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| Great Episode. Loved it. |
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| We meet the others super robots Brando and Hercules. F for Brando. Really like the how they take the robots connect in the middle of the storm. |
| Watching this episode made me realize a few themes that it shares with Frieren, another great anime airing this season. With Heiter and Brando both eventually wanting to live longer now that they have children they are looking after. And also the line that Hercules mentions, about the reason humans build memorial statues is because they forget. A similar thing is mentioned in Frieren, with the reason for statues of the party of heroes being erected and celebrated every couple decades or so. Just some pretty neat connections I noticed. |
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| The politics here are a definite reference to the Iraq war |
Pluto: "I am the storm that is approaching..🌪️" R.I.P. Brando, you are a champion my friend! |
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| Well, that was absolutely heartbreaking. Brando is such a great guy, and truly loved his family until the end. RIP Brando. I am now 100% sold on this adaption. They're doing spectacular job! Also, shout out to the English dub, I feel so much emotion in their acting, and everyone is casted perfectly. Amazing! |
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| solid episode. didn't imagine hercules to have takamura's voice though. interesting how brando has the same VA as tenma from monster. more of atom as well. |
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| rip north 2 and brando so the killer is a robot too called pluto and he can do tornadoes eh gesicht says the killer wants to kill the 7 great robots of the world so who is next |
| Brando! Such a sad moment there with Brando's final conversation. He couldn't help but think about his family until the very end. Atom crying over Gesicht's memory chip hit me harder in this than in the manga. I guess because I know why he is crying this time around. Another fantastic episode for the, so far, fantastic adaptation. My expectations are super high now, I hope it keeps it up. |
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| Almost made me cry 😭 |
| Familiar characters; the professor and the Japanese detective (I remember his dog-shaped car in the 2003 anime). Atom borrowed Gesicht's memory chip and saw his past. Being sold to the circus himself must make him empathise with Gesicht. I thought Brando was a human in a mecha suit at first. That could've been an explanation of how a robot apparently murdered a human; the murderer merely looked like a robot. But fighters like himself and Hercules transfer their head and heart units to a larger body to fight Pluto's human targets advocate rights for robots but Pluto's robotic targets, Mont Blanc, North No. 2 and now Brando were all robotic veterans of the 39th Central Asian War (an allegory of the Iraq War, right down to non-existent WMDs and a Saddam look-alike). With Brando, he uses arms as the horns to mark his victims. Hercules is next on the list. |
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| Another absolutely amazing epsiode! I'm loving this! The only thing I dislike so far is the CGI, but that's not that big of a problem. |
| Another awesome episode. I liked the action sequences. And woah, that ending and its presentation. Direction in this series have been so far top-tier. |
| We've finally been introduced to what looks like the majority of the cast. |
| why dont they get the memo? they cant fight that thing on their own yet they go all hero mode |
三 刀 流 炎 无 |
| The images of Brando's family and his last words, this was even meaner than North 2s death. Great follow up episode. The one hour format was a great decision. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Another great episode, RIP Brando he was a good guy. |
“There are only two types of people in the world--those who became otaku and those who didn't--and the latter just can't understand what the former is so excited about."--Ono Norihiro  |
| I've rewatched the last line 3 times and every time all I can hear is "The killer... is a DICKHEAD." |
| RIP Brando and North 2, we will miss you guys |
| Another great episode!!! 4 deaths and the mistery continues!! I love the robots points, family and feelings, the same the humans! kekeke |
| Well, Brando's passing was pretty crushing to say the least. Like, I pride myself in being a man of my word ('cause what is a man if not his word?) and he ends up dying? No, you weren't supposed to! You promised your kids you'd take 'em to the zoo so you can't die! ┏༼ ◉ ╭╮ ◉༽┓ |
| Another amazing episode. I love the slow burn ole school narrative style |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| That’s mad disrespectful I really thought Brando did a number on the enemy hope Brandos death wasn’t for nothing |
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| @Ravord2 Don't think he did. He didn't need to because the killer already found him, I think he just went somewhere nobody else would interfere |
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| Interesting. So there's a robot or a hybrid who is killing all the war-veteran robots. Why kill robot-rights protectors too though? Maybe they're related to this war too? Maybe they're murdered because they didn't do enough to prevent robot genocides during that war? This Pluto thing seems quite OP. Don't know how they'll stop it. |
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@Ravord2
Don't think he did. He didn't need to because the killer already found him, I think he just went somewhere nobody else would interfere
Don't think he did. He didn't need to because the killer already found him, I think he just went somewhere nobody else would interfere
| @5hadow17 I think Brando had an idea where to find the killer just like North#2 did. We saw Brando looking at the approaching storm-clouds too. Unlike humans robots see through things so he may have noticed something unnatural as well. I find it extremely interesting that this Pluto gave Brando tons of time to leave house, get the suit and drive far from city. When I say interesting, I mean the fact that Pluto seems very careful not to kill random civilians, despite the damage he can easily cause with that massive tornado. Can't wait to see who he is and what's his motivation. Right now I suspect he's the "robot of mass destruction" that was never found and because of which the war started to begin with. He's likely an avenger from this fictional Persia who's killing the killers of his brethren + human activists who failed to prevent robot-genocide during the war. |
| I’m really confused about Brando’s kids. Were they programmed to be underdeveloped and act childish on purpose? Why pass a policy on adopting them if you can just build adult robots? Were they really planning to live forever as a family that never grew up? Not really a plot question just super curious about the society lol It was really nice to see some of the other special robots from different nations though. I’m wondering why the remaining, unintroduced ones didn’t tap into the call. It sucks that Mont Blac is the only one that wasn’t really humanoid so far 😂 Although I guess North No. 2 wasn’t humanoid either. It seems like he was a loner type since no other robots formally knew him, all he wanted to do was play the piano and forget about his past damn that gets me sad 😣 The identity of the killer is intriguing me. Obviously a human wouldn’t have control of the weather, so is it just the simple answer of being a robot with a murderous AI? I feel like it will be a lot different. Either way, the horns after every kill are very haunting especially like they were in the end of this episode. I like Hercules a lot and I hope he stays because he is a great fighter and has an interesting outlook on his life as a robot, it was nice to see that he used his own money to keep investigating Brando’s death. |
| Brando's imminent death was obvious, due to the massive death flags, but damn did it hit you right in the feels when it happened. Those fragmented memories of his family while trying to send data of the enemy, that was rough. |
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| @Ravord2 The tornado, I am guessing. Maybe the seven can detect a threat from the tornado(at least North No. 2 can) and that's how Brando knew. |
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| Damn Atom helps a lot. I knew it, as soon as Brando said those things to the kids, massive Death Flag. emotional episode back to back!! |
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| Another really good episode. The first episode had two definitive stories to it whereas this episode had the parts sort blurred in between to fit together, and it was still really good, despite lacking a little in subtlety in the second half. The slow-burn pacing works here without the story getting too off the radar or boring like how I felt watching Monster at times. RIP to Brando too, shame he couldn't live up to his final promise even if you knew what was going to happen when that flag was introduced and how much he wanted to step up to fight 'Pluto' himself for vengeance. The scene where he was dying while in convo and seeing figures of his family pop up like that worked here, blurring lines between robots and humans once again in terms of what Brando valued the most in his final moments, even if there is some mystery towards some things that seemed off. I have to say, this is the best dub I've heard from a newer anime in quite some time, I absolutely love it so far and the casting all just makes sense for these episodes. The audio mixing is terrific too for this show, just very impressed with it sonically so far. |
animejasNov 24, 2023 4:18 PM
| You would think that at a time like this, with these much technological progress they currently have, they'd have some sort of cloud with the backups of the personalities and memories of these highly advanced ai robots so that they could just transfer it to a new body for cases like these. But nah that would take away the drama. Now them kids are gonna be orphans again. And let me guess, that detective, Atom, and Hercules, all of these three will try to engage that killer alone like Brando and North 2 did. Fucking work together goddammit. |
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| Didnt expect to get so attached to Brandon and cry for him in the same episode :( Definitely liked this episode more than the first, the plot is gearing up now. Story has been setup neatly now. So far we have seen Brando, Hercules, Mont blanc, Atom, North no 2 , So 3 more Central asian war robots to go. Also that line when Hercules says that Humans build monuments because they forget was really impactful. |
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