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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    hey we just watched the first episode of Frieren. This is immediately wonderful.

    It only gets more wonderfuler

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    hey we just watched the first episode of Frieren. This is immediately wonderful.

    It only gets more wonderfuler

    It's a very well written fantasy series with wonderful world building that for once isn't Yet Another Fucking Isekai.

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Actually the demons are all isekai'd shut in nerds, this is why they're amoral murderous freaks obsessed with power levels.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    No word on what it is yet, but character designer Akiman (Turn A Gundam, literally every Capcom game from the late 90s/2000s that you love) apparently tweeted that he was “summoned” by Tomino to do some work on “Himiko Yamato”

    Princess Japan?

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Badablack wrote: »
    Actually the demons are all isekai'd shut in nerds, this is why they're amoral murderous freaks obsessed with power levels.

    But enough about Broly

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    New broly is a precious pure boy!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Badablack wrote: »
    New broly is a precious pure boy!

    Is his power maximum?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    No word on what it is yet, but character designer Akiman (Turn A Gundam, literally every Capcom game from the late 90s/2000s that you love) apparently tweeted that he was “summoned” by Tomino to do some work on “Himiko Yamato”

    Princess Japan?

    no no, it's princess yapan, a sequel to everyone's favorite show, overman king gainer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9m3LOUzZs4

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    oh god that was a shit post, but what if it was a king gainer sequel

    ugh

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    No word on what it is yet, but character designer Akiman (Turn A Gundam, literally every Capcom game from the late 90s/2000s that you love) apparently tweeted that he was “summoned” by Tomino to do some work on “Himiko Yamato”

    Princess Japan?

    My best guess is that, and this is a crapshoot based on knowing how Tomino likes to springboard from various things as the genesis of his projects (Turn A was influenced heavily by the Tale of Princess Kaguya, King Gainer is a heavy nod to La Compagnie des Glaces for example), I went refrehsing my memory and the closest thing I can find is very early Japanese history, like some of the earliest out there, the Priestess-Queen Himiko of Yamatai, a country within ancient Japan, who's life is heavily debated among historians:
    Identifying Himiko/Pimiko of Wa is straightforward within the history of China, but problematic within the history of Japan. The 3rd-century Chinese Wei Zhi ("Records of Wei") provides details about shaman Queen Himiko and her communications with Emperors Cao Rui and Cao Fang. The 8th-century Japanese Kojiki ("Records of Ancient Matters") and the Nihon Shoki ("Chronicles of Japan", which quotes the Wei Zhi) disregard Himiko, unless she was the subtext behind their accounts of Empress Jingū, Yamatohime-no-mikoto, or Yamato-toto-hi-momo-so-hime-no-Mikoto.

    None of these three legendary Japanese royal shamans adequately corresponds with the Chinese chronology and description of Himiko. Assuming the Wei Zhi account that Himiko died around 248, if one accepts the dubious Japanese traditional dating, then she was closer to the 3rd-century AD Empress Jingū than to the 1st-century BC Yamato-hime-no-mikoto and Yamato-toto-hi-momo-so-hime. On the other hand, if one accepts the postdating adjustments prior to the 4th century, then Himiko was closer to these Yamato-named shamans. Neither the Kojiki nor the Nihon Shoki mentions Himiko or any of the salient topics that she was unmarried, was chosen as ruler by the people, had a younger brother who helped rule (unless this refers to Jingū's son), or had numerous (figuratively "1,000") female attendants.

    William Wayne Farris[40] reviews the history of scholarly debates over Himiko and her domain Yamatai. The Edo-period philosophers Arai Hakuseki and Motoori Norinaga began the controversies over whether Yamatai was located in Northern Kyushu or Yamato Province in the Kinki region of central Honshū and whether the Wei Zhi or the Nihon Shoki was historically more trustworthy. The Confucianist Arai accepted the Chinese history as more reliable, and first equated Himiko with Jingū and Yamatai with Yamato. The kokugaku scholar Motoori accepted the traditional Japanese myth-history as more reliable, and dismissed its Wei Zhi quotations as later accretions. He hypothesized that a king from Kumaso sent emissaries who masqueraded as Jingū's officials to the Wei court, thus leading Wei to mistake them for representatives of Himiko. Farris states that "Motoori's usurpation hypothesis (gisen setsu) carried great weight for the next century."[41]

    Rather than being linked with Yamataikoku (regardless of wherever Yamataikoku was), Himiko may have been instead linked with Nakoku (奴國, "the Na state of Wa") (which Tsunoda[38] located in near present-day Hakata in northern Kyūshū), whereto was sent a golden royal seal, by Emperor Guangwu of the Han dynasty. Nakoku is said to have existed from the 1st century to the early 3rd century, and seems to have been independent or even a rival of the current Imperial House of Japan, supposedly in Yamato, Honshū. Even so, both the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki recorded that the current imperial dynasty, starting with Jimmu, originated from the Kumaso territory of Takachiho, Hyūga Province in present-day Kyushu's southeastern section.[42][43][44] The Kumaso were also associated with Kunakoku (狗奴國), ruled by Himiko's rival, king Himikuko.

    After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japanese historians adopted European historical scholarship, especially the source-based methodology of Leopold von Ranke. Naka Michiyo believed the Nihon Shoki chronology was inaccurate prior to the 4th century, and thus [45] "Jingū became a fourth-century queen whose reign could not possibly have coincided with Himiko's." The sinologist Shiratori Kurakichi proposed the Nihon Shoki compilers were tempted to associate Jingū with the religious powers of Himiko. Naitō Torajirō argued that Himiko was the high priestess of the Ise shrine Yamato-hime-no-mikoto and that Wa armies obtained control of southern Korea:
    One scholar [Higo Kazuo] asserted that Himiko was really Yamato-toto-momo-so-hime-no-mikoto, aunt of the legendary Emperor Sūjin on his father's side, because her supposed tomb at Hashihaka in Nara measured about a hundred paces in diameter, the measurement given for Himiko's grave. This theory gained adherents in the postwar period. Another [Shida Fudomaru] saw in Himiko an expression of women's political authority in early Japan.[46]

    Some later Japanese historians reframed Himiko in terms of Marxist historiography. Masaaki Ueda argued that "Himiko's was a despotic state with a generalized slave system" ,[47] while Mitsusada Inoue idealized Yamatai as a "balance of small states" with communal property and popular political expression. Following the late 1960s "Yamatai boom", when numerous Japanese historians, linguists, and archeologists published reevaluations of Himiko and Yamatai, the debate was joined by Japanese nationalists, mystery writers, and amateur scholars.

    In Japanese historical and archeological periodization, the 2nd- and 3rd-century era of Queen Himiko was between late Yayoi period and early Kofun period. Kofun (古墳, "old tumulus") refers to characteristic keyhole-shaped burial mounds, and the Wei Zhi noting "a great mound was raised, more than a hundred paces in diameter" for Pimiko's tomb, may well be the earliest written record of a kofun. Several archeological excavations of Yayoi and Kofun sites in kinki region, have revealed Chinese-style bronze mirrors, called shinju-kyo (神獣鏡, "mirror decorated with gods and animals"). Many scholars who support the Kinki theory associate these shinju-kyo with the "one hundred bronze mirrors" that the Wei Zhi[13] records Emperor Cao Rui presented to Queen Himiko, while other scholars[48][49] oppose it. The Hashihaka Kofun in Sakurai, Nara was given a recent boost by radio-carbon dating circa 240–60.[50] The early Chinese records of Himiko/Pimiko and her Yamatai polity remain something of a Rorschach test. To different interpreters, this early Japanese shaman queen can appear as evidence of communalism (Marxists), Jōmon priestess rulers (Feminist history), the Japanese conquest of Korea,[51] the Mongolian conquest of Japan (Namio Egami's "horserider theory" (ja)), the imperial system originating with tandem rule by a female shaman and male monarch,[52] the "patriarchal revolution" replacing female deities and priestesses with male counterparts,[53] or a shamanic advisor to the federation of Wa chieftains who "must have looked like a ruling queen to Chinese envoys".[54]

    in lighthearted anime thigns, here's a cute episode of Meow Meow Japanese History about her:
    https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6ZXVJ7ZR/queen-himiko

    No clue just what form it’d take as an actual show however; again see the original Kaguya and how Turn A interprets those influences

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Totally lying to the media and to the execs about what the series is about is not exclusively Gundam, but it is pretty Gundam. Though that's a charitable read of that interview.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Okay wait why is the board censoring “Turn” in “Turn A” now
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Okay wait why is the board censoring “Turn” in “Turn A” now
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    Looks fine to me, maybe a screen/browser thing?

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Okay wait why is the board censoring “Turn” in “Turn A” now
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    No idea, but it's not happening on my device
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Illuminaturn

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    Hang on we can get to the bottom of this

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
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    hey guys what are we talking about?

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    FLASHBANG OUT

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not sure how this even posted on mobile whoops.

    Anyways Brave Bang Bravern is the straightest show I have ever seen.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zek wrote: »
    Looks like the browser line overflow ellipses. Not sure why it got applied there.

    Huh you’re right; flip my phone sidewise and it goes normal.

    There’s a weird bug for you

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Not sure how this even posted on mobile whoops.

    Anyways Brave Bang Bravern is the straightest show I have ever seen.

    so straight it just sort of wraps around, huh

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I started up Delicious in Dungeon. At first I was concerned about watching with my kid with the TV-MA rating, but two episodes down and there's little to be concerned about here so far. Does it get worse? Like, bloodier? Swearier?

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It gets more violent and more... scary later on. You may want to pre-screen the episodes.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I started up Delicious in Dungeon. At first I was concerned about watching with my kid with the TV-MA rating, but two episodes down and there's little to be concerned about here so far. Does it get worse? Like, bloodier? Swearier?

    Swearier? No. Bloodier, mostly not, there are some realistic depictions of injuries and animal meat being butchered, but there are also a few bits of body horror later on. It's not too heavy, but it might be too much for younger kids? But body horror is pretty rare and mild over the whole story. A couple of examples that spring to mind (spoilers obviously)
    At one point the party is all killed except Marcille, and she has to use magic to literally puppet their corpses around for a little while, accidentally making them dance around with floppy limbs and heads rolling around, until she can get to safety and revive them. At another point, Laios and Marcille are trapped in a nightmare where Laios appears to rapidly age into a decrepit corpse.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I started up Delicious in Dungeon. At first I was concerned about watching with my kid with the TV-MA rating, but two episodes down and there's little to be concerned about here so far. Does it get worse? Like, bloodier? Swearier?

    Swearier? No. Bloodier, mostly not, there are some realistic depictions of injuries and animal meat being butchered, but there are also a few bits of body horror later on. It's not too heavy, but it might be too much for younger kids? But body horror is pretty rare and mild over the whole story. A couple of examples that spring to mind (spoilers obviously)
    At one point the party is all killed except Marcille, and she has to use magic to literally puppet their corpses around for a little while, accidentally making them dance around with floppy limbs and heads rolling around, until she can get to safety and revive them. At another point, Laios and Marcille are trapped in a nightmare where Laios appears to rapidly age into a decrepit corpse.

    Yeah, this anime sounds way more unpleasant than it looks.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Alrighty, spoke too soon then, got it. :p

    In kid related news, she got very in to A Whisker Away which is a love story about a girl who turns into a cat. It's very cute, but I'm pretty sure most of the love story and a lot of the darker bits were lost on her on account of the "girl turns into cat" part.

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Ignore srry

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The KyoAni arsonist has been sentenced spoilering for heavy

    BREAKING: A Kyoto court has sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 that killed 36 people. More info to come shortly.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Alrighty, spoke too soon then, got it. :p

    In kid related news, she got very in to A Whisker Away which is a love story about a girl who turns into a cat. It's very cute, but I'm pretty sure most of the love story and a lot of the darker bits were lost on her on account of the "girl turns into cat" part.

    i've never actually watched the movie, but i love the theme song yorushika made for it

    https://youtu.be/9lVPAWLWtWc?si=FNi9J0y7zKhtHA6g

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    The KyoAni arsonist has been sentenced spoilering for heavy

    BREAKING: A Kyoto court has sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 that killed 36 people. More info to come shortly.
    I didn't know japan used the death penalty
    was an awful evil thing but I guess my opinion on that is killing him won't bring all those people back either

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Alrighty, spoke too soon then, got it. :p

    In kid related news, she got very in to A Whisker Away which is a love story about a girl who turns into a cat. It's very cute, but I'm pretty sure most of the love story and a lot of the darker bits were lost on her on account of the "girl turns into cat" part.

    I think Delicious in Dungeon does not get any more graphic than what you'll see in the first three episodes. It gets a little more serious with PLOT, but the basic level of violence doesn't move to another level.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    The KyoAni arsonist has been sentenced spoilering for heavy

    BREAKING: A Kyoto court has sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 that killed 36 people. More info to come shortly.
    I didn't know japan used the death penalty
    was an awful evil thing but I guess my opinion on that is killing him won't bring all those people back either
    The Wikipedia article on it goes into some detail, but the tl;dr is that it's usually only for people who committed multiple murders and it's by hanging.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Neveron wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    The KyoAni arsonist has been sentenced spoilering for heavy

    BREAKING: A Kyoto court has sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 that killed 36 people. More info to come shortly.
    I didn't know japan used the death penalty
    was an awful evil thing but I guess my opinion on that is killing him won't bring all those people back either
    The Wikipedia article on it goes into some detail, but the tl;dr is that it's usually only for people who committed multiple murders and it's by hanging.
    The most fucked up thing is that they don't tell you until the morning of the execution when you are scheduled to be executed. Literally waking up every day not knowing if it's going to be your last day. Evil shit.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Bravern 3
    So... uh... are they going to waterboard Isami literally every week? And being goofy about him being curled up in a ball and traumatized is so weird. More consistently goofy than the second episode overall, but it still feels really weird how they're treating Isami.

    Magical alien girlfriend is standard fanservice cliche. Naked fight. Random button removes all her clothes. Oh, she lost, now she loves the dude and just wants to glomp.

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Neveron wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    The KyoAni arsonist has been sentenced spoilering for heavy

    BREAKING: A Kyoto court has sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the 2019 arson at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 that killed 36 people. More info to come shortly.
    I didn't know japan used the death penalty
    was an awful evil thing but I guess my opinion on that is killing him won't bring all those people back either
    The Wikipedia article on it goes into some detail, but the tl;dr is that it's usually only for people who committed multiple murders and it's by hanging.
    The most fucked up thing is that they don't tell you until the morning of the execution when you are scheduled to be executed. Literally waking up every day not knowing if it's going to be your last day. Evil shit.
    Apparently it's because back when they gave multiple days of warning people would commit suicide.
    Which... maybe that says something, but I don't think it says "don't give them time to stew on it, get 'em right to the gallows".

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Episodes 3 & 4 of Delicious in Dungeon down. What a great time. 4 is quite a bit longer, like they had two stories to tell but couldn't quite make it into two separate episodes, but also didn't want to cut anything. And that's fine because it was really nice bringing cultures together like that with food.

    The living armor though.. just perfect.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Vinland Saga chapter 208
    This guy knows how to stay alive:
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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Bravern 3
    So... uh... are they going to waterboard Isami literally every week? And being goofy about him being curled up in a ball and traumatized is so weird. More consistently goofy than the second episode overall, but it still feels really weird how they're treating Isami.

    Magical alien girlfriend is standard fanservice cliche. Naked fight. Random button removes all her clothes. Oh, she lost, now she loves the dude and just wants to glomp.
    I didn’t quite understand why Isami’s reaction to this was to stay inside the giant robot he has issues with instead of, like, getting out and getting as far away as possible.

    [part of me thinks it was just to riff on the similar event in Eva with Shinji refusing to get out of 01, particularly given the reveal this episode of the dampening/breathing fluid]

    Also once more Bravern demonstrating knowledge about things that he seemingly should not as an alien space robot (before knowing Isami in episode despite never having met before, as indicated by his self-narrative in 2 where he describes it as their first meeting; this time the James Cameron’s Abyss reference)

    Very curious about what Lulu’s deal is, given the almost kind of feral way she acted; is she human? A humanoid Alien? She’s definitely connected to Superbia given how we saw things go went at the end of that fight and the start of this episode:

    - As Superbia was losing, they took out a pod of some kind and administered it into their core
    - The pod was ejected on Superbia’s destruction
    - When Smith finds Lulu on the beach, the liquid covering her is the same color as Superbia’s gem-like structures on their armor
    - We get a shot of a turtle laying an egg direct after Smith finds her, where they very deliberately depict the mucosal substance around the egg after we’ve just seen Lulu covered in some kind of strange, goopy liquid
    - There’s a shot in the opening where a woman, presumably Lulu going by what we can see of her hair, wearing a pendant that looks evocative of Superbia’s design
    - We see Bravern can fight without a pilot, but he is far less strong when he does so
    - When Bravern injects the force dampening breathing liquid into the cockpit to protect Isami from the pressure and inertia of underwater combat, it’s the same green as his gem-like structures on his armor

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    If I had to guess, whatever Bravern, Superbia and the other (currently silhouetted) super robots in the OP are, they require some kind of pilot or presence inside them to fight at full strength and capacity, and Lulu’s was that for Superbia. However, given what we see of how Superbia used her pod (which I think we can see wreckage of just a bit into the waves this episode), they seem to be treated as more of a resource than as partners like how Bravern wants Isami to be for him.

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