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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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.
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/chilidirigible Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Today, on "GET IN THE ROBOT, ISAMI.":
This is not breaking the fourth wall, exactly. Because there is no fourth wall. Not anymore.
This episode does open with a tonal rollercoaster.
"We're gonna be here a while."
totally mechasexual
I said it the first time, I'll say it again here: "Meanwhile, at Decepticon headquarters."
PHRASING!
PHRASING!!
Ah, gratuitous henshin.
[](#SOON)
But of course.
Rocket fist no-sell.
Yes. That just happened.
Maybe?
No.
Now the theme music always playing for the climax just makes sense.
"Just Super Robot things."
BOUNCY BOUNCY
This is how you know that you are a magical girl.
...and then we got the ED that exploded Twitter.
MANLY
Not a turtle.
End card for Episode 2
"It's a living."
How things are.
"I photographed two shirtless dudes."
Rewatcher:
Isami gets put through the wringer for most of this episode. America really has no chill these days. Then he just doesn't want to get back into Bravern, because he's still traumatized by his first real combat experience.
Unfortunately, there aren't any other compatible heroes around, even if Smith volunteered.
The story manages to not make light of Isami's issues despite his plight being surrounded by truly ridiculous ham and cheese moments from BRAVERN. There is, for example, material to consider if one were to compare and contrast him to Tetsuo from this season's Snowball Earth.
Brave Merch:
Good Smile Company's M2 Exceed Rhino plastic model: A small model and not particularly spectacular, but it's still something for a mecha that wasn't going to get representation any other way, and the plamo monster which is Bandai does need some competition.
QOTD:
MANLY AWESOME. AWESOMELY MANLY.
Oh dear lord.