Keith

Hmm, I hope (though I know they won't) include the Japanese voices for MM8 (god I hated that dub, it's EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!). I also hope that it's the revamped Megaman 1, as the NES version was a tad unfair to say the least (no save system!). And for the record, MM2 was the best, but MM3 had the best improvements, plus the best glitches. I can't tell you how long I played that game with my feet on the second controller enabling me to be invincable, megajump, & freeze animations so that you could hear the entire (and might I say strangely longer!) versions of songs, such as Protoman's whistle theme as Megaman is running through the tree's at the end.

Actually, some of the overlays remained, hell, some of them were from the VHS release. After picking up the box set (went for the cardboard box, looked much cooler in black than the PC metal box did), I also picked up the HK set for comparisons & directors cut episodes. Definately still some differences. BTW, anybody thinking of picking up the bootlegs, hold on a bit, rumor has it the renewal edition has been ripped finally, and still looks better than all previous incarnations.

Once the Macross AnimEigo set was announced, I did major player recearch, and decided I hated region encoding & macrovision. I ended up picking up a player that takes out both from DVD planet, the Pioneer DV-525, modified by their shop for about $400 at the time (all players, decent anyway, cost around that much at the time, 3-4 years ago). DVD's I've picked up that take advantage of the region switching feature have been absolute must have titles, the R3 Galaxy Express 999 movie (with english subtitles), Mospeada Love Live Alive (R2), & the Macross 20th anniversary collection.

I can't even tell you how much I hated american psycho, this man is NO batman!

Bah, what the hell is a year or so wait for all 5 episodes of Zero in the face of waiting almost 20 years to get the original series subtitled over here! Personally, I love Zero, love the direction it's taking, and the only thing I dislike thus far are the terrible HK subtitles I have to put up with to watch it. The story is solid so far, and I don't doubt for a minute that things aren't being set up for a hugely bitchin' finale. Why does Shin warrent a special Zero? Because he was an ace with a F-14. Sure he had his ass handed to him by a variable fighter, but that's understandable. Once he masters the VF-0D, he'll be at least as good as Hikaru.

Good suggestion. I bought the Korean version a few months ago. There is a bootleg of the Korean set but I wanted the original. It says region 3 on the box and DVDs but its actually Region 0 or all. Its got the horrible Mangle dub, Japanese audio, Korean audio. English subs. Its a good set. They are finally back in stock http://koreandvds.com/dvddetail.html?id=8520 I was blown away by how great the OVA was. I couldn't believe how under-advertised it went by Manga, but then I remembered it was Manga, 'nuff said. Has anyone done a set, HK or otherwise, of the Gin Rei OVA?

Hmm, Space Marines....were there any giant comets?

What's with all the Wing hate? Seriously, it was better than the first 3rd of ZZ, and as long as it maintains that level, I don't see the problem. It's a perfectly fine re-interpretation of 0079 & Zeta. BTW, one major post CCA series you neglected was Victory Gundam, an incredible story for the post Amuro & Char timeline. I do have an additional suggestion though, the Giant Robo OVA DVD set that was put out this year in Korea. It has excellent subtitles, and is a phenominal OVA in and of itself. Note on this one, do "not" get the HK set, get the actual R3 release (which is R1 compatible). It's now available in a 5 disc box set.

STOP! Do "not" waste your money on the Starblazers DVD's unless you like badly dubbed, badly edited, and really badly encoded DVD's (pixelization & bad compression out the ass). If you want to Experience Yamato, do it as Matsumoto intended, go pick up the series 1, 2, & 3 HK DVD sets instead. They'll run out about $70 + shipping (much less than 1 SB series set), and you'll love yourself forever for it. With that said, I'm also giving another vote for the Gundam movies 3 disc set. Mind you I did like Wing, but to fully appreciate anything, you must start at the beginning....and then Zeta!

Actually, the rumors about the battle with HG are true. In fact, that's what lead to our current Macross licensing problems of today.

One major hole in that being the simple fact that there has "never" been a male fleet shown to use the female ship designs (as seen in DYRL, FotSW, & Macross VFX-2). The technological style is so dramatically different from the standard male style we're used to seeing, that it seems illogical that it could not have been soley used by one side of the civil war. And hey, who knows, maybe they males & females were freeling used on both sides, but that is a definate hole in the theory that females weren't soley used on one side.

I think they need to incorperate a cohesive season plot where the Earth is in great peril & all hope lies with only 1 ship & one mystical female alien. All the while being dogged by a massive alien fleet trying to kill them, and regularly ripping the ship a new one as it hobbles its way across space. YES! Seriously though, that's the problem with ST now. There's no mystery, there's no danger that can't be overcome within an episode or 2 without some over compensating technical solution, there's no excitment. I say kill a ships crew or two, blow up major portions of the ship like in Wrath of Kahn or Undiscovered Country. Point huge rocks at the Earth & rip up its atmosphere with only 1 slim chance of hope that takes over 20 episodes to find. Everyone has become too "safe" & "solution of the week. The last good american sci-fi show was Babylon 5. And even that was tarnished by TNT dipping too deep into Crusade.

Like I said, the ships of the Laplamiz fleet don't count, as they were obviously a mesh into the Bodolza fleet to fight the Protodevilin (after all previous Protoculture Civil war boundries were taken off). What I'm speaking of are the actual Meltrandi ship designs (as depicted by the ASS-1 itself, a Supervision Army refit of a Protoculture & or Meltrandi design), and the Chlore fleet in FotSW.

I can accept many things in my life, but doogie howser as spiderman is not one of them! I'll stick with the mid 90's spiderman seires thank you very much.

It specifically says they split into two factions I believe. However, going strictly by the Zentradi mlitary structure (you never see males in female style ships, and you only see the Laplamiz fleet melded into the Bodolza fleet due to the conflict with the Protodevilin). It's obvious one side used females, the other side used males.

But. You can't end every episode of Star Trek by firing the wave motion gun (or as seen in Best of Both Worlds.....the Main Deflector Dish). Actually, the Wave Motion Cannon was very rarely used, as was warp. The Yamato relied on the hearts of all of its crew (not just the bridge crew) to save the day (usually at the cost of many lives). The Yamato didn't always win, and sometimes just barely getting away was all that they could do. If you want something flavored like the original Star Trek, only better, definately go get those DVD's!

Macross 7 episode (was it 35?) titled "Mystery of the Ruins". Exedor lays down the whole history of the Protoculture from a mural left over in ruins found on planet Lux. We did however answer the "why" of the both sex's being used. The Protoculture did intend to re-integrate the Zentradi into society should their war end, but at the same time they didn't want the Zentradi pro-creating or "creating thier own culture," as such it makes sense to split the sex's between the two sides, so that they're both available later.

I think the best thing for everyone to do is go out & buy the HK box set's for Space Cruiser Yamato series 1-3.....no, seriously!

No, the Protoculture themselves weren't divided into sex's, just their stock of Zentradi soldiers. One side used males, the other side used females. And as already pointed out, the fact that they could create life from nothing (the Zentradi weren't evolved from any previous life form), let alone completely alter evolutionary patters of pre-existing life (Humans, & Zolans, amongst who knows how many other worlds in the Galactic Republic) proves that their technology spanned far past just simple replication type cloning.

Why did the Protoculture keep both sex's in the Zentradi army? Simple, the males fought on one side of the civil war, while the females fought on the other. This is also outlined in the difference between their ship designs. Mind you this is all moot once the Protodevilin come about, as the Protoculture combined their fire power in an effort to survive (which is why we have a mixed fleet such as the Bodolza fleet). Besides, the Protoculture couldn't have intended to fight eternally, and likely did plan to "decomission" the Zentradi, and absorb them back into their culture. In fact, we do know that they intended to re-absorb them. After the Protodevilin were sealed, the remaining Protoculture did attempt to "culture" the Zentradi. Unfortunately, due to the newer battle orders which allowed them to fight the Supervision Army (which included mind controlled Protoculture), they realized they didn't have to follow orders, and lashed out at the Protoculture's attempt to change them, whiping their remains out. Practice excersizes did occur to maintain battle readiness, but they also didn't keep soldiers satiated, or even interested (such as Kamjin's tendancy to kill his own men). I still stand by my statement that they use a style of DNA mixing, the Protoculture's technology was too sophisticated for them not to have.

Come on, the pills were undeniable the means by which Guld was surpressing his "fighting instinct." They wouldn't have been introduced otherwise. He uses them at an exact moment when he feels rage, end of story.

The numbering system in DYRL only exists in DYRL. All Zentradi in Macross, & Macross 7 have last names (Milia still remains Milia Farina Jenius, not Milia 639 Jenius, Veffidas last name is Feaze, etc). And while we never do see any Zentradi being "born," we do know from the Protoculture's handywork on both Earth & Zola, they are quite adept at altering & generating DNA. When you take into consideration the huge numbers of fleets, the hundreds of thousands of years that the Protoculture produced Zentradi, and the 50,000 years that the Zentradi roamed free after the fall of the Protoculture, there's no way in hell that they're simply copies of copies. Also accounting for the fact that there were no on hand medical technicians, no visable means of storing clone sample DNA, and the high unlikelyhood that they'd go back to retrieve blood samples once a soldier killed, just how would the perpetually copy themselves? Despite the large number of fleets, there were no two Zentradi shown that looked exactly the same in any series or movie. Therefore, considering the widescope of Protoculture technology, it's far more likely that they just mixed DNA as needed to create new soldiers from any two given soliders. This of course isn't getting into the command class, advisor class, or fodder class soldier specifications, which is a slightly different subject.

A word on Zentradi cloning: They are not carbon copies of each other, thier cloning methods would be more attributed to being "test tube" babies, where in dna is mixed then grown, not directly copied. If they'd be copies of copies, they would have all died out long before the start of the series.

Guld didn't rape Myung, this much is absolute fact. Guld did however percieve that Isamu did something to Myung, this I won't argue with.

It's a simple matter of battle experience. The Zentradi of 2009 haven't had very many opportunities to fight. The Supervision Army is all but whipped out, and aside from a casual run in, they probably don't fight each other very much. Humans however just got hot off the Unification wars. Beisdes, Guld had a superior fighter, but Isamu was a superior pilot.