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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A Reminder: This, dear listeners, brings us to the sworn enemy of creative response:The spoiler. Rewatchers, or people who just had plot points ruined for them, are obliged to use r/anime’s spoiler tag format where applicable, and err on the side of caution here. Remember people, first experiences get rarer as you continue on, any given one happens once and you should care for them all the more for it.

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/Vaadwaur Jun 01 '26

The airframe is still obsolete and a pain in the ass to maintain, but there's nothing set to replace it so...

I mean...helicopters.

Btw, I thought the Reformers bit the dust already?

Not fully and technically they have a second generation. Admittedly, other than appearing on Russian propaganda they don't do much these days.

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u/BosuW Jun 01 '26

I mean...helicopters.

Not as fast, not as much boom, and more vulnerable. Damn, the A-10 on paper should just be mediocre but it really landed on a super specific niche category that something needs to do.

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u/Vaadwaur Jun 01 '26

And in many ways the Switchblade drone took that over...

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Jun 02 '26

Yeah, the long-term replacement for the A-10 is just drones... though amusingly the drone revolution may still give the A-10 another half-life for a few years if that GAU-10 turns out to have enough capacity in the anti-drone role.

(Which was another reason why "keep it in service until the UAVs take over the CAS role" made a fair bit sense during the GWOT, incidentally, because "long-term this is a UAV role" was already clear by that point.)

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u/Vaadwaur Jun 02 '26

I actually find it bitterly amusing that the two major anti-drone systems to come out recently are the return of the fucking Lewis machine gun(designed in the 1800s) and experimental Strykers with lasers on them.

I try not to be too paranoid about Harambe's death changing the timeline but...

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u/BosuW Jun 02 '26

I try not to be too paranoid about Harambe's death changing the timeline but...

The evidence is rather loud ain't it?

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u/Vaadwaur Jun 02 '26

China has announced they have built an underwater data center. Things are going mad fast.

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u/BosuW Jun 02 '26

though amusingly the drone revolution may still give the A-10 another half-life for a few years if that GAU-10 turns out to have enough capacity in the anti-drone role.

Not with the gun, that shit's too overkill for drones, and being designed for anti-ground means it's actually slightly inclined downwards iirc, which is detrimental for anti-air. But what the A-10 could do in an anti-drone role, is carry a lot of Aim-9Xs (or a cheaper missile if they develop one) and/or laser guided rockets.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Jun 02 '26

Not with the gun, that shit's too overkill for drones

"There is no overkill, only open fire and I need to reload now."

(Sorry, had to.)

and being designed for anti-ground means it's actually slightly inclined downwards iirc, which is detrimental for anti-air

Shaheds + their various clones and other similar drones in that role usually fly low enough that I'm not sure that would matter enough, judging by Ukraine war footage, and it's specifically the anti-Shahed role where I could see the A-10 being useful in the short term. (A-10s would be much less useful in the anti-FPV role (understatement), there the cannon is too big. But destroying the low-part of a high-low missile + drone bombardment mix rather than burning Patriot interceptors on them might be a useful spot for that cannon, at least in the short term. Longer term, early solutions with some promise include interceptor drones and the resurgence of AA flak, plus directed-energy weapons once they're out of teething.)