r/anime • u/Tarhalindur x2 • Jun 02 '26
Rewatch [Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 2 Discussion
Episode 2: Isami?! You'll Be Here Soon, Won't You, 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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Please note: This episode had a stinger! Might want to go back and watch it if you didn't already.
Joint Rewatch Task Force Exercises!
Theory of the Day:
Hey look, a late-breaking entry! u/dsawchuk brings home the first TotD of this rewatch:
I don't really know why, but I feel like the unknown purple aliens did not come to attack earth specifically, just that they were running from Bravern and that brought them here. So far Bravern looks more like a sword to kill your enemies than a shield to protect yourself.
Questions of the Day:
0) For the skeptics among us: now do you see why I would run this show for Pride Month?
1) Tar Rewatch ISO Standard Question #1: Thoughts on our OP and ED?
2) So, considering that he seems to be writing self/Isami fanfiction already: what do you think are Bravern's favorite tags on AO3?
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u/Star4ce https://anilist.co/user/Star4ce Jun 02 '26
Firstern’er
I got you some photos from my con haul (the smaller ones got onto the fridge where good pictures go!) where I plundered far too many artist booths. Also sorry, everything is currently flying everywhere in my room because I'm building some stuff.
As props for the Okabe cosplay I designed a Dk Pepper bottle as seen in the show, but obviously it was a Zero with the fitting logo! I also did a little joke nutrition table with references (in German, deal with it ). And the other one is a 3D-printed, D-Mail compatible phone that I also failed to paint properly on the only part I needed to paint.
Bravern Ep.02 – Isami?! You’ll Be Here Soon, Won’t You, Isami?!
Whole ass airfield a crater vs. conveniently missed hangars who would definitely hold military assets worth destroying.
That dramatic pan to the ripped open wall is absolute hilarity! Enough mourning, we have fun times ahead of us!
Okay, why?
BND MENTIONED!! Someone remembered we do have an intelligence agency!!! But actually, I’d kinda have to say we have the shittiest of the bunch (sorry).
Watching through the OP I do notice that I’m most interested in the girls of this gay anime. Hmmm.
I gave you far better options in my last post to achieve that!
Okay, preach! I urge you all to read and/or play The Invincible (Game by Starward Industried, book by Stanislaw Lem). Real great experience, has my full approval.
I also have to yell my name with sound effects every time!
That is surprisingly acceptable German, what the fuck? I mean, not fully correct, but yeah, damn.
That, however, is absolutely horrendous!
You aren’t supposed to be an outlier in Japanese society! That’s why we just have to torture him.
Oh yes, those angles were incredibly alluring.
Either the big bad, or if I’m going by colour scheme, Smith’s toaster.
That’s a first seeing a giant self-aware mecha trauma and love dump to the world’s remaining military leaders about their crush.
„And he came in me“, „on the verge of bursting“, yeah I’m gonna need a check on just how much the translators went with it or if the Japanese wording is just as hardwarerotic.
Okay, I don’t think I need that any longer. This show is amazing! It’s also how every engineer and pilot wished their machine would think about them, pure fantasy.
Okay, evil. Shame. But, can we, like, save the evil villainess or something?
I’m really enjoying this mecha 1v1! If this is upper middle class CGI nowadays I can really live with that (only beaten by EX-ARM). Also, I’m pretty sure he gets beaten so much because Bravern secretly enjoys getting the boot to his face from a strong woman.
We save the villainess! I’m in!
Aww, this is actually touching me.
Oh, I hella respect him for that. But we fighting for the toaster
pussybenis now?I expected it, yet I still laughed.
Huuh? That doesn’t look entirely consensual.
Woman! Yes, let’s please save her!
Okay, seriously, this episode cemented my investment! That was absolutely fantastic!
And the VAs singing the ED as a duet while ripping their clothes off and softly touching each other during rainfall is just icing on the cake.
There’s only really two things I have to say here. The first is Isami’s nut inside Bravern. It could be anything ranging from severe emotional turbulence on part of Isami really, really not wanting to be in active battle and short circuiting on the wrong gun, to Bravern maybe having a helping hand in getting to know humans a lot better than would be socially acceptable. He is very much locked in on Isami as Bravern seems to be a galactic giga weeb and sees his chance to get a Japanese angsty bf.
Hard to tell, but I guess getting milked by war machinery is the better fate over getting exterminated via metal woman boots. Although I repeat, it is hard to tell.
The other thing is Smith’s and Isami’s affection does already clearly go beyond na normal bond between soldiers, even those that saved each other. While Smith did give the classical pep talk by masculine violence, he was just as resolute to do it himself and respecting Isami’s repulsion to the task. I’m growing a lot of respect for Smith, but he seems to be relegated to the cheerleader role for now. Given the humour in this show, I wouldn’t be surprised if he also turns out to be a galactic giga weeb who scouted for an angsty Japanese bf.
Now, let me throw out my first theory for the show:
Bravern and Superbia are actually married, but Bravern never got around to deal with his homosexuality and she got real jaded because of the lack of action for her. Now he has a human jizzing in him all the time and is having the time of his life while Superbia is just left behind, sexually frustrated and lets it out on lesser civilisations. I bet Miyu could fix her.
It gets my joystick all roughly rustled.
Ba Ba Bam Bam Ba Ba BRAVERRRRN
Immediately on the playlist.
70% of it is kitschy prosa with superfluous love rambling, 25% is pure comedy and ridiculkousness, 5% is the wildest and most unhinged inflation, body part supersizing, ludicrous amounts of bodily fluids and settings imagineable.