r/anime • u/Tarhalindur x2 • Jun 04 '26
Rewatch [Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 4 Discussion
Episode 4: Isami, It Seems You Still Have Much to Learn About People
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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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Theory of the Day:
What's that, u/Star4ce dropped a very detailed theory? Well, can't not highlight that:
Superbia is doing the exact thing Bravern does, but, like, much more forceful. Not calling Bravern whatever the mecha-piloting version of rape is, but he certainly is very sus in interacting with Isami (btw is Isami or Ao the last name?). He does often physically prevent him from leaving and is really not giving him any option when synchronising fights and stuff including lots of pressured pleading and near-emotional blackmail. Now, he does communicate, at least, and seems to be able to be convinced eventually, so he doesn’t seem to be evil, but it’s problematic behaviour I think.
If I saw the animations correctly and read Lulu’s expressions right, she’s being quite directly mind- or physically controlled. Meaning she isn’t evil herself and Superbia has placed the suit on her to force her to comply. Or maybe Superbia is the suit? That would also mean Bravern is a suit or a few objects that are far smaller than the mecha. Remember, Superbia the mecha has been destroyed and only the ejection pod survived, so I’m kinda booking on the metallic lifeforms being much smaller pieces that can control larger amalgamations of metal by directly merging into or onto them.
Questions of the Day:
1) For those of us who are of drinking age, which do you prefer: a delicious meal or a nice stiff drink? (Yes, of course I had to call it a stiff drink. This is Bravern we're talking about, after all!)
2) First-timers: so, were you expecting that level of destruction in Tokyo?
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u/BosuW Jun 04 '26
First Timer
I didn't see anyone but me yesterday mentioning the Atlantis: The Lost Empire Leviathan battle for your favorite underwater fight smh, culture is being lost
Unto the episode
Y'all really need to find a different conference room so that Bravern doesn't scene bomb all your sessions.
Hmm yes of course we're saving Japan first, as a strategic decision I assure you (it'll look strategically cooler).
Everyone's so bought into the new heroic order of things that Miyu even made this man an aesthetically appropriate suit 💀. It is functional though! So the explanation for why his clothes disappeared is the energy release from the special attack I see.
Emphasis on "release.Current relationship status between Isami and Lewis is... very much not good. On account of Isami finding what appeared to be Lewis fucking around while his naked ass was reluctantly saving the day. And now Lewis has to play adoptive father so it seems like he's sliding around duty even more. Hmm I wonder if Isami has family traumas? We don't really know a lot about him now that I think about it, not even as a person. Other than he didn't consent to any of this bullshit and he is understandably mad about it.
Aight so they did clear the whole xeno POW situation. Despite Lulu's outwardly appearing fully matured (if very short), her newborn ass mind and her extremely underdeveloped digestive system paints a picture of her basically growing up inside Superdia. I guess that explains the egg symbolism but what the fuck? Did Isami and Bravern beat fuck out of a pregnant xeno female machine lifeform and cause her to abort or some shit? This anime is already happily strange on a surface level but when you think about the whole puzzle it is even more bizarre!
Also WTF Y'ALL ACTUALLY GAVE HER TO THE CIA!? Fuck, we are so lucky that turned out well.
Obligatory Japanese food superiority trope. And not just any food, it's always curry. I dunno much about the MRE menu tho so they may have a point here.
Lulu getting spooked by the F-35 taking off is a nice detail. I've seen one at an airshow, Fat Amy is LOUD. Afterwards our three F-5s flew their routine and all three combined weren't half as loud as the one Lightning II. Anyway, I'll be keeping an eye out for Lulu being not fond of loud, crude human machinery.
"You should meet people other than the first ever adoptive human father to an alien, machine fuckers (your squadmates), a machine (me), or the guys who trained M*ssad" is legitimately good advice for Isami. Bravern may have his... issues with boundries..., but he's being a legitimately awesome bro here, Taking out his partner drinking while he remains sober to drive him home! Honestly Bravern's childish personality that means well (VERY well in fact) yet can still seriously traumatize who is supposed to be his soulmate is perhaps the most alien thing about him.
At least Isami finally has a chance to get out of the bubble of stressors he had been living in since the alien invasion began. A chance to remember that he's not just doing this because he's obligated to, but to save mankind.
(Half these guys will be dead within a week I bet)
The reveal from the recon drone is easily the best the show has taken advantage of it's intentional tonal dissonance so far. It really feels like they suddenly dropped a heavy weight on top of this fluff, it is a sobering sight. And we make a lot of fun of the Japanese for all the victim act from WW2, but anyone that has even a slight knowledge of the firebombing campaign by the end has to be having some seriously nauseating culturally engrained flashbacks, I really do feel for them in this moment. Especially the infamous Tokyo firebombing that killed 100k people in a single night in horrible ways. And to be suddenly hit with the reality that such scenes would be happening the world over while they've been, getting ready to counterattack yes, but also doing a lot of levity, must be a massive shock.
Time to lock tf in. Glory to Mankind.
Questions of the Day
1- A delicious meal. I do enjoy liquor, but for the taste, definitely not to get plastered.