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Y'know, I think they both look pretty nice.

Aha! Someone else who noticed this. I could swear that sometime between SDF Macross and DYRL, Mikimoto started drawing everyone like they were elves, with pointy ears. Or maybe he always did it, but the animators fixed the ears in SDFM.

I would stay away from the DVD with just episode 2. But Kevin of Valkyrie Exchange says the one with 1 & 2 on the same disk is okay. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=4987

I like the Macross music better, but there is very little of the Robotech BGM that I actively hate. And some of the battle music is actually pretty good. Keith is right, though, the opening music sounds derivative of the Superman movie. And I dislike most of the RT songs, though some of them might be good with better singers. I like all of Minmay's songs in SDF Macross. I even like the male vocal in the opening song and in "Runner", the song that plays in the closing credits. (Best is the duet with both the guy and Mari Iijima.) I also like all the music for M+ and M0. The bits of M7 stuff I've heard I'm not so crazy about.

Again, the particulars of the situation are unknown, but to make an anology from the publishing industry, if you sign a contract with a publisher for them to sell a book you've written, you still have copyright to your work. The book publisher can create printing plates, print the book, and sell it. You don't own the plates unless specified in the contract. You can however contract with another publisher to have them sell the book, if your original contract doesn't preclude it--for example, if you originally contracted only for hardcover rights, you could have another publish a softcover version using brand new printing plates prepared from your manuscript. Similarly, Harmony Gold and Animeigo have a contract which allowed Animeigo to remaster SDF Macross and distribute it in North America. So HG's involvement has already been settled as far as Animeigo's ability to distribute the remastered version. It may or may not be a surprise that HG owns the SDF Macross remaster. But I believe that the reason they own it (if they do--this still hasn't been spelled out with 100% certainty) is because the Animeigo contract says so, not because of some principle by which a copyright holder owns the masters of his work.

Well, what is "Auska"? We were thinking it was the Asuka (aircraft carrier in Macross Zero).

Okay, here's a last stab: try resetting the PRAM. But basically, I'm pretty sure there's no separate volume control for the headphone jack vs. the built-in speakers. So if the speakers can play loud, but if you plug a headphone in and it's super-quiet, you may have a defective headphone jack.

Babelfish translation is no better except that it has a more plausible translation of the title. After sounding out the katakana it becomes "creation saintly Aquarian"

It sounds environmental. Here's the Excite.co.jp translation of the original story:

Nobody knows. At one expo, I believe, a Manga rep. inadvertantly said that Pioneer has the U.S. distribution rights. But Pioneer denied it.

I remember her piloting Kamjin's Glaug. In which episode did she pilot a Q-Rau?

No, this is new news, at least to me. To recap, there was a thread in which we argued about who owned the remastered video done by Animeigo. Some people said that since HG had the US copyright to SDF Macross, they also had the right to use the remaster. I argued that ownership of and access to the remaster is distinct from copyright. I gave an example from the book publishing industry, in which an author and copyright holder does not own the printing plates used by the publisher of his book. What this news says to me is that HG's contract with Animeigo very likely included a clause giving HG ownership of the remastered video, or at least the right to access it and copy it. Others may still argue that no such clause was necessary. I doubt we'll get a definitive answer to this (extremely niggling and now moot) question without input from a specialist in intellectual property law.

Battroid:

Better pics. Here are scanned details from the respective illustrations.

When did she do that?

You mean the one that was released by Viz in the US? Or is there something else? I hate the Viz manga. Haven't seen the anime. (There's a connection there.)

Second pic from portfolio:

Next, two pics from the This is Animation Original Illustration portfolio. These are from an auction, but I have the portfolio and can make better pics soon. Somebody please remind me if I don't do it by tomorrow evening.

Good question. Here are some pics that might help. First: detail of the engine section from the Gold Book poster.

Also, the Valkyrie on the pages you have given has been panel-lined. In other words, someone has colored in the lines which are molded on the toy, so that the details stand out better.

That is the kind of art I like. Good work!

http://www.nausicaa.net/ especially http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/ Covers everything by Miyazake/Studio Ghibli. Excellent site.

Yes, the laser beams from the sensor ports is an error from the original animation, but only Robotech embraced it and tried to explain it as an "official" feature of the VF-1. The tail missiles aren't an error at all; rather, they were deliberately put in by Ichiroh Itano. This has been covered in a recent thread. Somebody said the M0 carpet-bombing jets were actually B-2's but I don't know where it is in the series. (Discussion here.) One definite error in M0, though--Shin's VF-0D has rifling grooves inside its head laser. Visible in the underwater sequence.

Thanks. I like yours, too.

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