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Lastly, at this point, if you want hardcore gritty war stories with robots, I recommend Gundam Thunderbolt, it is amazing. And I am not a Gundam fan, not in the very least. Trust me, it is everything you want.

And if you don't like Gundam, the Muv-Luv Schwarzesmarken anime is starting in January.

It's a bug war out there.

I followed bloggers like Crusader, Kurogane, ghostlightning and the Random Curiosity people back in the day. They made Frontier sound like it was both a heavy hitter and a legitimate mecha show for guys.

"legitimate mecha show for guys"

I shudder to think what that's supposed to be.

Pretty Cure? I just don't get it.

It's like Sailor Moon but with a lot more punching.

I agree with Renato. This was kind of a big deal.

We know Tochiro will like it, we know Renato won't...

I'm mostly interested in what Save has to say about it.

Needs more Ishter.

Wow... The Sentinels really ripped that off, didn't they?

There's also some armed (punny) battlepod type designs in Macross Perfect Memory too. We know from the Speaker Podcast that Kawamori holds onto designs and ideas for a long time, so it makes sense he's revisiting stuff from the vault.

Nah, that's just what happens when a Regult and Q-Rau get it on.

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I think it's like one of the Gerwalk designs from Genociders, the pre-Macross project.

His first name comes from the greatest aviator in history, Ernest P. Worrell.

She's Mylene's and Basara's daughter!

Why isn't she named Nekki you ask?

The same reason Sheryl kept her grandmother's name.

What are the chances this is a grandchild of Max and Milia?

I've got my own airtight theory.

One must keep in mind that the average viewer in the target audience won't know very much about foreign names or their significance and any hidden meanings that they might posses - let alone the aeronautical significance of them!

Yeah, it's really no different than naming a character "Kai Shiden" or "Soryu Asuka Langley."

I should have said genuine manliness. The characters posing with the Drakens sure don't project that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqD_Bqydr8k

real men support their girls

(goddamn)

Macross Delta is all about fighting the HATE PLAGUE from Transformers.

No one is innocent.

Giant robots with tonfas are cool. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.


"ROLLLLLLLLLLLING START!!"

I want to see some cool aerial dogfights. If I wanted to see giant robots hack at each other every episode with lightsabers beam sabers, I'd watch Gundam.

Graham

Terry Bogard's Fire Knuckle is cool tho.

QCB + C ' -' b

It's an unassembled version of Yamato's 1/60 scale VF-1 toy.

I saw this very Macross-y sequence in the episode "The New Warrior: Hellbat" from Transformers Victory.

https://twitter.com/VF5SS/status/666748874615332864

Sci-fi anime has to have bishounen.

Live free or Reinhard.

Tochiro means the VF-0 toys in general (as it a relatively new toy compared to the VF-4), not just the S-type.

I've started working on my MP Tracks review.

I dig 'em.

Thomas Romain did some of the layouts and backdrops.

https://twitter.com/Thomasintokyo/status/662073417470836736

"Fantasy elements?"

You mean, giants descending from the sky on long green vegetable things?

It's more likely in Macross than you think.

I don't have any at the moment, but there was a large thread all about the shoulder parts. Perhaps someone could help me find it and link it here.

They whites don't quite match the figure, but shapeways plastic can be painted.

I'm not sure why the video doesn't work. It seems like a youtube problem.