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Well whadaya know....i'm not crazy after all. I wanted to do something like those comparison shots but couldn't be arsed. Good job, ComicKaze. 4 Definately made me cringe and when I started complaining in the quality drop.

Looks like episode 15 art to me.

Few factors that have been a point of discussion in Japan for years. Most Korean studios are mostly inexperienced artists in sweatshops, probably working in various projects at the same time. They are considerably cheaper to employ than Japanese studios, and not much can be done about QC. The price u pay is what you get in terms of quality after all. This is a problem for Japan as well as new aspiring artists do not get the exposure they need to make anime as the employment of offshore animation studios become more commonly accepted. That said, not all Korean studios are crap. About 80% of america's cartoons are animated in Korea anyway. But the good ones are about the same price as those in Japan anyway so they won't bother with the good ones. And also there's sometimes more than one animation firm employed to do one project since most "budget" animation firms are small and can't handle too much load. This is where consistency becomes a problem and why sometimes in anime, characters look different in certain episodes. Mech 3 still had Night Vision though. I think Thermal imaging was just a "cool lets add it in" feature in Mechwarrior 2 since a real thermal imaging should look something like what the Predator sees....not exactly useful in a battle full of hot sweltering battlemechs. You'll probably just see RED everywhere and can't make out what's what.

I'll keep mine as simple as possible: Pros: 1.) Homages to previous Macross 2.) Awesome songs 3.) Yoko Kanno BGMs are good too. 4.) The direction is awesome.....don't think Kawamori is 100% into it. 5.) So far so good in terms of story pacing if not abit "fast" 6.) ITANOOOO CIRCUSSSS!! (valkyrie in general) Cons: 1.) Detiorating animation and art as new episodes are released. 2.) "Women in Macross move fast" syndrome. If only this happened in real life. 3.) Needs more KLAN KLAN

No one and i mean NO ONE can fault Kyoto Animation for bad art/animation. Seriously. ZOMG check out that lens flare. Be very careful for what you wish for. At the rate we are going it does seem that Frontier will go down that route. I'm slightly annoyed that Aquarion's 2D art looks better than Frontier in general...though Aquarion also suffered in drops of quality halfway through. And guys, almost all animations studios save the bigger/successful ones subcontract to overseas firms. Usually Korea. This Manilla one is a first that i've heard though.

AnimeFriend/StarPro thing was during ye olde days of animation so it could hardly be used as a yardstick today for bad animation since most anime during those days were just....well...bad. Frontier's art/animation is bordering on today's anime standards of bad. Which is jarring really as the backgrounds and the scenes are beautiful. But from next episode preview, it would seem the quality is back up. That said I almost cried when Ranka looks up into space where the ships folded out with Diamond Crevasse playing in the background.

Probably around the same as a the old Macross if not more So far it doesn't look like it has a macross cannon though. So i wonder why do people need two fold boosters? Greater distances? And i think i should've mentioned this before, but space folds have never loooked better. It used to be "appear" with green effects with weird sci-fi SFX. Now its a whole big wormhole. Nice touch that they explained a little about Fold Dislocation at the start of the episode, though I don't really get it. Further distances cause for more inaccurate space folds?

Good god....this is MACROSSWORLDDDD!!! Yes its a chocolate pocky for chrissakes! As most people said, the Quarter isn't the main flagship. It is definately smaller than the original Macross and it definately feels like a special forces ship. I like how they are finally making a surgical strike team in Macross. Someone mentioned it was the Macross version of Whitebase.....i hate you.....for being right. And thank God to Radd and whoever that noticed the drop in art/animation. Yay i'm no longer alone. Like i mentioned 3 eps back, the trend is worrying and it still is. Anyway....i loved the direction of this episode. Props to mr. kawamori or whoever is doing the episode directions. I hate it that Klan Klan is just a background....i mean literally...background character. She just lounges around in the background teasing the viewers.....damnit! She better be getting some nice buildup in later episodes!

There are new Gears of War videos..... http://www.gametrailers.com/game/6236.html WHat can i say? Freaking amazing.

AND HELL YES IT DOES.

I'm sure stark made an inertia canceller from his repulsor technology whatchamaccalit. XD

Its the GP03 Dendrobium....or at least its the cut-down Gundam Fix Figuration version of it.

I lol-ed at this auction. Repulsive indeed. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...E:IT&ih=013

I think Wing/SEED made me have sink low expectations from the gundam AU franchise and due to that 00 felt quite refreshing and even enjoyable.

Well technically even if you threw a nuclear bomb into an incinerator, nothing will happen....except maybe a huge environmental disaster That amour-in-bones thing is whacked....its like Weapon-X v 2.0. Logan would've had a less painful experience with adamantium with Stark's process.

I have all the Sentinel GFFs and i'm looking at them now on display and none of them have the warped guns and loose armor pieces that you described. I even played with the EX-S and Deep Striker every now and then. Probably hit and miss? And there were ALOT of fakes floating in the market at one point and you may have got those?

Good points....except Zentraedi were not naturally giant to begin with. They were genetically engineered (for the zentran rage, vacuum resilience etc) and macronised to be giants and cloned to reproduce. After so many decades after Space War I, i think 90% of Zentrans are already miclonised and reproduced normally. Part of the peace deal and agreement to be assimilated into human society was micronisation after all. So i wouldn't say so much it is a racist sentiment but more of practicality/utalitarian. And about Zentraedi ddoing the job of a hundred men, we have Work Destroids for those. But lets not go into the sociology of giant zentrans. I wanna keep it more to the economics. To own a set of giant panties for example is gonna cost them a gaziillion dollars to own....how does one quantify that? Do Zentrans earn more money than humans to own a set of giant panties? I think you can see a pair of high-heeled shoes that Sheryl plays in, that costs something like 380,000,000,000,000 or something. How does that work? Rangerkarl on IRC pointed out that the guitarist was using what looked like Basara's guitar. I looked and hell....i think it IS basara's guitar. That or at least it looks identical and probably put in there as a homage. Nice! 1.) To the average myclone, probably not. But to a whole buncha Zentraedi, yes. Watch "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" for reference. 2.) 5' what? 3.) Yeah...i question the lack of verbal echo as well. Were they on the Macross Quarter? I thought that was a seperate zentran farm module or something. 4.) Probably not....u might get stepped on accidentally in a fit of female zentran rage. 5.) When inspiration hits an artist...do not disturb. Must be some "vaporiser" or "disintegrator" built into the stasis pod, and probably not applicable as a weapon. Or maybe it folded the lobster out of there.

Ok...i love this episode. If there's only one thing i wanna complain about the Art & Animation this ep though is characters look abit different in parts of ep 4 but i'm not really complaining. The whole flow of the episode is awesome. Just how i'd imagine my date with Sheryl should be. mmmm. WTF....Vajra has self generating missiles/ammo....has SWAG armour...and can fold independently? Woah.... I don't understand the economics of having giant zentraedi on the ship. Space and resources are limited, and we have a whole colony of Zentrans and a shopping mall. A meal to feed a zentran probably can feed 50 miclones. How does this work?? The ship at the end....kinda reminds me of VF-2SS + a variable glaug. Ranka singing "What bout my star?" was awesome as well...Minmay poses!

Fighter moves vertically (up and down) slow....but travels through the level very fast, allowing you to clear the level fast as well. Gerwalk allows you to move vertically faster but travels through map slower. Best mode IMHO. Battroid mode allows super fast vertical movement and allows you to shoot backwards but has very slow map scrolling. Practically useless mode. I think during its time, its a nice representation of the different modes and their weaknesses and strengths.

Yeah! I remmeber it fondly from the NES game too. The Minmay doll hits the gong, tells u how many valkyries u have left, then starts! As well as the DYRL zentraedi attack. "IS A VERY MESSIAH!!" is funny engrish though.

Yeah...f=ma all that. But i don't think the Armoured is very much "massier" than a Super. If anything the boosters fitted on the Armoured should be even more powerful than the Super. Unless of course they say that the Super's thrusters are dedicated thrusters whereas the Armoured has missiles and beam cannons and various others so it had to compensate the thrusters to house the extra weaponry.

I kinda like the ring of VF-25 Messiah. Maybe a VF-25 is made of Vajra parts hence the "special-ness" of it? And about cap ships blowing up...hmmm....not sure how big those gunships are but i think they are pretty small housing probably 20-30 ppl tops, about the size of a submarine? Even with PPBs, their output probably is slightly more powerful than a fighter's PPB i imagine and possibly might not help defend against the buster cannons. PPBs on the colony ship and Macross Quarter is a whole different ballgame. Seems Luca's VF-25 has a combat option? I see that the radar fin or whatever it is goes on the shield. Possible to be used as a knife like Gundam Exia? Interesting...but would weight matter in weghtless space though? Unless the thrusters on the VF-25 Armour has a lower output than the one on a Super pack, i don't see how it would be slower than a VF-25 Super.

Not surprising, coming from the forum cynic.

No cup? So they just used their hands? That would be messy.

This is definately a good time to be a macross fan.