I rewatched Gunbuster this evening. Well, I've been watching it over the past week or so. It's even better than I remember! *_*
It's completely.... just so hard to conceptualise the passing of 12000 years. How much people mean to each other, and yet how brief is their existance.
I was also thinking how important it is that people live their full lives... regardless of whether you're still a part of that life...
It's also the most bizarre blatant fanservice. I mean, no anime I've ever seen before or since is so serious and yet so fanservicey, without a hint of self-awareness. Normally fanservice is accompanied by a wink to the camera to say "you were looking! I know! you ought to be ashamed!! aw I didn't mean it". And here... aside from the bath scene, it's just *service* *service* [please ignore this fanservice; it's entirely incidental; pay attention to the scene, please]
When I started rewatching, I remembered about, and was fully expecting Anno Hideaki to be doing *what he does* (but much better than recently), and I remember Hidaka Noriko as "Noriko Noriko" because of her role in Gunbuster (beyond being Akane in Ranma!), and Wakamoto Norio to be his normal intimidating-but-soooo-cool self...
I either didn't know, or I'd forgotten, that Tanaka Kouhei did the music for Gunbuster. He truly has written some of the best and most varied anime music in the past 20 years. Sakura Taisen, GaoGaiGar, G Gundam, One Piece, Violinist Of Hameln, Overman King Gainer... the catchiest theme songs... and the most dramatic orchestral works...
