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    The apple-farming marriage thing was silly and cute and funny as well.
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    Wikipedia says Saeko Suzuki TOMISIRO Mina Kubota
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    Could be it's one of the dialects/accents found on the fringes? Like Okinawan Japanese (I think), but even more geographically isolated, which would explain why it sounds strange to Japanese ears. People simply have not heard it (or rarely) on a nationally televised show.
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    I know this is off-topic, but have people bought these before? What are your thoughts? They don't seem to be for any specific scale, and I'm dubious about their quality, but I've been needing a new decal sheet to finish up my 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1 weapon set. (Lost the original sheet way back when.)
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    What about the VF-27? Well, I suppose it has more of a cyborg interface altogether that goes all neon-green (or at least that's the most prominent image in my brain), but still, it's an enclosed space with opaque walls and cameras that see the outside world.
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    That's really generous of you, Lolicon. Thanks. Will send you a PM post-haste.
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    Is it just me or are cockpits generally more spacious in these newer shows? Maybe it's just perception, but I seem to remember the YF-19/YF-21/VF-1/etc. looking more claustrophobic.
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    Do any of you go about removing those seam lines? What type of plastic does Arcadia use? Also, if you do end up getting a Hasegawa kit for the decals, I'll take the kit proper off your hands if you want to recoup some of those costs.
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    Are you looking for a brighter color/sharper contrast against the rest of the frame? Might I suggest 1 - black/primer 2 - silver or chrome or other metallic color 3 - clear yellow It seems you went with a straight metallic gold color, no? Otherwise, nice clean job so far. Are you doing the armor as well, or are you doing a just-the-frame look?
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    Ah, that retro goodness...
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    Oh. Well. I feel rather daft, then. I thought it was supposed to be based on the character Fumina, not like an actual... robot...? (I never watched BF.)
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    I quite enjoyed the first two seasons of MLP, actually. Lots of smart writing that didn't talk down (much) to the children it was aimed at. It respected traditional gender ideas without limiting gender, which was (one of the reasons) why it worked as well as it did. The brony phenomenon I think actually hurt that aspect of the show as time went on; the showrunners started catering more towards that (very vocal, very male) audience, and eventually you had a fourth season that ended with a Dragonball Z Kamehameha battle. But the first two seasons are solid. Delta I think is doing some similar things (ie not limiting gender). I've said before that I think Kawamori tends to be more feminist than most other creators, and it's just especially evident now. I think Macross, like most of the anime industry and most of Japan (and most of the world), still has a lot of issues to work through with regards to gender/sexual equality, but still, it's taking some good steps toward rebalancing the scales.
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    Oh, that's cool. I was expecting just some prettification of the Hasegawa Valkyrie stands, but this is something else altogether. Love the details.
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    Minus points for mislabeling it as 1/144. If that's 1/144, the real Fumina must be some 20 meters tall. I remember doing some estimates and the "scale," if there is one, is closer to 1/10 to 1/12. Which makes me wonder if it used MG Wing wings or the HGAC Wing wings (I'm guessing the latter).
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    @mickyg: I think what you're looking for is that Delta is optimistic. All of Macross is, now I think about it, especially compared to its older brother Gundam, where almost everyone mopes and no one knows how to crack a smile.
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    ...Orga? (It'd be a better fit than the cipher that is Mikazuki.)
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    Hayate Immelmann's last name is clearly named after Max Immelmann and the Immelmann turn maneuver, but does Hayate have any particular significance? Like there was a famous WWII ace named Hayate or something...?
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    There are iterations of that in Frontier, too, and in sci-fi in general. I was a bit put off by how floaty it looked, like someone had done a bad Photoshop copy-and-paste instead of contouring the image to the folds and crinkles of the page. It could just be that it was way higher resolution than I was expecting, though.
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    Yeah, I think the first I saw of him he was breaking whats-his-face out of prison. I thought the summary he gave later in the movie was all we'd get, but apparently I am indeed missing out on quite a bit. Well, it's enough of a reason to go see it again, I think.
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    That reminds me: I ended up being about... 10 minutes late to my showing thanks to some tardy friends. I came in at the point of Rey on Jakku (I thought it was Tatooine for about the first half of the movie) getting the half-portion for her scraps. Can someone fill me in on what happened beforehand? I know there's something about Force-suspending a laser bolt in midair...?
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    Or both. I saw it the week after it came out. Liked it more than I expected, but less than I'd hoped. I made the comment on another forum that while it's miles above the prequels, being miles above the Mariana Trench is still only sea level. It's a perfectly serviceable movie, buoyed I think by the fandom's collective desire for it to be good. I thought the lightsaber handling was a step down from the original trilogy, and even from the prequels. Not the fighting and choreography, but the FEEL of the lightsabers. I think part of it may have to do with how they managed to nick each other with their blades and there would be pieces of burnt flesh/clothing sparking off. In 1-6 the impression I always got was that lightsabers were so sharp/hot/what-have-you that they would just cut a clean hole straight through you. Also, lots and lots and lots of protracted shots of people's faces. So many shots of the new Force users cringing and making faces at each other. It got kind of silly by movie's end. That final shot with the lightsaber held out was also sustained for like ten seconds too long. I half-expected Rey to just give up and shout out "HEY DO YOU WANT IT OR NOT OLD-TIMER!?".
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    Suddenly gender politics. It certainly seems like a lot of the "hate" or at least aversion to the new series has to do with the fact that it incorporates so heavily media not traditionally aimed at straight men. Magical girls, pop music, bishounen, emotional characters... Looking at the franchise as a whole, though, it becomes apparent that Macross never had this super-masculine mystique that some commenters in this thread seem to retroactively prescribe to it. Perhaps this and Frontier make the "feminine" side of Macross more prominent, but it's always been there. Heck, part of M+, the most "manly" of Macross productions, part of its social critique is how being the dude-bro who denies his/her emotions is super bad for you, your friends, and society at large. But none of that is a jab at anyone in particular. I honestly haven't read much of the conversation thread that led to this point. Something about who Macross is aimed at? I do know that Kawamori has a habit of trying to reach to the female audience more so than other mecha anime creators. Escaflowne's main character Hitomi Kanzaki was initially going to be the more helpless, airheaded waif that relied on the men around her typical of shounen anime, before they turned her into an athletic proactive type. Earth Maiden Arjuna had a female lead who didn't so much fight an enemy as sought balance with nature. He and his anime tend to have a feminist bend to them... even if they indulge in female objectification now and again, too. I mean, even Delta has an all-female band actively fighting battles, and female pilots holding their own against the men (though yeah, that's been done before). Like I said before, I'm interested in seeing how all their interpersonal relationships play out; it would be so cool to see some LGBT and/or polyamorous relationships prominently depicted. (Someone mentioned something about this being a return to M+. In what way?)
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    That's because it IS cheap, at least compared to doing the same kind of animation with cels, or even cel shading (though cel shading tech has improved significantly since 2008). Though I agree that the number and level of effects is a bit garish and dizzying. It's a complaint I often had with both Frontier and Zero, too. Another reason why M+ is still the epitome of the franchise.
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    It's better than Thunderbolt, at any rate. But anyway... Not so much picking on as correcting a misstatement made to pick on others who do like the series, but as you say, sticking on topic. (08MST is a great show. <--There, olive branch. ) I'm curious which version of Frontier they'll reference. Seems they're taking the tech from Frontier already, despite it being... what, barely eight years since that show/movie? They've played fast and loose with canon and galactic scale before, so it's plausible for Frontier tech to reach Al Shahal, so now the only question is who's dead, Michel or Brera? EDIT: Watched it again, with subs. Far more understandable than my limited Japanese would allow me otherwise. Looking forward to the love dodecahedrons that'll be cropping up. I'm not relishing keeping track of everyone's relationships, though it would be really neat if it turns out some of the idols/pilots are in LGBT/polyamorous and actually sexually active relationships. It would be a big deal, especially considering how oppressive the idol culture can be in Japan. /flashes back to the AKB48 girl who shaved her head in shame for daring to have a boyfriend...
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    M+ definitely seems like the vanity project of the Macross franchise. Kawamori's vanity projects always outshine his mainstream successes in terms of artistic value, but they're never as financially viable. (Escaflowne leaps to mind...) Can we not with the whole "us oldies" bit? I think it's been demonstrated that even among the supposed "older generation," there are plenty (seems like even a majority) who like the newest iterations of Macross just fine. Also, if you're looking for good story lines and character building in grim settings, you're doing wrong to look at Thunderbolt. IBO, despite all its problems, is far grimmer, with much better storytelling and character-building. Thunderbolt is Call of Duty grim-dark Gundam. IBO is actual grim Gundam. One wonders if perhaps you just have bad taste in anime.
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