thomas7g
September 28th, 2004, 01:53 AM
Oh my. Gunbuster is coming out with a sequel!
For those who never heard of gunbuster, it was a relatively unusual production. A group of fanboys with alot of talent formed their own animation company and made their own film, Wings of Honneamise. It was a great picture with incredible visuals and a ton of love and work went into it, and it flopped. It was too artsy, trying too hard to be a piece of art and philosophical. A would-be astronaut thinks about the meaning of life.
Boooring!
So the company did an about face and did GUNBUSTER. Still with great animation. But they threw in lots of naked bouncy girl parts and robot vs aliens action scenes. Which is sad cause underneath all that they finally had a much better story. A girl grows up in the shadow of a great war hero father. But from her perspective, she has this horrible lonliness for her late father, and is scorned by others her age cause she gets preferential treatment that she doesn't want. Her mentors push her into combat because she is the daughter of a war hero with great skills. But they ignore if a girl who has grown up insecure from her father's loss can handle seeing people die around her.
They could have made a classic. But instead they made Gunbuster. Which can be entertaining. But it was kinda notorious at the time.
Now they made a sequel. The first OVA comes out in November. It looks like they have gone a totally different direction again. But who knows. They are still Gainax. And they have made FLCL, Evangelion, and Kare Kano amoung many others.
:)
For those who never heard of gunbuster, it was a relatively unusual production. A group of fanboys with alot of talent formed their own animation company and made their own film, Wings of Honneamise. It was a great picture with incredible visuals and a ton of love and work went into it, and it flopped. It was too artsy, trying too hard to be a piece of art and philosophical. A would-be astronaut thinks about the meaning of life.
Boooring!
So the company did an about face and did GUNBUSTER. Still with great animation. But they threw in lots of naked bouncy girl parts and robot vs aliens action scenes. Which is sad cause underneath all that they finally had a much better story. A girl grows up in the shadow of a great war hero father. But from her perspective, she has this horrible lonliness for her late father, and is scorned by others her age cause she gets preferential treatment that she doesn't want. Her mentors push her into combat because she is the daughter of a war hero with great skills. But they ignore if a girl who has grown up insecure from her father's loss can handle seeing people die around her.
They could have made a classic. But instead they made Gunbuster. Which can be entertaining. But it was kinda notorious at the time.
Now they made a sequel. The first OVA comes out in November. It looks like they have gone a totally different direction again. But who knows. They are still Gainax. And they have made FLCL, Evangelion, and Kare Kano amoung many others.
:)