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Yep.....has the character designer been announced for the new upcoming Macross TV series?  What if it's Mikimoto and they wanted to include art from the show into the new book?  Probably not, but would be cool to have him back on a new Macross tv production at some point.

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20 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Looks like the Macross Mikimoto book release date has been rescheduled to 3/29 - 4/01 2019....;)

 

If next year I might forget about it by then! :lol: But my wallet is happy...for now. :D

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On 7/20/2018 at 10:28 AM, Fortress_Maximus said:

@jvmacross For the newest book how many pages are dedicated to Gunbuster? You posted the hanken genga for Noriko which was very nice.

Do you mind posting some more pics of GB too? Want to see if anything new or just old material. Thanks!

Here you go....in no particular order

 

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On 7/25/2018 at 11:45 AM, jvmacross said:

Here you go....in no particular order

 

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Nice! Based on these pics I wanna buy it already. I'd love to but unfortunately my budget right now is focused on the toys and graphic novels and home repairs. Maybe I'll just get this one together with the new Mikimoto book that comes out next year. Thanks for the pics!

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13 hours ago, ScrambledValkyrie said:

You know, it's times like this when I wish I knew how to read Japanese. I'm guessing many of you guys just get these for the artwork?

Most folks, yeah.

I'm kind of weird in that I specifically got into collecting them with research as a goal (to fix the many errors in the old Macross II RPG).

There's just too much coming too fast for fan translators to reasonably stay on top of things, so the percentage of material made accessible to western fans is presently quite low.

(On a lark I got a price quote on what it'd take to get something like Variable Fighter Master File volumes professionally translated and it came out to a bit under $25k per book.)

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53 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

25k? Yeah...nothing in these books is worth that kind of money....

Individually, yeah... the only way to make that tenable would be for a professional distributor to do a translation with intent to sell, or to crowdfund it.

Since neither option is likely to pan out in the near future, I'm just gonna keep slowly plodding away at 'em.

 

53 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

as I said, most of the better releases are primarily artbooks....so not being able to read the Japanese within them shouldn't preclude anyone from owning them

True, though since those often include staff/cast interviews, production info, and other goodies on top of the art, being able to read them definitely adds value.

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1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

True, though since those often include staff/cast interviews, production info, and other goodies on top of the art, being able to read them definitely adds value.

Yeah....that is where Google translate performs the best....with short snippets of info that give info on the illustration being referenced

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8 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

Yeah....that is where Google translate performs the best....with short snippets of info that give info on the illustration being referenced

When it's not telling you Kawamori's hovercraft is full of eels...

(It's getting better, but every now and then I see it produce something spectacularly wrong.)

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