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  1. Easily, he's my favorite character.. I mean he's often my avatar lol. But also Hikaru is frankly, kind of a dumbass lol. He's a good audience avatar in the show so he is a better main character to relate to however. His character story is essentially about learning to grow up amid the end of the world and becoming responsible for his choices. Minmay is honestly a great character study in someone thrust into fame with no preparation and naturally that fame breaks them down from the stress until they are just going through the motions in the post-war world while dealing with depression. They only had a passing interest in Hikaru (plus they were a kid with no sense of what they wanted in a partner at the beginning), but post-war they gravitated to him in hopes of finding comfort in a world she couldn't stand to live in. Her realization to leave Earth to seek out a better life for herself on her terms instead of letting it be based on other people is a solid endpoint for her journey. Misa kinda runs the broken bird ice queen that thaws out as her chemistry with Hikaru grows and she helps him grow up while he helps her to heal from the issues in her past. It's not super inventive but it was well told. I'm glad she's a Captain now but that was kinda inevitable. A show about her wouldn't offer anything different than a show about another Captain married to a pilot in their fleet. I have no comment on Star Wars but yeah, sometimes new stuff isn't as good. That happens. Sometimes it is good or better. You'll never find the next great story if you don't venture out past the old and comfortable. Macross has proven this out with both amazing and not so amazing sequels. I'd prefer the risk to get the rewards.
  2. Honestly, even aside the issues Seto notes (which I agree with)... I personally never thought the combo of Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay were all that interesting. Like, even if we still didn't know their rather mundane fate, I could care less about a follow up with them. My favorite from the original are the ones that stayed behind and have gotten referenced or reappeared (namely Max). Those three carried their story, the original story, well, but they had a good and satisfying conclusion. They aren't that compelling now that they've worked their crap out lol. Megaroad-01 certainly isn't especially interesting as a ship either. I think when people say they want this follow up they really mean they want something that's not new and different. The problem is, Macross is all about new and different because like real life, stuff is always changing.
  3. I'm pretty convinced that Macross City in what used to be called Alaska is probably the only really functioning population center. We know there are other towns, most of them being set up after resettling and not far from Macross City really but I heavily doubt any place is anywhere near that built up.
  4. I assume the until recently thing is a reference to Space Force. You're absolutely correct, I just want to add that the US Space Force is in all reality a sub branch under the Department of the Air Force (similar to how the Marines operate under the Navy) and most of the jobs it does are just from the old Air Force Space Command with some new name tags.
  5. Because high g-loads can be fatal to squishy human pilots. Just ask Guld. Obviously the IVC was not powerful enough to help him with the no limiter operation he was pulling in order to defeat the Ghost X-9. It's story why the latter inertia store converter in 5th Gen VFs is used too. It enabled pilots to pull off accelerations hitherto impossible without killing them or forcing them to be cyberized.
  6. There wasn't anyone especially famous this year beyond Eririn doing a performance after her Japan tour. She's not in Macross but did cover various songs and has been at the con before. As for Mari. I think her last appearance was two years ago, and if I'm being perfectly honest... it wasn't great. She was much better 2 years prior to that one and it kinda came off that she knew it wasn't great. That's not to mention how... opinionated... she was anytime she wasn't booked for the con in any previous years. I don't know if she'll come back to SDC, but I do think it's good they are looking into a lot more options than just one repeat guest.
  7. Right, I was only thinking series I guess, which is silly because Zero is an OVA too lol.
  8. If you mean subtitled in English, no because this will be, even if it has to be imported. But if you mean dubbed... Honestly, I don't think anyone should expect this of any Macross series (except existing non-RT SDFM dubs). I genuinely think dubs of any series outside maybe new stuff in this WWM era are unlikely.
  9. Though this isn't universally true. Being an aerospace engineer myself, some of the things we make involve explosions in normal operations lol. Rockets technically are burning more than exploding but it's not far off. Then there is sometimes a payload that is supposed to explode. Sometimes.
  10. I don't doubt this concept was floated, but it reminds me more of the Soviet idea for a massive barge of nuclear explosive which would basically have the same end result. Also a concept that thankfully never actually happened.
  11. The tip of the iceberg really! These were gonna be used, along with other crazy but physically possible weapons on the USAF's Orion based space battleship. Which is a real design that would have had enough nuclear ordnance to basically kill the planet in one ship. Story goes it was Kennedy who axed it after reading the details and getting thoroughly freaked out by the concept. https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarshipart.php#id--Orion_Battleship I agree it was likely too dangerous to make but at the same time it would have been pretty impressive as a spacecraft. I'm not willing to risk MAD over it though. Considering however that the UN Spacy basically has clean versions of all that tech and more they likely would appreciate it.
  12. I drive 3 hours for it and some fly in so yeah I think shifting it around the greater LA area isn't gonna make a huge difference in the end.
  13. Are... people unaware Yoko Kanno was involved in Frontier? Because she was. She scored the entire series and had a large part in building Sheryl and Ranka's music. Delta was someone different and it is noticeable but be careful about casually dumping on Frontier while praising Kanno, lol.
  14. 1. The first is essentially how the fold wave system works except in the YF-29 it's a secondary system due to limitations on the super rare fold quartz. But Protoculture stuff effectively did this as a common method I think. The Fold Evils the Protodevlin possessed certainly did this, in a biomechanical sense. 2. Not so sure on waste heat. I kinda don't want fold space to be used as a free get out of physics card like most sci-fi does with their extra dimensional realms. That's why I like the ISC, it does do this at first but it needs to bring the forces back into normal space eventually, it can just spread it out over time. 3. No super dimension space can withstand ego of that magnitude!
  15. It was probably his idea but I don't know for sure. The Ragnans are descendants of the Protoculture just as humans are though. They seeded the planet with genetically alerted life based on their form, which they also did on several Brisignr worlds. It's likely Zola is similar despite being located elsewhere which is also not strange considering Earth is pretty far away as well.
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