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I'll admit, I like all the Robotech music better than the Macross, Southern Cross, or Mospeada music (with the exception of the Minmei/Minmay songs). I absolutely love the Robotech BGM and theme. Mospeada's music was still decent, though.

I think Mospeada wasn't a big hit in Japan because it was too good -- the lil kids just couldn't absorb all the coolness.

Renato, rightstuf.com has the Mospeada box set for 25.99 right now (It doesn't include Love, Live, Alive though). I don't know if they ship internationally, but I'd ship it to you if you want it.

EDIT: Oh yeah, England is in a different DVD region...whoops.

Cyclone, your LLA picture page isn't working -- none of the pictures load.

Oh yeah, MGREXX, get the hell out of my thread!

So that’s how that series was called! I really liked that show; it had a very nice covert ops thing going on. I even liked the strange vehicles, specially the Srungle.

GO SRUNGLE!!

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I think they showed it as Macron One in the US.

Actually, Robotech version was good too.  They didnt really change a lot from that.  I hate Mint on both version though.  Totally useless character.  She's the freakin Jarjar of Mospeada.

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The Robotech version is good, but I like the original better, mainly because the dialog is better. As for Mint, I thought she was pretty adorable in the original version. Her character added a lot of humor. The part where

was hilarious...mostly because it was so shocking.

Man, I think Mospeada may beat out Macross for my favorite anime of all time. I just watched the series -- I had seen most of Robotech: The New Generation, but seeing Mospeada with the original (non-cheesy) dialogue and remastered footage made it many times better.

This confirms why I don't like new anime...old shows like Mospeada just blow everything else out of the water. Man. The characters were great, the mechas were awesome, the story was beautiful, and the dialog was natural and non-retarded. Hell, the dialog was as intelligent as any American TV show I've seen recently. That's why I love old anime. It's not insulting.

*Sigh* Now I'll have to find out how to get Love Live Alive. Any tips on that?

Damn, cool stuff drifand! That's the type of old-school stuff I like: Mospeada, Orguss, Dorvack...did I see a Srungle in there?

Anyone have some Gall Force or Megazone stuff?

Gunbuster! Those look pretty sweet. I bet they are rare, since ebay & hlj both have nothing like those.

Gasaraki! I like those mechs (not surprising since the mecha designers worked on Mospeada, BGC, Patlabor, and Gundam collectively). Unfortunately I watched two eps of the show and couldn't take any more.

I was checking out my newly-acquired Artmic Bible and damn there is some cool mecha in there. I especially like the stuff from Megazone and Gall Force, but I have never seen any kits for those shows for sale anywhere. So I thought, why not ask the guys on Macross World?

If you have pics of your non-Macross mecha, I'd love to see them. Toys, models, whatever. I'm dying to see what you got.

A film comic is basically a comic book using footage of the actual anime instead of original artwork.

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Doh! I should have known. Now I'm not sure if I want them...

Thanks for the answer!

Anyone know exactly what a Japanese "Film Comic" is? There's an old one for Mospeada I'm thinking of getting. But what is it? Is it stills from the anime put into a book form? Or is it original art?

Thanks!

For myself, I consider any anime from the last 10 years (1995 to 2005) new.

Graham

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Me too. It's really hard for me to like anything after 1995, and I don't know why. I actually determined the cut-off point based on what I like and don't like, and not the ten-year rule.

I don't judge anime on whether it's new or old. There's both good & bad old anime, just as there is good & bad new anime.

As long as an anime is of a genre I'm interested in, has decent animation, a well written story, good action scenes, nice mecha designs and well developed characters, some T&A    and no whiny angst-ridden teenage boys in it    , then I'll give it a chance.

Graham

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You're prerequisites disqualify 99% of new anime, you know. That's the whole thing I'm getting at here. (And no, 99% of old anime did not suck too. Maybe 50%.)

Anyway, I've been on the search for new anime that I might like. So far, I've found 2 that might be good. Princess Ai looks good solely on the character design of the main character. She looks friggin' hot, and looks like an adult. Plus, she's reminscent of the older style of anime. The other one that looks interesting is Burst Angel. The chicks look pretty hot (though their faces are plain), and theres decent robots. I watched one episode of it from a promotional DVD, and it seemed okay. I don't know anything about these two animes other than what I just mentioned, so if you have any opinions, let me know.

My hatred of old anime has been pretty cool though, because I realized that I should blow my money on old stuff instead, and this has resulted in much happiness. I bought the old Artmic Design works book, and the stuff in that book blows me away. I definitely need to check out all of the Gall Force shows, as well as Megazone. Beautiful characters, beautiful Mecha. And then I'm gonna watch BGC again.

I also bought the Mospeada and Southern Cross DVD sets. I was watching Mospeada today and hoo-boy is it good! Way better than the Robotech version, and simply, a masterpiece. The characters were loveable, and I was sucked into the story immediately.

Looking at my Artmic Book and watching Mospeada, I've come to realize that I'm right. New anime is garbage. Not because it's new...because it sucks. I don't know why -- maybe it's marketed only to young kids now, maybe all the talent moved to the video game industry, or maybe there's something in the water making us more stupid.

People like me are accused of being under the influence of nostalgia. That's right: I definitely wish to return to the time that anime didn't suck. That doesn't mean that I'm biased. You know what really makes people biased? Novelty. New anime is given way to much credit...because it's new. But it still sucks.

It's all good though. I bought 4 first-print No Need for Tenchi graphic novels off eBay for $5, as well as all 8 Outlanders volumes for $10. All in wonderful condition. So, liking the old stuff has its perks.

Is the series any good? The designs look original.

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I see a lot of the YF-19 in those designs...

As for the her design. I don't even care if she doesn't looke like the original version, this new version on it's own, she doesn't look that good I feel. Maybe had they kept her with longer hair and dropped the bun.

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I'm just glad she looks semi-pretty and of legal age, unlike the girls in 90% of new anime.

And here is a pic of the new version of Lisa Hayes. I will say she looks far better than her Sentinels incarnation.

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That looks like it's from the animation, while the Rick Hunter pic is from the comic. Am I right?

Man, if we militaries become successful in contracting real working battlesuits, war might becomes so cool that we won't hate it.

Yeah man, pretty much everything I knew about Japanese animation as a kid was what I read in Animerica, plus a few Animags & Protoculture Addicts.

I just found out that Animerica is no more! June was their last issue. How upsetting! If they were still publishing I'd get a subscription. I might subscribe to Protoculture Addicts instead.

You are in luck.  I had this out on my coffee table.  It's issue 11 of Animag that was published around July 1990.  To date this issue, it has as a news item the development of a Gundam movie with something called an F91, a article on Yotoden, High Speed Jecy, and  ads for Frederick Schodt's translation of Tomino's Gundam novel released by Del Rey.  The back cover is an ad for the rerelease of the 1/55 Roy Fokker Super Valkryie by Pony-Toy-Go-Round in LA.

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Yes! Thank you! I knew someone here could help me out.

Anyway, I thought it also had a little bit of info on DYRL. I remember a picture of Breetai in his DYRL form. And, I remembered having a magazine with that Pony-Toy-Go-Round ad! So it must have been this one. Hell, I think that's why I bought it.

Thank you so much, Seven! If I can't find that issue in my mom's garage, I'll have to try to get it online.

I just found a crapload of my old Animerica magazines in my mom's garage. I'm stoked about it, but I noticed one of my old favorites is missing. It may have been Animag, but it was probably Animerica, and it had the attached Gunbuster image on the cover. It was also way old, like around 1990. Does anyone know what issue it was? Anyone have it?

Hey, I just found a page of pictures from a show or comic called Ariel. I'm trying to figure out what it was about. None of the images on that web page look related, and they don't even look like the same person drew them.

http://www.animecubed.com/galleries/ariel/

Anybody remember this series? What was it about?

Cool, thanks. I was trying to find info on which artbooks are considered the best. After looking at those sites I'm still not sure.

So, Tenchi Muyo has been a pretty damn popular anime, at least it was huge in the nineties. Yet, I can't seem to find a single good website for its fans. Is there a MacrossWorld type site for Tenchi?

Apparently Southern Cross and Mospeada are still available at The Right Stuff at the "regular" price of $24.99, no UPC cutup business.

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Thank you! Not as good as $15 each, but I did get free shipping.

Totoro, that's awesome. Thanks!

Oh, for sure, but I'm talking about before you buy the DVD. I've been looking at stuff for sale and there's so much pirated anime out there, so I was looking for tips on how to avoid bootlegs.

Any tips for distinguishing between bootleg/unlicensed anime DVDs and official, licensed items?

Here are some tricks I use (tell me if I've made a mistake here):

* If it is region-free or all- region, it's bootleg

* If it's got chinese and english subtitles, it's bootleg

* If it only has the gold DVD logo on the front, it's bootleg

Any other good ways to spot a bootleg?

EDIT: I mean when you're shopping online, not while you're viewing the DVD.