Bubuki Buranki Episode 12 Discussion

jose21 said:
Come on, the only reason I kept watching this was because at some point I was expecting the sister to show up.... can't believe they wasted a whole season with the crybaby brother instead of her....

Anyway, not sure why, I guess I didn't understand well the plot, but for some reason Reoko looked more like the good one after all this mess...

L-Ryoshi said:
This is an anime-original..... why the hell is it so rushed that the plot and the people are so confusing as heck?

Migawa tries to save her best friend by turning her into a Bubuki heart. Succeeds and then places her in solitary confinement for 8 years whilst she goes out and bangs and screws until she gets knocked up. After getting knocked up, she consequently moves her whole family to Treasure island, where she shuts down the hearts of all existing Bubukis on Earth "Just because it's the right thing to do", leaving the Bubuki limb users powerless to stop entire world governments from slaughtering them and their descendants, essentially causing the deaths of Bubuki users on Earth just because.... why???? End result, Reoko being the only usable heart, has to become the evil witch in the world, taking all the blame for killing off and controlling governments to stop them from further slaughter of Bubuki descendants...

All the whilst Migiwa gets to play house everyday on Treasure Island until her own little daughter accidentally drops some Buranki's down to earth, causing another world war for Reoko to deal with???

And all of this happens and she still has no idea why Reoko would want to kill her and turn her into mincemeat? What sort of human being are you Migiwa? For your own selfish interests in maintaining the lives of "both humans and Bubuki that can rise up and slaughter all human kind", you take off and leave every single mistake and crisis that you and your children create to be mopped up by your "best friend"??? You could see that even Reoko's subordinates felt more about protecting their Earth than Migiwa and her dumb son did. At least Reoko was actually trying to prevent the Island from crashing down to Earth, whilst Azuma's only interest was to try and bash Entei's head in. What the hell is wrong with your head boy?!?!

I finally figured out why I found myself cheering more for Reoko than the wimp of a son Azuma and the emotionless failure of a human being Migiwa. Seriously I hope Azuma's sister really does side with Reoko in the second season, because the "ideals" that Azuma and his mother fights for are dumb as fuck.

Hunter-Wolf said:
Really fantastic episode, i find the story and relation between Reoko and Migiwa to really be the highlight of both the episode and the entire series so far, it fully fleshed Reoko's character and gave her depth aside from making her even more of a badass than she was already, i also really hate what Migi did to her even if she had good intentions, that was just too much, i understand now why she hated her so much.

That flashback also developed Migi's character and showed she has some serious flaws (despite being such a badass good-intentioned mom), the way she decides everything for other people because she thinks she knows better has caused a lot of misery and chaos despite her intentions, i wish those two could realize their faults and make up (Reoko is a victim but also became an aggressor now).

As for Azuma's sister, i'm glad we got a glimpse of her before they announced the 2nd season, her going missing was one of the first mysteries i wanted answered but now the even bigger mystery is why Azuma didn't bother looking for her at all and instead went looking for Obuo and its limbs to go back to treasure island and his mom, this can only have one of two answers, either he lost his memories about his sister for some reason, or they fought soon after reaching earth and went their seperate ways due to not agreeing on something (after all she joined that creep who is manipulating things from behind the curtains).

Also using the OP (which represents Azuma) and the ED (which represents Reoko) as insert songs was a great desicion that made the action feel so much more epic, specially that i loved both and think they are the best OP and ED this season.

I also feel sad because of all the unnecessary negativity thrown at the show for no reason, the CG itself and animation are actually some of the best i ever saw (as good as Sidonia), it shines during the action and comedy scenes, yeah some of the designs are corny but some are damn impressive (like the final form of Obuo and Enti), Character wise Kogane's design and her "right hand" Bubuki are the best among all characters.

Story wise yes there are problems in both pacing and the delivery of the story, but it's far from being a trainwreck or a complete mess like some people claim, and some people seem to be unable to handle a little bit of mystery (after all they needed to save something for the 2nd season and not spill all the beans in the first half of the show), as for whether the story makes sense or not, all that we know so far does make perfect sense but some people don't want to use their heads, for example:-

-The goal of the creep with the goatee was to reach the island and obtain hearts for the Buranki he has in order to use them for his not-very-good goals (all Buranki lost their hearts when Migi stopped all Buranki hearts on earth), clearly he succeeds in not just obtaining new hearts but bringing down the whole island with all the Buranki on it down to earth, it seems he also wanted to use the ensuing chaos of the island's crash to rise to power quickly and rule over all humanity, the island's fall (even if it didn't crash into the earth like a meteor) clearly sets in motion the events of season 2 with all teams getting new hearts for their Buranki
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-The goal of Migi was to prevent guys like that creep from abusing the power of the Buranki to try and enslave humanity so she creates a Buranki with a human heart (Reoko's Enti) and then goes to the island to destroy all other Buranki hearts leaving her friend with the only operational Buranki to protect earth (her plan wasn't perfect and kinda backfired but now it's very clear what her goals were and why she did what she did).

-Reoko started out carrying her best friend's wishes of protecting earth, protecting bubuki users in Japan from genocide attempts by japan's gov and fighting off any wild Buranki which fall off the island, but slowly the burden wore her off and the only thing that was left is pure raw hatred for all Buranki and for her friend who forced this very heavy burdrn over her aganist her will and left off without saying anything, so her goal was to use Obuo to unlock Treasure island (by tricking Azuma into doing so for her, she was looking for him and his teanm which explains her nation wide hunt for Bubuki users, it makes sense now), after the island is unlocked she could finally reach Migi, kill her and destroy all Buranki along with her own Enti (obviously all the shit she had been through left her mentally twisted and emotionally scarred, so despite her apparent craziness there is now a very good reason why she ended up that way).

-Souya's goal was to help everyone get on Treasure island so that they obtain Buranki hearts and activate their Buranki easing the pressure on Reoko as she won't be the only one with an active Buranki anymore, he thought that would allow her to stop fighting and dying over and over (losing her memories and slowly going insane) and since she only told him about that secret all the others in his team thought he betrayed them or went crazy when in fact his love (platonic it seems) for Reoko and the fact he is the only one who knows the true nature of the insane burden she carried all that time alone are the reasons that drove him to help everyone get to treasure island to get their own hearts from the the Buranki on the island, he used Obou's unique relation with island to unlock its shields (so in fact all the fights they had with Azuma's team where to push them to the limits thus making them unlock Obuo's true form which in turn will unlock the island, again it all makes sense now).

-As for the origin of the Buranki (and Bubuki) well, i don't think that's an issue at all, they already established that Bubuki weapons (and Buranki hearts) were around since ancient times passed down within each family as a sort of heirloom, it's an alternate reality not identical to our world, i might add a theory of mine that Treasure Island design looks like that of an alien spaceship covered in foilage and earth, so aliens could have brought Bubuki and Buranki with them on Treasure island (their spaceship) when they arrived to earth in ancient times then they probably all died due to some illness or earth's atmosphere not fitting them, this left all the Buranki and Bubuki masterless and floating around in earth's atmosphere, then some of them fell to earth and were picked by humans who became their new masters, not a bad theory .. Eh, anyways .. they could explain things more in season 2 as we get into the thick of things but so far what they said is enough IMO.

See guys, it's not that hard, what we know of the story so far and all character motivations make sense if you put a little bit of effort into understanding them (not waiting to be spoon-fed everything with boring lengthy exposition dialog like other anime do).