Graham

Haven't watched Code Geass myself and have no intention to. For all I know, it may be the most awesome anime in the history of anime, with a kick-ass story, the best music, most interesting characters etc, etc but what I do know is that it has what I personally consider to be really butt-ugly mecha, based on the all the pics I've seen in the hobby magazines. The mecha designs alone are enough to put me off even giving it a chance. Graham

Frontier has had one episode shown so far Code Geass has been on for quite a while already. Of course Code Geass will have more material available. Graham

Yes, the legs and arms can detach on the YF-21. No, you don't have to detach the legs (or arms) on the YF-21 to transform it. Detaching the arms, can make transforming from battroid back to fighter slightly easier under some circumstances though. For the record, I think referring to the YF-21 sans legs and arms as "delimiter mode" is incorrect. IMO, delimiter mode, is just Guld switching of the artificial limits in the flight control software that prevent the YF-21 from exceeding certain speed and G limits, which would otherwise be dangerous to the pilot. This is nothing to do with ejecting the arms and legs. Guld ejected the arms and leg stumps because they were too badly damaged and no longer any use and would have probably added excessive drag. And that fat legged VF-22 lineart only ever appeared in one issue of B-Club magazine IIRC. All other VF-22 line art published in mutiple art books has shown the VF-22 with idenical slim legs to the YF-21 (see pic below for normal legged VF-22 compared with YF-21). Graham

Chapter 4, page 36. That's the final page for this chapter. Graham

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Yeah, in the opening, tight before the shot of the 3 bridge bunnies IIRC. It's really quick though. Blink and you'll miss it. In fact, if another member hadn't mentioned it was there, I probably would have missed it too. As it was, I had to slow the opening down to quarter speed to catch it. Graham

Grabbed the pic with the Konig Monster. Graham

Actually, what the compendium says is: The way I read that is it doesn't definitevely say one way or another whether the VF-25 does or does not have passive (or active) stealth. It just says that Kawamori wanted to move away from the silhouettes (shape) of current real-world fighters that use passive stealth, such as the YF-22/F-22, YF-23, F-35 etc. I think it can be inferred though that passive stealth, e.g. stealth through shaping and RAM is out. However, there is still the possibility that the VF-25 may employ an active stealth system, like on the YF-19/21. At the moment, we just don't know until Kawamori choses to release full specs. Graham

Many VFs have had the holographic HUD ability, displaying info on the inside of the canopy. Ones that have been shown to have it IIRC are VF-1 (DYRL), VF-11B (M+), YF-19 (M+). Graham

Will try to get the last 7 pages done tonight. Sorry, got real busy the last few days. Actually, the next 2 pages are a double spread, so hopefully, somebody can edit them togther. Graham

Interesting. Those pics clearly show 3 hardpoints on the VF-25's wing. Graham

I think it was inevitable that the shorter broadcast verson would suffer in comparison to the longer Deculture version. Many of us have seen the Deculture version multiple time since last December (I've watched it close to 20 times now), so any cuts and changes are going to be very noticable. As others ahave mentioned I also agree that the pacing and editing felt off. But again, I think that this may be beacuse we are too used to the Deculture edition. One area where I think the broadcast version actually improved over the Deculture version is in the extra concert footage of Alto and gang's flight routine. In the Deculture version, it never seemed very clear what they were actually being hired to do. It looks like the TV series is going to follow the manga more closely. The main thing I didn't like about the broadcast version was that they cut the Ghost footage and some of the VF-171 batttle scenes. The Ghost footage, IMO really helped build up the tension and the feel that the enemy is a substantial threat to the fleet. Anyway, I'm not going to judge the series harshly just based on the first episode. I'm going to reserve judgement from the second episode onwards, when we start seeing what is virgin material. Graham

God, I hope not! I hated the football (soccer) playing character in Aquarian. Actually, I hated all the characters in Aquarian, espcially the beast boy who went around on all fours. So far Frontier seems to have likeable characters that I can connect with. Graham

Chapter 4, page 29. That's all for now. Will get the last 7 pages scanned in tomorrow. Graham

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7 more pages scanned in. Here's page 23 of chaper 4. Graham