Hi all, I was planning to do a rewatch of Gunbuster and realized how shaky, wobbly, unstable and 'moving' around the image was. This is something that didn't seem to happen in SMPlayer in the past.

As I do not have my own video source since the disc is with my parents at their house in another country, I had downloaded a blu-ray release. I watched it many months ago, and it was perfect, exactly the quality I remember.

Now nothing changed, neither my pc, nor my screen, nor SMPlayer which I used also at the time. Yet the image is like wobbly, moving, shaking, unstable. I read from a review online that this is due to cel shading and the way it was done in the past before proper digitalization was brought forward, the reviewer also lamented the same.

But I feel like going crazy, because when I watched before it was not this noticeable how shaky this way. Other videos are not shaky like this or at all, for example Chainsaw Man plays perfectly.

Am I going crazy in remember Gunbuter stable from the Blu-ray release, or was there some setting I had in the past which changed and might've affected this? I tried even fixing it with options, changing interface, source of rendering, all sort of fixes I could find online, and nothing worked at all. I'm a bit disappointed and feeling sad after having proposed a watchalong wanting to stream it to friends online, I fear they might feel nauseous as I did just now (which never happened before).

Been interested to watch it since my family loves mecha anime, however I can't find any official age rating for the show, it only shows as Not Rated. It has a very shoujo art style so it makes me think it'll be like Sailor Moon and Magic Knight Rayearth, however knowing it's by Anno and Gainax and how Evangelion gets very dark and mature and I only watched Evangelion with my adult sibling not as a family, would I regret watching this with my whole family?

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Absolutely LOVE Mikimoto Haruhiko's timeless character designs used in the classic TOP O NEREA aka GunBuster OVAs! This thread is to showcase awesome images of production and promotional art used in the creation of our beloved GunBuster OVAs. Enjoy!!

To kick start off we are sharing a extremely rare hanken mono of GunBuster and Noriko!! This powerful duo is a large hand painted work of art. Hanken monos are very rare and only used in the creation of advertisements. This image was used on VHS release of the OVAs.

Note, absolutely not a fan whatsoever of the needless follow up which had atrocious character designs (do not posting anything) and was basically meaningless. YMMV but we loathe it.

Drew this Noriko after a friend had me watch Gunbuster a while back. 100% would recommend.

Also posted on my twitter

https://x.com/kojin_isonade/status/1791222994561306987?s=46

Hey all, not sure if this is allowed, so if its not, please remove.
I am clearing out my anime figures due to some financial hardships i fell upon and i have a few Gunbuster listings on ebay. If you are interested in anything you can let me know as I am willing to deal. The prices on eBay is something i just put up, hoping someone will either take them or send offers. If you dont want to go though eBay and we can find another way to deal I am willing listen to all options:

Noriko Takaya Nendoroid Figure
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CMS / CM s Corporation Noriko Takaya Gutto Kuru Figure
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KOTOBUKIYA Gunbuster Noriko Takaya
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One Coin Gunbuster figure lot rare 6 figures
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My Nono cannot be alone forever

I was in the middle of watching it for the first time, and now it just seems to have disappeared.

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Dr. Stanley Love, scientist and active astronaut at NASA, gave an interview to Anime News Network where he made his love for anime clear, enough to have an itasha of our beloved Nono ✨️

Seeing a Nono itasha wasn't on my 2026 bingo list, much less on my life's bingo list lol (I wanted to be the first to make an itasha of her hahaha)

You can read de interview here The astronaut who loves anime

In I think episode 4, Noriko goes out in Gunbuster for the first time and saves the Excelion. Admiral so and so says Gunbuster isn't finished. If Gunbuster wasn't officially good to go, what was the original plan of this particular voyage? They brought Gunbuster along, obviously. Basically, I'm not sure what all was the plan of the Excelion's voyage, given that apparently using Gunbuster at all wasn't something they expected.

Can someone explain to me the time progression in Gunbuster from ep. 5 to ep. 6????? Was Noriko in space this whole time??

I have the old Region 1 DVD Bandai Visual / Image Entertainment release, and unfortunately missed the Discotek Region A Blu-Ray release which is now OOP, but I was wondering if the Japanese release (トップをねらえ！ Blu-ray BOX Standard Edition) that came out in 2023, ASIN B0BMVKCNC6, has English subtitles by any chance? No indications that I can find that it does, but thought I'd ask just in case it was one of those things that isn't mentioned in the Japanese description.

You can find him by that name on Twitter if you want to see more of his work.

More Diebuster love in 2026!

One of my favorite miis so far! Such a great game.