Funny / Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE

This guy claims to have fought alongside Avalon and Build Divers. This says different.

Episode 1

• Kazami is utterly flabbergasted by how unconventional the others Gunpla are: A tiny, pint-size Gunpla, a WaDom, and a dinosaur.
  "What's wrong with you guys? Are you being serious? I'm the only one with a proper machine!"

Episode 2

• At the start of the episode, May confronts Magee and asks for information about the mysterious mission she participated in. As they do, two patrons enter Magee's bar and he calls for Bee to escort them to their table. Cue another flamboyant man sliding in and scaring everyone with his giddiness.
• Kazami's status as the Butt-Monkey shines through here, with how one of the children in Freddie's village bits his hand after he tries to shoo them away and how he keeps getting blown up during the training session (pictured above is one such mommet).
• As the leader of the town is telling our heroes their situation, a bored Hiroto just waltzes out. When confronted, he just casually tells everyone he'll read the logs later, leaving everyone bewildered.
• The numerous Epic Fails Kazami goes through when the BUILD DiVERS are practicing in the mission simulation. First, Kazami is paired with Parviz and he charges in and gets stopped with a Leo with four shields. Cue him being blown up when Parviz is faced with the rest of the Leos and bombards the area in a panic. Second, Kazami is paired with May and he charges in... again, and gets stopped by a Leo with four shields... again. Cue him being blown up... again when May sends out a volley of missiles because he was in her line of fire. Third, Kazami is paired with Hiroto and charges in... again, but this time he doesn't even make it to the enemy because he's blown up by a Leo armed with four Dober Guns.

Episode 3

• When Hiroto tells the other BUILD DiVERS the changes to the plan he made, Kazumi doesn't quite understand why Hiroto wants to keep damage to the village as minimal as possible, arguing that they managed to beat them in the Created mission last episode (barely). Parviz then points out that they may get a bonus by avoiding major damage to the village. Cue stars in Kazami's eyes.
  A bonus, you say?!
• As BUILD DiVERS work to prepare for the One-Eye invasion, the villagers are in awe over Parviz's Valkylander, especially the kids. When Maiya goes to retrieve them, she casually tells Parviz to not be a bad influence on them. As soon as they leave, May walks up and casually asks Parviz if he was a bad influence, causing him to yelp out he wasn't.

Episode 4

• Kazami's Leeroy Jenkins approach to the rehearsal for the next part of the story mission results in him being captured by the Baund Doc. This results in May asking what he's doing when she and Hiroto see it.
  Kazami: There are things that I can understand, but cannot accept. Help me!
  • When Parvis tries to help him, he accidentally hits Kazami when the Baund Doc tosses him to take the attack. Then, after the Baund Doc falls on top of Kazami, May finishes it off by stomping on its head... which Kazami is right next to! Kazami's face just sells it!

Episode 5

• In the Cold Opening, May once again talks to Magee over the mysterious missions, but is interrupted when Queen Bee calls him over to get a drink. As Magee approaches him, suggesting giving him a kiss, May gets the notification for gathering and leaves. Magee looks back with an indignant look after she leaves, one of the rare few times he actually looks annoyed.
• The requisite Patrick cameo? The man on a Beargguy blimp wearing Lalah's dress.

Episode 6

• In the Cold Opening, May is reading a letter from Magee and you hear his voice narrating it. Somehow, Magee went on a rambling spiel, so when May just scrolls past all of that, Magee's voice ends up getting sped up as a result.
• Earlier, there is a graphic where each member shows each kills. Kazami has zero.
• After Stola wants to follow Build Divers so he can join the resistance, Kazami goes into a Spiel on his 'Leadershipskills', only for Maiya to overhear and get the wrong idea... The next scene is of Hiroto looking up from his Menu to see Kazami being chased by Maiya with a Ladle.
  Kazami: It's a Misunderstanding!!!
  Maiya: Get Back Here!!!!

Episode 8

• The Immortal Patrick Colassour cosplaying Ramba Ral.
• There's a Black Comedy Burst of sorts when our ill-prepared heroes take on the underwater mission - both Parviz and Kazami find out the hard way just how well their mechs work underwater, followed by Valkylander and Justice Knight floating back up and looking like they drowned.
• After the team wins the Grand Dive Challenge, we're treated to the hilarious image of the Zock Mayol and one of the Acguys standing in a huge dryer stage, the second standing over an eye washer, and the third sweeping the edge of the pool with a Mobile Suit-sized broom.

Episode 9

• Apparently, GBN has its own wiki!

Episode 10

• The appearance of Kazami's Justice'gguy, which is equally goofy and awesome at the same time. Especially when Kazami trips over something and covers his poor unit with rocks.
• With the truth of May's existence revealed, she drops all pretenses of being normal and actually starts asking if certain things, like rock removal, are part of parties.
• A bit of Fridge Humor with May’s reveal out of the way, one has to wonder if she has to curl up into a ball inside the IRL WoDom Pod and have someone place it on the scanning platform every time she wants to log in to GBN.
  • Given that Hiroto can scan in multiple support machines along with the Core Gundam, it's likely that she can stand separately from her WoDom.

Episode 11

• The Immortal Patrick Colasour...dressed in Haman Karn's outfit from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and surrounded by women wearing other Hamam Karn outfits.

Episode 13

• Nanami dressed and acting like a Bodyguard for May.
• Once all of the BUILD DiVERS meet up IRL, May tries to call a cab for them...unfortunately, May is in her Mobile Doll form, so she's not big enough to get noticed or for her voice to carry. When her first call doesn't work, her eyes get big and she starts to pout^note and yes, it is ADORABLE, then she goes into yelling "TAXIIIIIIII!" while flailing on the post she's standing on^note this too. This is the same EL-Diver who was previously established to have a reserved, serious demeanor about her, with very little in terms of extroverted emotions.
  • Kazami notices a car rushing their way, and snags her away from the post to keep her from getting washed away. While May ends up fine, Kazami gets soaked. Par then offers her a ride on his shoulder.
    May: Thank you.
    Kazami: I was the one who saved you...
  • What's even funnier is Par and Hiroto's expressions as Kazami gets soaked. Par's pupils dilate in a way that looks like he's freaking out. Hiroto overall keeps his composed stoic expression, and once Kazami gets soaked, the only thing that changes is his mouth expression, which drops down and gives of a "what" expression.
• May points out to Magee that Kazami's uploading of playthrough videos means that they have video evidence of Eldora, but she also says that they're not popular enough to trend and the editing may be biased.

Episode 14

• When Freddie is watching various scenes from within GBN, he spots one person and asks "Is he the creator?" That person? Patrick Colasour.

Episode 15

• When Muran attempts to bust into the meeting between the villagers and the Build Divers, the kids have absolutely no idea who he is and attacks him, causing him to stumble into the meeting in a heap, the kids' teeth bearing on him.
• With the ruins damaged from the Kill Sat, the BUILD DiVERS need to find new ruins to summon their Gunpla. As he can't drive, Kazami and Maiya drive to investigate one of the locations, and Kazami finds out that Maiya Drives Like Crazy.

Episode 16

• Patrick Colasour finally makes his appearance in the real world!... On a shopping bag.

Episode 20

• A lighthearted moment at the end of the episode. Parviz asks May why she held and kissed Hiroto during his breakdown and she casually explained that that was what "Mama" told her to do if someone was hurting. Kazami is confused as to who "Mama" is, especially after she explains that it's her guardian, though that means Magee specifically asked May to call him "Mama". It's both silly and endearing.

Episode 21

• When Hinata gets super excited about BUILD DiVERS meeting up in person, hiragana spelling out "OFFLINE MEETING!!" appears behind her while Hiroto looks on in embarrassment.
• When building Cuadorn a prosthetic wing, Hiroto and Par show up in Eldora as Haros. Furthermore, because the Aegis Knight was being built, Kazami shows up in his Justigguy.
  • Later when having a picnic together, Hiroto and Par are seen eating, still as Haros. Words alone cannot describe how silly the image is. On top of that, the noises they make (particularly Hiroto) while eating sound incredibly silly.
  • Poor Muran wounds up getting airsick due to Kazami flying both him and Maya to Milaag Mountain. While she gets to ride in the cockpit, Muran is relegated to sit in a basket.
• Maiya finally meeting Cuadorn, the latter who says Freddie told him is level-headed and is skilled in cooking. While she takes in what she just heard, he also tells her that Freddie says she's fussy and short-tempered, in which she responds with a royally pissed glare at Freddie.
  • Later, she tries to actually feed Cuadorn. While he says he does not consume food, he accepts the offer. Even he thinks Maiya's cooking is good.
  • Also during the picnic, as Kazami was describing Maiya's good mood around Cuadorn being similar to a fangirl meeting a celebrity, she shoved bread up his mouth to stop him from embarassing her.
• The fact that Parviz's construction apparatus gives his Haro fox-ears.

Episode 23

• Ken's reaction to getting an autograph from May, just utterly giddy at having an actual EL-Diver visit his store.
• Kazami's freak out when he finds out not only Magee shared his video, but the fact that it reached over 10 million views. He even admits that he never knew the video blew up because he never checked.
  • Meanwhile, Par becomes a fanboy in Magee's presence.
• The picture of the original Build Divers Magee shows them seems okay, then you look at Momo and Koichi, which means the girl pulled off another unorthodox plan that stressed out the veteran player.

Episode 24

• Karuna of Force Avalon giving Hiroto an earful at the beginning of the episode because he never came to visit his old teammates after jumping back into GBN.
• Depending on how you interpret the situation, Riku shouldering Ogre after their battle can be seen as that one friend carrying the other as a result from a hangover, instead of being rivals.
• During the Lotus Challenge, Momo has Koichi strike her Momokapool like a baseball, putting her directly behind Hiroto's group. She then launches a volley of hyper beams that indiscriminately hit both friend and foe, with Do-ji complaining about her recklessness.
  • Even better is the fact that Kazami actually uses Do-ji as a shield to deflect Momo's attack, especially when we've already seen the Aegis Knight block much stronger beams, and thus didn't even need to use the Geara Ghirarga as a meat shield.
• As Kazami battles Rommel, Kazami loudly prounounces that he won't give up as Captain Zeon wouldn't either. This catches Rommel off guard and he hesitates, implying heavily that he is actually Captain Zeon. After the battle, Rommel meets Kazami personally, and it's clear he's basking in Kazami's praise of Captain Zeon, which his exasperated subordinates seem all too aware of.
• Two years later and Shahryar and Tigerwolf are still bickering rivals as Tigerwolf requests training with BUILD DiVERS and gets angry when Shahry suggests doing so will turn them into meatheads.

Episode 25

• Mizuki meeting Hiroto's parents (who have come to watch Hinata in place of their son) again. As shown by her slip up, Mizuki sometimes thinks of Hiroto's parents as Hinata's as well. Makes you think, doesn't it?
• Hiroto's father being overenthusiastic to show his support towards Hinata by pulling out a bunch of candles and a bandana with Hiroto's mother lampshading that he looks more like he was going to curse Hinata than actually supporting her.
• Funny as it is awesome, but the Mobile Doll May using a literal wired game controller to remotely control the WoDom to draw the grappled Turn X into being hit by its own attack.
  • According to this twitter post, that controller is how May's Mobile Doll controls the Pod from inside. Now imagine the Mobile Doll curled up inside the pod, mashing buttons on the controller as the Pod fights.
• A little pinned down by the Fake Nu's funnels, Kazami briefly checks the chat feed on his livestream for ideas. Some suggest that he remember the Stark Jegan vs Kshatriya or the Hyaku Shiki vs Qubeley. A problem with those suggestions, as Kazami himself points out:
  Kazami: Oh, I see- THEY WERE ALL DEFEATED!
  • Instead, he draws from a completely different battle, one without funnels, to win. Namely, Kira and Athrun's battle to the death, specifically, the point-blank clamp shot that Athrun tried to do but ran out of juice. How does chat respond?
    "What?"
    "Huh?"
    "That's the spirit!"
    "Nice idea!"
    "He's gonna die."
  • Even funnier on a meta level, not a single person brought up any of the many other major battles between non-funnel and funnel users where the former actually won^note Double Zeta vs any of the Qubeleys, Unicorn vs Kshatriya, Gundam X Divider vs Bertigo, Freedom vs Providence, AGE-2 Dark Hound vs Red Legilis, to name a few..
• Concluding that the "People of the Gunpla" are intruders to Eldora and therefore a threat to his task, Alus travels to GBN in order to lead a direct assault on them... only to be met by countless divers that easily outnumber and quickly surround his forces. To say he fucked up royally is quite the understatement.
  • Extra hilarious is Alus' plain stupidity on display. He had been observing GBN ever since his capture of Masaki more than six months ago, meaning he was aware of the fact that over twenty million players share this network. And only FIVE of these players, none of whom were even remotely the strongest GBN had to offer, had been kicking his ass on a regular basis, even if they weren't easy wins. And he seriously thinks he could bring down all these players and the entire system with what little he had left!? Alus pretty much doomed himself, no matter what he pulls.
  • The cherry on top? He spawned right in front of Force Avalon's nest. Even if there wasn't an ambush waiting for him, Alus was going to find himself beset upon by the strongest force in GBN many of whom, not even counting Kyoya, are just as strong as Masaki and BUILD DiVERS, anyway!

Episode 26

• Not even half a minute into the episode, Momo uses an ability that analyzes her enemies called "Penguin Research". Guess who sings the second opening for this show?
  • It's even funnier in an ironic way because both her Momokapool and her outfit have switched from a penguin motif to a panda.
• There's something oddly hilarious that one of the suits initially shot down is a Messala, designed to fly in Jupiter's gravity and thus much faster out of it, outfitted with six GN Drives and it still couldn't evade Alus' initial attack.
• Momo is still an enemy attack magnet, suffering hilarious X-Ray Sparks when she catches a stray lightning bolt before falling into a convenient pond.
• Just when Hiroto is about to use the Earthree armor, Alus straight up hijacks his armor for himself.
• The fact that Nanami in her Big Damn Heroes moment shows that she's still the same as ever retroactively makes her completely Out of Character stoic bodyguard attitude in her previous appearances hilarious, as she's clearly putting on an act those times, regardless of how good she actually is as May's bodyguard.
• Among the reinforcements that help the Divers, one of them begins asking whether they're getting special bonuses for stopping Alus.
• Remember those two guys back in the first Build Divers series that were impersonating Shahryar and used knockoff Gunpla? Well, they showed up to help out, and they call Alus an infidel for using a Gunpla knockoff.
  • For extra irony points, viewers have noted the "Gunpla" they're piloting look like knock-off Zoids, specifically the Iron Kong and Gojulas.
• Katsuragi's solution to the server damage caused by Alus? Modify his guns to fire security patches. He fixes rips in time-space by vaporizing them. This isn't the first time he's weaponized a system repair feature, after all.
• Koichi and Tsukasa now share an Astray, and when the latter tells Koichi to give him control of the Gundam, he charges into a group of One-Eyes, screaming and going apeshit.
  Tsukasa: *charges a bunch of One-Eyes and slaughters them* NOW I HAVE CONTROLLLLL!!!
  • Made funnier due to the fact that after all this time, Tsukasa still uses the Haro guest avatar.
• Kyoya's new limit break. The gambling effect is kind of silly and impractical, sure, but the real laugh is when he summons a giant AGE-1 Titus fist to punch Alus' Gundam into his ship in the ultimate sucker punch. It makes no sense outside of a video game and is all the more glorious for it.
• When May and Sarah disengage their HER-SELF Gunpla bodies and dive straight for Riku and Hiroto, Riku nails his pickup perfectly with Sarah falling into his arms in a perfect princess carry, as he has had 2 years of regularly doing this with Sarah. Hiroto almost misses the catch and has to reach out with an outstretched arm to catch May, as this was probably the first time he'd ever done this.
• It's a short moment, but we get to see a billboard for Captain Zeon's new team, called Triple C, consisting of the Captain himself, Kazam— err I mean Captain Kazami, and last but certainly not least: Patrick Colasour.
• The fact that Cuadorn is also now what can be described as a tourist attraction for those on Eldora.
• During The Stinger, a remaining Guard Eye is seen wandering aimlessly and crosses paths with Calico and Zabun. After a brief Beat, Zabun tells it to get on their truck. It agrees, and the scene afterward has it sitting in the back with a sombrero balanced on its 'head'.
  • Speaking of, where did the sombrero come from?

Battlogue

• The first battle has Ayame in the 00 Qan[T] battle Parviz in the Wing Zero Custom. Ayame has the upper hand until Parviz lays his ultimate trap — an SD Heero Yuy figurine, which she Squees at before getting blasted by the Twin Buster Rifle.
• The complete and utter mismatch that is Magee's Gundam Bael vs. May's... II Neo Zeong. May simply claps Magee with the casualty of killing a mosquito.
  Magee: So... flattened...
  • Just the fact that May can operate all that firepower by plugging in her controller.
  • At the meta level, all the IBO Gundams were built with the intention of taking down Beam Spam-capable Mobile Armors just like the one here... yet Bael suffers the most crushing defeat.
• The sheer ridiculous over-the-top duel between Kazami's Destiny and Captain Zeon's God, especially the Say My Name Overly Long Gag...and the result of the impact of the two Facepalm Of Doom...is a handshake!

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