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| Animation: |
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| Music: |
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| Reviewer's Tilt: |
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| Penalty: |
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| Japanese Name: Top o Nerae! |
| Japanese Name (Translation): Aim for the Top! |
| North American Name: GunBuster |
| Also Known As: Gunbuster: Aim for the Top! |
| Episodes (Total): 6 (OAV) |
| Episodes (Seen): 1-2 (English
Subbed) |
| Category / Genre: Mecha,
Space, Adventure, Drama |
| Year: 1988 (Japan) / 1990 (US) |
| Based on the Story By: Hideaki Anno |
| Age Suitability: 15+ (Mecha Violence, Nudity) |
| First Reviewed: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
Overview: (RightStuf
Website)
Noriko's
got one of those "have to honor dad's memory" things going on. You see,
he'd had a little problem a while back and lost his fleet (and doesn't
know where to find it) ... so naturally she's got to get into space herself
and do something heroic once she gets there.
All she has
to do is survive intense rivalry from her classmates, learn a dizzying
amount of information, and survive long enough to graduate the Space Academy! |
Review:
Overall,
very good. Complex charaters, good story, very cool mecha.
The premise of schoolgirls in school to learn to be pilots is great, sadly
only used in the first episode, I would have like to that lengthened.
As they go off into space is follows alot of the space mecha storyline
(which isn't all bad).
Two things
really smacked me up side the head that I didn't like. Both of them
in the second episode. First, the whole traveling at the speed of
light thing. I'm no science major but how does three months pass
by on earth while one you are traveling at the speed of light for one minute?
Anyone who can explain that to me please, please email me. Second,
fanservice scene. Maybe it's just me, but couldn't they have their
talk in a living room. I mean do we have to have a bath scene with
seven different angles to make sure we see them naked? |
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