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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Jeez... is there anyone Vic didn't sexually harass? Holy sh*t. The TL;DR version is that, after launching an internal investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment against him by a fair number of his coworkers and convention-going fans and finding out that "Bad-Touch Broly" has allegedly been behaving badly for over a decade with fans and coworkers alike, HR at FUNimation's parent company Sony Pictures ended Vic's employment with the company. Several other companies, including RWBY creators Rooster Teeth Productions, have similarly terminated their business relationships with Vic in response to the growing mountain of accusations against him. Basically, he got #metoo'd, but all the evidence suggests he f*cking well earned it many times over. Vic is suing FUNimation and the first few voice actors who accused him of sexual harassment (Jamie Marchi1 and Monica Rial2) for defamation, interference in existing contracts and business relations, and civil conspiracy. The TL;DR explanation of that being that Mr. Mignogna is suing them for, in short, conspiring to destroy his career and reputation with false accusations of sexual harassment. (Basically, he's claiming this is all made up to ruin him for... reasons? He's not super clear on that front, really. He's going to have some problems with the "made up" part, given the amount of testimony and video/photographic evidence.) 1. A prolific ADR script writer who is also known for voicing Mitsuko in A Certain Scientific Railgun, Rana Linchen in Freezing, Mikako in Heaven's Lost Property, Rias Gremory in High School DXD, Haruna in Negima, Panty in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, and Mexiah in Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari. 2. A VERY prolific voice actress who you would know as the dub voice of Misa Hayase in ADV's Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Tsuyu in My Hero Academia, Doll in Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari, Tsubaki in Soul Eater, Renge in Ouran High School Host Club, Kyoko in the ADV Full Metal Panic! dubs, and Bulma in several Dragon Ball Z features.
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    Unfortunately the video doesn't show all the variant paintjobs. The default colors for the VF-0 are actually Shin Kudo's blue from Macross Zero. Most non-character VFs in Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy offer a choice of four different paint jobs, with a fifth (Havamal's) that unlocks in New Game+. The default YF-29 Durandal has some really trippy ones... two of which are plaid! (No, really!) EDIT: I guess that'd be how you know the YF-29 Durandal is capable of Ludicrous Speeds...
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    I wonder if they would, though... since MOSPEADA was essentially a one-and-done entirely by Tatsunoko, so they wouldn't have had as big a stake in it due to its mediocre performance in Japan and they might've even been told by Tatsunoko what was happening to it overseas since it was a Tatsunoko property. I'd imagine they're probably pretty confused by what happened to it, though... especially Sukehiro Tomita, who was VERY confused by what'd been done to his story when Tatsunoko brought him in to help develop Robotech II: the Sentinels. Even Harmony Gold's heavily sanitized, rose-tinted account of the Sentinels creative process admits that Tomita more or less told Carl Macek that the Robotech storyline made no f*cking sense and tried to impose some sense on it himself before Harmony Gold had the Japanese writing team that Tatsunoko had generously provided removed from the project and replaced by Harmony Gold-supplied writers. Smart money says the Southern Cross development team's only reaction to learning about Robotech is "holy sh*t someone actually watched Southern Cross!".
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    Accept no substitutes!
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    That's a hell of a question. The TV and Movie versions of the SDF-1 Macross have essentially identical armaments, with the heavy converging beam cannon, the eight converging beam cannon turrets, the four high speed railguns, and the various point-defense weapons. The main difference, apart from the Movie version having been built with the city section where the TV version had to improvise it, would be in the implications of having a pair of Movie-type ARMD-class carriers instead of the Daedalus and Prometheus. The TV version SDF-1 Macross sailed with 212 VF-1 Valkyries and 120 QF-3000E Ghosts, in addition to various odds, ends, and auxiliary craft and inherited both the 587 Destroids that were embarked aboard the Daedalus and the remnants of the Prometheus's 150 Valkyrie complement. Not counting combat losses, that would've been 362 VF-1 Valkyries of various types, 120 QF-3000E Ghosts, and 648 Destroids counting the 61+ units built in the Macross's onboard factories. The Movie version SDF-1 Macross already had her ARMD-class ships docked when she set sail under enemy fire. It's not clear if she had fighters of her own, but each ARMD-class ship had 262 VF-1 Valkyries, 66 QF-3000E Ghosts, and various other odds, ends, and auxiliary craft. The Macross had an unspecified number of Destroids stationed aboard as well. If she didn't have the 212 VF-1 Valkyries and 120 Ghosts the TV version had based directly aboard her, then she definitely topped the TV version for VF-1s with 524 VF-1 Valkyries and 132 QF-3000E Ghosts. If she did have those 212 VF-1s and 120 Ghosts, she would've tipped the scales at a mighty 736 VF-1 Valkyries and 252 QF-3000E Ghosts, plus an unknown number of Destroids. The Movie version also left port with Super Packs for its VF-1s, where the TV version had to pick up most of the ones it used during resupply. ... only the one, AFAIK. The 30th Anniversary edition DX Chogokin YF-29 (Roy colors) was done for novelty's sake, but the Isamu Dyson YF-29 and Ozma Lee YF-29 were both created for the game Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy. When Isamu is originally encountered on the Sierra Desert map, he's flying his YF-19-2 Excalibur prototype and challenges Reon Sakaki to a race (which is the first look you get at the YF-30 you won't get until the final stage). Later, once he's been persuaded to join the local SMS forces in stopping Havamal and the Bandits, he winds up on a Vajra ship where Sharon Apple (who had been dragooned into helping Havamal control captured time-displaced characters and the Vajra) gives him his custom YF-29. That event got its own cutscene, and Isamu's YF-29 is present (kinda spoileriffically) in the game's opening animation. Ozma's custom YF-29 is something you get without any fanfare, it's just an upgrade given to you right before the end of the game, like Alto's YF-29. All told, there are six YF-29s you can obtain in Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy... In the order they appear in the video linked above, they are: the generic YF-29 Durandal that you get blueprints for once you reach a certain point in the game story, three character-specific YF-29 upgrades (for Alto Saotome, Ozma Lee, and Isamu Dyson, unlocked for anyone's use in New Game+), Rod Baltemar's Havamal-issue YF-29B Perceval (that is selectable, along with its pilot, in New Game+ only), and an Anniversary DLC YF-29 Durandal with the Ranka and Sheryl paintjob for which a code was provided in the premium edition (but was only redeemable with a Japanese PSN account). The Macross Chronicle coverage admits to four of them... Alto's YF-29 from Sayonara no Tsubasa, Ozma's YF-29 from Macross 30, Isamu's YF-29 from Macross 30, and Rod Baltemar's YF-29B from Macross 30.
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    Yeah, Frank's gettin' up there (EDIT: he's turning 90 on 1/1/20)... I believe his daughter Jehan is the one currently holding HG's reins as President and CEO and pursuing the family business of film production tax evasion. I know she was investigated not too long ago for failure to disclose foreign income on her taxes, so she's clearly a chip off the ol' block. I think the odds are pretty poor when it comes to the idea of Jehan Agrama selling off the company or sell the Robotech franchise to someone. My guess would be she probably intends to continue using it as a means to launder money the way her daddy nearly went to prison for.
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    Huh... so, does anyone here actually play this game? One of my coworkers put a lot of effort into convincing me to get back into PC gaming after giving it up like a decade ago, and he and several other members of our department apparently have their own group (is "clan" still the right word?) for Overwatch. I was rather surprised to learn that this kind of thing is now taken seriously enough for there to be televised professional competitions.
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    Haruhiko Mikimoto made similar, but less direct, remarks back in '92 in his (English!) interview in Animerica's inaugural issue... he expressed some confusion as to why Robotech existed at all, and more or less called Robotech fans naive.
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    YES. Mainly, this mindset is due to Robotech being the only title in Harmony Gold's profile that they can pretend is remotely relevant. The closest they've had to a truly respectable title is Shaka Zulu. They can continue pretending to be a production company and fondly imagine themselves to be influential in the anime industry while they maintain Robotech in its near-death state. Part of it is also that the people working on Robotech are themselves fanatical fans who believe their own hype about the franchise being popular, successful, and influential when it's really none of those things. McKeever is the worst of them, having once been a troll on various Macross forums.
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    ... eh, I disagree with your assessment of Valkyrie aesthetics in Macross sequels. As to drawing Mobile Suits by hand, what does it matter if they're hand-drawn if the show they're in is just a badly thought-out commercial for MSV Gunpla? There is no longer any kind of thought to Gundam beyond "buy our crap".
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    Ugh... 5x10^no thank you, Sunrise. It's like they've given up on trying to tell stories in favor of just making glitzy 22 minute commercials for toys.
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    Macross Chronicle does cover the Ozma and Isamu YF-29s in the mechanic sheet that also covers the YF-30 and YF-29B, so they may be a thing. I haven't translated the Macross 30 novelization yet.
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    ... now I kind of want an audio commentary of Super Dimension Fortress Macross by David Attenborough, narrated as though it were a nature documentary about the life and mating habits of the wild Regult. lol
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    Footraces.
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    I feel like this falls under the header of false advertising... this looks WAY more awesome than the admittedly pretty-awful game actually is.
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    No... but then, this "aircraft" clearly keeps itself in the air through the ground's sheer unwillingness to touch something so profoundly ugly.
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    True, landing on a copy of Titan Comics' Robotech is a dire fate even for bird feces... but gravity is a terribly harsh mistress who doesn't play favorites. It's not like the comic is fit for anything else apart from, perhaps, kindling. It's certainly not meant to be read, except outside of the countries where the constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Reminds me of a line from Blackadder Goes Forth... "Ah, yes, without question my favorite magazine; soft, strong, and thoroughly absorbent."
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    Not after you've used the comic to paper the bottom of a birdcage, no.
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    Since we had a long lunch today during a meeting marathon, I caught the latest episodes of To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts and Magical Sempai. To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts is starting to feel like it ran out of tricks and is desperately rummaging around for something to show the audience. I feel like this episode was bait-and-switch, since they promised some progress towards finding Cain Madhouse and it was another monster-of-the-week episode instead. Really a dick move after the setup in the previous episode [...] Once again, Nancy is completely useless and still refuses to accept that the Incarnates are beyond saving because they've lost human reason. The only thing that's really noteworthy is that [...] Magical Sempai's pretty fanservice-y this week, with a fairly stock cliche bit about the titular sempai overhearing what she thinks is her assistant saying he loves her (he's actually praising a prop) and inviting him to her place to gently turn him down before finding out she misunderstood. They do seem to be setting up a love triangle with the chemistry club lead though, which had some mildly entertaining moments.
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    It's... adequate... for basic stuff like living wills, standard forms of contract, etc. but for the complex stuff there's often no reasonable substitute for an actual lawyer. Harmony Gold could've avoided a LOT of problems over the Robotech franchise's history if they'd bothered to get proper legal advice from a qualified legal expert instead of relying on the legal equivalent of crib notes. Not very well, but they do pay them... which is why the franchise's attempt to reinvent itself as a credible anime property was stillborn. They weren't willing to spend the kind of money necessary to retain the kind of talent pool you need to do something like that. Instead, they hired fans who were willing to work for relatively paltry sums. (Curiously, there are several fans who seem to envy this...)
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    ... so you missed the joke completely, then? Nobody's criticizing them for outsourcing legal, the joke being that incompetence is so intrinsic to everything HG does that simply being competent makes the legal counsel they've retained stick out like a sore thumb. (You know, when people think of corporations lawyering up their mental image is of a professional corporate lawyer... even though those only really exist in the big corporations, not little fly-by-night outfits like HG.) (Mind you, they seem to use legalzoom for things they really oughtn't, like processing cease and desists and using their free legal dictionary in an attempt to understand the terms of their own license... leading to cockups like their claim that having used MOSPEADA designs with permission in derivative works made them owners of the MOSPEADA designs, which earned them the ire of Tatsunoko in arbitration.)
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    An important distinction should be made that I am not the author of the Macross Mecha Manual... I handle research, book-hunting, and backend administration tasks so that its author, Mr March, doesn't need to worry about fiddly administrative trivia. To sum it up with a pithy turn of phrase, it's Mr March's baby, I'm the babysitter. I have it on excellent authority that a lot of Harmony Gold's "legal" department is actually handled by legalzoom.com. It's only for lawsuits that they hire actual lawyers... presumably because they couldn't find someone with a law degree from Trump University, the Albert Merrill School, or another sham university.
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    KonoSuba is entertaining as long as you don't think too hard about it... but it also wears out its welcome VERY quickly because the recurring joke is that Kazuma will never be allowed to make any lasting progress towards his goal. The anime ends pretty much at the point where it would've started getting really tedious.
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    No... there are still casual Robotech fans who don't know, and Robotech fans themselves constantly muddy the waters with the aforementioned constant efforts to "adopt" Macross sequel content into Robotech. I get, as webmaster for the Macross Mecha Manual, 1-2 emails every month asking why the site doesn't cover Robotech-specific mecha like the "YF-1R" or the mecha of the Southern Cross and MOSPEADA shows. Their legal counsel is formidable precisely because it isn't theirs. If they had an in-house corporate lawyer I'm sure he/she would be as dozy and incompetent as the rest of the HG staff. Their lawyers are only capable because they don't work for Harmony Gold itself.
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    There are recent Star Trek comics? Not being sarcastic here, I've heard nothing. I know they did some for Bad Reboot's not-a-reboot timeline in a desperate attempt to milk a fandom that didn't exist which didn't sell very well... but that was ages ago. Wasn't that TAS, though? There wasn't much to do afterwards, since Enterprise put in for a multi-year refit and Kirk got promoted to a desk job pushing papers for Admiral Nogura. A lot of the old Star Trek comics were pretty bad. I remember some TOS movie era ones that were kind of unusual, a lot of revisiting old TOS plots, but they had a first Klingon officer in Starfleet (a Klingon pacifist defector named Konom) before TNG came along and introduced Worf in that capacity. The ones I remember really well were that short-lived Starfleet Academy series, which was short-lived for good reason. When it wasn't succumbing to the worst sins of the comics industry, it was harping on Roddenberry's utopian ideal in ways that even Roddenberry himself would've considered in screamingly poor taste.
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