Thread 23390520

>>23390520 (OP)
You are a nigger and you should feel bad about being a nigger.

Fuck it this is now a Gunbuster thread. I don't think any scifi series has ever come as close as Gunbuster has to matching the sheer loneliness of space. Time dilation, outliving your loved ones, and finding yourself in a world that's not yours but you still have to protect it anyway are really harsh punishments, and that's on top of answering the age-old question of "Are we alone in the universe?" with "Yes and no. There ARE aliens out there, but they're a nonsapient intergalactic alien bug swarm that seeks to render humanity extinct. There are no other aliens. It's likely that these bugs killed everything else in the galaxy."

>>23392934
Aren't the bugs just the universe's immune system?

>>23392939
That's how the human leaders rationalized the space monsters' aggression, to put the scale of the conflict into perspective of what they were up against.

>>23392934
There are two possibilities. We are either alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

>>23392983
You wouldn't worry about this if you had a job.

>>23392983
There's a third
That we WANT TO BE alone

>>23393313
I don't want to be alone, I want sexy alien girls that are for whatever reason genetically compatible with humans and also have cool giant robots they need me specifically to pilot.

>>23392939
yes, and they hatch inside of stars

Gunbuster is probably the pinnacle of real robots design. gundam Qubereyx comes very close in second!

>>23392983
yeah and theres been plenty of time for these kinds of cycles to happen

Patlabor is a pretty good show, big recommend if yer looking for more

>>23395632
>relevant

ran across this looking for images to dump, huh sure looks familiar

everything in its place

>>23395651
plot armor personified

>>23395631
ive always found it interesting that the giant god warrior entombed in Red Noah is the same height as Gunbuster. Theyre both 200m tall to the top of the head.

>>23392939
>>23395628
A lesser form of Baxters Photino Birds. Time for image dump.
I'd like the Elysium as a personal home.

So many Excelions

i dont think there are any stronger scifi tropes than these ships outside of TTGL

>>23396503
>>23396504
Large ship is large.

>>23396509
best ship ever concieved

https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%97%98%ED%8A%B8%EB%A6%AC%EC%9B%80

>>23396508
Too much greeble. SW/70's Science Fiction ruined the classic aesthetic of science fiction. Gunbuster 1 via old Gainax knew what they were trying to go for and bless 'em for it!

>>23396513
She's something. Would she be considered a Battleship or Dreadnaught though?

>>23396518
Everything in its place

>>23396523
>crew compartment filled with literal LCL

what the hell were these japanese brothers up too when cooking up the evas?

>>23396525
Truth

>>23396524
Cathedral of Terra, specifically "5th generation super dreadnought battleship"
but the Kanji used for "super-dreadnaught battleship" can also be read as "Tokyo(Specifically, the 'Tokyo Girl') -style western-dreadnaught-type space battleship"
so its kinda complex i guess

>>23396543
>>23396548
It hilarious how much is "borrowed" in science fiction.

>>23396513
>>23396523
>Be Noriko
>Fly into space with giant robots, they're not flashy or special, but it's what humanity's got and you need to master it to fight back and survive
>During your long voyage Earth builds a better ship for everyone out there, you sacrifice the ship you spent months on and called home
>Earth builds a new ship, even faster and more technologically advanced
>Apparently people with psychic powers started showing up and we now command psychic dolphins and whales
>Also the ship runs on theoretical physics, it has no standard propulsion and flies on pure math
>But despite all this you're still you
>And Earth hasn't replaced you or relieved you of duty, so you're still out there, fighting
>Unsure of where you belong or who still remembers you, but you press on anyway

>>23396751
The Forever War will never see the light of cinema, will it? Pic obviously not related, but damn...

>>23396751
Yeah, but on the other hand, from Noriko's perspective, the entire series happened in like a few months, meanwhile almost everyone else had to spend decades living in fear of being annihilated by the space monsters and none of them were able to do anything about it like Noriko was

>>23395631

How is eva twice as tall as gundam?

>>23396804
Its off, the rest are accurate though. Eva is about as tall as ideon without the shoulder pylons.

>>23392934
>I don't think any scifi series has ever come as close as Gunbuster to matching the sheer loneliness of space
Now I like Gunbuster more than most but we both know thats not true, while the time dilation is cool, it doesnt dwell on it any meaningfully longer than a random doctor who episode, its mostly extra spicy set dressing that serves to add gravitas to the finale

>>23397171
what are you talking about retard? The concept is the entire source of the drama in episodes 2 and 5 and of course it matters heavily in episode 6 as well as you said

This seems like the right place to ask
Does anyone know what movie this poster on the right behind Kazumi in Noriko's room in episode 6 is for? She has posters for the War in Space, Space Giant and Message from Space but I don't recognize this particular one

>>23397326
yeah i thought it looked like the mighty jack. maybe thats it?

>>23397326
Thundrebirds Are Go

not shit copy

>>23397500
Ah i gotta go watch this episode now, see what the White Hats were putting into their 60s scifi.

>>23397307
Drama that could be boiled down mostly to J-drama soap opera-isms (will the Captain die before Kazumi can marry him, is Noriko's dad still alive) besides episode 6, and even that one doesnt really care the fully explore what it would entail for Noriko and Kazumi to be flung 10000 years into the future, its mostly a bitter sweet ending
Im just saying that if you really think this is as high as it gets there is some sci-fi out there thats gonna blow your mind, even something as basic as interstellar did more with the concept

>>23397584
Fucking retarded zoomer.

>>23397584
>b-but they didn't show what it would be like if she lived in a future society
I don't think I've ever seen someone miss the point harder

>>23393313
That ultimately falls squarely into the other two categories. None of this has much to do with intent or desire.

>>23396767
Its been in dev. hell since '78 anon.

>>23395651
I want Nono back in SRW, Z3 wasn’t enough.

>>23399533
She's busy playing barbie dolls with the uc timeline. But at least she's keeping things from getting too out of hand!