No.2735
>>2733I hope it's good. I heard omegaverse is also very popular overseas so I also hope my sisters across the seas are as happy as I am.
No.2741
>>2733i'm not even into omegaverse but i'm oddly very excited for this lol
No.2742
>>2741I'm shocked that it's popular enough to have an actual anime with the premise. Also not into it, but happy on principle.
No.2868
>>2764I watched this expecting a cool war sci-fi story until it got hijacked by a super robot after which I watched it expecting a cool super robot story but then said super robot turned out to be a super goofy homosexual.
Well now I watch it for the sci-fi war, super robot AND the gayness, so guess this is still a win. Also, bless the mild ryona, Isami strangely hot when he's angry or suffering and Bravern is moe as hell.
No.2869
>>2868Right? I suppose the show's logo makes it apparent there's more than serious military stuff to it but boy did it take a turn and then just keep turning, kek. I'm super happy to have picked it up, the ED nearly killed me when I first saw it. I love the whole of the main trio but yeah, Bravern is a total joy.
>bless the mild ryonaTrue!
No.2870
>>2869I try to go in mostly blind so I didn't expect any of it. The only thing I do is to look at the promo art to filter out the isekai and romcoms.
But this series proves again that the best gay is surprise gay in series that aren't romance. Before it started I remember hoping for some generic bro moments between the MCs so that it would get a bit of art by people with fujo goggles. And I didn't expect any mecha besides to military ones. How things have changed lol. I surely didn't have an obsessive gay mecha and public gay frotting on my bingo card.
Honestly do this more often. Even fujo audiences aside I noticed that gay shit rarely even drives hetero men away from a series as long as there is action and comedy. And as long as the gay content is openly gay and not insecure gay pandering or relationship drama.
Notice the resonance for Bravern vs that of Buddy Daddies. BD tried to attract the exact same fanbases, but without having the balls. It didn't help them. Fujos gave up on it but the men didn't watch it either.
No.2871
>>2870It just has enough to it that it can leave multiple people engaged, imo. People wanting to learn what's up with Bravern and the DDrives, Bravern and Smith, or just see more action/its brand of humor in general. There's well-drawn seriousness beneath all the gay and that puts in a lot of work. So yeah, I'll have to agree with surprise gay being nice. It's certainly the most fun!
>BDI've never watched it but most of the time I see it mentioned someone brings up how 'aggressively straight' (lmao) it was. I won't speak much on it ofc because I haven't watched but I imagine that just doesn't do much for anyone. If you shy away from any and all connection between the protags no one is really going to get invested in them as a pair, either via shipping or simply as a protagonist duo they enjoy. There are plenty of ships where one/both of the characters are overtly straight but it must have done some serious bludgeoning to end up thought of like it is.
No.2872
>>2871>I've never watched it but most of the time I see it mentioned someone brings up how 'aggressively straight' (lmao) it was. I won't speak much on it ofc because I haven't watched but I imagine that just doesn't do much for anyone.When I watched Buddy daddies I felt that besides one of the dudes being a skirt chaser I didn't even get the impression he had much of a positive relationship with the other hitman for most of the show. Their dynamic almost felt like "Grownass man still being taken care of by his mother" more than anything else. So yeah to me it definitely didn't feel like the male leads were shippable.
No.2873
>>2871BD was like two teams made two different series and tried to merge them. The writers clearly aimed for fujobucks, but one of the MCs had to clarify that he wanted to bang women at least once every episode and the two characters had zero chemistry with each other because they were afraid of making it too homo.
Same with the genre itself. You got cartoony shit where characters are funnily running through point blank range bullet hells like looney tunes and then you get other characters that blow up or get murdered by a single shot because now the plot wants it so. They couldn't come up with a reason for making the girl stay with the MCs so her mother got terminal cancer. But that wasn't enough, she was also shot and killed before she even had the chance to die from the illness (the MCs also killed the girl's father btw. but it's never brought up).
The whole series was awfully designed and suffers from a genuine lack of direction imo.
No.2874
>>2872>I didn't even get the impression he had much of a positive relationship with the other hitman for most of the show>>2873>and the two characters had zero chemistry with each other because they were afraid of making it too homoYeah, that's what I was figuring. Wanted to make sure things were capital S straight at the expense of everything else. I have absolutely no idea how that could happen beyond outright failure in settling on a cohesive direction like
>>2873 said.
Like, seriously. At the very start someone had the base understanding that two dudes + cute kid had appeal. Maybe they didn't understand that that alone wouldn't be enough? That there'd have to be, I dunno, facets to that characters that made people like having them in that situation (and therefore want to see more of them after things are all said and done) rather than driving home "erm acshually it's just a job for both of them they don't really care all that much about one another kk?"
What a fascinating fumbling of things.
>>2873>They couldn't come up with a reason for making the girl stay with the MCs so her mother got terminal cancer. But that wasn't enough, she was also shot and killed before she even had the chance to die from the illness (the MCs also killed the girl's father btw.Absolute lol.
No.2875
>>2871It wasn't aggressively straight but it also wasn't much of anything. People have far more energy for hating Buddy Daddies than the show ever had for its own story, I don't really get the obsession. Like you say, there's far more straight characters who get shipped fine. eg. after the beginning BD never shows the guy actually dating or hanging out with women, just one staring look at some in the street remembering how he used to drink before the kid, and a line near the end saying he had been drinking in a hostess club. Meanwhile Chris Redgrave from High Card flirts with women constantly, takes them on dates, and even got caught with a woman's earring on the passenger seat of his car (further evidence he really was up to something that wasn't taking his little sister for day trips), and we are all in on Chris or Finn taking it up the ass from the other. No doubt, those two are an endgame and Vijay is watching.
>>2872I shipped them since I'm into those sorts of dependent dynamics especially with emphasis on food and sleep arrangements, and I appreciated them spending an ep to teach the guy he can't live without his buddy any more, while the other got the he's-just-like-the-girl-you-once-cared-so-much-for with flower symbolism and verbal encouragement, it was right out of a fanfiction playbook. But the delivery the whole way through was hollow like they didn't have their heart in it, despite how big a deal fucking up with their contacts and breaking off with the dad was. They risked their lives for each other and it still felt like nothing much, the whole crime and assassination business wasn't even heavy. It reminds me of cheap LN adaptations where the director misses the emotional mark the whole time, but it had a more consistent budget and better designs. On paper the events are dramatic, in practice it's lacking.
Anyway enough of that, look at my boys. Please don't die next episode, you need to plant seeds.
No.2879
>>2678cherry magic is so cute! i'll be honest though i'm more interested in the side couple than the main couple kek
No.2882
The the tentacle cockpit scene from the new Bravern episode makes me admire how well the team that makes this series is resonating with the fanbase. I wouldn't wonder if they had seen all that fanart and thought that it was actually a great idea for gay fanservice lmao
No.2989
>>2988I know that feeling. Every time I go back to /a/ I inevitably regret it. I've already been avoiding threads for series that have a little girl in it but threads for anime aimed at women such as otome reincarnation are also bothersome cause every single time a woman makes a mistake or is socially awkward someone will go "muh woman moment" or the local rape autist will ramble on about otome rapechads. BL anime threads are either just dead or there's the weekly 'homodachi' general thread that's 90% pointless arguments.
No.3044
Doesn't seem like there'll be much to watch next season, at least bait wise.
I wonder how many people will give the omegaverse show a try.
No.3045
>>3030Honestly made me hysterical. I'm gonna miss them, aaa.
>>3044Here's hoping for a total surprise.
No.3046
>>3044I dislike omegaverse so I'm skipping out on that. I imagine the gayest thing I'll be watching next season is the new Touken ranbu anime simply cause of the male only cast.
No.3047
>>3046More like because Ranmaru
No.3052
>>3044 Fujo anime has been so dry lately, unless you care about the domestic shows. Bucchiguri was the only one with some cool designs and plot but then the show wound up being garbage. Shounen isn't as fun to ship homo from as it used to be, either.
No.3053
>>3052>Shounen isn't as fun to ship homo from as it used to be, either.I don't want to doompost but it seems like newer shonens have figured out how to leave the really compelling homo out of their writing. So sad. Peeking in on popular shonen was my go-to "I've read everything good in the older/deader fandoms I like so I will watch this and know the most popular ship will click with me and then I get to skim the cream off the top of 10k+ fics on Ao3" media. After MHA ends there's really no new overwhelmingly gay popular shonen to fill its shoes. All of the newer big yaoi fandoms I can think of these days are gachashit. (╥_╥)
No.3057
So apparently I won't be watching Touken ranbu kai cause it isn't being simulcasted on a western platform and the only fansub on nyaa.si uses MTL subs. I'm surprised at this considering previous Touken ranbu anime were simulcasted as usual.
No.3058
>>3044I feel like there is nothing good airing at all, at least not regarding good male character designs. So far I only liked Shuumatsu Train and it's an anime about girls.
Omega show has everything I dislike so I'd skip it even without the ABO part. I can't stand family stuff and the designs aren't my thing either. Guess this is a season to catch up with OVA and manga I haven't seen or read yet.
No.3072
>>3071I saw the thumbnail before and didn't even watch the trailer because the design is just so ugly. The fighting concept might be interesting but every other chara and the animation style looks cheap.
No.3119
>>3118Yes! It's pretty fun. Love the OP/ED and there's a ton of really cute boys. Hibiki my beloved… hope it stays an enjoyable watch.
No.3122
>>2869I was expecting the ED scene to actually happen or be alluded to in-show. Silly me.
>>2870Buddy Daddies tried to attract fans of big robots, robotfuckers and military otaku?
>>2873>The writers clearly aimed for fujobucks, but one of the MCs had to clarify that he wanted to bang women at least once every episode and the two characters had zero chemistry with each other because they were afraid of making it too homo.Where Buddy Daddies failed, RobiHachi succeeded.
No.3123
>>3030The more Isami rode him, the more obsessed he became kek. How will he ever explain his RPF story hours to Isami?
>>3057Crunchyroll added it a couple of days ago.
No.3129
>>2873>. The writers clearly aimed for fujobucks,I think the writer was just writing what he likes, which is homos.
No.3138
>>3119I was neutral about Hibiki until episode 3. Now I am intrigued, I completely misjudged that guy. It seems like they skipped a bunch of scenes this time that make his backstory even better though, so I recommend looking into the manga. I guess this is the last nudge I needed to visit my comic store and get the manga tomorrow.
That aside, holy shit Red is a genuine psychopath. I hatelove him so much, it's hard to explain to be honest.
>>3122>Where Buddy Daddies failed, RobiHachi succeeded.RobiHachi is such an enjoyable underrated series, I can only recommend it. Another anime I am fan of that I have seen being mentioned in Bravern threads is Space Battleship Tiramisu. I basically love it for the same reasons as Bravern.
No.3140
>>3138It was a fun ep, but yeah, a little obviously fast even as a current animeonly. I'd been planning to pick up the manga when I can, but this ep definitely spurred my decision further. Though I have been told by other anons that uh,
Hibiki doesn't exactly have a fun time as things progress and considering he's already
down a limb/scarred from this ep, I'll just have to see how that goes. Poor dude.
Hard agree about Red, btw! He's a fucking nut and it's awesome.
No.3142
>>3140>spoilersYeah, it's extreme. I didn't expect them to go that far, I have seen pics from the manga and wow. On the other side it makes me respect him even more. He goes through the kind of suffering that they usually reserve for villains that deserve it. He could become insanely cool for this though so I am intrigued. I didn't expect any of this development, I assumed he would be the nice sidekick that only exists to be a cheerleader for the MCs.
Recommend reading the manga, at least the parts involving content for this episode, since they skipped a bunch of important Hibiki and D dialogue that develops their relationship and shows more about Hibiki's and D's pasts.
>Hard agree about Red, btw! He's a fucking nut and it's awesome.Feels good finally having a legit psychopath again. Crazies are a bit rare and when they appear they're usually laughing maniacs, but I consider them more interesting when they're rational and manipulative. Red seems calm and controlled and he is even funny. But then he casually reveals his mindset when he talks about his victims, says things everybody knows is a lie or turns around to murder his SIC. What the hell.
No.3145
>>3142>Yeah, it's extreme.>He goes through the kind of suffering that they usually reserve for villains that deserve it.I do not doubt. Back when I first watched ep1 people were already vagueposting about him and I'm just like 'what happens wtf?'. I hope it does lead somewhere for him, and isn't just miseryporn for miseryporn's sake.
>they skipped a bunch of important Hibiki and D dialogue/shows more about Hibiki's and D's pastsIt's definitely on my backlog. Fast as it was I still liked their interactions during the ep so that'll surely be fun to have a little more of while reading.
>Red"Pleasant to be around until they're suddenly not" psychos are awesome, and he's shaping up to be a good one. Like you said, the casual flipping back and forth between personable and absolutely unhinged is a rollercoaster.
No.3191
>>2733ngl I don't really like omegaverse in general so maybe i'm missing something but I really didn't get the drama in this
so the main couple supposedly are worried about facing discrimination because in their society, alpha/omega relationships are looked down open
but… shouldn't that be the norm providing that alpha/omega couples are able to reproduce and secondary same sex couples such as alpha/alpha and omega/omega can't I presume?
Maybe I'm missing something since once again I don't really read much omegaverse but genuinely this concept didn't make sense to me, I initially started watching thinking that the drama would just be that they're a gay couple which would have made way more sense but the issue is that they're in essence this universe version of a straight couple?
No.3192
>>3191I'm no omega expert but iirc omega and alphas are usually rare. Alphas are cool because they're tall and smart and business and shit but omega are too annoying to deal with because they're always horny and they make other people too horny.
No.3195
>>2407I just finished watching this yesterday. It's…not my usual genre but it was really nice. Shirosaki is so moe. Hakuto is so moe. All the side characters were likeable and also the randos reacting to the main cast were great (including a few fujos). Hopefully the manga has a lot more material where they get more screentime, especially Shirosaki's family and Momose's cute ex-coworker. And also good fan content on twitter. I can't get enough of these idiots.
Hot guys doing angsty things is still king but we need more cute boys doing cute things too!
No.3198
>>3195Glad to see someone else who enjoyed it. There's something special about the type of moe from grown men in suits.
No.3199
>>3191I was surprised by this too. Seems like it's something unique to asian omegaverse, because all the omegaverse fic in English I've seen was the opposite. Maybe it has to do with more homophobia in asian countries and wanting there to be a homophobia-analog? I mean, alpha/omega being het lite is what I hate so much about original flavor omegaverse, but making the het-lite m/m ~actually oppressed~ despite the fact they can have kids and an ~extra special het bond leaves an equally bad taste in my mouth.
No.3209
>>3199honestly it would have been a better comfier watch with more understandable drama if it wasn't omegaverse, i've tried to get into the genre but honestly it feels like i'm essentially reading het
No.3235
>>3145I have yet to understand my own feelings about Red and whether I consider him hot and cool or hateable. Might be complicated and just be both, which is a good sign. Feel similar (albeit to a lesser degree) about Blue. Yellow might be interesting as well, but I don't know anything about him other than seeing his permanent grin.
I hope that this series will gain some fans in the future, I am in need of fanfics and doujinshi.
No.3236
>>3199>>3191Huh, that does sound weird. In my (to be fair, very limited) experience, Asian omegaverse follows similar rules as Western omegaverse in terms of worldbuilding. Which dictates that although omegas are discriminated against, alpha/omega relationships are still the ideal. If any relationship style is looked down on socially, it's usually alpha x alpha or omega x omega.
No.3264
>>3235>Might be complicated and just be both, which is a good sign.I'd say so. I just started the manga (chap 14 currently) so he hasn't shown up too much more outside of what I've seen in the anime, but I think I can pretty safely look forward to it because man, I've really been liking the manga as a whole. I
am in the academy arc now though, which I've seen anons complain about, but guess I'll just see for myself? You were totally right about the Hibiki/D interactions and backstory getting skipped. Very unfortunate (and outright nonsensical as a decision in the case of their backstories) but oh well.
>Yellow/BlueThat's p similar to my own thoughts, actually! Yellow might eke over Blue a little bit in simple having more of my curiosity, but yeah. It's still early so it's hard to really say too much about the DKs, Green is definitely lowest for me though atm.
>Fics/DoujinsI hope so too. Ridiculous amount of cute dudes aside, it's just cool so far.