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Heinz could be a little boy. They tend to be voiced by women, after all.

Random tidbit.

I took a peek at the fansubs that I believe people have been watching and noticed an omission.

When replying to Hayate, Mirage identifies herself as a member of what I believe is supposed to be 'Chaos.'

She identifies this before saying she is in Delta squadron, meaning that Chaos would be the larger, over-arching organisation.

The thing that threw me off in Japanese is that she says ケイオス, when chaos is more commonly spelled カオス.

The spelling was confirmed in Mikumo's updated profile yesterday (but not the nature of what the word actually means or is referring to).

I'll keep the name as Chaos for now, although it could change to Keios or Kaos depending on how the official settings documents decide to spell it.

I have hunch that more will be revealed in episode two as to what or who Chaos actually is.

Is it, for example, 'Lady M' the leader of Chaos?

Only time will tell, I suppose.

(Incidentally, this is also why I always advise that fan-subs be taken with a grain of salt. Not only are the translaters language skills often suspect, but most times specialised words and language get mistranslated or omitted simply because their meaning cannot really be known without further knowledge of the plot or official settings documents).

Speaking of which, you can see 'chaos' written in Greek on her VF.

Alrighty, heres all the Macross-related pics I took at Wonder Festival today.

Enjoy :-)

http://www.macrossworld.com/wonder-festival-2016-winter-photo-gallery/

Thanks for the pictures.

So the golden Draken is Keith's? It was also nice to see Freyja in what I suppose is Walküre's working uniform. Also, I'm glad to see all that merchandise!

Source /m/ anon.

Delta manga.jpg

Here is the official source

The "var-causing song" sounds a LOT like the "song of destruction" from the end of Zero. (you know, the floating carriers etc scene).

I really think there's a link between Zero and Delta, with that song. It's the same "high-pitched ethereal chant". (which also sounds a bit like Nephilim's song in Xenosaga)

Could be. I also noticed we have an alien race of fish humanoids (who may inhabit Ragna?) and another race of alien humanoids (?) who seem to have a special relationship with the wind.

Speaking of the Var song, it reminds me a lot of Barcarole from ARIA, composed by Mina Kubota who is one of Delta's three composers.

If I had to use one word to describe this episode it would be 'fun'. It was really entertaining from start to end and that seems to be the general opinion among the people who have watched it, included those who are newbies to Macross.

Freyja is like Ranka's and Sheryl's lovechild. She has the former's energy and cheerfulness and the latter's determination and will, plus some of Mylene's brattiness thrown in. She almost reminds me of a mahô shôjo protagoni- wait Hayate has the potential for a lot of development and I think Freyja and Mirage (who if I remember correctly is said in her profile to take her job as a pilot seriously?) as well as the rest of characters will act as a good foil for him. In general I found everyone pretty likeable, the evil pretty boys included.

The animation seemed good, too. I'm a bit baffled at the people who think Frontier's was better ???? That CG needs some work but it seems pretty obvious most of it is unfinished and the parts that were clearly finished looked really good. And as for the character animation, I think those designs look great animated. I loved how expressive Freyja or some of the knights were but, really, everyone else looked good too.

The second half of the episode was really exciting! Both Walküre's concert-battle, whatever you call that, and the dogfight scenes got me pumped. I can recognize some of Mina Kubota on the songs and I thought that the BGMs, while not on the level of Kanno's best work, were nice (especially the one with the bagpipes that played during the dogfight).

Lastly, didn't Kawamori say in an interview after Sayonara no Tsubasa aired that he felt like doing an spin-off about Magical Girl Ranka? He was warning us But honestly, I don't mind the mahô shôjo aspect; it's all part of Walküre's act and public image. Plus, previous Macross series are full of holographic tricks and after all the threats that have been overcome by humanity thanks to the power of music, militarized idols just seem like the next step.

It's almost cruel that we have to wait three more months until the series starts airing. I guess the next episode will be more battle-heavy and that Master Herman guy looks like Gilliam the Second.