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Oh yeah, can't wait for the last volume (why 2 months!!!). Only Matsumoto could make something as idiotic sounding as "Noo" cool Of course he also made me tolerate Daft Punk with Interstella 5555, truly a great craftsman. As far as Harlock reccomendations go, I'd say go for Arcadia of My Youth before Harlock Saga. Its a lot more well rounded (I love Matsumoto, but Harlock Saga & Maetel Legend were made while he was still cold, he's warmed up a lot more now with Gun Frontier & Outside Legend, hopefully Great Galaxy will blow away everything that's come before). My favorite work is still GE:999 though, pure perfection.

That's nor a suprise. Macross Plus the same way, and it was well worth it for the epic last episode.

It doesn't have transforming mecha, but Space Cruiser Yamato is highly reccomended if you like epic stories.

Ah, thanks Kevin, couldn't remember his name It's shameful how he went from trying to bring high quality original toys over here, to ripped off from the HCM lower stock toys, shameful indeed.

Well, Sara is proven to have some sort of mystical power being the Mayan shaman-priestess. Yeah, but is there supposed to be any tie-in with the Proto-devlin? Actually, that's not a Protodevelin power so much as it was build into the EVIL themselves, so it could be a pass me down from the Protoculture/spiritia phenomenon. Now if she was possessing people & or stealing their spiritia (the only powers that the Protodevelin themselves brought to the EVIL), then it would be a connection with them.

ADV version uses the R2 masters were were redone for DVD.

Actually, Yamato didn't "always" own Toycom, though they were working jointly on the Macross stuff. It wasn't until after the whole HG business came into play, Toycom's Ex/Toynami's current president (forget his name) sold Toycom to Yamato & started up Toynami, & rumor has it, signed a contract preventing Toycom from releasing any of the Macross stuff stateside with HG before leaving.... Of course whether adopting the name Yamato would change any of this is doubtful, but we can hope.

Any word on an R1 release....

Actually, I meant the audio was better in regards to the old image release, both the HK & ADV use japanese stereo tracks, as opposed to the old image release which used a mono japanese track. BTW, as I said, take the quality of those screen caps with a grain of salt, the image quality of the R1 shows through a lot better on a stand alone player & TV than it does my software player.

And the last ADV, honestly, not as big a difference with my rom player, but you I can see a huge difference on my stand alone player. Anyhoo, subtitles are better on the official

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Ok, from the looks of it, prahaps the HK version "does" use the newer R2 masters, but here are some comparison pic's anyway.

Didn't see anything from them regarding F91 either. Like Jinnai said, F91 was supposed to get a limited theatrical release like the Escaflowne movie did by the end of May 2004. It's the 31st already and still not a word from Bandai. Bandai has been showing subbed version of F91 at U.S. anime cons before Wing even took off. It's their oldest vaporware and I guess they intend to keep it that way. Oh well, maybe we'll luck out and the R2 Zeta movie set will have subtitles like the R2 0079 movies set.

unless someone beats me to it, i'll post up comparison shots tomorrow. Do you have a scene in mind?

I've seen Bandai America's licensing package for the calendar year and can tell you Zeta Gundam was definitely not in their offerings for 2004. As far as Gundam goes, they are only concerned about Seed and SD Gundam Force this year. Think about it. They showed off a bunch of Zeta Gundam toys at last year's Toy Show and none of them were on display at Bandai's booth this year. That should send off enough red flags to anyone paying attention. What about F91? Though I do still think the Zeta box will see the light of day this year (i.e. they'll honk off a ton of gundam hardcore, which admittedly aren't the bulk of their target right now ), but there's been not even a hint from the studio reps about the fate of F91.

I may listen to the rest of that commentary one day....it'll take a while though Perhaps you got a different box than I did though, mine was near paper towel tube thin, not nearly as sturdy as the macross or eva box. As for waiting for an import LD or DVD, if you're going to do it, get the DVD. Both this release, and the R2 DVD used newly restored footage on some of parts 1 & 2. Its also fully remastered to the extent that I can almost see why animeigo wanted to add some grain "back in" to their Macross remaster. Animation this old almost doesn't look right being this clean Other than that, all ADV touched themselves were the end credits (as per usual).

I'll concede this week. Regardless of my opinions on soldiers, war mongerers, & gun owners, I "will" say that I do believe in a balance between peaceful intent, and self defense (note I didn't say war). However since I'm the only one who takes my stance here, I'm also not afraid to take it to an extreme stance as everyone should know by now. And Agent One, shut the hell up. You are far more inflamatory & idiotic than I could ever be accused of being. You do nothing but bitch & rarely contribute a useful thought other than how extremely you hate whatever the current topic is. Bite me.

Didn't Sunrise start enforcing better subtitle standards with the Gundam franchise? Or was that just regarding 0079 terms? As for F91, I think we can all kiss that theatrical release goodbye, though hopefully the DVD will pop-up the same time Zeta does. Of course the next question would be how soon after the R2 release Bandai plans on releasing the Zeta movies.