Time to review Brave Express Might Gaine!
I know this one had a "controversial ending" but I personally thought the ending was fine. The series was fun and had a lot of very cute moments. It was more about the humans than the robots, but I still found it enjoyable.
Pros:
The characters! There's so many characters in this series and I found almost all of them interesting!
The protagonist. Maito is waaay better than the last one! He's kind, polite, and genuinely helpful. He's a very likeable character!
The Villains. Almost all of them are interesting (save Exeve and Black Noir) and have their own goals and distinct personalities. Yes even Mifune, as uncomfortable as he could be (though it's probably bc Dyl and I would rip into him everytime he was screen).
Some robot designs. Exeve's robot at the end was amazing and I wish we could have gotten more of that! Might Gunner had a cool design too, as did The Bombers and Joe's robots.
Wolfgang. His arc was great and I loved seeing his growth. This old man become one of my faves pretty quick. He had a very interesting design as well!
I also loved that Hoi Ko Low and Chinji continued to just... sell food together after they got demoted. That was actually really nice.
The ending. Look. I know this series' ending wasn't well received by most but I'm used to being the unpopular opinion when it comes to robot shows by now. The ending was fine and also the happiest I've seen of any Brave series so far. I love that pretty much everyone important was ok and they all (except Mifune) got to have a happily ever after.
Cons:
Black Noir. He seemed shoehorned in tbh. It's probably where the controversy actually comes from and I can agree with that at least because he was boring and added nothing but to let Maito know he was fictional.
Translation. HOLY SHIT MAN DID THEY GET LAZY! Like... halfway through someone else did translations and they weren't as accurate as before but also THE FUCKIN TEAM THAT DID IT FIRST HAD SCRIPTS TO IT YOU COULD CLICK ON WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST GO AHEAD AND PUT THE SUBTITLES IN THEN WHAT THE FUCK
Mifune... If you wanna know what cultural appropriation is just look at this guy. (Hint: he's actually an American)
The robots... The majority aren't actually sapient so it's more of a mecha anime, and the ones that DO have sapience and personality don't get shown much besides Gaine.
Overall the series was fun and I'd recommend it more if the translations we're better, just be aware that it stops being fully accurate around episode 34 (29 if you don't use YouTube's CC, God bless you random person that decided to put the script in there.)
