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No matter what angle they show that cowl at...I still have issues with it. Just the cowl and not the rest of the suit.

Most ramblings I've heard were that we probably would not see Buster or Duel. Since the Zakus are much more capable than those 2, they really aren't much of a match. Duel was a pretty standard MS (just a concept). The only things going for it was PS-armor and beam weapons. PS-armor is too costly and too much of a drain on the battery to place in mass-production models (read, impractical for any mass-produced MS). And beam weapons are standard on the Zaku (standard beam rifle and beam axe). Buster was designed for long-range combat. Well, the "Gunner" attachment to the Zaku fills that role of long-range combat. Plus it has the beam rifle and beam axe. For the Zaku Phantom, the "Slash" and "Blaze" attachments fulfill any need for additional weapons. The Zaku Warrior/Phantom covers most of the duties that Duel and Buster were designed except for the PS-armor, so the question is, is there really any need for Duel or Buster to show up since the Zakus fill the roles they had thanks to the various weapons packs avaliable for it? I doubt we'll see a huge improvement to Archangel. She was a fairly advanced ship for her time.

Nope. I don't even know Japan's reaction to Innocence or Steamboy. Let's face it, we're all subculture Otakus here, no-one has even heard of Macross... Actually, I'm gonna look into subculture and cult stuff in the next few months in detail, so I'll let you know then. I will say that I was lucky to rent the DVD when I did because it is constantly on rental now, along with Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop (even six years after release!!). So this is an interesting phenomenon nonetheless. According to Oricon's daily rankings, Episode 5 was #4 on the initial release date (remember, it's based on sales/rentals/money/etc) for animation releases. Gundam Seed and Ghost in the Shell TV 2nd season were ahead. It has since fallen to 7th behind Alladin and the previously mentioned GitS TV 2nd season and Gundam Seed.

Anybody wanna bet the Zeta boxsets where on the floor of the warehouse when the place flooded?

We know. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=11517 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...afp/japan_quake If you want to watch all 11m:37s of what did air, be my guest.

You should go out and get the Macross Design Works book. It will explain a majority of your questions. 1) They're there. Look harder (i.e. see attachment) 2) My guess? Venier thrusters. Who knows? Who cares. 3) This is answered in the Macross Design Works book. The YF-21 does not need the FAST packs to hold the gun pods. The underside does have mounts for holding the gunpods without the use of the FAST packs. However, during most of M+, you see the YF-21 with the mounts closed and without the gunpods. As Shawn says here: "You WANT this book-really!" http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/...esign_works.htm

Nanashi... You misspelled AFOS (You used Aphos). http://www.anime.net/macross/story/encyclo...afos/index.html

The only gripe I have with it right now is that it felt rushed. When you think about it, the timespan of the series felt short. The last 3 episodes took place across 2-3 days, max. That just didn't feel right. But I'll look it over again once a sub comes out (sorry, I really want to know what Hasford and AFOS were saying to Sara).

Not quite. The system works by recharging the battery via network. They still have a battery as a primary system. The idea is that the MS no longer needs to return to port to recharge it's battery reactor. So if you turn off the power network, it doesn't kill the power like Nadesico. It just means that the MS has to return to port to recharge the battery. edit: Think of an MS as fighter. A fighter runs on limited fuel. However, it can receive a refuel mid-flight via a refuelling plane. That's what the recharging system is on the Minerva. It just recharges (refuels) the MS in mid-flight.

Hasagawa made it as a custom (kinda like the Low-Viz Yamato VF-1). The VF-0B is suppose to be the VF-0A 2-seater (Hasagawa just called it the VF-0B to distinguish it from the A, S, and D models). Hasagawa has indeed made the VF-0B You can find it here: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?HSG65770

It was not a Protodevlin. It was more of a device (weapon/guardian/failsafe device/etc). Sara was the "pilot" of AFOS. It reacted to her feelings.

Yes, Mu's helmet was removed (I've seen screenshots) and we get to see Creuset's face (Looks like Rey, only older). http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=22554

Aries dies from blood lost and probably internal bleeding. She received those injuries when she protected Dr. Hassford from falling debris. As for a synopsis, I'll wait for a sub to come. There is some dialogue which I can't really make out, but it's all to make Sara use AFOS.

I second that opinion. Somebody explain how this happens. I'm guessing it's the working of the Birdhuman or Sara or Mao. Actually it's a little from A, a little from B and a little of C. (Yes I have watched it, no drugs or alcohol were taken)

Kawamori is not one for making his characters develop overnight. Usually, the epiphany comes at the very end of the series. But hey, M0 is short. 5 30-minute episodes can't cover much ground. Not like a 13/26/50+ episode series.

He should start with these: http://www.animeigo.com/Products/MACROSS.t

IE, yes. Most others, no. And with IE, that's based on parsing website text and reading HTML flags. Nanashi's stuff were images. Now, Shawn could add the flag for browsers to block this site, but kids always seem to get themselves into trouble by finding a workaround. If anything, if people wanna see the pics, they should PM/e-mail Nanashi.

The whole point of that was to demonstrate how messed up she was after the death of her father. I'm sure if Mu started to sound like her dad, she would have hung around him more. Flay was related to Mu/Creuset....Keith, whatever you're smoking, pass it around. I need to come up with some funny stuff like that. That can be argued both ways. Kira reacted and broke off from the Cagalli/Athrun/cannon-fodder Astrays group to engage Creuset. He did sense something, whether it was a Newtype reaction is can be debated. It could be tied to puberty (as Kira is just starting that stage of life, while Mu and Creuset are full adults, etc, etc, etc).

Hyper carbon materials. What kinds of metal did they use to make it into SDF-1? Hyper carbon materials. ...And a bunch of other metals. Read this: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=6415

That's where politics and business comes in. The Azrael Conglomerate (who backed the extremist side of Blue Cosmos), was highly influential with the EA (namely the Atlantic Federation, who was the most influential of the EA). It becomes a power-play. Think of it as corporate buyout on a violent scale. It's kinda (and I use it loosely) like Microsoft forcing a small company to either be bought out, or have MS come up with their own version to squash the company's product to oblivion. The politics is who's in control while the nukes are the company's own, hacked version designed to obliterate the competition (i.e. business). But that's one way to view it.

That may have something to do with Kira being the ultimate cooridnator, though because other Cooridnators don't exhibit that trait. I won't say annihalate, more like prematurely adjusting the numbers. The number of natural Coordinator births was declining, IIRC. Coordinators were doing the job that George Glenn envisioned, forcing humanity to evolve (as we see with Mu). The Blue Cosmos vision was a more radical/extreme concept. If the process occured naturally, Coordinators would have bred themselves out of existance. If the Coordinators were wiped out, the process of becoming newtypes would not mature as it has or the evolutionary process may even come to a halt (thereby, naturals would breed themselves to extinction).

Only 6 more models to go before I have enough shelf space for that...Dang, looks like it's going to sit on the top of the shelf at my rate of model building....

Now....BITCH PLEASE! *raises hand up high* Oh oh oh, I wanna bitch! 1) Funny, cuz we seem to lose a lot of VFs every episode. 2) Let see, technology gets better and is implemented in the next generation. That computer your using is probably much better than the one you had 10 years ago. What's the problem with implementing new technology? Even Robotech does it. 3) Whoever said we had to be feasible? Flying transforming robots should be the first indication that we aren't in Kansas anymore. 4) To each his own. But just so we are mutually comfortable, I sure many of us here are not happy with the RT-mecha progression, as if it ever had any. It just recycles designs with every pic we see. 5) "Transforming gimmick"? Funny, what's that I see at RT? Oh the "Invid Overlord". Guess what? It has a "transforming gimmick" too. Not that it needs one, period. 6) Well, I'm sorry if you don't like it but that's what they're designed for and that's what their going to be used for.

That may be true about Newtypes. But we'll have to let it play out. As for Kira, I don't think he did. Well, if it explodes and doesn't create a blast radius the size of a small island, it probably doesn't run on a nuclear reactor. Also, the official site makes note of the energy-transfer system in Impulse.

The impression I got from ep. 2 is that Rey doesn't seem to understand that feeling (that feeling being able to sense the presense of other newtypes). As for newtypes in Seed, Mu and Creuset are the only newtypes, according to the producers. If the genetic trait was more wide spread, the EA would be trying to create farms for newtypes but considering it's only limited to Mu and Creuset, you could say, it "kept in the family".