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

[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?
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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.