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By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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Many decades before Gunbuster<\/em>, French director Jean-Luc Godard declared, \u201cAll you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.\u201d In the 1980s a gang of Japanese geeks declared, all you need for an anime is a girl and a mecha\u2026 Okay, make that a girl and tons of mecha, in a space war. The Japanese geeks were the staff of Gainax, and their girls-and-mecha opus was Gunbuster<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the story of an extremely <\/em>perky schoolgirl, Noriko, in the distant (!) future year of 2023. Humanity is facing an alien invader, and Noriko \u2013 the daughter of an admiral lost in the war \u2013 wants to join the interstellar fight. The story starts at a girls\u2019 school, with one of the funniest sight-gags in anyanime. Giant robots are doing push-ups and sit-ups on a playing field, before teaming up to bully Noriko \u2013 and these robots pose exactly <\/em>like the Mean Girls piloting them. Noriko herself seems an archetypal ditz, a no-hoper, so unsurprisingly she\u2019s in space by part two and fighting galaxy-sized wars by the end.<\/p>\n

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The six-part video series can be watched in two ways; as a thrilling, crazy epic adventure with cute girls in space, or as a vortex of umpteen homages and allegories. Some in-jokes are obvious even if you\u2019re not looking for them; for example, Noriko\u2019s room in part 5 has Miyazaki posters on the wall. Others are poignant now, like a tragic male character in the series being called Toren Smith (reversed Japanese-style to \u201cSmith Toren<\/a>\u201d), named after a pioneering US manga translator. The real Smith died in 2013, aged 52.<\/p>\n

Gunbuster\u2019<\/em>s director was Hideaki Anno, future creator of Nadia,<\/em> Evangelion <\/em>and Shin Godzilla<\/em>. Gunbuster <\/em>was Anno\u2019s director debut; until then he was known as an effects animator on anime like Nausicaa <\/em>(the God Warrior) and Wings of Honneamise. <\/em>Speaking in 2013, Anno said the move into direction was hard. \u201cMy personality doesn\u2019t lend itself to direction\u2026 I was not functioning well on the first two (Gunbuster<\/em>)episodes.\u201d Perhaps these were the same personality issues that Anno would project onto Shinji in Evangelion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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However, Gainax co-founder Yasuhiro Takeda wrote in his book The Notenki Memoirs <\/em>that, \u201cAnno became completely obsessed with the (Gunbuster<\/em>) project. For the first episode, he stuck pretty closely to the original script, but with each subsequent episode his own unique touch became increasingly apparent. For the last episode, he did the unthinkable \u2013 he filmed the episode entirely in black and white on colour film. Deliberately doing so cost the studio a lot more money, and a whole lot more effort than was necessary.\u201d Anno claimed this last episode was inspired by seeing the Japanese superhero series Ultraman <\/em>on monochrome television. \u201cI realised special effects look better in black and white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grounded in nostalgic fan feelings, Gunbuster <\/em>is treasured by fans for whom it was one of \u201ctheir\u201d first anime. They could debate its treatment of SF concept, such as its use of time dilation as a major part of the story. Time dilation is a relativistic phenomenon that means Noriko can make a galactic journey in what seems like a short time to her, while months or years pass elsewhere. It was a key element in Joe Haldeman\u2019s classic SF novel The Forever War <\/em>(1974), to which Gunbuster <\/em>is sometimes compared. The same concept also underpinned Christopher Nolan\u2019s blockbuster film Interstellar<\/em>, a quarter-century after Gunbuster<\/em>.However, Anno himself linked Gunbuster<\/em> to a famous Japanese fairy tale, \u201cUrashima Taro,\u201d where a luckless fisherman finds that three days in a magic undersea world equals three hundred years <\/em>on the surface.<\/p>\n

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But away from such concepts, fans could also consider how Gunbuster <\/em>sublimated Japanese feelings about World War II. Even its lightweight first episode is set on the Japanese island of Okinawa, which could <\/em>be just an excuse to show balmy tropical backgrounds, or it could be to make deliberate associations. Okinawa was the site of one of the worst Pacific battles in 1945, where drafted Japanese schoolkids were among those fighting and dying against Allied troops.<\/p>\n

More fans, though, remember Gunbuster <\/em>for its fan service, which is hilariously shameless (Noriko flopping carelessly on a bed). The girls\u2019 animation in their sports-style garments added the phrase \u201cGaianax bounce\u201d to the fan lexicon. Perhaps a bigger issue, though, is how the girls are characterised. Though they\u2019re theoretically the heroes, they spend a great many scenes acting like irrational teen ninnies, dependent on manly characters like Smith Toren. This attitude may date Gunbuster <\/em>more than anything else, yet the girls\u2019 adventures still thrill.<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong> Gunbuster<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is released in the UK by Anime Limited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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