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Thanks Duke, and I'd like to remind everyone that this article is literally on the bleeding-edge of news surrounding Macross 25. Put bluntly: there's nothing solid (aside from it being a Macross TV series), and we can rest assured that the creators behind the project are working hard developing characters, mecha, and the storyline. Therefore, we should cool the speculation until some more substantive news is released.

For all of those sweating bullets about potential secrets revealed in the Newtype article - stop. It's really not that impressive. Of the three pages in the magazine devoted to the article, one is on the Macross 25th Anniversary Live concert "Minmay meets Fire Bomber", and another is on the 'Genealogy of song and fight' (Macross History), with little bits on all the Macross anime (inclusive of Macross II) released to date. The article has a picture of Mr. Kawamori sitting behind a half-transformed lego model of what is presumably the main VF in the new TV series. The caption of the picture mentions that (with using lego) it takes 1/3 of the time to design a transforming vehicle. Macross 25 is only a temporary title (I guess what Hollywood describes as a "working title") of this new TV series. There are 11 doodles (as they cannot be described as anything even remotely close to finished lineart). 7 are of a VF or VFs in fighter and battroid modes, 4 are of various characters. Characters: young, or youthful, but they could be anywhere from the late teens to early 20's, with only one looking like she's from the early teens. One has a cat on the shoulder. It is a fairly realistic looking cat. It could be a mascot, or just something to add character to the character. Two (possibly three) characters have "pointy" ears. I'm not sure if they are Zentraedi, Zolan, or a heretofor unmentioned alien race. VFs: it should be noted that all of the images are some shade of neon on a dark blue background. Therefore, all of the VFs could be the same one, or there could be 3 new VFs in the works (though I'm leaning towards only 1, given the similarities between them.) There are some features that remind me of the VF-22, VF-5000, as well as that fighter from Kissdom, in addition to Eureka 7. It should be strongly emphasized that these are doodles, and as much as we'd like to read into them, we probably shouldn't read anything into them. (The scribbles and scrawls are in the same style as his rough drawing of the SDF-1 in the "Kawamori Shoji Design Works" book.) Because of that, the only thing that I can say with any certainty is that the legs and feet of this new VF are quite different from what we've seen to date in VFs. (this is based on one scribble focused on them, and the lego model.) Anything more would be speculation. Some fun facts: Macross Plus Remaster Box: 15540 JPY, 320 min. HD remaster. 4 OVA episodes, movie edition + special disc. 4 discs total + booklet. Macross 7 Remaster Box 1: 39900 JPY, 787 min. first 1/2 of the series, booklet, music video(s), illustration, etc. Macross 7 Remaster Box 2: 39900 JPY, 707 min. last 1/2 of the series, 3 extra episodes, (and if I'm reading it correctly,) the movie, and Macross Dynamite 7.

Sorry. The law is the law. Now if someone were in a country with different copyright laws (specifically those that allow excerpts for review purposes) were to pick up the magazine, then that's a different story.

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Oh... I'll have to pick that up tomorrow.

I fail to see the connection. Nevertheless, by broad definition, ALL music associated with ALL of the Macross series, video games, and drama CDs is J-pop. Given that SDF:M + DYRL? had early '80's idol j-pop, Macross Plus had early '90's J-electronic J-pop and J-experimental J-pop, Macross 7 had J-rock J-pop, and Macross Zero had J-opera J-pop, it's a given that the music in the next Macross series will be a different type of J-pop. (What have we: J-blues, J-jazz, J-rap, J-raggae, J-ska, J-whatever, etc..) I think we should reserve judgement until after seeing it, and until after giving it some time to perculate through our systems. Why are they making a(nother) Macross series aimed at teenagers? Because us older Macross fans from both the SDF:M and Macross 7/Plus eras ARE NOT PROFITABLE to the people who ultimately make money off of Macross (these are the same people who sponsor Macross productions, BTW.) The low financial returns on Macross Zero, despite it's warts and hair, is quite evident to this. Therefore, the next series continues the trend of all Macross productions by aiming at a previously unaware of Macross demographic. With luck, they will turn into Macross fans, and spend enough money to warrant more new productions, wheither that be animation, live action, game, or drama CD. For all of those in-name-only fans who moan and bemoan the direction that the new Macross series is being rumoured as going in, please keep in mind that it's your own damn fault for not putting money where your mouth is and negatively commenting on Macross, its creators, and especially Mr. Shoji Kawamori to the point that they want nothing to do with this website, and ignore any and all positive suggestions put forward by the membership. スタジオã¬ãˆã®äº‹å‹™æ‰€ã«: "英語マクロスファンã®æ€ã†ã‚’見ã¾ã—ょã†?" "ã»ã‚‰! マクロスãŒæ‚ªã„ . . . è²·ã„ãŸãç„¡ã„ã°ã‹ã‚Šã¨è¨€ã£ã¦ã„ã‚‹!" "ãã†ã§ã™ã‹ . . . 次ã®ãƒžã‚¯ãƒ­ã‚¹ã¯æ—¥æœ¬ã ã‘ã§ãã‚‹ . . . 残念."

You're confusing the VB-6 Koeng Monster from "VF-X2" with the HWR-00-Mk II Destroid Monster from "Macross Plus Game Edition".

Try a search using "HMCS Athabasca" (FYI: HMCS = Her Majesty's Canadian Shipping) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_class_...l_Canadian_Navy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Athabaskan_%28G07%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Athabaskan_%28DDH_282%29 PS the Macross Compendium only lists it as "Athabasca Cruiser", and not a class of ships. Personally, I think that not differentiating between what is a class of ship, and what is a single vessel, is a weak point of the Compendium

I second the censor of custom titles. The first and foremost reason being I am curious about what forum ranks those who have been branded with a custom title are.

Agreed with akt_m: the Macross Plus Game Edition version of the Monster is able to hover, and move about in "flight". The Monster was also deployed in space (not necessarily floating around) in SDF:M and DYRL, which suggests that it at least has manuevering jets. That said, the developers of MP:GE could have taken artistic license, and/or the version seen in the game is a 2040 era version that has been modified to include manuvering thrusters not present on the original version.

Maybe he is under orders from the creators of Macross not to say anything about the new series under production - and as a safety precaution, he's not mentioning anything at all, so as not to accidently let lose some secrets. Of course, that is just wild speculation on my part. It could very well be that he's extremely busy with RL, he's in the middle of an overhaul of the entire site, and/or there isn't anything that newsworthy to bother opening up an html editor.

Well said Hurin.

Japanese titles never change. What changes is the translation. It's not so much an issue of the Japanese words being different, but that no single one English word (or words) equal the meaning of the Japanese words (and vice versa being true too.) therefore: 超 = the prefix for super and/or ultra 時空 = time-sky, space-time, and/or dimension è¦å¡ž = fortress

shoopdawhoop - that is an acceptable translation of the kanji used in the title. Nevertheless, if you feel you can provide a better translation, here are the kanji used in the title: 超時空è¦å¡ž aka: ultra-time-space-fortress.

Do you have the fast reply feature turned on?

Shouldn't that be THE Star Wars

Thank you. I have no plans. It was a one off gig. I do, however, write an ongoing play-by-post RPG game set in the Macross universe (see the link in my signature.)

Watch the opening animation of the VF-X game. It does a pretty good job of showing a pilot getting into, and launching a VF from that vessel. PS the name of the vessel is Valhalla III (VCV) Stealth Attack Variable Carrier Vessel. Sentinel is a class of surface carriers used during the UN Wars: http://macross.anime.net//mecha/united_nat...inel/index.html

Because none of those can be made into a jet shape without making a mess.

"I'm lost." "I'm at wits end." Basically he's over stressed, over tired, and in need of a Macross fix to get back to whatever pleasant place Macross takes us. The restaurant is pretty middle of the road, BTW. It's neither low class (tablecloth) nor high class (piss poor cutlery and plates.) Given the quality of food, and poor lighting, it looks like a high low class, or a low middle class restauarant. Please also keep in mind that North American food is foreign food. Thus, it is held in the same light as foreign food in your country (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French, Italian, Mexican, Greek, etc..) Correction: the more exotic foreign foods in your country.

Yes. I think there should be a rule against crappy one-liners. Some type of feature that forces posters to read their post for bad grammar and mispelled words would also be appreciated (hopefully it'd make the posters realize how crappy their one-liners are.) How much bandwidth would be saved???

I've seen Macross listed under both the ã¾ and ã¡ã‚‡ sections in various bookstores. I think it relates to how "fan" the shop owner is. Most mainstream bookshops and videos have Macross titles in the ã¾ section, and most anime-fan dedicated shops have it in the ã¡ã‚‡ section. It's always good advice to check both sections, but don't expect to find many, if any, Macross songs. Macross hasn't been that popular for the last 20 years, and karaoke shops generally don't keep 25 year-old songs in their library unless if they still bring in the big bucks.

I think he was being sarcastic (maybe).

I have no new information, but I'm glad that the thread is being revived. It's been an interesting discussion so far.

It looks legit, however it is rare for a CM about anime to include live action/actors. Mind you, given the age of the actor, and his salaryman look, I'm guessing that this was aimed at the kids who saw the first run of SDF:M and have grown up. I have no inkling if this was a main stream CM or not, however what is note worthy is that on more than a couple dozen occasions, I have heard Macross Zero music clips being used in all manner of TV shows (especially in the all-pervasive Variety Shows.) EDIT: for those that don't know: I am in Japan, and this post refers to Japan.