Duke Togo

You can tell by the original design of the episode that the commercial break was *supposed* to take after the Nyan Nyan/fountains shooting up into the air scene. Instead it goes into the poorly recut fighter/concert scene, and then goes to commercial during it. Once again, whoever edited that together should be tossed out on their behind, because that's really rather shoddy editing and storytelling. Someone asked earlier about the guys being inside the concert hall in one scene, and outside the next. Basically, Sheryl gives them the smile when she enters, then bitches to the NUNS chick (whose name I have yet to commit to memory) and her assistant about them being there. When we see them outside, they complain about being forced to "dress" outside for their performance. Sheryl is, in ever sense of the word, a diva. Completely forgetting about the original fighter/concert cut, the new concert sequence is a mess in its own right. They totally lose the fx on the whip turning into a mic, and the audio isn't as good on the song (though it may be they are going for more of a "live" effect). She then abruptly goes from being on the stage, to up in the air, to flying (after Alto catchers her), then she's back on the stage and Alto is putting the camera on Ranka (when did he drop off Sherly and go on casually filming the audience?). Its suddenly as if none of the incident and near disaster up in the air ever happened. I just don't see how this was allowed to go to TV like this. Oh, and how about WTF did the paper airplane come from in the recut version? He just takes off into the sky, and hey, paper airplane flying up here!

I'm *pretty* sure if you watch the Deculture edition closely enough, you'll see it listed as "Battle 25" in one of the launch sequences.

That's affirmative.

Oh, and Michel, with his Super Dimension Zentradi ears, has the worst anime haircut since the cheapo anime days of the early-to-mid 90's.

QFT

Ok, I don't want to be Mr Negative here, but they really butchered this episode. And its not just what they took out, its how it was edited, which is to say whoever did it should be fired. George Lucas couldn't have done a worse edit. Most of the continuity between scenes is all but gone. Its like a bunch of scenes just stuck together, there is really little flow to it. The fight sequence/concert is now totally underwhelming (and, once again, horribly edited). I understand it had to be cut down to be 24 minutes or whatever, but they did a horrid job. A bunch of us could get together with editing software and do a far superior job. I'm not even tempted to watch this again. I'll stick with the Deculture edition.

OMG! OMG! NYAN NYAN! OMG THAT IS AWESOME!

A whole bunch of poeple just finished. I'm pushing 400 kB/s, less than 5 minutes.

Oh, come on now, I could practically hear all the squealing when the torrent went up!

Rest assured when something is released, a bunch of us will be on here screaming about it like little girls.

Bastard! 25 minutes, here.

Well, there is a seeder hiding somewhere, because I am downloading. Doing around 200 kB/s.

VEOH audio is totally out of sink for me.

We've got something like 200 leechers on the RAW, but still no seeder, LOL. FTL indeed!

マクロスフロンティア 第01話 「クロース・エンカウンター」 (D-MBS x264 1280x720 AAC) [OPED付 正式版本] Anyone?

Its on NyaaTorrents now, too. Q-R is spreading this around quickly. Just need a seeder!

Deculture Episode 1: [Q-R] MACROSS Frontier ep 01 (D-TBS DivX6.6 1280x720 120fps SP).avi Actual Episode 1: [Q-R] Macross Frontier ep 01 (D-MBS x264 1280x720 AAC).mp4

I have Q-R's Deculture release, that is not the file. Still no seeder, but the peers are piling up fast.

Yeah, everyone thought it was out and didn't bother. Its up on Tokyo Toshokan now, as well. WTB Seeder.

FTW! Seeder isn't seeding yet, though.

ITS UP! AniRena

My guess would be this is up on a Japanese torrent site.

The AnimeSuki forums are claiming the RAWs are out, but I have yet to see them on any of the sites I frequent, or on the Usenet.

I could have sworn I read somewhere he was a rival singing idol (to Sheryl), but it was probably in a mess translation of some article and they were referring to Sheryl.

See, this is why I love the Compendium: According to Kawamori, the VF-171 appears as the standard main variable fighter in the 2059 timeframe of Macross Frontier because the previously designated U.N. Spacy main variable fighter, the VF-19 Excalibur, looks too much like a "hero" unit for the role. He also wanted a fighter that was clearly disinguishable from the hero unit of the series, the VF-25. He retconned out the VF-19 for aesthetic purposes. I'm still waiting for the NUNS entry...