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Aim for the Top Oneesama!

I finally watched this landmark GAINAX franchise after picking up a (very cheap and almost certainly pirated) DVD box set from Stripey's favourite R3 DVD shop. Both Top wo Nerae! OVAs have long languished as a 'classic' (defined as something everyone knows but very few actually have seen) in my book. But intermittently there have been reminders. Evirus spoke well of it (Gun Buster) and its sequel (Die Buster). Kurogane had much praise for the latter; Kabitzin described it as 'feel[ing] like some kind of perfect amalgamation of Evangelion and FLCL' - I'd also love to read his thoughts on the final ep and review the series as a whole *poke poke*. And, most recently, Myssa Rei's comment on one of Stripey's Gurren Lagann posts.