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JValk

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  1. i tread veryyyyyy lightly when i mention toys these days. usually it's like *our son would like this toy* not *i would like this toy for moi* little does she know, the obsession still burns...

  2. you want to hear the saddest thing ever? My wife surprised me on Father's Day (yep my first one, my boy is 3 months old) with a 40 gig IPod, and you know what I thought?  "Man, I could have gotten BOTH Minmay Guard Types customized in 1/48!  Maybe I'll return this Ipod for the cheap version, and still buy a VF-1J 1/48 for customizing into the Paris Moon Minmay..."

    Knock some sense into me, folks.  Or am I preaching to the converted?

    i'd keep the Ipod hands down.

    i mean its your/planets entire music collection ready to go anywhere you go. bring a valk to play with on a road trip/flight is not the same as having some rocking tunes where ever you go, for the rest of your life. 40 gigs, thats how many songs? how many albums?

    if you'd like, i literally just got a 1/48 Super 1J hikaru yesterday if you want to trade for the IPOD. :D

    Yep i guess you are right. this thing is holding 1300+ songs of mine so far, and it only used up 2 gigs. what do i do with the rest of the 38 gigs? ugh!

  3. you want to hear the saddest thing ever? My wife surprised me on Father's Day (yep my first one, my boy is 3 months old) with a 40 gig IPod, and you know what I thought? "Man, I could have gotten BOTH Minmay Guard Types customized in 1/48! Maybe I'll return this Ipod for the cheap version, and still buy a VF-1J 1/48 for customizing into the Paris Moon Minmay..."

    Knock some sense into me, folks. Or am I preaching to the converted?

  4. Yep not Canon. That's why you won't ever see a Yamato version of it. On the other hand they DID do a Low Vis, and if Hasegawa followed through with it, who knows - a factory made Minmay Guard toy could be possible. But I personally love the work the fans do on the customs of it *hugs his commission, gets hurt by pointy plastic pieces*

  5. I wonder why the Buster Machine and all the clothing/uniforms have that droopy arm look.

    1) because someone decided to "pilot candidate" this series - bad idea.

    2)because gunbuster wasn't embarassed enough, so they had to butcher the outfits too.

    3)because they sucketh.

  6. SYNOPSIS

    The war between mankind and the Uchuu Kaiju (space monsters) didn't end after Noriko had gone off. The military conflict between both combatants has been continuing on. No one can match the Uchuu Kaiju (space monsters) in battle. The only exception to this is "TOPLESS", the fighter group consisting of only children having  supernatural powers, and Buster Machines operated by them. Nono is a young girl fresh from the countryside and a candidate for the space force pilot. She meets Raruku who is the strongest member of TOPLESS. Nono adores her as "Oneesama" (senior sister). The  Uchuu Kaiju are closing in on Mankind's home planet. Nono fights them in order to aim for the top together with her teammates, Nicola and Chiko.

    Hey! That's my synopsis! Where did you find it, other than here, the Gunbuster Fan Club, or on my Gunbuster 2 page? :o

    By the way, My Gunbuster 2 page can be seen here: http://www.toponeraegunbuster.com/Gunbuster-News.html. It's nothing more that a rehash of what has been said on the Japanese sites, but I just made the images, synopsis, and staff accessible from one page. Not the best looking page, but it gets the job done.

    that's probably where i found it! and oi i think that IS the buster machine...oh no....

  7. Oh no....after reading about the link to Pilot Candidate and the text below, TOPLESS could really, really, suck. Big ones. Supernatural powers is a freaking cop-out. Noriko had innate ability, but dammit it was about HARD WORK! AIM FOR THE FREAKING TOP!

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    SYNOPSIS

    The war between mankind and the Uchuu Kaiju (space monsters) didn't end after Noriko had gone off. The military conflict between both combatants has been continuing on. No one can match the Uchuu Kaiju (space monsters) in battle. The only exception to this is "TOPLESS", the fighter group consisting of only children having supernatural powers, and Buster Machines operated by them. Nono is a young girl fresh from the countryside and a candidate for the space force pilot. She meets Raruku who is the strongest member of TOPLESS. Nono adores her as "Oneesama" (senior sister). The Uchuu Kaiju are closing in on Mankind's home planet. Nono fights them in order to aim for the top together with her teammates, Nicola and Chiko.

  8. OK...

    1)WHERE ARE YOU MIKIMOTO!

    2)Please don't tell me that thing with the Michelin Man arms is supposed to be the Buster Machine. Let's hope it's a cheesy robot sidekick - not that it validates that thing's existence here, but it would be a slight improvement.

    3)Um, where's the skin? Show some leg! Gunbuster was famous for inventing the Bouncing boob in anime, among other groundbreaking fanservices. Cater to the fanboy in all of us and help me relive my pubescent past by allowing me to leer at some leg flesh, at least! And no, I don't mean that male character's bodysuit short-shorts.

    4)Finally, the plot. Heck if Babelfish shed any light on it - although "Topless" technology sounds promising, it's probably a red herring. Also, don't you think the plot would have been better served with the protagonists from the first Gunbuster acclimating themselves to the future, and having to strap on the old Buster when things heat up with the aliens again? Yeah it's derivative, but at this point the sequel is SO overdue, you might as well make it an homage rather than anything else.

  9. I was bitterly dissappointed with this title. Not eally all that funny.

    There are only two reasons why it wouldn't be funny -

    1)The viewer cannot relate, because they aren't familiar with the "world of otaku" enough to appreciate the inside humor.

    2)The viewer IS an otaku, or uncomfortably close to one, so the defensive mechanism kicks in to either belittle the parody or just find it unfunny.

    Personally I find it funny except for the bits that I go "hey....um, that's me."

  10. Congrats on the baby! A full head of hair too - that's always fun! Get ready for alot of sleepless nites - and hide alllll your models and toys once he starts to crawl - they'll have to stay in storage until he's 21 (not 18, because he might try to sell your stuff behind your back to buy a cheap silver locket to impress his girlfriend, darn sneaky teens)

  11. this has to rate up there with that rant on the Daily Show a while back by Lord whoever about Everquest - an inside geek look of rage.

    You have to admit, if you just walk into a store and look for something with the Macross Kite symbol on it, you are going to get flummoxed fast. Conan, you have hit the nail on the head. Poor Macross.

  12. Nah, Eps. 5 will have more pre-pubescent fan service. Yeah yeah, I know National Geographic shows kids without clothes on all the time, but a young Sara without her top? "The creators were just trying to be authentic as to the tropical native context..." Yeah right.

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