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Aside from the hideous CG faces and Jun's anerix look with that ridiculus thin metal corset, I actually dig the new armored designs for this CG interpretation. The thin spandex cloth bodysuits and capes that were impervious to everything from machine gun fire to nuclear explosions only works within in the camp of the orgianal 60s cartoon. Personally I disagree quite a bit. While the original certainly got away with a high level of graphic violence at times I saw it as a great balancing act between the campiness, coolness, and ruthlessness. Which Imagi seems to be doing an okay job emulating, though it honestly looks ridiculous at times in CG. IMO what is really missing from the Imagi movie is the Turtle king. Both the original and the OVA opened with Galactor using their Turtle/dragon king Mecha to come and just steal plutonium from the ISO building to show the world they were an overwhelming force that even the UN armies couldn't stand a chance against. Imagi ininstead has Katse leading a squad of special forces in a quick smash and grab with every seeming intention of escaping in utilitarian hover troop transports before the UN sends in reinforcements.

I heard that Imagi was actually very close to finishing up with the film and that about a year ago they held test screenings, but reportedly the film still needed a lot of polishing at the time. With luck some one else will acquire Gatchaman from Imagi and release it on their own.

You can watch the Macross 7 Plus back stories any time really. They are just that back stories, they don't spoil anything for future episodes. As for the question mark my guess is that it was probably done to protect her identity at the time. In the off chance that Sivil and her hentai-ish screams of pleasure/pain led to an uproar from the parents of viewers the last thing you want is to be the name attached to Sivil in the credits if you have any plans of casting for future roles in daytime shows.

Calm down. I was making a seiyū joke. Physica may be gone, but later in the show his voice actor will return as that annoying furball Gavil, who will litterally be uttering "beautiful" in every other line.

Its certainly an appropriate time to play it. Not only is it the end of the episode following Ep. 16, but its the background music for the scene that closes Physica's charater arch after his death in you guessed it Ep. 16. I don't want to spoil all the details to for the new viewers, but I will say that in a later episode Exodore mentions after a particular battle that the Protodelvin that Basera and Mylene's singing worked becaused it touched their hearts and not their ears. Also if you notice the first thing Sivil said when she was released was "Spirita" before she flew off to the Macross 7 Fleet light years away. She isn't hearing the literal sound waves, but she is being affected by the emotional and spiritual energies created by his singing. I also have this feeling that the Protodeviln were an inspiration for the Angels of Evangelion which premiered a month after M7 ended. All signs point to the Evil series as being the next series of bio-weapon designed to eliminate and replace the Zentradi space fleets. As such they were designed to live and fight in space from the start. Personally I get the feeling that the mysterious man could have very well have been the boy's real father, just look at how the boy has the same dark hair as the other man. Its also very interesting how back in Ep. 14 Physica was telling Gamlin about how he believes a women would always be honest with the man they truly love or something. Then of course when his family photo is burnt up only his image remains perfectly intact, while his lying wife and possibly illegitimate child are completely burnt off in the hellish fire like the sinners they were. Also am I the only one that feeling that perhaps his wife ditched him because she got annoyed with him calling her "beautiful" with every other line?

Captain Kinryu is still there. Your just mistaking a future episode. At the same time Gigil is always annoyed by the Diamond Force VF-17 fighters getting in the way so maybe he ordered his goons to shoot to kill with regards to them. Also at the time Physica was a sitting duck just waiting to be shot at while he staring at his little music box. Come to think of it the way that Physcia was shot out of no where reminds me of how Roy was shot in SDF. Unlike SDF where Milia was busy fighting Max at the time, its open to speculation on weather it was Gigil or not who fired the shot. Not even even when she has to leave all the fun behind for work on Monday?

1. I guess I will have to upgrade to smell-o'vision, I didn't smell anything when I played this Encore. 2. Touching emotional drama in a Macross Love Triangle? You got to be kidding me. 3. Pleasurably stimulating? Oh yeah it would be if only they actually showed us viewers just what in the world Akiko was doing spending her weekend in a log cabin with two Pink Peckers!

I believe that without a doubt its a particle cannon. 1. The original and iconic Yamato Wave motion gun which the Macross creators were inspired by was a Particle cannon that relied on accelerated tachyon particles. 2. Macross Chronicles words the orignal Macross cannon as Which sounds like just another way of destribing a particle beam cannon with Macross terminology such as Super Dimensional energy. 3. Macross Chronicles description of the VF-27's beam cannon aka the mini-Macross cannon: Going by how the Battle Frontier cannon split open to reveal what seems to be its Particle Cannon accelerator rather then firing through the Four nozzles I would say that it seems the Macross Cannon is able to be fired in several ways depending on the situation. Considering that the Macross particle beam was fired for the first time in a curved trajectory in order to hit the two Zentradi scout ships its seems likely that the beam output if very modifiable with the right know how. Personally I always thought it was so that they can quickly and precisely aim the cannon with arm movements in robot mode rather then pivoting the whole ship just to aim a bow mounted cannon. In Frontier's case for instance the Vajra swarm was right in front of them and they were able to "sweep" the Macross beam from left to right in order to vaporize the whole swarm. What's more the Frontier was getting ready to fold right after eradicating the Vajra swarming. Why waste all that time and energy detaching, transforming, firing, transforming again, and then retaching to the Island your about to fold with when you can just fire the cannon as is. On the contray due to the effects of relativity particles or anything with mass will actually increase in mass the as they approach the speed of light. Also while a single high energy particle certainly doesn't have anywhere near the mass of a lead bullet. The macross cannon is firing countless high energy particles to form those huge destructive beams. The masses of all those countless particles add up to tremendous proportions. Just as the mass of all those bullets spewed out by Gatling guns equal much more recoil then a single shot rifle or gun of identical caliber.

Question: "I am the conspiracy theorist and even I don't see anything." Ever notice all those ADV logos on HG DVDs like Robotech, Macross, Southern Cross, Mosepeda, and Megazone 23? ADV and HG weren't exactly direct compeitors. Harmony Gold specializes in trading movies, shows, and real estate while ADV was a dubber and distributor of anime.

Even if HG lost there trademarks to Macross today Warner Bros would still have all the movie rights to Robotech which they purchased from HG 3 years ago. Just look at Fox's plan to keep remaking Fantastic Four so they can keep its movie rights to themselves and away from Disney. Of course we all know WB's pretty much screwed with zero Macross and Southern Cross rights from Big West in the first place. Come to think of it maybe WB never even got Mosepeda. I know that for the Speed Racer flick the Wachowski brothers had to go straight to Tatsunko for permission to use Mach Go Go Go and just ignored the US compay "Speed Racer Enterprise" that owns the rights to the original anime show in the US. In Robotech's case though I have yet to hear or see anything about WB ever dealing with Tatsunko directly.

Figures. Since I never really play ISOs on my PSP anyways and it turns pandora downgrade kits are only $25. I decided I will just upgrade to 5.55 through the MUF UMD I bought the other day. In the unlikely event that I need to have to play a PSP ISO in the future I can just get a pandora battery and Magic Memory Card to downgrade my PSP-1000.

Through the UMD?

Well...I haven't read it yet to be honest. If Macross 7 Trash isn't the manga that introduces Macross 11 and the FBA then which one does then?

True, but is it worth updating my PSP Firmware to 5.55 from 3.90 M33-3 just to play Macross Ultimate Frontier? I don't have a pandora battery so I have to plan my updates very carefully.

Yes, but I don't know what to say about seeing Hitler alive and well on City 7 as well

Unfortunately that is not how it happened at all poor girl grits her teeth and drops to her knees shaking. Though I will say your comment reminds of a verrry familiar scene involving another pretty green haired dame from another show... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egd9P6grQQA#t=12m49s I also have to add that I went to Momocon this last weekend. This years theme for this little known con was music and appropriately enough they played a few episodes of Macross 7 in the Anime Viewing room thanks to my input of course . I am upset they showed it on Sunday afternoon instead of following my recommendation to play it on Saturday Night though .

Simple M7 Trash's Macross 11 Fleet was explained to be an english speaking fleet with Fire Bomber American singing Fire Bomber songs in English right? Basera certainly doesn't sing in English either so its obvious that the English versions of Fire Bomber playing over the radio in Dynamite were performed by Fire Bomber America. Having the black market dealers listen to FBA songs that were ripped-off from the real Fire Bomber band also symbolizes just how corrupt they are.

They probably hoped to sell them outside of Japan to Englsih speaking anime fans since you-know-who didn't have a Macross trademark at the time. As for the use as background music in Dynamite 7 its the same reason they mentioned Macross 11 a few times in the Radio drama its just a simple tie-in to the Macross 7 Trash Manga.

Well unfortunately there isn't really anything practical action for Max to take. any possible tactic or evasive measure that could put the convoy out of harms away short of turning tail and running or an impenetrable pin point barrier that could cover the entire ship. As for the Space Vampire attacks the challenge is finding the enemy stowaways without scaring the civilians and resorting to extreme measures like martial law. Its easy to say that they could have easily found the Space Vampires if they rolled out the military to sweep every inch of the ship including every piece of private property without a warrant, but what message would that tell the innocent people on board Macross 7? Sure If M7 was run by Adama and President Roslin then the entire convoy would have been swept and all those frakin space vampires with their silly visors would have been tossed out the airlock by episode 5, but this is Max and Milia we are talking about. Having them resort to martial law to round up all the space vampires would be like having Batman kill criminals with head shots to the head. Conflict solved, but you just annihilated the character as well. Also look at how Leon's course of action to purge the Vajra infestion in Macross Frontier worked out. Using Flamethrowing Destroids to burn Vajra nests though scorched earth tactics didn't just elimate all the Vajra on board the ship, but it arguably upset the civilians way of life even more so then the actual battles with the Vajra did. I am surprised though that Milia having been an enemy spy aboard the SDF Macross and an ex-flight instructor herself hasn't helped the Macross 7 Police get in the mindset of an enemy infiltrator in order to better find and track them down. Unless of course her memories of finding clothes, two knives, money for video games, and learning japanese was just a blur due to her obsession with hunting Max down at the time.

Pure Poetic Justice. In Max's case as bright a tactical genius he came off as a very energetic and naive military recruit. First he treats his first battle like it was another game on the flight simulator video game then he daydreams about someday being a Captain. Of course Max's wish to be a captain has been granted at the cost of everything else. The "joys" of being Captain aren't all its cracked up to be when your bearing the responsibility for every life aboard the Macross 7 on your shoulders and you have no time to spend with your beloved wife. Milia on the other hand went from being a naive illegal alien (in more ways then one) and teen lover who couldn't even cook and promised stay by her husbands side forever into the ultimate politician and divorced mother. Which is very ironic considering that she always lost to the guy who was trained to fly through Video games.

My bad. I meant to type Lux as that is what my subs call the planet.

1. The planet was Lex not Rax 2. Come to think of it Michael does have very similar hair to that creepy girl chaser who chased the other symbol of peace in M7 Dynamite... Wait a minuate here is a thought... Some time after Dynamite Elma goes to Macross 7 to be a singer and run ins into the creepy Firebomber manager who is into "little girls" like her. Things happen... the manager turns out to be a functional hermaphite cuz its anime... and she gives birth to Jessica and Michael Blanc after moving to the Frontier to get as far away as possible from that crazy woman. Just look at Michael and Jessica's resemblance to the manager and Liz, Elma's older sister! Of course the fact that Michael is listed as being born in 2042 5 years before M7 Dynamite does leave a giant gaping hole to my theory though... but hey at least it shows us that if Michael is indeed part Zolan than Zola had to have been found at the latest 9 months prior to Michael's and most likely his older sister's birthday on 2042. Exactly! Unless of course its being sucked up by a giant transforming robot space ship with a vacuum cleaner!

Guild had even pointier ears as well and who isn't to say that Michael isn't 3/4th Zentraedi?