Noriko Takaya

Category:Gainax Characters
Noriko Takaya (タカヤ・ノリコ) is the main character of Top o Nerae! Gunbuster and the pilot of Buster Machine 1. Born on September 12, 2006 in Osaka, Japan, she is the daughter of famous space captain Yuzo Takaya, who disappeared in the Luxion disaster of 2015. She enrolled in Okinawa High School for Girlsso that she could become a space pilot like her father. When she was chosen for the Gunbuster projectdespite her lack of piloting ability, her classmates saw it as nepotism and she was bullied for it.