sketchley

It's been offline since I returned home at about 9:30 PM until just a few minutes ago (12:45 AM). It's been the smallest amount of new posts I've ever since on MF as well!

Unlike pseudo-science shows like Star Trek, Macross is a bit more "realistic" when it comes to barriers. A full barrier blocks stuff from going in, right? It also stops stuff from going out as well. Hence, barrier. Which makes fighting, let alone launching VFs to attack the enemy nigh impossible.

VF-171 gun pod - IMHO, the gun pod is in the exact same place as it is in the VF-17. Those leg missile launchers? They're not new either. The VF-17 has weapon pallets (aka option for internal missile launchers) in those locations. See:

The only "mistake" made with Macross Zero, was that the tone of the story was too dark. Though, I'm certain that half the people who saw the show liked the darker, more adult (not XXX, meaning mature) story telling. I am not talking about Protoculture technology which the average viewer mistakes as magic used to float rocks.

ばびぶべぼ「バビブベボ」 can be romanized as either babibubebo or vavivuvevo. In this case, ビトル could be written as bitol, vitol, bitor, vitor, bitolu, vitolu, bitoru, or vitoru.　(These are all using the de facto/"standard" romanization*. Alternatives could begin with bee-toh-l, bea-toll and so on.) As the official subtitles state that the word starts with リ, it's definitely not a bi or vi. As someone else mentioned, it is most likely a case of a listener not hearing correctly (not knowning when one word ends and another begins) and presuming that since what they heard sounds similar to a word in their native language, it must be the same as the word that they think they are hearing. *For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization

LOL! ビトル食いど！ (Loose translation "eat bitol") Note: not poking fun at Sumdumgai. Just noticing and noting something else.

If I understand it correctly, the reason why SMS and other military type civilian contractors exist in Macross Frontier, is precisely because the NUNS reacts too slowly or not at all. Ergo, having them react fast nullifies the need for SMS. One other angle to consider is the time it takes to detach the Battle 25, turn it around, transform it, and charge up it's gun to fire (I figure transformation is needed because we've yet to see any of these Battle ships or Macross Quarters fire their main cannon in anything but battroid mode!) There's no telling how many years it's been since they last detached the Battle 25 from the City 25. In other words - is it rusted on? The episode did show us the Macross Quarter turning around (after it had already transformed and was laying some serious waste with it's main cannon).

Guys, do you check the Macross compendium? Macross 7's New Macross class colony ship: 7,770 m. (7.8 Km) http://macross.anime.net/wiki/New_Macross_class Macross 25's Island One: 15 Km http://macross.anime.net/wiki/Island_1 Long complicated math aside, City 25 is at least double that of City 7. The entire M25 fleet holds 10 million, though half that (5 million) is in City 25(!) Compare that to the 350,000 in City 7. City 25/Island One is mind bogglingly huge.

In the words of my Japanese middle school students, "that's too bad for you."

Scan-lation: Information Small map Victory condition (??) map** System Turn end ** 2nd kana is illegible. The 1st is battle or fight. Probably means overall battle map. But as I don't know the game... the only advice I can give is press it, and see what happens.

One other thing to consider is that space folds open up a portal into the Super Dimension. We have no idea what it's physics are, let alone how they distort the physics in our own dimension. The only thing we know is that when humans and aliens in the Macross universe enter the Super Dimension, they have to bring a chunk of our dimension with them (inside the fold bubble.) I'm beginning to think that the bomb didn't so much fold out the planet, but fold in a chunk of Super Dimension Space. And without an active fold generator, objects from one dimension return to the other (example Hikaru and Misa returned to our dimension after being sucked out of Buritai's ship mid-space fold in DYRL.)

It's the name of an electronics store. If you're ever over here and you have some questions about computers (and speak Japanese), they are the best when it comes to answering. http://www.sofmap.com/ They sometimes also have a great selection of used DVDs/games as well. Though (and this may only be applicable to the store nearest me) the used game section has been shrinking of late, with the PS1 stuff gone completely. It may be more productive to search in Bookoff, as they still have a large PS1 section (and presumably, not that I've searched, largish sections with games from the same era.) I've found in another used book shop quite far off the beaten path, a significant number of used Famicon (it may have been Super Famicon) games!!

Beetle = 甲虫 (Kouchuu). It also doesn't fall under the catagory of "cool words to borrow from another language". Why? Girls, especially young girls do the majority of that. Beetles are generally something that have too great an ick factor for those girls to want to talk about, let alone talk about daily, let alone with a foreign, yet cool sounding foreign word. Little (リトル) on the other hand, does fall under that catagory. The el quicko machine translation test also confirms things: リトル comes out as little. ビトル comes out as Bitol. Try for yourself here: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/ *Random observations: though Japanese is oft romanized as r and sometimes l, the actual consonant sound (which is ALWAYS said in combination with a vowel sound, never by itself) is somewhere inbetween, but also different. Japanese also focuses on the vowels, whereas English focuses on the consonants. Basically, if you walk into a coffeeshop in an English country and say k-f, you'll get a cup, but in Japan you have to say oh-ee to get the same. Therefore, what they're saying is definitely not Victor (ee-u-ah for victor (ビクター) vs. ee-oh-u from what is actually said.)

Different armour packs? (Ozuma's vs. Aruto's?) Or (and I think it is this one) the animators changed it to keep the hatches from blocking our view of the missiles.

Good eyes. We have our "canned beverage used as a missile" combined with "Macross Zero reference" shot. :thumbsup:

Macross F broadcast delayed 30 minutes. Macross chronicle info from the latest newtype: on sale from 07.24. 1st issue (tax included) ￥590 From the 2nd issue (tax included) ￥690 Released biweekly every Thursday.

Great episode, with great plot twists/thickening/what have you. I can't wait until next week. Was the expanding ball of purple-pink and black based on the omni-directional barrier malfunction in SDF:M? I remember the two having the same colour. I was pleased that we got more of the Zentraedi; though I was saddened that they were relegated to minor character, reactionary roles; "Deculture!"

Opposite. The Kansai region (specifically Osaka Prefecture) has the highest population density of all of Japan. Though you are correct in that the Kanto region has a larger total population, with the greater Tokyo area (including Chiba Prefecture, Saitama, Kanagawa, etc..) having the highest total population.

Ahh... ok. Nevertheless, it was still parked on Earth, shooting at Zentraedi-lookalike ships that came too close. (Not that I'm trying to defend Macross II or anything... it's definitely not canon to Macross F afterall.)

Easy - it's on in the afternoon in Sunday, when a bunch of school age kids are at home and able to watch it. Compare to Macross F's timeslot - only those kids who have figured out how to set up the VCR/DVD-R/Bluray-R(?) to record it will be able to watch it. Most salary men are also asleep by the time it airs.

The ship being sentient is a Robotech concoction. The ASS-1 was abandoned on Earth by the Supervision Army when they retreated from the sector as a booby trap - like a grenade tied to a tripwire in a doorway. Basically it was programmed to shoot at any Zentraedi ships that came into range so as to distract them while the rest of the Supervision Army forces successfully made their retreat.

Yeah... for some reason, it just doesn't seem to be a (good) Macross series without the SDF-1 appearing at least once. (Special exception for Macross II, because they did the silly thing of blowing the SDF-1 up real good. That's like shooting the dog in a dog movie!)