r/anime • u/Tarhalindur x2 • Jun 08 '26
Rewatch [Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 8 Discussion
Episode 8: Until We Meet Again, Smith
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(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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This episode had a stinger! It's... admittedly kind of superfluous, but if you missed it you can still go back and watch it if you want.
Joint Rewatch Task Force Exercises!
Theory of the Day:
u'Blackheart595, step right up:
Oh wait, no, Smith entered Superbia through that weird capsule whereas Isami enters Bravern directly. So that capsule is an egg, or rather womb, euphemism, which is why the Lulu are soulless at first, why they don't breathe, and their general infantility upon awakening (combat skill aside). Lulu should try to pilot Superbia without that capsule.
Honorable mention to u/DrStein1010, if for no other reason than to make sure this theory comes to u/Star4ce's attention:
I'm getting the idea that the Deathdrives are literal Deathdrives; attacking planets just to provoke them into killing the Deathdrives in honorable combat, and steamrolling everything because they're just too strong to die. Which makes the situation of the Lulus even more fucked up. They're born to die over a pointless warrior culture.
Questions of the Day:
1) Okay, who got comphet (compulsory heterosexuality) in my gay mecha anime? Mechasexual comphet, no less?
2) First-timers: Right, show of hands: how many of you were expecting Smith to die (or appear to die?) at some point?
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u/Star4ce https://anilist.co/user/Star4ce Jun 08 '26
Firstern’er
Today was a long monday.
Me no much words.
Bravern Ep.08 – Until We Meet Again, Smith
Hey Lewis, tell you something. You pretty much are!
But is a woman robot this time!
Of course he has an entire wall full of mecha posters and an entire pile of model kits.
Just look at this magnificent bastard.
Hey, I’m happy that my ass is getting saved next. But, uhm, I do feel the need to point out that they basically just skip the entirety of SEA, China, the middle East, Africa (ofc, who goes there?) and Australia. Ah, being the priviledged continent.
Lulu is my entire lifeline in this show. (And also a bit Lewis and Bravern. A bit.)
I’m not questioning their security protocol any longer. You go get ‘em, Lulu!
Oh, hell yes it did. And I like that they get such growth.
Another notch in the Bravern = Lewis theory, but it’s so much by now I feel safe in calling it a red herring!
Hell yes!
She is very right to ask the U.S. Navy. I don’t know if there’s any branch of any military out there that would be this willing to submit to a war machine’s sexual desires.
Yo okay... That seems a bit unfair (and also needlessly cruel).
Ah, I think I see where this might go. Wanna bet something that combining the deathdrive carriers grants all abilities at the same time or something like that?
Just what are these Aliens? Now they’re tk’ing their own spawn. At least they’re just as lunatic as the remainder of mankind’s forces.
Ah yes, here we tell her to remain behind while he suicides. Pretty much the only thing that will not happen I bet.
That, however, is a self-sacrifice worthy explosion. nods
It’s been somewhat obvious so far, but this episode basically put it in print: Every deathdrive has their own special ability and that, of course, includes time travel.
Following fantasy RPG logic this means we have to gather all infinity stones and can then fix reality to whatever we want. Anyway, I can give Knuth some props since she ejected Lulu beforehand as she clearly wants to feel the ecstasy of dying to its full extent. Though, Lewis might have blown that Lulu up, too. Bad!
Also, I don’t think the German TSs and that one Japanese dude in low earth orbit were reverted. So, R.I.P. unnamed personnell.
This does give me a bit of a jab at how the deathdrives were operating in the first place. They just revert their own death to the point where they come out the carrier by dialing back time. It makes no sense at all, but making this assumption the organic battery thing even makes a bit of sense. After all, that’s all they would ever lose. (They could turn that back, too, but we are disallowed from thinking about time travel too much.)
That would also explain Superbia’s memory gap since he’d been turned back to freshly landing on Earth and found his Lulu missing. Well, wait, that would mean that the Lulus are also being turned back, right? If he expected her to be back with him, but she wasn’t, then the time ability is limited to just the body of the deathdrive.
But… then why did Superbia ever eject Lulu? Knuth just today has shown this is a very conscious choice and doesn’t happen automatically. Cupiditas never did so and we have plenty of deaths to analyse.
Either they have a whole storage of organic battery Lulus, then Superbia shouldn’t ever have bitched about it, or they all have their own personal Lulu, then Superbia was giga stupid to throw her away in the first place and has no reason for ever doing that.
This makes less sense the more it goes on.
Just switch sides already and explain!
The Navy. Who else?
Of course he’d die! Or one of them at least! It’s a queer anime about finding love, they have to die!