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  1. Talos
    Really, you have to look at the entire show from a Japanese cultural perspective since Frontier was made for a Japanese audience and not a western one. This includes both the Alto/Sheryl/Ranka situation, the actions of the Frontier government and the peoples' reactions to them, and even SMS. First, the love triangle. Alto, Sheryl, and Ranka are all within a year of each other. If I remember correctly, Ranka is only ten months younger then Alto. There's no statutory rape there in either case for him. Sheryl's probably older (we just have her age, not her exact birthday like the other two). In Japan, for instance, there is a minimum age of consent, but prefectures can (and most do) have a higher one around 16-18. They are close enough though that by the time Alto's 18, Ranka is going to be 17 and no one would care. At 18 he would still be a minor in Japan, though. As for the actions of Frontier and why there was no unrest or anything, it's a very Japanese mindset. All throughout the history of the country there has been strong control over the people. For most of it, it was a devotion to the local leaders and Daimyo. After the Meiji Restoration, this was converted into an extreme nationalism, where most people wouldn't even think about questioning what their country was doing. This led to the Pacific War and eventually the fall of the Japanese Empire at the end of it. Even now, it's not uncommon for an average Japanese citizen to not question what's going on, to take what the government says at face value, and just accept things. SMS is an outlier there, people who operate on their own tack, who go against the grain when they want to, and eventually just go pirate to solve the situation in general. Because normal culture in Japan is one of conformity and the group, the highly individual-oriented SMS stands out heavily. It's pretty common to see protagonists like that in manga and anime (and drama) despite that. It's almost an outlet for those types of feelings and frustrations that people get. They would never do something reckless or opposing and authority, but through stories like that, they can at least root for it. There's even a kotowaza saying that proverb that deals with this. 出る杭は打たれる, which means "The stake that sticks out gets hammered down". Essentially the gist of this post is to take Frontier from a Japanese cultural perspective when you read into it. Even if it's supposed to be a half-San Francisco city with a lot of westerners, the writers are still Japanese and it was made for a Japanese audience. That's why you get things like a 16-17 year old girl who can convincingly play an 11 year old (Ranka as Mao, of course), Alto's fight to forge his own destiny apart from his family, and even Klan and Michel's relationship. Don't fall into the trap of finding fault with the show by taking things with western sensibilities.
  2. Talos
    It's not a VF-19C, though, it's just called a VF-19 Isamu Spec (roughly) or, in the novels, VF-19ADVANCE. As to why he's not in a VF-24, despite being a test pilot for that program, he retired from the military and is now an SMS pilot. If the NUNS government isn't going to let colony fleets fly VF-24s, what are the chances of them letting a random PMC do so? The VF-24 is supposed to far out-perform the VF-25/7 and basically be the NUNS trump card in case of rebellion.
  3. Talos
    No, it was specifically a civilian model, the VT-1C. We saw them on the Zolan world too. It featured a shorter, stubby rounded nose instead of the longer pointed one most VF-1s had. We also saw construction VF-1s in battroid in Dynamite 7.
  4. Talos
    The [POPGO][FREEWIND] 7.46 gig raw works with the subs as well. That's what I have been watching and it looks fine.
  5. Talos
    That would be http://imageshack.us...ossfrontie.jpg/ . It showed the grey Koenig Monster with Gatling gun arms standing in front of a Quarter. Niji Iro Kuma Kuma does get stuck in your head. Ranka took the moe dial and turned it up to eleven in that concert.
  6. Talos
    That's crazy and an interesting idea. Good job on it! There is one spot you should take a look at, on the top of the forward fuselage, there's some bleeding right in front of where the wire meets the fuselage. Some of the blue. Other then that, I didn't notice any problems.
  7. Talos
    Interestingly, if you look at that battle, everyone is using different armor packs/planes.
  8. Talos
    Haha, sorry about that. I was trying to think of a way to show I support artistic license, but not sound pandering. FTW seemed the easiest way. As for the rest of the post, Veffidas has a very Zentradi-style grey hue to her skin and is the only Meltran off the top of my head who does. She shows that Meltrans aren't limited there. I think some of Chlore's fleet members in Fleet of the Strongest Women were greyish too, but very pale.
  9. Talos
    Veffidas. Either way, artistic license ftw.
  10. Talos
    On top of that, the paint's splotchy on some of them, like real naval fighters (due to constant paint touchups from salt and other corrosion). You can really see it on the VF-25A's tail on the lower-left and the wing and wing gloves of the blue-head one. Damn good little details there.
  11. Talos
    On top of that, the one in the lower-right has a blue stripe on the front of the head.
  12. Talos
    Yes, especially at lower speeds, a lot of movement could be had just by the movements of the legs and slight tilting of the thrust coming from the feet/engine nozzles. For a good example of that, just look at the first Frontier movie, added section where Alto takes off in Gilliam's VF-25 for the first time. He's skating and maneuvering on engine thrust.
  13. Talos
    Gubaba's dead on there. Specifically, it's Katoki Hajime's redesign of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam from Gundam Wing. This looks to be the new Master Grade model kit of it that came out this past spring.
  14. Talos

    Yamato 1/60 VF-5000G

    Talos replied to valk1j's topic in Toys

    If you're going to do the VF-5000B, you can't forget the two underwing weapons pods that This is Animation: Macross Plus Movie Edition depicted it with. The M3 version of the VF-14 is a much nicer design then the Blackbird one, but both are interesting. I still need to work out profile side views for them, they're on my list (along with an accurate VF-5000 since the one in TIA is....inaccurate, to say the least).
  15. Talos
    Agreed, that was a lot of fun. The craziest has to be the week before "Memories of Global". I've never seen the levels of posting and speculation as we had between that episode and the one before it. Looking forward to the movie, and I will be watching it raw.
  16. Talos
    It really does.
  17. Talos
    Something else I've been fiddling with, using the FAST packs from VF-19 Master File and adapting to fit the YF-19/VF-19A I drew a while back. These are connected with a project I'm working on with someone, which will be kept under wraps for now.
  18. Talos
    Yes, exactly.
  19. Talos
    Yes and no. In the DYRL/Macross II 'verse, the VF-4 Siren has a set of FAST packs that are similar to the VF-1s. There aren't any canon designs for the main timeline's VF-4 Lightning III, though sketchley did a nice interpretation of one.
  20. Talos
    Oh, VF-9. Nice. I really need to figure out how to draw perspective things and people with my tablet. Still mostly doing profiles.
  21. Talos
    When in doubt, go back to the original katakana word and work the pronunciation from that.
  22. Talos
    It is in the same universe, as a follow-on to DYRL. She also appears in the second game, Macross: Eternal Love Song, which is also for the PC Engine. Mikimoto did a character design for her for that game. If I remember correctly, her birthday is pushed back a few years in the MII-verse. She does show up once in the main timeline, standing in the upper-left corner of a Jenius family picture, which we see here. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/The_Jenius_Family.jpg Pictures from both 2036 and ELS are here. http://anime.geocities.jp/emiri_0624/macrooss_eternal_love.html
  23. Talos
    Two VF-22s show up in the last few episodes of the show, plus the encore episodes, with a third showing up in Dynamite 7.
  24. Talos
    It looks like so far (VF-9 excepted), they've been sticking with modding models aren't made like the entire Hasegawa lineup, or making new ones like the VF-11D. Only the one scratch-build so far. Trust me, I would /love/ to see an SW-XA1...
  25. Talos
    It's a lot different now, the laws have been updated and many prefectures have much higher ages of consent.
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