Graham

Quite happy with the quality of the Gattai subs for ep 4. They seem to be getting better with each episode. Graham

Too early to decide on a favorite character. Need to see more. I'm liking them all so far. Graham

I'm currently using VLC player for the Anime In Action version and CCCP's Media Player Classic to watch the Gattai versions. Graham

Yep, the rotatating radar dish is monted on the dorsal surface of the fighter/back of the battroid. The ELINT fin is mounted on the ventral surface of the fighter/left arm of the battroid. This is much more practical IMO than having the ELINT gear mounted on the FAST packs ala the VE-1 and means that the RVF-25 does not lose any of it's ELINT capability in an atmosphere, when it is not using Super Packs. Graham

Kresphy sometimes posts scans of the new Newtype issue several days before they hit the street. Graham

Being mostly a leg and breast man, I have no idea about .ass files. What am I supoosed to do with them? Do I just drag and drop them into the .mkv file? Graham

I really don't like the 00 style of character design, or the characters themselves. Heck, there's a whole list of things I didn't like about 00 (pretty much everyting, but especially the character design/behavior & the mecha designs and fight choreography (so boring compared with Frontier). But any way, this is a Frontier thread, so enough about 00. Graham

Oh OK, I get you, the name of the VF-25. I watched the first 5 eps of 00 fansubbed, but then gave up. There was absoutely nothing I liked about the show, well, except for my namesake character. Graham

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. What name? Graham

Looks like the new issue of Shonen Ace, which I haven't had time to look for yet has a Frontier Cover. Graham

MisaForever now officially has the best Avatar on Macrossworld. Graham

Heh, I'm the opposite. I loved the dressing room scene and I though those girls were all really cute (where's the drooling icon when you need it). Graham

Action junkies be prepared for some possible cold turkey. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a feeling based on the next episode preview shown at the end of episode 4 and also the manga that the next 1 or possibly 2 episodes are mostly going to be character driven with little to no action. This is just my guess and I hope I'm wrong though. Graham

Hear, Hear! I second that. Graham

Good, point, I hadn't considered a long recharge time. I'll have to study the raw again and see if she fires the shoulder cannon earlier in the battle or not. I don't think so though. I think she was just using the arm guns or maybe the chest guns previously. I guess there is the possibility she was startled by the lack of effect of the shot, but as I posted earlier, you would have thought that SMS would have had an after action report on the previous few days battles with the Vajra and they would have learned from Mikhail's mistake of assuming a single head shot would put down the red Vajra, and made it standard operating procedure to target the red Vajra with multiple high-powered shots. Oh, and I'm the only one to wonder why Klan and only Klan was carrying live ordnance (at least in her missile launchers and shoulder cannon) during a training battle? I didn't get the feeling that the Vajra countermeasures were like a forcefield. To me, they looked more like an organic writhing mass of tenticles. Graham

Have to watch the raw again, but I thought it was Mikhail, who asked for the "Long Range Pack". I take the long range pack to mean the standard Super Pack, with the addition of the sniper rifle, i.e for long range fire, instead of the standard gun pod. I think the ELINT gear is standard on Luca's RVF-25 and it is also fitted with normal Super Packs in the episodes we have seen so far. Graham

Fantastic 4th episode. Some good character development and great action. Lots of fan service (which is nice to have ocasionally), but nothing too extreme. Alto was damn lucky that the Zentradi cannon still worked after so long floating in space. I wonder why Klan only fired her shoulder cannon point blank at the red bug one time. You would have thought she would have learned from Mikhail, that one shot is not often enough. If she had fired a quick second follow up shot immediately after the first she would probably have taken out the red bug. Years ago when I went through the Glock instructors course, we were tought to keep shooting until the target is down. if you just shoot once and stop to observe the result of your shot, there is a high chance that you will end up injured or dead if your opponent is still capable of returing fire. far better to keep on firing until the opponent is no longer a threat. Hopefully, SMS will learn from these two incidents and keep shoot the red Vajra more even if at first they appear dead. My one nitpick with the episode is that I don't think Bobby had nearly enough time to do such a a skillful a make up job on Alto. I wish my wife was that quick with her make up! And I don't understand why some of the male MWers here are complaining about the big breasts in this episode? Are you men? Graham

From the March 08 Hobby Japan magazine article (see attcahed), I seem to recall they were called Q-Rau Lamda, or something like that. Perhaps somebody can translate again. Graham

What is this "rap" you speak of? Don't you know that the only types of music that really exist are rock, progressive rock, heavy metal and Macross music (and some 80s' pop). Anything else only exists as a mass group delusion, sort of like any Alien movie after Aliens, or any Highlander movie after the first one! Graham

Eh, still means nothing to me. I guess it's a Chinese name? What's the connection with Macross Frontier? Graham

Shonen Ace is usually released on the 25th or 26th of each month. I'm going to see if I can find it in the shops here tomorrow. Graham

(Also posted in the Frontier news thread) Well, I just picked up the new June 08 issues of both Hobby Japan magazine and Dengeki Hobby magazine (out today) and there is absolutely no new news on the Bandai Macross Frontier toys and models. The last time any new photos were shown was back in March at Wonder Festival & Tokyo Anime Fair. I was hoping Bandai would have a product update by now. The only Frontier news in the magazine is some info about the Frontier DVD/BR-disc and small pictures of Luca and Mikhail's battroids, of which larger pics are on the official Frontier site now anyway. Graham

Well, I just picked up the new June 08 issues of both Hobby Japan magazine and Dengeki Hobby magazine (out today) and there is absolutely no new news on the Bandai Macross Frontier toys and models. The last time any new photos were shown was back in March at Wonder Festival & Tokyo Anime Fair. I was hoping Bandai would have a product update by now. The only Frontier news in the magazine is some info about the Frontier DVD/BR-disc and small pictures of Luca and Mikhail's battroids, of which larger pics are on the official site now anyway. Graham

Not sure if Luca's RVF-25 has head lasers or not. Those things on the head look too thin and may just be specialist comms antennas. Graham

According to the new pics on the official site, Luca's RVF-25 has a standard gunpod and of course should also have the inbuilt hip/wing root beam guns. I'm wondering where the ventral Elint fin goes when in battrooid mode.