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Was there a version of the VF-25 that used the wing hardpoints? I mean before the tornado pack, it would seem that the VF-25 would only have it's gunpod and the beam guns near the intakes (that were never used)

Also was there a reason that the VF-11 did not have any wing hardpoints? Was it intentional?

Emerald Force didn't get much love as well...

As for the VF-11C, What annoyed me is that it got blasted too often and then have the ejected canopy be caught and have the pilot's spiritia drained hehe

The Elgerzorene and Panzerzorene should have toy versions. But I guess there is no demand for it.

I think a problem with Mac7 was there were too many episodes... I guess there were too many filler episodes and too many times that Basara kept singing the same song over and over, however awesome his songs are. I mean it really started slow, and the story got going in the middle.

This is what I liked a lot about frontier, there was no monotony in the singing.

6 hours ago, SMS007 said:

Ohhhhhh! Big West is so scared!

Still not that big in the U.S.; I've never been to the Philippines but by virtue of being in eastern Asia, I bet anime is bigger in the Philippines than in the U.S.

Well we do dub our shows in our local language, although I still do prefer the ones with english subbed. It helps with my Japanese that has become obscure when I started working for non-japanese IT firms. Hahaha! It was surprising that on iFlix (which is the Asian version of Netflix), that when I started watching Tenjo Tenge it was dubbed in Tagalog. Hahahaha.

We do get our stuff from Crunchy Roll as well as Animax.

2 hours ago, SMS007 said:

My understanding of most anime franchises is that profits to be made from outside do not generally exceed those from in Japan. Why do you suppose Big West hasn’t done more against Harmony Gold over the years? Japan is the prime market, and they have that. Big West is missing out, but not by that much.

Oh come on! These Robotech Socks will bring Big West to its knees! Hehehehe!

I'm not from the US, but how big is Anime to the ordinary person over there? I think until now, it is still a Niche Market. I think the only thing the general public knows is like Dragonball or Pokemon. But I'm not sure.

The Manga and Anime industry in Japan though is big and even big time singers and composers are lending their songs or are making songs for anime movie or TV series.

The tweet got deleted though...

8 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Based on feedback from friends of mine in Japan, since I couldn't wrangle a trip over there to see it this year... whether the film is "Good" or "Bad" would be entirely contingent on whether or not you thought the TV series was good or bad because apparently in a break from Macross tradition the film is basically just a more compact version of the series that doesn't change much.

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What I've gleaned from conversations with my friends in Japan is:

• Mirage's role is greatly reduced vs. the TV series, and she has barely any dialog.
• King Grammier Neirich Windermere VI and Lady M are demoted to Sir Not Appearing in this Film
• There's a greater proportion of combat to singing than in the TV series.
• There's more of a fuss about Freyja being a Windermerean due to her ties to the hostile Kingdom of the Wind, which was almost an afterthought except to Bogue in the series.
• Messer dies in essentially the same way he did in the TV series, but instead of dying instantly after being shot by Keith he lives long enough to die in Kaname's arms after crashing in a more blatant echo of Roy's death in Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
• Roid kidnaps and mind controls Mikumo exactly as he did in the series.
• Makina takes a bullet and comes back for the big finale exactly as she did in the series.
• The Armored Siegfried has very little actual role in the movie.
• The ending is the same as the series, with Roid trying to enact his Delta System plan, being foiled by Freyja, and dying together with Keith, after which the Aerial Knights take their ball and go home just like they did in the series.

 

 

 

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Unfortunately I got a little confused in the last few minutes, my Japanese was good enough for most of the movie but not the last part.

But still, I am pretty sure that there is going to be a second movie and that it will have an almost completely original plot (with the same characters, of course).

 

10 hours ago, JIS said:

I just watched the movie a few hours ago. While my Japanese level is far from perfect I was able to understand most of the movie except an important little part in the last few minutes of the movie. 
I will try to avoid spoilers, so I can’t talk about several things. First, if you dislike too much Delta then the movie won’t change your mind. However, I can say that the movie is far superior to the anime. Maybe I was with very low expectations or maybe I am starting to lower my expectations of movies in general or maybe I was excited to see my first Macross movie in a theater; I’m not sure but I really enjoined most of the movie.
The anime had several good moments but it also had too many terrible (not just bad, terrible) moments. The plot was a mess and probably without the mechas and the Macross name we would stop watching the show. Well, the movie is super focused in what it worked in the anime and they stripped almost all the crap and non-sense (so they removed a lot of things). Of course, the idol stuff is there and there are problems with the plot and character development but it’s a better plot altogether and with way better pace.
It is great? I don’t think so but in my opinion is a better movie than most of us will expect from Delta.
Also, as always the mechas are awesome.

Note: the boobs of the girls increased their size a little. And why anime artists draw boobs as breast implants all the time? Yes, I know, big boobs in Japan means implants but still…

Note2: I received a Reina gift with my movie ticket.

Based on the movie you watched, will Delta have a second movie?

Kanchou (艦長) First Character Kan is Ship and Chou for Leader/Head, literally the Head of the Ship, it is not related to any military Rank I guess. I guess it  would be some sort of title of the one who leads the ship regardless or Rank. I think Max is the Fleet Admiral of Macross 7, if we take into consideration that Perry of Macross Frontier is an Admiral as well. Also Global is a Brigadier General (?) during the Original Series.

Any updates?

If the engines of the VF-19F and VF-19S have more powerful engines, what makes the YF-19 superior to both of the?  As far as I remember the VF-19E/F was supposed to match the original YF-19 performance, am I right?

Yoshi?

I guess the only other way that we could get a fresh take on the series is Macross the First, unfortunately the releases take a really long time. Is it on hiatus?

What are commercial Valkyries used for? Are they toned down and demilitarized versions of the older Valkyries? I mean there are Destroids used for work but for Valks, I really don't find a practical non military use for it. 

Like right now, let's assume that someone buys an old F-4 Phantom for personal use. What would he use it for?

Sometimes it makes me wonder how big are those micro missiles that you can fit 100 plus in a YF-29. Or 280 in an armored VF-25. How destructive is the power of these missiles and what is their range.

And why does the Chronos carry only 36?

SV-51 wasn't created by General Galaxy, General Galaxy was founded in 2017 

The YF-21/VF-22S has a single head turret

As for FZ-109, the F Variant has head turrets (and if you look at the VF-14 initially it had turrets, from the Macross 7 extra episode, although it's final design is the M3 game)

Elma Hoyly? Wow! How old is she by this time? I wonder how she looks like right now.

If that is the case, how would you rate Zentradi firepower against a Vajra Heavy Soldier? As far as I know while the GU-17A was effective against the mobile soldier, it was ineffective against the Heavy Soldier using their usual pre-MDE weaponry.

And how effective was MDE bullets against Vajra Armor?

Are a majority of Zentradi weapons energy based? I mean the guns that the Regult and the Glaug seem to be non-projectile in nature. I mean even the rifle that Alto Picked up during his exam was energy based as well.

On 11/23/2017 at 10:40 AM, Seto Kaiba said:

That wasn't the Birdhuman's first encounter with the Mayan islanders and their superstitions, so it may have known what to expect.  It was accidentally activated on a prior occasion, in which it halted its own program by separating its head from its body... an event that passed into islander myth.

This brings me to another question, was the Birdhuman failsafe only placed on earth? How about the other races the protoculture developed. I would have hoped that something like that would have been planted in Winderemere.

Was the "best children of the protoculture" asserted by every Winderemean? Or was it just Roid and the Royal Family?

Was was the population of the earth in 2012? I mean if you think of all the emigrant fleets that they have launched, numbering from 1 million for New Macross Classes and 10 million for Island Cluster Classes. Which brings me the following questions:

When they tried to implement cloning, did they try to accelerate the aging to accommodate all that people. For me it would be a bad idea since it's like putting a child in an adults body and sending him out in the far unknown. But then again, if they didn't there would be difficulty taking care of a whole lot of kids.

Did they do cloning on earth or was it done in the ships of the emigrant fleets?

Did they try to manipulate their genes so that there are variances so as there are not too many identical "Roy Fockers"? But is Aegis a 100% identical clone of Roy?

Latest Generation Valkyries have 360 degree view when in Battroid. Were there specs like cameras and sensors that allow them to have this feature?

How come the Zentradi survived while essentially being the shields of the protoculture race when the entire protoculture race was wiped out?

So which do you think had more success, General Galaxy or Shinsei Industries in the development of VFs?

I wonder what kind of hardware would a VF-24 that only has two engines have the same or even better performance than the YF-29 that has four?