Author: Renato

Countdown to DYRL BD — 1984 Interview with Shoji Kawamori from Animage booklet: “Minmay: Ai Miemashita ka”

Post author By Renato
Post date July 22, 2012

An oldie but a goodie.

As we await anxiously the release of Macross Do You Remember Love on Blu-Ray — and with all the, er, controversy that surrounds this — let us take the time to recall some words from co-director Shoji Kawamori, which he shared with the editorial of Animage just a few months after the original release of the film in Japan. To fans, the findings may seem a touch interesting…

Note: The title of the feature is “Macross Seminar”. There is one more installment in a later booklet that I may eventually translate also. This should not be confused with the “Super Dimension Seminar” currently airing on Tokyo MX television, there is no relation whatsoever.

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Countdown to DYRL BD — “Super Dimension Seminar” Episode 3 Airs

Post author By Renato
Post date July 18, 2012

Monday night: It’s that time of the week, kids — the Super Dimension Seminar is back, and this installment’s ~~butchering~~ re-edit of classic Macross is not a TV episode, but rather the first half of the movie “Do You Remember Love”. Obviously, this is to give those who were not lucky enough to attend the special Shinjuku screening of the soon-to-be-released BD Remaster a taste of the goodies to come. Just to make sure, Sheryl pops up once again at the end to remind you to buy the big fat box set.

So, do you remember Do You Remember Love? Well, let us try to refresh our memories, in glorious HD this time.

Screencaps to follow.

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Countdown to DYRL on BD — A look back at 2005’s “BS Anime Yawa: Macross Do You Remember Love” TV special

Post author By Renato
Post date July 15, 2012

As we count down the days to the release of the greatest animated movie ever, “Macross: Do You Remember Love” on Blu-Ray Disc, I thought I would give people a bunch of homework to do in preparation for the big party.

“BS Anime Yawa” (“BS Anime Night Talk”) is a series of TV specials hosted by Gainax/General Products founder Toshio “Otaking” Okada on the NHK BS-2 satellite broadcasting service. The programmes focus on classic and/or famous anime shows and act as retrospectives to contextualize these shows within the bigger picture of the evolution of Japanese animation, as well as providing some insight into the behind-the-scenes goings-on of the productions.

This particular episode, airing on June 29th, 2005, focused on “Macross: Do You Remember Love”, and featured Ichiro Itano, anime director Hiroyuki Kitakubo (keyframe artist on the original “Macross” TV series and movie), movie director Tomoyuki Furumaya and voice actress Rica Fukami (Myung in “Macross Plus”) as guest panelists.

Details and image gallery follows.

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“Super Dimensional Seminar” Episode 2 Airs

Post author By Renato
Post date July 10, 2012

Monday’s episode of “Super Dimensional Seminar” introduced the kiddies to the wonders of episodes 6 (“Daedalus Attack”), and 9 (“Miss Macross”).

As she did last week, Sheryl-sensei (whose research specialty is apparently “Galactic Macross History”) rounds everything up by reminding you that similar things happened in Frontier.

More screencaps to follow… after KRISS Mc-KROSS MAKES YOU JUMP JUMP

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“The Men Who Made Macross” Special Airs

Post author By Renato
Post date July 8, 2012

An hour-long TV special documentary aired on July 8th at 8pm on the Tokyo MX station as part of the Macross 30th Anniversary celebrations and to promote the upcoming “Macross: Do You Remember Love?” Blu-Ray release.

The show was well made, with plenty of interesting information about the production of the original TV series from the first “Battle City Megaroad” concept, to the production of the “DYRL” feature film, all straight from the mouths of Shoji Kawamori, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Ichiro Itano, Kazutaka Miyatake and Yasunori Honda (sound director) as they reminisce their younger days.

Some screencaps for your viewing pleasure, and more info, follow after the jump.

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Podcast — Macross Music in the 1980’s

Post author By Renato
Post date July 8, 2012

Member VF5SS/Andrew/Veef from CollectionDX and Macross World has a new episode of his podcast, “The Veef Show”!

Episode 43 features MW member Gubaba/Richard as a guest, discussing not only the music of the original Macross TV show, but also contextualizing it by giving us insight on idols and the pop music environment in Japan at around the time.

Download it from here:

The Veef Show Episode 43 – Macross Music in the 1980’s

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“Super Dimensional Seminar” begins airing

Post author By Renato
Post date July 2, 2012

Macross is back on television! …Sort of.

Last night (Monday July 2nd) at 10pm, Tokyo MX began its weekly broadcast of the “Macross Super Dimensional Seminar”, a special series developed as part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations, educating younger generations introduced to Macross through “Macross Frontier” about the roots of the franchise.

The first installment covered episodes 1 and 2 of the original “Super Dimension Fortress Macross” TV series, with heavily-edited versions of both packed into a single half-hour. Unfortunately, unlike some other recent television anime reruns like “Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water”, the footage used did not look like it was the new HD remaster — you need to get the Blu-ray for that.

The show is “hosted” by Sheryl Nome, who acts as your history lecturer and points out similarities with scenes “you may remember” from “Macross Frontier”, such as the VF-1D mid-air catch scene.

There may be precious little content for hardcore fans, but for Macross newbies, this is a must-see!

Next week: Episodes 6 and 9: “Daedalus Attack” and “Miss Macross”.

More pics after the jump.

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“Macross: Do You Remember Love” & “Macross Frontier Movies 1+2”: Triple bill theatrical screening in July; plus “DYRL” TV Special to air

Post author By Renato
Post date June 20, 2012

This has been known for a while but I figured I ought to front-page it sooner rather than later, plus new details keep being added every so often.

To celebrate its much-hyped Blu-ray debut next month, “Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love”, the movie that showed impressionable 80s kids that “you can still fight when you’re drunk” * is back on the BIG SCREEN, yes, in Technicolor and all that jazz, for a limited time only. To differentiate it from the last Tokyo screening in 2010, this time they are using the newly remixed 5.1 channel soundtrack, so you can experience it in a completely fresh way.

Not only that, but it’s running back-to-back with screenings of the two “Macross Frontier” movies (“Itsuwari no Utahime/The False Songstress” and “Sayonara no Tsubasa/The Wings of Farewell”), to round off a monster triple-bill TRIANGLER of a Macross movie marathon.

So bring your friends, your mega-size popcorn and your deodorant, because we’re in for a dusk-till-dawn test of hardcore sci-fi-robot-action-romance-all-singing-all-dancing-space-opera-schoolgirl-slapping endurance! “The women must not penetrate!”

Shinjuku Wald 9 (katakana-pronounced as “Baruto 9”, bizzarely) will be hosting this triple screening on three nights, details follow.

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Macross SpeakerPODcast Ep. 4

Post author By Renato
Post date June 18, 2012

AKB 0048! The dramatic saga of Howard’s hat! Valk Shortages!

……oh and something about a 1:1 Valkyrie too 😉

With the 30th Anniversary of Macross in full swing, it’s time for another episode of Macross SpeakerPODcast!

Audience — No YF-29’s were harmed during this recording…well, not too many….

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“I’m like a backlash against Kawamori-san and Mikimoto-san”: Hidetaka Tenjin Interview from “Macross The First: Volume 1”

Post author By Renato
Post date June 9, 2012

As we count down to master illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin’s triumphant appearance on U.S. soil during Otakon 2012 in July, I thought we ought to take a bit of time to learn a bit more about the man and his attitude towards his work.

Tenjin-san is one of the fresh faces on the creative team behind the scenes of Macross in the 21st century. As a fan-turned-creator, how does he balance his love for the series with his duty to his respected superiors? Let’s dig in to an interview published in “Macross The First, volume 1” and find out!