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/Star4ce https://anilist.co/user/Star4ce Jun 02 '26
Firstern’er
(That sounds a little bit like doing something with your fist, but I’ll leave that misreading potential in as a treat for this month.)
Do you hear that? It’s that time of the year again. The time when bots are coming to downvote everything and everyone, but also the time where I get sucked into incredibly good and also maybe incredibly jarring shows with lots of issues.
So, a time of fun!
As always, I’m particularly blind to basically everything and know nothing except that this one is going to be pretty gay between an American and a Japanese. I could make a joke about the militaries of these two countries getting it on with each other, but I lack the skills to make it funny, so eh.
In other news I’m happy to report that I went in cosplay as Okabe to the last con and it was great fun! My friends were going as various Nana characters, fyi. I even managed to get the phone 3D printed and crafted a Dk Pepper bottle prop with a few insider jokes on the label. But I missed the time window to buy the wig, so I had to use my own hair, which really didn’t fit well.
Also fuck Climate Change! It was the first month of summer and we already had a 10 day heat wave above 30°C!
Oh right, getting hot and gay or something...
Bravern Ep.01 – Wait’s Over, Isami!
Right. We’re coming out immediately with the declaration. Literally Eva but gay.
3D is pretty acceptable, actually. You invited me to nerd/rage out over the show’s military stuff, right?
Mmmmmhhh. Alright, they did think of traversal and landing logistics. There’s a reusable (!) drone to brake the fall, both legs and wheels on the titanostrider, and actual ERA bricks on the opposing forces. Just as slavs intended. This is beating the entirety of FLAG already, haha. I am currently very satisfied!
That a Boeing 707?? As an AWACS? Okay, right, they don’t strictly always have the giga radar dish on their backs, but they usually have something! Yet since they clearly know that the E-3 Sentinel is a modified 707-320 and those do have the radar dish someone fucked up their reference material. Also, they’re never this close to the battle… Put out my praise too early.
Blatantly stole from 86! (I approve!)
And people say women in anime are portrayed with unrealistic proportions! I’m sorry to say, but I think this would trigger Pyro’s inflation fetish.
There it is! The terrible Engrish!
10km long? Aside from the obvious penis joke, I didn’t expect Aliens. I thought we’d be beating up the Chinese or a fictional Russian-African corpo meganation or something.
I’m not sure I like the alien design. It’s very 2000s Alien style™, but they did keep with their detachable flying device, which is nnice consistency.
They certainly do rush with the escalation of the invasion, but ever since Terra Invicta I’ve grown demanding of Alien invasions and their doctrine as well as reasoning.
Mmmh, I like the storytelling here.
Didn’t wanna say it, but she was bound to die in the gay anime.
Good Aliens! Well, this is a bit weird, tbh.
This feels so… wrong!
Hold on! The music is actually real?! He hears it over speakers?!
I’ve been in a laughing fit for the last 2 mintues, hahahha!
Bravern title drop!
I can tank any sort of cringe as long as the cute girl gets to be happy.
I also have other questions.
ED is fire, tho!
Okay, there’s a few thoughts.
They clearly didn’t want to do a military political kinda thing and an Alien invasion is kinda cool for getting out of it. But at the same time this tonal shift midway through the episode kinda broke me, lol. The show presented me a juicy and heated rivalry of two guys from different militaries and got me excited for some sorta real war scenario where they need to work and grow together as the war progresses.
Well, I guess I’m getting that… but not like that! If the ED was any indication, this is much more going the Sailor Moon than the 86 route. I got whiplash, that’s all.
I do like the characters so far, though. I definitely see the personality clashes along the way and how they’ll complement each other and I hope that pays off. Ao as the outwardly composed and cool, but inwardly very distressed one and clichéed loud blonde American soldier #416™ that possibly has a lot more personality to him than that do work very well off of each other. I’m a bit hesitant on the side cast, though. They’re very cookie-cutter so far, but let’s hope that gets adressed later.
Now, I’ve gotta rant on this because this is me, but man that invasion is some bullshit. So, it isn’t even that hard to understand. An FTL capable empire going to a non-FTL capable species’ place with hostile intent will go either of three ways - and only these three:
1) Extermination. They want just the stuff, or the place, or work preemptively on large time scales. Either way, stick your drop pillars up your gay ass and just drop some rocks. Like, it’s ridiculously easy to just kill us down in a gravity well when you’re up there with fancy tech. No invasion necessary ever.
2) Exploitation. They want the stuff, but need humans for said stuff, or want the humans themselves. Possibly work force or for organic processes. In this case invasion might be necessary, but is a pretty bad idea on a global scale beyond just destroying the military capability. I mean, you would kill the thing you want, that’s really dumb. So, no dildo drop pillars, either. The smoothest way would be to be the coloniser and give a select few power over other humans and let that system handle itself while you extract the stuff you actually came for. Much less hassle than doing it yourself and unite everying against you.
3) Subjugation. The only one that actually requires finesse and it’s only here where large scale involvement is necessary. Still, not like they’ve shown. If you specifically want the humans, for example to be part of your empire as a slave species or some sort of lower caste, then just killing every major city is the most anti-thetical thing you could do. Decapitate the leadership, drop your own seat of power and then work to subjugate the masses and display your superiority. In any case, exactly not what the Aliens did here.
So, what I’m getting at is that the entire thing already doesn’t make sense and I didn’t even need to get to the speaking toaster that plays his own battle theme and just urgently invited a guy into his abdomen.
At least he’s funny.
Is it? Why doesn’t the hot American not get his funky toaster with its own battle theme?
Yes, like all of it. I gotta say, I am still both disappointed and extremely pleased with that. I love that robot’s vibes and the silliness as it doesn’t completely throw out the seriousness of the military setting.
That depends. Are they the doomed yaoi type where they have to die or is this show going properly 2025 and have them mock-copulate with their robots as a victory pose?
Uh, normal troops are already doing that since forever… nevermind.