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    So a couple days ago I came across these... when cleaning out my niece's closet. They were my sister's before she died, but there were no CDs (for the jewel cases) to go with them. So I got to looking up the songs on Youtube and boy was it a blast from the past. Lots of Digimon songs (back when there was no possible way to watch the original Japanese versions), an Inu-Yasha song or two, and this from Revolutionary Girl Utena: Fast forward a few days later, and my Youtube recc's are blowing up with the rest of the soundtrack, and GOD DAMN what a soundtrack it is. Seems I'm gonna have to finally watch this show; thankfully the entire series is officially available subbed on Youtube.
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    Yeah, I can see why some would prefer the laser-focused overarching plot of SC over DiU, and admittedly SC and GW feel like actual adventures as opposed to... a slice of life??? anime. What I like about DiU is that each enemy of the week adds to the town of Morioh, and isn't strictly antagonistic. Everyone seems like an enemy at first, but more often than not it's just two people's eccentricities clashing with each other for a bit. Eventually, you expect that that's simply how it goes in a town of Stand users: There's just always going to be the occasional random incident that escalates into a full-blown Stand battle. You know, like how I imagine New York is or something. You'd hope so, right? "It can't possibly be this jack-off contorting his limbs into an impossible pose, what a sneaky konoyarou!" "Ah, you thought it was the yoga instructor, but it was me, this random frakking ant!" ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ
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    Finally finished Jojo: Golden Wind. All in all, it doesn't hit the high water mark of Diamond is Not Crash Unbreakable. It returns to the "road trip" storytelling of Part 3/Stardust Crusaders, and runs into a lot of the same issues as that: formulaic enemy of the week episodes, a pace that's both too fast and too slow, and, surprisingly for a 39-episode run, remarkably little in the way of characterization. Giorno is the closest the series has ever come to a Gary Stu protagonist; he always seems to know what's going on, he always seems to have the best ideas, everyone always seems to respect and/or defer to and/or fear him, his Stand powers are conveniently vague enough to justify pretty much anything he does... The number of times Narancia or Mista panic and he interjects with a guesstimate that just happens to be exactly correct quickly grated on me. This is a weird one where I feel like either 20 episodes more or 20 episodes less would have really benefited the final product. Either condensing the story, expanding some characters (like Risotto) while excising others completely (like pretty much the entire rest of the assassin team or whatever they were called); or expanding the story to allow for down time, offering the chance to get to know the characters without the need for a narrator, would have been preferable to the story as is. I spent 30+ episodes with Trish and still don't really have a firm grasp of her character, for instance. The ending also seemed really abrupt. I'd have thought there'd be some sort of epilogue in store or... something. An episode to tie off loose ends. The Rolling Stones two-parter obviously was meant to fit that role, but instead it just added more stakes to a story that was already chock full of them and was in dire need of ramping down. Probably my least favorite of the five animated parts so far, but still more enjoyable than not. I've heard good things about the Jolyne arc; looking forward to it.
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    Seems like it's kind of really incredibly fundamentally missing the point. If you're gonna get the MB, it's because it deviates so far from the original design. Changing the head and shoulders (and ankle guard?) is like a 10% fix at best when the arms and trunk and legs and feet and proportions thereof are still so specifically MB.
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    Yeah, I wasn't sure how to word it, either. It's actually changed once already. I think yours works better, I'll change it again. I didn't intend to get you riled up about this, I hope you know. I posted it because it's a weird freak instance of outside shenanigans intersecting with Macross shenanigans. I don't know enough about ANN to speak to their veracity or lack thereof. They did reach out to her. From the article: ANN didn't ask another VA. They saw and reported the Twitter post made by a VA named Brett Weaver, and followed up on it with Iijima, who declined to comment. I mean, they probably also followed up on it with Weaver and the other people mentioned in the article, too. I'm just saying they followed up with her specifically and she declined to comment. So I guess that's the end of that as far as this forum is concerned. True or not, I never would've thought that the Mignogna... fiasco... would ever in a million years intersect with our neck of the woods, so to speak. Anyway. That's that.
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    Hey, glad things worked out for you! Enjoy!
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    I do wonder, though. Seems like you could just watch this instead and save yourself an hour and a half:
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    Are you sure? Must've been bought between then and now, because I don't see it listed anymore. I can find the original listing, which is for a new item and is discontinued, but no preowned ones. They'll have condition rankings on the product page next to the name of the item, like so: https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-000570-R (Pre-owned ITEM:A/BOX:B)
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    I think your Ctrl+C didn't C.
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    https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-07-31/former-tekkoshocon-staff-allege-mignogna-harassed-macross-voice-actress-mari-iijima/.149505 Not sure who he is, though I know I've seen the name. The article details his behavior towards her at a con in 2007. EDIT: Okay, got the gist of it now. Vic Mignona, American VA, known for stuff like Full Metal Alchemist, came under fire for alleged super creep behavior going back a decade or more. The article details recent allegations made by con staff for Tekkoshocon that he stalked Mari Ijima, calling her hotel phone and even showing up at her door. She had to change rooms for the duration of the con and had it booked under an alias, and con organizers hired personal bodyguards for her. Apparently there's an ongoing lawsuit by him vs Funimation and some other people, I don't know the whole story, I skimmed through most of it just to focus on the Macross stuff.
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    You might not be able to do so, but I know that used figures show up on amiami from time to time. Search for in-stock items, including pre-owned ones.
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    Pretty much, yeah. Wing EW looks more like the Wing Zero EW, with different wings/forearms. It gets optional buster rifle ammo packs and a shield. Deathscythe similarly has different wings/forearms, but also different shoulders. Its beam scythe oddly enough is exactly the same, though in fairness don't fix what ain't broke, I guess. It retains the shooty beamy shield thing from the TV Deathscythe. Heavyarms looks almost exactly like its EW counterpart. The difference is in the minute details; the missiles in its packs are lessened as well as the number of guns in its chest. It does come with a big frakk-off gatling gun, though, with belt and ammo drum. Shenlong is exactly the same as its EW movie look. The dragon fangs become a single dragon fang, and it loses the ability to extend that arm like the TV version can (though the fang does have a bit of an extension gimmick built in...). The beam glaive of the TV version becomes a beam trident (which then becomes the double beam trident of the TV/EW Altron). The Sandrock is exactly the same as its EW version. It gets a shield and machine gun that the EW version lacks. The EW version gets that cloak thing instead.
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    Yeah... "display"...
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    I don't touch RGs anymore (though this might change my mind), but you should check out Bluefin first to make sure you don't pay up the butt when you don't have to: https://www.bluefinbrands.com/tallgeese-iii-gundam-wing-endless-waltz-bandai-rg-1-144-bas5058023.html
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    Started Konosuba the other day. It turns out I can't stand these Isekai setups where the fantasy world isn't explicitly an RPG but runs on RPG rules, but the characters are fun at least. They help to distract from the absolutely boring world and all the questions I have about it. It seems like something to just shut your mind down and have fun with the wacky mishaps the characters get into. That's fine, I guess. The kids like it, so it'll be something to watch with them. ...it's just I see this and I get cravings for Escaflowne and Slayers to come show them how Isekai and comedic fantasy anime are done right.
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    I prefer to think of it as a frog gullet, myself. It grows on you after a while.
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    Eh... It looks like a fairly standard Gundam "detail-up" conversion kit. Lots of nonsense details thrown all over the place without a thought given to function, or even the semblance of function. I wouldn't say it's bad, per se, just kind of... messy. That huge glass cockpit, though. If that isn't a big ol' "Kick Me" sign, I don't know what is. Those extra long exhaust nozzles/feet, too... But I mean, it's a game effort.
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    http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/?id=3080
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Don't think we can't see exactly what your name is.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I believe she and Alto are 17 throughout the entirety of Frontier, and Ranka is 16. But now I think about it I have no clue where I got those numbers, so...
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    Isn't the Macross wiki notorious for having outdated and/or flat-out false articles? Last time I checked one of their articles, I X'ed out after I couldn't figure out where one section started and another ended.
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    Obviously Seto's working on an answer to this as we speak, but maybe I can beat him to it. IIRC, the YF-24 prototype became the VF-24, and is strictly for Earth forces use. Something about increased autonomy for the immigrant fleets, but because of that Earth wants to keep the true strength of its fighter a secret. Toned-down monkey model schematics(?) were distributed throughout the immigrant fleets for use in making their own local variants, which is where the VF-25 et al come from.
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    How old IS the F-16? I always feel like it's 20 years old, max, no matter how much time goes by. But then I also can't accept that the F-22 was basically made in 1990 or thereabouts, so maybe I just have a poor sense of time...
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    This is also true.
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