Why You Should Watch Diebuster

[@kwrifles]

you HAVE to watch gunbuster before diebuster, the pay off is huge by the time you get to the end of diebuster. literally one of the best endings ive ever seen

[@tmc3178]

Damn... Okay thanks

[@NicktheMac]

Yes! It is like two chapters of the same story.

[@jamesbower9871]

Gunbuster is probably the best anime ever made

[@Cuti3J]

Diebuster is such a must watch even in 2024 I think it better then the anime that is out now

[@TeoTH80]

EVERYONE should watch Gunbuster, then Diebuster. They are both amazing in their own ways and you don't need to be a mecha fan to enjoy it.

[@maxnorbeck3378]

Where do you watch them? I’ve been searching.

[@TeoTH80]

@@maxnorbeck3378 Not exactly legal so I won't reveal it.

[@a7c777]

Ima keep it real, I think Gunbuster + Diebuster is just as good as the NGE stories if not possibly better if external hype wasnt a thing. And it communicated what it needed to without needing to retcon things and its world building was more concise than evangelion. And the combined endings of Gunbuster and Diebuster is something so powerful and satisfying that i probably think about these OVAs more than most animes

[@kalejuice5701]

GunBuster and DieBuster are both really good. Would recommend them to anybody.

[@alejandror.9974]

Kinda surprised a video/channel so small made such a great video! I love the Buster series and also prefer DieBuster. I think you laid out the reason well! Keep it up!

[@kirboarc4337]

dayum this was a great video, deserves wayyy more views

[@edgarortiz5950]

i love this series very much. i still can't belive is so much under apreciated.

[@Kusanagikaiser999]

Sir ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE ON EVERYTHING YOU SAY ABOUT THE ORIGINAL GUNBUSTER, that story, animation and design HOLDS UP PRETTY DAMN WELL today, the F you saying makes zero sense, that been said...........thanks for praise Diebuster, I believe is one of the best if not the best sequel to any anime show I can remember, and watching back to back both shows, will let you a WRECK of emotions, both endings of these 2 shows are just impossible to watch and not shed a single tear at the very least.

[@Gendo3s2k]

"The animation doesn't hold up!" I'm like "TF it doesn't!??" I just finished watching Gunbuster for the first time last night, and was blown away with the animation.

[@Pepper-Zee]

Such an underrated show. It isn’t talked about much.

[@wiggie666]

yup the minute watch gunbuster it came from I saw where neon genesis stems from.

[@pietrayday9915]

The sequel 'Diebuster' seems to pay a bit of homage to 'NGE' as well, tying the two franchiises together indirectly in another way: like NGE's EVAs, the Buster Machines in the sequel are no mere mecha machinery, but instead living beings with their own minds, memories, wills, etc., which are bonded with their pilots on awakening. I'm pretty sure there are even scenes in 'Diebuster' that deliberately mirror 'Evangelion' pretty closely, such as scenes of the mechs' disturbingly human eyes shifting to look at characters, or armor ripped away to reveal flesh underneath, etc.

[@gumbalina4816]

I loved Diebuster when it first came out. The thing that hurt the pacing was how long it took for each episode to air. 26th Nov 2004 for the first then the last came out in 25th Aug 2006 plus add time for fan subs to be released too

[@metallicsnake.]

Here is lesser known lore between gunbuster and diebuster, like in 2048-2100: Next Generation Light Novel begins here Buster Machine 3 is built. Debate over whether or not to leave the earth begins. Gunbuster Episode 6. The half that want to leave earth do so, and colonize Sirius. Remnants of an alien civilization discovered. The 'Sirius Alliance' is formed and wants freedom from the overall Human Empire. Thanks to the ancient aliens they discovered Energy of the Spiri Sirius Alliance figures out how to weaponize it. They no longer need computers Earth refuses independence as they ran out of resources in the war with the Space Monsters, plans 'violent crackdown'. Earth starts with a tech and numbers advantage, but has no industrial capacity anymore. Presumably, they build Nono here, as the last weapon created on earth with pre-Sirius War tech. Sirius War begins. 2100-2480 Earth is losing war; both sides have undergone a massive tech slide. Jung Freud and the Eltrium Fleet come back the earth Empire tries to order them order them around but they overthrow the Earth Empire and establish a federation. Jung is elected president of Earth shes a called the hero of all humanity. clones of Kazumi Amano, Noriko Takaya, drive the sizzler against Sirius Alliance Ceasefire is called. Accepted. Mission to retrieve the Gunbuster is launched. Fails as humanity can no longer understand the pre-war tech to do so. Jung enters cryo sleep, a mass scramble to recover pre-war tech begins, s War restarts. 2480-14292 Sirius War has stalemated. Earth discovers an old Super-Excelion. Produces Two 'Werutoriumu' class ships based on it. Next Generation Manga begins here. The 'Great Attractor', a being claiming to be God, attacks the Sirius System. Begins drawing in all of the particles in the universe towards it. Jung reawakened, leads fleet consisting of the two Werutoriumus, and Buster Machines 4 and 5, built with pre-war tech, to fight it. Buster Machine 7 is not noted, as she wasn't thought up here. 6 doesn't show up for similar reasons. No one knows because manga and the light novels were canceled. Warp Tech sealed away at some point here Then Diebuster happens

[@DepesHrepes]

good job, nice vid

[@LaviaChan]

gosh this is a really good review, im suprised it has almost no views

[@v1deo.hunter.d317]

Diebuster is kind of a hard sell because of the dramtic style change, it looks like gurren lagon

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

Mood, die buster looks like too generic imo

[@Vladdyboy]

Diebuster makes a terrible sequel to gunbuster but makes a perfect prequel to Gurren Lagann. A lot in Gurren Lagann now makes sense, particularly the Ganmen and why they exist on that world. 🤔

[@jackylee5850]

Why? It's got Maaya Sakamoto, and that's more than reason enough

[@Vladdyboy]

Diebuster fails as a sequel to Gunbuster in so many ways ... Diebuster just isn't as good as the original and the style change gives me continuity whiplash... but it is actually PERFECT as a prequel to Gurren Lagann. A lot in Gurren Lagann now makes sense with the advent of Diebuster, most notably, the Ganmen.

[@2ndbleak]

Decent video, music a bit too loud compared to voice but good work overall

[@jorgesanchez3404]

What anime is playin at 6:20

[@NEETByNature]

That's a clip from episode 6 of Gurren Lagann

[@thedoubledlol]

Turn down the music, bro. Nice video otherwise

[@VirtuousContract]

Diebuster is okay but I don’t think it’s better than Gunbuster

[@MegaMegajennifer]

yeah, i find it a deal breaker. especially since theres nothing wrong with her appearance

[@vorathiel12345]

Gunbuster, slow, thoughtfull interesting human drama on the backdrop of heavy sci-ficrion, 7.5/10 Diebustet, sham bam, pantsushot, powernof friendship, boom sham blam, donwe even have a story? - who cares, next 'splosions incoming. 3/10

[@pietrayday9915]

Oh, come on - that's all you got from it? Sure, everyone's going to have a different opinion on how good each of the two series is, and which is better. But, for all the thoughtful storytelling 'Gunbuster' delivers beginning around the third episode or so, 'Gunbuster' does start off as a mostly silly homage to older anime like 'Aim for the Ace!', given only slight exaggerations to things like the campy hero-worship, teen angst, high-school melodrama, and over-the-top combat shouting and called shots, with a hefty dose of "fanservice' mixed in, right up to full-frontal anime nudity! A fine series, but it arguably suffesr a bit of inconsistency thanks to the shift in tone part of the way through, without completely dropping some of the parodic elements during combat scenes even as late as Episode 5, along with the curious artistic choice to film the final episode in black-and-white (I'd suggest that the artsy final episode and inconsistent tone actually make this series even weirder than the infamously weird follow-up for Anno, 'Neon Genesis Evangelion', but that that's a bad thing: the unpredictable eccentricity of these two series are part of their charm for me, compared to more conventional anime. shows!) Spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen both 'Gunbuster' and 'Diebuster': Meanwhile, 'Diebuster'', like 'Gunbuster' before it, enjoys some quite beautiful animation and music, along with some rather ambitious sci-fi storytelling in its own right, though the way the time dilation device from that first series was used is certainly a pretty tough act to follow. Still, 'Diebuster' tries hard to keep up while bringing something a little different to the table. DOES it even have a story? We can look at some of the opening lines first to catch a glimpse of what this story is about: "I don't think I've ever seen a god, but if the gods made wishes too, who would they wish to meet?" You've got a story about who a god wants to meet, and how that meeting happens. There's a callback to that opening toward the end of the show where Lal'c returns to Mars to find out who Nono is, tracking her footsteps backwards from the frog statue to Nono's home, to help connect the dots. For another example, later in the series, Nono tells a story about that last bird on Mars, who had never learned to fly because it was already the last of its kind before it was born... there wouldn't be a proper story if we weren't presented with a different sort of "bird that has not yet flown", and she weren't given an opportunity to succeed in learning to fly... Tycho has a story of her own about her failure to achieve miracles with her talents to pilot a Buster, which likewise comes around to its logical storytelling conclusion. In fact, one of the hallmarks of a well-told story is a journey of character development from a state of immaturity, to maturity within the framework of the story, and of the main characters involved, all of them see some character development: Tycho starts the series bitter, cynical, and angry, but changes quite dramatically when her rivalry with with Nono and her optimism comes to its climax and turning point; Lal'c starts the series aloof, arrogant,and overconfident, but changes for the better when she meets a more successful Topless; Nono starts the series with the goal of becoming just like "Nonoriri" so that she could meet her when she returns, but makes what has to have been some difficult choices that steer her away from that goal and by the last episode is happy to fulfill a very different purpose. Even the two male Topless characters - I forget their names - go through a little negative development as a contrast to the girls, giving up too soon because they never believed in the "guts and hard work" thing, and ended up broken in the end where the girls who did catch on grew in positive ways. And then there's the sci-fi story itself: we start the series with humanity retreating from the universe and tightly sealing itself up in the Solar System behind an egg-like shell of Space Monster Defense mechanisms, gradually evolving until they some grow so far from humanity that the defense mechanism turns inward, and it's time for humanity to learn to break out of that shell and meet the dangers of the outside universe head-on... before that can happen, humanity has a little growing up to do, and 'Diebuster' follows that progress over the course of six episodes, until they are ready to abandon and sacrifice the Earth itself as they spread their wings and learn to fly on their own, before at last calling back to the end of 'Gunbuster' to bookend Nono's opening thoughts on who gods may wish to meet. It's fairly ambitious stuff, for six episodes of such short length! /Spoilers Is it perfect? No - for just a start, I'd have to point for a glaring example at the fact that the story can be a bit hard to follow if you don't realize that the Topless have dangerous superpowers that break the laws of physics and which need to be contained with those badges on their foreheads, and that those superpowers have expiration dates that run out in their late teens. For western audiences, the "idiot Hair" visual pun is probably going to be lost on those of us unfamiliar with the idea, and most of us would probably be a bit lost by some subtitling decisions, such as the choice not to even try to translate the term "onee-sama" for those of us who wouldn't already know what it means (not that it would be easy to subtitle or dub the concept into English: it refers to a very formal and old-fashioned honorific that literally means "Big Sister" in reference to a larger-than-life role model or hero, apparently with ambiguous homoerotic connotations... I guess "My Lady" or just "hero" might work, but imperfectly.) Similarly, "Curve Breaker" (a term I've never heard anywhere else, and apparently refers to a star pupil who is so good, they have broken free of an ordinary "bell curve" - the term "ace" might have easily been substituted, and would have probably served as a fun "Easter Egg" for any viewers who knew that the original 'Gunbuster' was a parody of 'Aim for the Ace!') 'Diebuster' also carries over from 'Gunbuster' the goofy battle-cries and called shots, borrowed from dated older animes: "Double spin kick! EYAAAH!" Though to my ear, it seems a bit less egregious somehow in 'Diebuster'', maybe because it is used less often, or because its use isn't as jarring in context of 'Diebuster' compared to the somewhat darker material appearing later in 'Gunbuster', or perhaps because its goofiness doesn't look far out of place as something the naive and innocent Nono might actually say or do, compared to the more serious characters of 'Gunbuster'. Then again, the silliness is right at home in the first one or two episodes of the earlier series, which runs more directly on sight-gags (like exercising mecha) and other such comic elements: it's the more serious later installments of 'Gunbuster' where the more comic elements stand out as a bit odd (to be fair, much the same could be said for 'Neon Genesis Evangelion', which clung to some of its comic elements practically to the very end even as most of the cast either wound up unalive, or broke down into catatonic, self-loathing, emotionally and psychologically broken messes!) And, whatever else the 'Diebuster' story does, more consistent or not, it does stand in the shadow of the best part of 'Gunbuster', and is largely driven by a rather straightforward "power of love and friendship" angle.- 'Gunbuster' runs on a little of this, too, but somehow feels a little different, probably because 'Gunbuster' also runs like a coming-of-age story with maybe a little more emphasis on that, along with the somewhat more somber theme of how lonely it can be to be a hero, emphasized by the time dilation angle. At the end of the day, I enjoyed both series, and I'm willing to forgive their faults, or "quirks", as the case might be; 'Gunbuster' and 'Diebuster' seem to me to complement each other nicely, in spite of having different tones, and very different direction and production techniques, art styles, storytelling, and themes. I'd put both shows pretty close to each other in a 7/10 range, give or take a point one way or the other. 'Diebuster' certainly has a lot more going for it than just a catchy opening credits song, fanservice, and explosions!

[@Vladdyboy]

​@@pietrayday9915bruh, I ain't gonna read all that.. ..I am really happy for you or am sad that it happened to you. 😅