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  1. http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/?id=3080
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    Macross figures

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

    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...
  4. Isn't the Macross wiki notorious for having outdated and/or flat-out false articles?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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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...
  7. Nah, I'm sure it's great, I just always raise my eyebrows a little bit in skepticism when it comes to IGN.
  8. I just gotta say I honestly never expected Gilbert and Sullivan to be referenced here.
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    Macross figures

    Eat your heart out, real doll "collectors."
  10. https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20190725-OYT1T50298/ The tl;dr of it: Firefighter anime Fire Force has made visual and narrative changes to its third episode, and will roll those changes through to future episodes as well, in light of the KyoAni fire. According to some person on reddit, episode 3 --- So... yikes. That's rough for everybody, to put it extremely mildly. In situations like this, I think it would have been just as "good" a move to run a monologue before and after the episode airs expressing the same sympathy and remorse that everyone feels and provide links/phone numbers for donations and the like. No one in their right mind would blame the makers of this anime for what happened to KyoAni, nor would (or at least should) they hold any animosity toward them for continuing to pursue their commercial/artistic goals. That said, I can understand the studio also not wanting to, even unintentionally, further agitate audiences' already raw emotions. Rough place to be in.
  11. Same kind of VF-1X++ as in Macross the Ride? Is it a civilian model, or military? Am I right in assuming that it's based on the VF-1X Valkyrie Plus?
  12. I'm sure this has been asked before, but In the The False Songstress "next episode preview" of The Wings of Goodbye, there's a red Super VF-1 and what looks to be a Monster in Destroid form with gatling guns in place of its standard missile launcher arms. I can't be arsed to go through all of WoG right now, but I don't recall either of those being in there. Were they simply placeholders? I'd imagine that's the case for at least the VF-1, to avoid revealing the YF-29 early. If not, where in the movie do they show up and why?
  13. My friend wanted to see it too and dragged me along with. My thoughts on it, not knowing anything about the series: All of that said, I'm sure I'd like it more if I watched the show, so... sure, 6/10, it's pretty standard anime fare I guess. (Seriously though, who were those two dark-haired chicks because GAT DAYUM.) Also, there was a trailer for apparently an August screening of Millennium Actress, and I am most definitely not missing out on that opportunity. That movie is so frakking good.
  14. Question: Which of the two recent Supermans (Superman Returns, Man of Steel) is better? I'd choose the former if locked in a room and forced to watch one in its entirety before I'd be let out, but having not seen all of either, I couldn't say for sure.
  15. Bit of column A, bit of column B. So... People love that she brought an end to an intergalactic war through the power of song, they just... hate bringing an end to an intergalactic war through the power of song. (Okay, seriously, I know I'm just attacking a strawman making fun of Robotech here, but boy is it fun to attack strawmen make fun of Robotech sometimes all the time.)
  16. Well, there's the chef... And Josuke fixes broken noses on the regular... I wonder, if Kishibe Rohan opened up Reimi and Arnold and wrote in that they weren't dead, would they come back to life?
  17. I think that's a consequence of the slice-of-life flavor that this arc took on. Some of your neighbors having wacky, stupidly specific magical powers that the rest of your neighbors can't see is silly. Part 5 so far seems to have the same sense of... inconsequentiality? Low stakes is what I mean, even though the stakes have obviously ramped up from Diamond is Unbreakable. Just seems like a wacky fun aaaaaadventure time! rather than the more serious, personally-driven main conflicts of the first three stories. All of that, then (spoilers in case you haven't gotten there yet) People have said as much too, now that I look them up. I also found it insanely weird that Jotaro opted to give his Stand's ability a name, and especially to name it after his nemesis. If anything, I'd have thought he'd simply tell Star Platinum to "TOKI WO TOMARE!" but then again that would rob us of more wonderful "ZA WARUDO!" pronunciations, so let it rock, I suppose.
  18. I REFUSE to believe that is a legitimate thing that was released for commercial consumption. Wh-what? I mean, I get taking stuff from the original show, the two franchises have that as a common starting point, but... but why would Robotech fans take from the Macross sequels? They have Robotech! Why take things from unrelated sequels and risk copyright/trademark infringement when you can just take stuff from your own franchise's sequohhhhhh, that's right... With all the effort Robotech fans have apparently put into ripping off Macross, I wonder why they don't just, y'know, be Macross fans. Seems like it would be much less effort, and more fulfilling to boot.
  19. Yeah, the art style is a really big shift. I like it a lot, but the flat lighting, especially the sky in outdoor scenes, makes everything feel just that much more off from reality. Well, "reality." Jotaro progressively gets younger. I just caught a picture of him in Part 6, which stars his teenage daughter, and he looks the same age as her. Dude went from a 40-year-old looking 17-year-old to a 17-year-old looking 40-year old. It's so weird. One might even call it bizarre.
  20. Cut the parts off the runners into bags, and you'll save over half the weight and space (unless you decide to keep the box).
  21. Speaking of, gave a new friend of mine the Frontier series last weekend, and he finished the entire thing by Wednesday. I think it's fair to say he liked it.
  22. Too frakking right. This frakking sucks.
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