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9 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I'd say roughly 0%, but that may be tainted a bit by my complete dissatisfaction with his work on the new series of Star Trek movies...

They've done such a good job of making [Ben Solo/Kylo Ren] an unlikeable little b***h, appropriate to his role as a major villain who jumped off the slippery slope feetfirst, that I really don't see a way for them to wrap up his arc short of Redemption Equals Death like they did for Vader.  Trying to go any other route, like having him see the light and repent, would just feel like a karma houdini for a guy who's got multiple counts of mass murder on his CV.

Honestly this series needs a good shot of fratricide, take them both out and let the next generation of force users forge their own path untainted the priors' views. 

Hopefully those books are on technic and not philosophy.

Most recent concert on BluRay is LIVE2018 "WALKURE wa Uragiranai" at Yokohama Arena, release date is 10/24/18, linked is the dual set but they are selling the days seperate.

Prior to that is LIVE 2017 "WALKURE ga Tomaranai" at Yokohama Arena and 

Macross Frontier Chojiku Super Live cosmic nyaan (Cosmic Musume)

Those are what I found on CDJapan, I'm sure there are more elsewhere.

13 minutes ago, GabrielV said:

It does come up in the series.  There's some key dialogue.  It can certainly be argued that it's more of an outline than a fully fleshed out story.  But it is there.

Obviously I think there's enough there to support what I've presented as her arc.  All I've done is watch the series once, and that's what I came away with.

Not so obvious to be honest. I've seen the series twice, plus the movie twice and didn't pick up on this and the movie it's more believable for her to develop a relation with Hayate as they have an assumed history prior to the start of said movie.

I can see why you would see this though the key dialog and scenes for this are about as long as a commercial break. 

34 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Oh hell yes.  They need to do this... complete with clone!Mikumo gritting her teeth and cringing at how bad of a singer her gene-donor "mother" is.  Bonus points if it occurs in a karaoke booth.

Double Jeopardy if all of Walkure are there for the revel. 

24 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

First they'd have to actually sit down and decide who Lady M is... Delta's creators never determined an identity for her, Berger Stone's baseless rumor-mongering notwithstanding.

(Personally, my suspicion is that Lady M is the original Mikumo Guynemer, the genetic donor whose DNA was merged with the Protoculture ruins DNA to create the Walkure member Mikumo.)

I'm all for this. You can even use the same VA for her. Bonus points if she's tone deaf.

2 hours ago, Big s said:

I don’t think U.S. Netflix has any gundam shows yet. At least streaming.

Confirmed last night, they have Gundam Unicorn, but that is it currently.

1 hour ago, Sanity is Optional said:

It's a Master Grade, so 1/100, and it releases in November.

Premium Bandai, so only available from some retailers.

Thank you and darn it. I resided myself to stick to 1/144 scale, but this one is just too good. 

On 9/14/2018 at 1:33 AM, Duymon said:

GD it. I just bought the F91 2.0 and now they announce the MSV version.

Well... I needed a 2nd F91 to make both MSV units AMIRITE?

What scale is this in and do we have a release date yet?

19 hours ago, TehPW said:

I just watched the 1st eps on Netflix... so the hero mech is EVA Unit 01, the breen are Angels and the male lead pilot is on the Spectrum. Is that a fair description of Pandora/Last Hope?

Well you have one of three right, Leon is on the spectrum, but from ep 3ish on it's a monster of the week with more Power Ranger style villain.

1 minute ago, Seto Kaiba said:

CD Japan, Amazon Japan, HMV Japan... all the usual suspects.  (CD Japan was so swift in delivering mine I got it the same day it came out in Japan.)

Speaking of which, here's the link for cdjapan

Macross Delta: Passionate Walkure

If I wasn't broke, I'd take the Megahouse SDF.... time to see about clever accounting.

22 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

The show's a little boring to me. The characters really aren't that interesting (they're anime archetypes, nothing that stands out), the story is a mish-mash of meta and quantum physics, and the big bad is cheesy and laughable. Honestly, I think I laughed the first time he announced his bad guy name. It's like an 80's James Bond villain. I'm waiting for Roger Moore to show up in a transforming Aston Martin. Kawamori's transforming designs are cool, as always, but they can't save this show from the mediocrity of its story, characters, or dialog.

I binged the series over the weekend.

Yeah agreed for the most part. I was entertained, but this isn't a series I'll be passing to my friends.

On the mecha note, I swear the designs looked familiar past the Kawamori aesthetic. The tank and flyer looked like Gypsy and the red jeager from uprising and the sniper was so close to Master Chief it was laughable.

Also it seems like this series is supposed to continue as the last ep ends like there is another one coming. I'm guessing that is what the OVA/movie is supposed to concluded the story?

I hope.

So Dragon Pilot hits US Netflix on the 21st and Last Hope: Pandora dropped this morning....

Guess I know what I'm binge for the next two weekends.  

6 hours ago, Marzan said:

I think I got number 118.

Im a bit miffed at 2 things. The first is that it’s hardsubbed. I know that I wouldn’t watch without subs and there being no sub it makes sense but it just feels cheap for some reason.

Secondly, the first film at least received no kind of remastering/ upgrade for the BD’s. I feel I’m watching an old laserdisc. I hope they did a better job with the ova series.

I got 222, good luck on the ovas, I doubt they did a remaster though. 

On 9/7/2018 at 6:38 PM, slide said:

it says "order stop" when I check hlj now

Yeah, I heard back from them. Seems a website update caused the order to disappear on my end, not theirs. So fixed the issue and I'm good and it's in my warehouse. 

Well my most recent CDJapan order arrived. I'm going to see about painting the valk in mirage's colours cause I like the scheme and I'm going to see if I can take her hair and use it on the cat-girl coming in decemeber.

6 hours ago, Marzan said:

This baby is in the house and I slowly have to go though all 4000 minutes of it 

 

Watched thru the movies this weekend so I've seen all of it to date. Golden Wings is a bit jarring since the story/designs are based on the manga.

Also what number did you get?

Also watched the Delta movie this weekend since it arrived. Not bad, better then the series and I started a watch of Monogatari.

On 9/5/2018 at 11:12 PM, seti88 said:

Nice boxart Tenjin-san!

To anyone that pre-ordered this though HLJ, double check your warehouse asap. Just looked at mine and my pre-order was canceled. I'll update once I hear from CS.

2 hours ago, ScrambledValkyrie said:

@no3Ljm, do you know if it's a full  album or just a single?

Single album, includes Good Job, Gorgeous, and Brand New Peach as well as their instrumental versions.

29 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Ah, you missed out.  Macross Frontier really hit its stride starting in the fifth episode.

Mikumo's basically modeled on Sheryl from the first four episodes, when she was busy being Queen Bitch half the time.  Mikumo's professional interest in Freyja closely mirrors the advice Sheryl gave to Ranka when they met near the Macross Quarter's dock and had to wait out a hull breach repair in an emergency shelter.  

It was actually really frustrating how blatant they were about it.  Really, almost the entire Delta cast came with shades of it... Xaos being a low-rent SMS knockoff complete with an off-brand Macross Quarter and Roid's entire master plan being nicked from Grace's in the Macross Frontier TV series.  It was kind of weird how committed they were to it, with Xaos having the same "we're testing the next-gen VF for the military" excuse SMS had for having better gear than the NUNS and the VF-31 even sharing a majority of its systems with the VF-25.

Seems about right on the timing, Frontier isn't the first nor the last series I stopped at just prior to the good parts.

From my movie watching, yeah full agree on the recycling of the prior series. That seems to be a trend these days with franchise series, which is sad.

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Rules being rules, that kind of direction has to be done under the proverbial radar... don't wanna step on any administrative toes, y'know?

Also understanding and if I could get a legit sub of the series I'd budget out for in a heart-beat. But let be ok for one and the flood gates open...

3 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Didn't the series box set include English subtitles? Or am I thinking of Delta?

That be Delta only (which I do own), Frontier only got one, maybe both movies officially subbed?

37 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

... you undermined your first sentence with your second.

Right down to her outfit, Mikumo is an attempted Sheryl knockoff.  Her bitchy attitude and her total obsession with her status as a "pro" is stolen almost whole cloth from Sheryl in the first few Macross Frontier episodes.  Because she's only a supporting character, her ice queen side never defrosts like Sheryl's did starting in Frontier's fifth episode.

(Seriously.  Watch Sheryl's "pro" speech to Alto in Frontier's first episode and then Mikumo's one to Freyja in Delta... they weren't even TRYING to hide Mikumo's imitation-brand Sheryl status.)

Well it is a bit of a coincidence concerning my view of Sheryl. I only saw her in the movies as I stopped watching the series at episode 5. Something was urking me about the series proper so I opted to skip to the films, which in the films she seemed much nicer and more human then Mikumo.

On that note if you can direct me to a way to watch the series that isn't the STD filled pirate site or poor youtube videos I'll give the frontier series a full go. Also looking for Zero as I wasn't able to see that before the outbreak hit my comp.

10 hours ago, Master Dex said:

There are a lot of M2 similarities there it almost seemed like SK was intentionally going for that actually. The joke almost being that Delta finally made people respect Macross II (Seto is happy at least), lol.

My head canon is that delta is pulling the franchise to make M2 canon and with it in the 2090s it still is a possiblity.

Also I find the sheryl Nome/Mikumo connection incorrect. Mikumo is more of a Sharon Apple knockoff, just with a physical form. Also in my recent rewatch of the series I noticed Mikumo is a bit of a bitch. Plus since most of her actions seems to me to make her other-worldly I never got the creep factor. With her being an artifical being the age thing was just to make her the youngest of the group in character (as Junna is irl the youngest of Walkure) as well as a possible flip on the 900 year old loli trope.

Granted her existance is illegal, but if Lady M has half the pull shown that will be made an exception as time moves on.

I'm not sure if any of this is really brotched in the movie, once my copy arrives (left Japan yesterday finally) I'll give it a watch. 

As for the movie I'm expecting Interstellar 5555: Macross edition, if I get that I happy.

So basically since the writers just didn't bother exploring, their creeps. Not surprising from a franchise that has a race of child soldiers (zentradi), but that is can of worms another series tends to take on (Gundam).

1 minute ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Honestly, I think Mikumo's character (personality, appearance) was just designed before her backstory, and nobody bothered to change it when someone decided she was a clone.

Frankly a lot of the characters feel like they were low-effort design, without too much thought going in, and without any thought for how they would fit into the story.

Most were designed via committee to check off boxes to attract new fans, but that's been known for a while.

On a side note as a thought experiment: What if Mikumo was not a clone but an android. Do the cloning laws and rights still apply?

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

When you combine it with her one piece of actual character development - being a 3 year old clone whose implanted programming doesn't include social graces - it crosses the line straight into being downright skin-crawlingly creepy.  She doesn't have the social awareness to eat with other people... there is no bloody way she understands what she's doing vis-a-vis the sex appeal.  Whatever writer came up with that plot twist needs to seriously reconsider his or her life choices.

 

The more I'm hearing about this, the more I'm seeing a case of 'the blinders being on'

Honestly the fact that Mikumo is three years old is a moot point since she is an artifical being. At that point the age of the body has nothing to do with anything and her lack of social grace just proves that her creators see her as a tool and not a living sentient being.

Mikumo has a only one main purpose, to be a fold singer. She's no different then the clone troopers in star wars.