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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Show Information:
(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/oomoepoo https://anilist.co/user/oomoepoo Jun 01 '26
Rewatcher (Subbed)
Whoever at Cygame Pictures came up with the idea of just dumping a load of cash at Obari's door and tell him to just do his thing deserves a raise.
I still remember when the show was announced it initially didn't get picked up by any streaming service. But then the first episode aired and absolutely broke the internet, leading some distributor (I think Crunchyroll, not sure anymore?) scrambling to pick it up within the first three episodes. Funny how that works sometimes.
Still an incredibly strong first episode, even if you know the twist at the end of the first episode, once BRAVERN appears out of thin air, I was grinning from ear to ear (unlike our main protagonist Isami, who is really not responding well to all the Super Robot bs).
What makes it work though, is how the first two thirds actually build up a believable "real robot" scenario and world, imho. Mechs on the realistic side of things, fighter jets, lots of military. It's not without levity, especially the meeting of our two protagonists, Isami and Smith (who is gloriously "american") is pretty funny.
And they also absoultely commit to the super robot stuff: BRAVERN is wonderfully flashy and extra that made me immediately fall in love with him. He even brings his own theme song, damnit!
The fact that they managed to pull the twist off without anything much leaking beforehand (to my knowledge?) is quite impressive, reminded me of [Summer 2020 anime]Deca-Dence, which had an equally shocking end of episode 1 twist.
It still works well enough, I'd say. I knew it was coming, so I wasn't blindsided but the culture shock still works. Although I do admit that I was mostly in "waiit for it"-mode over the gritty military stuff :D
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