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2 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

From the look of it, they haven't had any real difficulty securing budgets since Frontier unexpectedly set the world on fire.

I really want them to re-release the Frontier movies with english subs, I'd pay the $80 for those. Also hoping they do that with the new movie and later series.

To bring this back on track.

With the announcement of the new Delta movie I'm guessing it's a good bet the series is on hold until after the movie is done production?

Let's hope it brings in decent funds so we can get a nice new series.

7 minutes ago, Saruta said:

Yes. The movie version is what I was thinking of. "Friends in high places" is the phrase about Mikumo in the subtitled version I have.

As for Nozumi turning into Makina. I can't help asking if she is, er, developing Makina's single most distinctive characteristic... (Previously known in this franchise as hopes and dreams). The bike otaku part does sound like nailing it, though

 

Just google Walkure Live to see.

Spoiler: No she's not, thankfully. As awesome as they are to look at they are a pain in the back to have. 

6 minutes ago, Saruta said:

Thanks! I did not know she was "just brought in" and did ont go through the same auditions that got us Freyja. That scene in the movie, with "friends in high places" mentioned, definitely has a different feeling now.

 

Yeah, that scene hit a little closer to home than it should of (especially the movie version). 

Nao (Reina) is the only odd ball from what I've seen since she matches close to Kiyono (Kaname) in past experience, just a few years later.

On a side note I think Nozumi slowly turned into Makina after the show given her new hobby as a bike otaku and her regular gig of hosting the Macross model livestream along side KENN (Bogue).

33 minutes ago, RavenHawk said:

I have to say that I continue to be surprised by how little the general fandom seems to like this show (from what I can see, anyway, and I might be missing a lot).

I have really enjoyed the half of the series that Netflix put up so far. I do have issues with it, and there are some things I don't like, but I've seen a lot MORE of those same issues in other series which the general fandom seems to view much more favorably.

It might be an expectation thing. Pandora at least from my angle, was a bit hyped up. 

Issue was that upon viewing the series is pretty generic and has too many tropes. Maybe once the we get the second half of the series we'll at least get a resolution.

My biggest disappointment in Pandora was it seemed that Kaworai phoned in his mech designs. I had to pause the show when the sniper's mech fully transformed because to looked too much like Halo's Mjolnir armour on rollar blades and I was laughing too hard.

In the end, if you had fun and were entertained then all's good.

6 minutes ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

Started watching Pandora.. Last Hope   on Netflix.

I was holding off on this till I could see the whole thing.    On Ep3 right now.. kinda meh,  but still better then Mac Delta... lol

Your going to eat those words in a few episodes. I'm giving a single watch through (done what is on US Netflix now) just so I can see what happens when/if the reactor gets repaired and if Mob Boss Zed gets knock off.

Otherwise I'd like a few hours of my life back please.

@Saruta

There isn't much more other then she was an unknown that had a voice that hits like a truck.

But like Mikumo she didn't do a general audition and was just brought in. Walkure is her first gig (same for Minori and Nozumi).

As for history you can add a lack of it for JUNNA, at least via Twitter, her account was opened up just prior to the Walkure announcement. From what I can see all her social media started up around that time. At least without going into stalker territory.

Also if your looking for more of her work I suggest grabbing her newest album 17 Sai ga Utsukushii Nante, Dare ga Itta. it has a good selection of her post Walkure work minus her first album Vai! Ya! Vai!, which was pretty good to start.

Her most recent work appears to be for a drama series called Onna jōshu Naotora in 2017. Last anime she worked on was Terror in Resonance in 2014.

Also seems like she has done several other projects over the years... lords her list is impressive.

While her work in Macross Plus is good, I found her work in Cowboy Bebop and later GitS: SAC to be much better.

If you do a 1/72 scale twin cannon pod I'd like to be added to that list.

16 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Do Pokemons talk in the cartoon? 

MewTwo did, a lot actually. Other then that I believe some of the legendary ones spoke in a telepathic sense.

27 minutes ago, Tking22 said:

This is the guy that directed the IT remake right? I like that. Also, it really can't get much worse then the two Toho films, those were terribad, some cool effects and occasional action scenes aside.

Yeah it was bad, but to quote a friend:

"It had the best love story, between Henge and her rocket launcher."

6 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

As much as Kawamori supposedly dislikes the idea of direct sequels, I doubt that the new series was supposed to be a Delta sequel.  He's stuck to his guns on the sequel thing for 30+ years now, I can't see him backing down from that anytime soon.

I suspect it's taking a backseat to a new Delta movie because they didn't anticipate Walkure would be as popular as it is, and are looking to strike while the iron is hot.

Hopefully with the money they make from this and the continuing tours they'll hire better staff for the next series.

Honestly I'm not against another Delta movie, heck a third if they show a little improvement in the writing and we get a few more new songs. After this second one though let's get to work on the actual series please. 

On 10/24/2018 at 12:12 AM, dizman said:

haven't heard a lot of game news out of Artdink for a while now, I hope they are doing ok.....

wikipedia has their last release being a port of Neo Altas 1469 (originally for the vita in 2016) to the Switch in 2018. So seems they are still breathing?

Here's the recent delivery from HLJ, few items to add to the pile I'll be working on next month to take a break from the mass of 40K I've been doing.

18 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

*wince*

Sorry.

18 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Well... assuming Macross is using the most common "2D Space" galactic map orientation that puts Sol due south of the galactic center on the map's centerline, the answer would have to be "practically all of them".  

The galactic map in Macross Frontier's first episode, which is pretty inaccurate, shows some fleets loop off to the galactic south but then curve back towards the north.

(The only popular SF title I know offhand that bucks that common 2D galactic map projection is Warhammer 40,000, which routinely puts Sol west of the galactic core rather than south.)

 

Anyway, I wasn't clear I was looking at the northern quarter off galactic center, not north of Sol.

19 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Oh, I'm sure more than a few are if they're still launching at least one a year.

19 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

By 2065 they should mostly be City-class or Island Cluster-class.

Thanks, figured but wanted to verify. 

13 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Clarification request... when you say "galactic north" are you referring to actual galactic north under the galactic coordinate system (above the galactic plane) or in sense often used in science fiction where 2D space is in full effect and "north" is just "up" relative to wherever Sol is on the map's given orientation?

(I ask because that's going to make an enormous difference in the answer.)

sci-fi north, so galactic flat map.

Few short questions:

Are there any colonization fleets heading to the galactic north and if so which ones?

Also are any of those still in transit post 2065?

Bonus: What type are those? (ie the older city ship via Mac7 or the large colony ships via Frontier)

Thanks in advance.

14 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

No preorder date announcement yet. But they've already shown a prototype in some Japanese hobby magazine. And hopefully they show a painted sample on the upcoming TN2018 next week.

 

This is the only other 31 I want. Luckily I've already started saving up for it.

6 minutes ago, Sailor Arashi said:

That doesn't mean the extra-screen knowledge doesn't contradict what is actually on the screen, and it's worth pointing out when it does so.  Such is precisely the case with the massive retcons that followed Macross Plus.

Macross is full of retcons, given a franchise that takes all series, movies, games and other media as canon. It's not much a retcon as a differentiating point of view. Remember that any animation is propaganda, a version of the true events, neither version being 100% true.

41 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The question being... was she at some other organization trying to become a mechanic prior to that?

I'd have to re-watch the scenes to see if she makes mention. But placing my money on that Walkure was her first real job.

42 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That's one of the things I don't really buy about her character.

She's allegedly the head mechanic on the Aether according to her bio... but we never see her actually do anything.  The few things she allegedly created for Walkure are, to those who paid attention, just worse versions of off-the-shelf technology used by characters in previous shows (like Sheryl Nome).

It's the same situation as Reina allegedly being a super-hacker despite being so bad at her job that she mostly only succeeds when the enemy lets her, and is foiled by a simple electronic door lock.  A bio that writes a check the show can't cash.

I didn't buy her being head mechanic anyway, not with her holding an idol career. If the bios were written as a semi in universe bio then her being listed as the head mechanic would just be on paper and to give her more depth to her abilities then just singing and dancing to the fans. Same goes for Reina, why just be a hacker when being a Super hacker is way cooler.

16 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Chuck may or may not belong on that list... his statements about his own background suggest he may have been a NUNS soldier who quit after having to fight humans.  Mikumo's a clone who is more or less a slave, so she's not working there by choice.  Makina's status is uncertain.  Freyja is the only one we know of for whom Xaos was her #1 choice of employer.

From the series and movie iirc Makina explains she joined Walkure because she was scouted for her fold receptors but she still wanted to work on planes like her family does. 

Walkure allows her to kind of do this. Since in the series she and Reina are messing with those barrier boomerangs after the Knights soundly frakked with them early in the series and there are a few shots of her hanging with the deck crews. So it more like Xaos offered her a job that got her close to what she wants, just not exactly there.

Nora is amazing and Cinder's pet grim is the cutest thing so far.

Also one of the best moments is in CHIBI S2 (iirc) when they meta in a character from S3.

On a side note it might be best if you watch at least RWBY S1-3 before going to CHIBI as spoilers are contained in CHIBI S2.

2 minutes ago, Sildani said:

I haven’t seen RWBY since the end of S2. Is it worth the time, really, since Monty passed?

Yeah, Monty left notes for up to S6, so after this we'll be in uncharted territories. But the series is still good and the animation gets better each season. Also RWBY CHIBI is hilarious.

7 minutes ago, Bolt said:

The expanded universe books were written before TFA. And a good deal of fans wished some of those plot lines would influence the new movies..

guess what. They didn't. 

(At least not to my satisfaction)

Was referring to the books Rey took.