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Now if anyone can give me evidence that Ohnogi really ACTUALLY did everything, or hell, ANYTHING he is credited/accused of in relation to this series, I'll rethink an change my position. I'm just thinking more and more, that we're going on bad information here.

Moving on from that. You make a lot of assumptions about how the plot WOULD have gone, with surprisingly little evidence, you have pretty much bought the idea that Sheryl came and her character was overpowering and shoved Ranka off to the sidelines due to one guy just not liking her. What I find much more likely is the idea that I beleive acutally has been in verifiable interviews which was that Ranka was a hard character to write effectively. The moe archetype has very few angles of development available to it, and that was a problem. The writers had effectively written the Ranka arc into a corner by episode 17.

I again, admit the anime itself shows several inconsistencies in tone, characterization and plotting. I still have the impression that early on she was supposed to have been the primary love interest, but considering that Kawamori likes his open endings (heavily documented), I doubt that Sheryl would have been doing nothing the whole series either. In either case there were failures aplenty in the scripting of this series, the LT is just one of them.

But even if you think that this is the work of someone in the staff other than Kawamori strong-arming their favorite character in, all evidence points to it NOT being Ohnogi, as he likely wasn't even involved.

I don't mean to raise pitchforks. This is the only source I found to support all this notion that Ohnogi worked on the second half and nowhere else. I looked more into it and I found that it also came from Macrossworld.

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p...;postcount=2122

^ That was the famitsu interview complete with episode commentaries from Kawamori. Would this mean the cited famitsu article was different from the one I just posted? There was no confirmation that the content was similar. Might shaloom be mistaking Ohnogi for someone like Yoshino?

I can atleast confirm and perhaps the others too that there was a cited magazine interview last year stating that Sheryl was supposed to have a small role as opposed to Ranka if it weren't for the fans. That is why they made the story into a battle between two rival singers. Minmeis so to say. That might be the reason why Ranka was shafted in the end to spare limelight on Sheryl. Two little queens ending. Personally, I didn't like the two Minmeis thing because Alto's character was shafted the MOST. I agree with Final Vegeta on that. How long did it take you to type all that rant? Good going on hating the writer. We don't hate the characters drawn on paper, we hate the human controlling them from behind.

That said, I thought it was a verified fact that he worked on the second half of the series...is even THAT under suspicion now...?

Unless there was an actual link to the source saying that Ohnogi did work on the second half then I guess it is. To add to Bobby's mysterious radio program, I also didn't find any news of Ohnogi joining the MacrossF staff and taking over. I'm just as confused as you are right now to be honest. I even made an account to get it off me just for the hell of it.

Hi all new poster. This thread plus Gubaba got my attention. Final Vegeta's hate towards Ohnogi was dramatic. Calm down man. The article "might" not even be true. Ohnogi might not even have written episodes 18-24. Unless someone has a stronger source saying otherwise. I'm ready to concede. Here's what I found. The complete list of staff who worked and were involved on Macross Frontier throughout all 25 episodes and everything about it. To back up Gubaba's claims. There are only 2 Macross Radio Programs and the one with Kenta Miyake ended long ago.

http://www.anime.marumegane.com/2008/macross_frontier.html

※第3,6話 作画監督補佐：大塚八愛　　※第10話 脚本協力：大野木寛／special thanks：MACROSS ZERO ALL STAFF

So far I've seen no traces of Ohnogi directing and working on episodes 18-24. The special mention of Ohnogi was due to the help he provided in episode 10 (Legend of Zero) regarding the script. He was the scriptwriter of Macross Zero as we all know. That is all.