Lots of catching up to do. The DeCulture edition of Macross Frontier episode 1 aired on MBS on 23rd December and within hours a raw was available for download. Within a day the first English fan-subbed version was available online.......Ain't technology grand!

So far the premier episode has had an exteremely positive reception by the majority of Macrossworld members. Over 200 members (to date) have responded to the poll on what they thought about the episode and a solid 86% voted that they creamed their pants! i.e. they hthought it was great.

The first episode of the Macross Frontier manga was published in the February 2008 issue of Shonen Ace (released December 26). Scans of the issue are here.

2) Added mecha and character pics from Famitsu.com to the image page. Includes first look pics of the white and red VF-25 in all three modes.

1) The official MBS Macross Frontier website and Macross Frontier official website went live on 11th December 2007, although as yet there is little information up. However, the Macross Frontier logo is now being shown with a red 'F' instead of the previous blue one.

2) Add better scans of the January 2008 issue of Newtype magazine to the image page.

3) Added scan of Animage January 2008 issue (thanks Kresphy).

4) Added rough translation page for the January issues of Newtype & Animage.

1. Added some new higher resolution screen captures to the image page from the new trailer #3, which is a higher resolution version of trailer # 2, but with some SDFM footage tacked on the front.

2. Downloads of the new trailer number 3 available on the information page.

3. MWer Kresphy provides the first scan of the 2 page Macross Frontier article from the January 2008 issue of Newtype magazine. Fan service Ahoy!

4. MWer Kresphy gives us more information from the anime.goo.ne.jp site.

Six points new info:

1. Macross Frontier will broadcast in 2008 Spring.
2. Sheryl Nome from is Macross Galaxy Fleet.
3. Ranka is a student, working in a Chinese restaurant
4. Ozma is a pilot of Special Force 'SMS'.
5. Space Monsters invade residential area. SMS Force attack it.
6. Maybe there is new U.N. Spacy?

5. MWer GGemini brings the following information from Anime News Netwoork to our attention:

NTT Resonant's goo Internet portal website has confirmed that the Macross F (Frontier) sequel is planned for a Spring 2008 broadcast. The finalized story will take place in A.D. 2059, five decades after the story of the first Macross television series and less than two decades after the last two sequel stories, Macross Plus and Macross 7. In the story, the Macross Frontier space colonization fleet is hosting a concert of an idol singer from the nearby Macross Galaxy fleet when a mysterious enemy attacks.

The January issue (on sale December 10) of Kadokawa's Newtype magazine will confirm the project's voice cast. Newcomer Megumi Nakajima had previously won a nationwide audition to perform and sing as Ranka Lee, a high school student who works part-time at a Chinese restaurant. Yuuichi Nakamura (Mobile Suit Gundam 00's Graham, Clannad's Tomoya) will play the main male lead, the fighter pilot trainee Alto Saotome. Aya Endo (Lucky Star's Miyuki, Gundam 00's Kinue) will play Sheryl Nome, the current top idol in the Macross universe. Hiroshi Kamiya (Honey and Clover's Yuuta, Gundam 00's Tieria), Jun Fukuyama (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion's Lelouch), and Houko Kuwashima (Gundam Seed's Flay, Inuyasha's Sango) will play the supporting characters of Mikhail Buran, Luca Angeloni, and Nanase Matsuura, respectively.

The official Macross website has confirmed that this month's Macross 25th Anniversary Special program will feature co-creator Shoji Kawamori as a guest and a 27-minute director's cut of the first episode of Macross Frontier. Kawamori will be working with the studio Satelight (Noein, Macross Zero) and composer Yoko Kanno (Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop) on the new series. The special will also feature the television entertainers Hiroyuki Miyasako, Chihara-Junior, Shinya Arino, and Akane Osawa.

6. New Macross Frontier by MWer Zinjo added to these pages.

MWer Kresphy has provided the following information regarding the upcoming Macross 25th Anniversery TV program:

Macross 25th Special Program guest is confirmed:
Miyasako Hiroyuki
Chihara JR
Shinya Arino
Osawa Akane
Shoji Kawamori

Macross F, Episode. 1 Title:
'Alto, Overture of melody'

Creator: Shoji Kawamori
Storyboard: Shoji Kawamori
Director: Yasuhito Kikuchi
Drawing supervisor:Risa Ebata & Yuichi Takahashi

Also, I added the scans of the July 2007 issue of Newtype magazine to the image page. This is the issue where the early concept mecha and character sketches where first published. Also shown is Kawamori's lego VF-25 in Gerwalk mode.

Added the recent Animegiga interview with Shoji Kawamori to the downloads section (scroll down to the bottom of this page). Actually, it's not the whole interview, just the part where he talks about Macross Frontier. AVI file thanks to MWer GGemini.

Changed the Macross Frontier banner on these pages from the one created by MWer Zinjo, to the one created by MWer polidread. Thanks, pollidread.

Courtesy of Anime News Network

The January issue (on sale November 26) of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine will announce that the manga adaptation of the Macross Frontier anime television series will premiere in the February issue (on sale December 26) in Japan. Macross Frontier is the 2008 sequel to the Macross science-fiction romance franchise that will be animated by Satelight (Macross Zero, Noein) with a story by Shoji Kawamori (first Macross series, Escaflowne) and music by Yoko Kanno (Macross Zero, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop). Hayato Aoki (Meteor Sweeper Girls, Antenna Serenade) will draw the manga. Monthly Shonen Ace ran Haruhiko Mikimoto's Macross 7: Trash spinoff manga from 1994 to 2001.

Courtesy of Anime News Network

The Macross 25th Anniversary Special program that was announced earlier this month will air in Japan on December 23 at 26:50 (effectively 2:50 a.m. the next day) on the Kansai region's MBS station, and on December 28 at 25:15 (1:15 a.m. the next day) on the Tokyo area's TBS station. The one-hour special will include a retrospective of previous Macross projects and a special compilation of clips from the first episode of Macross Frontier. This will be the first new Macross animation footage to premiere on television in over 12 years.

Macross Frontier takes place after the last major Macross sequels (Macross Plus and Macross 7) and centers on a fighter pilot trainee, a budding singer, and a pop idol aboard a space colony fleet under enemy attack.