MastaEgg

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http://yuba.homeip.net/m/nicky.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/macroswing1

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http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/megaroad3/english.html

Hoe Hoe Hoe! Merry Christmas Sheryl!

I think you're taking it a bit too seriously there. The fact is that back when the comic book was done there wasn't really a fine line of what was Robotech and what was Macross. People that were Robotech fans became Macross fans and saw new designs that weren't in the series. The fine line between wasn't drawn until HG started claiming everything that was Macross as their property and that's when the fans started taking sides. I dont believe that HG ever took part on what the artists and comic book companies put in their pages, or were even interested. And as far as look, I prefer the manga look also, but it's just a subjective opinion to say what is right. Because it's standard practice for American comic books to let the artist interpret the story, so what is going on here isn't straight out plagiarism but an adaptation that an artist was paid to do.

I remember buying the Robotech art books first then getting the Perfect Memory book and then the Gold Book and it took me a long time to care what was Robotech and what was Macross, but as a fan I rabidly bought up what was available to me.

So there was a time when Macross and Robotech fans held hands in harmonious joy and complemented each other work? That's scary.

Tactical Battle Pod [TBP-Z1]

Oh boy, did the factory satelight screw up on this one

I still can't figure out how this thing goes from guardian to battloid (or whatever the Robotech people call the configuration).

And then... there's THIS

I dunno. Part of me actually wanted the Sentinels to have happened, because it's inevitable failure would have made HG realize that maybe, JUST MAYBE, they weren't soley responsible for the success of the original show.

"She went out for a morning swim!" - sorry, can you elaborate more??

That's why she was so wet.

I don't think that the ever finalised things like spelling, here is another variant on the spelling.....karbarran

FFS!

Taksraven

If you step back, it looks like it's boobs are part of its face!

I'm surprised Godwin's Law hasn't taken effect here yet. Especially given all the terrible things that Harmony Gold has done.

Why do these Robotech fans attack us in such small skirmishes? Why don't they all attack us at once? We could have a final battle right here and now. The glorious (and hopefully last) 4th Robotech war!

Hehehe - I always wondered about that episode......I wonder if there will be an allusion to this in the second movie similar to the DYRL scene where Misa is zipping up her uniform the "morning after" in the Protoculture city...

Oh I get it...

She went out for a morning swim!

FRONTIER 1 right here, but you need a VEOH web player to view it. I onyl got the last 2/3rds on youtube as Bandai bans it due to having their own web channel which streams the series.

Why are they going after your dub in particular? There's lots of subbed instances of ep 1 on youtube and they've been up for a while.

I love how they trademarked "Shadow Rising" but they have to keep asking for extensions to keep it

That court case between HG and FASA concerns Macross merchandising rights, not Macross intellectual property rights. They should of mentioned it, because there's a BIG difference. It's probably why people are so confused by it.

Has there ever been a character sheet on Claudia? I'm curious if there's a relation between her and that really awesome dude from Macross Zero (I'm talking about Edgar, not Roy of course )

...And when she's not drawn by Animefriend.

Sorry to tell you this, but they already had to deal with doug before, and the response was mostly the same.

http://beta.robotech.com/community/forum/r...&forumid=12

The fallout is on the last page of that thread.

Wow, look at Steve wield that banhammer! Now if only he bellowed out "YOU BAN!!" after the name of everyone he hit with it....that...that would of been golden.

Well, I didn't go to filmschool or anything, but I did take a film class in college!

Well, they both had equal stakes right? I don't think it was like "I'll do these scenes and you do the other ones and then we'll just edit them together!". You'd get a movie that wouldn't have a clear focus. They probably acted as a single body with each checking the other.

Having said that, I remembered that Shin Kudo might actually have been an even worse lead (even if the concept of "a boy who knows nothing but war meets a girl who knows nothing but peace" had potential). The fact that I forgot all about him says a lot, I guess.

What's worse? Getting beat up by a girl or looking like one?

He co-directed DYRL? alongside Ishiguro.

I think he works better when he works alongside another director (like he also did with Macross Plus). Mostly just to keep him in line.

Otherwise you get planning sessions like this

I think the benefit of using CG, especially for mechanical objects is that the proportions are always maintained during the animation. It's probably why you don't see arguments like "so how big is the Macross Quarter?". And yeah it does cut costs, especially when your trying to animate huge objects with a lot of detail, but there's still of lot of work in making them blend in with the 2D stuff, otherwise it really sticks out (see Shadow Chronicles).

As for character design, I guess the reason why Mikimoto wasn't brought on was his characters don't appeal to that Yaoi craze that plagues today's anime.