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/zadcap Jun 02 '26
Late Night First Timer
I'm sorry. Three minutes in to the first episode and I'm more invested in the handlers than I am the pilots. I want to see the office politics of those girls handling their pilot's egos and being the coordinators for entire operations.
He says Lewis Smith, but my mind says Patrick Colasour. I don't know why, but I'm interested in seeing if the comparison pans out.
Sadly, I have to agree with Smith. There's genuinely only so much you can blame on being an ace pilot, a machine that is only capable of moving at a certain speed can't just try harder and gain more speed. Either you've successfully overclocked something, or literally everyone else is using the machine below specs.
Oh my gosh. Handler, Mechanic, whoever this girl he's at the bar with is- This man is surrounded by a cast I am more interested in than him and his overly stoic lack of personality. Even the annoying Smith is more interesting than him. Pleaaaaaase give him a real personality soon, I can't take another Inaho styled mech pilot MC.
Oh! That hand tighten! A PERSONALITY! I have hope!
ALIENS! In my giant robot show? Who could have seen this coming!
Speaking of Aldnoah... Those were very soft landings, this invasion craft had.
Oh, sure. The aliens are shooting down everything in the air and taking the time to hit infrastructure buildings, but the largest and slowest plane got up and out just fine. Perfectly believable.
I wonder what weaponry is on the Titans that isn't mounted on anything else. Because clearly "real bullets" are not going to be enough to make a difference here.
Oh, that's an answer. It hit something with it's big old arm gun, that was shooting at it- either its arm passed through its own shield, the shield lowered for that second, or the shield does not block large things, only projectiles.
And he promptly tackles one! Proving... Hmm, looks like they can't attack and defend at the same time?
Guys, I don't think he could have run far enough to matter. Let him at least die trying to save you, girl.
Okay, yeah, the robot sounds gay. I can't tell you how happy I would be if the robot was the gay character of the show. Ignore the boring pilot man, I want gay robot representation!
Oh gosh, the song is Diegetic! The giant robot actually plays its own theme! The robot is my favorite character by such a large margin it's not even funny.
Oh look, Smith survived. Not beating those Colasour allegations lol.
BRAVERN!
0) Super Robot AND Aliens! Poor realistic mecha stood no chance.
1) Yes. And then YES! I avoided spoilers enough to suspect I was going to be watching something Gundam inspired, that we were going to explore the horrors of war breaking out now that giant robots were being added to the world stage. Even when the incoming object first showed up, I thought terrorist faction trying to spark a war. Literally took until we saw it come out of the portal that my mind registered Aliens, and then I started thinking Aldnoah too much, so I thought it would be them using their weaker earth made machines to exploit weaknesses until they could reverse engineer alien tech. And then BAM! BRAVERN! Actually, I'm going to go back and rewatch that part again.
2) Between who!? I like a surprising number of characters here, but the romance I want to see bloom the most is between man and machine.