But trust me, both shows are worth their hype to watch.

Same here. I need to go back and grab my TwN! from my old PC.

>>However the moon doesn’t seem to change at all.

It will, but not immediately. It will take quite a while for it to change orbits. The moon’s orbit isn’t only tied to the Earth’s gravity, but also the Sun’s. I assume that if Earth is not moved back, Moon would probably take over the Earth’s orbit path.

>>how the Diebuster, the most powerful Buster Machine could fail to defeat Exelio and instead Dix-neuf and Nono (as her BM7 self) defeat Exelio with the kick attack?

Diebuster was made up of the millions of the Solar System Defense Force units, each acting like a cell. However, enormous it is, it still doesn’t contain as much power potential. Think of it as more like a heavy armor suit being worn by an agile swordsman. In RPG terms, this would be like increasing DEF at the cost of AGI.

As for how, Diebuster was defeated easily by Exelio, the answer lies in the degeneration reactor. As established by TwN!, degeneration reactors are one of the most powerful energy sources created by mankind, with their power output per second equivalent to the Sun’s power output per second.

In essence, one degeneration reactor is equivalent to one Sun and back in TwN!, the Gunbuster was powered by *TWO* of these babies and it had enough power to destroy whole clusters of the space monsters, INCLUDING the VGW types, which can be classified as Mothership-class.

So, in the end, Exelio was defeated by both Nono and Dix-Neuf, who each had a degeneration reactor. I assure you that is it enough to kill off more than just Exelio, but also if another few thousand of it’s kind suddenly warped in as well, the Dix Neuf-Nono tag team would have no problem finishing those off as well.

Such are the awesomeness of the degeneration reactors.

Other than that and a few other minor gripes, TwN2 was a great show.
Can’t wait for TwN3, if they ever make one.

TJ Han: The black hole is called Exelio because it was created when the battleship Excellion (the mother ship of the Gunbuster) was sacrificed to destroy the Solar System’s resident nest of STMC before they could get a chance to locate Earth. Most of the events detailing its creation can be found at the end of Episode 05 of Gunbuster, while a video of the actual assault can be found on Youtube (under the heading The Battle of the Solar System’s Final Defense Line, or simply type in Gunbuster, whichever you prefer).

Demian: The removal of Earth from its orbit is definitely going to cause catasthropic changes, both to its neighbors as well as its native environment. However, do take note that, in the timeline of Gunbuster, this takes place about 12,000 years in the future… Surely the Humans, sealed tech aside, have already found ways to counter such a massive change in the Solar System’s makeup.

And I still say the moving Earth plan, while maybe veasible storyline wise, still really messes with the flow of the episode. Still a great show though.