-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Literal Translation Series, "Top wo Nerae -- GunBuster -- Vol. 2" Translated Speech Script with Many Many comments Written by Kentaro ONIZUKA Comments by Kentaro ONIZUKA Edited by Matthew Opel (mro93001@uconnvm.uconn.edu) Introduction Top wo Nerae! GunBuster is a masterpiece OVA. This primed the OVA(OAV) market and led to it as it is today. So I have tried to translate all of GunBuster for people outside Japan. It is, however, quite difficult to understand GunBuster without knowing Japanese culture and the way of life in Japan. I added, therefore, as many comments as possible, to help non-Japanese people understand GunBuster, and have fun. Before I wrote this, I read "The encyclopedia of GunBuster" included in the final CD box released 1995. The encyclopedia explains almost all the parodies contained in GunBuster. I tried to translate as literally as possible. In many cases the expressions are not quite natural in English. This is because it is a literal translation. Anyhow, please have fun watching GunBuster with this script. And please translate this into your native language if your mother tongue is not English. This script is based on GunBuster Okaerinasai Box released in 1994, which include two extra science lessons which are not in the original three volumes. Comments are welcome. Email: onizuka@nisiq.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Avant title "For all of you good children, a brief summary of the previous episodes" Chair: Now the talent show party for the Exelion's launching is getting really exciting! Here we go! The Queen of Roses, Miss Amano is going to sing a song. She has Coach Ohta to accompany her. With an atmosphere of forbidden love, the song they sing is "The love game between a Man and a Woman" # This song is very famous in Japan, often sung by duos in Karaoke boxes. Ohta : Oh, I am so embarassed! People : Ah, a lovely couple! Sister : Would you be quiet! (song)... I am quite drunk because of you.. Text says, # This text is a parody of some famous paper on high energy physics. # The original text in Japanese does not make clear sense. Considering the similarity between the functions of quantum mechanical operation and the distribution function of statistical physics, the quantum mechanical operation is roughly represented as below: Z = integral exp(1/h) D|\phi|. If we regard this as a complete conception of the situation, it is exactly the result of GAZE theory which WALL and YANN proposed, and the WINEBERG-SALAMM theory that describe the strong interaction; and the quantum chromo-dynamics are regular under internal canonical modeling. # GAZE theory < Gauge Theory # Others I am not sure ..... To tell the truth, I majored nuclear # physics .... Clearly, for this well known example, a phase transition region in the vicinity of 10^13 GeV does not change the hierarchical structure that implies the kinetic variable \phi, but is insteead a classical integration operation. # GeV -> Giga Electron Volt. A unit of energy in High Energy Physics. (song) That's because you have a beautiful woman's daring. However, toward the end of 20th Century, these unsolved problems of elementary particle theories, the super string theories, the strange properties of unitary transformation about the super-symmetric HILVEL space, and the local space canonical representations are merged into one. # HILVEL space < Hilvert space (song) Hold me tight. hold me tight. In 1995, according to Tanhoizer's first paper "The ether electrodynamics of objects in motion," Ether corresponds to the particle of the HIGGS field in W/S theory, and vacuum space is defined as the ground state of the field. In general, particles of zero or integral number spin follow BOZE-AINSTEI statistics, and others follow FERMI/DIRAC statistics. The Planck constant and gravitational constant are determined when high dimensional space automatically decays into an N dimensional phase division. # BOZE-AINSTEI statistics < Bose-Einstein statistics. # FERMI/DIRAC statistics < Fermi-Dirac statistics. (song) That's the love game between a man and a woman. The scattering amplitude that describes the scattering process turns out to be an analytical function in the complex plane when we require the causation of complex intensification, which by applying CORSEY's integration theorem, turns out to be the TANHOIZER Division function. >From Kazumi Amano's paper published at the Conference of All Japan Highschool Physics. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening song by Noriko Sakai. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode 3 First love, and the first fight. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Noriko's monologue, Kimiko, Kimiko, Are you well? Your friend Noriko is now in the Heaven Way. I can no longer see the sun, because the sun is lost in the Heaven Way. # Heaven Way -> Milky way. So I'll send you telepathy,,,, You can't imagine how the space ship pitches and rolls... Because our speed is faster than billions of kilometers per hour, it's like the ship is is flying in the wind, even though it is the vacuum of space. There are calm places and stormy places in space, Just like the real ocean. Kikuchi: Located 0.5 parsecs of space for acceleration. WARP possible. # Kikuchi Masanori... Art Director in GunBuster Production. Captain: Very well, all ships WARP. ViceCap: All warp! Noriko says, Warp is possible only at very calm places in space. When the ship breaks into subspace, it is wonderful to see. The ether becomes plasma and is very beautiful! But, I've seen it only once. Because, we have to stay in quarters. When we are in subspace, there is always someone who starts telling scary stories. Jung: Subspace is connected to the world of the dead. So the ghosts of the dead wander around in the ship's hangers and corridors. And sometimes, they knock on the doors of quarters, nock, nock... Noriko: aaah, stop that! Noriko says, I don't dislike stories like these, but I am not strong enough to listen to them. And then people begin to play the courage testing game. Noriko: Oh, it can't be! Is there someone who will do it for me? Noriko: Oh! People: Good luck! Noriko says, But, I have to go, if I don't want others to make fun of me. In the dark, .... .... .... A boy : Are you doing the courage-testing game? A boy : Is my face so frightening? Boo! Noriko: Ah! no! A boy : So, the girls do the same thing. Let's place the marker now and go back soon! Did I scare you that much? Pass me your ribbon. # Ribbon .. Hachimaki is not exactly a ribbon for decoration. # Hachimaki is used to stimulate your head to cheer yourself up. Noriko: Here you go. A boy : Are you really a space warrior? You're so scared! .... Oh, aaaaaa ,aaa a, Coach : We're under level 2 precautions during WARP. Come to my room in space suits after WARP is complete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the laser cannon lenses. The boy: It hasn't been since I was a seaman that I had to clean the laser cannon lenses. Noriko : Oh what a big nebula! The boy: Only because it's so close. Noriko : The sky is bright! We can see so many gas nebulae. The boy: There must have been a lot of old decayed stars around here. Noriko : Look! That one is like a flower! The boy: It's just the dead body of a star. Noriko : Don't you have any feelings? The boy: hmmm my back aches! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the bridge, Announce: Announcement to all, course, speed no change. ViceCap : Under these conditions, we can reach the star Leaf 64 today. Captain : Leaf 64... hmm that reminds me of my youth. It was when I was a mate. It's similar to our sun, so beautiful! Just like an oasis in space! Young stars like the sun are not very common. ViceCap: We are fortunate, because stars like the sun do not have a strong gravitational influence on ships. Captain: Your galaxy would be full of numerical stars! # Leaf 64 appears in "Nadia" as a point to collect medicinal plants. Announce: Several approaching objects from 12th direction. Relative velocity nearly light speed. Around the lens, The Boy : OK, next lens! Noriko : What's that? The boy : Get down! In the bridge, Announce: The Enemy! They passed us at a distance of 20,000 kilometers. Captain : Alright! We'll persue the Enemy! All ships, full-speed course reversal. U-turn using Leaf 64's gravitational field. ViceCap : Yes sir. Prepare for gravity turn. Captain : Announcement to all ships, prepare to assemble the fleet. I'll leave the rendevous point up to you. ViceCap : Fleet prepare for assembly. The coordinates for assembly are 120:717:341 Announce: Fleet prepare for assembly. Announce: Prepare for gravity turn. Announce: Cosmo attacker V, begin assembly. Announce: Prepare Photon Torpedos. Announce: Release first to 4th safety locks. Announce: Sub-engines From 3d to 6th start. Power 80% Announce: Encounter with the Enemy scheduled for 4 o'clock tomorrow morning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In the subway. The Exelion Railway Map. # Well, in a big ship, something like a train might be required for people # on board to move about. This is quite a new idea, I think. I like these kind o f # details in GunBuster. Announce: Next station is Women's Locker Room Noriko : Hmm, in case of a left side red warning, switch off the gearing system, after stabilizing the space gyro. In case of a right side red warning, down the throttle to 30. The Boy: Oh, you are a hard worker. Noriko : I have to learn basic operations in space, because I am a couple of months behind the others. The boy: That's not useful in actual battles. Noriko : Oh, How come you're acting like my senior? The boy: Because you're such a pretty young junior girl. Noriko : You know, big sister and I are the best pair in TOP. I have so many problems that single men like you without a partner cannot imagine. Bye! The boy: Acting like a senior? well... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the women's locker room, A girl : Do you know, Saeko made love with her boy friend yesterday! # Literally "Saeko reached stage C with her boy friend yesterday!" # Stage A means Kiss, Stage B ....... Stage C ..... People : really? did they? Jung : Then she hit her head on the bed. That's amusing. Oh Look at Noriko! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the bridge, Captain: Leaf 64? You say this is Leaf 64? This ugly red giant? Announce: By the absolute coordinates and the constellation, there's no doubt. This is Leaf 64 in the eighth finger of the Perseus Bay of the galaxy. Captain: Leaf 64 was a young, white star like the sun. I can't believe that it changed this much in ten years. (thinking) It might be because... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the hanger, Sister : Coach I have something to say. Coach : What's that? Say it. Noriko : In case of strong moment to the left, cancel it by doing this. hmmm, I don't get it... Oh. Big Sister! Sister : Are you really thinking of sending Noriko to an actual battle? Considering her skill level, it is too dangerous. Coach : That's my business to decide. Sister : But as her partner, I think that I cannot fight with her. Coach : I'm having her go. I won't stop her. Sister : Alright, I see. Then I dissolve the partnership with Noriko. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GunBuster! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commercial message ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GunBuster! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sister : I cannot fight with Noriko as a partner! Noriko : Oh, no, Oh no,,, ah. Sister : ah! Noriko : ah, well .. I mean ... Sister : You've been listening to us? Please don't think I am being cruel. It's for your own sake. Coach : Takaya. I saw your natural potential. And created the team of you and Amano. I expected you to be the best pair! If one of you is lacking, everything is finished. I believed in your inherent possibility. You must trust yourself. And train hard, to show your strong will! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the vending machine corner. The boy :hmm? Vending machine says, "Italia Pizza!" The boy : What's wrong with you? Have you lost your text book? Noriko : I am sorry about before. I'm a single now, too. Big Sister hates me. I guess that might be the case. From the beginning, my skill has not been on the same level. The boy : Well, since now you're a single, how about making a pair with me? I am looking for a partner. Poster says, Switch off the light when not in use. EECC (Effective Energy Consumption Committee) # This kind of poster is quite common in companies and schools in Japan. Noriko : Are you sure about me ? The boy : Yes indeed. How about it? Noriko : Yes. Poster says, Put rubbish in the trash can. LBMC (Living Block Management Committee) The boy : OK, it's settled! Do you know my name? I'm Smith Toren. # Toren Smith is an American animator engaged in many Japanese anime # production. Noriko : I am Takaya Noriko. The boy : I know! Noriko : Why are you laughing? Smith : Then, I'll go to register our pair. Noriko : Good luck! .... Noriko : Ah, an indirect kiss. oh no. # Noriko's lips touched the straw which Smith's lips had touched. # This means their lips touched indirectly by the straw, hence indirect kiss. # Hmmm... Japanese girls nowadays do not care about such small things # as indirect kisses, while the girls who were, when young, # with most animators at school payed much attention to purity # of lips and virginity. # Japanese girls and women have changed a lot in these 10 years. # Women and girls these days are quite free from the concept of virginity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In space, Announce: Tarsion turned. 25 minutes to contact with the Enemy. Announce: Enemy confirmed. Distance 221 light seconds. Announce: Contact expected near fifth planet's orbit. Captain : Open all cannons. Prepare for torpedo and laser cannon attack! Announce: Open all cannons. Prepare for torpedo and laser cannon attack! staff : Measurements completed. staff : Open launching tubes for photon torpedos. Announce: Non fighting personnel, take shelter in the 3d block. Announce: Hurry the preparation for TOP corps launch. ...... Coach : After the ship-plane sally is complete, we, TOP corps are launched to the front of the Enemy. Each pair operate at your own discretion. Keep the distance between machines at 1000 meters. The half-life of the Californium atomic warhead is 3 hours. Use it and return by that time. Follow orders to return strictly. This is the first battle using machine weapons in history. Pay close attention. That is all! Staff : Release launching catapult! Staff : Exhaust air. Announce: TOP corps preparation complete. Second laser cannon prepared. Photon torpedos prepared. Automatic cannon chaser prepared. Objects at 1.8 light seconds. 3.6 seconds required to confirm hit. Captain : All cannons fire! 180 seconds later, TOP corps and ship-planes depart. Coach : Prepare for departure. Set position. Get ready! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the battle. Announce: Cosmo Attackers, all identification signals on. Noriko : Smith! Smith : Hi! I am below you. Noriko : Can't see you, Smith! Announce: contact expected.. Smith : Calm down. No enemies have reached us yet. I'm offense and you're defense. Understood? Noriko : Yes. That means I back you up? Smith : Right. Announce: Exelion Roger! Booom! Noriko : What's that? Smith : Tarsion destroyed. crushed.... No, sunk! Noriko : Oh no! Smith : Watch out. shock wave coming.. in 5 seconds. Noriko : Eh? Boom Noriko : Smith! Smith : Calm down! It's alright! You won't die from such a small shock. Enemy! To the left, two enemies! Noriko : eh? Smith : They've gone to the right side! Shit! New one to the upper left. Noriko : Eh What? Smith : The one to the right. Take care of it! Noriko : Roger! Battle..... Noriko : Smith,, Smith answer me, I hate this.... Smith!!! Smith!! ............................. Announce: Captain, Enemy's main force is located at Leaf 64. The enemies we contacted are not that main force. Captain : Does that mean a decoy? Announce: And... They are going to assemble at Leaf 64. Captain : Alright. Announcement to all. Return all the troops outside. After the recovery, immediate WARP ! staff : Yes sir! Captain : There is a hypothesis that the monsters use stars as their nests, where they breed. ViceCap : Then that has something to do with the frequency of exploding stars around here. Captain : hmm. If so, we have to retreat from this area immediately. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Noriko : Smith.... Noriko : I didn't fire a single shot. Plate says, Earth Space Force, First class battle ship Exelion = 111th Vessel. No.2 men's quarters starboard section 7. ..... Noriko : Smith... Door opens, ....... Noriko : Coach,, Coach!! I, I was, Smith was... I was with Smith, but, I couldn't do anything.. . I'm sorry. I couldn't do anything... Smith... Coach : Takaya.. Noriko : Coach, I'll do anything I can. I'll train myself. Train me hard! Until big sister comes to appreciate me. I ..... I .... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ending song by Noriko Sakai. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aim for the TOP" -- Science Lesson -- Questions from the Audience. Sister : From a good boy named Yamaga Hiroyuki who watches "TOP", we received a letter asking: "What is warp?" So, this time, I'd like to discuss WARP. # Yamaga Hiroyuki .. The director of "Wing of Honeamise", a member of GAINAX. Section 3: Super-Light speed navigation. --- about WARP ---- Sister : Miss Takaya, what do you know about Warp? Noriko : Yes. A method of navigation faster than the spped of light. Sister : Correct. And what is the real name for it? Noriko : Eh? eh? ah? Well? hmm ? Coach : Shame on you! Takaya! Two : Coach! Coach : You don't know even that! Punishment! # In Hagoita game (Japanese style badminton using wooden rackets), when one # looses, winner draws X on the looser's face with brush as punishment. # So, if one looses couple of times, his/her face becomes full of X like # Noriko.... # Hagoita game is still common play in the begining of January. # It was on the 1st of January that the second Volume of GunBuster # (containing 3d and 4th episode) was released, hence they are # in Kimono (Haregi) and playing Hagoita. Coach : Amano, tell her. Sister : Yes. The precise term is, Dimensional Wave Super String Excitation Degenerated Radius Jump Gravitational Field Super-light Speed Navigation. WARP for short. The display says, Dimensional Wave Super String Welcoming Degenerated Radius Jump Gravitational field Super-light Speed Navigation. Coach : Yes, exactly. Then, Takaya, tell us how warp is achieved. Noriko : Eh? eh? ah? that is, eh... Coach : You don't know that ! Punishment! Amano, tell her. Sister : By enlarging the radius of the Tanhoizer gate that has been frozen in the Degeneration Reactor, we wrap the ship in subspace. And the ship jumps through time and space. Coach : Yes. That's right! Listen to me. Amano and Takaya! No matter how far scientific technology has advanced, there are two things you must remember. Noriko : They are Effort and Will! The display says, Effort and Will! Coach : Yes. Show your effort and will by writing it 100 times. Noriko : Ah... buuuut..! Sister : Then, see you next time, bye bye! (Noriko: writing) Dimensional Wave Super String Excitation Degenerated Radius Jump Gravity field Super-light speed navigation. Dimensional Wave Super String Excitation Degenerated Radius Jump Gravity field Super-light speed navigation. Dimensional Wave Super String Excitation Degenerated Radius Jump Gravity field Super-light speed navigation. ...... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Display says, Apology and correction In "Science lesson" No.3, the writing in the display was, Dimensional Wave Super String Welcoming Degenerated Radius Jump Gravity field Super-light speed navigation. But, that was wrong. The correct term is, Dimensional Wave Super String Exitation Degenerated Radius Jump Gravity field Super-light speed Navigation. Director Anno Hideaki. Sister : I'd like to apologize that the term in the display was miswritten. I'd like to correct it and apologize to you all. Noriko : I am very sorry! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trailer for episode 4, Noriko : My first love, who vanished in the stars. But, I cannot mourn his death. Coach, please train me harder and harder! Hard days of difficult training. Noriko! Fight! Don't allow the monsters to reach the solar system! Oh, but, but, the Exelion is going to sink! Daddy, Smith, help me! Help Noriko! A human being must die but the GunBuster's power is immortal! # Hito no inochi ha tsukirutomo,,,, A human being must die but,,,, # From YAMATO or Harlock, Protect the earth! The next episode is: "Go! Incomple Ultimate Weapon", Against them, Lightening KICK! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aim for the Top! In the conference room in Exelion, A scientist: The cosmic monsters are thought to have come from the center of the galaxy. Since they encountered us, human beings, their population has been increasing; they've been searching for young stars, and making nests in them, and breeding. Analyzing their fighting patterns, and extrapolating the principal of their behavior, matching these with their scope of influence, I have determined their objective. It is the Earth! Captain : Isn't it our sun? Their purpose is to make nests in stars for breeding, isn't it? A scientist: Stars are nothing but what they are parasites of. Their objective is to annihilate humanity. They are just like immune antibodies that attack the bacteria called humanity growing in the galaxy. Captain : That's absurd! A Scientist: Why? For the galaxy, there is no profit from the existence of humanity. We human beings are just like garbage to the Galaxy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode 4 Go! Incomplete Ultimate Weapon -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the shower room. Girl A : Have you eaten Baked Andromeda? # Baked Andromeda : A kind of pancake with the shape of the Andromeda Nebula. Girl B : Not yet. Girl C : Let's go have Baked Andromeda! Girl B : Noriko, are you going to join us? Noriko : I'm on garbage duty, today. Girl A : She's been so gloomy the past few days. Girl C : No No, after the partnership with Big sister was dissolved, she has been .. Girl A : What? Girl C : She's been so intimate with Coach. She is going on a date (with him) today, probably. Girl A : Really! Jung : Have you really dissolved your partnership with her? May I ask for a date? Oh, I meant with Noriko of course... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jung and Linda: What? # Linda Yamamoto is a Swedish girl. Sweden is under the Soviet's control. # From her surname, she may be half (or quarter) Japanese. # Her name is from the famous Japanese singer "Linda Yamamoto" # who hit late 1970s by her energetic dancing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the gym, Coach : You're late. What have you been doing? Noriko : I, I am sorry. Coach : To begin with, let's review yesterday's lessen. From turn-up to break off within 3 minutes. Noriko : Yes. 1, 2, 3. Pattern A finished. 1, 2,... Coach : Too slow. In 3 minutes, the enemy can travel from Mars to the moon. Noriko : Yes. Coach : Listen to me, Takaya. I'll tell you one thing. It is only yourself that can protect you. However, you must not sacrifice the others. If you wish to protect not only yourself but also others, make an effort. Noriko : Yes. Coach : OK, repeat from Pattern A to C 50 times. Noriko : Yes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the rail station, Noriko : Ah! Jung : What are you doing here? Didn't you go out for Baked Andromeda with everyone else? Station plate says, Central No. 7 Hanger. Noriko : eh, I, I was so slow that they left me behind. Jung : You're training hard! How about a match with me? Noriko : Fighting a duel with you would be pointless... Jung : Are you saying I'd loose? Noriko : What are you talking about? Jung : Don't make a fool of me. I know you're receiving special training from Coach, for the new weapon. Noriko : That's ... Jung : The dissolution of your partnership was just camoflauge! Announce: A train is coming. Please stand behind the white line. Jung : Show me the progress you've made with your training. Noriko : Alright. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the lift, Jung : The spray gun has fake bullets for training, which don't explode but will shock you. I won't go easy on you. Understood? Jung (Thinking): Coach Ohta had chosen Noriko before this began. Not me, but Noriko. Noriko(Thinking): I am a GunBuster pilot! I must do it. No matter how I'm envied by Big Sister, Jung, and the others.. I must do it, for Smith as well. --------------------- Noriko(recalling): Smith, where are you, Smith.. Noriko : Waaa! Jung : Noriko! Noriko : No! I can't. No! I can't go out. I don't want to go out into space any more! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Medical Room. Sister : What were you trying to do to Noriko? Jung : Nothing. Nothing besides challenging her to a duel. But, there was no need for it, I guess. Sister : Are you jealous of Noriko? You're being dishonourable, aren't you! Jung : What about you? Coach chose Noriko, not you or me. But the next time she goes out into space, she'll die. Indeed, I'm not even sure she will go out. Sister : Well, yes. Noriko(thinking): I'll die? Next time, it will be me. Smith! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Japanese style room, Coach : What is your question to me? Sister : How long will you force Miss Takaya to go on? Coach : Until.... it is all over. Sister : GunBuster was designed for me. It's too hard for her, isn't it? Coach : Don't be conceited. GunBuster is controlled by both of you. If you have the time to think about her, you should be honing your skill. Sister : It's you who is is conceited. Why do you think you can control people as you wish? It's me who you force to exact your revenge. That is enough. Don't involve her. Then excuse me. Coach : That's all? Sister : When she goes into space the next time, she won't come back. Can one who cannot save herself save others ? Spilt water does not return to the cup. # Fukusui Bon Ni Kaerazu. Spilt water does not return to the # water plate. Coach : Amano.. Sister : Yes. Coach : I have one thing to say to you. For the spilt water, we can pour more into the cup. That is all. # Hmmm. Good idea! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Captain: This fleet is going to enter the final long-distance WARP. What we are most afraid of is that our fleet will be followed by the Enemy. It would be just like inviting them to the solar system. We must avoid that. So, we will warp out into the solar system directly from subspace, where radar does not work, It's a very unusual maneuver, but this method provides very little chance of letting them follow us. It's been a hard voyage. But you all have done well. The date of our arrival in the solar system will be the 23rd of July 2032. You'll be able to see Halley's comet to the right side of the fleet. People : Oh! Captain: Quiet down! It's our last job. Be attentive. That is all! Captain: hmmm. Alright, just a little bit further. I'm counting on you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In the right side 8th block 5-7-22, The sign says, This is the right side 8th block 5-7-22. Noriko : We will soon return to the Earth. Smith, are you also following us? After I arrive, I will go to your home-town, and.. I will see your mother, and ... and ... Announce: 20 minutes to Warp. Switch to emergency battery. Girls : After we arrive at Earth, what shall I have to eat? Girls : No, shopping! The fashions must have changed completely! Girls : And we'll buy swimming suits and go to the ocean! Girls : Yes! yes... Big sister is reading a book titled "Disqualification as a human" # "Ningen Shikkaku (Disqualification as a human)" # A very famous Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai, though I've never read it. # Depressed people should read this book to become more depressed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- In the bridge, staff : 30 seconds to WARP. Captain : How is GunBuster coming? Ohta : Well, It will take a little while to check its Degeneration reactor. Captain : I hope to return to the earth without using that machine. I expect that we will. Ohta : Thank you. staff : Captain, Second acceleration begining. Captain : Understood. Proceed. staff : Objective, our solar system, recognised. ViceCap : Very well, connect Vanishing Motor! staff : Connect! Announce: 10 seconds to WARP. staff : Prepared for entry to subspace. Captain : Start WARP! ViceCap : Start WARP! The round indicator changes from Full-speed to Entry. # Well, the indicator is very old fashioned one like that in a locomotive's # engine room. This is also a parody. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the bridge, Announce: Enemy attack! Captain : An attack? It can't be! Newtonian dynamics don't work in Subspace! How did they locate us? Open all cannons. ViceCap : What is our target? Captain : I don't care! Just fire! Announce: Emergency! We have encountered the Enemy in Subspace. Offensive Condition One for all personnel. Repeat, Offensive Condition One for all personnel. Captain : Are the other ships under attack? What's happening? Staff : Radar not functional, everything is white. No way to know until we're out of Subspace. Absolutely nothing (on the radar screen)... Staff : First armor broken. Staff : Plasma gas in 3d hanger. Announce: Leaving Subspace. Captain : No! Don't warp out! That would let them locate Earth! ViceCap : Impossible! It's too late! Captain : Damn it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Captain : How are the other ships? Staff : About 12% of the fleet returned to normal space. The small ships were annihilated. Captain : I see. Staff : No, that's wrong! Only our ship and 12 others remain. The other objects are enemies. --------------------------------------------------------------------- GunBuster --------------------------------------------------------------------- Announce: TOP corps, full-speed launch. Prepare equipment type B. All troops depart after completing preparation. After departure, guard the fleet. Coach : What's wrong? What are you standing around for?! Jung : Linda's machine weapon has something wrong with its left gyro. Coach : OK. Linda, you use Takaya's machine weapon, Linda : Yes. Coach : Takaya, wait in the ship. Takaya : eh... Yes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announce: TOP corps and Cosmo Attackers launch complete. Announce: Repair teams hurry with emergency repairs to level A damage. Captain : Kikuchi, Enemy status? Kikuchi : 22 enemies, with the flag Enemy moving at 10% of the speed of light. Others surrounding this ship, and moving with us. Captain : OK. We'll do it, Vice Captain. Captain : The target is the giant enemy space creature. Prepare for a torpedo attack. Set photon torpedos, and open launching tubes! ViceCap : Roger. Open launching tubes. Staff : Measurements complete! Staff : Error Adjusted, vertical angle to plus 3. ViceCap : All prepare for firing! Captain : All ships, Launch torpedos! ..... Jung : Got it! Sister : It's still alive after the photon torpedo attack?! Captain : What the hell is it?! Staff : Small Enemy creatures approaching our ship. 20 seconds to contact. Captain : Open all cannons. Engage them! ------ In space,, Jung : This makes 23! Sister : Wait! Enemies approaching! Sister : Damn it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In the women's quarter, Noriko is crying, Noriko : Will I die, if I go out into space? Is that the reason why coach made me wait here? No one, No one (needs) me.... That's natural, because I'm always crying. If no one comes back, and I'm left alone, I'd still be just crying.... Am I going to die here? ------ Linda : Oh!!! Jung : Linda! Linda! Damn you! # "Onore" is an ancient word which means "you" (literally, it meant "oneself"). # This word is still used in contexts like yelling at an enemy. # It is common in Samurai dramas. -------- In the bridge, People : Oh! no! Staff : Bow destroyed! Central Computer Room no response. Staff : Radar no longer functional! Captain: hmmmm -------- Noriko : Smith, the old me is dying with you. I am now reborn. I won't cry any more, I won't ask for help, I'll see this to the finish by myself. Announce: Stern heavily damaged. Second cannon destroyed. Announce: TOP corps, 48 percent destroyed. Laser cannons, 85% damaged. Announce: Third bridge destroyed! Announce: Message received from cruiser Boson: "We're out of control, We're out of control." # Boson, the name for elementary particles that follow Bose-Einstein # statistics. Captain : Which is the flag creature? Staff : Above this ship, 25 degrees. Distance 12,000, by eye measurement. Captain : Engine power to maximum. We'll ram ourselves into it. ViceCap : Captain! Captain : We must not allow them to reach the Earth! Staff : Captain! Captain : What? Staff : 7th hatch has opened. Captain : What ?! Captain : No, stop, Takaya, GunBuster is not yet complete. Noriko : It can move for 10 minutes in its present condition. Captain : But, sub-light speed battle is impossible! Noriko : Then I'll ram the Enemy! Captain : Takaya Coach : The only target is the flag creature. Ignore the others! Noriko : Coach.... Yes! Captain : Ohta... Coach : Go! Noriko : Launch! Jung : What's that? Sister : GunBuster? Noriko : Buster Beam! # The pose of Buster Beam is similar to that of UltraSeven's Emelium Beam. Sister : Noriko! Jung : Noriko is in there? # The jets from GunBuster go upward. # This is a parody of classic SFX movies in Japan, with primative effects. ---------- On the bridge Announce: Cruiser Fermion, sunk. # Fermion -> the name of elementary particles that follow Fermi-Dirac # statistics. # Important Fermions: Proton, Electron, Neutron, Positron, ... # Important Bosons: Photon, Phonon, Alpha-particle, Cooper-pair.... Captain : Only this ship and GunBuster are left now. How is GunBuster? Announce: Engaged in battle with the flag enemy. Intense combat. ------------------------- Noriko : Missed! It's too fast! Warning says "Danger" Noriko : Less than 2 minutes left. I have to get it! This isn't working. Inertial canceler full! Alright! I'll TRY! Captain : No! Jung : Do you want to die? Sister : Stop! Noriko : Daddy! Smith! protect me! ....... Noriko : I've got it! WAAAA!!!!! ....... Captain : How is GunBuster? ViceCap : Probably melted and evaporated. Announce: Radar restored. Announce: No Enemies present. They're retreating from the solar system. I see it! It's GunBuster! People : Oh!! ----------- Song "Active heart" by Noriko Sakai. Following you, I run up the slope. Burning sun shine that I pass by. With a big jump, I catch up to you. And I feel your body heat. * Running in the wind is so nice. With great hopes, and great ambitions. High High High High * I wanna be embraced in an easy manner. We're coming together. I love you. With an active heart, I can talk. Feel when I hold your hand. When the stars come down like falling stars, Two hearts begin to shine. + The wish, I shout out loud, Together, for both of us! Say Say Say Say + Nobody can stop us, brilliant dreams, we're free. I hold onto my future. I need you! * repeat ----------- Sister : Noriko ! Noriko : Big Sister! Sister : Noriko! To be continued. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aim for the TOP" -- Science Lesson -- Section 4: The Terrible Cosmic Monsters Noriko : Hi I'm Takaya! Sister : I'm Amano. The fourth lesson of the well appreciated Science Lessons is about the cosmic monsters. Miss Takaya, what do you know about them? Noriko : Yes! They are the natural enemy of humanity that defeated not only the Luxion fleet, but also the Exelion fleet. Sister : And... Noriko : hmmm. eh.. OK, I'll explain using illustrations. To start, this is a human. The size is under 2 meters. The white square at the centre is a 1 meter by 1 meter square frame. Next, increasing the scale 10 times, this is the machine weapon RX-7. And increasing the scale 10 times. this is a creature for combat called a "Soldier." They die within a certain time after separation from their mother creature. The object to the right is part of GunBuster! And increasing the scale 5 times, this is GunBuster! It's so cool!! Just like GeP Robo in anime from the end of the 20th century! #"GeP Robo": means "Getter Robo",, A robot hero in Japanese Anime. Sister : You know it so well! Just like an otaku (obsessed fan). Noriko : He he he... you're embarrassing me! I really love old anime and SFX movies. I have all the volumes of "Uchusen" and "Animage." #"Uchusen (Space Ship)," name of a Japanese magazine for occult phenomena. #"Animage," name of a Japanese anime magazine. Sister : You are wonderful, Miss Takaya! Noriko : Then, increasing the scale 20 times... The Exelion and a Cruiser class monster. And increasing the scale 100 times, This is the largest creature ever encountered, called the "Mother ship." Sister : Well done! This creature is bizzare, but beautiful. The most powerful organisms in the universe have warning colors. Noriko : Just like the super monster in UltraP Ace! # UltraP Ace: representing "Ultraman Ace." One of the Ultraman series. # Cho Ju (Super-Monster) appeared in Ultraman Ace. Sister : Miss Takaya is the greatest otaku in the universe! Noriko : (Laugh)... By the way, Big Sister, It's funny isn't it.... Coach hasn't appeared yet. Coach : You're losing it, Takaya! Noriko : Coach! Sister : I'm over here! Noriko : Big Sister! Coach : Listen well, Takaya. Don't put your trust only in the appearance and shape of objects. Rely on Effort and Will and the Buster Machines! Sister : Then, see you next time. Bye Bye.. Noriko : oohh... no way... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trailer to the next two episodes Display says, "Aim for the TOP" Episode 5, 6 Made a decision! Noriko : It has been suddenly decided to produce them! Display says, "Aim for the TOP" Episode 5, Scenario. Noriko : But scenario has not yet been completed. It sounds like a lie, but it's the truth! Oh, dear god! What shall Noriko do? Noriko : For the next episode, only the title has been decided. Episode 5, "Hope! Time enough for Love!" And the last episode, "At the End of The Eternal Time Stream!" Against them, Lightening KICK!! Display says, "Please look forward to the next episodes!"