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    Can anyone explain this? While we're at it, can anyone explain Marina and Pearl in general? I keep hearing about some contest going back to the first game... EDIT: Also this, because it's hilarious.
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    I was done with it, but you kept bringing it back up. Like, insistently responding directly to me. And this being a discussion thread, I assumed that meant you wanted to keep discussing it. But that ship's sailed. There's not much more I could or would say on the matter, anyway. I'm done if you are. Cheers, mate.
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    Even up through the YF-30 there were yellowing issues. I remember seeing just such a toy selling on here for fairly cheap because of it. I wonder if it's just something within manufacturing tolerances and sometimes there's just a bad batch. I mean, the obvious solution is to paint it, but I can't imagine how much more premium the prices would become...
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    While we're on the subject of HG and frivolous lawsuits: (EDIT: I know that HG talk is generally frowned upon, so if any mod feels this is crossing the line, feel free to delete.)
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    I'm not, necessarily. My original opinion was in regards to someone or other talking about how they were put off by the fanservice in Frontier, which I agreed with, adding that aside from being too onesided, it [the sex humor] was also not very funny and downright boring. I would like to see the new series be less onesidedly fanservice-y, whether that's by way of cranking down the overall Perverted Camera level or cranking it up for the guy characters as much as it does for the girls. If I got snippy (which I admit I did), it's because I was responding to Podtastic in particular, who hasn't been engaging in the discussion and instead only been quoting me in order to be dismissive. I was ready to move on, as the rest of the thread seemed to be, but well, they apparently wanted to keep talking about it. The one thing I remember hearing about the manga (well, one of them, at any rate) is that Ranka really REALLY loves Brera...
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    Why not? The franchise is already closer to that than it originally was.
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    I agree. Delta does dole out fanservice more evenhandedly than even Frontier, which itself was already above average in terms of catering to its female audience. I said earlier that one thing (of the few things) I liked about Delta was that the members of Walkure aren't often sexualized aside from when they're performing sexy for their job. And as you and Master Dex point out, the pretty boy ratio is rather high, and... yeah, that Roid/Keith stuff. I'm sure SOMEBODY must be shipping some sort of tsundere love there.
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    Yeah, I thought I saw as much in the show, but the custom ones made me doubt myself. Thanks so much. I suppose the studio was already super thin on the budget, so they just reused the models. Shame, though, but I'm sure the eventual movie retelling will show the 31As in their proper glory.
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    Put another way, make the camera leer at the boys as much as it leers at the girls. If you can't understand that, then that's on you. /shrug
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    I know it's been asked before, but what is up with the trend of having a teaser for the teaser? Is it for the sake of using the video in Youtube adverts? Anyway, still going to keep my expectations nice and low for this movie and this franchise. Because one halfway decent movie still only brings the average goodness of the endeavor up to like 4/10.
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    That is VERY little plastic for $100+...
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    Upcoming? Is Arcadia/Bandai releasing a toy?
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    Truly something to look forward to. OT: Is it confirmed in lineart or some shot in Delta that the VF-31A's default pod arrangement is gunpod+missile launcher? I've only ever seen that arrangement on customized model kits, so it'd be nice to know for certain.
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    He just stayed always being angry, and the words came to him.
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    Yeah, the Id transformation is beautifully simple, yet there's just enough to it that you can't tell they're the same suit at first glance. I'd love to get a transforming figure, fragile as those back pieces/limb extensions would be. "Weltall 3.0..." You mean the Xenogears?
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    Nier: Automata figures, and even more exciting for me, XENOGEARS MUTHA frakkA!!! http://www.siliconera.com/2017/07/21/nier-automata-prototype-figures-xenogears-designs-appear-sdcc-2017/
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    Robot Damashii Gipsy Avenger preorder. HLJ - https://hlj.com/product/bann19790 Hobby Search - http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10480215 high-res pics - http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10480215 EDIT: Robot Damashii Bracer Phoenix preorder. HLJ - https://hlj.com/product/BANN19791 Hobby Search - http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10480219
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    I'd be interested in this. A show without singers altogether, or where they are relegated to the background, or one where a retired singer either chooses to or has to make a comeback. They kind of hinted at a similar angle in Delta with Kaname, but that, like much else in Delta, didn't get to go anywhere.
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    In my case, like I said before, I would be totally fine with sexuality outside of contextually-appropriate situations if it were more equitable, but that it's centered so much on the girls and made so much for and by men is... off-putting, but also just kind of boring. I remember watching almost all the high school portions and the sexual comedy with eyes glazed over. It's all recycled from stuff I saw in Ranma 1/2 twenty years ago, and that's probably the only show that's ever managed to make that specific type of humor funny.
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    Oh. Whoops. Didn't see the edit.
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    That's some major mood whiplash.
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    I remember thinking this after that episode, too. Up to that point, it had followed all the tropes for a high school harem anime, and that was just more of the same. Hypersexualization is still a major criticism I have of the show, and of (shounen) anime culture in general. Being ubiquitous doesn't mean it can't be a point of criticism, though. It would at least be more tolerable if it were more even-handed and the boys got crotch shots of their banana hammocks and had an episode where people chased Alto's sports cup through town or something. Have some legitimate sexual tension between Ozma and Bobby, same as between Sheryl and Ranka (and Ranka and Nanase?). And to be fair, Frontier does do a better job of bishounening Michel and Alto up than most shounen anime, but that's about the extent of it. There's nothing for the female gaze. I saw Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews with Monster Girls) when it was airing, and it handled sexualization pretty well, all things considered. It's closest to a high school harem anime, yet the only ones overtly sexualized are the two adults, and the show makes efforts to make that sexualization contextually appropriate (when the succubus teacher is actively/accidentally trying to seduce the human teacher, for instance). It doesn't have camera shots panning creepily over pubescent girls' bodies. There are hints throughout the show before his death that he's interested in her as well, but that the fear of the social taboo against being romantic with a child(-looking teen/young adult) keeps him from acting on his interest. Macross Delta, on the other hand, I think actually does a better job of keeping itself clean. (At least as far as I can remember, and I don't remember much, because... it's Delta.) Outside of their roles in Walkure, the girls are largely not made sexy for the viewer's sake. That being said, I don't know if that's because of admirable restraint on the part of the writers or because of general ineptitude on the part of the writers. Because... it's Delta.
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    Pfaahahahahahhahahahahahahahahah oh this movie is going to be terrible
  25. kajnrig
    Everything FINALLY arrived. The box came and left town three times before finally showing up on my doorstep without a delivery update on lucky stop number four. - A couple Gundam HGs for fun - Force Impulse MG for an incoming Stargazer conversion kit - Figure-rise bust of Kaname because it was on sale so why not - 1/100 YF-29 so I can upscale the stickers into decals for the 1/72 kit - Bandai VF-31F to do some mods, plus the build is fun despite my complaints about it - Plus some tools and supplies in the middle there
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