Introduction
A young engineer, Tetsurou Okino, is transferred to a vermin extermination company called Hato Industries with the new robot Bullbuster that he developed himself. There, Hato Industries, a small company with little money, and its president Tajima are against a mysterious creature. There are fuel costs for robots, labor costs for pilots, and of course, wasting even a single bullet is unacceptable. Between their ideals of extermination and the reality of budgets, what does the future hold for Hato?
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Audience reviews
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ggultra2764
An entry in the “real robot” genre of anime, Bullbuster focuses on the members of the vermin extermination company known as Namikome Industries. The pests in question are mutated creatures known as “giant beasts” and Namikome utilizes super powered robots to handle extermination of the beasts in order to allow the residents of Ryugan Island to return to their home. However with the small scale of Namikome’s operations, they also have to be careful with business expenses as far as management of ammunition and maintenance of their robots go.
I suppose I’ll just get the main thing with Bullbuster out of the way first in mentioning the title’s mecha elements. Bullbuster goes pretty hard with its “real robot” element with the titular mecha and a few other units used by Namikome Industries bein…
Read at the sourceSagitar03
From the beginning of the series it is made clear that this anime will be slow, perhaps a little more than other "slice of life", and that what sets it apart is the "seriousness" with which the main story is taken.
Which is basically having an independent company with a low budget. Of course, this company is not ordinary, since its job consists of exterminating pests, pests in the form of Kaijus, with bad CGI, that forced the inhabitants of an island to abandon their homes.
The main characters have a good design along with their well-defined personalities and, in principle, different motivations that make us ignore how slow the chapters can be in favor of knowing more about them.
The Mechas are...Rustic and of course, the world seems to be a modern Japan, so the technology together with th…
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Eh. It was okay. Nothing special to be honest. 3D models of robots and monsters fighting. The story was interesting, but some episodes are too boring in my opinion. And I do mean boring.
The character development. One or two characters developed good I think. The other people don't develop much unfortunately. In my opinion. Or maybe three characters developed. Not sure.
The art and animation of this anime is alright I guess. The fights are mostly 3D. Outside of that, it's alright. Average I would say.
It's difficult. Really difficult. One hand, the story is interesting, but some episodes are so boring, like I was really bored. The character development is fine for what it is. The art and animation is okay. It's just nothing special in my opinion.
Read at the sourceCaptainKenshiro
Despite probably being one of the least hyped anime in history, I really wanted to watch Bullbuster as soon as I read its premise, because it was about mecha, and because it sounded really retro, immediately making me smile. Unfortunately, besides the meme initial reaction it caused because of the combination of its name and studio, the one behind Deca-Dence, and the second reason why I wanted to watch this, its reception was almost completely negative since the very first episode based on its elements alone, which is sad because it proves that shows like Patlabor or Dai-Guard would be very negatively received today on concept alone.
Granted, Bullbuster has serious issues in its execution, but most of the criticisms towards it come from its elements alone, and not because of its handling…
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Bullbuster - Wait, is that how you pronounce ballbuster? Oops, sorry, wrong spelling. It's BULL-buster, not BALL-buster.
The one show this season that I was so shell-shocked by its absurdly low rating (which it clearly does not deserve), brought on by the sheer number of very few people watching it. It's a rather unassuming anime called Bullbuster. Kadokawa's mixed-media franchise, which started out shikas a concept book in 2017, later receiving Hiroyuki Nanao's 3-volume novel that's illustrated by Eisaku Kubonouchi, the original character designer for Carole & Tuesday. This then, leads us to the return of the NUT: the studio responsible for Youjo Senki: The Saga of Tanya the Evil, studio NUT is back after a rather lengthy hiatus (if you don't count the mediocre FLCL variants) doing what…
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