Noriko Takaya
Noriko Takaya is the protagonist of Gunbuster. Daughter of Admiral Yuzo Takaya, who was lost with the Luxion fleet, she enrols at Okinawa Girls’ Space Pilot High School and trains under Coach Ohta. She grows from incompetent trainee to pilot of the Gunbuster (combining Buster Machine 1 and Buster Machine 2) and becomes humanity’s greatest hope. In Diebuster she is mythologised as “Nono-riri,” the legendary figure Nono idolises.