripped off Gunbuster!
Is it just me or does the bully girl resemble Vegeta? Maybe it's just the hairline. lol
What about Alias? Love Jennifer Garner
Is that a trick question? 😄
שבת שלום ומה לאלזל אני ראיתי
aprat from that good shit
גאנבסטר זה אגדי
Rob, stop having shit-takes!
But then I wouldn't have something to get mad about, and the video wouldn't be nearly as good. Or, y'know, as close to "good" as we ever manage.
he has the best tbh
Okay, WHAT THE FUCK?
How does a channel with video this high quality only has 1.6k subs and this video only has 995 views?
Also I've just finished watching 6 episodes and I gotta say, Anno you goddamn genius. There's sci-fi, there's giant robot, there's science stuff, there's character development, there's boobies, it has a good theme and they've successfully told a great story. And there's so much more that I couldn't even describe with my limited vocabulary.
Also Gunbuster itself is cool as hell.
Robert, when are you going to make some videos on games you play as well?
Mate you know it'd just be three hours of WoW Classic footage and Rob screaming incoherently.
Zeta Gundam Review when???
Brother we ain't even done OG Gundam yet.
Ah yes - kino.
Yeah, this series definitely qualifies. It's pretty as fuck.
My request: Will you do a reaction and review video of a 1985 45-minute anime film, "Bobby's Girl" please?
Actual comment about the video? Nah, S T A M P S
Do need to actually go watch this now, though.
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Oh hey, the other show that I'm terrified to try and cover.
We Heart Giant Robots lol.
It’s actually not bad or hard to understand once you sit down and remove any stereotypes or ideas from the first couple episodes.
As the show goes on it gets really good. The ending sucks but it’s to be expected.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots first season is baller!! Before the director had to step away, that is.. They get a new guy in season two that does a serviceable job, but the story gets needlessly complicated and meta in season two. I don't think he even bothers to answer the questions crafted in season 1 lol. A shame really. The series is nearly perfect in my eye. Has a very distinct style that separates it from other mechas of its time. I honestly think you guys would dig it.
Galaga plus interstellar?
Yes, actually.
My lord, the footage... what is that- VHS, PAL, bootleg, R1/R2UK animation? Have some respect for the art form gentlemen. But I digress. Gunbuster is definitely style over substance, as she starts the series crying, and ends on the same note. In-fact, she has more in common with a Pokemon than she does a human being. COACHEE! COACHEE!
I'll stop fucking with the footage when content detection software stops fucking with my channel
In my opinion shin 'getter robo looks cooler than gun Buster
OH i'm also a Fan of hating that HACK, introducing mystery boxes then filling them with horseshit ready to open, but every reboot he touches turns to shit, most of all Star...not wars.
That was just the start of a *checks notes* twenty minute rant from Rob about Abrams and his crew. Safe to say, he's not a fan.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots well at least you know one other crazy person agrees with him, though i wouldn't let him know..
what about diebuster?
We gotta get it watched some time, so Rob can get us cancelled all over again.
xD
Review g-saviour please
If it's a Gundam production, there's a good chance we're gonna try and get to it at some point.
No spoiler warning?