(Check out my profile for a link to my site containing more up-to-date reviews and bonus media!) These short episodes came with the original videos and star Amano and Noriko as they educate the viewer on the science and history of their universe. Episodes are devoted to the science behind warping, the Space Monsters, and other topics with the average two minute running time utilized well. The scientific explanations can get surprisingly dense, but following them isn't exactly rewarding as some or all of what it says is going to be fictional. Still, the care that has gone into these explanations is admirable and makes theGunbuster world more respectable. Hideaki Anno would go on to combine super robot and real robot concepts in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

These shorts didn't make me like Gunbuster any more than I did before but they're worth a watch and have a few silly moments.