Duke Togo

I almost posted this yesterday, its quite strange.

Thing is, I was fairly certain at one point that Gurren Dan translates as "Gurren Brigade". I'm assuming I was totally wrong.

Maybe not, but this is anime. We're talking about transforming robots fighting space aliens.

Scott Green on AICN says "Team Gurren" is straight off of the Gainax website.

There are too many "little" things that all add up to them knowing about these beasts. One translated line can be dismissed, but not four or five. And we have three different releases to cross reference.

I don't quite get the confusion from some over what happened with the Ghosts. The ECM went up, and there was a close up of one of the Ghost's eye, with an electrical discharge sparking across its electronics. They then start careening into eachother. Seemed pretty obvious to me, these things got fried.

A Macross character cut their hair? Uh huh

There are more than a few Metal Siren fans on there boards.

Very Metal Siren, eh?

Biomechanical life forms, interesting.

Every weapon we've seen created by the Protoculture were either biological or biomechanical.

Hey, somebody make sure Graham doesn't stuff the ballot box for the VF-17.

As far as I know, the special itself is not out there.

Nothing like a Monster clomping along in downtown Frontier. I remember that shot from SDF Macross where the Monster fires up and starts to move. That first foot goes out and just smashes the deck beneath it.

1. 26 2. I thought Yamato, but someone was yacking about Bandai in a few posts. I don't know. 3. Axelay always reminded me of the Valkyrie trainer from DYRL

I've noticed that in alot of cases, not just Macross F. There seems to be some sort of assumption now that all anime male leads are full of angst and moody.

That's... interesting.

The problem is their subs we've seen streaming on that site are bad. You can't call the Gurren Brigade "Team Gurren" and not expect a big WTF.

Maybe I'm wrong, but for reason I don't recall the closing of the shell to be that big of an issue in M7. I dunno, maybe the animation for the dome closing isn't finished yet.

Money wasted on a dub, and their subs are already being shown to be garbage. This set looks more and more like something I will not be buying, and that's a shame.

Certainly a question many of us are wondering about. Watch it again, they warn everybody. Just about everything in the town has some sort of screen on it (or is a screen), and they all showed the warning to go to the shelters.

We don't know that they have a public building. They may very well keep quarters aboard Battle 25. And just because their existance is known doesn't mean the public knows what is going on with them. Their operations on board may very well be covert. And the average citizen might not care about their equipment, but Alto *clearly* does, and he was surprised.

I'm sorry, I was under the impression we were talking about Alto's state of mind, not mine. And we really don't know what roles Luca and Michael play. We don't actually know what they were being called for. Once again, the only thing that's clear is that Alto its frustrated with having to wait until he graduates to fly Valkyries. Anything outside of that is guess work at best, and fanfiction at worst.

No idea. I remember when I first heard about this 1995 thing, I took it to mean they were splitting off an alternate Macross timeline. I really not 100% sure on anything about it, really.

Again, huh? We don't know how Luca or Michael are involved with the SMS, and Alto doesn't seem to have any idea where those guys went off to. SMS is a private organization, who knows how covert their operations are. If Alto knew about them, he wouldn't have been shocked to see the VF-25. My impression is that Alto thinks he is ready to fly *now*, and that having to wait until he graduates is a waste of his talents.