they made it black & white to make it easier to draw the giant bomb thing against space or some shit idk
there’s a lot of anachronistic shit like tape readouts in it so i think they were going for a bit of a faux retro vibe as well
From: Requiett at 2021-08-06 19:23:08
Oh weird. Evangelion and Kare Kano were infamous for Anno running out of budget and getting very… “creative” with the episode direction. I assumed that was the same thing that happened with Gunbuster.
me too honestly i was like what the FUCK when i saw it
From: Tiko at 2021-08-06 19:07:18
recently i watched Gunbuster for the first time going in blind. it owned
It’s pretty good, though I was oddly underwhelmed by it. The flagship was by far my favorite thing about that OVA. The lack of a good explanation for why they made emotionally fragile teens pilot the mechs pissed me off, esp since it was such a major point to the series. At least Evangelion explained this.
the boys in the SAT hyped gunbuster up so much i was massively disappointed by the time they forced me to watch it
From: Requiett at 2021-08-06 19:29:13
My friend brought over the first few VHS’s because we were anime bros. I looked at the box and pronounced it like Robin Williams. “Neon Genesis Evanjelion.”
