Gunbuster 2 Volume 2 by Tsurumaki Kazuya (2003)
23 July 2007This Gunbuster continues the silliness and doesn’t quite get serious yet, or really into the main story, or tell what is really going on. It is still good anime, with giant old school looking robots fighting crazy alien robots, and some serious fan service. This was still enjoyable, but I didn’t really see how this was Gunbuster, that took until the 3rd and final volume.
In this we get more story development, Nono keeps working and trying to be a Topless pilot, which she can’t be, because she is an android. She works with Lal’C the Topless she idolizes, and seems to love her in her own way. Still Lal’C seems to push Nono away as much as she can. The hot and spunky Tycho who wants nothing more than to take number 1 from Lal’C comes into competition with Nono when she loses her buster machine, and must compete with Nono for the newest built Buster machine. Meanwhile Nicola, who all the girls like, is pushing Nono as a powerful possibility, but he is being pushed by the leaders of the Topless, 2 twins. The twins are over age (which means they should have lost their Topless powers), but they have a secret that is keeping their Topless Powers.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
An alien Buster is found on Saturn and being excavated from the bodies of the dead space monsters that have covered the gravity well. Nono gets in trouble for sneaking into the site, and ends up getting sent to Pluto by slow ship to try and bring to life an ancient Buster in ruins on the planet.
The Twins are setting up Nono, and when she gets to Pluto, half the space Aliens show up, and half go to Jupiter, but Nono stops the Aliens before the stop get to her.
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The series is better than the first, but still hasn’t hit it’s potential, but then the original series did this as well.
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