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Wow! I actually never noticed Ranka there! So its actually Gumi, not Ranka that is playing with Alto.

Well there can always be an exception to the rule. As for Michaels ears IMO they just seem like a bigger, pointy, and more masculine version of the Meltrandi elf ears. Also just like the Zentradi elf ears the ends of his ears stay close to the side of the head as evident by his frontal shots by comparison the Zolan elf ears are spread out at an almost 90 degree angle and no where near their head in frontal shots. If anyone in Macross Frontier has ears similar to the Zolans IMO its actually Klan Klan and her Pixie Squad with their pointy ears that really stick out from their heads and make them look like actual Pixies.

And cuz Basera is on the other side of the photo of course. Also of note is Ranka's outfit from the Vocaloid Gumi, who was voiced by Megumi Nakajima voice as well.

Considering we have Lawrence who is applying for the same University as Dr. Chiba and a poacher continuing the family business his father started it seems that the UN Spacy as settled on Zola for quite some time. Not as long as Eden, but considering that Dynamite is 35 years after UN started their Emigration its plenty of time for Zolan to become a part of the UN. While Zolan may be on the very far edge of the Galaxy, its very likely on our corner of the Galaxy not to far past Eden. Also speaking of the poacher I am beginning to think that he may be half human/Zolan himself. He looks completely human except for his green mohawk among his brown hair and thus far the Zolans have been the only ones depicted with two different colors for their hair.

I quess I will have to watch my posts then cause I don't want to nuke Space Whales. Instead I want to turn the Macross 7 into a MegaRoad Maid and suck them and all their spritia up! Mwah ha ha ha ha haaa! Then I will be able to use their carcasses to make faster fold drives so I can upgrade the SDF 1, I need it to reach ludicrous speed and go plaid if its going to catch up with the Space Ball 1!

I just watched M7 Dyantimite not too long ago and in my subs she said: "Even if you stay on Zola and marry me we can't have a child. "Because... Your not a marsupial." Which makes much more sense. The OVA clearly shows us that the Zola are culturally the same, but they don't dive into how marsupials biology things is quite different... I will just say that: due to the extra pouch in the females marsupial males need a double barreled wave gun... So there is just no way Zomeo and Zuilet could conceive a child without resorting to artificial insemination. If things were reversed though and the couple was a male Zola and a Female human/Zentradi couple then they might be able to possibly conceive a child though. Which we can't really go on as not only has Elma not even reached puberty yet, but most marsupials only have pouches that only open up for breeding season. Marsupials with "true" pouches that are always open and exposed like the Kangaroos everyone things of are the exception not the rule for marsupials. I thought Michael Blanc was just half Zentradi no different then any of Max and Milia's seven daughters and the Michael in M7 who was Milia's bodyguard was a just a huge guy, but I definitely see the possibility of Zentradi heritage there. Which Michael are you talking about though and where is he described as being unique.

I saw this image recently and knew I just had to post this. Also must say having just finished watching M7 Dynamite 20 mins ago I am LMAO over your new rank Gubba .

Its not a leftover cell from Macross Plus by a long shot. An OVA quality drawn cell of Guild would have stood out like a sore thumb in Macross 7. Just like the DYRL flashbacks its a case of familiar artwork from another Macross being redrawn to match the show. In this case its an angry truck driver drawn as an intentional copy of Guild with his familiar roid rage.

He died in Macross Plus. Its got to be a Zentradi look-a-like.

That is ridiculous how is the used copy worth about twice as much as a new copy. Then again maybe the new editions are worth less because they were published with more BS from Wikipedia? On that note are their any books for that other series? I am curious if its too late to edit its wiki before it gets published into a book.

Where do you get that figure? Amazon tells me its only $55.82 with Super Free Shipping.

Funny you should say that. The Macross Police apparently learned that lesson with Isamu on Eden. Typewriter soundeffects were also used In MDYRL as well when Misa was typing out the translation to the Protoculture Love song on her Computer terminal. That is not quite how things went according to my Fansubs, which were done by Xeros. Here is the copied dialogue from my fansubs: At the Kidnapping briefing: Guy: And now, Kareda Scarlmg, 29 years old. He was driving alone late at\nnight when he was kidnapped. The car he was driving was found\nabandoned in the service area. In just the past week alone, the number\nof missing people has climbed to over 20. Our only conclusion so far is that they were kidnapped. Max: An awful lot of people... Guy: Ruling out abduction for profit, I believe it's more likely an act of the enemy. Max: If that's so, this action clearly differs from the enemy's previous patterns... Exedore: Could they be stealing the people themselves ? Guy: I'm not sure if this is merely coincidence, but Gina Brittman, of Macross 7's Section C and Frederick Baum, Section E, are also missing. Max: Aside from those two, are there any similarities to the other abductees ? Guy: No, not one. Miria: Anyway, all we can do is form a special operations team to look for them. Then later on the Bridge... Sally White Haired Bridge Bunny: Captain Max, the number of missing people has increased by one! Robert Moraise, working in Fold Section B. Max: Fold ? While on duty ? Miho (Brown Haired Bridge Bunny): No. During his break. Exedore: I wonder if they plan to interfere in the gentle lives of the people of Macross 7. Max: It'd be better if they kidnapped me instead. Also have listening to the Japanese Dub Sally and Max clearly say "Fold-O" while discussing Robert disappearnce on the bridge. I certainly feel like the "Genius" Max and Exedore have lost their edge sitting around on the Battle 7 bridge. I mean its obvious that the enemy is obviously after the Fold system after kidnapping three Fold operators in row. I would have thought it would have occured to Max "Wait a sec sure this guy was kidnapped during his break, but my own daughter was kidnapped while she took a bathroom break this has got to be more then just a coincidence." I think it could be a difference in PR. After finding out the truth about Milli Vanilli listeners simply felt betrayed not just at the producers, but at the real singers who agreed to go along with the whole charade in the first place. With regards to Sharon I bet the UN Spacey convinced the public that Sharon was a victim as well and that the whole incident was really Marge's fault after he hacked into her. Besides every who was there to see Sharon hypontize Marge into jumping off the Macross to his death was a trace. It would have been easy to sell a story that as a computer AI Sharon was simply being used by Marge until Isamu blew up the Sharon box and that in the resulting explosion Marge, the evil puppeteer of Sharon, was thrown out the maross bridge and fell to his death. I mean we already saw the UN Spacey cover up the truth about the Megaroad's disappearance for years in order to keep colonization going so of course the UN Spacey would have no probelm covering up the truth about Sharon turning evil on her own in order to make a remake of the most expensive vocalioid ever still sell music albums.

I would be willing to bet that Grace or one of her cybernetic cronies took a lesson from Sharon and hacked the entire Earth Defense. Grace's Fold Network plan was in the works for years and I wouldn't be surprise if she used the Sheryl Concert tours as a way to plant viruses and/or spies in advance for the for the planned invasion with the Vajra. With a single cyborg crony upgraded with a fold quatz implants per fleet/colony I imagine it would be a simple task for Grace to hack into and shut down each UN Spacey Defense network by proxy.

Well in our world launching a Navy fleets and cruise liners wouldn't serve any purpose TODAY, but back in the 1800s up to the the early 1900s most of Europe was profiting greatly from colonizing and blundering what are now third world countries. In the Macross universe on the other hand there is an entire galaxy's worth of planets and asteroids to colonize and plunder. Whats more with sentient natives like the Zola being few and far between the UN Spacey has never really had to face the moral dilemna of encrouching on native lands to meet their colonizing and/or plundering needs for their Emigration strategy. Innumerable territories to colonize and resources to plunder with little or none of the ethical issues that plague our world's colonistis all within the grasp of a Space Fairing culture that was nearly wiped out by a gigantic fleet of 500 millions would be too appetizing not to take advantage of IMO. Just as the US Army's Patriot missile systems can never successfully hit every ballistic missile at Mach 6+ its understandable that automated satelite laser cannons would miss a few Satelites debris and Valks that drop in like meteors. Whats more the VF-19 and VF-22 were build as the answer to the UN's request to do just that: slip in past enemy defenses and then surgically strike the enemy center. In this case the enemy defense line to slip through was UN Spacey's own Defense grid and the enemy center was the Sharon Apple box at the core of the SDF, never the less the UN got exactly what it asked for and needed at the time of the Sharon incident: a Valk that could slip in and strike hard and fast like a "Super Nova." I have to argue that its also been shown time and time again in Macross that its very easy to find that a needle in the gigantic haystack of space if you happen to be able to detect the right energy or signal. - In M0 the Cyclops system made with OverTech detected an alien energy signature that was very similiar to energy signature found on the ASS1, leading the UN forces to excavate the AIFOs/Birdhuman body near the Mayan Islands according to Aeries breifing. - The Zetetradi tracked the ASS1 to Earth through Fold and knew it never folded out of the Solar System due to the absence of fold faults in the first episode of SDF. - In DYRL part of the Atlantian city rose to the surface after it detected the Zentradi fleet surrounding the earth according to Misa. - In M+ Isamu turns the flight systems of the VF-19 off and drops in like a meteor while Guild instead boxes his Battloid up in a giant square Satelite, to use as a Faraday cage I assume, because Space debris never manuever on their own or give off detectable energy signals. - Pre-M7 An expectation to the icy caves holding the dormant Evil series/Protodevlin was carried out to investigate faint and unknown energy readings that the UN detected and proposed to be protoculture ruins. - In M7 Gamlin and crew fly with AWACS sensors to look for Fold Faults in one instance to search for the separated Macross 7 until Chibi develops a system that can detect Basera's song energy through the Fold System. - Also in M7 its revealed that their is a Galaxy Network for long distance communications and later in Frontier its shown to be a galatic internet network. I am assuming there must be nodes dropped behind by on route fleets to bridge the distance gaps and route data traffic through the networks. I would also bet that any fold capable race close enough should be able to detect and follow the Galaxy Networks internet traffic through faint fold faults unless the UN Spacey upgraded them all with Vajra Crystal cores. Now the ASS1 was originally built by Protoculture so it would be surprise if Earth's location was in the Navigational database. Since there were no crew members and the ship was on auto-pilot my guess is it was programed to last ditch kamikaze run if the Supervision's autofiring booby trap program is anything to go by. Its obvious that the Protoculture only bothered seeding and settling the occisional habitable Earth-like planets that dot the Galaxy instead of spending the time and resources to terraform every single planet into an Earth-like environment just like the UN SPacey's current Emigration strategy. So if the Old ASS1 was headed for the nearest Protoculture locale in its Database it would have no reason to crash on any other barren planet or moon in our solar system as they all seemed to be ignored by the protorculture. As for Security by obscurity I don't think that isn't practical for a society that regularly uses gigantic colony ships that periodically fold, a wireless galactic fold internet network for communications, and song entertainment all of which are probably easily detectable and trackable to any race with super dimensional radar technology like Macross Zero's Cyclops system, an apparent prequisite to fold travel. In other words any nearby fold traveling race could easily follow the trail of a UN Spacey Emmigation fleet unless the UN SPacey turns into the most oppressive dictatorship ever and takes drastic measures to ban all the fold drives, the internet, and music.

Well outside of Japan the English dubbing VA and Producers have a much more obvious presence to the fans of English dubs and they are also much more accessible then their Japanese counterparts. And its the case with any entertainment venue that the performers that are seen and/or heard get all the attention and credit. There is also a lot of real creativity and talent involved. Voice Acting and rewriting the scripts for re-dubbing anime into another language are by far the hardest and most tedious jobs audio wise in the animation business. Japanese can't literally be translated into English or any other language word for word and then be magically spoken to exactly match the original Japanese lip movements. Hence countless creative decisions have to be made on how to rewrite dub scripts that matches the lip movements in the new language while trying to keep the original intent as close to the original as possible. All while fans complain that the sub and dub tracks don't match word for word. For the performers this also means that have to deliver their lines in sync with the original animation on top of acting in character. Its no mere coincidence that a number of English and Japanese VAs have musical talent as before audio software made syncing and re-timing audio convenient it was vital to have a great sense of rhythm in order to deliver lines to the timed animation. On top of that the Anime dubbing industry in America also get paid the least and have the fewest job offers. By comparison in Japan the dubbing industry flourishs not only on all the anime titles that need dubbing, but all the big Hollywood films that get localized for Japan. Take Akira Kamiya for instance, he has no doubt made much more money as the Japanese voice of James Bond for the last 15 years, then he has as the voice of Roy Rocker for the last 28 years.

Yeah, ANN mentioned that in their article about Macross being streamed on Hulu. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-...ish-dub-on-hulu

Unlikely survival? Nah it was all planned. Arnold Schwarzenegger got the Greys to rig his election as governor years ago, this time the governator just pulled a few favors with his old Zentrai gym buddies so they would "miss" California. http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/im...ealien.htm?rd=1

Due to your avatar as the cute girl with glasses, you were stuck in sickbay with hallucinations/coma just like Laura Roslin/Nanase during the final battle.

No surprise here, but that horrible Akira dub that you guys are refereing to was a Carl Macek dub, and Cam Clarke of course was an choice to cast cause his previous work with Macek as Max and Yellow Belmount in Robotech. Pete, if Macross Frontier was really kiddie porn then their is no way in hell that the devout Catholics, brothers Dan and Frank Carney, that founded Pizza Hut would ever allow their company to advertise Frontier all over Japan. You see Pizza Hut has always been faithful to its Catholic values, like the Vatican law of 12 years of age for sexual consent...

That is hiliarous. Cause honest to God, I have yet to see that movie. I was just making a joke about how I accidently typed "A" instead of the "S" in "Taksraven", but now I must see this movie. Such is the beauty of sexual dreaming.

He is this demon from Australia, like a Tasmanian devil , that takes the form of a giant grinning teddy bear. To summon him I had to do this long tedious sacrificial ritual and then press that little "A" key to the left of "S" on my keyboard.

I will anyway cause both of you NERDS' podcasts "contain foul language, filthy dirty lies, and should not be listened to by human beings, or taken orally."

Interesting choice since the DoL obviously seem to worship Leonard like Hitler. I have to disagree completely though, Leonard strikes me much more as a losing Churchill, with no allied enforcements to help him repel against the overwhelming invaders who wouldn't take appeasement as an answer. Its not about being rational its just that as a big jerk/@$$hole Leonard is just so much more appealing then the "nice guy" Rolf Emerson. Just ask Takaraven why Joe was so much cooler then Ken in Gatchaman or ask any women why they dated a jerk. Consider taking a break from Doug Bendo's and Collection DX's nerdy Podcasts and listen to reruns of Tom Leksy, a big fat Leonard look-alike, for a change.

The Sharon Apple box looks alikes. If you think they look anything like the Holographic Sharon Apple Idol then you need to get your eyes checked. As Keith warned watching Robotech on Hulu can lead to ocular herpes. Well on his myspace page Doug Bendo does show off his Garland toy which is sold on Robotech.com. I wouldn't be surprised if he a half dozen Macross toys though. He has said several times that he has imported and played a number of Macross video games from Japan and that he helped make the Macross/Gundam Mod for Command and Conquer Generals. Flawless logic, except that most of the local LA girls that HG would hire can never breast feed due to complications from plastic surgery. Witchblade was an alright show, but it wasn't a must watch show in my book. I will also be the first to admit though that if I never saw the sexy ads I would have never have even bothered watching it in the first place. That is so easy. THE END.

My favorite was when the consulting director himself said: " I just love how those missiles, I just love how they were animated." Then he Imiates the iconic Itano circus swirl with his fingers, but they instead insert Mosepeda footage of a missile scene that had zero itano circus movements. And we all know how their is only one thing that speaks louder then missiles. That reminds me isn't it telling how there is a handful of fans on both sides Robotech and Original series that cosplay as "X" person/mecha seen in the original 85, but there is yet to be seen even a single RTSC cosplay. I mean there are a few floating Sharon Apple and Seele boxes cosplays floating around, but its funny how no one in the Robotech fandom, which is supposedly bigger and better then Macross's or Evangelion's ever was, has yet to produce a simple "floating torso in a cape" cosply in what over 3 years since the Haydonites were shown to fans through RTSC trailers. It is a blessing though that HG hasn't decided to screw their family friendly image and hire booth babes to cosplay as the RTSC girls. Just look at how Funimation's had huge success selling the mediocre Witchblade and Dragonnaut series to American fans solely by marketing T&A for the series, heck Witchblade became the best selling anime in America for 2008 from what I heard.