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Watched this recently based on some half-remembered good buzz around the forum and an itch to watch a mecha anime since it'd been a while. Didn't know what to make of the tone in the first few episodes but it does settle into a solid comedy pretty quick and it even reconciles some of these things into some pretty great punchlines (eg. from Isami's realistic and horrible waterboarding to the undercut one with Lulu and finally the fantastic scene where the guy tries to waterboard Superbia and his apology to Isami). Still pretty uneven throughout but just about every episode had a scene that made me laugh irl (even the last one has one of the evil robot's entire purpose being to set up a bitching explosion as a backdrop to Bravern's final transformation even though the tone of the rest of the episode is way more straightforward).Schwarzwald posted:I'm a little late but I just finished watching BBBB. I feel similar to this overall. Whoever compared it to Samurai Flamenco earlier in the thread was pretty spot-on, I think, in how they're somewhat similar in how they play with the tone, escalation, and expectations. But it doesn't drag out its premise as hard as that series did on account of just being one cour. Honestly thought the finale'd be way gayer just on account of how confident they were on that angle in earlier episodes (the dick grinding in the boxing match, for example) so I felt a bit disappointed in how safe the last episode was compared to how wild the series was willing to get before that point. Also yeah, I agree that the Lulu stuff is pretty hit or miss. I can see where they wanted to go with it, and there is someting important about the other pilot being the fully realized version of the disposable pilots the bad robots used to operate, but the sexual angle with the piloting still felt kind of skeevy since so much of the series is spent treating her like an actual child (even if they try to sand it off a bit with her mind coming back in time help Superbia get his final wish and fix up the bad future). Still a really good series and I get the hype that came out of it tho. Direction was pretty good and confident about its jokes. It gets plenty of mileage out of little cuts that tell a lot but the series is good enough about not over-explaining them (like Bravern making his own upgrade out of a 3d printed gunpla set lol).
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