Diebuster – Pretty garbage

I can’t believe this is a sequel let alone a homage to Gunbuster. I don’t even feel the motivation to continue past episode one. This is garbage. It’s pretty garbage because that’s all it has. Nice animation and action. This shit is such a product of the time it was produced. For me, one episode is enough to determine if something is worth watching unless I really want to continue watching regardless if it’s shit or not. Right now I don’t feel like trudging through more shit. Not after watching the awesomeness that is Gunbuster.

That is probably what I’d say if I watched the first episode of Diebuster when Gainax was originally releasing each episode over the course of a few months. On the whole it was okay. It had its moments where I honestly cried manly tears, but it really wasn’t my thing. Sure, it was a parody of most shows from the 90s and Gunbuster was mostly a parody of stuff from the 80s. It was a good thing I watched Gunbuster not too long ago since I was able to catch a lot of the references and such which was actually cool.

Even still, I found Diebuster on the boring side, and the first 3 and just close to the end of episode 4 really didn’t do a good job of getting me into the story, setting and characters. It was fluff basically until episode 5. I feel the same way I did about Diebuster as I did FLCL. It has pretty animation, nice effects, good music, but the plot and characters just didn’t pull me in.