ANI-ZONE 23 EPISODE 25: Gunbuster

The Eighties are rolling on, Japan is getting richer by the day, and the geeks at Gainax have saved up enough money to do their own OVA, instead of doing side work for other studios.  They celebrate this new creation by putting in every idea they can invent or remember, and by tapping their golden boy as a first time director.  Many miles away, a Hugo-award-winning author is working on a movie script about giant robots for a director whose most famous credit is a dark comedy based on a H.P Lovecraft Story.  It will not end well, but hear us tell how his other works informed Gainax’s debut (and how he might have invented the Gainax ending for them).