A_Man_and_a_Woman?!

Imma go back and start from page 1.

This thread makes me sooo happy...

May'n fans at J-pop summit - err....not focused on her XD

I want to be a glow-stickie guy...

Kirishima is best bear boat.

Not criticizing, per se. Just saying her and Hyuuga's silly parts are what I EXPECTED of the whole show, and I was pleasantly surprised it had more to offer.

At the worst, I was half expecting the terror of Plastic Little... or something on that level.

I didn't get the ending. Initially I thought it was another mecha anime that once again starred an unassuming youth piloting a robot...little did I know it would become an anime about the human psyche. People can say EVA is beyond my comprehension...fine, whatever. A deconstruction on the genre? Cool. But if I wanna learn about the human psyche, I'll register for a class for it. I just wanna watch robots in action with a cool, simple storyline with characters that don't masturbate over a comatose "love interest". That's just me.

My love for Eva is second only to my love for Macross. That being said, I 100% acknowledge that it's not for everyone. I absolutely loved the road it took and the ending that Anno gave it. I've read every wiki and interview there is on why it went down the way it went down and I've heard/read about the studio budget getting screwed and his mental issues at the time of the production. I get why some fans called BS on it (everyone wanted the epic battle that they got with the movie End of Evangelion) but my reaction was quite the opposite. I thought the OG ending was fascinating and brilliant considering the budget and timeline he had to work with to end the series. Believe me, I can go on forever defending Eva.

Gundam Wing seemed to have a bit too much screaming and pouting for my taste.

Macross 7 was totally meh for me and I thought that was the end of it, until Plus came out. I was honestly out of anime at that point, before that the last anime I watched was Gunbuster. Plus got me back into the anime game. I have to give credit to Manga Entertainment because I ate up all of their releases that year from Ninja Scroll to Wings of Honeamise.

I found Frontier on a now dead site called Studio 39 or something like that after finishing Death Note. At that time it was only the pilot that was available online and I crapped my pants. I watched it over and over and I hunted down Megumi Nakajima's cover of Oboete Imasuka in the end credits. I ended up getting a Malaysian DVD set of the series run and the subtitles where enough to get me through it. To me, Frontiere was a love letter to everything I love about the Macross franchise and it's second only to SDFM/DYRL (those two just count as one whole to me). The music, the valks, the romance; I was in love with Frontier. My now wife, laughed her ass off when she witnessed me lose my crap over the debut of Ozma's valk.

But my wife too shares your frustration with the "open ended" endings but it didn't sour her enjoyment or love of the series.

It's funny to me but it goes to show how old I am when I run into "kids" who love Frontier but don't really know who Minmay is. That blows my mind.

I made sure my 12 year old son watched Macross and DYRL before Frontier and he had the same reaction to the nods that Frontier gave to it's predecessors from the Ranka rescue to the SMS pilots doing Isamu's hand thing, ie. he spazzed with enjoyment. He pretty much hated Zero except for the dogfights. Plus kinda weirded him out. I don't know if I can put him through 7 because I didn't like it- except for the Max/Mirya stuff.

I think your posts would be welcome in the fan fiction thread, but this is fine, too.

Cool! I'm a noob so I didn't want to step on any toes.

Pretty dang saweet indeed!

That's pretty dang sweet. More pictures?

The city stand is a big win for me and I love that the arms have the boosters for standalone options.

That's the general response to that one. It has no business being anything other than a stupid production about girls that are also boats and the men who captain them, but there's a stubborn refusal to give in and take the easy route, Takao's shenanigans notwithstanding.

I just rewatched the show recently, and it's surprisingly solid.

Even once the anime breaks completely free of the manga and starts making things up as it goes along, it stays classy.

In conclusion...

CARNIVAL DAYO!

I think I literally flinched when I queued up the first episode and, next thing I knew, stuff was exploding and a talking bear happened- I'm about 4 episodes away from the end.

I used my wife as a sample audience. She basically hates anime though she always wants to cosplay, it's weird. Any way, she gave DYRL a 'that wasn't bad' and the MacF a 'you owe me for making me sit through that'. I can understand the feeling that you're hopping into act 2 in DYRL though, but the bridge banter fills you in.

Wow. Really? B-b-but Frontier... the music... the Valks... Kyun kyun...

kyun kyun...

Are any of the staff going to the unnofficial after party/After-Con gathering? I know convention wraps up rather early in the evening so it gives us plenty of time to get cleaned up so we can get liquored up.

I'm sure it's wishful thinking for Tenjin or Ms. Iijima to make an appearance at said after party...

DYRL made sense as a stand alone film. It felt like the first half hour had been edited out but it was easy to infer and not crucial. What were your hang ups?

Edit - yes, it's the 171+.

Macross was my gateway drug into anime and I'm very protective of it.

That being said, I've tried using DYRL to introduce fringe anime fans, or just friends in general, to Macross/anime and they feel dropped into the middle playing catch-up with the plot and relationship. DYRL is so f*cking pretty to look at as a film, but I really do think you need a little bit of exposure to SDFM to really appreciate it. I think my love for it stems from how deep I was into Macross at the time and it took all of my favorite elements from the TV show and put them into the sweet desert that is the movie.

I haven't seen any of the MF movies yet- my friend is adamant that I see them if only for Ranka's amazing animated choreography. He kind of warned me about the endings and reading this thread doesn't really spoil anything for me, but he did emphasize that the different relationship dynamics are worth seeing in the movies.

If the movies suck, then I'll just ignore them as something that sucked and just continue enjoying the TV series.

P.S.- still recovering from the WTF moment I had with Zero's ending. That is probably the one Macross ending I truly hate so far- without seeing the MF movies yet.

Honestly, this is the first I've seen of it, but it makes me tempted to keep an eye open for the grpahic novel collection(assuming it gets one), because that shizzle looks hilarizzle.

I've held out so far, but my morbid curiosity my get the better of me if the released more and collected them in a trade.

I'm halfway through Arpeggio of Blue Steel. I tried it on a whim and I honestly thought it would be stupid but it sucked me in.

I'm all about Aldnoah because I'm starving for a mecha anime and Captain Earth lost me and I need something to tithe me over until Knights of Sidonia comes back.

I'm giving Psycho-Pass a shot because, dang dude!

I added myself! I have a webcomic called Tako Salad that is going to be Macross heavy counting down to Macross World 2014!

Thank you Neoka!

PUHLEEZ try to convince him to post here. That sounds like a seriously cool concept!

Hello Zentrans and Meltrans!

Sorry... that was corny.

Anyone out there creating webcomics or their own comics based off of the Macross fandom or Macross universe? I know there is a fanfic thread and I was going to post a webcomic I did about Macross but I don't think if was the right forum to do so. And so I created this one.

Please feel free to post your own Macross related work here or links to any Macross related webcomics out there.

Only rules are to be nice, have fun, and don't be shy about posting your own work!

Let me start it off with a link to a strip I just posted recently.

Enjoy and I look forward to seeing lots of links but hoping to see more works from Macross World members!

http://tako-salad.com/comic/flashback-2012

~A Man and a Woman?! (@beensentoe)

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