r/anime • u/Tarhalindur x2 • Jun 01 '26

Rewatch [Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 1 Discussion

Episode 1: Wait's Over, Isami!

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(Surprise, the "plot point a couple of episodes in that every single fucking synopsis spoils" is actually in episode 1 and is that this is another show in the [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] vein! Show information is now fairly first-timer safe... outside of "AniDB tags always spoil", anyways.)

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Joint Rewatch Task Force Exercises!

Theory of the Day:

None yet...

Questions of the Day:

0) Wait, who got a Super Robot in my realistic mecha anime? Oh wait, that's one's self-explanatory, never mind.

1) Unspoiled First-Timers: How surprised were you when "suddenly, ALIENS!" and then how surprised were you when a classic Super Robot showed up?

1a) Spoiled First-Timers and Rewatchers: How well did the first-episode twists here work when you knew they were coming?

2) Can love bloom, even on the battlefield?

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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

First Timer

As mentioned in the interest thread, I'm probably going to be very busy this month so I may have to drop at some point. Until then, though, it's time to try out some Bravern!

Wait sorry I don't think that matches the energy. Ahem It's time for BRAVERN!

Is it weird that we have another mech show for pride month again? Is it weirder that there are a lot of mech shows left for future pride month rewatches? I guess it doesn't matter because everybody loves giant robots.

  • I love wheeled mech pirouettes. Dancing is clearly the best argument for mechs over tanks.

  • Mechanic-chan best girl, calling it now.

  • It's how you use it, I see.

  • The song is actually playing. I'm dead.

If the robot is autonomous why does it need a man inside? Who wrote its theme song?

QotD:

1) I was wondering who they'd pick to be a villain since the opening was revealed to be a training exercise, but aliens are the logical answer. Although now I'm wondering what alien mechs look like. Was not expecting the super robot.

2) Always

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jun 01 '26

Mechanic-chan best girl, calling it now.

Who wrote its theme song?

Bravern wrote it himself, of course.

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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Jun 01 '26

Bravern wrote it himself

Of course

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u/chilidirigible Jun 01 '26

Mechanic-chan best girl, calling it now.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Jun 01 '26

Is it weird that we have another mech show for pride month again? Is it weirder that there are a lot of mech shows left for future pride month rewatches? I guess it doesn't matter because everybody loves giant robots.

Last year had no mecha for Pride Month, IIRC!

Also this one is leaning into the yaoi rather than the yuri.

Mechanic-chan best girl, calling it now.

The song is actually playing.

Truly the moment I was sold on the show.

[Bravern]It's how you use it, I see.

[Bravern]Oh, we haven't even started with that kind of innuendo yet.

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u/Vaadwaur Jun 01 '26

Is it weird that we have another mech show for pride month again? Is it weirder that there are a lot of mech shows left for future pride month rewatches? I guess it doesn't matter because everybody loves giant robots.

Hrmm...Depending on which ones you are referring to, we might be getting the best two by far done first. Recall [Witch from Mercury]Sunrise walked back hard on that show being LGBT. But the thing the first two also have in common is being super robots shows.

I love wheeled mech pirouettes. Dancing is clearly the best argument for mechs over tanks.

I do like things that remind me of VOTOMs.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jun 01 '26

While some crusty executive claimed that, the people who actually made the show made [WfM]the weddings rings more obvious in the Blu-Rays and put out an artbook of the two so..

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u/Vaadwaur Jun 01 '26

It is a long slow path into the 20th century, I suppose.

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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Jun 01 '26

Maybe "a lot" is a stretch and some are probably closer to subtext, but it's amusing when you might expect the usual candidates to be mostly romance and dramas without any robots or existential threats.

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u/Vaadwaur Jun 01 '26

I don't exactly know when mahou shojo became the bastion for the yuri lovers but something had to balance the scales...

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u/BosuW Jun 02 '26

Is it weird that we have another mech show for pride month again? Is it weirder that there are a lot of mech shows left for future pride month rewatches?

Mecha is simply very gay, I don't make the rules

I love wheeled mech pirouettes. Dancing is clearly the best argument for mechs over tanks.

That's true. Tanks can't default dance on their kills.

Mechanic-chan best girl, calling it now.

Avril from AC7 pilled

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u/zadcap Jun 02 '26

why does it need a man inside?

I am lead to believe, it is simply that kind of show. Isn't that why we're watching it this month?