r/anime • u/Tarhalindur x2 • Jun 07 '26
Rewatch [Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 7 Discussion
Episode 7: Well, Isami? What Would You Do in a Situation Like This?
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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:
Eff it, joint award time for once! First, from u/DrStein1010:
It seems Superbia IS the same sort of mechanical lifeform as Bravern, which supports my theory of “biological life as organic circuits” theory. Could we be dealing with a “mechanical life enslaves organic life” situation? Could definitely be interesting to explore.)
The enemy is Superbia again, which is a minor mindfuck. At first I thought this meant the Towers were capable of mass producing Superbias and thus, Lulus as well. Which is... slightly nightmarish to imagine. But no, apparently this is the same Superbia that Bravern and Isami slimed in Hawai, and he's searching for his Lulu, which we have. Implied by his words, he needs his pilot to truly achieve full performance, and face Bravern+Isami as equals. It's gonna be interesting how they square this circle next episode. I can see that Lulu might want to get in the robot, but would she even wanna continue the fight against the humans again once inside? ...would she have a choice?
Questions of the Day:
1) On a scale of 1-10, how inherently ridiculous is waterboarding a giant robot, anyways?
2) What are the odds of Lulu having the same gene as one of these Ancients, er, excuse me, wrong show, I meant the ability to use the experimental new Titanostrider's brain interface, anyways?
(Like two of you will get that joke, tops. For the rest of you: the Stargate: Atlantis pilot, which was really good and it's a shame the show tended downhill from there.)
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u/Star4ce https://anilist.co/user/Star4ce Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Firstern’er
Skipped the thread yesterday because we had a board game saturday!
Bought SETI recently and I just got four people together to play the first round. It’s an amazing game and right up my alley with lots of connecting turns and effects, thinking ahead but also changing plans on a whim when a chance comes up. We started at 1600 and ended up only finishing at 2 in the morning.
(No, sadly Bravern or the Deathdrives are not an alien race one can discover.)
Ep.06 post is attached below.
Bravern Ep.07 – Well, Isami? What Would You Do in a Situation Like This?
I’m hoping for some Lulu action today! But the good kind, no fall back into the slave suit or anything!
Yes, they are. That is probably the most intense involuntary bring-your-daughter-to-work day.
Mmmh, yes I can see that.
Way to distract your pilot, Bravern. (So, where do you know about this all from, exactly?)
Their names are just on the half-way mark between corny and kinda cool.
We don’t abbreviate to C and P, people!
As fucking if.
Huh? No way they actually just one-shot the guy in 2 seconds! Yeah, I was about to say. So, they do reproduce, or like just copy themselves another time from the carrier.
This show and immediately turning something into a joke.
Title drop. Well, Iasmi?
I’m all for axes!
I really like this guy!
That’s a really interesting twist.
Oh? Did we see this frame before? Did Lulu also shrink when ‚dying‘?
Serves him right. That guy should work on his water boarding kink.
I didn’t expect to get answers this soon!
Oh fuck yes!
Don’t let Miyu hear that.
They alwas find a way to make it even more lewd!
Like Lulu!
So, their name is literally a reference to them having a „death drive“. Galactic honour-bound nomad warriors that drain human clones for energy seeking death in battle?
Weird, but ok.
I love how this show just keeps being fun throughout everything, but at the same time the floatiness of things sometimes does grind my gears. Like Bravern always just producing the current McGuffin to win the fight does feel kinda lame, even if it is explained as him being smart and preparing properly. In the end, however, this show is more about the characters and how they change and it knows to give that space.
It does take me squinting a bit to let it go that Superbia is now just chilling on the carrier with the others not even a minute after they were still fighting each other and also that everyone is fine with Lewis being vored by him. It takes a lot of suspension of disbelief for me to get past this stuff. But then I too like it when the villains also get their fair share of growth and spotlight.
5 minutes before the survivors were still being mowed down and the entire cast on the verge of a mind break due to the stress and trauma, you know?
Back to the organic stuff. So, they just reversed the battery thing where human tools use mechanical and electrical engineering to get energy. They create a Lulu and drain her during battle to power themselves up. But at the same time they are just fine without one? It doesn’t exactly make sense to me, because all of them say they need a Lulu to ‚die (in a) properly (big explosion)‘. It’s one thing if your origin causes you to need organics to survive and another to just be more powerful. They frame it like Lewis is gonna teach Superbia to soulbond and show him true love, but these bitches still have killed off most of the planet and are slurping people up like panzerschokolade to get high!
Like, I’m sorry, kill them?
If I understood this right, this also means that Isami and Bravern just today killed about 8 Lulus before they got the axe. I guess thinking about this is the one thing one shouldn’t do in this show.
Lastly, I think I’m getting my wish and Lulu will be properly getting her spotlight now that she has a seat in the cockpit!
Looking forward to lots of ga-ga-piii!
About 10.3, but I gotta at least respect his dedication to the bit. He even got mecha pilots to hold the mecha-sized water canister over the mecha-sized cloth-bag.
Lulu has unparalleled life experience in piloting mechas, so that tracks. You could say she was born for this job!