Bokurano Episode 21 Discussion

ZoiQ said:
Ushiro is in fact Itoshiki Nozomu!

tainteddonut said:

If all the masterminds wanted was the energy from the different Earths, setting up these grandiose robot fighting matchups is one hell of a roundabout way to get it. Considering they could obliterate a planet and create these giant robots, they obviously have a greater technological edge. An edge in which they could easily use it to take the energy they want by force. Going through this all and watching countless people getting wiped out leads me to believe they must enjoy watching the suffering and be as sadistic as Dung Beetle.

Monad said:
I'm also wondering something about Dung Beetle and his sister. They have been doing this for quite some years. Does that mean that they always win? I assume the other groups have their own version of Dung Beetle. What happens to Dung Beetle if they lose? Would he just go to some other world and some other robot?

Ousto said:
So some of the imagery in the OP now makes sense, specifically the beginning with the marks coming out of Earth.

M_A said:
I kind of feel like the whole idea with sucking up earth's energy and the Zearth Program of whatever it was called wasn't really presented that well.

Small stumble for the anime, decent episode nontheless.

Monad said:


So they are definitely human?
Anyway it can't be just the energy because they obliterate other universes. Why obliterate them and not take their energy?
I just can't understand how could anyone have the power to destroy a whole universe in a parallel dimension like we saw. Someone having such power is no different than God. We saw that time that not only the earth was destroyed but all the stars and planets. It's absolutely crazy.
Except if it was just a visual trick.

Rain_Machika said:


Agreed, that part makes no sense at all. Apparently they can destroy an entire universe and yet somehow the life energy of a single planet is important to them? One can't even fathom how many orders of magnitude of a difference in energy that is. A single planet should mean nothing to them.

Also the part where the enemy robot drains all the energy from the city and suddenly powers back up is silly too. Anyone who has even a basic understanding of energy and electricity knows that's not how it works. The energy used to power the city is simply electrons flowing through a circuit, it's only there for an instant. You can't exactly drain that and then suddenly get a massive reserve of power. What would of made more sense in the explanation is that the robot is continuously draining the power provided to the city from local power plants. And even then that is really not that much energy when your talking about providing enough power for a robot that is 500m tall and probably weights millions of tons to move(accelerate) as quickly as it does. I seriously doubt a couple thousand megawatts is going to be able to move that amount of mass that quickly. But in any case that's not how it's described or presented as the power is transferred to it in one burst.

Additionally the 'they created the Zearth program that leads to their own doom' storyline is a wholly unnecessary addition to the plot. They tried way too hard to make things as bleak and horrible as possible.But it just reaches the point where those kinds of twists don't actually make things any worse then they already are, its just needlessly over complicating the plot.