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| GUNBUSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| I'm speechless, SPEECHLESS I SAY! In the beggining I was a little relutant about the black and white choice... but it proved to be incredible, superb, a work of art. The last scene when Gunbuster busts the fuk out of the a core a friggin busting fuking mecha punch was one of the most epic and better animated scenes I have ever scene in anime. And the ending, while no the best ending ever... it was amazing. I just can't understand how Gunbuster stood that implosion... I mean it was in the center of the friggin Black Hole...the whole point of it was to swallow everything... |
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| Excellent ending! Happy yet melancholic! The first couple of episodes were a bit boring, but it was worth it. I give it a 9/10 |
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| Didn't like it. |
Nitre said: Pretty good. I'm a sucker for stuff with relativistic effects in it, so this was a treat. I laughed at the sheer idiocy of the size of things, though. That black hole bomb would've caused some massive gravity. In case you forgot, Jung couldn't even go with them because she couldn't handle the pressure. Gunbuster itself barely did. Unless I'm an idiot of forgetting something, the pressure is (at least, mostly caused) by gravity. |
| Not again Gainax. The time concept was the best part, it left me wondering this couple of days. My WTF? moment was when she ripped her shirt off, that was just random. ☺ 7-8/10 |
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| Best ending for an anime imo |
Raitei said: why did it take them 12000 Earth years to get back? They travelled to the centre of the galaxy right? So, if they were able to warp out using the remaining reactor,would that make it 6000 each way? 2 Main factors
so now we talk about the black hole bomb, a black whole of that size will have a massive amount of mass ( think all the stars and planets etc. it sucks in thats pretty damn big mass compressed into a single point ) the Gunbuster was basically at ground zero where the mass is the heaviest ( 1 second of time they experience was probably years on earth ) this wouldn't matter if they got sucked into the black hole but they managed to escape it if you factor in both elements BAM! 12,000 year time lag when they warp back to earth. ok now i can talk about the ep! loved it! the random ecchi at the black hole part was pretty O.O but it worked! when they got back to earth which is pitch black and they thou they out lived humanity then you see "welcome home" that was pretty damn awesome . I'm on to the next season I read on one of the reviews that without this, NGE would never be! so this will always be in my heart 9/10 for me *edit* thanks >:D and oh i have no idea how they manged to break free! maybe gunbuster was just that GOOD |
suprhiroJun 12, 2010 4:36 AM
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| Oh WOW, 12 000 years later... that was somewhat amazing by itself. It's not that I am saying human technology can't advance so much as to build something like Gunbuster three, which is true, but isn't it a little too big? Even if we had the technology, where would we get all the material to build it? Even if it was made out of rocks I doubt we have that many rocks on earth, and I am certain it is not made out of granite. XD DonKangolJones said: Yeah, despite it's many flaws one has to watch it to see how good it is in some aspects.Touching & melancholy. I can understand why this is considered a classic. |
| The ending was too awesome, i really enjoyed this OAV. |
| Bumped from 8 to 9/10 because of this ending, i had chills throughout the episode. I love Gainax/Anno's unique way of ending animes. |
| Great episode.I still think this would have worked better as a series.It felt...somewhat rushed.8/10 |
| "This Forest isn't going to reveal all its secrets for the likes of you." |
| 10/10 for me and top 5 favorite! Liked so much gunbuster! |
| Really amazing ending. I love how they worked in the time lag in this series, most shows wouldn't bother. |
| This is supposed to be a happy ending? ;____________; I need to go watch something super-happy now to cheer me up. |
| That was a beautiful ending. ;_; |
| Such a good OVA I was crying at that welcome back part in the end. Such a touching anime, it's got to be hard knowing everyone you care about will be long dead when you get back. The best part was that at least Noriko and Kazumi were together though. Loved this. |
After reading what everyone else thought I really must have watched a messed version... I just don't get it ??? I felt the show peaked at the end of ep 4 where I was ready to give it a high 8 maybe a 9, and really dropped off for ep 6. WAAAAAAAAAY beyond any hope of possibility, even more than than what my avatar and sig are. I'm normally not one to troll in any way really, but I still just don't get it ??? And also.... I cannot see any possibility of Gunbuster being even able to reach earth in the shattered condition it was in, let alone in what appears in the span of a few minutes or hours. It was running on half power at best with extreme damage to just about everything. Unfortunately it is not believable in any sense to me. *shrugs* If you liked it great, but I cannot rate the show higher than a 7. Even considering when it was released, and that is being generous too. And a little more. Isn't this a prime example of gambling every last thing on a slim possibility that may even cause catastrophic damage to earth too? I mean a black hole that can rip apart the center of the galaxy is going to have effects on earth. They may be fine for now, but it's just circling the drain. *sigh* I just didn't enjoy the show for parts of 5 and most of ep 6. This was true until I watched Gunbuster 2 / Diebuster I feel I have a better grasp of why, but a lot of things still don't quite work for me. But I can bump my rating up to an 8. |
TasolthJan 15, 2011 2:46 AM
We will never forget those that have fallen for our freedom! |
| Will someone tell just what the hell is going on? |
| Even when I was in crowd, I was always alone |
| The ending threw me off a bit. How in the world did they leave that black hole alive? And what happened in the end? It looked like they turned into red orbs or something and went flying towards earth. Explanation? |
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| That was great! Pretty artistic too and lol@ random ecchi ( if she had to do that for Gunbuster to rip its chest-plate off why didn't she need to rip her heart out as well >.>) XPP But DAYUM FREAKING 12,000 YEARS??? Wow i can't even imagine how the world would ;\ One of the best OVA I've ever watched! Now for Diebuster! 8/10 |
| Wow 12,000 years...I think mankind have already migrated to the stars in this galaxy by that time like in Warhammer 40K and maybe to other neighboring galaxies as well. Anyway I was sad that it took 12 millennia for them to go home but happy as well that although it might not look like the Earth they've left and known, it's still home and one that remembers and are welcoming them back. What a great series! I can finally see where NGE and TTGL got some of their crazy ideas. XD |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| 10/10 Loved it! I'm really looking forward to seeing Diebuster now... |
| that was quite good. i hated the direction with deciding on black and white for that last episode.....ending was amazing and very very sad at the same time. overall 7/10 |
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| I watched the movie but the ending is the same so I'll post it here. They can say whatever the fuck they want but that black and white crap was not for artistic reasons, that was just to reduce costs. Also the whole usage of time was totally fucked up, especially the end, I mean, wtf 12 000 years? they should be dead, if not for the black hole then definatly because of the time it would have taken them to get back to earth, they said it themselves that they lost everything and I besides, when you take out your core you won't be going fast and definitely not close to the speed of light. To achieve a higher speed an object needs more energy, and that energy also makes the mass of said object increase.So it becomes more difficult to accelerate to a higher speed with increasing mass. Only at 90% (!) of the speed of light would the effects be noticeable, but it would be difficult to go even harder. to put the two speeds into perspective one needs a special formula: W=(V+U)/(1+VU/C²) V and U are the two speeds, C is the constant for the speed of light (300.000km/s), and W is the speed relative to each other. You then need to calculate with the percentages of the speed of light, say 90%: (0,9+0,9)/(1+0,9*0,9/1²)= 0.9944751381% of the speed of light. This has also been proven through experiments in the LHC. No matter how much energy they put in it they always stayed at 99,99999999% and the nines just grew. 100% could never be reached. The delay of the time, the time dilation, is indicated by the small letter gamma, and can be calculated with the formula: γ = 1 / √ (1-V ² / C ²) So the time dilation at 90% the light speed is 1 / √ ( 1 - 0.9 ²/1²) = 2.294157339. The time has slowed by about a factor of 2.3! At one moment they showed a number at around 98.x but this is impossible, especially for a ship of that size, same with gunbuster. I get that they wanted it to make it dramatic but shit way to exaggerate. I couldn't enjoy it to the fullest because if this. |
TheUniqueReaperAug 17, 2011 1:29 PM
| Sorry dude..... But you're a douche.... |
| Really awesome series ^_^ Not sure how I feel about the final episode being in black and white, but it is what it is. Some of the battle scenes could have stood to be in color IMO, but they were already cutting the budget with the still shots and a simple tally of the war dead. So they crammed Jupiter into a bomb, shrunk it down to 1/30,000 size and turned it into a black hole. SCIENCE! Ah well, it's sci-fi, I'm much more accepting of bad science in this genre. At least they aren't able to go out in space by holding their breath. Also, there's a black hole already in the center of the galaxy, so creating a new one would only make the one already there bigger (along with destroyingeverything in between the two and releasing tremendous amounts of energy). Of course, when the anime was made we didn't know about the Eater at True Center; in Gunbuster it seems to just be a solid mass of stars. If you wanted to try and make sense of it, maybe they just didn't get past the tightly-packed outer shell of stars to find the black hole already there. Epic ending, of course. 12,000 years is a long time, but for those of you interested in time dilation and its effect on starship pilots in war, check out 'The Forever War' and its spin-offs. It's a story about a Vietnam-like space war that lasts for millenia, and by the time the soldiers who first joined reach the end of it, humanity back on Earth has evolved into something utterly alien itself. 5/5, 9/10. I actually liked this better than Evangelion, it dragged a lot less (tho it had less deep, heady concepts to bake your noodle with). |
Blind_GuardianSep 18, 2011 11:39 AM
| Wow, that was an impressive ending. And it was happier than I expected which was nice. |
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| came in expecting tears and was very skeptical... manly tears were shed during this episode.... that last scene hit me hard for some reason. Mind = blown. feelsgoodman.jpg (no homo) |
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| Outstanding episode and a really good series. I especially loved how time is so cruel to the characters, one has to essentially sacrifice living his or her life in order to save humanity. The producers did a great job in that aspect. The black-and-white animation emphasized the magnitude and importance of the final epic battle. Highly enjoyable. Now I aim for Diebuster! |
| "Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. And some will lose more than the tips off their fingers, I promise you. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that" |
naikou said: 12,000 years is a long time. The japanese language probably wouldn't exist in its current form. The phrase appeared in the last scene is "オカエリナサイ" written in katakana form. But the last word "イ" is mirrored. Is it just a mistake? Or people don't understand current Japanese in 12,000 years later? Sigh... 12,000 years is too long to imagine the world in the distant future. |
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| And so they went from being just some mecha pilots on a mission, to living legends told for milleniums to come. It has been over ten thousand years, but Jun kept her promise in the end. If that is not epic in a literal sense, then I do not know what is. All in all, one of the best mecha-anime I'ver ever seen. And even though it is only six episodes, I'm quite satisfied with the storyscope. |
mecharobotSep 6, 2012 11:53 PM
mecharobot said: If that is not epic in a literal sense, then I do not know what is. All in all, one of the best mecha-anime I'ver ever seen. And even though it is only six episodes, I'm quite satisfied with the storyscope. Same here. |
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Avenir said: mecharobot said: If that is not epic in a literal sense, then I do not know what is. All in all, one of the best mecha-anime I'ver ever seen. And even though it is only six episodes, I'm quite satisfied with the storyscope. Same here. Count me in as well. Totally agree, one of the greatest anime ever if you ask me! |
| that was probably the best final episode of any series i've ever seen tbh |
| Rewatched this for the umpteenth time. They really don't make them like this anymore. What a beautiful, awe inspiring ending. Gainax really have created some of the best anime ever. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| My fav Mecha anime until now. Amazing characters, animation, and battles. I'm going to see Diebuster as soon as I can... |
| This ending was fucking great. Despite it being short I still enjoyed it. |
RX-782Mar 10, 2013 11:19 PM
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| Ok so does anyone else think that guy talking to Amano about whether or not humankind should lay down and die in the beginning of the episode looks exactly like Jared from Zeta Gundam? |
| いっぺん死んでみる？ |
| having seen TTGL before this and regarding it as my #1 anime of all time, i now see just how much inspiration TTGL took from gunbuster (amongst quite a fe other classic super robot shows) i always knew it was inspired by older shows, but not to this extent. this last episode is easily one of the top 3 final episodes ive seen in an anime, the fact that this was literally a quarter of a century old really shows how well its stood the test of time. a great series through and through, now onto diebuster. |
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skudoops said: If you are a fan of gainax in general you can see this show influenced TTGL and NGE quite a bit. For instance, when Noriko went into space after Smith's death and started having the flashbacks, same with Amuno when she thought about coach. Not to mention the active timer on the gunbuster the first time it launched. The art in the scene where noriko punches the core to jump start the black hole bomb thing reminded me of a couple scenes from TTLG. I felt the only mistake they made was with Smith, since he didn't have enough time to develop a much more solid relationship with Noriko, his demise didn't have the impact it should. it was quite interesting to see just how much gunbuster influenced their later series, after seeing diebuster, its safe to say its pretty much a pilot series for ttgl in so many ways |
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