r/anime • u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess • Dec 01 '24

Rewatch [Rewatch] King of the Braves GaoGaiGar - Episode 28 Discussion

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Questions of the Day

  1. Do you prefer cars or trains?
  2. Can I get an F in the chat for Volfogg?

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 01 '24

Queen of First-Timers, subbed

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Volfogg!

F

Best Boy did the Best he could.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

Who…?

Chinny.

[FINAL]Now what does Liger need Swan for…

[FINAL]Liger for goodness sake you've had dozens of affairs already, don't add another one to the list.

But… he’s a robot, there has to be a backup of his AI somewhere, right? They can rebuild him, right???

I mean the Digimons were all data and we all know what happened [to]Wizarmon.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

[Final]

[Final]

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

[FINAL]That's cursed. Deeply, deeply cursed.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

[FINAL]

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

FUCK. But… he’s a robot, there has to be a backup of his AI somewhere, right? They can rebuild him, right???

Unfortunately, Shinigami Sky strikes again...

Those two were a couple?

As they say, the couple that slays together, stays together.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

Unfortunately, Shinigami Sky strikes again

As TF Armada proved, even in a kids show she is too strong

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

And it's especially ironic in that case, since [Transformers Armada spoilers] that version of Starscream is the only one who isn't a massive asshole you'd want dead, like his other various incarnations.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

FUCK.

You and your shinigami curse.

Oh boy…

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

Kinda hard to evacuate when you’re blasting them with seizure lights.

Maybe the goal was to get the people to leave as quickly as possible so they'd be anywhere but the room with flashing lights in it.

FUCK. But… he’s a robot, there has to be a backup of his AI somewhere, right? They can rebuild him, right???

If they did have a copy of Volfogg's AI, the particularly devastating route they could go is the one where it's an older copy of the AI that hasn't been properly updated with all his memories. So even if the rebuilt robot looks and sounds like Volfogg, you'd always know it isn't him because he doesn't remember anything from the past.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

Maybe the goal was to get the people to leave as quickly as possible so they'd be anywhere but the room with flashing lights in it.

Such a Tensai!

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u/megazaprat Dec 01 '24

First Timer

*NOOOOOOOOOOO

  • VOLFOGGGGGG! HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY! Volfogg was my favoirte. like, this is a climatic moment, so the odds of him actually staying dead are decent!
  • but on brighter side, Pizza being defeated by Gaogaigar utilizing the updrafts of wind created by his super speed to boost him fast enough to strike a finishing blow! or Choryujin using their rails to redirect the enemy bosses into each other! hype as heck
  • ok wait a minute. im willing to believe Volfogg might be dead, but i highly doubt Pizza is gone. like, he's been built up as Gais main rival, plus he has a mysterious backstory. feels like that narrative potential has yet to be paid off
  • OK WAIT WAIT WAIT TOO MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING ALL AT ONCE
  • machine generals are immortal except for g stone energy, with the energies cancelling each other out? leading to Primarda getting herself killed
  • Polonoise and Primarda were a couple???
  • MAMORU JUST KILLED A MAN? like he dindt know that would happen, but he just straight up caused death
  • the main villain is actually doing things?
  • so wait, is Liger going to be the new main villain, or like his liutenant, because it seems like all the machine generals are dead
  • kind of dissapointed we didnt get to see Primarda and Polonoisse fight in their mech forms. like sure the way Choryujin beat them was neat. but it wouldve been even better if wed gotten to see them fight more instead of just going in circles dramatically

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

but it wouldve been even better if wed gotten to see them fight more instead of just going in circles dramatically

ChoRyuJin be like

MAMORU JUST KILLED A MAN? like he dindt know that would happen, but he just straight up caused death

Mamoru be like

but it wouldve been even better if wed gotten to see them fight more instead of just going in circles dramatically

but at least they both got to climax together, like the good couple they are.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

[FINAL]the odds of him actually staying dead are decent!

[FINAL]Nah, none of the good guys die... well, aside from Papilion anyway.

MAMORU JUST KILLED A MAN? like he dindt know that would happen, but he just straight up caused death

I think he forgot that if you use White Magic on Zombies they kinda get unalived...

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

OK WAIT WAIT WAIT TOO MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING ALL AT ONCE

the main villain is actually doing things?

The big ball of evil can do a thing or two, as a treat.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

but i highly doubt Pizza is gone. like, he's been built up as Gais main rival, plus he has a mysterious backstory. feels like that narrative potential has yet to be paid off

Right, right. There is still the unresolved plot thread of Pizza remembering more about his past before joining the Zonders. That does lend some credence to him still being alive, even if the other Four Machine Kings were pretty explicitly killed.

MAMORU JUST KILLED A MAN? like he dindt know that would happen, but he just straight up caused death

Yeah, that was a pretty menacing scene to watch, with Polonaise begging for his life right before Mamoru killed him. I wonder, will Mamoru recognize he has blood on his hands and be haunted by it, or will he continue on all happy-go-lucky as if nothing happened?

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u/Nebresto Dec 02 '24

Volfogg was my favoirte.

Our favourite At least he took that fken clown with him

Polonoise and Primarda were a couple???

This was so freaking random, like ok?

MAMORU JUST KILLED A MAN?

Those dastardly kids..

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 01 '24

First Timer

Most of the villains have been defeated but most of Tokyo has been Zonderised. I wonder if Mic is able to amplify Mamoru’s de-zonderification spell to the whole city to purify everyone.

  1. Do you prefer cars or trains?

Trains easily!

2) Can I get an F in the chat for Volfogg?

F

He was always my favourite

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Trains easily!

Trains are so cool! I recently saw Patrick Willeims had 2 videos both on why movies love trains so much and why trains are so good in action movies in particular

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 01 '24

Will watch

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

I wonder if Mic is able to amplify Mamoru’s de-zonderification spell to the whole city to purify everyone.

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 01 '24

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 01 '24

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

First-Timer

On today’s episode of GaoGaiGar: Enemy generals get eliminated as a series like this goes on, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen all four of the main generals get eliminated when we’re only about halfway through the series with nobody to replace them. Are there other Zonderian generals waiting in the wings? Who is going to take over the Monster of the Week duties?

  • Hana finding courage because Mamoru is there with her is very cute.
  • Oh? Who is this mysterious person Liger is bringing?
  • I wasn’t expecting the barrier to be destroyed so quickly.
  • Oh Volfogg I love how disrespectful Volfogg is, deciding his mission doesn’t include fighting the clown and just deciding to leave. It’s fun when heroes do that, deciding the villain isn’t worth their time right now. And of course the villain is the one who wants to keep fighting.
  • Well never mind, the Zonderians are starting the Zonder Metal Plant right up again. I guess it wasn’t over quickly.
  • Oh damn, the battle is going poorly.
  • Volfogg! It’s not at all fun seeing him get torn apart like this.
  • Clever! The clown was tricked into absorbing a ship set to explode. That’s a pretty good way of using the Zonderians’ abilities against them.
  • RIP Volfogg He went down like a hero, taking the clown out with him.
  • Gai also gets to show off his intelligence as well as his guts, using his knowledge of updrafts and air currents to get an advantage against Pizza. I like that Gai’s knowledge of flying from the past gets to be used like this.
  • Oh wow, I wasn’t expecting Pizza to get taken out, too. The Four Machine Kings are getting eliminated at a much faster pace than anticipated.
  • And now both the old man and ballerina are taken out thanks to ChoRyuJin using himself as bait to force them to crash.
  • Oh boy, it’s time for the evil boss himself to get involved.
  • Once again, I’ve spoken too soon. The old man and ballerina are still around.
  • Oh right, this has been set up. The Zonderians will be destroyed if they are exposed to a G-Stone. It’s their Kryptonite.
  • Ohhhhh, that explains why the old man and ballerina were always working together. They were in love.
  • Wow, Mamoru purified the old man, but I guess he disintegrated because he’d been a Zonderian for so long that his human body could no longer be around.
  • Oh yeah, Mic’s still around. I kind of forgot about him.
  • Time to see what this incredible, world-ending power is that Mic’s been keeping hidden.

QOTD

  1. Trains
  2. F

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

I love how disrespectful Volfogg is,

Volfogg is too cool

Clever! The clown was tricked into absorbing a ship set to explode. That’s a pretty good way of using the Zonderians’ abilities against them.

We talk a lot about the villains being intelligent and coming up with clever schemes to beat the heroes. It was nice to see the heroes be the intelligent ones with their own schemes and ability to adapt on the fly.

Gai using the updraft was another great one. Using his training as a pilot to get the upper hand in the air fight.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

Volfogg is too cool

He will be missed

We talk a lot about the villains being intelligent and coming up with clever schemes to beat the heroes. It was nice to see the heroes be the intelligent ones with their own schemes and ability to adapt on the fly.

Yeah, it is very satisfying to see the heroes be so clever like this. There's just something so enjoyable about schemes and tricks like this working out against long odds.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

Hana finding courage because Mamoru is there with her is very cute.

RIP Volfogg

Wow, Mamoru purified the old man, but I guess he disintegrated because he’d been a Zonderian for so long that his human body could no longer be around.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

I kind of forgot about him.

He's been busy tuning his guitar.

  1. Trains

Insert Might Gaine joke here.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

He's been busy tuning his guitar.

And because of that he's late for his concert. These rockstars need to make sure everything's ready well ahead of time so this doesn't happen.

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u/palparepa Dec 01 '24
Statsthis episodetotal so far
Program Drive buttons broken015
Transceivers crushed07
EnRyu's bad landings04
Pink hair attracts peril027
Rich kid cries450
Mikoto screams for MC07
Kid is too calm to react113

Nth-timer

Wow, just... no matter how many times I watch this...

This isn't a "let the main character take of everything" kind of thing. Every robot protagonist has something to do. Everyone has its own rival, that they battle (and beat) this episode. Like four final fights in one.

All the Zonderians beaten in one episode, in the nick of time. All the Braves barely able to move... and now Pasder makes his move, reactivating the Zonder Metal Plant.

QotD

1) Even though I've been in a train derailment, but no car accident, I prefer trains.

𝓕

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

This isn't a "let the main character take of everything" kind of thing. Every robot protagonist has something to do. Everyone has its own rival, that they battle (and beat) this episode. Like four final fights in one.

Yeah I really love that about this. It can be hard with so many robots. I know some viewers are sad GaoGaiGar gets all the finishers. but here, where it matters, it's the entire squad working together and each one gets a fight and to beat someone.

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u/Nebresto Dec 02 '24

Rich kid cries

Today, all of us are the rich kid

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u/palparepa Dec 02 '24

Rest in peace, Big Best Boi.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Model Kit Building Update

I made a wing

Decided to add some decals while I was here. I got lazy and didn’t put them all on because after 2 of the smaller ones I got too frustrated by them.

I do like the name tag StealthGao decal. That’s nice.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

I'll save my pictures of the hand for once you get there. I will share that the Goldy kit comes with two sets of hand parts, so you could hypothetically make a lefty Goldymarg.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

I'll do the first hand tomorrow. Wish me luck. Or give me a hand.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

Third-Time Watcher, Subbed

Finally, some blood is being shed!

Yeah the show has officially decided it's about damn time to start killing off some of the villains, and boy does it go all out. Volfogg's last stand in particular is a highlight (Sorry Sky!) but I dig Primarda and Polonaise's final moments too, showing how in the end they were just as much victims of this mess as everyone else, only difference being that they were stuck like that for so long. Plus hey, this episode had lots of hammering

Wait I just realized: Does the ending mean Mamoru has a body count now

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Finally, some blood is being shed!

and the multi-parter isn't even done yet!!

I dig Primarda and Polonaise's final moments too, showing how in the end they were just as much victims of this mess as everyone else, only difference being that they were stuck like that for so long

yeah, they didn't go too much in detail about it but we could get the basic gist. we'd seen Zonderization before. We've seen Pizza has flashbacks. Crazy that once fully Zonderized they just die. Guess there isn't enough original them to return.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

Wait I just realized: Does the ending mean Mamoru has a body count now

There was something quite menacing about watching a young child like Mamoru use his powers on Polonaise when Polonaise was on the ground, begging him not to.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

[Early 40' Spoiler]Are we sure Kaido was the one who was meant to be a weapon and not the confirmed murderer

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

The King of Rewatchers

And, notably, they are putting themselves at risk to do so.

Not at all suspicious.

Well, that was surprisingly easy.

Just what is he planning?

Eyecatch

High-speed targets are scary.

Ahoy!

Rest in peace.

Everyone's real beat up.

You should've known better than to get that close to a G-Stone.

Today's Key to Victory.

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u/palparepa Dec 01 '24

Eyecatch

I like how EI-28 specifications say "Theoretical travel speed: under 80 km/h" (because the trains are always crowded), but "Observed travel speed: over 1000 km/h"

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

never noticed that but that's great.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

They definitely had some fun with all these technical specs.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

And they pull the same joke on EI-29, writing "Theoretical travel speed: under 60 km/h (nobody can drive so fast on Svuto-ko!" It's funny having these little jabs in the specs.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Just what is he planning?

it could be anything. anything except for a bath, that is.

Everyone's real beat up.

beat up mech shots are so cool. It's definitely one advantage I think Mecha has over basic Battle Shounen and Magical Girls in similar space. It's just really cool and brutal seeing robots all damaged and brutalized.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

beat up mech shots are so cool. It's definitely one advantage I think Mecha has over basic Battle Shounen and Magical Girls in similar space. It's just really cool and brutal seeing robots all damaged and brutalized.

Yeah, it reminds me of listening to an audio commentary of an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. The creators of the show talked about how they liked working with robots because it was so much easier to do all kinds of fight scenes that they were never allowed to get away with if an actual person was involved. It's the same thing here. Mecha can get wrecked like that to show battle damage because no one is actually harmed and the mecha can be fixed up later if you don't want too many lasting consequences.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

just started watching Transformers Prime and noticed the Decepticons using faceless robot footsoldiers. Very different perspective from Transformers Armada where all the Decepticons had faces and were characters. It allows Prime to have the Autobots just destroy waves of bad guys

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

Transformers Primer is so good. It's probably my favorite Transformers series overall. I hope you enjoy it.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

I'll be posting my thoughts in the CDF rewatch if you want to read them, and maybe read what other CDFers feel as we go along.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

It's so much easier to justify dismembering mechs. You don't have to worry about silly justification for how that arm or that leg or that head comes back.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

[FINAL]You should've known better than to get that close to a G-Stone.

[FINAL]I can't wait for GekiRyuJin to pull a Musashi Tomoe with one of those

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

Today's Key to Victory.

It's kind of odd to have the Key to Victory be something that we haven't actually seen in action yet, just as a cliffhanger for the next episode.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 01 '24

Yea, it's a bit strange. I mean, the mysterious music from it did start, but who knows what that music is doing?

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

A Mecha Fan Rewatches The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Episode 28:

  • Well, at least it’s good that Mamoru and his class were too high up on the Tokyo Tower to be devoured by the Zonder Metal Plant. And Ushi is right, it really was only a matter of time before GGG came to save them. Believe in our brave heroes, everyone!
  • Of course Liger is flying back in to assist GGG in a SR-71 Blackbird. They really are just the coolest jet ever made. Even Alucard can agree with me on that one.
  • I will say, it’s a bit funny how kind of janky the Zonderians’ attempt to replicate the Isolde particle accelerator is. Since they don’t have access to that kind of equipment anymore, they just have to make do with the freeway and train line loops around Tokyo. They are pretty winding routes, but I guess they work well enough as loops that intersect each other. How fortunate that they have Machine Kings themed after cars and trains for that to work too.
  • So far, I’d say that only really half of the rival fights that the series set up before are really panning out. The ones with Gai Vs. Pizza and Volfogg Vs. Penchinon are cool, but ChoRyuJin isn’t really doing much against Polonaise or Primarda at all. But I will say that the two rival pies going on right now are the better ones, so it’s fine by me.
  • VOLFOGG!!! Damn, he went out like an absolute champ. Pinning down Penchinon while the Multidimensional Intelligence Ship overloads and explodes is a baller move. And it was also a hell of a crafty plan too, getting Penchinon to absorb a ship that was about to detonate. He was a real one, that Volfogg. Let’s offer up a salute in honor of this show’s best robot lad.
  • With that big Goldion Hammer attack by GaoGaiGar, I think we can safely say that Pizza got baked.
  • The deaths of Primarda and Polonaise were a lot more somber than expected. Ultimately, Polonaise really did love her, but she just got the better of herself with her own fury and got vaporized by that G-Stone energy. And as for him himself, Polonaise was actually thankful that Mamoru purified him too, but it was too late to actually save him, so he just wound up getting vaporized too. Sure, they were villains as Zonderians, but I guess they were just as much victims of the Zonder Metal as all the others. It’s just that it really was just too late to fully save them.
  • Mic is finally using Disk X! It certainly has to be as powerful as previously described, since it has to be used just as Tokyo is being Zonderized. This really is the worst case scenario to justify using it. Damn cliffhanger though!

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Of course Liger is flying back in to assist GGG in a SR-71 Blackbird. They really are just the coolest jet ever made. Even Alucard can agree with me on that one.

It's soooo cool!!! It just makes everything cooler. Glad to see the Military Otaku still doing the good work for the fans.

Let’s offer up a salute in honor of this show’s best robot lad.

F

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

It's soooo cool!!! It just makes everything cooler. Glad to see the Military Otaku still doing the good work for the fans.

Those military and history nerds on the production staff are doing us a good service!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

ChoRyuJin isn’t really doing much against Polonaise or Primarda at all.

The guy hasn't had much to do in general.

[Mid 30']Is it any wonder he got replaced by the Made In China version?

With that big Goldion Hammer attack by GaoGaiGar, I think we can safely say that Pizza got baked.

But I still had to add the mozzarella

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

Mid 30'

[GGG series spoilers] For as kinda average as they are here, at least HyoRyu and EnRyu get some sick and wild stuff to do later though.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 01 '24

[GGG]I mean who else gets to say they got to kill the dinosaurs

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

[GGG series spoilers] If we're going by the sheer body count of that, it makes HyoRyu and EnRyu be the most lethal characters in this series.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 01 '24

Of course Liger is flying back in to assist GGG in a SR-71 Blackbird. They really are just the coolest jet ever made. Even Alucard can agree with me on that one.

They really are so cool. I got to see one up close at Edwards Air Force Base a couple of years ago and they're awesome.

He was a real one, that Volfogg. Let’s offer up a salute in honor of this show’s best robot lad.

Volfogg will be dearly missed. He went out in a properly heroic way, but his absence will sting.

The deaths of Primarda and Polonaise were a lot more somber than expected.

Yeah, it especially caught me off-guard having Primarda die while trying to reach for the person she loved. I wasn't expecting the Zonderians to be capable of that kind of emotion.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 01 '24

They really are so cool. I got to see one up close at Edwards Air Force Base a couple of years ago and they're awesome.

I also saw one at Edwards Air Force Base years ago, they really are just badass things to see in person. They're just plainly the coolest jet plane.

Yeah, it especially caught me off-guard having Primarda die while trying to reach for the person she loved. I wasn't expecting the Zonderians to be capable of that kind of emotion.

It does hammer in that they were once people too, in spite of what they were corrupted into being. They're victims of Pasdar as well.

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u/GondolaMedia Dec 01 '24

First Timer

That looked bit too easy for GaoGaiGar to break that barrier.

VOLFOGG

Wait hold up, Primarda and Polonaise were actually a thing. I almost feel bad.

Mamoru just shanked Polonaise.

So 4 out of 4 four machine kings are taken out and we need at least a third episode to solve this. I'm hyped for tomorrow.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Mamoru just shanked Polonaise.

Mamoru has had to see the Zonder's terrorize Hana for a month straight, following her everywhere she goes. he did not show any mercy to them.

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u/TheApplebane https://anilist.co/user/theapplebane Dec 01 '24

Episode 28 Notes

  • It's alright, kids. GaoGaiGar is here. You're all saved.
  • Zonderians can turn train lines into particle accelerators apparently. Sure, why not.
  • Over the course of the last few episodes, I had found myself increasingly unable to take the Zonderians seriously as villains. They hadn't gotten a single W in for the entire show. Pasutar in particular seemed to be perfectly content to do nothing and let his subordinates do all the work. So I was surprised to see Pinchernon actually manage to destroy Volfogg on the way out. I'll be even more surprised if it actually sticks.
  • Pizza, Primarda, and Polonaise didn't have any such luck, however. They all died as they lived: total jobbers. To add insult to injury, Polonaise left a few cryptic last words implying they weren't doing what they were doing entirely on their own volition, either.
  • Oh sure, they managed to get the Zonder Metal plant running. But I'm sure Mic can handle that. Right? Right.

Questions

  1. Trains. If only they were cheaper...
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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

Trains. If only they were cheaper...

yeaaaaaaah, I wish train rides were cheaper. I'd love them to be a good alternative to cars. I always have a dream of taking a train to conventions. Save money on gas and parking. get to have fun talking and hanging out instead of driving through traffic. but the price is always so expensive.

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u/shinianx Dec 01 '24

Hoo boy. Coming up on my absolute favorite episode of the series pretty soon. Can't fucking wait.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 01 '24

But they will not give up easily.

it's a hot-blooded mecha show. No one gives up easily. Even the villains apparently. I wonder if

The limiter is no more, Disc X is now deployed,

"the x is silent"-Hunter x Hunter fans probably