News - For those that missed Discotek’s streaming panel last night, here’s just PART of some of the new titles they announced they’ve licensed, including the iconic 70′s shoujo sports classic Aim For The Ace!, live-action gems like Kamen Rider Black and Golgo13, 90s magical girl series Mysterious Thief Saint Tail, Tetsujin 28 FX, the Osamu Dezaki-directed 70′s Treasure Island, Project A-ko 4: Final, the original Japanese language Digimon Adventure season 1, and King of Braves GAOGAIGAR! For a complete list of everything they announced, check out their Twitter, or the complete listing on ANN!
101 notes
·
View notes
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, Part 2
I have little reason not to, so here we go. I’m going to poke and/or rant at every single eye catch tech spec in GaoGaiGar. The vanilla King of Braves only; I’m not touching Final with its funky formatting.
Speaking of funky, let’s talk about Guy Shishioh.
Guy Shishioh. The son of benevolent mad scientist Leo Shishioh. Astronaut and only person on board a super-classified shuttle at the ripe age of eighteen. Which means Guy is a chip of the old block and is a certified, certifiable genius.
We’ll skip over the obvious and hop straight to the bottom of the list: GS Ride Class Classified. This makes sense: Guy is an experimental cyborg. His very existence is classified, so of course his power source is classified.
Height: 201 cm. Just over six and a half feet tall. That’s a foot taller than the average, and around half a foot shorter than Soldato-J.
Weight: 125 kg. 275.6 lbs. A perfectly normal, respectable weight given his height and musculature.
Nothing really outstanding here, either. The Machineheart is a nice punk rock name band, though I’m fairly certain it’s a reference.
What does stand out to me is the power supply. Hi-Density Tubeler Battery. Tubeler, in this case, being a misspelling of tubular. The tubes are here:
Yup. Guy’s hair is a bunch of batteries. Which has got to make his hair care regiment… shocking.
Equip response time of two seconds. Note, here, Equip does not mean “put on all the armor”. It means putting on the helmet, activating the scanner thing built into it, and turning on the hair batteries. The batteries give him a 30% boost to power - the listed Power Up stat - and he can gain an additional 15% up when activating emergency powers. All the stat boosts are in the amazing hair.
The actual time to put on the whole armor set is unlisted. But we’ll get more into the full armor later. For now, let’s hit the last point.
Speed: 61.5 km/h. That’s about 38 miles per hour using the imperial system. That’s as fast as a greyhound dog. Or if you prefer -
Guy is as fast as a cheetah.
Wait… Something must be wrong. The absurd giant robot show doesn’t have absurd stats for its protagonist?
Nope! There it is!
“But Iniora,” I can hear you asking. “How is a knife absurd?” Two words.
Variable. Sharpness.
The sharpness is tied to Guy’s will power. The greater Guy’s will, the sharper the Will Knife becomes.
That means Guy can cut down a door with the strength of his will alone.
16 notes
·
View notes
GaoGaiGar: Becoming my personal favorite.
What is it about GaoGaiGar that's so special about it? Well, being the last installment in the Brave series, it had to go out with a bang. And, for all I know, if I ever completed every single Brave show, this would end up being one of my favorites.
First, it started off as MOTW, and then it became an all-out war with the 31 Machine Primevals, and Final comes along and ups the ante with the 11 Planetary Masters of Sol. Much like with Dagwon, the characters in GaoGaiGar were ones I grew to love.
The final arc, while not perfect, is a great ending to the series. And then, there's GaoGaiGar Final. That series of OVAs is a different beast entirely.
Not only are we introduced to Renais Kerdif Shishioh, Guy's cousin, we also meet a new set of antagonists, the aforementioned 11 Planetary Masters of Sol, of which its members are the antithesis of each of our heroes, some more blatant than others.
Final, if I'm being honest, is the perfect sendoff for the characters we come to know and love. And yet, their adventures are not over, as we would later see in GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman. Hopefully, with the release of the RG GaoGaiGar and RG Goldymarg, it could reignite interest in this show and, by extension, the entire Brave series.
Speaking of reignited interest in the Brave series, the remaster for Might Gaine had been announced some time ago, meaning a whole new generation can experience all of GGG's predecessors.
This is probably the most accessible of the 8 Brave shows, so give it a go if you like.
17 notes
·
View notes
Just me watching all the Brave saga's because i just want to finish it all (definitely not getting bored)
I DIDNT ASK TO HAVE A BREAKDOWN WATCHING GAOGAIGAR EXCUSE M-
Spoilers 4 those who haven’t watch it
WHATYHE I SO AG- SOBS EDCUSE EMHSWIHS AA
i can rewtch it for the 5th time and still cry
6 notes
·
View notes
Final Fusion approved!
Final Fusion... PROGRAM DRIVE!
FINAL FUSION!
GAOGAIGAR!
RG GaoGaiGar
Bonus: GaiGar/Galeon + Gao Machines (pre-panel line and decals)
5 notes
·
View notes