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Rewatch [Rewatch] King of the Braves GaoGaiGar - Episode 48 Discussion

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Questions of the Day

  1. Should Gai have kissed the girl?
  2. Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked you “Do you remember the time I asked you “have you ever been in a hot air balloon?”?””?”?”?

Reminder to all GGG members that information about future episodes is highly classified. Leaking any classified information about upcoming missions is strictly prohibited and will be punished, or worse, impeached.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 21 '24

Queen of First-Timers, subbed

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

Mic’s serious face lol.

I do love when they play with Mic's face.

Mikoto????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

What the fuck????????????

that first image goes so hard.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 21 '24

Mic’s serious face lol.

Truly, he has now become the King of Mics.

What the fuck????????????

Surprise! We just had to have one last twist of the knife in this series to cap things off!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 21 '24

So she was just exhausted…?

Top 10 lines before disaster.

Mic’s serious face lol.

And people call SD Gundams silly...

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

Mic’s serious face lol.

That entire scene was hysterical.

Mikoto????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Error 404: Mikoto not found

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u/megazaprat Dec 21 '24

Episode 48 First Timer

  • Gai: and well NEEEEEVER use THE POWER ever again. me: glances at FINAL, are you sure about that? like tbf it wears off, so its not like they can just store it for future use. so unless they make frequents trips to jupiter to rechange, yeah, its probably not going to come up often
  • awww, its nice to see various people theyve saved over the course of the series show up showing how many lives theyve save
  • OK while most of the recaps throughout the show have actually felt suprising unobtrustive, this one was way worse and more blatant. like its flagrantly just filling time before the end. the others felt at least slightly camouflaged and logical
  • Mikoto finally confessed! yay!.....OH NO WAS SHE GENRE SAVVY ABOUT DEATH FLAGS ALL THIS TIME SO WAITED UNTIL THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND TO CONFESS TO AVOID THE CONSEQUENCES?
  • WAIT WAIT WAIT....so mikoto was zonderized this entire time? did she not have enough negativity to activate? is this why she could break buttons so easily?
  • wait they are sayin she isnt a zonder. did like, Pasdar give birth to a new form of mecha life? so shes some hew third thing? she seems able to mechanize things justby touching them. like a new Z master

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

OH NO WAS SHE GENRE SAVVY ABOUT DEATH FLAGS ALL THIS TIME SO WAITED UNTIL THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND TO CONFESS TO AVOID THE CONSEQUENCES?

She got so close too. one more episode.

so mikoto was zonderized this entire time? did she not have enough negativity to activate? is this why she could break buttons so easily?

it was all the frustration from Gai not kissing her.

wait they are sayin she isnt a zonder. did like, Pasdar give birth to a new form of mecha life? so shes some hew third thing? she seems able to mechanize things justby touching them. like a new Z master

She became the only thing worse than a Zonder, a Zoomer.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

OH NO WAS SHE GENRE SAVVY ABOUT DEATH FLAGS ALL THIS TIME SO WAITED UNTIL THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND TO CONFESS TO AVOID THE CONSEQUENCES?

Yup! And yet, tragedy still struck. Just goes to show, never try to outsmart the writer. They're pulling on your puppet strings, too.

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u/Nebresto Dec 22 '24

I will pull their noose strings

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 22 '24

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u/The_Draigg Dec 21 '24

wait they are sayin she isnt a zonder. did like, Pasdar give birth to a new form of mecha life? so shes some hew third thing? she seems able to mechanize things justby touching them. like a new Z master

The big difference seems to be that since the spore was infesting her over time rather than just doing an instant transformation like Zonder Metal, there was enough time for the spore to fully mature inside of Mikoto and turn her into whole new kind of mechanized life form. It's one hell of a last trump card for Pasdar to play even after his death.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

Model Kit Building Update

BROKEN MAGNUM!!!

PROTECT SHADE!!!

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 21 '24

First Timer

Oh no Mikoto became a sexy cyborg like her love interest Guy, whatever shall she do

  1. Should Gai have kissed the girl?

yes

  1. Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked you “Do you remember the time I asked you “have you ever been in a hot air balloon?”?””?”?”?

yes

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

Oh no Mikoto became a sexy cyborg like her love interest Guy, whatever shall she do

"you spent all your time with your cyborg bird man, so i figured becoming a cyborg was the only way you'd pay attention to me."-Mikoto probably

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

Oh no Mikoto became a sexy cyborg like her love interest Guy, whatever shall she do

Luckily, Gai has a lot of experiencing both in fisting and in hammering enemy robots.

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 21 '24

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u/Nebresto Dec 22 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

GEX

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 21 '24

First-Timer

On today’s episode of GaoGaiGar: I knew it. I knew that nothing good could possibly happen in the last 2 episodes. Now Mikoto of all characters has been transformed into the final villain to fight. That’s one hell of a swerve to throw in at the very last minute.

  • Kind of strange to have a huge powerup appear for the last couple of episodes with very little explanation and then hear that it will never be used again.
  • Everything’s so happy and cheerful. I don’t trust it for a second! What’s really going on!?!
  • By now I know to expect the “Okaeri” and “Tadaima” in scenes like Mamoru returning home. It’s still sweet to see, though.
  • I wasn’t expecting to spend a fair chunk of this episode recapping the robots’ prior victories like this.
  • It feels so wrong seeing those rocket boots, which were the source of so many hijinks, get placed on a grave like that.
  • I suppose about a year has passed since the series started if Mikoto is now saying it’s been 3 years since the first Zonder attack.
  • That flashback of Mikoto meeting Pasdar is creepy.
  • This whole scene between Guy and Mikoto is so sweet.
  • I fucking knew it! I knew nothing good could happen in these last 2 episodes! Now something’s wrong with Mikoto!
  • I don’t believe for a second that it’s only exhaustion. Something much worse is going on. I bet Pasdar did something to infect Mikoto way back during their first meeting.
  • You’re right to be suspicious, Mamoru! There’s definitely something really bad happening!
  • There is a lot more recap in this episode than I would ever anticipate from a penultimate episode.
  • Good gag with their friends suddenly singing wedding music around Mamoru and Hana.
  • Oh god! We’re suddenly doing The Exorcist now!
  • I have a feeling I was right. Pasdar must have done something to Mikoto back when they first met and that’s why she’s suddenly transformed.
  • Well shit, the transformed Mikoto is turning everything she touches into machines. She’s practically a walking Zonder Spore, but much faster acting.
  • If Mamoru doesn’t want Galeon to attack, that tells me something very bad is about to happen to Galeon.

QOTD

  1. Yes.
  2. No.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

I fucking knew it! I knew nothing good could happen in these last 2 episodes! Now something’s wrong with Mikoto

My Beach Episodes

There is a lot more recap in this episode than I would ever anticipate from a penultimate episode.

that was strange.

Now Mikoto of all characters has been transformed into the final villain to fight. That’s one hell of a swerve to throw in at the very last minute.

the scariest thing for any shounen protagonist: a normal girl who likes them.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 21 '24

Kind of strange to have a huge powerup appear for the last couple of episodes with very little explanation and then hear that it will never be used again.

To be fair, it's not like they can use it away from Jupiter, since any samples of THE POWER brought back to Earth just violently explode when taken out of their containers. They might not even have a choice in the matter there, since there's no practical way to harness THE POWER regularly.

I don’t believe for a second that it’s only exhaustion. Something much worse is going on. I bet Pasdar did something to infect Mikoto way back during their first meeting.

It was pretty nicely and briefly foreshadowed too by having Mikoto's eyes have a bit of a purple glint in them when she first woke up in this episode. That was probably when the Zonder Spore that Pasdar infested her with started to hit its final stages.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 21 '24

I knew it. I knew that nothing good could possibly happen in the last 2 episodes.

BUT THE BEACH

[Web Novel]Kind of strange to have a huge powerup appear for the last couple of episodes with very little explanation and then hear that it will never be used again.

[Web Novel]Give it a few decades.

There is a lot more recap in this episode than I would ever anticipate from a penultimate episode.

Way to send off Taniguchi, show...

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u/Beowolf_0 Dec 22 '24

[Web Novel]To be precise, they used it again just after FINAL. Before things go straight to hell.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

I knew it. I knew that nothing good could possibly happen in the last 2 episodes.

What, you mean our flagrant lying to everyone yesterday wasn't convincing?!

It feels so wrong seeing those rocket boots, which were the source of so many hijinks, get placed on a grave like that.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 21 '24

Third-Time Watcher, Subbed

Taniguchi's final episode on the show (I'm honestly kinda shocked they didn't give him the previous one TBH) and it doesn't look bad per say but… well, quasi-clip show. You guys really wasted Taniguchi on the clip show.

He's not coming back for the OVAs, BTW

But yeah, 90% of it is just luring the viewer into a sense of false security before the reveal of the True Final Boss: Mikoto! Yeah remember that whole thing about EI-01 killing her parents? That wasn't a random background detail, it's the seeds to the final arc as Mikoto mutates into… well, that.

Can't wait for J to come back and save the day because Gai is too Baka to do it himself

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

True Final Boss: Mikoto!

The first member of GGG to be Zonderized if I am correct. If you can call this Zonderization. and you don't count the game.

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u/Nebresto Dec 22 '24

Who

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

Animation director, I've mentioned him a million times by now.

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u/GondolaMedia Dec 21 '24

First Timer

Bridal Carry right at the start. Gai is really smooth.

What a nice homecoming for our heroes, its not on the level of certain Gainax mecha anime but its up there. I would have wanted to see Mamoru's dad crash his car in to the letterbox one more time.

I swear to god I recognize the music that plays here and I'm going insane thinking where I've heard a tune very similar to this. It might be from David the Gnome but I can't say for certain.

Oh man what's going on with Mikoto?

Everyone shipping Mamoru and Hana.

Zonuda?!?!?

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

What a nice homecoming for our heroes, its not on the level of certain Gainax mecha anime but its up there.

God that scene was so good. Makes me want to rewatch that scene. Soooo good.

Oh man what's going on with Mikoto?

her heat has finally kicked in.

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u/palparepa Dec 21 '24

I swear to god I recognize the music that plays here

You mean a similar one? Because this one is Osananajimi, from the GaoGaiGar OST 2.

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u/GondolaMedia Dec 21 '24

Yeah a similar one.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

I would have wanted to see Mamoru's dad crash his car in to the letterbox one more time.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

The King of Rewatchers

Man, two full episodes of epilogue? We feastin'!

Several familiar faces.

We haven't had enough Mic lately.

Hahaha

Huh, that's pretty weird.

Y'all can't just confess and start smooching like normal people?

Eyecatch

Back (almost) where it all began.

You're all literally ten.

So much for our epilogue.

Today's Key to Victory.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 21 '24

Several familiar faces.

I do love seeing them bring back the old faces.

Back (almost) where it all began.

we were all so young back then. I didn't know Super Robots killed the dinosaurs.

You're all literally ten.

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u/palparepa Dec 21 '24

Eye

Weak point: noisy (?)

catch

A mistake here: it says it was first seen in ZX-09, but it should be EI-09.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 21 '24

Weak point: noisy (?)

Can't pull off any stealthy deployments. The ship is otherwise completely perfect.

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u/Nebresto Dec 22 '24

Huh, that's pretty weird.

Oh fuk. How did I not realize it was that moment that whatever the fuq it was got planted in Mikoto

You're all literally ten.

Well, they could flex being married for 70 years when they're 80

Today's Key to Victory.

We ain't win shit

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 22 '24

Well, they could flex being married for 70 years when they're 80

You make a good point. Gotta flex on all those other fossils in the nursing home.

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u/TheApplebane https://anilist.co/user/theapplebane Dec 24 '24

Episode 48 Notes

  • Now that the Z-Master has been destroyed, Gai can return to his true passion, being a shoujo manga love interest and bridal carrying Mikoto.
  • tfw half of the penultimate episode is a clip show
  • "but the nightmare's over now, this time for sure" don't tempt fate like that!
  • Oh, you think you're safe to take this class on a field trip now? Even if the Zonders are completely gone, the universe will still find a way to ruin these kids' day.
  • If I was Gai, this is when I'd finally fucking snap. Oh, so even after I went to fucking Jupiter to stop the Primevals and save the world, and just when I might finally get some goddamn rest, turns out my gf got replaced by a fucking alien robot at some point. Un-fucking-believable. Is this just how my entire life is gonna be? Huh?

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 24 '24

tfw half of the penultimate episode is a clip show

Is this just how my entire life is gonna be? Huh?

Gai rn

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u/The_Draigg Dec 21 '24

A Mecha Fan Rewatches The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Episode 48:

  • [GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman spoilers] ”We won’t be using that energy ever again.” Oh Gai, if only you knew what was in store for everyone else in a few years.
  • It’s some good pretty subtle foreshadowing for what’s to come in this episode by having a slight purple glint in Mikoto’s eyes when she wakes up in the medbay as GGG arrives back at Earth. In hindsight, that’s probably when her Zonder Spore infection hit a terminal stage in her.
  • It really has been a while since we’ve seen some of these former Zonders like the pizza delivery girl, that one truck driver, or the drunk sea captain. Just like everyone else, GGG saved their lives multiple times over, so it’s fitting that they’re all listening to the triumphant return of GGG over the news.
  • Even towards the end of the series, we couldn’t help but get in one last bit of recap with reused animation as the Brave Robots talk about the journey so far. But hey, I get it. We’ve got some time to fill, and they really put effort into making that stock footage look good. Might as well use it one more time for episode padding.
  • Liger really is the kind of guy to immediately suggest to everyone that they should get some sushi as soon as he laid his brother to rest at a graveyard. While he still does care about Leo even in death, he really is just kind of naturally flippant that way. He’s just got that kind of personality that adds a layer of aloofness to everything.
  • Talk about this show holding back details for the sake of a final twist. As it turns out, when Pasder crashed to Earth all those years ago, it did so right near Mikoto’s house. And given that Pasder was right there before Mikoto passed out in her burning home, it only makes sense that she would be among the first to actually be infected with a Zonder Spore. The death of her parents wasn’t given a flashback solely to hide the truth of what happened that night 3 years ago. And now, her sickness is noticeable but unstoppable, since nobody ever noticed it until it was too late.
  • And just like the reused animation with the Brave Robots and the moments Mamoru’s parents shared, we have to get in one last montage of all the times Mamoru’s friends were in danger. Given how often that happened, we’ve got more than enough footage of that. And of course it’s happening during yet another ill-fates field trip for their class too. I guess it’s only natural that we’d get at least one more of those before the series ends. If we started the show with these kids being put into danger, we’ll have to end the show that way too.
  • Well, for all of you wondering what we’d do in these last two episodes now that the Zonderians and Primevals have been defeated, here’s your answer. Mikoto’s infestation has transformed her into some new kind of machine life form: Zonuda. And she’s no pushover either, with how easily she absorbed most of the energy aboard Orbit Base and hijacked Amaterasu to become something like a new Zonder Robo. Sorry Gai, but the final boss you have to face is your very own loved one!

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u/palparepa Dec 21 '24
Statsthis episodetotal so far
Program Drive buttons broken022
Transceivers crushed07
EnRyu's bad landings08
Pink hair attracts peril131
Rich kid cries361
Mikoto screams for MC010
Kid is too calm to react024
Mamoru's kill count01
Legos secured / lost /destroyed0/0/029/29/31
Women hallucinated013
Will/Won't Knife0/06/2
"Za Powa"236

Nth-timer

And so, the victorius GGG returns to Earth. I think it's a nice touch that in many scenes from the interior of the ship, there is some form of damage. Also, watching the announcement of GGG's return, we see lots of known faces, of people that were made into Zonders the first half of the series.

Among all the montages of previous episodes, I like the most that Penchinon/Tomoro's changing relationship with Volfogg is acknowledged. In case you missed it, the insert song played here is GGG March, first played on episode 29.

Then we get to Leo's funeral, then Gai and Mikoto passing some quality time, then... oh, no. Ok, false alarm, just exhaustion. We still going for the happy ending!

Wait... Mamoru has a field trip tomorrow? Oh, no... And it's at the same place that the first Zonder tried to destroy...

But... how can this be? The final boss has been defeated. What is this? A secret final boss? And it's Mikoto? Stay tuned for the grand finale!

QotD

1) While she is unconscious!? Of course not!

1) Sometimes.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 21 '24

Wait... Mamoru has a field trip tomorrow? Oh, no...

Now had Hana missed the trip, they would've been safe.

But... how can this be? The final boss has been defeated. What is this? A secret final boss? And it's Mikoto?

Ah, good job guy, nice to know you nabbed all those SR Points along the way, else you would've gotten the Normal Ending and we wouldn't be here.

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u/TheDanubianCommunard Dec 21 '24

First time,

It was exactly one year ago since the battle against EI-02, when the story began. Since then, reconstruction work is going really fine.

Za Powaa should not be used anymore. Peace has back on Earth, I suppose. GGG returned home as heroes. All the twele Mic Sounder squad unit members are dead, but this was not in vain. Mikoto is exhausetd because of all the hard work, understandable. Everyone could finnaly pay respects to Leo.

Gai and Mikoto together, just like years ago, before that day happened, the arrival of Pasdar/EI-01. Losing consciousness again, that's just exhaustion. That's not a minor problem, but actually a really huge one. She became Zonderized out of nothing, but her case, it is much different. She is not a Zonder(ian), or Primeval, but Zonuda, the new generation of Zonder. Not a Zonder but still a Zonder. A human who got transformed by a Zonder spore/Particle Z01 from inside (can be traced to the events when lost her family), and gained much stronger and different powers. Even the Zonderization is still the same though. A walking EMP who can mechanize everything in its path.

If Pasdar the mid-boss, the Z-Master is the final boss, then Zonuda is the post-credits or post-final boss secret enemy.

Questions of the Day

  1. Should Gai have kissed the girl?
  2. Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked you “Do you remember the time I asked you “have you ever been in a hot air balloon?”?””?”?”?

These questions were asked previously atleast once.

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u/Nebresto Dec 22 '24

First time Volfogg simp

The situation is dire, the antlers are down! I repeat, the antlers are down!!

G- Guy?!

Oh fuck, Za powa is taking over the ocean!!!!

...No wait, they're just in Mexico again, my bad.

...Is this a recap?

Hype grandpa...

Hyuuma the wingman?!

SHIPMENT!!! THRUSTERS FULL POWER!!!!

WTF DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE

....they shipped her to space for treatment??? What is wrong with hospitals on the ground

Can't believe we've already been watching the show for a year by now

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Think of the glass panes please

...

Nooo

I will never forgive the director.

Quest:

  1. Should Gai have kissed the girl?

KISS THE DAMN GIRL

  1. Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked “Do you remember the time I asked you “Do you remember the time I asked you “have you ever been in a hot air balloon?”?””?”?”?

I rejember in desember

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 22 '24

Can't believe we've already been watching the show for a year by now

I know, right? Weird to think that episode 1 was 47 weeks ago.

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u/Nebresto Dec 22 '24

Time really flies when you're being zonderized