Renato

Was Kawamori actually working on refinements to the sculpt or was it about something else when those pics were taken?

It was supposed to be refinements to the sculpt.

wouldn't it be nice if that was about the 1/35 scale vf-1

No, it was about the Hi-metal.

There's no way I will be able to remember all of that.

whatever happened to this, i was expecting some major refinements.

Yeah, those were my pictures. I was also expecting Kawamori's refinements to be reflected somehow, but it looks like it's just 99.8% the same thing.

Please tell me that some of the females in this are older than 14.

Why? What do you intend to do?

I hope you guys don't take this the wrong way, but one of the best parts of the podcast for me is digressions that Renato descends into, only to ask for Gwyn's forgiveness later.

I just find that back-and-forth funny.

Anyways, thanks and keep 'em coming.

I'm sure there's a lot more that got cut out, so I believe it's Tochiro's editing that keeps it within the realm of funny... otherwise it would just be nonsensical chaos with Macross peppered throughout..

31b was wonderful-my favorite episode of any podcast ever! Did you ever go into further detail about Kawamori commenting on how you won passes to all three events? I don't think I caught it but it was mentioned early on. I'm sure I'll find it on the meany repeat listenings I am going to do over the next few days.

I am just delirious with joy at how great this episode is. It's great stuff to be listening to as I build models, although I feel unworthy given that the master has a low opinion of them!

wish I could go to that exhibit but you guys really are the next best thing to being there.

Thanks! To be sure, Tochiro was the only one who won all three. He has the (Proto)devil(n)'s luck.

When is the #1 Macross fan going to make an appearance?

Very surprised that he didn't win ANY of the Kawamori events tickets. How did Tochiro manage to get all three!?!

He'll make an appearance when he reveals that he can speak English! Actually, I don't know, we used to do interviews with fans, but not so much recently. Maybe we'll give it another go soon? I mean, this guy is super old-school and we've mostly focused on younger, and female, fans so far. It might be an interesting change of pace.

He's 55? Really? That means he was working on Macross in his very early 20s! Wow, that's some serious talent at a very young age if that's correct.

He was designing your Optimus Primes and Diaclone Robot Bases, etc. at around 18. And what have I done.

http://www.voice-style.jp/archives/6244

On the DYRL audio commentary: Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Show Hayami, Eri Takeda, Yasunori Honda, Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Toshihiro Hirano, Narumi Kakunouchi and Ryusuke Hikawa having his work cut out as the MC!!

More Blu-ray teases!!

http://www.voice-style.jp/archives/6244

Oh my god, now I want to buy these A MILLION TIMES OVER!

Who's on the DYRL audio commentary? Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Show Hayami, Eri Takeda, Yasunori Honda, Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Toshihiro Hirano, Narumi Kakunouchi and Ryusuke Hikawa having his work cut out as the MC!!

And even Shinji Higuchi took a break from directing the new Godzilla remake to chat about Macross Plus with Itano!!

Delta?? What's that?!?!

I don't think it was mastered to video. I think they are 35mm.

Nobody knows. Not even Ishiguro had a clue.

The connector piece for the backpack is hinged at both ends. My Armored VF-1J has no problems with the backpack and there shouldn't be any if it's transformed correctly.

jenius is right from his earlier review and the gimmick is the same on the HMR line.

Jenius said it is a "gimmick" that "locks" it in place. Are you sure the "gimmick" is just a double-hinge? That doesn't sound like a gimmick, it sounds like every other valk toy except maybe the 1/55.

I have the old Focker Strike 1S, the old Hikaru 1J and the new GBP. Yes, they have double hinges, but none of them "lock". They stay in place due to friction alone, and some more than others. The GBP is the worst.

Let me bump this thread with some Miyasato Kumi from the bonus disc so that the top two threads on this forum are actually about Star Wars and Megazone, finally fulfilling the quota on the forum description: "Everything from Megazone to Star Wars"!

Sounds like a deliberate omission.

Anyway, with regards to picture quality in DYRL.... And the forthcoming MacPlus Movie Edition.

I had an interesting conversation online today with a couple of the most in-the-know people in the animation industry. One of them worked on the DYRL project and was witness to all sorts of goings-on behind the scenes back in 1984.

I had asked about why some anime looks fantastic on Blu-ray and some looks like it still needs a lot of work. For example, 1974 Yamato and 1983 Orguss look incredible, while 1982 SDFM TV looks... sort of meh. Similarly, Macross7 and Macross Plus are contemporaneous with each other, being as they are both from 1994, and clearly (literally) M7 looks a lot less grainy. I asked if it was just the storage conditions for film, as well as film stock. I knew that Orguss and M7 were shot in 35mm, while SDFM TV was 16mm for cost-cutting. Turns out that both Orguss and M7 were both produced with home video merchandising in mind, so it had to be better than broadcast quality. SDFM was not. Add to that the fact that TMS (who produced Orguss) at the time were doing all their output in 35mm (Ironman28, GodMars, etc.) because they wanted to keep their options open with regards to potential digest movie editions later down the line.

But both DYRL and MacPlus were planned from the get-go to be screened in theaters, and so both are 35mm... So why do M7 and Orguss look clearer? The answer is, funnily enough, that they used special filtering techniques during the photographing stage that makes the whole picture seem less like a bunch of cels on a screen.

That made me recall a comment here on MW by a user a long time ago, way back when the M7 HD Remaster DVDs came out and side-by-side comparison pics were being posted (before we even had any Macross on Bluray, I think), about how some scenes look "filmed" on the original VHS/DVDs, but in the new sets, they look clearer, yes, but more like "drawings", and thus it detracts away from the feeling of "realism".

I think the staff on DYRL and MPlus were after this kind of "visual realism"... However, if you are after crystal clarity, there will be a limit, since the only thing improved resolution is going to will be to highlight the grain.

Orguss, M7 and now Megazone23 look really great, though.

I had to check my review of the original HiMetal line and this is what I found:

Not sure if it's still on the HMR line or if it's not as strong on some toys as others.

I don't remember that gimmick... They have always been "floaty" in my experience.

It is not fair to compare Mikimoto to other manga artists, since that is not his main profession. He is an illustrator and concentrates mostly on his own original artwork which is sold as limited prints.

As for what he's busy with, there is currently an exhibition at the Kyoto International Manga Museum that has a few brand new works of his on display.

http://www.mikimotoharuhiko.com/works/index.php

Having said that, I noticed something... This thread is going to be six years old in a couple of weeks. We still have to see Minmay make her debut. Just saying.

Boom! Operator 7G in da hooouuuse!!

It's odd because we know that they did add English subs to the previous releases of MacrossPlus Movie Edition and the Frontier movies, which I thought was a step in the right direction, but now they've actually gone and taken them out. So much for progress.

I'm so sick of the word "canon". :/

They *did* do time dilation in the original series. Specifically, if you look at episode 11, Misa says that they've been folding for over an hour, which means that "ten days have passed on Earth". So Kakizaki exclaims that they missed Minmay's debut. It's a major plot point.

Later on, with MacPlus and 7, though, everybody can fold everywhere and anywhere with no temporal consequence.

If Bandai makes a HMR VF-9 I will give my soul to this line

They'll do it as soon as Arcadia announces a 1/60 one and not a minute earlier.

For reference. 50,000y is around the price of their Great Mazinger. Which doesn't transform.

Darn it, I wish still had my ancient off-air VHS recording of DYRL. The first time I saw DYRL was such a copy and I'm almost sure the head gore was in the TV broadcast as well.

Of course it was, the BD is the only time it has been edited. I've seen the movie on TV in Japan and in Europe, and it has always been intact.

Not to sound rude, but I guess I can invalidate comments you make in regards to anime then? I'm not saying you have to be a fan as it doesn't matter to me, but why even bother wasting time commenting on something you aren't really a fan of?

True fandom!!

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/as-yet-unmade-series-of-star-trek-is-crap-say-trekkies-20151103103507

Macross the Worst. :/

The editing had nothing to do with the inclusion of a game and if by 'fan backlash' you are referring to comments on this board, it might be worth keeping in mind that Bandai Visual will not put any stock in comments made by a market they can not legally sell to.

There was a lot of fan backlash in Japanese. 2chan exploded. It must have been pretty bad for BandaiNamco to have put a message on their homepage saying that even though there is an option to change the version of the movie on the BD from "new BD edition" to "original theatrical version", that the "処理" was present in both. Sounds like "Buyer beware"/"damage control" to me.

I'm very intrigued as to what this new disc will bring to the table, since we know that they are touting it as being "even higher quality"... Wait and see.

If it wasn't then the source negative is in pretty bad shape to require so much. 35mm film will have substantially more resolution than a 2K Bluray transfer. So once the film stock is digitally cleaned up it should be near perfect, but that costs.

I don't know, but I agree with Keith, that most of the blurry shots are most likely there because that is the way they were filmed -- out of focus. If you took a blurry photo in the mid-90s you can clean the negatives all you like, but you cannot "focus" the image. Some of them are so bad that they are visibly different even on the VHS and LD releases.