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The original SD Gundam is a master piece of comedy. It features all the original voice actors and MSs. This SD Gundam is a hack made for the American audience. <_< and that's a problem because...? I do wish the original SD-Gundam gets released here. Comedic-value and all. Its not a problem at all..... beyong the fact that this new show is dumb at best. But then again... I'm just 1 person, and thats just my opinion. <_< err, so you just have a problem with it, then? ---- You never know. If the Superior Defender will make enough sales here, it might just justify the US release of the original SD-Gundams. Just like the upcoming Zeta-release next year or so. --treatment--

No, I have not seen Apocalypse Zero, but I've seen Tylor and it's one of the classics. I think Tylor was as popular as Macross-TV. Afaik, it has a better character-development and better/correct military-terminologies.I guess you just haven't seen Tylor, no? Errr, I believe Kawamori was inspired by the mecha in Gundam, and not by Tomino's weird story about spacenoid-newtypes. *shrug* All I see now is the godly Sentinels Gundam models. I don't see any Sentinel-novels over here right now. Why the heck would I want to read a mecha-novel, anyway? The reason why I got into Gundams is, well, I wanna see the Gundams. Models and animated. Yup. I'm not even sure you can classify the wingers as just "casual fans". So why is Seed so popular right now? The story is a known hack. Could it be that the Gundams in Seed are just damn good-looking in animation? Yup. Amuro was overly shallow and quite a whiner, too. Huh?! Whatever, Abombs. It's really just your shallow personal opinion of the characters and mechas in Zero and you're really just in the minority regarding Zero. --- Oh, yeah. For anyone thinking I'm an AC-nutcase, I'm not. I'm a UC-fan just like any other old-timers my age.

Bastard! oh, well. I dont even have funds for the fastpacks, yet, anyway.

The original SD Gundam is a master piece of comedy. It features all the original voice actors and MSs. This SD Gundam is a hack made for the American audience. <_< and that's a problem because...? I do wish the original SD-Gundam gets released here. Comedic-value and all.

Excel's funny. but FLCL own3dz it. ;P

Uhmm, you're a bit wrong there. Big West 's current portfolio: http://animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/c...pany.php?id=314 Yeah. MSG bombed shitlessly in Japan when it was first shown there. If not for the mecha-otakus fancying the mecha-designs of Gundam, it would've gone to oblivion. I've always wondered why Tomino's got an unhealthy fascination on young boys and still clings on esp. fwiw, G-Gundam pissed off alot of UC-fans like me when it was released. And Wing created a new bunch of AC-gundam fans that's now into Seed and are basically responsible for the continued fascinating and extreme popularity of Gundams. The best Gundam right now is not even a show, but a model-kit: Sentinels. Fwiw, Zeta and Seed ain't even officially out here, yet. Err, do you really believe Amuro Rei was not the ultimate crappy shallow character? Oh, puh-lease! Macross-Zero is all that and a bag of chips. You're just one of the few that just don't like it personally.

yup. it's a pretty kewl new show. definitely kiddy, but still kewl. I think the mechas are gonna be mixed UC and AC variations. The zakus are the old uc-types and capt.gundam looks like some sort of gp-01. The trailers show alot of ac-type gundams, tho. The animation and art were great. The kid was alot more tolerable than the corny kids from TF-Armada. long live chibi-gundams!

I couldn't agree more Rob. Big West really needs to be more proactive about advertising and they really need to get a new Macross TV series on air as soon as possible and push it as hard as they can. I've heard very vague rumors of a new TV series coming after Zero finishes, but nothing concrete. Perhaps Egan Loo (Macross Compendium) would know something? Personaly, I think BW dropped the ball long ago by not airing a sequel TV series to Macross in the mid-to late 80's (and then a new Macross series every 2-3 years thereafter). Original Macross was pretty damn popular at the time, but BW wasted too much time on other less successful projects before returning to Macross in the 1990s. By that time they had left it too late and a lot of fans had moved on or lost interest. If BW do release a new Macross TV series, I think they would have to go with a more mainstream approach in order to capture a bigger fanbase. While I personaly love Macross 7, it was a little to 'out there' for many people and alienated a lot of fans. This of course begs the question, what do we as fans want in a new Macross TV series? Do we want a more mainstream approach ala Gundam SEED, aimed to appeal to a younger audience and thus sell more toys, models and CDs? Or do we want to trust Kawamori's vision, knowing full well that he may veer off into unpredictable teritory and give us a Macross that while inovative and fresh may only appeal to a limited audience? Graham considering there's a new SD-Gundam (superior defender) show .... why not an SD-Macross show, too?

Your poll is a bit weird, since Macross Complete actually includes TV and DYRL soundtracks, as well as BGMs and other standalone radio-drama music. I can't remember if it includes the MacII Ishtar songs. I also can't vote on the "I like all of Macross soundtracks" option, since I generally avoid the crappy M7/Firebomber music. So, Macross Complete gets my vote. It's one package. But it's not on your poll-options, so I guess it's Other. The Mac+ soundtracks are also good, but it's scattered into several separate cd's. I think I have all of the various Macross TV soundtracks (including DYRL and radio-dramas and promos), all of Mac+ releases, one MacII, and the one available Macross Zero OST. I abhor the M7 soundtracks, but I do have and like the Mylene Sings Minmay cd. I suggest you get all of the Macross TV/DYRL and Plus soundtracks. --treatment--

especially in the Movies and Other Anime sections. It's really stupid and quite board-fugly to have more than two or three sticky-threads in a section. I highly suggest you guys move some of those sticky-threads to the FAQ-forum and just make one sticky-label reminding people to check the FAQ-forum. Or eliminate some of the low-traffic sections and make one single-forum dedicated to these sticky-threads. --treatment--

you know, guys (and girls, if any), regardless of what we all think of what happened or not with Guld's arc, one thing is pretty evident in this thread: We all so much love the Macross Plus story. So much so that varying smart-level interpretations of the intelligent drama-aspect of the show completely engulfs all of us in a rather intelligent and civilized manner of discussion. Kudos to you all and to Macross Plus for being such a powerful and premiere Macross title. Keep up the smartness. +ACo-thumbs up+ACo- --treatment--

You know, I really don't think it was even rape, but rather jealous rage/assault that was committed or gonna be committed by Guld during the flashbacks. I mean how can Guld proceed to rape her when Isamu was present in that room and scene? I doubt that Isamu was socked cold by Guld and Isamu would've killed Guld then and there if rape were to have happened. And how can Myung forgive and forget or even be at the same place with Guld after a rape? That's alot of traumatic stuff that cannot be forgotten nor forgiven. Oh, well. I still think Isamu dying in M+ would have been the most monumentally stupid act of story-writing.

Ok. I absolutely adore the japanese-dubbing on Mahoromatic and I've basically finished Maho-2 already some months ago. Nevertheless, since this is a Region-1 release and it's been a long time since I listened to the english-dubs of Mahoro.... This is the first time I'm watching Season-2 in it's english-dubs and it's kinda meh-to-ok quality, although it's an all-star bandai/pioneer voice-actors cast, imho. Oh, uhh, they also kinda screwed up the pronounciation of the "Minawa" name, i.e. Mee-nawah instead of Mi-na-wah. I need to brush up on the english-va names, but I did recognized a few english-vocals and presented here in their familiar anime-titles characters: -- Rem/Shinobu as Mahoro -- Keitaro Urashima as Suguru -- Spike Speigel as Ryuga sensei -- Faye Valentine as Saori sensei -- Minoru Kokubunji as the boy-android Feldrance. I haven't figure out who the english-vocals on Minawa, yet, tho it's at the tip of my tongue right now. ---- Oh, uhh, yeah. Did I mention Season-2 is very heavy on fan-service compared to Season-1? And it's not just Mahoro's? hehehe +AF4AXwBe- +AF4AXwBe- +AF4AXwBe-

welp! Got home and found Maho-2 r1-package waiting for me. Damn usps for delaying it since I know they had it in since last week, but didnt deliver for some odd reason. Anyway, here's what the package-contains: It doesn't contain those gnarly-kewl character mini-standups stuff like the season-1 r1-packages were including. Well, just an fyi to mahoro fanboyz. :)

The sad thing is I still haven't found the FLCL boxset edition. Sadly, no flcl-boxset unless you buy it from online, i guess. Even suncrap don't have the boxset on retail. FLCL disc-3 (non-boxset) is out on Software Etc, Electronic Boutique, and GameStop stores for $24. You might ask the clerks of these stores if they have any boxed-version left.

well, i just bought the WS-version for +ACQ-15 at the local wal-mart about an hour ago. :)

ohhhhh, the sequel. nope. haven't seen it, yet.

sam goody and suncoast ( i think they're sister-companies or something) both have sucktacular pricing. Selling it for $30 is highway-robbery considering the poor job Manga did on the release, i.e. poor vhs-quality video-transfer and exclusion of the excellent english-dubs of the OVA. You should've gotten it from Bestbuy (ironic since I think bestbuy owns those two stores above), CircuitCity, Gamestop, Electronic Boutique, and Software Etc because they all sell it for $20 or less. --treatment--

Yes. Disc-2 was kinda meh on their serious/action-episodes, but was totally rockin' on the comedy-episodes. Haven't received Disc-3, yet. The english-dubs was meh, even after two discs. Gotta listen to it in Japanese-dubs.

I just completed Dai-Guard last week and am prolly gonna write my review this weekend. The english-dubs gets better in the later discs and this is one show that ADV was totally successful in being converting to American-centric humor and situations. The ending was kinda meh, tho. --treatment--

It's been kinda tight for quality-releases this year, tho I'm fairly impressed with ADV so far. This year's been pretty good for ADV title-releases. Not only that, but the quality of the ADV english-dubbing had dramatically improved on most of the titles! A few of their better dubbed releases this year: -- CatGirl NukuNuku -- DaiGuard complete -- Excel complete -- Rahxephon -- Mazinkaiser -- Sakura Wars (ova and tv) -- Colorful -- Full Metal Panic (borderline-dubs, but great new show) -- Voices of a Distant Star -- Steel Angel Kurumi 2 If only they'd hurry up and release Azumanga Daioh and Nadesico-movie this year. I also like Pioneer for Chobits and Mahoromatic dvd's and OST's. The boxsets for El Hazard and re-release of Tenchi OVA single-discs were good, too. Bandai's best title so far this year (imho) is Please Teacher and Love Hina Again's release is scheduled next week. props to Funimation for completing Fruits Basket release and TokyoPop for GTO. Tho TokyoPop's pulled a stupid with Initial D. Much thanks to SynchPoint for finally completing FLCL. Now if only they can speed up on their other good title "I'm Gonna be an Angel". Much thanks to VIZ for finally releasing Maison Ikkoku on r1 dvd! --treatment--

Invision has quite a bunch of very neat features. Just check your board-settings options. Since an otherwise good thread (the collections-thread in Toys) was recently closed, I like to understand if the new board-settings such as: Do you wish to view images in posts, such as smilies and posted images? YES/NO is broken already or is really not that effective of a board-feature at all. Especially for 56k dial-up members. Just wondering about this. --treatment--

It's pretty good for a 30-minute short. but it's really short. hopefully the artist does more. it has alot of potential.

the one and only... treatment there can be only one....

hmm. i'm a poor bastard compared to you guys. my current yammie-inventory: 1/60 = 8 (two strikes, two supers, two cf's, and one max-1a & hikaru-1a. 1/48 = 1 (one hikaru-1a) plans for the next year or two or three: 1/60 = rest of the line 1/48 = rest of the line 1/72 = rest of the line