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>there's a mountain of difference between inspiration and plagiarism
It was actually often the intention of ancient authors to retell the same old stories in as beautifully and technically sophisticated a manner as possible, not to come up with something totally original. A drawing from oral tradition is a paradigmatic (Gunbuster itself also draws from folklore in the form of the Urashima Tarou story). It was held that those stories were good, that those stories were beautiful, and that they deserved to be told again. Why is an animation director not allowed the same artistic license? Why is he not even allowed to imitate beautiful movements or pictures?
>it's just a lazy copy of aim for the ace
Anno and the team at Gainax made absolutely no secret of the fact that they were taking inspiration from a wide variety of different places, and were confident that the interesting ways their inspirations could be disassembled, reassembled, and synthesized, as well as their sheer artistic and technical skill, would be enough to justify the existence of the OVA to the public, to give it the distinction of a work holding value in itself. I mean, they literally titled it "Aim for the Top!". Do you think you've discovered some great secret by pointing out the connection? They clearly had a deep love for contemporary Japanese popular culture that they were eager to express. Gunbuster is a beautiful crystallization of the passion of early otaku and SF circles. Can you really call a loving and beautiful synthesis of Starship Troopers, Yamato, Gundam, Getter Robo, Aim for the Ace, tokusatsu films, Urashima Tarou, and more "derivative" and "lazy"? Are you really so insensitive that you can't appreciate their sincerity?

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Absolute fucking kino.
I know you look at it and think "UGH, SCHOOLGIRLS" but stick with it, push through, give it a chance. It pays off.