Quickie: Noriko Takaya (Gunbuster)

So I started watching Gunbuster the other day and it was fun, energetic and exciting. It’s main character Noriko Takaya symbolizes these elements incredibly with her fun and bubbly personality which is balanced out with her anxiety surrounding her efficiency as a pilot. They establish her goals early and her relation to Yuzo Takaya, her father. She wants to be a space pilot just like him and joins the Okinawa High School for Girls where they train young girls in piloting mechs. In the beginning while she has physical prowess she is very bad at piloting mechs. Even so she is chosen for the Gunbuster project by Koichiro Oota which further hightens her anxiety as she freaks out and goes to him imploring him to take her out of the program. He then in the episode points out the hard work Amano puts into her piloting of mechs which inspires her to work harder. I loved the fact that while the character did have issues surrounding her internal feelings of legitimacy it never effected her so much to the point where she was a purely passive character. She was forthright in her resolve after being inspired and worked hard to get better at piloting the mech. I need to watch more, it sure is emblematic of how amazing Hieaki Anno is as a director.

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