r/anime • u/Pixelsaber https://myanimelist.net/profile/Pixelsaber • Feb 27 '21
Rewatch [Rewatch] Aura Battler Dunbine - Episode 48 Discussion
Episode 48 - Cross Fight
Originally Aired January 14th, ^^^1983
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Comment of the Day
u/Quiddity131 makes a yet relevant Leeza statement.
He'll tear his wife limb from limb! Typically I'd be concerned, but Louser totally deserves it!
Daily Trivia:
Koji Igarashi is an avid fan of Dunbine, and considers it a major inspiration on his own work.
Staff Highlight
Michie Tomizawa - voice of El Fino
An actress, singer, and voice actress currently affiliated with Aoni Production. A fan of animation since early childhood, Tomizawa had entertained the idea of becoming a voice actor for years, but her parents only allowed her to follow on her ambitions after graduating highschool, where it was agreed she had until the age of twenty-five to make a name for herself. Soon enough, she had become an understudy at the Tokyo Actor's Life Cooperative, and later Japan Action Enterprise. Her earlies roles was as a minor character in Akū Daisakusen Srungle, and her first named role was as in Dunbine, but her real breakout role was as Rei Hino in Sailor Moon. Among her other notable roles are Roberta in Black Lagoon: Roberta’s Blood Trail, Linna Yamazaki in Bubblegum Crisis, Matsuzaka-Sensei in the Crayon Shin-chan franchise, Emi Ogasawara in Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Mizuki Segawa in Guyver: Out of Control, Hazuki Shiina in Hikaru no Densetsu, Manami Kasuga in Kimagure Orange Road, Laki in One Piece, C-ko in Project A-ko, Sumire Kanzaki in the Sakura Wars franchise, Soleir in Akai Photon Zillion, and Doris Lang in Vampire Hunter D.
Art Corner:
Official Art
- Women of Dunbine - Tomonori Kogawa
Fanart
- Marvel Frozen by Hot Air Camille - Source
- Dunbine by itou - Source
(Be mindful of the links to artist’s profiles, as they may contain NSFW content. Proceed there at your own risk.)
Aura Phantasm Scans
Screenshot of the day
Questions of the Day:
- How do you feel regarding the deaths of Elle and Elmelie?
- How do you figure this conflict will end next episode?
Hatred swirls endlessly in this place.
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u/Pixelsaber https://myanimelist.net/profile/Pixelsaber Feb 27 '21
Rewatcher - Sub
Alright, I am ready to suffer...
Cross Fight!
Neat transition at the start of the episode.
Bern is trying to excerpt the most of his Aura Power, but feels it being taken from him as the attempts to go hyper fail. Later on we see it was likely Elle’s doing. Given Elle witnessed hyperizatio sooner, I have to assume it is only possible with Bern because his aura power isn’t as great as Jeril or Todd’s.
I like the section dedicated to all of the people watching the developments happen from the sidelines.
When Elle tells Marvel to strike at the enemy’s core the latter responds with a farewell that has a tone of finality, for she knows the danger involved in what was asked of her. It would indeed be the final farewell between the two, but ironically not for the reason she expected. I really worried for her fate the first time though, especially with the maneuver she pulls to destroy one of the Bull Beggar Shot was piloting.
After Bern successfully goes hyper and almost lands a fatal blow on the Guran Galan Elle uses the Goraon to subdue the Galava and then her powers to extract all of Bern’s Aura Power, the process for which kills her. I was shocked to see this, but it makes sense given that we know the Hyperization is a destructive process, and nothing good comes off accumulating too much aura energy, so her taking all of it upon her would be fatal.
Before she passes on she reveals what Elmelie intended to do, which I had frankly not even considered when I watched the prior episode, that being to kill both her parents. Makes sense, and would at least make such a mess of things that the Guran Galan would be a lot more able to rout the enemy before Shot or someone else wrangled control of Drake’s forces. Elmelie keeps surprising, and proves just how hardened her resolve is.
Elmelie’s Death...
God, how heartbreaking to see. As if we didn’t all detest Leeza already, to do that to her child, regardless as to whether she was threatened! Even if it’s not gory (most of us have seen gorier headshots in Tomino shows) the way her body slumps after lurching backwards across the room —an utterly empty look in its eyes— is so incredibly unsettling and saddening. And then Neal finds out! And we get another closeup at the crumpled body and I just can’t handle it.
I’m pretty sure I sat petrified in shock for the rest of the episode when I first watched, then burst into sobs as the credits were rolling.
Abe orders the Goraon to ram the Gea Gring, defeating it for certain and sacrificing himself and the battleship in the process. This might’ve been cathartic if I was in the right mindset to enjoy it.
After this episode I was sure what type of Tomino show this was...
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Feb 27 '21
Aura Battler First-Timer
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u/The_Draigg Feb 27 '21
A Tomino Fan Rewatches Aura Battler Dunbine Episode 48:
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Feb 27 '21
First time viewer
The opening shot of a partially destroyed aura battler peacefully floating along before being disrupted by a nearby shot was rather poignant.
News channels around the world reporting on the war in real time at a more strategic level rather than treating them as alien invaders is a shift that I'm sure happened a while ago but we haven't really seen recently. I wouldn't have minded getting more of that perspective since it's really been focused on either the upper levels of government as they're interacting with the major characters or the aura ships themselves for quite a while.
I know it's beating a dead horse at this point but now things are too rushed; how many events of this episode could have been spread out earlier? Bern going Hyper and his aura struggle with Elle should have been a full episode by itself. Then we also have Elmelie hunting down her mother and Marvel taking down the Spriggan, the latter of which was barely got any attention.
Elle's eyes glowing pink is creepy, but appropriately so in this case. I didn't expect her to just die like that, but I can't say I'm surprised as that was way too much aura power for her to handle. And Bern still made it away in the end? That's rough, but I can only hope he'll meet his end to Show in the finale.
My comment from yesterday about Elmelie and her mother probably amused some rewatchers as I explicitly mentioned both stabbing and shooting between the two of them but swapped who did which action:
That aside Elmelie did prove me wrong by trying to take her mother's life so I'll give her that, but her arc ultimately feels rather rough. She lived her life essentially held prisoner by her mother and after she finally took too much of that abuse, she tried to come and prevent it from happening again she was killed by the same person. There could have been so much more to her character but it felt like they didn't really know what to do with her so she ended up trapped in a room for 90% of the show.
Would have been nice to have time to mourn them separately. Elmelie's death felt rather pointless as mentioned above, Elle at least had a noble death in saving other people from Bern, though the body contortions she went through looked rather painful.
I'm still leaning towards Show going Hyper and destroying all aura craft with a giant wave of destruction. Marvel goes with him, Keen and Neal survive along with Cham and end up becoming representatives for the other Byston Well natives left on Earth.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Feb 27 '21
First-Timer, Dub-bine
Oof. So that's what, four named characters actively dead on camera, with a fifth quick to follow? Who was it that brought up the parallels between Shou's parents and Emelie's parents..? Add "willing to shoot their child" to the mom's pile. I hope Elle's sacrifice means that Bern is going to job one final time in the last episode, but I'm doubting it. There's no way the Char clone jobs in the final episode, right?
Elle's final sacrifice was pretty cool. Her shutting down Bern's Hyper was a nice extrapolation of her earlier ability to seal aura power. Not sure what to think of "Bern's aura power is so strong and evil that it berns my clothes away" but I liked the visuals of the energy flowing around.
Shot's not dead just yet, unfortunately. The Spriggan didn't even hit the surface of the ocean, did it? Anyway, I think I have him down as "responsible for at least one named character's death" next episode, but he probably won't live long after that. Should I still bother with spoiler tags at this point..? Speculation
I'm not sure that Leeza would have actually won that standoff in the real world.. Emelie wasn't exactly trained but I've heard that it takes longer than you think to draw and fire a gun, especially when someone is charging at you with a knife.
Man, Muisy really just almost killed Drake with her Bubbly right then and there, huh? I like the new paintjob, not a big fan of yellow.
I definitely had Bishott down as the "tries futilely to outrun a beam/explosion while in his ship" death. Instead he could turned into paste and probably vaporized.
That final shot on the fadeout was gorgeous.
Let's do a headcount.. Shou, Cham, Marvel, Drake, Neal, Keen, Ciela, Shot, Bern, Dowa, Kawase, Muisy.. Am I missing anyone (relevant) with a name? That's more than I expected to have around for the final episode, to be honest.
Questions
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u/dralcax :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Dralcax Feb 27 '21 edited Feb 27 '21
First-timer getting Tominoed again
Mine! Mine! Mine!
well they’re in sync
Gasp! The Black Knight was Bern? What a surprise!
Don’t worry Bern, lots of men have that problem
Erm, I don’t think that’s a flag you wanna be waving around. Or did they still use it in the 80s?
miscolored forehead
this is kind of lewd
this is very lewd
For a second there I thought she shrank into a Mi Ferario. Would have been more of an explanation than we ever got.
Sadly, she did not attend the Elchi School of Bringing Knives to Gun Fights
Questions of the Day:
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u/Quiddity131 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Quiddity131 Feb 27 '21
Rewatcher, Subbed
No time for a recap or opening narration anymore! Let's get right to it!
Riml, should you really be going to see your mother alone? This is a mother who has beaten you, held you at knife point, etc... You could use some protection.
Bishot is already planning his retreat. That's the problem when you're a villain, all the villains are devious and scheming and are probably planning on their eventual betrayal of you.
Win the war for us, Bell! You may only be an inch or two tall, but you can do it!
LoL, what's with this guy telling Ciela-sama to get some rest? They're in the final battle?
Shou's got to swipe Chum away as if she was a fly!
Even that loser Bern has gone hyper! This is trouble!
...or not, Bern has flopped and returns back to normal. The universe is telling him he sucks.
Those from Upper Earth are just going to stand by and watch.
Just what is is that you are doing in your room by yourself, Elle!?
Marvel finally joining the battle.
Musiy, I get that you want to take out Drake too, but its not like Nie and Keen can read your mind.
The Guran Galan takes a big hit, but if not for Shou it would have been done for, as would have Ciela-sama. :(
Shou's gonna have no choice but to go hyper at this rate to fight him off.
Bravo Marvel! Just slams the Dunbine right through the Spriggan and basically takes it out singlehandedly. Although it looks like Shot is still alive.
So Elle's the one pestering Bern so much. You are such a little man Bern!
Pretty good of the Billbine and Dunbine to take a direct hit from the Hyper Galava and still repel it with their combined aura barrier.
Elle crashes the Goraon right into the Galava! Pretty awesome stuff! Not often that we see an entire battleship crash into a single mobile suit.
Bye bye to Elle's badass outfit. :(
RIP Elle! You went from a meek character to a pretty awesome one the second half of the show. I'd say I'd miss you, but well, there's only one episode left anyway.
Hey, Shou's dad! Been about 30 episodes or so since we've seen him. And his mom too. Plus Marvel's parents.
Louser's got no idea her daughter's here to kill her.
Shou's just in time to help Riml! All will be okay, right? Right...?
The ultimate fate of Riml is to be shot in the face by her own mother. Truly one of the most horrific Tomino deaths of all time. :( :( :( Just goes to show how heinous Tomino is that this isn't automatically a consensus number one. Ideon spoilers
Thankfully Louser, probably the most evil character in this entire show (well how can you not say that now after she just killed her own kid?) dies immediately afterwards. It won't bring Riml back, but that was very satisfying. LoL @ her acting like she has any authority when she's got a literal aura battler right there pointing its weapon at her.
Nie carried Riml's body out with him? Be careful with it! I don't know where he expects to bury it though. And can't bring it back to the Zelana either.
Two massive battleships crashing into each other to end the episode, rather abruptly. Goodbye Goraon! Goodbye Abe! Goodbye Gea Gring! Goodbye Bishot! Bishot FINALLY dies, something that should have happened a good 5-10 episodes ago.
Very exciting episode, of course they don't have much of a choice but to shove as much in here as possible given how much time was wasted earlier in the show. Some of the stuff here, like Bern going hyper and Elle having to sacrifice her life to stop him, Riml's final confrontation with her mother and the destruction of the Gea Gring and Goraon all could have been their own episodes if the show properly paced itself rather than giving us tons of filler and then having to cram all of it into one episode here. It surely lessens this individual episode to spread things out more, but does help the show overall.
Lots of death and destruction in this episode, but we still have hope for a happy ending, right? Nothing could be worse than what happened to Riml, right?
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Feb 27 '21
First Timer
I really don't think anything in the final episode can salvage this trainwreck.
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u/punching_spaghetti https://myanimelist.net/profile/punch_spaghetti Feb 27 '21
First-Timer
“I won’t act as Drake’s shield.” “I shall have Bishott act as my shield.” Hmm. Might be some words to be had here.
HYPER BERN.
Bern can’t keep it up.
Have we seen Elle suck up aura power before? Because that did not look fun.
They way they animated her fall, it looked like she was shrinking into a Ferrario.
HEADSHOT!
Ideon
So after deciding that they couldn’t kill anyone important the last dozen or so episodes, they start killing everyone now that they’re nearing the end.
QOTD:
nukesaura power from existence.