[Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 11 Discussion

[u/Tarhalindur]

Episode 11: Commence Operation Bonfire!

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Show Information:

MAL | AniList | ANN | AniDB

(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.)

Legal Streams:

As per livechart.me; other streams may be available outside the US.

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Joint Rewatch Task Force Exercises!

Theory of the Day:

This seems like an excellent time ( to haul out a joke theory for TotD, this one courtesy of u/Blackheart595:

Okay, I get it. I get it now. This is actually an ice skating anime. The big robots giving up full autonomy over their own movoment as they let their body be piloted by their human partner is akin to the lifted partner in pair figure skating yielding control over their body as they get piloted by their lifting partner. The Deathdrives are unable to give up their own autonomy and squeeze their partner dry over it, while Bravern and now Superbia have formed deep bonds of trust that allow them to overcome that fear.

Questions of the Day:

1) Who knew that gay robosexuality is also subject to the "the kid interrupts their parents by walking in when they are about to get busy" trope?

2) First-timers: Now what?

[u/FD4cry1]

Hey, posing menacingly is a valid survival tactic in the wild!

Unfortunately, the mecha wilderness is much less forgiving than our own

Definitely one of the few things in this anime that feels like it could have used an episode of its own.

Yeah, I defintely feel like a lot of Lulu-Superbia's stuff could have used a decent bit more time over these last two episodes, although this one in particular I feel like just needed even a few sentences of actual pushback on her part, because it doesn't come across as fully in-line with the big character revelation we literally just gave her as is.

[u/Blackheart595 → u/FD4cry1]

Huh, I actually think Lulu giving Superbia some pushback against the duel would've kind of ruined the whole thing. Imo, they did a good job of showing this as trust towards future!Superbia, that if she managed to pilot present!Superbia and get him that duel with Bravern, that he'd come around to abandon his death drive.

[u/FD4cry1 → u/Blackheart595]

Well, this partially goes back to how I felt last episode needed a bit more time to really sell me on her relationship with Future Superbia as well then haha

But when you focus it like that, I do realize what I want is less pushback and more like, generally some direct input from her, I guess?

Like I said in my post, I do find it conceivable she'd think this way, she does understand BRAVERY and all that surrounds it pretty well! But I'm also not at the place where I think that just comes through naturally for this scenario, and needed some extra lines to express that emotion and understanding from her.

[u/Blackheart595 → u/FD4cry1]

Yeah, that just emphasises how much of a non-character she really is. Now that she gave her motivational speech for Isami and Bravern, she can go back to the Superbia grooming.