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9 minutes ago, isamu said:

Cool News, but who's performing?

Um it's a Macross Frontier concert so May'n and Megumi as Sheryl and Ranka? 

Maybe some special guest too but being a Frontier concert one would expect them to focus on the singers from that series, no? 

Anyone know how vol.2 did saleswise?

Combining DVD and BD sales it did 7K the first week, and now it's at 9k I think, vol. 1 did 10k in it's first week so that's a 3k drop, but honestly I expected a bigger drop than that, but I guess the big drop will come after all the episodes of the first cour are released.

About the lenght of the series, everyone is forgetting that the booklet is saying that Delta was originally going to be 13 episodes AND A MOVIE, the original 13 episodes would have been the ones we saw and then they would have made a movie to finish the story.

Here's the translation someone posted in Animesuki:

Nemoto

Originally it was supposed to be made up one cour and a movie. I recall it being around the time that we were working on the scenario for the fourth episode that it became a 2 cour show.
Still, the scenario for the first cour had momentum so we proceeded to make it into two cours in a way that that would build up from it.
We did have some vague ideas about what to do in a movie, so we filled that in for two cours.

Link to the translation: LINK

And that's the problem, the movie would have been maybe 2 hours which would be the same as 5 or 6 episodes, but they expanded that to 13 episodes so obviously the pacing is dragging. Also it mentions that the decision to make a second cour instead of a movie was made when they were finishing the script for episode 4, most likely a couple months before the first episode aired in April.

Worst episode of the series so far so I gave it a negative vote, and next one doesn't look like it'll be good either

IMO, it's pretty clear Xaos (official subs spelling) was an unholy mess even with Messer and Mikumo at the top of their game... they're not a super-elite unit, they're the Wal-Mart of mercenaries.

Name-dropping Messer will always fall flat. Kaname may care about him, but it's almost impossible for the audience to because his one character trait is that the stick up his ass had a stick up its ass.

I don't know about that, in the latest Macross Delta character poll, Messer was number 5 overall and the top ranked male character above Hayate and Keith (not like he has too much competition though), and apparently the number of fanart made for Messer and Kaname as a couple more than doubles the ones for Hayate and Freyja.

Also there's this hahaha:

NEW PV!

Plus a clip of Freyja's voice actress playing the game.

I really laughed when Roid told Basara that he liked his glasses and when Alto explained to Makina that he's a guy only to be told that to be cute it doesn't matter if you're a guy or a girl lol, it's good to see that there will be these type interaction between the older characters and the new ones.

Scans from famitsu's article with the same information from the link I posted before:

Some new information, including other guest characters from Macross 7, Plus, Zero and 30, as well as a list with more songs that will be in the game in both versions (I can't believe "Information High" won't be in the normal game ) here: http://gematsu.com/2016/08/macross-delta-scramble-adds-basara-nekki-fire-valkyrie-guest-characters

Is this official or fanwork?

It's official, that comes with the first BD/DVD.

More info about the game and also new screenshots in this Dengeki Online article: http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/325/1325728/#eid1325841

They put a graphic comparison between the PSP games and this one

Obviously this one looks better, but I think that the PS3 games still look better, or maybe it's just the resolution

That front art is a bit odd... I would think Kaname should show up beside Arad on the box instead of Mikumo?

I mean Freyja shows up beside Hayate on the VF-31J box soooo..

All members of walkure are assigned to a specific pilot, we saw to whom from their interactions in episode 1, Mikumo rode Arad's valk, Messer saved Kaname, Makina asked to recharge the drones and Mirage did it, and Reina was flying with Chuck, and obviously the two new members were assigned together, or in short :

My only concern is that there is no full story campaign for the Delta series (up to episode 13, only the evacuation from Ragna) and it seems no full campaigns for past series either, only Extra missions features.

Seems a step back from Triangle Frontier, which had full campaigns and playable units for everything up to the 1st Frontier Movie, and scaling back to the original Ace Frontier and I'm not sure the limited roster for Delta can carry the game.

Yeah it seems they will be following the same path they took with the Frontier games, a first game not with too much content and just half of the story of the new series so they can take advantage of the show's popularity as soon as possible, then (hopefully) sequels with more content and modes (and maybe make them multiplataform).

Complete and high quality scans of the info on Famitsu

That scan is from last month's magazine and was posted on various forums on June 10th, we'll get the new one in a few days, I think.

How was Messer's Valkyrie still intact? At the end of the last episode it was plummeting from the sky. Does the AI take over at some point and stop it from crashing? I know there was a discussion regarding the AI in Hayate's Valkyrie being disabled in an earlier episode.

On another note, I don't think there's any indication that Kaname had feelings for Messer. I think his connection to her through "Axia" came as a complete surprise, however there's no doubt that revelation deeply affected her. My guess is that Messer's death will ultimately bring Kaname and Arad closer together.

Finally, I agree with the criticism regarding the last few conflicts between Delta and the Aerial Knights. Having the episodes end without resolving the skirmishes in some fashion is growing increasingly disappointing.

No i didn't use tweezers for the head laser. I try to set it with my fingers but pretty much any bump will dislodge it. I will have to buy some tweezers and give it a try. Is there a specific tweezers that is better than others?

I put the head laser with my fingers on mine after applying the stickers, I even heard a light click and it's firmly secure there, but on the VF-171 I had to use tweezers for the head lasers, so just try that first, if not maybe use a bit of glue?

I am actually curious about Mirage when she mention millia and MAX.

Milla and MAX only have daughters...why would she kept their last name?

I suspect Mirage is bioengineer'd clone like original meitradi.

I don't think she never saw them either from the way she describe them consider Macross 7 disappeared (as mention on frontier)

About the Macross 7 fleet, it didn't disappear it's just that the information about the protodeviln confict was suppressed for the general public, in one of Frontier's episodes members of SMS mentioned the protodeviln and Bobby compares what Ranka is doing to what Basara did, not to mention that Fire Bomber released a new album in 2060

Which episode of Frontier are you referring to?

I wonder if the connection to Frontier will be that the person Freyja received the audio player (phone?) from was Mao?

Um, Freyja is 14 years old and Mao died when Ranka was like 5, currently Ranka should be 24, just do the math, Mao couldn't have known Freyja.

Some people think that maybe Basara gave it to her, but Freyja knows about Fire Bomber so I think she could have recognized him even if it would have been after he left, so she should have said that Basara gave it to her, IMO this is another case of looking to much into the details of Freyja's past, like "Freyja escaped an arranged marriage, maybe she was going to marry one of the knights or the prince" and it was just the apple farmer's son, I'm not saying that it can't be someone important or known in the macross universe that gave her the music player, but maybe it was just a random human that visited Windemere.

I finished my 171 earlier today, I tried to pait for the first time ever but just some of the details, here are some bad pictures taken with my phone.

Based on the interactions in the first episode, I'm going with this lineup too.

Mikumo was interacting with Arad's valk in battle.

Messer was protecting Kaname

Reina came out of Chuck's valk

Makina was the only one left with Mirage

And of course Freya with Hayate

If not only Delta 1 and 2 positions would change if the leaders are paired up.

Yeah that's how I understood it from the first episode, and just to add something, Makina interacted with Mirage when she asked to recharge the multi-drones and Mirage was the only one to respond.

Also, Hayate skipping classes makes very little sense to me. If Delta Platoon is a para/military organization, then that would be dereliction of duty. If Delta platoon is a corporate entity, then they'd just fire him. I get the impression that Hayate is making at least some of the classes, as he's learned the basics of flight, and he's got some basic aerobatics training from it. But hey maybe that's me, since I found training fun, and informative.

Forgot I'd actually ordered these, just received a payment request from HLJ.

Graham

I am pretty sure the VF-31 uses EX-Gear, and also assume that all new model VF's since the VF-25 use EX-Gear.

Yeah, and not only that, even the VF-1 that Hayate's using for his training has an Ex-gear

unless there was some mistake, that should be grandSON

The word they used is 孫 "Mago" which if I'm not mistaken can be used for grandson, grandchild or granddaughter, if you used some online translator it will translate it to grandson from default, but as jenius said they also used the word 姪 "Mei" which means niece.

Edit: oh beaten by cyde01

Oh, has this been confirmed already?

Since these are really cheap I might try to paint one because I don't like stickers, or at least try to paint the easy details