#deathdrives

[jet-teeth]

Diggin up some Bravern stuff I keep forgetting to post...

#bang brave bang bravern #deathdrives #Ira #Segnities #Once again really diggin the Deathdrive designs #Ira has some funky dragon energy going on with his design and I'm here for that #messy sketch/paint stuff ahoy #Jet art

[chibiveneficus]

IT'S LITERAL ROBOT NOISES

#bang brave bang bravern #no lie i've been thinking about what gagapi means this past week #how these super advance robots came to communicate with gagapi #and NEVER in a MILLION FUCKING YEARS #WOULD IT HAVE THOUGHT #THAT THEY WERE LITERALLY!! GOING!! BEEP BOOP!! #im crying #tbqh this makes the end scene of ep5 with the deathdriver monologuing over burning tokyo a hell of a lot funny #which you know what? is perfect for this show.

[aecholapis]

#if only I could extract the Deathdrives and Bravern and put them somewhere else #in a different show or something #bang brave bang bravern #cupiridas #ft. the most liminal looking tea cup i've ever drawn in my life #my art

[basically-dead-artist]

In the loving memory of Cupiridas,

He died.

Ga ga Pi.

#yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #bang brave bang bravern #Goodnight Our beloved Deathdrive of Greed

[dukku-of-catempty]

I'm so curious about how (the remaining surviving human) ppl will react to the military working with super giant robots to save the world. Will the fighting footage be made public? Will isami become a global figure? Will there be Bravern merch in-universe?

I keep imagining that there will be a bunch of conspiracy videos online about the whole thing, because I feel there's no way everything will be made public, especially concerning Lulu who's (physically) still a minor.

In my isarui headcanon, isami will want to protect Smith from global scrutiny, so he will just be the mysterious partner of the hero of the world. But there will be ppl digging into it and videos with titles like "the man who came back to life""who is lewis smith?" circulating around online (since Smith was announced KIA for a bit and records can't be completely erased).

The most popular video of course will be "what was bravern?", ppl will speculate the robot to be secretly made by governments, or maybe a part of the death drives, but I doubt there will be anyone who can come to the complete truth.

And after all the necessary public appearances Isami will retire, flowershop AU takes place and the truth of Bravern will forever be an unsolved mystery.

#bravern #bang brave bang bravern #ao isami #lewis smith #isami x lewis #headcanon #i mean with a global disaster like that theres no way humans wont make a documentary about it #please someone write a fic about all the media coverage of deathdrives vs earth and bravern

[mary-moongood]

my Bang Brave Bang Bravern hunger games highlights

Also in case you are wondering

Pessimism somehow won

#bang brave bang bravern #anime bbb #isami ao #lewis smith #lulu #Hibiki Rio #Superbia #Knuth #or Cunus #Pessimism (deathdrive) #Bravern #Hal King #Heidemarie #and everyone else #hunger games simulator

[litleo123]

me and my friends couldnt go to the bravern cafe back in march, so we coped by making our own cafe merch

#leon-art #bang brave bang bravern #i refuse to tag all of them i dont have the energy for that #this is just gonna be me rambling at the bottom btw about the cafe #sooo for the cafe we also made food from the menu and we decided on the curry and pancakes #and then we made the cupiridas drink and isami goop drink lol #we were fighting for our lives tho cuz we basically made everything from scratch i had to spend like 30 mins trying to make black ice cream #and then for the merch my friend made isami lulu and smith stickers and a bravern postcard #also she made them into big posters too lol #and then i made designs for all of teh deathdrives and bravern to make into coasters for all of us #i still have yet to make them tho cuz college and work has been kicking my ass

[aecho-again]

Y'all were right, btw

#bang brave bang bravern #i do would like to know what happened to his English pronunciation skills. did he forget how to talk or? #i'm being nitpicky here but this bugs me #also 9 episodes is the longest it has ever taken for the first combined form to show up. wow they really took their time with this #he looks ridiculous. i love it #i have one question though. if smith knew their names because of time travel shenanigans #how will they know what to call the remaining deathdrives?

[coredrill]

man i know i have been convinced smith would not make it out of this ep alive for like a month now but i did NOT predict that it would happen because he’d rather die than make love to a woman 😭

#HE’S SO. SHAKES HIM SHAKES HIM SHAKES HIM #also. ‘‘die’’ yeah until isami goes berserker mode abt it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #i’ll have more to say later most likely but my palms have been sweating all day i gotta chill. LMAO #the fucking pipeline of like. show isami happy in the preview -> 400 happy isami fanarts -> now there are gonna be 4000 SAD isami fanarts #and sunday’s preview will fuck me up again. LMAO (<-coping.) #a: bravern #ch: lewis smith #bravern spoilers #t.bbbb #also i know that deathdrive isnt like. A Woman but theres a reason that one got the feminine traits LMFAO

[make-me-another-bloodymary]

Cringe is a manifestation of death drive

I wanna write more about this but in retrospect when i think about Contrapoints’ video Cringe, its more like how we would witness our death drive being manifested in others. I wish i had more time in life in general because I will elaborate on this later but just hang in there.

#contrapoints #cringe #deathdrive #freud #psychoanalysis

[chibiveneficus]

i'm probably thinking too hard about this but the way that Bravern knows about the attack on the ships before he's contacted, the way his symbol and name appeared on the radar screen....did he hack the military. is he just constantly chilling in their systems. did he even think about what he was doing before doing so because it's just second nature to connect to your allies 'cloud mind' so to speak

and for that matter, if he did just slip into top secret servers nbd, of course he has internet access. he has watched James Cameron's 1989 The Abyss. what is his internet search history like. inquiring minds wish to know

#and i also noticed that lulu stopped fighting when bravern destroyed the big deathdriver #was she in the evil cloud mind until her access was cut off #chews these thoughts like a squeaky toy #i'm having fun!!!! #chibi actually talks #bang brave bang bravern

[jet-teeth]

Finally got caught up on that funky Bravern show the other day and omg. It's so much fun. Have some scribblin' More yelling under the cut (and also mild spoiler alert if you haven't seen any of it:)

Loved seeing more of the other Deathdrives, even if they were kinda short-lived on-screen and all (guess that's what happens when a buncha story stuff needs to get compressed into just 12 episodes)

I'm enjoying the hell out of this silly show it's fucking BUCKWILD. I can't remember the last show that made me laugh this much I am just constantly chimpanzee screaming at the screen Wasn't super sure at first because I was a bit "???" about where this was going in the first few eps but oh my god. It's def become a fav now. It's for sure meant to be a parody of itself/commentary on the entire mecha anime genre and all the tropes that it's loaded with but then the story actually gets interesting too. The TWISTS. IDK it just seems like they had so much fun making this Also, sentient robot characters yippee! (That stuff just seems to be super rare, I've always kinda wondered why, but it's like the mecha genre is allergic to the concept unless you go full into Transformers territory (which is its own whole thing at that point.) Like idk maybe I'm the weird one for loving that idea, but I do wish more of that existed outside of the context of parody or "for little kids" or whatever. Anyway I'll take whatever I can get on that front. I'm adopting all of these idiots) Cupiridas is my fav, Extremely Silly Guy. Kunus (Cunus?) is completely off her shits but I actually love that super wingy design. Pessimism has some really cool silhouette nonsense going on, can def approve of straying from the usual humanoid look. I could throw in some sketches of the main mechs (Bravern, Superbia) but they already get most of the fan art, so I wanted to doodle some of the others..

#bang brave bang bravern #bravern #Cupiridas #Pessimism #Kunus #robots #mecha #anyway def worth a watch #also that the transformers fandom collectively adopting Bravern was enough to convince me that I needed to give this show a chance #Jet art #jet squawkings

[gespenst-mkiv-custom]

Here is a tranlated version of the april fools frying pan add (this channel also has translated all the "Memories of Deathdrives" videos too)

"Comparable to the embodiment of the safety felt in a lovers handhold" as the background shows the ending with Isami and Smith holding hands. Just because Obari and crew have shown they don't believe in subtlety at all

#bravern #bang brave bang bravern #april fool's day #Youtube

[adrienjay]

Well, since my "Bravern is the Deathdrive of gluttony" crack theory was proven wrong, it seems I need an even bigger crack theory to replace it. Introducing:

Bravern is transgender

I think it goes without saying, but spoilers ahead!

So first of all: the entire existence of Bravern can be taken as a transgender allegory. The show does something pretty interesting when it banks on you, the viewer, assuming that Lewis is jealous of Isami for being the one chosen by Bravern to help save the world. But if you rewatch the show after the episode 9 twist, you realize hey, wait a second, Lewis actually totally wishes he was that giant robot" (Which is funny, because... He is)

Lewis tries to become Bravern's pilot to get as close to this wish as he believes is possible, and is shown to be haunted by Bravern's rejection. He tries again to become Superbia's pilot, going as far as to say if it goes wrong and he dies, it will be worth it. And even after failing, he continues to hold on to the hope it's still possible until the others are like "no dude, we've got a brand new non-sentient mech for you to pilot, you don't need to do this."

When he dies in the battle against Cunus, the audience gets a flashback to his past where he complains about the limits of the human body before looking up at a Titanostrider in wonder. And when he first gets a chance to pilot one, he gets overexcited, noticeably enough that others tease him for it.

After reincarnating as Bravern, he's very clearly happier! He loves his new body, he's considerably more optimistic than he was as a human, he's much more self-confident, and he's a lot more open about his romantic feelings. The fact that he's keeping his true identity a secret can be considered part of this allegory too - he doesn't want to be seen as his old self anymore. He's Bravern now.

But here's the kicker: the specifics of how Lewis was able to revive himself through sheer force of will aren't completely clear in the show, but the Bravern radio show confirms that Bravern was created by Lewis's mind taking over Cunus's body. And since Cunus is a clearly female-coded robot, this means that Bravern's body used to be female.

Thus, Bravern is not only a transgender allegory, but also literally trans in another sense. I rest my case.

#bravern #bang brave bang bravern #lewis smith #bravern spoilers #yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #transgender

[margoshrmargoshing]

Somewhat sketch of a dress based on the character deathdrive knuth from the hit anime show bang brave bang bravern (2024)

#yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #bang bravern #brave bang bravern #bang brave bang bravern #bang brave bravern #bravern #knuth bbbb #knuth #bravern knuth #margosher arting art

[the-unaligned]

Bravern episode 8 spoilers

EP 8 Analysis

This is going to be super incoherent and is mostly just going to be me rambling but idc, I need to post this somewhere so it’s not ruminating in my head until I assault some random human with word vomit

So this is mostly going to be focus on episode 8 but I will touch back on previous episodes for references.

Anyways Episode 8 basically just confirmed the “Bravern is Smith” theory and I am so hype

What is the “Bravern is Smith” theory?

So the Bravern is Smith theory is a theory that.. well.. Bravern and Lewis Smith are the same person.

I’m not sure who started it but (I think) it started when the opening showed for the first time and we got to the scene of Smith’s arm becoming Bravern’s. From there it spiraled, more and more evidence pointing towards it, such as: Bravern knowing A LOT about Smith, Bravern making a lot of human pop culture references and speaking English interchangeably with Japanese (Smith does this too), Bravern being a super robot (Smith is a massive Super robot nerd) and a ton of other things

Episode 8:

Now we get into why I’m finally making a post about this, I’ve been following along with this theory since episode 2 and have been taking my notes on it but I never bothered posting about it anywhere

Why now?

Because episode 8 might’ve just confirmed it.

Let’s start with the opening:

So this right here is the catalyst that started this all, Smith’s arm turning into Bravern’s. Now, we knew all that, but the one thing we never knew until now was “who tf is glowy bitch”

Well,

I think is Knuth

“But why her? She looks nothing like the silhouette”

Look here, she has plates of armor that highly resemble two pairs of wings. Who else has two pairs of wings? The silhouette. Same placement and everything. I think the silhouette is meant to be vague, as to not tip the viewer off right away that the silhouette is a deathdrive.

We’ll come back to this later, I need to talk about Bravern’s lines during this episode.

I’m not entirely sure how to explain it but this line will be important later, for now it’s just more Super Robot inspirational speech

Right here is the important line, the title of the episode (which is what tipped me and a lot of other people off to Smith dying) and the last thing Bravern says to him. Now normally when entering a battlefield, you’d tell your comrade “Good luck”, “Until we meet again” makes it seem like someone will die, this is a line usually used when you’re not sure when you’ll see someone again. Bravern used this because he knew what was going to happen to Smith, and either he can’t stop it, or he doesn’t want to.

Bravern knows because he has gone through this before, as Smith.

That is likely why he told Smith to “save as many people as he can”, likely because when he went through this, a lot of people died

(This ties into my own branch of the theory where Bravern has already gone through all of this before and went back in time to change the outcome)

Now during the fight, Bravern isn’t really focused, he’s taking hits he’d normally be able to dodge and isn’t really rushing like he usually does. I think it’s because he’s trying to stall, trying to keep Isami away from Knuth and Smith so their fight can happen, either that or he’s distracted due to knowing what’s happening not that far away (or it could be both)

Before we get to this next part I wanna point out a quote I noticed during the episode from Knuth. I can’t find it just by scrolling and I’d rewatch the full episode to find it but Tumblr is lagging like hell and burning through my battery so I can’t

At one point Knuth mentioned something about fusing with Smith, this might mean that Knuth’s body ends up being the base for Bravern, but im still not 100% sure about that, just thought I’d add that. If she is the base and Bravern did in fact go back in time, this would make sense as Knuth had mentioned that she had gone back in time a few times

Now we get to focus on the important part of the episode, Smith’s death. Let’s just start listing off things to pay attention to.

(I reached the photo limit oops)

- Smith is humming his own theme song as he charges Knuth, Bravern sings his own theme song and blasts it whenever he fights

- He straight up says “Brave Slash” as he strikes Knuth

-Smith talks DIRECTLY INTO ISAMI’S MIND and says the following quote: “Isami. Isami. Brave. Brave… Bang.” And we all know why that’s important, the title of the show is literally “Bang Brave Bang Bravern”

There are still some questions, like “how was Smith able to use telepathy?” “How exactly is Bravern created?” “Is Bravern truly a fusion between Smith and Knuth?”

I know this probably makes zero sense but I need to get this out somewhere

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk (holy shit it’s so laggy)

Edit: I forgot to mention it but the foreshadowing for Smith’s death was so obvious, legit in his introduction Isami legit goes “You’re dead, the dead don’t talk” so uhh called it lmao

#bang brave bang bravern #bravern spoilers #Bravern #idk how to tag this