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[Aim For The Top 2! Diebuster] 5 (Rewatch)
I will give it that the character portions are riveting:
You can see some clear ideas of what Enokido was hinting at here, particularly with
), but it doesn't exactly work here. Gunbuster was a much simpler story that relied on emotion to carry it through, so the grander than life nature of its conflict is fitting for such drama. Diebuster tries to be a character study more than anything, but is hindered by how much it tries to cram in less than three hours of screen-time. It should have eschewed all this Solar System-saving shenanigans for something more personal, or at least make the conflict
. The end product feels like a potpourri of all the cool stuff from Gunbuster and a lot of the ideas Tsurumaki and Enokido used in FLCL, but without any substance to hold the concoction together.
It's a shame because I wanted to evaluate this show on its own merits and not just as a Gunbuster sequel, but Die does everything to remind you of greener times. Even as a separate story it doesn't have the meat to truly grip you. Oh well.
Do we have a :moniker for still shots and low frame count? Not bad art.
First half was good, second half...
I will give it that the character portions are riveting:
L'alc's frustration at the Topless becoming unwanted in a society post-Buster Machine 7 is compelling stuff.
Nikola's moment of craziness. It's not necessarily out of character as much as we didn't have much of a character with him beforehand. The concept that a Topless is willing to go that far when confronted with his or her own ineptitude is not bad in nature it just needed some extra fleshing out.
It's the rest that I have a problem with. At this point I have to agree that the references to Gunbuster harm the show more than they help it. I assume some of the stuff is meant to be subversive (ie
using Jupiter 2 as a clear throwback to how Jupiter 1 saved everyone's butt in the original show
between L'alc and Nono and the faction of the Fraternity that wishes to find a way to remain eternally Topless, not just killing them off ignominiously at the end of episode four
It's a shame because I wanted to evaluate this show on its own merits and not just as a Gunbuster sequel, but Die does everything to remind you of greener times. Even as a separate story it doesn't have the meat to truly grip you. Oh well.
Rewatching it, it's more like this one cut where Usagi's face is clearly missing some frames of animation. It's not really :wonzo!
Do we have a :moniker for still shots and low frame count? Not bad art.
recure.
