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1 hour ago, azrael said:

Frontier and Delta, being the newer of the set, have better ROI than 7. Older shows get lower priority because of higher ROI, needs more time to remaster for Blu-ray, are less popular than their later cousins, etc./all the above. 

ROI yes, but 7 was already remastered on blu-ray some number of years ago.

5 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

Yup, as we suspected, 'cus it's been like 2-3 years, Nozomu is out (since they no linger exist). I'm sad 7 isn't officially relicensed yet, but hopefully soon.

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

 

Spoiler

Poor kid will live to see his dad's legacy go to waste in a few years after the Battle of Endor....

Still....best Star Wars ever....the bar has been set too high now...lol

Dude, spoiler that for those that haven't watched yet. I might have Jay & Silent Bob'd you if I read your post before watching.

1 hour ago, Duke Togo said:

I don't know how I'm going to sleep after watching that. I can't wait to wake up tomorrow and watch Rogue One.

This falls into that rare pantheon of things that truly make the whole so much stronger. That frakkin' ending though, that last cut absolutely had me.

This release is fantastic. That is all.

On 1/24/2025 at 7:35 PM, Shawn said:

https://natalie.mu/eiga/pp/macross_aiobo_uhdbd/page/1

 

I'm extremely hyped after reading that interview.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

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Yeah, any way you shake it the whole "At Attin is a planet of eternal treasure" thing doesn't really work.

At Attin has apparently not had contact with the greater galaxy in many MANY years, so...

• If the Old Republic Mint on At Attin is minting credits using rare and intrinsically valuable materials, then the treasure isn't the mint and isn't eternal because there has to be a finite quantity of the precious raw material held in whatever reserve is supplying the mint.
• If the Old Republic Mint on At Attin is minting fiat money then the only value the credits have is neumismatic, meaning they will quickly lose all their value once any collector checks into them and realizes they were minted recently or the very limited market becomes saturated.
• If there is still some government or governments out there honoring the fiat money of the long-defunct Old Republic... WHY?  That government fell over a thousand years ago.

The more you think about it, the less it makes sense.

The one possibility I can think of that makes this make sense is that the actual prize is the mint facility itself and...

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... the pirates goal is to use the mint's equipment to mint unlimited quantities of (potentially undetectable) counterfeit New Republic or Imperial credits.

Think about it.

At Attin may well be the only place in the galaxy where Old Republic credits are still in circulation as legal tender.  A finite supply of raw material would run out, and the value of the credit chips as antiques would quickly collapse as supply outstripped demand.  But if the mint facility can be used to make modern currency... well... then the pirates would not only have all the makings of an industrial-scale counterfeiting operation, but a base of operations for it on a planet so far off the grid that almost everyone in the galaxy believes it's a myth not a real place.

That would really make At Attin a Planet of Eternal Treasure... the ability to print unlimited modern money there and spend it elsewhere in the galaxy.

 

 

54 minutes ago, Dynaman said:

What are old republic credits made of?  Has to be some kind of valuable material since "credits" from a defunct empire (or republic) are worthless.

Gold pressed latinum....

I just have a terrible feeling that they're trying to dub Frontier & Delta before releasing them on D+ in the U.S. I just don't see HG being the problem this time.

I love that these A.I. things struggle to achieve even a fraction of "Thunderbirds" quality.

Crunchyroll super quietly just added 2205 & 3199 this month. I literally stumbled on them by accident.

1 hour ago, anime52k8 said:

never have I seen so many people so wrong and so proud in their profound ignorance.

This is Macross World. Look at how many decades it took to stop raging against Macross 7...

As I've already said though, I love works this production team has put out before, am excited to see their take on Gundam, and am sure it'll not be insulting like that hot trash "Requium" or boring like "Witch From Mercury".

3 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

this is Character designer's art page:

https://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/takegarou/

twitter:

 

Better yet, he was also character designer on "Katanagatari".

27 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

this is Character designer's art page:

https://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/takegarou/

twitter:

 

I can see why that designer was chosen though. Amongst other things, there is a "Clamp" like quality to their designs. That trailer also evokes a lot of "Kare Kano" feels.

2 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

but what about Pokémon?  can't wait till they debut a Haro Poké capture ball.

Look at this man's resume and tell me you're still worried abour Pokemon designs.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=172

Except "Captain Earth", ignore that one...

Even before I saw the director credit, I immediately said "Kare Kano, Diebuster, FLCL".

"Kazuya Tsurumaki", I am 1000% on board for this. 

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Hmmm... it's been so busy at work I legitimately forgot this series was releasing this week!

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Huh... the way it was advertised, I thought this was supposed to be something of a kid's show. 

The first onscreen character death comes at just 1:36 into the first episode.  Within 90 seconds there's more than a dozen people dead and this is just the first scene.  Years of our boy Hondo have clearly set my expectations for Star Wars space pirates too far into the "kid friendly" zone.  Yikes.

I do love that bit of dark comedy where, after having the freighter's captain spaced for refusing to open the vault and giving a boastful speech, the pirate captain kicks down the freshly cut vault door to find a single credit waiting for him... at which point he's promptly confronted by a mutiny.

It is, in a very strange way, unaccountably nice to see that the Galaxy Far Far Away actually does have a Nice Place to Live.

The whole "space suburbia" thing has this wonderfully 80's retrofuturism to it.  Half the walls are at a 45 degree angle for no reason, there's lots of leatherette and wood paneling, the alien neighbors are walking alien pets, and the neighbor's robot lawnmower is just a droid pushing a regular pushmower.  The care that went into the visual design for really does a lot to make At Attin feel truly lived-in.  Or I guess it's lived-on?

The bus driver even looks to be the same model of droid from the old Galaxy Tours attraction.

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Star Wars has been so focused on orphans and kids from rural backgrounds that it honestly feels both weird and refreshing to have characters who actually do something as mundane as going to a normal school and take standardized tests.  Even if it is run by droids for some reason.

The exploration of the buried ship is a neat, and well-done bit of cinematography too.  Having it be upside-down is a very nice touch.  I did crack up a bit how Wim's dad sees the landscape start to heave up as the ship lifts off, and just IMMEDIATELY starts walking backwards without missing a beat.  I'm not sure if he's just emotionally dead or he's rational enough to know he wants no part of that.  The ship shedding all that dirt and debris as it slowly rolls over is a very cool effects shot too.  (The puff of dust it leaves behind when it jumps to hyperspace is fun touch too.)

The droid being named SM-33... Smee, as in, Mr. Smee from Peter Pan is a nice touch.

Wim... Wim is increasingly giving "Too dumb to live" vibes.  Like 80% of the things that happen in the first episode and a half happen because his first instinct seems to be to do whatever the most recent person to speak to him told him NOT to do.  

 

I am unaccountably happy that, on Skeleton Crew, someone actually did find skeletons of the ship's original crew.  I was hoping that gag would come up and it did.

 

The spaceport scene's another one where the showrunners clearly put a ton of effort into making the place look and feel lived in.  From the grunge everywhere to the weird hawkers giving informercial-esque sales pitches for assassin droids.

(It really is convenient that they're from the one planet absolutely bloody nobody has heard of.  Or apparently that absolutely nobody thinks is real.)

 

I admit I am bit lost at one point... weren't Old Republic credits basically worthless outside the Republic in The Phantom Menace?  Why are they apparently worth fighting for now?  

 

SM-33's kind of a badass.  Best droid beatdown since K-2SO humbled all those Stormtroopers in Rogue One.  And we're back to the same pirate crew we saw murdering tons of people at the start.  That actually works really nicely as an organic way to merge those two storylines.  

 

All in all, not a bad start at all.  I'm interested to see where it goes.

I'm still not sure how I feel about this series, the first ep was very unnerving with the jump from Harlock-esque harpoon tubes into ships (frakkin' awesome) to "Space Suburbia". I haven't watched the second ep yet, but the end of the first left me with a wild theory.

No matter what happens, this is already 100x better than "The Acolyte".

On 11/5/2024 at 7:33 PM, oshanmacross said:

Happy with the artbook, I don't recall ever seeing a good percentage of this production art.
I have the Japanese DVD and Blu-Ray box, the two "this is animation" art books and some of this stuff I have never seen before.

Now the hard subs of course are an atrocity...... 

Hoping to actually be satisfied with the Japanese DYRL 4K Blu-Ray, but we all know how terrible the video quality looked last time on the standard Blu-Ray.
Fearful it will be a smoothed out AI mess.
 

They're locked, not hard. Hard subs are actually burned into the video, locked subs "could" be worled around with a prpprr doftware or hardware hack(such as re-authoring the didcs to remove the lock flag, or using a player that ignore's such locks).

8 minutes ago, CollectorCanine said:

Here's a list of issues I have found with All the Anime/Anime Limited's Macross Plus Ultimate Edition Blu-ray set:

- The discs are held on cheap, crappy spindles in the art book instead of in a plastic case.

- The art cards and poster are a bit unnecessary and I don't know what to do with them other than keep them in the box. However, they have already sustained some scuffing and frayed edges just from me taking the art book in and out of the cardboard slipcase three times.

- No closed captions for the English dub.

- The English subtitles are always on when you switch to the Japanese audio track. You can't turn them off.

- The artbook's text is full of run-on sentences, grammar errors, random switching between American and British spellings of words, and instances of words being repeated like a line that has "was was" in it.

- The original Manga Entertainment English dub for Episode 4 being a bonus feature instead of a selectable audio track option. The later redub of Episode 4 is the default, despite having a totally different cast from the other episodes.

It just feels outdated, unprofessional, and rushed in a lot of ways. All of this is especially annoying when you take the set's $190 MSRP price tag into consideration.

I will edit this post as I find more issues and learn more about the set over the next few days.

Well, there is good reason for making the UK dib the primary version, that being it has all of the original music & SFX. The U.S. dub for ep 4 was rushed because of some issue wirh Manga U.S. not wanting to wait to get get the raw music & SFX tracks on ep 4, so they patch-worked their own. Manga UK did wait, but not all of the original dub cast was available at that point.

As for the subtitles being locked, that's certainly Big West stipulating it in the licence, and isn't uncommon these days. It's a tactic meant to discourage re-importing foreign releases into Japan.

13 minutes ago, Gamma00Ray said:

Can people who got the US bigass set from Crunchyroll check things out and confirm if the discs work on region A players? I just got mine, and right before opening it up, I saw a bigass region B on the back of the box. Does yours say region B, too? If so, did everything work on your region A player?

I want to make sure it's actually region A before I break the seal.

Why would you stop to read the back, when you could just rip open the packaging & pop in a disc?

Wth that said, yeah, they play fine on a region A player, and there are no signs of French subs, so I'm thinking they did 1 master for the U.S. & UK, witg possibly a different master for the French release.

The disc art also has the EU rating.

Just took a quick peek through both disc's:

There's a new front loading "Big West" logo, I expect to see that on the other U.S. releases (whenever they happen).

Subtitles are locked, meaning you can't change audio options on the fly (you have to use the disc & pop-up menu).

OVA: The subtitle translation is similar to, but feels cleaned up / updated from Manga's old sub script. There are also song subs now.

Movie: There are 2 subtitle options now, Manga's & a newer Bandai sub. The Bandai sub is definitely cleaned up / refined from what we got on the Japanese release, using Guld & Isamu's fight on Earth for comparison. Oddly, only the Manga subs have song lyrics though.

Audio: I didn't go into the dub much, but the Japanese audio is bright & clear. The bass lines during "The Borderline" stood out especially strong.

Video: comparing withthe Japanese release (might as well, since I'm swapping them into that massive box), it looks like we have the same master. Colors are vubrant, blacks are mice & deep (save for sone early space scenes, but I think that's just 90's gray space color choices more than anythjng), grain is present but not intrusive, all in all what you'd want from the era.

I'm quite satisfied here. It's just too bad too bad the regular release won't have the OVA's included, but they definitrly justified picking uo the massive box version for me.

For those who care about such things, the U.S. dub of ep 4 is indeed an extra (in the extra's section of the disc), and accompanied by the remastered video. All of the credits are the original Japanese credits, it doesn't look like they translated them anywhere on disc.

1 hour ago, Hikuro said:

 

The character animations are still rather flat for this kind of work, which is a damn shame because so many studios do a way better job, but it honestly felt like the entire budget went into mobile suit designs, battle coreography and environmental set designs. While there's very little change to Zeon mobile suits, and we get a nice heaping of  the Gouf Custom, there was  A LOT of liberties taken with the Gundam, GM and Guntank designs. You know what, they actually strongly to me, remind me of the G40 RX-78-2, almost like a marriage between the G40 and Thunderbolt. Anyone else get that feeling?
 

Honestly, I thought the Gundam looked like the Turn A fraked the Iron Giant, with the worst aspects of both coming out.

Mind you "I like" both of those designs, but not this thing.

On 10/17/2024 at 6:46 PM, Duke Togo said:

First review is up on Reddit. Person got it at NYCC. The discs are stored in the book, so anyone thinking of selling the book is going to have get cases for the discs.

What a terrible choice.

Honestly, I'm going to swap the discs with the Japanese BD release, and pop the big mess in the closet (using the superior Japanese packaging for the shelf), so whatever.

7 hours ago, Big s said:

Those girls obviously didn't land on the ancient ruins of a Hot Topic like this one did.

Reqium is definitely trash, the animation is so unnatural that I'd be shocked if a human was involved in handling the movement. The Gundam looks way closer to Turn A than anything 0079 contemporary.

The show feels like someone watched a trailer for Thunderbolt & a trailer for MS IGLOO, then jumped right in without seeing either.

Also, they took out 3 whole Federation fleets at Loom, but aren't significantly mire distinguished than Char (who only took out a measly 5 ships)?