Broken Blade (Break Blade)

[David75]

Rygart was a little too lucky in the way he was to enter that golem and in the way he was out of his fight with the first golem.
Against Zess, he was already able to have basic control of limbs, very quick if you ask me under incredible fighting pressure. I guess he's clever in many ways and only his background grounded him in his fathers farm.

Images/sceneries are nice, animation is nice.
Characters are a bit boring for the moment, but I understand it's hard introducing that many at once plus the background and establish the universe they are living in in only one ep.

The title worries me a little, because you can't do much with only one great mecha, can you?
They really overstressed the fact that even a tiny sleeping foot shot at the pedal, induced an only 3% push on the right leg that threw that golem on the other one with incredible force against that stonewall. They really wanted us to react as "Woow, what would happen with 100%"
But at the same time, Zess bullets inflicted some damage to the exosqueleton. So at 100%, that golem would just destroy everything other than the core.
Why exclude the core, well Sigyn did point out for us that the core is very different in quality than the rest of that golem. So there's room for more exciting discoveries?

Regarding "magic" golems, I can somehow buy the movement transmission. I have more problems with the source of energy you need to move a vehicule or such a mass for long distances... the fact that only moving an arm would require more than the strength of a man. Also, I'd like to know where the energy needed for electronics, hemispheric projection and so on comes from. They have an explanation, for sure.

Now waiting for ep 2

[Kraco]

Rygart is incredibly lucky in the sense his golem is computer controlled. That means, of course, that he doesn't need to do anything extra with all the automatization and intelligent interfaces. So, it's totally different from a dead bulk animated by quartz control.

He needs a gun, though. He can't use the regular ones, so it's an open question how he acquires one. Maybe a railgun?

[David75]

He needs a gun, though. He can't use the regular ones, so it's an open question how he acquires one. Maybe a railgun?

Yes, I was a little surprised they do not have railguns

[Ryllharu]

Rygart was a little too lucky in the way he was to enter that golem and in the way he was out of his fight with the first golem.
Against Zess, he was already able to have basic control of limbs, very quick if you ask me under incredible fighting pressure. I guess he's clever in many ways and only his background grounded him in his fathers farm.
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The title worries me a little, because you can't do much with only one great mecha, can you?
They really overstressed the fact that even a tiny sleeping foot shot at the pedal, induced an only 3% push on the right leg that threw that golem on the other one with incredible force against that stonewall. They really wanted us to react as "Woow, what would happen with 100%"
...
Why exclude the core, well Sigyn did point out for us that the core is very different in quality than the rest of that golem. So there's room for more exciting discoveries?
...
Regarding "magic" golems, I can somehow buy the movement transmission. I have more problems with the source of energy you need to move a vehicule or such a mass for long distances... the fact that only moving an arm would require more than the strength of a man. Also, I'd like to know where the energy needed for electronics, hemispheric projection and so on comes from. They have an explanation, for sure.

It absolutely was luck. They don't deny it. In fact, I think they covered that pretty well. He has absolutely zero experience with something like this, due to his status as an Un-sorcerer. If you look carefully at his fight with Lee, he really just moves forward abruptly while she's surprised and crashes into her, pinning her. She also fortunately had loaded her rifle with anti-personnel rounds (quartz shot) so they bounced off the armor of the broken blade golem. Had she been using the heavy full sized rounds, he would have been killed instantly. Or, if she hadn't been surprised at the speed, she could have dodged more easily, and shot him when he crashed into the canyon walls. There are a large number of ways that exchanged could have ended differently. He survived this one with pure, dumb, luck.

The 3% actually refers to "Estimated Operative Skill." and he's the third pilot. It implies that he's grossly incompetent as a golem pilot. Everything else, the jumping, the landing on her weapon, all happened while the mech was on autopilot. Upon landing, there is a message saying that it disengaged.

Sigyn said that the manufacturing techniques for the core were different. Meaning that if the core gets damaged, they have no way of ever replacing it like they do with all their current era golems. If anything under the armor gets damaged, it is damaged permanently.

From the intro, "magic" itself means the ability to fully manipulate quartz. The energy comes from the sorcerer. They make different varieties of quartz (hard but brittle, soft and flexible) for various things in order to reduce fatigue and prevent fracturing. The energy comes entirely from the sorcerers, that includes the hemispherical viewports, but how they are doing that with quartz is beyond me.

Communication on the other hand is most likely vibrating and/or resonating quartz.

[Penner]

I'm kinda hoping(wishing^_^) that the Broken Blade golem is faster/stronger than the regular ones and because of that he gets some sort of giant blade for some melee combat awesomeness.

He'd probably still need a gun tho.

[NeoCybercoin]

I think it's safe to say that it's a lot faster then the normal golems. I mean it jumped higher then anything they have ever seen. So there's a lot of power in those legs. Meaning he should be a whole lot faster too.

[Buffalobiian]

I think it's safe to say that it's a lot faster then the normal golems. I mean it jumped higher then anything they have ever seen. So there's a lot of power in those legs. Meaning he should be a whole lot faster too.

Yeah, though with his current skills, the mech's potential is yet to be tapped.

Nice way to "unlock" power-ups, in any case.

For various reasons, this show reminds me of Chrome Shelled Regios.

[Archangel]

I just hope they focus on the characters and not on the mechas

[Illrenmazou]

He'd probably still need a gun tho.

Maybe they'll excavate a weapon stash near the end like in Turn-A. But I hope it won't contain any overkill weapons like a beam rifle. Machine guns and railguns will do just fine.

BTW, during the boot sequence, the Heat Blade System, which I assume is the giant blade sticking out at the back, is experiencing an error. I wonder what it can do if it's intact.

And I loled when I saw Rygart's piloting aptitude is only at 3%

[koppayana]

Maybe they'll excavate a weapon stash near the end like in Turn-A. But I hope it won't contain any overkill weapons like a beam rifle. Machine guns and railguns will do just fine.

BTW, during the boot sequence, the Heat Blade System, which I assume is the giant blade sticking out at the back, is experiencing an error. I wonder what it can do if it's intact.

And I loled when I saw Rygart's piloting aptitude is only at 3%

I'm pretty sure they'll give Rygart the giant sword that the novice pilot held for 10minutes.

[Kraco]

Yeah, that would seem pretty natural giving meaning to that scene. But still he should get also a projectile weapon. His electric golem might be faster than the quartz golems used by everybody else, but still I feel like it would be too shounen if he all the time (successfully) fought with a sword against cannon wielding opponents.

[David75]

A gun would be nice, but wielding a heavy and destructive claymore would allow nice close combat scenes.
I'd like to have both, if possible.
Also, I'm not sure but I think I remember seeing large broken bullets next to that golem when they got it in the facility. Provided the technology isn't too different from the quartz era, they might be able to deal with it.

[Buffalobiian]

A gun would be nice, but wielding a heavy and destructive claymore would allow nice close combat scenes.
I'd like to have both, if possible.
Also, I'm not sure but I think I remember seeing large broken bullets next to that golem when they got it in the facility. Provided the technology isn't too different from the quartz era, they might be able to deal with it.

If Rygart could deal with the golem's much higher power output, he could wear much heavier armour than his friendly counterparts, which would turn him into a monster of a spearhead unit along with that claymore.

[Killa-Eyez]

We need ep 2!! Me likey, kinda reminds me of Dolores-I/SEED, metatron/seeds. Without magic...

[Illrenmazou]

And the VA jokes begin:

A few days ago, we dugged up a piece of mystery machine (1st pic)

According to technicians, it is a product over 1000 years ago (2nd pic)

There lies the ancient pilot... (3rd pic)

The name is call... something like Ki, something Yama, Meh... No one cares who he is... (4th pic)

Anyways, this machine won't activate with magic (5th pic)

So, we want you try to take a look at it (6th pic)

Oh, it moves (9th pic)

This... This is! (11th pic)

Crap, I don't understand English! (12th pic)

Flying? It is flying? How is it possible for a Golem that can fly exist here? (16th pic)

Could it be, This is... (17th pic)

GUNDAM!!! (18th pic)

Give me power!! (19th pic)

What kind of socery is this!!?? (21st pic)

[koppayana]

hmm wouldn't mind a version with that :P

[Kraco]

A twice broken blade:

Episode 2 (720p) - gg
Episode 2 (1080p) -gg

[Penner]

Sweet, been looking forward to this!

[Kraco]

Damn I started to hate Rygart so much. More than Suzaku during CG S1, because at least Suzaku did something even if it was all the wrong things. But this potato farmer tried his bloody best to do nothing and make others do nothing as well. I was surprised he had the (rotten) guts to cause Dan's death and then just shrug it off. The guy must have zero pride. That I can actually understand to a degree due to his unsorcerer past but it still shouldn't mean zero responsibility as well.

I hope he's a changed man now that he dropped his old man's cowardly advice of running from troubles and decided it might not be the best option after all to willingly let his friends die.

His mecha piloting skills need much improvement, though. The fight againt Lee (or whatever was her name) was too painful to watch. Of course it was partially due to his preference of solving everything by running away and unrealistic pacifism but still.

[Buffalobiian]

Rygart's character design reminds me a LOT of Bit Cloud from Zoids: New Century Zero, complete their own ancient, almighty mech.

What made this episode weird for me was that I assumed Rygart took up a reason for fighting (to save his friends' lives) last episode, but somehow completely forgot it after Dan's death and thought this had nothing to do with him.It seems that he either didn't have that much resolve in the first place, or he was betting all his eggs on successfully persuading Zess to stop the invasion ( who couldn't do anything anyway, besides trying to get Hodr to surrender in the most bloodless way possible).

His blaming Dan didn't sit well with me neither, despite how they tried to palm it off as Rygart being "dishonest".

Not enough Sigyn this episode.