Gunbuster/Characters

Through hard work and guts, here's the Gunbuster character page! Still under construction,

Noriko Takaya



 * Ace Pilot: Becomes one over the course of the series.
 * Action Girl
 * Adorkable
 * Ascended Fangirl: In the science lesson shorts, she reveals that she's a big Getter Robo fan.
 * Badass
 * Badass Adorable
 * Badass Arm-Fold: Arguably the Trope Codifier in Japan.
 * Took a Level in Badass: Quite possibly one of the best examples. Compare her performance in episode one with that in episode four.
 * Smash Sisters: With Kazumi.
 * Break the Cutie: Breaks pretty quickly in Episode 1, and breaks again in episode 3-4, before Taking Her Levels In Badass.
 * Calling Your Attacks: Enough over the course of just six episodes that she became Goddess of the trope on TV Tropes.
 * Cute Clumsy Girl
 * The Danza: Voiced by Noriko Hidaka.
 * Gainaxing
 * Hot-Blooded: Even more so when you consider that she's the basis for Simon.
 * Iron Woobie: Wasn't iron at all when things started out, but come episode 4....
 * Red-Headed Heroine: Although it's a really dark shade that borders on brown sometimes.
 * Rousing Speech: Gives one to Kazumi in episode 5, combined with a verbal Bright Slap.

Kazumi Amano

 * Action Girl
 * Badass
 * Heartbroken Badass: . Subverted when they return to Earth after victory and.
 * Smash Sisters: With Noriko.
 * Cool Big Sis: Goddess of the trope. She's actually referred to as "oneesama" more than by her own name!
 * May-December Romance: Is in love with Coach Ohta, who was an officer on the Exelion with Noriko's dad.
 * Hot for Teacher
 * World Of Cardboard Monologue
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Jung Freud

 * Author Appeal: Was apparently named by Hideaki Anno. Yes, that one.
 * Faux Action Girl
 * Foreign Fanservice
 * Ineffectual Loner
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Red-Headed Heroine
 * The Rival

Koichiro "Coach" Ohta



 * Badass
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty
 * May-December Romance: With Kazumi.
 * Hot for Student
 * Norio Wakamoto
 * Playing Against Type: Wakamoto hadn't actually been typecast yet, but Ohta doesn't have any of the Villainous Large Ham that Norio Wakamoto has since become so known for.

Kashiwara

 * Alpha Bitch: In the first episode.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Gets her butt kicked at the end of the first episode and promptly cleans up her act.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Before getting her butt kicked.
 * Teens Are Monsters: See above.