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Just checked the credits for episodes 5 and 6, and he's not listed in either... How badly do you need to know?

EDIT: Ah, found it in Perfect Memory: Minoru Inaba.

So the same guy that voices Minmay's uncle? Ok.

EDIT: Yeah, I just checked too, Minoru is not listed in the credits of episode 5 and 6. However, the (extra) credits on the ADV release (that plays after Runner) reveal the English voice actor of "Chief Engineer" to be Mike MacRae.

I know the Chief Engineer of the SDF-1 Macross is unnamed but is he credited as anything? Do we know who voiced him in the ADV dub and original Japanese audio?

Try changing your character encoding to one of the Japanese ones. (generally found under View).

Thankyou!

Can anyone read the (Japanese) text in the flash player part on this page? http://www.macross.co.jp/zero/

In Google Chrome latest version, the Japanese text shows up as diamonds with question marks and in Internet Explorer latest version, it shows up as random accented Latin and punctuation marks.

You'll probably always wonder, as it should be.

Mysteries add weight to a franchise. Look what happened when Lucas revealed the force is all just a bunch of bugs floating around in everyone's bodies. Kinda gross and also diminished the force itself as an enigma...

Midichlorians diminishes the force as much as learning about photons diminishes the value happiness we receive from sunlight. Sci-fi comes in different flavors; there is speculative fiction/hard sci-fi e.g. Planetes, then there are works that just have a sci-fi setting and dedicate more to story e.g. Legend of the Galactic Heroes and then there are works that build upon a fictional science. FMA (which is a fantasy) has Alchemy with its own set of laws, Macross has Overtechnology and Robotech has Robotechnology. Star Wars is certainly no hard sci-fi, it focuses more on plot and only on rare occasions such as Midichlorians does it explain the science, specifically the biology, of the galaxy it is set in.

lol. what were you looking for when you found this stuff?

Edit: Nvm. This crap is fun.

I want to get drunk and sing this:

http://joysound.com/ex/utasuki/movie/video/_mid_1929630903_index.htm

http://joysound.com/ex/utasuki/movie/video/_mid_1945773836_index.htm

I got to this website http://joysound.com/ex/utasuki/movie/audition/_auditionno_212_detail.htm

Yeah, it looks like great fun. My favorites so far

You can even do it groups

At any Joysound karaoke venue.

http://www.macrossworld.com/macross%E2%8A%BF-auditions-start-today/

(sigh, no-one ever reads the front page anymore - sigh)

I meant where do you find the karaoke booths in Japan. Nevermind, I just searched. "カラオケJoysound" on Google maps. Easy to spot in Japan since they have have signs, In other countries they are incoporated into pubs, bars and restaurants.

English language website for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin now online!

So how does the audition work? Where does one find these karaoke booths in Japan?

http://joysound.com/ex/utasuki/movie/video/_mid_1970020669_index.htm

Are Lynn Minmay and Yoshio related?

Same as the others... it's just a different paint job.

http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/variant-vf-1a-darkbird.htm

So its definitely VF-1A?

Do we know what variant are the black/dark blue Valkyries that appear when Misa tells all Valkyrie squadrons to scramble? Because they only appear in fighter mode.

Why is Gundam more popular than Macross in Japan ???

Well I watched SDF Macross as Robotech during my childhood and I fell in love, I have re-watched it several times now as an adult and I still love it, the way I did when watched for the first time....I tried to watch the first Gundam series trying to find out the reason japanese people like it and honestly.. I did not like it !!! I consider Macross is far superior then, what happened? What is the reason Japanese audience considers Gundam as better than Macross and the rest of the world doesn´t? ...Any Idea?

The original Gundam was made in the late 70s before Macross, Nausicaa etc. it is highly regarded for its plot and changed robots in anime from super-heroes to weapons of war. Along with Space Battleship Yamato, it inspired directors like Shoji Kawamori and Hideaki Anno. What did Macross innovate? For the mecha genre, it did have protagonists using mass-produced mecha instead of the superprototype which Amuro used and for anime in general it was certainly animated better than other shows at the time but for plot it wasn't as revolutionary as Tomino's Gundam and Matsumoto's Yamato were.

The original Star Trek had bad special effects but it inspired generations to grow up to become engineers and scientists.

Maybe the Delta represents the three Super Dimension shows. Macross, Southern Cross and Orguss. Also, Orguss has the Space Time Occillation Bomb to explain the events of Macross 30.

And the Orguss cameos in Macross

Also regarding episode 5, do we know what variant are the black/dark blue Valkyries that appear when Misa tells all Valkyrie squadrons to scramble? Because they only appear in fighter mode.

Not until Macross the First...

No, in Macross the First, HER name is "Gina Baltrow."

I see.

Was it "Emil Lang" by any chance?

*Runs and ducks for cover*

Well, I'm rewatching the original Macross in parallel with Robotech, they gave Chief/Dr. Lang a German accent. I have no idea why he shares the same name as a Nazi German ace, he isn't even a pilot.

Was the chief guy Captain Global talked to in episode 5 that proposed the Macross transform so it could use its gun ever given a name?

DAISUKI, please simulcast this like you have with M3 and ALDNOAH.ZERO.

^{Would be nice to have Mikimoto as the lead character designer again for a new Macross TV series, but it seems that Satelight is now the go-to Macross animationn house....so probably the "look" will be very similar to Macross F....but we'll have to wait and see I guess...}

^{He is busy with both The First and École du Ciel.}

So auditions are this December but it will premier next year or later?

Will it premier in December 2015 then?

Where did you take that picture?

All the Macross DVDs I have are second hand from CeX, I loved Plus from the moment it loaded in my DVD player.

And today, I got carried away on a shopping spree of mecha anime (for the first time I got Gundam on DVD) and I found Robotech: The Macross Saga very cheap. The first volume cost £3.00 but can anyone guess how much the second volume cost?

Don't think we've been told that one...

Imagine if like Homer J. Simpson, we find out the J just stands for "Jay".

What's is Captain Global's middle name or has it yet to be revealed?

Help, someone I know bought the Chogokin of this variable fighter and it has the Macross Frontier logo but I never seen it in Macross Frontier! Does anyone know where it is from?

The normal, sane-looking romanizations are, well, normal and sane romanizations of the japanese.The crazy ones with too many consonants are the official romanizations, which were intentionally done crazy because they're alien names and SHOULDN'T look normal.

But both spellings are more or less official?

Regarding Zentradi character names, why do some characters have alternate spellings?

Is it Britai Kridanik or Vrlitwhai Kridanik?

Is it Quamzin Kravshera or Kamjin Kravshera?

Here's Max, and here's Miria. They were limited edition releases, that's why the higher prices.

Do they come with Max and Miria pilot figures?