Duke Togo

Watch the sub, man, they give his name.

Yes, that was what I thought as I.

I just, I was really put off by this episode. I'll watch it again when the sub comes out but, yeah... that was really disappointing.

The 2D art and animation is this episode is the worst out of the 6 episodes, and its the worst by alot. A clear step down in quality, and it really ruined what could have been a great ending to the episode (atleast, it did for me.)

WTF WAS UP WITH THAT! LOL

HAHA,

RAW is up.

Yeah, when you look at overall ratings, the big shows are more family oriented, and unless its an uber hot anime, most of the rest fall late at night and does much lower numbers. I don't know how the Japanese system works, but I know in the US they don't count DVRed shows in the ratings.

Shinsen's episode 5 release was very good. They rebounded very nicely from a sub-par (for them) release of episode 4.

Bastard

Going to vote again for no spoiler tags after page 1, but I'll continue to use as specified. Have we figured out yet who Elmo Kridanik is?

Yeah, I think the Sheryl hate comes from months of only having the Deculture cut of episode 1. I guess we have some members who have not been able to move past that.

The question isn't "why?" Its "Why not!"

I like the wings in battroid.

I wouldn't quite see the point in that, and its transformation is more akin to the VF-25 than anything else.

Yeah, no, that's not going to cut it. For now I am going to hope and assume there is some Earth connection here.

Your links, they are THE dead. edit: Ooh, you fixed them.

What do they need variable fighters for?

I'm really not sure how to take this. I'll be extremely disappointed if they are going back to the "look, the bad guys have variable fighetrs too!" of Macross 7. Why, why would the Vajra develop variable fighters? There better be a human connection here, or I'll be pretty disappointed.

Well, if I read this like it sounds, it looks like the events of Zero have become a part of pop culture? I don't think its what Zinjo had in mind when he was talking about the events being declassified, but credit would totally go to him if this is as it sounds.

Not a bad idea, but the kids are far too young to survive on their own, and it doesn't answer the question of the 13th colony and those who have come before.

I compare it to several series I've watched in the past year, year and a half, and its average, at best. However, this doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the series at all. I love it. I guess I just expected a series with the name Macross on it to have higher production values than Frontier does. Granted, the CG work is very good, and as Graham pointed out, the backgrounds are excellent.

The art and animation have been consistently average to sub-par since episode 1. It hasn't gotten worse.