The final volume of Gunbuster 2 brings Gunbuster back to the original, even aping the signature female pilot having to rip the front of the robot apart, and ripping her top off in the process (these are OVA’s after all). And in this the series vastly improves, and really becomes a great companion and sequel to the original gunbuster. A series that is well worth checking out.

Nono ends up bending space and returning to Saturn, as Buster 7, and she seems to be the most powerful buster. The Twin brings the Alien Topless to life, and it is destroying many busters, and a good portion of the planet, as well as the space aliens, but then turns on the twins and kills them, and only Nono saves the day.

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We then get Nono’s back story, she was found in a comet 5 years before, talking about the Nono from the previous series, so she was named that, and it turns out that she was the controller for the earth defense system. After Earth ran into true space aliens, they closed off the Earth system and set up a defence system to stop the space aliens, but they turned on earth because they discovered the Topless were more like the space aliens. And Nono can control them. Meanwhile the Topless have been relegated to second place, and had their heads locked in special gear. The space fleet heads out with Nono, and Lal’C in tow. They go to deal with the space Aliens, and Nono lets them through, and they see a huge actual space alien, encased in a black hole, and the humans shot ends up releasing it. The Alien then attacks and almost destroys the fleet, and Lal’C only survives with Nono’s help, and then she uses the remains of Jupiter to try and smash the alien, though it does not destroy it. Nono then takes the space aliens, and the red shield encompassing the milky way, and forms a robot and disappears.

Lal’C then becomes the only hope of Earth, so she plans to take the Earth and throw it into the Alien, leaving Mankind on the moon, but Nono shows up and stops the Earth, and helps to fight and destroy the Alien, saving mankind, and Lal’C, who has lost her powers, but managed to use her Buster anyway to work with Nono.

We then cut to the future with Lal’C working with endangered birds on Earth as finally the original Nono from the first series returns to Earth, thanks to the work of the Android Nono who helped mankind survive.

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An amazing ending to the series, and makes it fit in perfectly with the original series. Great animation and a good story, though without quite as much heavy science elements as the original.