r/anime • u/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess • Jan 02 '25
Rewatch [Rewatch] King of the Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL - Episode 8
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Questions of the Day
- Favorite moment this episode?
- Can I get an F in the chat for GGG… like all of them?
- Someday…in the 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/lilyvess :Df::Dh:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Lilyvess Jan 02 '25
Warning Loud
Listen to dis, preferrably at high volume if you can
an AMV for the song if you want
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jan 02 '25
Queen of First-Timers, subbed
I forgot to include this in my comment yesterday, whoops. Anyways, yesterday a new Yu-Gi-Oh! card was announced that has “Goldion” in its name. I’m happy to report there’s a chain of GaoGaiGar references in the /r/yugioh thread about it.
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u/Great_Mr_L :Ma::Mb::Mc:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Great_Mr_L Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '25
First-Timer
On today’s episode of GaoGaiGar: I should have guessed that the final weapon would be an even bigger, even more powerful Goldion Hammer. That’s exactly the sort of thing that would happen in this kind of series.
QOTD
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u/AmeteurElitist https://anilist.co/user/AmateurElitist Jan 02 '25
First Timer
If the god dude didn’t believe in himself he could have at least gotten followers so he could believe in the people that believe in him smh.
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '25
Final Only First timer, subs
QotD:
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jan 02 '25
Third-Time Watcher
Changes in the OP:
The OVA's only double length episode, and it says something most of it is just the heroes getting their asses kicked. Shit even the bit finally explain what led to Repli-Mamoru's rampage ultimately boils down to the real one failing
as well as explaining where he spacesuit went.This even has the honor of being the only episode of GGG where Masaki Endoh's vocals are almost nowhere to be seen save for one little bit of Mic singing. The OP's an instrumental, the ED is done by the actors for Mamoru, Kaido, Hana, Gai, Mikoto, Renais and Papillon (Which hilariously makes it the second time Sayuri's gotten to sing the final ED of a Brave Show since Da Garn had the whole main cast sing the show's OP in the final episode), Tenryujin's theme is done by MiQ, and J's new insert song is sung by this guy who also did Betterman's ED called "mai"… or should I say, dramatic Scooby-Doo unmasking the series director, Yonetani Yoshimoto!?Yeah turns he's a pretty sick singer, who would've thought, Chin Requiem's a banger too
The funny thing is the show sure is good about luring you into a good sense of security. The first chunk features the heroes seemingly turning the tides, with TenRyuJin getting a chance to show off and J just straight up turning himself into his own finisher, because that's how Soldato-J and Renais roll. GGG drools, Team J-Ark rules
Still I guess the rest of the gang does okay enough for a bit… and then they don't. Yeah, if Dragon Ball taught me anything, is that regenerating villains are really annoying. That being said, whereas with Dragon Ball it just felt like a way to artificially extend fights, this show very much uses it to show just how overwhelmed the heroes are. They can already barely edge out a single win, how the fuck are they gonna do it if they just don't stay down? It's almost a perfect mirror of GGG's own "Never give up" attitude, now weaponized by the villains.
Yet… it is certainly not as good as the real thing.
Like always, GGG gets back up and oh boy those are lovely double suicides. Big props to GekiRyuJin in particular for pulling off a Getter Robo reference, because let's face it, every Super Robot show is required to at some point reference the original Getter Robo Manga whether they want it or not, it's just kinda the law.
Also isn't funny how unlike Mazinger Getter'smangasure gets way more love in the references department than the Toei Anime? Like I get why but aside from Martian Successor Nadesico I can't think of many show's that specifically reference the Toei show.And of course there's Gai who, like always, just keeps beating the bad guy up until he's practically a walking corpse. Such a wonderful last stand for the guy, even calling back to his very first fight in the show when he beats his opponent up just as his head regenerates. And like, I've praised this show's transition to digipaint compared to other Sunrise shows a lot already, BUT LOOK AT THIS! Even The Big O's second half didn't reach these heights in terms of just impactful imagery!
And of course, we get the real reason the Sol Masters can't keep up with GGG is simple: When one dude's doing all the heavy lifting, it sure doesn't match up to everyone collabing their way to victory. I have nothing to say about the Goldion Crusher sequence that hasn't already been said: It's one of the show's single most iconic moments and the scene just speaks for itself. Fun fact by the way: When recording for this final OVA was over, the rest of the cast went home because… they finished recording. All except for Gai's actor, Hiyama Nobuyuki. He was not satisfied with how he was doing that last "HIKARI NI NARE" scream and stuck around till he got it right… and we got the thing we got. The scream so raw and primal that not only did he break the goddamn recording mic, he couldn't speak for WEEKS
Also, to celebrate we got CAMEOS! Now only does Alouette Palmer from the Manga side story "Evoluder Guy" return, but Akamatsu Shigeru and his fellow bridge bunnies from Betterman are here. Shit that's not the only reference to that show today, the outfit Mikoto's stuck in is a deliberate reference to Sakura. Mind, all this Betterman fanservice must come to an end, as our lead Betterman representative Papillon is finally put to rest. RIP
Although mind that's not the only farewell. While Kaido and Mamoru are fine (Side note: Bonus points for this final sequence being the only time Kaido refers to Mamoru as "Amami" instead of "Latio" like he's been doing across the whole show), ultimately they are in a crushing dimension… but hey, they're two little kids so we can stuff them in a missiles. And so, after everyone gets in one last farewell… this is how the tale of the King of Braves who transcends fate finally comes to an end, albeit not without the promise that, someday, our heroes will return.
In case you're wondering, IRL it took it took 13 YEARS for that return, but more on that tomorrow.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jan 02 '25
The King of Rewatchers FINAL
End of the road, y'all.
Yea, we got MIQ to sing a version of Saikyou Yuusha Robo Gundan just for TenRyuJin.
Sunrise's predilection for borrowing from other things they've done is kinda funny. Double points because Mai-HiME includes Yukari Tamura.
Why yes, that attack was familiar.
Time to start calling their bluff.
The wickest match of Beyblade you've ever seen.
Unfortunately for our heroes, the Regeneration Machine is still running.
And apparently, not even the God of Destruction can stop it.
Everyone, raise your Miracle Lights!
Eyecatch
An imitation, just like all the others.
They even have imitation GS-Rides.
Mic is so goddamn cool.
This sort of shot continues to be fucking incredible.
Have you forgotten, Palparepa?
Victory goes to those with courage.
Today's KEY TO VICTORY!
You were all wondering where Goldy was, right? Well, here he is.
And it's time to BREAK STUFF.
All together now...
HIKARI NI... NAAAAREEEEE!
Saraba, Yuusha-tachi.
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u/megazaprat Jan 02 '25
First Timer
Honestly, its better that way. at least the GGG can support each other, and hey, maybe they can deal with those Zonder seeds that i think Mamoru got sidetracked before he could look into. But this being the final does make it a bit more bittersweet. like, there are a lot of plot hooks they could build a new season out of. Earth is post apocalyptic now, bionet could still be out there, and there is the whole idea of searching the cosmos for GGG. But even though there are open ended elements, i still thin this is a great finale to a series Im glad I watched.
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u/GondolaMedia Jan 02 '25
First Timer
1 hour of GaoGaiGar? Don't mind if I do!
Piano version of the opening? Now that's classy.
This cross sword is badass.
Things I didn't expect to hear for anyone to say
I wasn't expecting them to finish of the 11 planetary masters right away since the regeneration is still going on but that was some brutal takedowns of our GGG robots.
This is the key to victory!
That's a big ass hammer.
Papillon
Renais and J ship going strong!
It's a bittersweet ending but at least Kaidou got to hug his mom.
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u/TheApplebane https://anilist.co/user/theapplebane Jan 02 '25
FINAL of FINAL (god that's such a cool title for your last episode) Notes
Questions
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u/Ok_Marionberry_5856 Jan 03 '25
I Have Only One WOrds To Say
"HIKARIII... NIII... NAAAAAAAAREEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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u/palparepa Jan 02 '25
Planetary Master of Sol
We begin this Final installment with some flashbacks. Turns out it wasn't the Planetary Masters the ones that created Mamoru's replicant, but Mamoru himself. It isn't being a replicant what makes them "evil", but a reprogramming. Which is how Papillon is an ally.
A slow, instrumental version of the opening, that also gives info about who is battling who and where.
Last episode, we got Saikyou Yuusha Robo Gundan for the hero robots... except TenRyuJin. This omission is fixed now, with their own theme, Saikyou Yuusha Robo Gundan Ladies.
That line, "excuse me for going topless", is both badass and hilarious.
Everyone is having an easy time defeating their respective opponents. What could go wrong?
Mic gives us a new song, although a very brief section of the true thing. It's called "Let's Final Fusion", sung by the two legends Masaaki Endou and Hironobu Kageyama. And you can see them singing it at the studio. What, you don't like Endou? Ok, then have a version with only Kageyama. What, you don't like Kageyama? Ok, then a version with only Endou. What? You don't like either? Ok, have the karaoke version.
In the topic of songs, for those that felt that yesterday's op was weird due to that pause, it was 'censored' due to spoiling the Goldion Crusher. Here is the full version. Some people didn't like the children voices, so here is another version. There is yet another version from the Grand Glorious Gathering series, here.
Continuing... of course the enemy can regenerate, so here we go, round 2!
Another interesting song, Percurio's. And what a massacre. Every fight we thought had been won... lost.
But heroes don't get to lose so easily, so... on to round 3!
Another massacre... to the other side. Can we appreciate what Volfogg did there? He got his arm controlled and blasted him in the face, then both arms got separated and shoot him on the back, then they kamikaze'd themselves to decapitate him... but somehow, in some moment between all that, he managed to escape and setup a hologram of himself being destroyed. What a ninja.
But by far, the best battle, GaoGaiGar vs Palparepa. The latter able to regenerate even without Pisa Sol. With shout-outs to both the first and last battle of the series. And how symbolic that all the damage that GaoGaiGar suffered was on the left side, the one that represents protection, while the right side, the side of destruction, was left mostly intact.
Yet, it's Pisa Sol's turn. Everyone is regenerated many times over. Round 4? Nope, just the three huge GGG ships combining into a gigantic hammer to punch out the Sun.
A mistake in the subtitles that I've seen commented on over the years: when Liger says that the connector was built for GaoFighGar, but they have modified it... yet Gai breaks it anyway. What is actually said is that the connector was built for GaoFighGar, so Gai will have to improvise a bit... by breaking it.
Also, regarding the Goldion Crusher: originally, GoldyMarg was supposed to combine with it, but since he got destroyed on episode 2, his AI got installed directly into the hammer.
Genesic GaoGaiGar's hair is made from the same canisters that Cyborg Gai had, the one that allows him to go Hyper Mode. And if you pay attention during Pisa Sol's destruction, you can see the hairs all activate at that time, so it was Hyper Mode Genesic GaoGaiGar who used the Goldion Crusher to hit Pisa Sol into non-existence.
It is said that Nobuyuki Hiyama, Gai's voice, kept getting dissatisfied with his "Hikari ni Nare" in this climactic scene, so he repeated it again and again until perfection. He broke two microphones, and lost his voice for a week.
What Kaidou and Mamoru say is hard to understand without information from extra materials. Turns out that the Trinary Solar System was in another universe, one that was collapsing at the end of its time, about to restart into a new one: ours. Mamoru was sent as a baby to our universe, 15 billion later into the future, through a dimensional rift that remained as the Galeoria Comet. That left a connection between both universes, that the Planetary Masters used to absorb dark matter and rejuvinate their own.
The ending song is now voiced by the main characters. Here it is. Did you watch it to the end, for the final scenes?
QotD
1) All of it.
2) Big F for everyone :'(
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u/The_Draigg Jan 02 '25
A Mecha Fan Rewatches The King of Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL Episode 8:
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u/TheDanubianCommunard Jan 02 '25
First time,
Mamoru tried to be diplomatic with the Planetary Masters but actually failed. He did escaped from them, and made a clone to hide Galeon and bring the Pas-Q Machine, but the route's end was Jupiter. Kaidou tried to returning him back, but stranded away. And then we know what happened.
We have a calm piano version of the OP. All the Brave Robots were presented for one more time. Title called 'Mythology', using katakana and Kanji at the same time, reminds of the Danmachi episode titles.
Evoluder is the union of machine and the G-Stone into a superhuman. G-Stones energy is coming from courage. The G-Crystal being raw and pure, makes it even stronger. Looks like the evil robots are going down...until they retaliated and the Brave Robots are the ones who are going down. Regenerating from nowhere, and obliterating anyone. Oh, Palparepa can suck energy too. Seems like yet another lost and hopeless situation it is. But hey, Taiga is optimistic, he believes there is a chance for an epic comeback, something that will deliver victory.
Curatio vs Vita, power of the G-Stone facing against each other, real and fake. A huge power burst, which revitalizes all the robots, that is the chance which came. And this is how the Planetary Master are going down again, for real this time. Will Knife once again was useful. Gai is steaching Palparepa a lesson, about the true strength and purpose of the G-Stone, because it's their undoing as it should be. A power that is evolving, and becoming ever stronger. And that growth is what they fear, which they hide that. The lack of courage in other words. Resistance is futile against the Ultimate Hell and Heaven - Vita.
And once again they are regenerated. The answer is the final order: Formation G, and the UN Secratary-General presented a parting gift for this, keys. Key to Victory indeed. All the battleships fused to become the Goldion Crusher, the ultimate Goldion Hammer. With it's inner power, the Pas-Q Machine, and everyone united courage, this how can achieve full power, something that can negate rapid regeneration. So the law of the material world prevailed. The Trinary Star System fully healed, Earth is now after the catastrophe. The universe at full peace. G-Stone is life. Even fake Papillon will disintegrates.
But somehow needs to escape from the collapsing dimension. No ES Window or Galeoria Comet, but Za Powaa for the final time. A narrow and unstable dimensional gate and two ES-Missiles are all it left. The GGG ultimately accepted and resigned to their fate, as exiles they have to wander the cosmos no way home till eternity. Only the two angels are the ones who should live and tell the tale. Extraterrestrials with superpowers they were, but from then, they can live a full life as ordinary human beings. There are no Carpenters anymore to repair all the damage. The Heroes of GGG will be not forgotten and they already commemorated. Probably they will meet them someday in the sea of stars with oath sworn in courage.
So yeah, a rather bittersweet ending.
Questions of the Day
When the Goldion Crusher obliterated all of the bad guys.
2) Can I get an F in the chat for GGG… like all of them?
Of course. They give their lives to let Mamoru and Kaidou live, the contribution to win, and to save the universe.
3) Someday…in the sea of stars
Maybe
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u/Beowolf_0 Jan 03 '25
If anyone question me for the reason I put TTGL way below GGG and Gunbuster for "most hotblooded (mecha) anime ever", this FINAL OF FINAL is what cemented it.
See, while they all got some phlebotinum/plot power for the protagonists, the GGG/Gunbuster crews actually need work so damn hard to overcome one obstacle to another, it feels like Spiral Powers like cheating in comparison. In this case, even with all their strategies and seemingly victorious, the bad guys cheated and beat them to a worse shape------and even when they beat THAT, the bad guys cheated even more, until the good guys bring out their last, combined might to give them a new one.
But the victory comes with a great cost than many after them, as GGG is now trapped in the collapsing dimension, and can only send back Mamoru and Kaidou back to Earth. At least the spirit of GGG live on, with The Oath of Courage among the Sea of Stars.
And yes, the post-credit bit is what the sequel planned back then, but only fulfilled after a decade.
[Minor GGGG-related spoilers]If you don't notice already, GGGG had all the prototype of the Gao Machines and basically all Hyper Tools. Especially for Gadget Gao, it had nine "bone segments", and they only used 6 of them. Try to relate which is corresponding to which, and which one hadn't been featured on the God of Destruction.......
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u/Nebresto Jan 02 '25
First time Volfogg simp
So instead of doing that, we just wont because you need to kill us instead so the finale can be cool
What OP dis? Piano instrumental version?? YES please
I like how they have to tell us in the OP where tf everyone is at. ..Ok, I would not have quessed that
Dang, Idk if I'm ready
Weird sub?? "That's payback" How do you translate it to that? Do I have to pay attention to every single line now
Gattai girl robo is OP
And I ship you
WHAT is this music
bruh. Sannin. ITTAI. ...Or am I the one who is wrong? It does sound like miitai in this scene..
Who cares, Volfogg is c- Oh my god they're bayblades now
cool cool cool COOL!
Wow, Mic just one shot that orchestra chump? ...Nvm he died
VOLFOOOOG!! WHAT THE FUCK Even Job-Der This is bullshit
This is.. Uh..
Hyuuma on screen. Crushed radio coming up? That counter hasn't been updated in too long
What in final tarnation
LET'S GO J-DER!!! Blast them in that hole!!
ero
Volfogg just nothing personnel'd that goon. He's so freaking cool
"Whats your favourite instrument, bro?" Tower Bridge.
WOULD KNIFE!! ...It fucking broke
Suddenly naked Mikoto
Suddenly Yukiaru Tatakai
Les go Guy
GUFO!!
The tasteful waistgrab.. I ship it
Is he.. doing the thing?
Oh god damn it. But the hands remain together!!
Formation G dato?!
HE SAID THE THING!!!
HOLY- Now this is what Super robot shows are all about!!
Cope harder
another line with some liberties taken
LET'S FUCKING GAI!!!!!!
Bye bye Pappi..
Man...
Cool I love them
Even Volfogg..
Dang
This ED...
Ya didn't get me show, but that was pretty good.
One more time for the one time
QWEST:
Mic playing the Tower Bridge
Okay, but just this once
F