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  2. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Season 2 was great again today. I just love Sui.
  3. jenius
    Max just shipped. I'll do a double review with both once it gets here.
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  5. kajnrig
    This is what I saw, so I thought you were joking until I clicked it and the video played.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    While Frontier-era materials did establish that the raw/least pure grade of fold ore is sometimes called fold coal, I don't think any source has connected it to the supposed coal mines on Banipal that Isamu was threatened with in Plus. EDIT: The reason some have speculated that Banipal might be a fold coal mine is that it wouldn't really make any sense for a civilization that possesses room temperature superconductors, lossless energy storage, high-efficiency wind and solar power, ultra-high efficiency thermonuclear generators and a mindset VERY focused on preserving the biospheres of planets would bother mining fossil fuels. EDIT 2: Of course even then it doesn't really make sense, since there isn't a need to mine the raw materials for fold carbon when it can be synthesized in industrial quantities using existing technology.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    Fold carbon and fold quartz were both officially introduced to the Macross setting in Macross Frontier. Fold carbon was introduced to the setting and story partly as a way to explain how fold quartz can be "dropped in" to improve the performance of existing OTM rather than needing to develop new versions of technology around it and concoct new explanations for how key technologies work. It was effectively retconned into having always been a part of OTM from the very beginning as a key component in the Gravity and Inertia Control tech that underpins most OTM. Prior to that point, there wasn't an explanation for exactly how a GIC system goes about creating artificial gravity. Supplemental technical material like Master File subsequently went absolutely ham tying this into everything from explaining why the early fold systems Humanity built didn't work very well to why there are such massive leaps in engine performance between certain generations and even why some fold boosters are single-use. As with several other late additions, one might say this was foreshadowed in an earlier work. Specifically Macross Dynamite 7, where it was noted that crystalline galactic whales were hunted because their bodies contained materials used in the construction of fold systems. The Frontier novelizations similarly turned a macguffin from Macross VF-X2 into foreshadowing of fold quartz's existence and potential. It would be fair to say that, at least in post-Frontier publications, the ASS-1/SDF-1 Macross was fairly packed with fold carbon since it's used in the GIC systems of thermonuclear reactors, gravity control systems, inertia control systems, fold navigation, fold communication, cross-dimensional radar, particle beam cannons, holographic projection systems, thermonuclear reaction warheads, the ship's main gun system, active stealth tech, and any/all of the same found on the battle pods and auxiliary craft found aboard the derelict ship.
  8. Stampeed Valkyrie
    Blandathon is probably the nicest description to this season I could use. Even One Punch Man S3 is a relative snooze fest. I've turned back to my personal collection, I just re watched Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. Its probably been 20+ years since the last time I cracked these DVDs open. Its pretty clear this was an Eva clone. The nods to Eva are everywhere especially early on, but from the same studio and staff that did Tenchi Muyo.. so Tenchgelion. Not a bad show though overall, very much a product of its time. Next up for me.. ToraDora.. another series I have not watched in many years.
  9. RangerKarl
    I think Seto has much better citations, but I do recall Isamu getting threatened with an assignment to the coal mines of some space colony. I guess they had the idea all the way back then.
  10. Papa Rat
    Interesting. Maybe for the foot fetish mecha folks? lol @electric indigo Love it. That came out great!
  11. Sildani
    So a thought I just had... dangerous, I know. When did fold carbon/quartz become so widespread and vital? Was the SDF-1 filled with it in order to work and the original Macross shows just not touch on it? Was it purely to use as a McGuffin for Frontier? How did the SDF-1 and other superdimensional devices work if not with fold carbon/quartz?
  12. ImChris5115
  13. eyesonme78
    Sharing a new repaint VF-25F armoured valkyrie.
  14. electric indigo
    All dressed up
  15. electric indigo
    So what's A24 been up to lately?
  16. weiser21
    https://www.yoyakunow.com/en/gundam/26142-metal-build-gundam-barbatos-4th-form-boomerang-mace.html MB Barbatos at Yoyakunow ¥39630, pay now
  17. TangledThorns
    I'll be glad when this series ends, the long breaks between seasons is lame af.
  18. Big s
    During the downtime at work I often clip out parts and clean up nubs and mold lines on kits. The Moderoid Tekkaman Blade kit has an interesting part. this is my nominee for most unexpected model detail of the year. Either that or Creepy toes awardI never realized that the feet were exposed like that under the foot cover. I used to watch the show a lot and can’t really remember an episode post transformation where they showed the bottoms of his feet, let alone the toe detail
  19. grogall
    Honestly not that worried about the shade of gray that Bandai used for the DX GBP-1S, Since painting the cells by hand could always produce different colour nuances... I think their colour matching is top notch and haven't been disappointed with the work they have done. The markings may seem a bit overdone, but it makes them stand out! They can keep at it as is!
  20. WhatBoutMyStar
  21. RangerKarl
    Thematically, I can buy it. The VF-31 was a plane whose design program was initiated by a local government group trying to spark economic growth. I can believe them cutting the cost for that, maybe due to something like "not-invented-here" syndrome or a misplaced desire to save pennies on things like certification while wanting a big ticket bulletpoint for sales.
  22. Scyla
    Preorder of the MB Barbatos at Anime Export (¥39800, pay now): https://www.anime-export.com/index.php?product=100130 [edit:] Sold out now
  23. Big s
    I was a little iffy with this season, since it sorta seemed like it was sidelining almost all the main characters, but the last episode felt like it really got the main cast back in action and even gave the new ones something to do.
  24. Scyla
    I think I am good with the Jada one.
  25. Shawn
    Play nice please
  26. Dangard Ace
    I like the new Lego NASA set. Only $60 too. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRvXyFSgT0Z/?igsh=emc2OXcxM3dza253
  27. Seto Kaiba
    A lot of the titles I'm following continue to be pretty bloody tedious. Mechanical Marie, Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!, and May I Ask for One Final Thing? are all still a lot of fun. Bland-a-thon isekai shovelware series A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai decided now (its 9th episode) was the time to actually lock in and do something new and different. What it did is something so far out of left field that it caught me completely flat-footed and I still have a little trouble believing they went there. Of all the "the Elves are a dying race" fantasy takes I've heard over the years... that is a new one and not one I would ever have seen coming. It's like something the dwarves would write.
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