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Incredible! Most of the pics were excellent! Awesome Design, colouring & detail.

Amazing! Absolutely Amazing! Excellent work guys!

Now there's a closed-minded statement if ever I read one. It's exactly this sort of reasoning that prevents them from enjoying one of the better Macross features out there. Try watching it with an open mind, and you might actually like it. Being a pretty big Macross II fan myself, I'd say that the voice acting was mostly good, but there were one or two weak bits in Japanese (in some scenes Feff's voice completely lacks the emotion on his face). There's also one or two scenes where the animation quality isn't quite up to snuff with the average quality of the series, but most of them are short bits and near the end too. Just FYI the general accepted spelling is "Marduk" not "Mardook," as is seen throughout the subtitles. Most of the character and mecha names from the Marduk side of the war are barely veiled references to various gods, literature and other figures from the Babylon. Marduk being the chief god and having the largest of the cult followings right around the era of Hammurabi. Ishtar's a promanent character in the epic of Gilgamesh (which happens to be the accepted name of Feff's power armor), etc. etc. The Macross II RPG books attempt to delve into why the Marduk seem to follow a Babylonian theme, but such isn't canon. About Ingues giving the orders to destroy rebellious elements of his own fleet... maybe it's just me, but the overall sound of his voice in Japanese sounds a lot like the old WW2 era recordings of Adolf Hitler's public speeches. You also get another kind of creepy deja vu moment when the Marduk battlepods ram down the twin towers of the UN Headquarters buildings. Your enthusiasm for Macross II is greatly appreciated, by me at least. Macross II doesn't get quite as much love as the other series on this site, for a variety of reasons. There'll also be a few like fansubs2000, who turn up their noses at it simply because Kawamori wasn't involved. You'd probably feel right at home on my site as well, where I'm rebuilding my somewhat modest collections of Macross II mecha art, character art, etc. so that Macross II can get a little more exposure. I'd say that placing songs like "Only your friend" (Wendy's song from the Moon Festival), Ishtar's final song "Love You," and "The Hush of 200 Million Years" might be a little generous. They're good songs, and I definately think some of the more orchestral stuff is worthy of notice too. Putting them above a classic like "Do you remember love?" might be a little drastic, but nearly every song in any Macross series is better than the swill that ended up in Robotech. Still, the Valkyrie II, the Gilgamesh power armor, and the other mecha from Macross II are some of the best I've seen. (Attached is a nice little bit I've been using for an avatar on MSN, Feff's custom Gilgamesh, from one of it's more malevolent looking scenes). 390255[/snapback] Thanks for the cool & very informative reply! Nice to meet another open minded Anime Fan. I enjoyed this film because it was simply a very nice & enjoyable anime and even though I’m big Macross fan, I never knew who Kawamori was until now! So I wouldn’t care if he was involved in this film or not really! By the way, I'm interesting in getting the Macross II soundtrack, primarily for these 3 Japanese songs: "Only your friend" (Wendy's song from the Moon Festival) Ishtar's final song "Love You," "The Hush of 200 Million Years" I found this Macross II soundtrack: http://www.rightstuf.com/cgi-bin/catalogmg...tem/48677/4/0/0 But apart for "A Hush Like 200 Million Years" I don't see the other 2 mentioned in the track listing? Doesn't this specific CD have all the Japanese songs from the Anime? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I watched Macross II Movie (DVD) and I must say it was a fantastic film, a true masterpiece! Here are my thoughts and feelings about the film. It featured everything a self respecting Anime should deliver. Awesome animation, epic intergalactic battles, a dramatic / sad story line / plot and a fantastic sound track. The voice acting in both the US & Japanese versions were very well performed, but my favorite factor in the film was its music. When Hibiki takes Ishtar to the Moon festival and they listen to Wendy’s Love Song for the first time, with all the fans cheering inside the amphitheatre under the glass dome and the flagship Gloria in orbit, was my favorite moment by far! I love Lady Ishtar’s ecstatic expressions of joy and happiness. She then reveals her wish to Hibiki, which was to sing the song of love to her own people and bring them peace. Later on, another very dramatic and shocking moment was when Ishtar starts singing the song of love at the Alus Nova chamber inside the alien flagship, (Sarride) bringing confusion to the Zendraedi soldiers. The outraged Emperor then orders the executioner death ship to cleanse the polluted flagship by blasting it with its laser beams. Lord Feff and Lady Ishtar, manage to fly out of the doomed flagship inside a battle Mech, just in the brink of time! As they watch the large nuclear explosion of the Sarride from afar, Ishtar cries for the loss of lady Elensh, but Lord Feff replies: The order given by the Emperor to his soldiers is equally dramatic (And very Japanese in style if I may say so) The final battle between the U.N Spacey forces and the Mardook fleet is one of the best in any Macross / Robotech film. The music used for the battle scene is just perfect, as you watch the ships mobilizing for the imminent battle to come! The two huge fleets engage in a devastating clash, in close proximity to the moon’s orbit. At first impression, it would seem that the earth’s fleet gains the upper hand by wiping out 60% of the Mardook fleet in a single blow after using four Macross cannons, but all of a sudden, a huge wave of enemy ships de-folds and begins hammering the outnumbered earth fleet with a devastating laser storm! The entire fleet, the Macross Cannons & the Gloria Flagship it self are destroyed! What’s interesting is that the Earth side fleets, in all the battles that take place in the film; consist almost primarily of old Zendraedi style battle cruisers also seen in the older Macross DYRL film & the Robotech series. An apocalyptic dialogue that reveals the true feelings of Lord Feff for Lady Ishtar, takes place at the hangar of the Mardook command ship. Lord Feff releases Ishtar, but before she leaves, he tells her: Finally, at the earth’s siege, in the last decisive battle over the scourged earth landscape, Ishtar sings the song of hope and sends to everyone the gentleness of her own heart and saves her people from the dictator. I find Wendy Ryder’s love song (Japanese) (At the Moon festival) better than Minmay’s “Do you Remember Love†song from Macross DYRL and superior to the English translated version “We Will Win†song, from Harmony’s Gold Robotech series imo. Same goes for “The Hush of Two Hundred Million Years†intro song (Japanese) compared to Macross DYRL & Robotech intros imo. Overall, Macross II is definitely one of the best Anime films and should be placed in the hall of all time classics! Lady Ishtar Macross VF: Lord Feff and Lady Ishtar at the Hangar: Lord Emperor Ingues Lady Ishtar Concept Art. SDF-1 Fortress A few nice Wallpapers / Flyers: http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2453/ishtari4wo.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2638/macross53b4eh.jpg http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5774/ishtarblue10249ke.jpg http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/7007/ishtar14oy.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6875/macross11b2jn.jpg