Gui

Saw Ponyo yesterday: a good movie but a very average Miyazaki: perfect if you still have a child soul

I'm onto Ideon since last week: it's rather hard to get into it, mainly because of the old animation and the slow pace of the story but I like it. A lot of elements are similar to Macross: it seems that Ideon was not a source of inspiration for Eva only...

That's a Super Dimensional DVD

Wasn't it supposed to be a movie?

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It's a little bit like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (the game) which was based on a movie of the same name.

Wasn't it from a novel instead, written by the Strougatski brothers?

BREAK OUT! Energy and passion....

3, 2, 1 GO! Ooooooo Oh Oh Oooooooooo SUPER ROBOT WARS!!!!

Damn you Jam-Project for giving us such catchy and energetic music.

Gui, don't forget to watch the 3-part OVA if you haven't done so yet.

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I have but I didn't like it: you're the second one to tell me this on this very thread, I seriously begin to think I should give another try to this show

Yesterday having been a hard wake up, I decided not to start the comp' and began to rewatch Blue Gender instead of continuing onto SRW: watched the 11 first eps in a row 'cause this show owns

Found some:

Imagin'ères

19, rue Sainte Ursule

(nearby the Capitol)

Asiance and Gibert-Joseph

Rue des Lois

(also nearby the Capitol)

There's several Gibert but only one is specialized into manga...

I may find more addresses later: I'll keep you informed

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I suggest playing the GBA games (all localized by Atlus) to know the full story.

Oh well, and the OVA series (3 episodes) is quite good.

I didn't like the OVA series: maybe I'll give another try to it one day though

As for the games, I don't own a GBA but I wish the PS2 ones to be released in the west before the end of times... At least one

Forget it: the mecha genre is especially underrepresented in France (except for some super robot shows, but old ones most of the time), and particularly Macross, for all the reasons we know...

I'll try to find some adresses of shops in the area of Toulouse though, but I don't promise anything

When do you go here by the way?

Finished watching Ride Back the day before yesterday: it's not a bad anime at all and the political stuff was rather interesting but the whole show was too short to really develop this aspect of the story; it's a shame because it really had a good potential... The mecha designs were original and rather funny but also underused IMO (i.e. not enough action scenes)

Now, I'm onto Super Robot Wars Original Generation: about 4 eps so far and it looks promising, or at least very different than I expected

After a hiatus, I came back to anime a few days ago with the Gurren Lagann movie: it has its strong points, but almost all of them come from the footage of the original series; the rest is watchable but disappointing, mainly because of its awkward pace. All in all, it's the typical "TV series to movie" fail

I began watching Rideback yesterday. I love how the "hero" of the show finds itself piloting the main mecha of the story: a bit of originality doesn't hurt. Second ep was more expected but rather entertaining nonetheless; I think I'll keep watching the whole series

If we exclude the butchering, then it probably would have stood a chance, but since robotech is popular in the west and there is a fanbase that are now fully grown adults, the same could have happened if it was gundam instead.

I was kidding...

[...] If gundam had come to the west earlier like macross (robotech) did then it may have stood a good chance.

You mean, "If Gundam had come to the west earlier as a butchered series it may have stood a good chance" ?

C'mon: all it would have done is the guys at MAHQ bitch about this as much as we do here on Robotech...

/Me wonders what additional show Macek would have chosen for this

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Il était une fois l'Espace: some of the most beautiful space ship designs I've ever seen [...].

By Manchu, one of the greatest designers and SF illustrators we have in France:

http://www.manchu-sf.com/

It seems Gundam is popular nowadays: I'm rewatching 0083 at the moment

For the little story, I heavily played the Zeon campaign of MS Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon recently, so it made me want to rewatch it

Finished Kurogane no Linebarrels a few days ago: it's very average but not as uninteresting as some people said when it began to air; actually, it's quite funny sometimes

Otherwise, I watched Cobra The Animation: The Psychogun which was disappointing: the pacing of the story was not good and most of these eps looked like fillers. Though, plenty of action and humour make it a watchable show...

Here's hoping it's popular enough to warrent Crossbone & Hathaway's Flash movies. [...]

And a full, 52 eps series, F-91

I forget, is Gaia Gear supposed to be U.C.?

According to Simmons' Official Guide, this story happens one century after Char's Counterattack and is presented as a "story of the Third Universal Century", whatever it means...

Same here

I'll give a try to the 2 or 3 next eps though, just in case...

[...] Still need to finally watch Getter Robo though... [...]

Still looking for this one

Since years...

That's very interesting! What year or years was that published in? Also, does it specifically list Big West as the licensor?

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Here's a scan of the copyright page:

I thought it was...but then I checked the references. It was first mentioned by Ewilen on this board as part of a modus operandi of BW to block any deals between their US based licensees and HG to prevent acknowledging any rights of HG to the Macross derivatives like what happened to Toycom. Ewilens post

Later JBO referenced to it in a recap. Found a mention on ANN that HG in cooperation with Tokyopop would release Macross 7 trash but that licensing issues prevented it.

So again no hard fact *sigh*

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One hard fact I can give you, and I already mentionned it pages ago in this thread (it was 3 or 4 years ago though, so many of you may not have read it...), well, there's no reference at all to HG in the french edition of M7 Trash by Glénat (which is not exactly a small publisher in Euro, actually it's one of the biggest comics editor around): I own every volume and none of them have HG written anywhere

It seems to me that these so-called worldwide rights actually are limited to the US...

I think Manhattan is more the symbol of military nuclear power, that is something very powerful but unable to take its own decision and always controled by someone else (the guy who has the finger on the button); on the human side, it's also more interesting to consider this super hero as having all powers except the most important: the power to take a decision

Concerning the removal of Intrinsic Fields, I clearly remember one of the big head of the research labo (the one where Jon was disintegrated...) saying that the exact circumstances of this accident couldn't be reproduced again. Think about it: if creating super heroes was as simple as that, every nuclear powered nations in the world of Watchmen would have their own Dr. Manhattan...

Mac II's destroids look cool: I like how the designers revamped them

Actually, I like almost all Mac II's mecha designs, especially the VF-2SS; even the Marduk zentrans have good-looking mechas, though they look weird sometimes (pods without legs... arf...) but this weirdness fits them well IMO

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Eventhough Max is described as European, I lean toward the French nationality, since Maxmillian is a common name in France, along with Mylene. [...]

Mmmh... Not really: Maximilien, in particular, is rather rare, because it is pretty "old" and therefore sounds snobbish I think; on the other hand, one of our most famous singer is called Mylene (Farmer is her last name: probably a pseudonym though...) but of course this has nothing to do with M7