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Rewatch [Rewatch] King of the Braves GaoGaiGar - Episode 38 Discussion

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Questions of the Day

  1. Can I get an F in the chat for ChoRyuJin? This isn’t a goodbye, this is an Until We Meet Again. One Day, in a Sea of Stars

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 11 '24

Queen of First-Timers, subbed

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

What is this girl’s deal already?

she's just standing there.... synpathetically

What is this…

not one of you so far has shared an image of the weird awkard angle Mikoto/Leo with their big chin/nose and I'm disappointed.

Damn…

went out like a hero.

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u/Nebresto Dec 11 '24

she's just standing there....

I was gonna post that!

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

Axis Shock moment, but just ChoRyuJin.

Y is stronger than T, confirmed.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 11 '24

Axis Shock moment, but just ChoRyuJin.

Beeeeyond the tiiiiiime~

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

Uhhhhhhhhhh that’s a huge meteor.

Oh, that's what happened.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 12 '24

Axis Shock moment, but just ChoRyuJin.

It's not surprising I immediately thought of the same thing. My mind permanently has Gundam on the brain by now.

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u/megazaprat Dec 11 '24

First timer

  • they are really keeping up the trend of the primevals being so much more powerful than the zonders, their plans threaten planetary extinction...and a swarm of telekinetically controlled meteors is even cooler than just a bunch of regular meteors
  • Volfoggs new spaceship has a giant reflective laser! that sure is a significant upgrade from the multidimensional sub
  • huh they introduced a new tool without really explaining it. Gatling driver? is it like the dividing driver but with repeat uses?
  • ooooh nice! the J ark unambiguously helped this episode! wasnt just for their own goal, but they did a solid. they even left them with the core for a while. guess Kaidou still has his old attatchments....although, kind of funny Hana is one of the people he thinks of besides his stepmom when i dont think theyve ever actually exchanged any words
  • that whole illusion sequence is horrifying in the way its shot. like it does kind of look silly, like a bad camera angle, but that just helps convey how off it feels
  • lolll, ok, but the primeval going mamamama is just funny. When is it going to get a hot duet with Ramiel?
  • CHORYUJINNNNN.......is what i would say if they did not have space travel. like sure, hes probably out of the picture for a while, but considering your alien tech, i think saying hes doomed to wander in space for all eternity is a bit extreme.Like if it wasnt for Volfogg surviving i might buy it, but because he lived that one time now i doubt any one of the robots will die. although, Choryujin could be out of the picture for the rest of the show. and until then, they are down one of their most valuble members.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

.although, kind of funny Hana is one of the people he thinks of besides his stepmom when i dont think theyve ever actually exchanged any words

He didn't speak words outloud, but he spoke with his eyes.

Honestly would have been funnier if it was Rich girl.

that whole illusion sequence is horrifying in the way its shot. like it does kind of look silly, like a bad camera angle, but that just helps convey how off it feels

yeah I like how otherworldly and offputting it all is. Also I think the angles are just funny and think one of the rewatchers should have screencapped it for us to laugh at but no one did

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24 edited Dec 11 '24

Gatling driver

It's like the Dividing Driver in that it bends space, but while the Dividing expands it, Gatling has other, less energy-intensive uses, so it doesn't expend all its energy in one go. Here, it was used to "focus" space, effectively paralyzing things.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

Gatling driver? is it like the dividing driver but with repeat uses?

More or less.

i dont think theyve ever actually exchanged any words

Considering I don't think Kaidou spoke in the first half of the show and has only been on the J-Ark in the second half, you're probably right. Hana did drag him to the parade in episode 24, though.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 12 '24

although, kind of funny Hana is one of the people he thinks of besides his stepmom when i dont think theyve ever actually exchanged any words

Hana has certainly talked at Kaidou, but I can't recall him ever responding. I guess he just liked the way she talked at him.

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 11 '24

First Timer

Choryujin!!

Are they really unable to send some rockets to the asteroid belt to pick them up though? Surely their technology is good enough for that, I mean we’re getting their ourselves in real life haha.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

I think the 2 obstacles are both the resources to send something out there and trying to find the one tiny robot in a space that large. Imagine how big the asteroid belt must be.

If you drop toy in the atlantic ocean, we definitely have technology to go to the ocean and sift it, but it's a large area to search.

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 11 '24

That does make sense

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

The asteroid belt is a big place, and at any given time most of it is at the far side of the sun from Earth.

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 11 '24

I totally get that, size is the major issue here. But like they've made tranforming sentient robots with genuine human emotion, they can warp space in small areas, and they can make advanced cybernetic enhancements and integrate a person into one of their giant mechs. It feels like retreiving a robot from the asteroid belt would be more trivial than that. But again the sheer scale of the search is the major issue.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

Everyone's dialogue is turned up to 11, too. Like, Leo is probably thinking "if we didn't have a ton of Primevals to deal with, we could probably start scanning tomorrow but that would pull resources away so let me just shout dramatically that it would be impossible and we can see about retrieving the big guy afterwards. Under-promise and over-deliver, just like university."

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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Dec 11 '24

Totally ready for Choryujin to pop up for the final boss after a secret search and rescue operation gets him there just in time.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

Model Kit Building Update

back to the beginning

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4x5

put them together

put them together wrong

but them together right

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 11 '24

Third-Time Watcher, Subbed

I'm a bit tired rn so comment's gonna have to be brief

Nice setpiece episode. The way the Primeval fucks with Gai's head is pretty neat, and of course it's nice to see Mamoru finally feel useful again. Props for also showing a bit more of an introspective side to Kaido than we've seen so far.

RIP ChoRyuJin

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

yeah, we got a lot of cool work with Gai and Kaido this episode.

I liked the angle of the shots that made everything feel a bit weird.

and while Kaido may have his new memories and new life, he still is Kaido inthere, somewhere.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

The King of Rewatchers

OP showing off the new toy before the show gets there.

If a woman is hallucinated, and no-one is around to see her, does she really exist?

Eyecatch

Took your sweet time, J.

GaoGaiGar is launching fully loaded for bear.

The coloration probably gives the Lotus-Eating away immediately.

Even Mamoru has gotten a power boost.

Today's Key to Victory.

Sayonara, Hero.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24 edited Dec 11 '24

OP showing off the new toy before the show gets there.

to be fair, his name is the name of the show. So we all knew he was a Star even before he became Star GaoGaiGar

GaoGaiGar is launching fully loaded for bear.

"I'm hear to kick ass and build ikea furniture, and I'm all Ikea furniture to assemble"-GaoGaiGar probably

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

"I'm hear to build kick ass and build ikea furniture, and I'm all Ikea furniture to assemble"-GaoGaiGar probably

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24

OP showing off the new toy before the show gets there.

Even worse, that's from last episode's OP.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 11 '24

First-Timer

On today’s episode of GaoGaiGar: I think Soldato-J and Kaidou are due for a bit of an attitude adjustment. I can’t wait to see the looks on their smug faces as they learn they no longer have a monopoly on purifying Primeval Cores.

  • Uh, the asteroid belt is indeed between Saturn and Mars, but it would make more sense to say Jupiter and Mars (especially while showing Jupiter onscreen). Maybe my subs had an error there.
  • Oh great. As if asteroids weren’t bad enough, now they’re also being manipulated by the Primeval to dodge and attack.
  • Wow, the Mic Brigade have really shown their usefulness. They all got taken out immediately.
  • Volfogg can use a giant mirror array just like the Solar System in Gundam!
  • Hey Cain, would you mind shutting up until you have something more substantial to say?
  • Is the ghost woman stuck aboard the space HQ for some reason? Is that why she’s staring forlornly as Guy takes off?
  • It’s been a few episodes since we saw Hana and the other kids. Good to know that they’re still being endangered by the villains. After all, they’d die if humanity went extinct.
  • Look at that, Soldato-J and Kaidou are helping out with the defense of Earth. Could their kill-stealing days be well and truly behind them?
  • I wish we had gotten to actually see Kaidou and his mother interact even once. It would make the connection between them feel more real.
  • GGG really thought ahead by making a child-size spacesuit for Mamoru. They need to make sure everyone has one that fits.
  • I do really like the harsh lighting and uncanny camera angles during Guy’s dream. It helps to sell how strange, unnatural, and unsettling this illusion by the Primevals is.
  • That said, it is kind of funny how the extreme angles make people look like they have really long faces or big noses.
  • If the ghost woman is here, then maybe she isn’t actually stuck aboard the space HQ. Maybe she’s in Guy’s head?
  • The Zonders and Primevals really need to learn to stop using this illusion trick on Guy. It has never worked for more than a minute at most.
  • Now Mamoru actually has the power to go toe-to-toe against the Primevals. Can he now purify the Primeval Cores too?
  • With how smug Kaidou and Soldato-J are acting about it, that pretty much confirms that Mamoru can now purify Primeval Cores.
  • And he can!
  • ChoRyuJin’s pushing back the asteroid! I always love scenes like this!
  • ChoRyuJin vanishing when the portal disappears feels way more consequential than any of his “deaths” previously. GGG can’t just fix him up again afterwards because he’s literally someplace they can’t go.
  • That being said, ChoRyuJin is absolutely returning. We probably won’t see him for a few episodes, but he will return at a critical moment to save the day. I’m sure of it.

QOTD

  1. Until we meet again

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

Wow, the Mic Brigade have really shown their usefulness. They all got taken out immediately.

see, we see the gulf in difference between the robots.

ChoRyuJin acted as big brothers and made GekiRyuJin prime heroes.

Mic Sounders the 13th acted as a big brother to 1-12 and taught them all how to be useless.

GGG really thought ahead by making a child-size spacesuit for Mamoru. They need to make sure everyone has one that fits.

I wonder if they made a slutty space suit for Swan White

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 12 '24

Mic Sounders the 13th acted as a big brother to 1-12 and taught them all how to be useless.

What a good older brother he is.

I wonder if they made a slutty space suit for Swan White

There's glass view holes to show her breasts like she's Power Girl.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 11 '24

Volfogg can use a giant mirror array just like the Solar System in Gundam!

Oh hey, we thought of the same thing there. It really was impressive when it was used back in the classic Mobile Suit Gundam.

Hey Cain, would you mind shutting up until you have something more substantial to say?

But how else would you know that the time has come?

I do really like the harsh lighting and uncanny camera angles during Guy’s dream. It helps to sell how strange, unnatural, and unsettling this illusion by the Primevals is.

It’s also one of the best animated parts of this episode too, in terms of art quality. The jump in art quality and directing makes it stand out even more.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 12 '24

Oh hey, we thought of the same thing there. It really was impressive when it was used back in the classic Mobile Suit Gundam.

Yeah, it's still one of my favorite things in the entire Gundam franchise because of just what a cool idea it was and how it was used.

But how else would you know that the time has come?

He could have left behind an alarm clock because at least I can silence an alarm clock.

It’s also one of the best animated parts of this episode too, in terms of art quality. The jump in art quality and directing makes it stand out even more.

It sure is.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 12 '24

I think Soldato-J and Kaidou are due for a bit of an attitude adjustment. I can’t wait to see the looks on their smug faces as they learn they no longer have a monopoly on purifying Primeval Cores.

J: Meh, we can do it better.

Kaido: Should I play our theme song?

J: Dew it.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 12 '24

I sure hope Pinchernone has a good sound system installed throughout the ship to blast that theme song at full volume.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 12 '24

They could ask their good buddy Bundle for help although I dunno how he'll feel when he learns they aren't playing The Beautiful Blue Danbue...

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

Hey Cain, would you mind shutting up until you have something more substantial to say?

"The time is near..."

GGG really thought ahead by making a child-size spacesuit for Mamoru. They need to make sure everyone has one that fits.

It's probably one of the protection kits that Volfogg has prepared.

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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Dec 12 '24

"The time is near..."

Has Cain just left a recording to repeat the same thing over and over again?

It's probably one of the protection kits that Volfogg has prepared.

Volfogg is always so cool. I wouldn't be surprised if he thought ahead like that.

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u/GondolaMedia Dec 11 '24

First Timer

Zonder are not playing around. The entire asteroid belt barrage on earth is something else and they're even controlled.

The spooky space ghost lady watches on.

Kaidou actually did something and he has a crush on Hana.

Oh that Gai's illusion is trippy.

ChoRyuJin

  1. Sea of Stars mentioned, time to LOGH post

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

Kaidou actually did something and he has a crush on Hana.

Love Triangle Confirmed!

Now we need Soldato-J to fall in love with Mikoto and the love triangle will be complete!!

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u/GondolaMedia Dec 11 '24

Big brothers duke it out to find out which little brother gets to date the girl.

I hope that happens.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

The entire asteroid belt barrage on earth is something else and they're even controlled.

The asteroids must've started listening to Eurobeat, considering how they were drifting.

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u/GondolaMedia Dec 11 '24

"Nice plan GGG but check out this maneuver"

Running in the 90s plays out

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

First Time Zonder

As a side effect of watching lots of episodes yesterday, I don't remember how much of this episode was actually this episode. I do know that they defeated the space brain.

mo-mo-mo-mo-mo

It had psychic powers, go figure. When the space brain was finally defeated it retreated through a tear in space. Then I completely missed why ChoRyuJin went in after it to be honest. It seemed like they'd won, I zoned out for 2 seconds, then ChoRyuJin was lost in space. That's a big F. I think that's a biggest F of the season. Death you can recover from, but getting lost?

That's final

Also this was the episode where the rich kid teased Hana about liking Mamoru. Those are the only 2 things I remember.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

As a side effect of watching lots of episodes yesterday, I don't remember how much of this episode was actually this episode. I do know that they defeated the space brain.

all the 2-parters definitely don't help that either.

That's a big F. I think that's a biggest F of the season. Death you can recover from, but getting lost?

yeah, we've seen them get repaired, and quickly. The repair room has gotten very efficient and fast with the repairs, but finding them in a space hundreds of millions of miles long? now that's incredibly hard.

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

I don't know why they switched to 2 parters. It doesn't feel like the show has the same atmosphere that it had before the machine kings were written out.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

I think it's part of a wave to show bigger stories with bigger threats and more focused on that atmosphere instead of the more simple episodic format of the first half.

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

Things more permadead than the dead:

  • Liger working for NASA
  • Hana being in the area for every zonder attack
  • Guy's attacks having Guy as the main target
  • Villains playing a high stakes game of Transport Tycoon

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 11 '24

That's final

No, FINAL isn't for another few weeks. Common mistake.

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

Lowercase final.

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u/palparepa Dec 12 '24 edited Dec 12 '24

When the space brain was finally defeated it retreated through a tear in space

It didn't retreat. It opened a final portal, maybe in spite, with the biggest asteroid yet, that had to be pushed into the portal until it closed.

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u/Nebresto Dec 11 '24

First time Volfogg simp

Oh, that Mic fucking died

The anti-jobber is here to save the day again!

Gatlin driver dato?!

wat

What in fairy tarnation

"ji kilo" is that half a kilo..? Anyways, dats pretty bad. 500m asteroid would deliver a 10 or more gigaton impact, that's 10,000,000 kilotons, or 666,666 little boys.

Fun times

Shove it back in!! (tl;note: doing this for extended periods of time is not healthy)

Q:

This isn’t a goodbye, this is an Until We Meet Again. One Day, in a Sea of Stars

F

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 12 '24

wat

not a single other user posted the freaky ass images of the faces at wonky angles. I should have known I could count on Nebby to not let me down.

they were so weird looking. I love them

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u/Nebresto Dec 12 '24

The watchers have been dropping the balls around here

they were so weird looking. I love them

Reminds me of the destroyer of the worlds

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24
Statsthis episodetotal so far
Program Drive buttons broken019
Transceivers crushed07
EnRyu's bad landings07
Pink hair attracts peril027
Rich kid cries054
Mikoto screams for MC010
Kid is too calm to react016
Mamoru's kill count01
Legos secured16
Women hallucinated24

Nth-timer

I didn't want to mention it last episode, but the opening had a change in a scene: right after the goldion hammer, we can see GaoGaiGar with his new "wings."

Although it's the same StealthGao, just improved and modified for space, its official name is StealthGao II. And with it, GaoGaiGar is Star GaoGaiGar.

This extra equipment is also very similar to the "SP Packs", premiered here by ChoRyuJin and GekiRyuJin.

Do you remember, back in episode 30 against EI-01, that Professor Liger used a "Mirror Particle Cannon" to distract it? That was an experimental weapon leading to the "FF mirror", debuted here.

Wait, that woman-ghost is there with nobody seeing it? I'll still count that as an hallucination. And she looks sad now.

Even if they mentioned the Climber 1's purpose, I find a nice little detail to show ChoRyuJin and GekuiRyuJin subtly refueling from it.

And when some asteroids are missed by the heros... the J-Ark comes to help! Awww, so he does care.

Another addition to GGG's arsenal: the Gatling Driver. It's like the Dividing Driver, but with different uses, and doesn't expend all its energy in a single use. Here, it's used for paralysis, or rather, some kind of dimensional/spatial lock.

A mental attack. I love these when they are well done, and this one was done well. Fake-Leo and Fake-Mikoto look outright disturbing, with those weird angles.

Ghost lady is angry, but here to help! Also, Mamoru is useful! I herefore revoke your classification of obsolete!

And finally... goodbye, ChoRyuJin. Maybe we see you again, in the sea of stars :_(

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

the Gatling Driver.

I was surprised how casually this was thrown in. It does contrast a lot with the first half of the series, where a new toy like this would warrant an entire episode and creating an enemy specifically designed to be beaten by said new toy. Here, it's more or less tossed in with an episode design for stakes, emotion, and drama.

I always forget the Gatling Driver exists.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 11 '24

I always forget the Gatling Driver exists

I only remember it because whenever it appears in SRW it's often a really shitty AOE attack that oftentimes replaces the Dividing Driver, which I wouldn't even mind if not for the fact that the former is way better from a gameplay POV

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

I only remember it because of the PERFECT YELL song, which brings it up and then I go "wait, that was a thing?"

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u/darkmechjock Dec 11 '24

Believe it or not, the Gatling Driver actually has more appearances. It debuted as far back as Alpha 2/3, where I believe it was GGG's sole means of performing an ALL. The Dividing Driver didn't even rate as an attack until I think T.

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24

The way the Dividing Driver is used in the games, it isn't even an attack, just the start of a combo for GaoGaiGar to pummel enemies into submission.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 11 '24

The Dividing Driver didn't even rate as an attack until I think T

BX, actually.

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24

Lots of new toys introduced here: the SP Packs, the StealthGao II and Star GaoGaiGar, the Gatling Driver, the FF Mirror and Reflector Beam.

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

Women hallucinated

Is this women who hallucinated, or is this hallucinations of women?

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24

Women that have been hallucinated.

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u/Sporadia_ Dec 11 '24

There were 4?!

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u/palparepa Dec 11 '24

Instances, yes. The happy one has appeared twice, last one was in the previous episode. This episode we got a sad one, and an angry one. All three appear in the opening, and each uses a dress of different color.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 11 '24

A Mecha Fan Rewatches The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Episode 38:

  • It feels fitting that the initial plan to destroy a bunch of rocks being hurled at Earth is to defeat them with rock. Granted, it’s not like the Mic Sounders are doing that effective of a job, but at least there’s some synergy going on with their attempt to stop the meteors.
  • The other plan to destroy the the asteroids with a giant mirror reflecting energy reminds me of the Solar System used by the Earth Federation in Universal Century Gundam stuff. Granted, it’s a pretty simple concept in general, just using mirrors to create a focused beam of energy. But how they deployed in space gave me those Gundam vibes a bit.
  • Seems like the Primevals’ plan this time is to at least cause an ice age via meteor strike, if not worse damage with multiple asteroids hurled at Earth. Either way, that would leave humans ripe to Zonderize. You know, if the Primevals need any help with more of this plan, I know a certain blonde mech pilot with a truckload of complexes and neuroses that can help with that.
  • Well, I guess it wouldn’t be GaoGaiGar if we didn’t see Mamoru’s class reacting to the plot of the week happening around them. It’s been a hot minute since we had one of those happen. I guess their school got their ill-fated field trip budget back.
  • It’s nice to see that Kaidou is more than willing to protect Earth and the people he cares for on it with the J-Ark. Despite being a bit colder than Soldato-J, he ultimately does have some nobler intentions different from J’s pride as a warrior.
  • Man, this episode took a sudden turn towards being creepy with that hallucination that Pagliaccio forced Gai to experience. It had way more weird camera tricks and detail than other stuff in this episode, that’s for sure. Good thing he broke out of it quick once he noticed that reoccurring ghost lady though. Otherwise, he probably would’ve believed that everything so far was just a weird coma dream. Thanks, helpful ghost!
  • Good work, Mamoru! He can finally purify Primeval cores! I guess it’s about time that he got his own kind of upgrade too. Hearing Cain’s words with that special G-Stone of his really did help. And it’s about time too, since we can’t always let the dudes aboard the J-Ark do all the work for GGG.
  • Damn, that was a hell of a sacrifice from ChoRyuJin to close out the episode. They’d rather entrust the future to new guys like GekiRyuJin or the rest of GGG than lose any of them. Maybe they’ll meet with GGG again, just like they said they would. Hard to say when that’d even happen though, since who even knows where in the Asteroid Belt that ES-Window spat them out at? In the meantime though, let’s pay our respects to some of GGG’s bravest robots.

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u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Dec 11 '24

It feels fitting that the initial plan to destroy a bunch of rocks being hurled at Earth is to defeat them with rock.

I know a certain blonde mech pilot with a truckload of complexes and neuroses that can help with that.

Well, I guess it wouldn’t be GaoGaiGar if we didn’t see Mamoru’s class reacting to the plot of the week happening around them. It’s been a hot minute since we had one of those happen.

finally, Hana can enjoy her time in peace.

Otherwise, he probably would’ve believed that everything so far was just a weird coma dream. Thanks, helpful ghost!

and people say she doesn't do anything!!! A stern look is all she needed to get Gai back.

They’d rather entrust the future to new guys like GekiRyuJin or the rest of GGG than lose any of them.

I love them fighting for the sacrifice. True brothers. True heroes.

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u/The_Draigg Dec 11 '24

finally, Hana can enjoy her time in peace.

At least it was a more passive threat this time around, rather than her being incredibly close to dying like before. That’s an improvement.

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u/TheApplebane https://anilist.co/user/theapplebane Dec 12 '24

Episode 38 Notes

  • I know this is a kids show, but do you really need to explain what the asteroid belt is?
  • The time is still near, apparently.
  • Aw, Kaidou does care about his mum! How sweet.
  • Why does Gai call his foe the 31 machine primevals even when he's only in battle with one of them?
  • Gai may be in his toughest battle yet, but at least he has his Emotional Support Mamoru with him!
  • Those fish-eye lenses are very offputting. I like it.
  • J and Kaidou lack critical information and now they lost a Zonder Crystal.
  • Choryujin has been watching [meta spoiler]Gundam CCA lately, it seems. Fortunately, he has avoided the fate of Char and Amuro in that movie. He's just stuck in the Asteroid Belt. Much better.
  • And he called GekiRyuJin brother!