Karakter & Staf

Noriko Takaya

Utama

Female · Gol. darah O

Noriko Takaya is the daughter of the famous spaceship commander Yuzo Takaya. Since her childhood Noriko would like to follow her father's steps... Unfortunately, admiral Takaya died during a battle against alien forces when Noriko was still a young girl. At the age of 16, Noriko decides to attend the Okynawa High School for girls willing to become pilots but she is not so good with the control of the robots... Kazumi's suggestions turn out to be very useful to make Noriko trust her own abilities and possibilities. In spite of that many other girls are more capable than Noriko, but when the names of the two girls going to space are announced, she and Kazumi are the ones selected. She has much untapped power, very high potential, and coach Ota knows that... Noriko will be the one in charge of piloting the Gunbuster! Usually calm, sweet tempered and often insecure, Noriko turns to a real fury when she's fighting with the Gunbuster: in the key moments of the adventure she always knows what to do, she becomes self confident and very determined in achieving her goals. A real leader.

Noriko Hidaka

Kazumi Amano

Utama

Female · Umur 18 · Gol. darah B

Kazumi Amano is the best student of the school; every girl talks to her with reverence, as Kazumi is definitely a step forward than others. Her abilities nevertheless do not derive form her natural talent but from her continuous diligence and devotion to work and training. Kazumi Amano was already a senior at the Okinawa High School for Girls when Coach Ota selected her as a pilot candidate for the Gunbuster. She had previously demonstrated that she had marvelous potential after volunteering to participate in the Machine Weapon Junior Training Program in 2015. The hard work she put into honing her skills allowed her to claim the title of Rose Queen, a title reserved only for the top female pilots in Japan. And Kazumi was the best at what she did, as she demonstrated during numerous class training sessions. During one of these training sessions is where she met Noriko Takaya. Kazumi was shocked when she heard Noriko would be selected as her operating partner for the Gunbuster. She felt that Noriko should gain more experience, that picking a class freshman who could barely keep her RX-7 Trainer on its feet for actual combat duties was a fatal mistake. Coach Ota refused to listen to her and ordered Kazumi to continue working on her own skills. This only fueled Kazumi's passions, for she also secretly harbored love for him. This later played out to some certain extent by the heated arguments the pair had when Kazumi confronted him. Kazumi married Ota in 2033 when she returned from the mission in which the Exelion was used to defeat the alien armada beyond Earth's solar system. She then remained behind on Earth as the new head coach for the Girl's School, picking up where her husband left off. In 2048 Kazumi accepted a promotion to colonel and returned to the Space Force to pilot Earth's massive new weapon against the aliens: the Black Hole Bomb.

Rei Sakuma

Kouichirou Oota

Utama

Ota is the main teacher of the school and later the second-in-command of Exelion, the spaceship used as headquarters for missions in space. Ota completely trusts Noriko and her skills that will allow her to pilot the Gunbuster, an extremely powerful robot able to effectively contrast the aliens. Moreover, Ota was one of the crewmen of Noriko's father's ship; during the unlucky battle in which he died, admiral Takaya refused the last chance of escaping and let Ota go instead. Probably due to this, Koichiro holds Noriko in great esteem and trusts her.

Norio Wakamoto

Jung Freud

Pendukung

Female · Umur 16 · Gol. darah AB

Jung Freud, member of the Soviet space squadron, is known as a genius of fighting; she comes from the Lunar base and meets Noriko and Kazumi as soon as they arrive on the spaceship Exelion. Since their first meeting, there's a great rivalry especially between Jung and Kazumi, but their dispute will soon be replaced by the battles against aliens... At first insolent and superficial when she wants to prove her superiority in fighting, Jung later becomes a very good friend of Noriko and Kazumi, even if their rivalry still remains alive as Kazumi will always get the things Jung wants for herself.

Maria Kawamura

Smith Toren

Pendukung

Male

Smith Toren is an American pilot; he's the only one that tries to comfort Noriko during her dismay caused by Kazumi's temporary mistrust. He's Noriko's first love and he fights as a couple with Noriko in a battle in the third episode as Kazumi "Onesama" Amano takes part in that battle with another girl. In the rest of the events Smith will indirectly but heavily condition the heroine's life...

Kazuki Yao

Reiko Kashiwara

Pendukung

Female

Kashiwara was the one who should have been selected to go to space with Kazumi before the choice of Noriko made by Ota. She is defeated by Noriko during a little fight with RX-78 on Earth when for the first time Noriko's talent starts revealing itself... Thanks to an interesting evolution of the school's situation, Reiko will later have a chance to revenge herself and satisfy her thirst of power...

Masako Katsuki

Tashiro Tatsumi

Pendukung

Male

Tashiro Tatsumi is the main commander of Exelion, headquarters of the anti-alien space fleet and guardian of the Gunbuster. In the last episode, captain Tatsumi will be in charge of every operations on the Eltreum; basically Tashiro takes every decisions concerning what to do and any military strategy, but the great decision the humans' future depends on will be taken by another person...

Tamio Ooki

Linda Yamamoto

Pendukung

Female

Swedish combat pilot and wingman of Jung-Freud. Yamamoto was killed in 2032 by an alien drone during the Exelion's return to Earth. She was piloting Noriko's RX-7 after hers developed a problem prior to launch against the enemy.

Ayako Shiraishi

Yuzo Takaya

Pendukung

Admiral Takaya, father of Noriko and commander of the doomed Luxion Fleet which was destroyed in the first ever engagement between Earth's forces and the race of space monsters who dominate the galaxy. Before this tragedy, he was as doting a father as possible when forced to spend most of his time in deep space, returning to his daughter every year on her birthday in order to spend the day with her. During the attack on the Luxion, he sacrificed the last seat on an escape pod to Koichiro Ohta, sealing his own fate and effectively starting off the events of the entire series.

Masashi Hirose

Kimiko Higuchi

Pendukung

Yuriko Fuchizaki

Takami Akai

Pendukung

Born in 2029, Okinawa, Japan. Takami is the daughter of Kimiko Akai. She affectionately refers to Noriko as "Auntie Noriko." She later joins the Sizzler program at the Okinawa High School for Girls at 18, hoping to be a combat pilot also. Her instructor turns out to be Kazumi Ota.

Yuriko Fuchizaki