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    I dono, a couple listens and I'm hooked, especially that "Todoke!" part.
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    My main argument is the huge disparity in head proportion between the two.
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    It's way different than a Quarter, though.
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    Is it maybe an updated Global class? It's definitely bigger than a quarter. I wonder if Ragna is a pretty old colony/far away colony.
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    I'm pretty sure those were disguises, not Walkure sans-makeup, if you will.
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    There are numbers for the Amazon orders so far out there. Early results are pretty good...but not quite Frontier (which would be very hard to beat)
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    I haven't been able to watch a sub yet, couldn't be up all night Was that the GG sub? I dono why they'd not go for the pun-y and literal translation of "Seacat" except to troll a bit. I've found the characters to be pretty interesting so far. With the large number of them it's pretty early in the show to have a deep grasp on them. They simply aren't going to reveal everything in the first two episodes anyway. Maybe lots of them will be undeveloped maybe not. I think people tend to compare finished series, where all things are known and experienced, to stuff that's currently airing without considering the gap in knowledge. There could be a ton of foreshadowing that is unrecognizable except in hindsight ect.
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    Oh yeah. It's even got the lettering down the port side
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    I thought it was a quarter? But it looks like it might be a bit bigger, dunno.
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    Hayate/Mirage = Max/Millia the OP confirms so hard . We're all getting faked out and they aren't even a real triangle. Also I really liked the ED. One of my main worries about the show was that the music wouldn't mesh with me, I mean...Yokko Kanno is a really tough act to follow!
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    Recent Gundam stuff has been subtitled AFAIK, maybe it's a Satellite thing?
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    wooops
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    You guys are nuts if you think this show isn't going to be serious and play its setting straight. Even M7, the previous pariah for the grity-type Macross fan, doesn't forget its universe is serious and has consequences it had character growth and serious themes. I say this as a person who does think the power of music kinda got a bit to sci-fi-magical and out of hand in some ways. If Delta is tripping you in ways 7, Zero, or even Frontier didn't...I think you're in denial about what you've really liked about the series. SDFM's run started from (and maintained) a pretty lighthearted and silly place compared to its mecha/space opera contemporaries and I think it managed to have more depth of character than most of them. Frankly I've found some of the shows that use silly premises and settings to be some of the more serious emotional shows I've seen. Mawaru Penguidrum comes to mind, totally ridiculous, but really damn serious too. Or, perhaps with more in common to Macross, Martian Successor Nadessico (which I've mostly felt is Macross's closest cousin, rather than Gundam). There is no reason to believe Delta doesn't fall in line with that concept. Nearly all Kawamori shows do to some extent. It's been one episode - a city/place is getting attacked, some dude gets in a VF and tries to save the day to some degree. This is par for the course in all of the Macross TV shows so far.
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    I used to be in on Cyborg Mikumo...but now I'm pretty sure she's a protodelvin.
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    For the idols jumping around and stuff It may be somewhat silly but it's not at all a massive leap past things we've seen previously: Lets say to treat the Var syndrome they find it more effective to have both proximity a visual aspect. We've got the holodancers and drone thingies and spectacle. Given that, there's probably some effectiveness in having the singers be visible as people too. It makes it more authentic to the obervers? Who knows it's spirita/foldquartz scifi. Sure, you can't just plop down some idols to sing (even if they're highly trained, like these seem to be...I welcome a Freyja-at-boot-camp episode) in the middle of the gunfire. But we've got fold-wave-singing amplification and the precedent of flying non-combatant idol singers into combat before with Frontier (and 7 but in a different way). But we know Ex-Gear were/are capable of largely similar mobility to what we saw with Walkure. They're fast, they're strong, they're durable. So if you mush the holograms and ex-gear type technology into the idol-fighting suit and add in some fancy pin-point barrier shielding drones, there you go! Besides that, not every Var outbreak is necessarily going to be a mecha fight. What if more like an active shooter situation in a mall or something, against people only on foot? You don't want to come and just smash things up with a Valk - you need a proportionate response. If you get all the way past the previous iterations with your suspension of disbelief intact, I don't see any reason for it to break here.
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    Mirage is clearly going to be a bit too serious overall and I'm sure that she's going to get some opportunity to loosen up over the series. Singing with Freyja, where the talented VA is probably disired. Also dancing with Hayate ect. I'm guessing, though, they're also setting up the hard work vs. innate talent conflict between her and Hayate (and it'll also conflict with her family, who've been notable piloting prodigies). Clearly her thing is going to be that she's too serious/strict for her own good. Got a bit too much Milia in her! I really like that one of the main girls is a pilot. I hope the plot doesn't cause her to end up incompetent/damsel-in-distressed much. It'd be nice to have her end up the real ace pilot out of the main/younger group of characters Alternatively, it could be that the older, more mature, one typically wins.
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    Ya gotta have the "main" character get in a Valk and save the day and screw something up by the end of the first episode! Overall I think the episode worked better here. And I'll take Hayate's funky valk dancing over that drone recharging bit any day.
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    Well they did redo japanese donuts? I think the dialog was toughed up a lot but maybe I'm miss-remembering I've got hype for #2!
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    Logically, if the Protoculture was concerned with their dwindling numbers and wanted to increase genetic diversity in order to perpetuate their culture/society I don't think the term "breeding stock" really makes sense. Wouldn't you want the engineered individuals to be part of society then? Or are you going to like kidnap some of them and forcibly breed proto/engineered pairs and then keep the kids in civilization? That's a pretty ethically fraught route. The term would make more sense if they were trying to make more biological "tools" like Zentradi.
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    Sure, but those don't feature 16 year olds as active duty military pilots of all things! I think the west tends to be a bit less improbable as far as that goes. Harry Potter is about kids at a school, after all. Not kid wizards already employed by the Ministry of Magic. I would definitely include "sub-18 year-olds operating military vehicles as a part of the military, and not in a child-soldier kind of way" as an anime trope. It's long-winded but it's a thing, for sure. In SDFM it's one thing, being all-out-war. But the kids in Frontier being SMS combat pilots...it's a stretch. (I don't particularly mind the trope, just saying it's certainly more prevalent in anime)
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    How, exactly, are these pure Zentradi forces integrated into NUNS/Galactic civilization? I haven't ever really understood how the organization works with separate Zent forces. It's possible that this group and Zents, operating toward the fringe of the galaxy, just isn't that well equipped. They've need to make due. Alternatively, there's still a substantial number of un-cultured Zent out there? The galaxy is huge, it's only been 50 some years. These guys might be "fresh" they would have old equipment and get it upgraded as they get assimilated. NUNS would be nuts to not have some kind of Zentradi assimilation protocol for when they bump into a new group.
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    Sure...but they're also a century past those artists and, more importantly, beyond a huge upheaval that made them matter even less. Especially compared to an Idol that kinda saved humanity! Ya gotta wonder how much of that stuff was actually saved from destruction aboard the Macross, right? Sure, it wouldn't be surprising for a substantial amount of really popular music to be saved simply by coincidence of it being on some dude's harddrive as an MP3, so I give that a bit of a pass. But the cultural destruction of the bombardment would have been astonishing. It would have very nearly been a complete reset on popular culture. This brings up my pet peeve about Frontier and Delta's props/setting design: Why are folks in migrant fleets and colony planets flying around in Blackhawks and driving Priuses? This especially goes for a a world where the Earth was almost entirely annihilated so even a "classic" car guy would be SOL. And also the military is way beyond the level of a helicopter. This is especially because + and 7 was pretty much all "fresh". I know the answer is probably "it's easy to find a computer model for those" (and I bet someone's come up with a proper, in-fiction, explanation for justification after the fact). It's too bad that GC sort of encourages this kind of thing, because I'm really not opposed to it in general. It just really grates on me because it breaks even the fluid idea of continuity that Macross has.
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    I guess I'm not super up to date on the IP exactly, but would it be crazy to think they'd work out something Cunchy or Funi or something for subbed streaming? And that's why they've un-region-locked it for hype-building? I dono how much money the streaming sites bring in, but maybe, given Frontier's domestic success and the seemingly thriving anime market in the US, someone's finally trying to poke the issue (which seems, from my fairly limited reading of things, to be a pretty easy case against HG, as long as you're willing to go to court). Another theory is that HG would have a very hard time trying to DCMA an international site that provided an english subbed stream, even if it weren't region locked.
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    All the girls have the glow but none of them have the hair like Mikumo does. Even discounting that she's clearly somewhat different from the rest of the girls in combat capability. My money is on Grace-style cyborg - the fingernail communicator, the blade-hair (all of the other characters have "normal" hair except Windermere folks but they all appear consistent within that group), taking the missile hit and extricating herself from the rubble. And then you've got the enigmatic character profile. On top of what we've seen. Even if she isn't a cyborg, she's clearly got something extra from someplace.
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    Man, even when I was ten or whatever, watching the early-00's Toonami run, I remember being like "WAAAAAAAT?!" at that. I guess they basically felt like they needed to in order to set up the next bits? They needed protoculture to be the energy source for the Mospeada bits, I guess? God I remember how confused we all were when Robotech swapped shows. Funny after the SDFM section was done I thought the Southern Cross bits were dumb so I gave it up. The protoculture inconsistency wouldn't have even mattered...Did that run even end up getting to Mospeada?
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