Keith

Actually, there were 2 Galaxy Express 999 sets (1-16, & 17-36). Rumor has it the 3rd set was about to go into production right before SARS broke out, and hasn't seen the light of day since....frakking bastards I NEED MORE GALAXY EXPRESS!!!! THEY WERE JUST ABOUT TO GET TO THE FREAKIN' MI EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL FOREVER HATE THEM FOR NOT FINISHING!!!!!!!!!!! ....I also heard an R2 rip Yamato movie set was in the pipeline, but that too seems to have faded away, leaving us no choice but to buy Voyager's VHS dump set.. The way I look at it, these older shows are still popular in HK, and Japan is pumping out more official sets each year. Sure the trend now is to churn out TV rip after TV rip, R1 rip after R1 rip, but within a year or so, the good stuff will return. Once Harlock TV gets its individual disc release in Japan, hopefully that will come out. Although I am shocked that there has been no new rip of V Gundam with the improved DVD masters. What pisses me off almost as much as the 999 thing though (and that pisses me off more than you can imagine), is the OOP Gunbuster disc. Right when i went to order it, it disapeared off the face of the planet. Same thing with the 0079 TV set. Hopeflly with Gunbuster 2 bringing back interest, either an R1 or HK company will do something about it.

This sounds more like an issue of pre-liminary pre-production info from a fanzine Vs officially sanctioned info than anything. Much in the same way the pre-production name "Phoenix" got out for the VF-0, despite not being a "final" decided on designation.

Considering all the Zor civiliians were abandoned by their own leaders due to falling levels of Protozor, Jeanne herself rejected the joining process, and again, Seifriet rammed the only existing source of Protozor with his dying action, I think it's pretty safe to say they didn't re-assimilate with the plants. If they had, then there would have been 3 of everyone in that last shot, 'nuff said. The whole point was to bring humanity back to the Zor.

Mospeada: Most likely the fleet was destroyed, but then considering they were about to Nuke Earth, do you honestly think Stik & gang would care about them? Southern Cross: The survivors were "not" going to turn into Zor. Seifriet destroyed all of the protozor by ramming the ship into it. The ending represented the surviving humans & surviving Zor on Glorie facing a future of having to rebuild together in a "human" society.

Nope, doesn't appear to be removing anything, he is indeed rubbing out eye holes. Considering the hands are built for manipulation, it stands to reason they'd have some grip to them.

1/3rd new animation is all I needed to know. Love Zeta, love the thought of new Zeta animation, and it justifies the movie purchase after the TV box set comes out. Now if they could follow it up with a ZZ movie trilogy that repairs the first 20 episode story arc....

Anima Spiritia is not something indiginous to Basara. Hell, he even taught Sivil, Gigil, & Gepelenitch to generate it. By all indications, what type of spiritia a person generates seems to be determined by what kind of effort & temperment they put into whatever they're doing. City construction workers are catagorized as having "Build" spiritia, etc. It's stated nowhere that only specific people can create it, just that it was discovered by the Protoculture that certain people generating Anima Spiritia helped fight the Protodevelin. Think of it in terms of hot sauce. Regular spiritia a light & tasty salsa, while Anima Spiritia is a super hot extra spicy 3rd degree burns to your tongue style salsa (in regards to effects on Protodevelin).

Spiritia is most definately a quantifiable/measureable energy. Anima Spiritia again being a specific "pure" type of it. As for the posative & negative thing, its only been shown to have been generated by posative actions, otherwise (as said) the Protodevin would have been able to sustain themselves. Basara however wasn't the only member of Sound Force capable of generated it, he was just the most powerful member (and obviously as such, Sivil's target). It was pretty much stated though that anyone is capable of generated Anima Spiritia, it just requires a strong conviction to do so. The process again however was: -Person generates spiritia -Sound Energy Converter (vest aparatus) acts as a bridge to draw that energy out into a more focusable form. -Sound Boosters amplify that energy & allow direction of it. As for the whole culture shock thing, that's an entirely different matter. It literally was a confused emotion due to being exposed to something new. It however wasn't what won the war against the Zentradi. To put it more simply, the culture shock may have peaked their interst towards Earth culture, but it was experiencing the emotions attached which caused the unrest in the Britai Adoclas fleet. Had it just been a simple matter of culture shock (not the 3 spies going & experiencing human culture, then sharing it with their friends), it would have worn off, and they still would have killed everyone. But feeling those emotions, and wanting to feel more prompted them to turn against Bodolza.

The speakers build into the Valkyries are for atmospheric conditions (inside City 7, on a planet, etc), and are only used under those circumstances. The Sound Boosters however aren't speakers at all. The only reason they're called "Sound Boosters," is because Chiba dubbed the phenomenon as "Song Energy," when it doesn't have anything to do with singing whatsoever. Their full function is to further amplify the Spiritia of sound force, and as others have said, channel it towards a specific area. The Sound Booster works directly in conjunction with the energy amplifying vest thingy (don't recall the name) again to further amplify the power being created. As for Spiritia, it's just Kawamori's word for life force, soul energy, ki, etc. Anima Spiritia specifically being the type generated when someone is really passionate about what they're doing. As I've said before, Sound Force are Kawamori's equivilent of Newtypes. Consider the Sound Boosters to serve a similar purpose to the psycommu.

Sound doesn't travel in space in 7 either. The music is transmitted on comm channels, & or with the speaker pods. Most of it is centered around launching & VF-11's blowing up. As you said, what series doesn't?

I dissagree. LLA was worth paying $40 for the import, it's sure as hell worth picking up the HK set.

Considering that we do get to know all the main characters with a good amount of depth & backstory, and even many of the secondary characters have decent screen time & introduction, I just don't see where the whole schtick is coming from. Lack of character development means that characters are being used as wallpaper & are never really delt with. 7 has an almost exclusive assortment of episodes focusing either on specific character conflicts or main plot elements, very little filler. As opposed to say a show like Pokemon or Yu Gi Oh, where all episodes center around collecting, trading, battling, etc. As for the battles, while there were no epic OVA styled dogfights, there were some great battles. Death Match at Planet Lux, The fight where Physica died, Gigil's last fight, the assault on Varuta to name a few. Would you consider many of the battles in the original Macross to be epic? Hikaru flies loses an arm/gets shot down, etc? Not every episode of every show is going to be a show stopper, especially when the show's main focus isn't fighting in the first place. Basara wasn't flying a VF-11, & had a pinpoint barrier. He does get hit on occasion, just nothing detrimental. Standard hero character action. Hero characters live through just about anything, cannon fodder characters blow up when you sneeze at them, that's just the way it is. As for the getting killed, why kill targets when your objective is to steal spiritia from them? Later on in the series (around the time Sivil appears) you start to see more VF-11 pilots not surviving. Why don't you just go watch that old WWF cartoon & quit wasting everyones time?

[blockquote]You don't have any data, and neither do I... The difference is, I am a marketing professional (I get paid $$$$$ to make assessments like this), and you are just crying about some show that you emotionally feel compelled to defend.[/blockquote] And consideing no one is paying you here, it can be just as easily assumed we're getting our moneys worth.... Macross 7 was no more a kids show than the original series. You wanna bitch about multi-colored Valkyries? What the hell did you think Hikaru's custom scheme, Max's custom scheme, Milia's custom scheme, as well as a huge red white & blue ship were about? As for death's, 7 had more than its share, no less dramatic than anything which came before. Character developement was mountains over Plus, any claim otherwise is pure delusion. Mecha battles, what the hell do you expect on a TV budget when compared with an OVA budget. No worse than any of its contemporary TV anime counterparts. Animation: Character animation stands out as very constant in quality. Popularity? Take a look at the crowd shots for any of the concert omake. The majority of the people there aren't "kids." The series suceeded in a 52 episode run (counting the encore episodes) a feat which no Gundam series has even achieved. A less popular show would have had its run cut short to 26-30 episodes. Hell, look at Gundam X which again is related to a much bigger franchise, it was a less popular show, and was trimmed down in episode count. Macross 7 has been released on VHS, LD, & DVD by Bandai. Again, not every Gundam Franchise (including X) has made it to DVD. Half hour movie special & 4 episode OVA, countless albums (yes JPOP, but what series at the time, let alone now DOESN'T use JPOP?). "NUFF SAID!

Nope, it's definately 9 disc's. http://www.animeniacs.com/index.php?act=ca...em&item=DVD0475

The deal is after Nishizaki got out of jail, he claimed exclusive ownership to Yamato. After a long drawn out court battle, he conceded (realizing Matsumoto wouldn't give up the fight), and agreed to share ownership. Both are now working on independent sequels. From the looks of it Nishizaki is claiming rights over the original scenario continuity, while Matsumoto gets characters & most design aspects. What that leaves us with is Nishizaki's Yamato Rebirth, which will feature a new story in the original continuity, but new character designs. & Matsumoto's Great Galaxy Yamato, a new retelling of the Iscandar story, but new character names, & an altered Yamato (as you've shown). Sure it looks like the Yamato crashed into the Arcadia & Enterprise, but it's still livable for a new Matsumoto Yamato story. BTW, has anyone ever released Yamato 2520 on DVD? I've seen Odin, but not how Nishizaki's full Yamato outing by himself went.

Not even going to begin trying to read through all this... My simple reply based on the title of the topic though: The Protodevilin were biological representations of the Protocultures technology. A melding of their bio & mechanical know-how. Doesn' t require that much of a leap when you consider that they already mastered altering & creating life, as well as intersteller space travel. The powers of the EVIL (i.e. non-Protodevilin possessed) were the same as any of their own ships. Fold, barrier fields, & beam cannons. The Protodevilin (energy being) brought with them their additional powers of posession & spiritia draining. Spiritia in itself being the energy generated by all living things, as opposed to the energy generated by a reaction furnace. There's no out & out magic, just an application of technological science to biological science.

I've now watched through The New Voyage (Be Forever Yamato is up next). So far the bad news: -Arrivederci has a nasty video encode error about 8:50 into the film. A bit of break-up that last for a second or 2, nothing player stopping, just an annoyance. I've checked around, and it seems to be a problem with all of the Arrivederci disc's, not just an individual error. -New Voyage has a source material error, what looks like what happens when your tracking goes off & the picture flips for a second. I forget the timestamp, but it's in the scene where Kodai leads the new Cosmo Tigers out on a training mission in an asteroid belt. Both problems are annoying, both problems are being ignored by Voyager, and as such, it's not likely we'll ever have a fix for them (unless someone eventually snags away the Yamato license...). All things considered, I'd still say it's worth the purchase, though some may want to hold out for an online discount or sale. One thing I can't help but notice during the viewing of these films, is that Nishizaki is a freakin' loon. Arrivederci Yamato is vastly inferior to Yamato 2 (Matsumoto's version). I can't wait to see what happens when Great Galaxy & Yamato Rebirth come out. Hopefully Nishizaki will finally acknowledge that the heart of Yamato came from Matsumoto.

Actually, OVA just means its a direct to video release. Nothing else is specifically implied to it, no does it specify that it's new animation. I have to agree with the others here, there's absolutely no way in hell we'd have missed a r-animated version of the TV series. Hell, its all we freakn' talk about every 2 months, and a good share of us regularly import.

Wait a minute, isn't that the forearm of the Heavy Arms?!

Check back tomorrow, I'm watching it later. Nope, and there most likely won't be. Considering that we've been waiting over a year for more Galaxy Express TV (stopped at episode 36), and 3 months for the Harlock TV set (what's taking them so damned long!), the chance of an R2 rip Yamato movie set isn't looking very good considering the disc's have been out for a while. The HK TV sets are great. Video quality is ripped from the R2 DVD sets, and the subtitles are very good (though not perfect). For the most part the dialogue is right on, though the names do tend to be slightly off. Usually they're at least phonetically correct though, far abve the usual HK standard. Though I think there are only 9 disc's (3 per series). Highly reccomended, especially since Nishizaki cut all of the fanservice when he did the first movie (he truly is nuts!).

Just got my Yamato box today. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I did take a look at all the disc's. There are actually some pretty nice extra's included. Lots of artwork (promotional, design, etc) for just about every film. Translated program books for each film, and even extra scenes. So much effort was put into the extra's infact that it really makes me wonder why they half assed the video so much. The box itself is a lot nicer than I initially thought it would be from the picture. It's a very sturdy box, all the white on it is nice & shiny, and the red has that foil stamped look. The top has a picture of the bridge along with Kodai getting into his Cosmo Zero, and the back has a bit of information & a couple of pictures from the movies. All in all, I'm much more impressed than I thought I would be with the art. The video itself is definately VHS dumped. The worst of it is shown in the subtitles which look a bit soft on all of the films, though the middle two (Be forever Yamato & New Voyage) show the worst of the video. All in all, nothing worse than the softness & grain of the Macross Plus Movie Edition disc. New Voyage even still has the part where it goes from full frame to widescreen. A quick question for anyone who may know. What Aspect ratio was Arrividerci shot in? ? Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look slightly cropped into fullframe. All in all, while it could have been a hell of a lot better, the Video is passable, especially considering it's the only way to get these films subtitled. The audio is solid through out though, no real complaints with what I checked, for the most partl the audio was better than the video if anything. Getting back to the extra's though, I think it's The New Voyage that has scenes that weren't included in the original release, and or just weren't included as extra's. The First movie has the alternate TV edit (or re-TV edit if you will) Iscandar scene included as an extra. And Final Yamato has both versiosn of the after credit epilogue/song scene as extra's (Kodai & Yuki coitus & non-coitus versions) instead of having them play right after the credits (acceptable since they are both still there). There's also a 24 page booklet (haven't read it yet, so not exactly sure what's there) that's only included with the box set. Combined with the lower online price (under $100 for all 5 movies, as opposed to almost $30 each individually at online shops), it seals the deal in making this the preferable way to get the DVD's. All films with theatrical releases also had the theatrical trailers included. While I am dissapointed about the video quality, it's still better than VHS, and it's not like I didn't know walking into it what I was getting. I'd definately say it's a worthy purchase for any Matsumoto fan, and is a great companion to the HK TV series sets (I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for the crapass video & edits of the starblazers tv sets). Any way you cut it, it's an infinately cheaper alternative to buying the R2's, and the extra's warrent the upgrade from VHS for whoever paid out the ass to pick those up (my Final Yamato tape cost almost a 3rd of the whole box set...what am I saying, it did cost me a 3rd damnit!).

The answer is much simpler than any of that. Gundam, at least UC, had nearly all radar nullified by the invention of minovsky particles. All targetting was pretty much done manually, though it appears some IR technology came about by the time of Zeta & along with the panoramic view cockpick. Close combat weapons like the beam saber were necessary because fights would take place in close quarters anyway. That's what was so important about Newtypes, their precognition worked as a radar system allowing them to track enemies when they weren't within an imidiate line of sight. Macross doesn't have that problem, and no beam sable would be able to hold up against a full missile barage.

First, Roy & Claudia originally met while stationed on a base during the Unification Wars (the scene where Roy check's out all the new operater recruits, then goes off on a mission in his Dragon II). -Roy & Claudia never went out on any dates (before getting together on South Atalia). On their first date Roy drove up with a car full of girls to pick up Claudia, which she wasn't too big on. He attempted to make it up with gifts, but both were eventually re-stationed. -Roy & Claudia don't get back together until being stationed on the Macross, though they do meet up again while Roy was testing the VF-X-1 (or was it a final prototype for the VF-1?), when he expresses his fears of flying it to her (likely before the events in Macross Zero). -Claudia & Misa chat at Claudia's home, not a coffee shop. As such,k anything goes for Roy & Aries. Aries by the way is my vote for who dies, not Edger.

Considering anime friend was involved in the production, and used their most half assed animators at that, it would definately benefit from being re-animated. Just as long as all the original audio is used (though some new Max & Milia scenes wouldn't hurt..., but only in addition to the original material). As for M7, it was in no way shape or form recycled anything, 100% original Macross story.

You're going to have an incredly hard time looking for macross art from the 70's.... But the box in question was mostly likely robotech. Macross hasn't been released in France until recently, an import of the AnimEigo masters with french subtitles is either released now, or is going to be soon. Seriously though, you need to make some attempt at describing the art though.