Summary
Cygames Pictures successfully disguised Bang Brave Bang Braven’s true identity through intentionally misleading trailers, surprising audiences with the Super Robot genre. Masaomi Obari’s involvement in Braven, known for its heroic robot battles, hinted at something more than the military-focused material initially suggested. By combining genres and using self-awareness, Braven differentiates himself within the Super Robot genre, achieving better results than a simplistic approach.
New mecha anime from Cygames Pictures, Bang Brave Bang Bravern, fooled many viewers by revealing at the last minute that this was a Super Robot chapter. This is thanks to intentionally misleading trailers and pre-release material, which caused the film to be presented as a standard war story. While this change is shocking, it ultimately benefits Braven, as it sets it apart from the mecha sub-genre’s bombastic revival.
Masaomi Obari, who is directing Braven, is more associated with heroic, super-powered robots fighting straight villains. That’s why many mecha fans suspect there’s more to Braven than the initial material suggested, which focused on purely military “Titanostriders.”
But by revealing its true intentions, fans will get more of a treat from seeing Obari return to his roots with a spiritual successor to the Brave series.
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While initial preview material emphasized the military aspects of Braven, longtime mecha fans were quick to notice the oddity of Obari working on the Real Robot series, especially with a Such a traditional game. As it turns out, the anime premiere revealed that all the previous footage only made up the first third of the first episode. The change occurred when the titular Braven appeared and stopped an alien invasion, suggesting that the commercially available Titanostriders would now fight alongside the heroic machine. It looks like Braven will be a mash-up of genres, as military pilots use super-powered machines to fight aliens.
Anime fans familiar with Cygames were also quick to guess a twist was coming, as the company has a history of misleading viewers with misleading promotional material. What’s amazing is that the trailers and first episodes of Zombie Land Saga keep changing tones, implying that it’s either an idol anime or a zombie horror show, before revealing that it’s both. two, it’s a horror comedy about zombie entertainers. It may be an old Cygames trick, but it’s also a trick Braven needed, as the shock of the genre shift helps the absurdity of the Super Robot genre turn out better than it was supposed to. is “straightforward”.
While Zombieland Saga’s anime production was largely handled by Mappa, Cygames helped create the series and was responsible for marketing the series.
Bang Braven combines the Super Robot and Real Robot genres to great effect
While many people are clamoring for more Super Robot ala GaoGaiGar shows, it’s not always easy for viewers to accept its conventions. Braven’s solution is to happily be so self-aware that a talking robot with a face, a giant sword, bright colors, screaming attacks, and a theme song in a universe that’s truly out of this world This. It’s an apt metaphor for an industry that seems to have shied away from Super Robots lately. But just like how its titular machine fell from the sky, Obari’s Bang Brave Bang Bravern also rushed into the scene without warning.
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