Gunbuster: Noriko’s voice actress reacts to the touching words of an astronaut

Hideaki Anno is best known in the Japanese animation world for creating the Neon Genesis Evangelion series, but roughly six years before he began the adventures of Shinji Ikari, the writer in question had always made his directorial debut with the science fiction anime. Aim for the top! GunBuster.

This organization is set in 2015, in a future when an alien race is threatening planet Earth and human extinction a counterattack with a fleet of spaceships. However, the real weapon of humanity are gigantic robots controlled by the most promising children of all educational schools on the surface of the earth. The story focuses on the character of Noriko Takayathat will evolve in many ways and face a real space war.

While this is a 6 episode OAV, it seems that Anno’s work has influenced a lot of people, even lately one of the astronauts involved in the Hayabusa2 missionwho, as you can see in the post at the bottom of the page, claimed to have followed this career thanks to the interest in the GunBuster series, received an answer from the voice actress of the protagonist Noriko Hidakawas happily surprised by the words used.

Recall that EVA units recently made their way into the streets of Tokyo and we are leaving you with the 10 unresolved questions that remain open in the Evangelion anime.