Duke Togo

I've been asked to review Frontier for an entertainment news website, and I have to say, the more I think about Frontier the more confused and frustrated I am by it. It has so many plot holes, so many unanswered questions, its hard to really get as grasp on this series past the initial several episodes. The pacing of the show is way off, too much relies on "anime magic" instead of having any sort of solid plot or reason behind it. And yet I really enjoyed the series, which really makes no sense to me at this point.

Oh, I'm sure you do.

We've gone over this already, its nose art.

Maybe that is what he intended, but I never thought for a moment we'd see or hear anything that has to do with the Megaroad-01. There is never any hint of a chance that maybe, just maybe, we'll learn their fate by the end of the series. Its kinda out of left field. The ending with Bilrer works if you are holding onto the same hopes as he is. But we aren't, because Kawamori didn't set it up. Only now are we all going, holy shite, what does this mean!

Yes, but what?

But why did they attack the 117th Exploration Fleet? Dr Nome & Co. seemed to be making nicey-nice with them before Grace screwed it up.

Well, if they didn't understand the Protoculture, how come they didn't wipe them out? The Vajra seem to be all about attacking things they don't understand. And your Birdman/Fishman theory, well, see, that makes too much sense to be what Kawamori intended, LOL.

It didn't seem to me like the Protoculture had much control over what was going on. And the Vajra seem to be all over the galactic core, I am just not sure how all of this stuff goes down without hearing from them before.

I am beginning to wonder if we don't have a "Megalord Class", but right now I am going by the assumption that the Global was just a continuation of the Macross Class.

If the Vajra are that almighty, why didn't they step in and stop the PC extermination? They seemed to have no problem laying waste to human fleets that they didn't understand, you'd think an interstellar civil war would have gotten their attention.

Ok, I'm a little confused... why exactly did the Vajra attack the humans in the first place? To me it never seemed clear what Grace did to piss them off THAT much.

That's just all sorts of bad. As in, that's the best they could come up with? Ugh.

There is so much unexplained with this show. Saying the Vajra settled on a former PC world makes sense, but this is Macross frontier we are talking about, so who knows.

Dude, its in the frigging animation. More than once, LOL. They've been part of the canon for over 2 decades.

For the love of God, the Global isn't the SDF-4!

Hmm, possible. Perhaps he knows they are supposedly "lost", and hopes it will help them find the Megaroad-01, eh?

I suppose, that's kinda weaksauce, though. Plus, to be "connected" with her, wouldn't she need a Fold Quartz implant?

LOL, that's awesome.

I've seen it 3 times, LOL.

It looked to me like the Gunship was knocked away when he Galaxy fired at the Frontier.

I clearly know very little Japanese, but (on second viewing) it sure seemed like Ranka (aboard the Quarter) was explaining that it was the Vajra singing. Minmay's name doesn't seem to be mentioned at all, and Mari isn't listed in the credit sequence (atleast not that I saw, but the video was iffy).

Its a mistranslation of... something. Basically, its referring to the grey aura that surrounds Sheryl's head when she collapses on the bridge stage.

I dunno, didn't seem like it.

So, going by the dialog in episode 24, and what we saw in episode 25, it sounds as if Richard Bilrer was expecting to actually meet Lynn Minmay on this planet. "Soon... Soon I'll be able to meet you."