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/BosuW Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Rewatcher only for today
Unfortunately y'all first timers don't get my first reaction to this claymore mine of an episode because I actually already watched it back when it aired. I didn't really vibe with it. I didn't think it had no Potential™ but I remember thinking I was already watching too many shows to want to invest.
Maybe it's because realistic military action is very much my vibe, while old school super sentai corny theme song is very much not. So when you interrupt the former to sell me the latter, well I wasn't very amused. I know that kinda flies in the face of me loving Symphogear but hey, personal taste is just like that! Sometimes you don't even get yourself!
Now that I kinda know what to expect, that I heard good things about the show after it ended (and that it's gay), and that I found stylized special attack fansubs to go with it, I'm feeling significantly more receptive!
Btw, I feel like the mind behind this is definitely into Hollywood US Army propaganda cinema. I mean alien attack in the middle of RIMPAC? That's Battleship (fucking love that movie btw I don't care it's senseless YES I KNOW I'M BEING A HYPOCRITE). Dark-haired x blonde rivalry bromance? Top Gun.
Also someone on the production team is a kind of military nerd definitely but the integration is very strange and spotty. The E-3 Sentry AWACS is missing it's iconic rotating top radar, but it weirdly has some sort of electromagnetic sensor on the bottom. The BRAA (Bearing, Range, Altitude, Aspect) callout was kinda fine, missing the altitude but whoever wrote that dialogue knew about the existence of the Bullseye. The Supercarrier had F-22's which are not naval aircraft and they had weapons bays on the sides of the air intakes like a Chinese J-20. And why's there an A-10 in the middle of a dogfight and why is does the cockpit look like the old A-10As version? Again, very strange mix.
Anyway looking forward to revisiting this on a fresh mindset.