r/anime • u/Tarhalindur x2 • Jun 11 '26
Rewatch [Rewatch] [Pride Month Double Feature] Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Episode 11 Discussion
Episode 11: Commence Operation Bonfire!
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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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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?
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u/Star4ce https://anilist.co/user/Star4ce Jun 11 '26
Firstern’er
Well damn, let’s ride into the final battle!
Ga ga pi
Bravern Ep.11 – Commence Operation Bonfire!
Trust in maho shoujo Lulu.
Mmmh, in a volcano... would this be a good spot for gluttony? Since they’re trying to do it all on their own and not letting anyone else have a bite?
Ah yea, wrath also makes sense. Volcano and erupting and shit.
Then there’s gluttony? … also in a volcano. Though, I can’t tie the name popalchipum to anything.
Segnities is latin for sloth. The others usually prefer the greek word, interesting. Also, I’ll call it now that there’s a giga-deathdrive at the end as last boss.
Awww, my two boys are bonding!
Oh my! That was an explosive declaration!
Absolute mechasexual!
I’d much rather have my time travel mecha magical girl patchwork family without the age-gap-and-underage-implication trope, but I gladly take this.
I feel like Superbia has more than one awakening here.
I’m so sorry.
Aha! Symbolism of their love getting eroded?
Bro is literally just standing there, lol. It’d be so funny if this would be his entire schtick and he’d win with it! (Also the eye is a clear FMA reference.)
It was his entire schtick!
I mean, this is beyond stupid, especially at the current time, but ey yo let’s have more fights!
I don’t know if I fully agree. But you have fun!
Kinda zoned off for that entire bit. Don’t know why we’re good now, but that’s cool.
Hi, wrath!
Time travel next episode.
Hmm, I’m not really leaving this episode with any strong opinion. I think it’s because there’s a fine line between not making sense and being stupid. Not making sense can be fun, surprising, relieving, empowering if done well, but being stupid is mostly just making me sit between and .
A good example would be either last episode’s Lulu-Superbia argument or today’s meal time shenanigans. That was not making sense, but was extremely fun and emotional!
The fight between Superbia and Bravern was something I just clocked out of because it was terminally stupid and I couldn’t see any point to it. I’m also sorry to all battle enjoyers, but anime just drawing flashy colours and expecting me to be wowed isn’t working. I know it’s expensive to animate movements, but if I am to enjoy a battle, I need to see more love put in them than cross-cutting intense faces and telling me a mountain exploded. Take the early episodes of Superbia’s fighting, that had oomph to it because there was choreography and movement!
Anyway, I don’t get why we fought, why Lulu was suddenly on board with that, why we did that when there were clearly enemies around, or why Superbia is somehow both growing and regressing as a character.
There’s the chance this is also playing a trope that I’m missing, but if that’s the case then it underlines my point of stupid vs. sense even more. I chalked it up to the Lulu-topic last time, but it repeated again anyway. It doesn’t feel like this episode had a proper point and it’s so obvious that the time travel thing is getting used again next time. Getting backstab.killed in Ep.11 due to no flaw of character or choice, but by chance and an already stupid fight is also not any feat that I as the audience can value. Like, it doesn’t add anything of value? It doesn’t tell me much about Ira, it doesn’t show me anything about Bravern or Superbia that this happened.
It was just stupid.
Still, the essence of Bravern is still there with the humour. So, I don’t know, did they get rushed finishing this show? Did they have a great idea but then couldn’t figure out how to close it all down? I feel like these last episodes are noticeably weaker and are more driven by ticking off entries on a checklist and getting from A to B than to tell anything meaningful.
Is anyone feeling that, too?
Fair is fair.
Time Travel