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| CyGames's newest original anime made in-house through CyGamesPictures, directed by veteran director Oobari Masami of famed old-school mecha classics from 1983's Tokusou Kihei Dorvack and 1985's Choujuu Kishin Dancougar, to recent ones like last year's lackluster Kyoukai Senki a.k.a AMAIM spin-off. The pilots of Lieutenants American Lewis Smith and Japanese Isami Ao meeting in Oahu, Hawaii, both piloting Titanostrider (TS) mechas and representing their various countries' agencies in the AD-RIMPAC exercise, though they got their various 3-month punishments for violating orders. The exercise goes as usual, until an unknown entity comes from space to interrupt their exercise. This becomes a realistic battle as their unknown enemy has barrier defenses that they cannot penetrate, despite their best efforts to contain its forces. Isami soon gets rescued by a mech who requests him to jump in its cockpit to control it, this really feels like the old-school 1983 classic Armored Trooper VOTOMS, with the theme songs (in this case the OP song) played at action moments. IDK...despite the old-school mecha feeling and CyGamesPictures's rather impressive animation, the overall feel of the doesn't look all that palatable, despite the fact that NEITHER CR nor Hidive licensed this show. EDIT: CR has finally licensed the series! Still though, the nostalgia in me whom once watched mecha shows like the old-school Gundam, Gunbuster, and the like during the young days, wants to progress further... WAIT, this could be actually fun, reengaging the old-school mecha feel. The Brave series has returned! |
KANLen09Jan 22, 10:51 PM
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| I found it weird Obari was making a millitaristic real robot show. Turns out, it was actually a Brave Series inspired super robot, and I've never been happier of having been lied to. |
Reply to Ionliosite2
I found it weird Obari was making a millitaristic real robot show. Turns out, it was actually a Brave Series inspired super robot, and I've never been happier of having been lied to.
| @Ionliosite2 Makes you wonder if this was made to market Brave series style mecha to adults and particularly Western adults, as Westerners tend to absolutely hate anime in the Brave series, due to protagonists being younger than the typical teenagers and young adults in mecha piloting them. Bang Bravern even feels like the midway point between a super robot show and real robot show for starters. |
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| in retrospect it was a little obvious that 'bang brave bang' was doing the same alliterative thing as gaogaigar and it has 'brave' in the title twice. i didn't mind the kinda armored core thing they advertised, but i'm happy with it being the closest thing to a new braves show as you can possibly get. what's up with the subtitle situation through, is someone fansubbing this or did it just completely fall through the cracks? |
| fgsfds |
Reply to sonoffire94
Wait, so is this literally just on Japanese TV? Or has it been licensed to one of the minor Western streamers?
| @sonoffire94 i've heard it's only licensed in indonesia and thailand of all places so no subs yet. it's making the throwback 90s/00s mecha experience more authentic, lmao. |
| fgsfds |
| is the Indonesian stream with English subtitles? or is there a group fansubbing this in English? |
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| "...is out!" Where?  |
| The only place as of 12/1 simulcasting this (Taiwan): https://ani.gamer.com.tw/ |
| First episode was awesome! Listened to the opening like 50 times! |
| son of a even though i saw the super in the promo art i was still sold on it being a mecha that felt super top gun tropey then it showed up blasting that kind of theme on the it's radio sure fooled me i'm sure super robo fans gotta be happy with this right , i don't usually watch those kind but i'm in for what weird shit cygames might do |
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Reply to sonoffire94
Wait, so is this literally just on Japanese TV? Or has it been licensed to one of the minor Western streamers?
| @sonoffire94 crunchyroll will stream it now. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-01-12/crunchyroll-to-stream-brave-bang-bravern-cardfight-vanguard-divinez-anime/.206412 |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| Big fan of the mecha designs for the militaries |
| sneed |
| Oh, this is very fun. LOL'd when they started playing the OP during the fight and turns out it was diegetic too lmao. Bit unfortunate how Obari's style of posing will be dumbed-down due to the CG but we'll be here every week. |
| Ok, this started a bit like Full Metal Panic, than transformed in Aldnoah.Zero and after that made a sharp turn into the Brave franchise territory (more exactly something akin to GaoGaiGar). Well, I had fun, that's the important part. |
alshuJan 12, 3:48 PM
| Ok. My predictions for how well something is recieved are totally off - as usual. No synopsis, "American Hero Style", Alien Thread and something serious being taken... not very serious. This is essentially The Marginal Service with a taking Gundam. So I expected something with 40% dislike and a score of 4.8 - 5.2. Anyway - regarding the show itself, I'm not quite sold yet. It was slow, but promising until the talking Gundam showed up. Because that thing did NOT fit the dark, apocalyptic atmosphere established before. I hope next episode will get a grip on the genre and pull this show in a good, or at least fixed direction. |
| Huh, another original from CYGames. O.O |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
Reply to otakuweek
is it serious?
i don't even want to talk about the animation,but this robot at the end was way too much from, i wanted to continue if the story was good but no
with the old songs etc
is it a fan prod???
i don't even want to talk about the animation,but this robot at the end was way too much from, i wanted to continue if the story was good but no
with the old songs etc
is it a fan prod???
| @otakuweek It's a Super robot show. First time? |
| That was pretty good actually, shit got real fast and it became a massacre with alien invasion. Damn so many dead but atleast a light of hope arrived for them, bravern the mecha. Though that OST killed the last few minutes for me, wtf was that amidst all the seriousness lol. |
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| Honestly just thought this was the anime adaption of Battle L.A in the first half and then super robots had to dash my dreams >:( |
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| So this is a parody of Brave, haven't seen not even one so I won't be watching it I guess. Also, killed inside each time somebody referred to the mechas as "some Gundam" in the thread. Anyways thanks to the comments for letting me know what I needed about the show. |
| BANG BANG BANG BANG that was actually fun |
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| Japanese-U.S. exercise where they play real life AC Suddenly unknown enemy warps into LEO and alien machines job the jet fighters like in ID4. Now the humans' gritty real robots have to use live rounds. When the giant alien super weapon is about to fry the protagonist, DEUS EXEST MACHINA. The titular super robot Bravern asks Isami board him (when Lewis spotted him from a distance, I thought the humans would start attacking Bravern as an alien). Unlike the TS, Bravern has futuristic motion capture control, but before they can sortie, he has to play his own theme song loudly in the cockpit (yes, Kenichi Suzumura is the singer as well as the seiyuu!). Where the TS weapons were useless, Bravern takes down the alien fighters with his fists and sword, and he has to yell out what attack his using each time in classic super robot anime fashion. Of course the finisher must involve posing (courtesy of director Masami Obari) before the alien super weapon destructs behind him. |
Fortress_MaximusJan 13, 6:34 AM
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Leongolleyn said: Welp it did turn from realistic mecha to cringie super robots quite fast. Let`s see how it goes from here +1 I don't really have much hope tho :( |
| I enjoyed how much effort they put into portraying the military in this. I get it was a bait and switch but it would be nice if that remained as a consistent background feature with all the super robot stuff. I have high hopes for this. |
| feels like im a kid again lol so cheesy or corny i like it since that is super robot shows for you the 3dcg is cool as fuck too |
| Ngl I like the first half where it seemed more real robot -esque and bleak war drama better. Considering the name of the series and Obari's involvement I knew it's trailers were likely red herrings but still kind of disappointed. I haven't gotten around to seeing the Brave franchise yet, but have seen a few older Super Robot anime so guess I'll just have to adjust my expectations of this. I'm curious as to how well they'll intermix the bleak war setting with the general optimism found in Super Robot anime. |
| I'm sorry, but did the mech sing it's own theme song or was it my imagination? I can't. Nope. |
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