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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Many VFs are actually quite light compared to modern aircraft, so they wouldn't need to be using as much thrust to stay aloft like that... but yeah, that raises the awkward question of just how high he is above the audience if his jet wash isn't knocking the crowd about. If he's at least a couple hundred yards away, then he ought to be fine and just generating a moderately heavy breeze. The thing I'd be more worried about is the heat. That exhaust is intake air heated by a fusion reaction and contains a fair bit of plasma from that heating and some bled off the reactor.
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    They're surrounded by displays... maybe some kind of support AI? I've got a theory about that... Messer is easily the least sociable, most standoffish member of Delta Platoon and he seems to really resent Hayate. Maybe Var syndrome is more of a threat to people who are repressing a lot of anger? I wonder if that means the Sv-262 doesn't have an inertia store converter, and the Windermerians are tanking the g-forces on their own...
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    I'd assume that Walkure is not the only Tactical Sound Unit that exists to fight Var syndrome... the military wouldn't let one unit be sufficient for a single fleet in the 2040's. Each Chaos branch office may maintain a Tactical Sound Unit, or it's possible the New UN Forces have their own, or other PMCs raised their own units. As Var syndrome is said to be a galaxy-wide problem in 2067, that'd imply that Heinz's range (with amplification) is effectively in the tens of thousands of light years. (Not without precedent, the Vajra were capable of intergalactic transmission.) Dunno... but their lifespans are so short we can at least be assured it wouldn't be a longwinded reign.
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    Not just her music, IIRC... the Sharon Apple incident led to not just her music being temporarily legislated off the shelves, but the technology behind a fully responsive virtuoid being banned. IINM there was a virtuoid in Macross the Musiculture but it wasn't "alive". Not necessarily... that's the Old Norse for "Fire", and we seem to be doing a bit of a classical elements theme in Delta. We've already got the Humans (Earth?), Windermerians (Wind), Ragnans (Water), and now this other group who are presumably representing Fire.
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    Ah, sitting down to watch this one right now...
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    Yeah, that's the one I meant. Nope, I gave up on those ages ago... too many "blind idiot" translations. I just summarized for the sake of brevity. *nods* My view of that is more a note on the difference in pronunciation rules between Classical and Liturgical Latin, the latter being far more prevalent than the former in modern society because of its association with a modern religion (and media depictions thereof). Even though Christianity is a minority religion over in Japan, I'd expect Liturgical Latin to be the one they're more familiar with, thus necessitating the note. Literal, historical significance would've been my reason for picking "Gallia" over "Gaul" as a translation... but then, that's probably my bias speaking. A lot of the Roman settlements in Gallia/Gaul sprang up around the forts constructed to hold the territory, and that seems to be kind of the way Gallia/Gaul 4 was going before Grace blew it up, being that it was way out on the frontier.
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    Huh... 's anyone else flashing back to Orguss and Mimsy's predicament?
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    ... er... the R-word is kind of verboten here, as is asking for pirated material. Also, as it doesn't relate to Macross, this is in the wrong forum too. You'd want Anime or Science Fiction.
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    Er... not trying to be a smartarse, but isn't ゴール used in the very first paragraph of that Wikipedia article as an explanation of precisely the difference that we're talking about? They note that it's "Gallia" (ガッリア or ガリア) for the classical Latin name of the region and "Gaule" (ゴール) for the (Old) French equivalent. The disambiguation page for ゴール also links back to that article. On that basis, my gut instinct would be to go with the translation closest to the spoken/written pronunciation of the word... that being the Latin version (but I may be slightly biased toward the Latin as someone who wasted 3 years on classical Latin in school).
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    The animated installments of Macross almost never delve into the backstories of the mecha themselves, though it would not surprise me if the almost-inevitable novelization of Macross Delta does mention Major Blanchett's role in the fighter's development. 's good writing practice to move on after a character's arc has exhausted itself... we've seen what happens when a Macross-derivative doesn't move on from the old characters in the strangled, increasingly fanfic-ish efforts of The Show That Must Not Be Named. A lot of the Macross Frontier fansubs went with "Gallia" or "Galia"... presumably because that's closest to the pronunciation of ガリア. If they'd wanted it to be read "Gaul" wouldn't they have spelled it ゴール? (My suspicion is that the use of "Gallia" instead of "Gaul" was a historical in-joke, referencing its status both as "the frontier" and garrisoned territory... which the conquered territory of Gallia was to the Roman empire.)
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    ... Ragu Nyan-Nyan is a Chinese restaurant, man. Cooking the cat is kind of the low-hanging fruit of humor, isn't it?
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    Just puttin' this out there, but the VF-1 Valkyrie's transformation time was approximately 1 second even in the original series (per listed spec.)... and the actuators involved have probably been upgraded several times with modern technology over the fifty or so years the design's been kicking around.
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    Isn't that just Big Bang Theory with musician jokes and Basara playing the role of Sheldon? Well, yes and no... we know that he continued to bum around the galaxy until at least 2060, when he recorded his tracks for Re:Fire! and sent them to the rest of the band via the Galaxy Network. So he didn't really disappear, he just chose to stay out of the spotlight. Very few of Macross's protagonists have out-and-out vanished... but there does seem to be a laudable tradition of having them get out of the way once their stories have reached a natural conclusion so they aren't bumming around the periphery distracting people from the main cast of the next series. If you don't push characters whose relevance expired with the previous series offstage when you're developing a new story, you end up with a shameful mess like the Star Wars expanded universe, revolving forever around the same handful of holdovers with progressively weaker excuses to make them the center of events.
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    Let's just hope the dojinshi artists didn't see you write that... I'm trying to decide if this is a euphemism or not... But either way that got a chuckle out of me.
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    True, though I guess that's all down to how "main" one considers it... Aye... Percival was not a sword himself, he was a knight. (Whether his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries is up for debate, though.) Kind of a "one of these things is not like the other" situation, considering the VF-9, VF-19, and YF-29 were Cutlass, Excalibur/Caliburn/Nothung, and Durandal respectively... those being a normal sword, variously the legendary magical swords of King Arthur (twice) and Sigurd (on whom King Arthur is based), and the holy/magical sword of Charlemagne's paladin Roland. (Serial escalation? What will the VF-39 be if we're already basically up to 11?) Possibly... it wouldn't be the first time. The main gun on the retrofit Macross-class in Macross II: Lovers Again was partially built into the ARMDs that formed its arms... though was apparently so powerful that it damaged the ships considerably just by firing.
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    She's saving the live rounds for the first date. That's living dangerously... who wants to be on the receiving end of a hacked-off Zentradi roughly the size and mass of four brick sh*thouses stacked together?
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    Yes, he's been transported through time like everyone else... it's Basara circa 2046-7, though unlike the rest of the cast he seems to care not at all about his predicament. Nope, he's flying the Fire Valkyrie... Basara lost possession of that in 2047. The ship in the top left of the dojinshi's front cover is a fan-made design called the Kaga-class, which is sort of jumbo version of the animation's Guantanamo-class with twelve catapults instead of eight and a Uraga-style bridge tower. The art on the cover is drawn to a consistent scale, so you can see how big it's supposed to be vs. the Guantanamo-class. That dojinshi series has some interesting material, some of it mined from incredibly obscure sources, and a hearty helping of fan-made material. The Kaga-class is one of several fan-made designs in that volume, the others being mainly Northampton-class or Stealth Cruiser variants beyond the ones described in official material (like a carrier variant of the early Northampton-class, or a Stealth Cruiser with a keel-mounted quantum reaction cannon ala the Macross Quarter). I've found it to be a fantastic resource for fleshing out stats sheets for Macross RPGs, but as a reference work it has little value...
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    Um... the first one was 24 years ago, mate. Delta would be the third, if it happens.
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    Not everyone... Messer seems to think that Hayate's a reprehensible bellend, and Mirage seems to think he's a bit touched in the head too.
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    Not really "new", but new to the website at least... for those who want this in print, it's also in the last issue of Great Mechanics G and the Macross Modelers pamphlet.
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    She's not the only one... one of the waitresses at Ragunyan-nyan is clearly carrying a torch for him as well. (She's even shown watching him from behind one of the columns inside the restaurant in the OP. I wonder if, since it's owned by Chuck's family, that would make her his sister or something? Maybe Messer's not going for that because he respects the bro code?)
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    It's not clear how much time actually passes in that training sequence, but we actually see Hayate attempt those exact same maneuvers early in the episode and the training AI keeps trying to stop him and force his aircraft back to level. Pretty sure Messer has taken it upon himself to ensure that Hayate either knuckles down or gets the hell out.
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    All three modes.
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    It's not just you. That evil smile of hers when she starts trolling Hayate from the comfort of her cockpit is adorable.
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