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I also voted for Sharon I dunno, she's enchanting and so is her music. I love Wanna be an Angel

Tochiro, are you going (or will try to)?

Mai Yamane who sang the ending theme of Bebop, and Scott Matthew who sang a few songs in GITS:SAC are also going. I was wishing they had AKINO (the one who sang the OP to Aquarion) in the set list, and I'm still hoping. I won't be able to go, but they should make a DVD of this.

IMO, the best thing about it is that they're importing the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra!!!

May'n and Megumi are joining Kanno's compilation concert this July 7, 2009. It's very notable since she doesn't do this often, and if I'm not mistaken, she hasn't done a concert of this scale in Japan ever. I'm most excited about the fact that they are bringing along the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. If you guys aren't familiar with them, they are the Polish orchestra that was used in recording the OSTs to Escaflowne, Aquarion, Macross Frontier, and many others.

Other artists scheduled to perform are:

Maaya Sakamoto, Origa (Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Turn-A Gundam), Scott Matthew (Ghost in the Shell: SAC), and Mai Yamane (Cowboy Bebop).

Can you imagine May'n performing "Welcome to Fanclub's Night" with a real orchestra? That'd be nice, I think!

Shameless plug:

http://gabrielarobin.com/1643/yoko-kanno-i...irmation-almost

If they don't release a dvd I'll kill someone

Stupid onyomi and kunyomi...

Negishi, huh?

And how do you do a Google search if you don't know how to read the kanji? Or did you find the CD credits somewhere?

I use Microsoft's IME pad handwriting function:

http://www.wfu.edu/~yipcw/atg/ime/boxed-input.html

to find the kanji then I google it ^__^;;

Sorry...actually, I was looking in the wrong place. They have a big credits section for "Duet Part," when really I should've been looking above the lyrics...but I can't read the guy's name...the first kanji is either "kon" or "ne," but the second isn't in my kanji dictionary.

I got it! The music staff for Shao Pai Long is:

作詞：阿佐茜 (Lyrics: Asa Akane)

作曲：羽田健太郎 (Composition: Kentaro Haneda)

編曲：根岸貴幸　(Arrangement: Negishi Takayuki）

When I can't read the kanji, I usually run a google search on the name to see if any Romanji comes up

Thanks for the help!!!

Oh, that's weird... But thank you!

And the Alto/Brera "Super Dimension Duet"...I figured it would just be the two voice actors singing over the karaoke version (let's face it, these drama albums tend to be rather cheaply made), but they actually new and entirely new performance of the song. Fit it with some of the Ranka songs from the show and the duets from the upcoming drama albums, and we'll have enough tracks for a "Mihoshi High School All Stars Sing Lynn Minmay" album...

Gubaba!!! Who is the arranger of the duet? Kanno? Hogari?

I feel like I should do this Kresphy style...

MACROSS F DRAMA CDS!

There...now that MisaForgotten is totally pissed off, I'll translate:

Macross F: Nyan Dra◎ (Dra1)

1. Alto Meets Sky

2. Triangler in a Cave

3. Sheryl's Heart-Thumping First Experience

4. Shao Pai Long

Macross F: Nyan Dra◎ (Dra2)

1. Drama: Luca and the Three Ghosts

2. Drama: Ranka in the Midst of Idoling!

3. Drama: Pineapple Cake

4. Super Dimension Duet: "Runner"

Based on past experience, I think it's best not to expect too much from the drama albums. But, at the VERY least, they should be a bit of goofy fun, and Sheryl and Ranka singing SDFM songs is always welcome.

...Shao Pai Long will be sang by Alto and Brera, and Runner will be by Michael and Klan. (unless the track lists I first saw was wrong)

EDIT: Looks like some of the tracks' names have been changed from when I last researched the second drama CD from this site:

http://www.vanda.co.jp/300/MCO/V_VTCL-60103/

The ones you posted seem to be the official ones

[Citation needed]

Have you watched Macross Zero? Do you have proof Edgar La Salle was related to Claudia La Salle, just because they have the same surname? What if it's a red herring?

Sorry, can't prove that she was indeed a Nome apart from her name. Can anyone prove either that she wasn't a Nome right from the start, apart from a hunch?

Kawamori didn't think Ranka was the perfect one

That's what he thought. Ranka was this adorable, talented, sweet, friendly, innocent, and cute girl who was definitely slated for stardom. Even her flaws were the adorable kind in a childish sense. Again, who's the Mary Sue? I'd say Sheryl is Ohnogi's Sue, and Ranka is Kawamori's Sue. They're now on equal footing. LOL. Thing is, Sheryl's "Mary Sueness" came after she was flogged with trials, and that is beautiful. Do you watch Gundam 00? It's the same with Tieria Erde. He's currently perfect, but people love him because he went through the "change phase". And people disliked Anew because she popped out of nowhere as perfect as she can be. Also, no one is calling Tieria a Gary Stu even now. There is a difference.

I posted a whole interview above, could you please quote passages from it to support your statements?

I was more quoting you for saying this:

That's the reason why Ohnogi liked Sheryl in episode 5 when she flirted openly with Alto, it remembered him his wife.

He knows the feeling, therefore he can write better about it. But if your assumption is wrong, then I take back my reply to you.

From what Ohnogi said, Kawamori made changes to the story. Since it is established Ohnogi enlarged Sheryl's role, one is to suppose that before Ohnogi changes were made to reduce Sheryl's role instead, and that changes reflected surveys, so it means Sheryl was not that liked. That or Sheryl was doing well and Ohnogi is a flat-out liar, which is the most likely case

I am very much lost by your second sentence, sorry, care to clarify? My point is that Kawamori planned to kill Sheryl or remove her somehow (or is that just one of your assumptions too?) and didn't, and let someone like Ohnogi, who has told him what he wanted to do, take full control of the script. What now? Who to blame? The eager writer, or the lenient director? Of course you blame the eager writer because he didn't develop your favorite character to your liking, am I right? The polls in foreign language forums, and the current polls in Japan too, seem to like how he treated Sheryl. If they shafted Sheryl (as planned) on the other hand, the Japanese would have liked it as Ranka was popular even before he came in, but it would have alienated the foreign fanbase of whom so many love Sheryl. As it stands, he has made Sheryl win the hearts of both foreign and local fans, and that in itself is a success on his behalf, and was also approved by a big chunk of the fanbase.

If Kawamori wanted to override what Ohnogi was doing to Ranka's and Sheryl's characters, why didn't he do it? He is director for a reason. He should be able to steer the show to his liking. Praising Kawamori while dissing Ohnogi is unfair.

Are you implying Sheryl and Ohnogi shared common fear, like Sheryl was a female impersonification of Ohnogi?

No, more like your assumption sounds sexist, but moreover attacks person (Ohnogi) instead of the argument itself. Have you ever thought that being approached by a girl and accepting it is not demeaning at all, and it's probably just because he's err, attractive for some reason?

You are talking about the Sheryl Kawamori was in charge of. At that time Sheryl was not a Mary Sue, and she was indeed a good addition, she was a balanced character (all the other characters were). You must consider only the Sheryl since ep. 18, that one is Ohnogi's Sheryl (with episode 16 he just made quick changes to keep her alive longer). Since ep. 18 did she ever do anything wrong, wasn't cute, sweet, friendly, talented, loved by the lead men (and respected by all other characters), intelligent, etc.? Was there a character who had a negative opinion of her anymore? She even became a charitable celebrity!

I am not arguing against Sheryl, I am arguing against Ohnogi.

After what the character has gone through, you'd think that she'd start being a polished gem by that time, don't you think? Isn't that what Ohnogi admitted above? She was the one who is going to suffer from humiliation and learn from it, the hard way. It's good character development if you ask me, and it stemmed from what Kawamori had done so far, and I consider this to be a good synergy. Besides, as I pointed out, Sheryl was already more loved than Ranka in the time Kawamori handled her. It was already tipped towards her right from the start, except in Japan (last I checked, English forums and Chinese forums were heavily tipped towards supporting Sheryl, even before Ohnogi cut in). He only let Ohnogi handle it because he didn't expect this reaction towards Sheryl, and as a director who has admitted that his pet Ranka isn't the popular one overseas, he gains respect from me.

Also, the only character who actually shipped her was not a man, it's Klan. Michael just wants Alto to choose between the two, and Alto himself didn't choose. You know what, I just realized that it was during those Ohnogi episodes that I started to like Ranka too, and another one of my friends told me that he also started to like Ranka towards the end. You don't give credit for him for this, don't you? I'd rather have had Ranka as partly damaged and strong, than to have Kawamori's own pet version (read: Maaary Sue) of her.

EDIT: If you're going to blame someone, blame Kawamori for not having the spine to kill off Sheryl if that's what he planned. Only because he knows Sheryl reels in $$$.

Guys...

Sheryl Nome was a Nome right from the start. Also, Kawamori found out through fan reactions that Sheryl was popular after Star Date, which most likely confused him as he thought Ranka is the perfect one. That was not Ohnogi, and perhaps is also the reason he let Ohnogi give his take on Sheryl - he's a guy who knows how it feels and how it works. Also, this:

maybe he would have died virgin if a girl didn't approach him first and he didn't secure her as soon as possible

If Ohnogi was a girl who was never approached by a man, how would you feel about this statement? :\

On the contrary, I felt that Sheryl's addition to the animation was a very good call. I watched the show primarily for her (and the Valks of course). Calling Sheryl a "Mary Sue" is weird, because I saw her as character obviously flawed, and not just flawed to make her adorable. If you want a Mary Sue, I could think of Lacus Clyne, who absolutely does NOTHING wrong, is cute, sweet, friendly, talented, loved by the lead men, a good war speaker, is intelligent, and most glaringly, soft-spoken like a waifu despite all of it. Sheryl on the other hand goes around screaming trying to get her underwear back, steals kisses, can barely pilot a Valk, screams to the media, really, this isn't your definition of Mary Sue. She just sounds like a Mary Sue because her character has been successfully written to be beautiful despite her flaws.

For me, any turn out of the animation's story is both the fault of Ohnogi and Kawamori, and everyone else in between. Everyone in the production staff had a call in this. Kawamori decided to let him have a go, instead of waving him off and saying, "I'm director, Ranka rules, okay, end of story!" instead, he gave him the go signal.

And according to machine translation, you originally said:

Damn! It's like we have our very own Engrish generator!

ahahahahaha, what's that, Babelfish?! sex appeal?!

Check this out:

http://seichi-nippon.com/anime/macrossf_poll_2

It's the last Macrossworld poll on our favorite Frontier girls, and someone actually went to the trouble of translating our comments into Japanese.

Is anybody else a little weirded out by this?

I knew there was a first part of this where they translated one of my Sheryl comments, here it is:

http://www.seichi-nippon.com/anime/macrossf_poll_1

I'll be honest folks. I've been caught singing a few Frontier songs during my commute to work.

I can't help but belt out Sheryl's MOTEKE or TONDEKE's. How about you guys?

Well I don't belt it out, I just lipsynch XD

Not that Macross Frontier wasn't musically spectacular already, but was I the only one kind of sadden by the fact that none of the Macross Plus songs got a cover by Ranka and/or Sheryl?

I felt the same, but only by a bit

diamond creavesse! did i spell that right?

It's crevasse

2 - When we talk about unreleased BGMs we are talking primarily about the missing cues from Yoko Kanno's score wich comprise at least another 70 minutes of music.

At least even just one movie OST should cut that number down a bit, unless they actually wrote more bgm for the movie XD

Hey guys, new songs for Ranka and Sheryl have been announced in Animage March 2009 issue Let's not fret about the unreleased BGMs just yet, they might all get released.

Most awesome...colony drop.....EVER.

I was expecting so many people to b!tch about it being another Gundam trope happening in 00, but after it happened, it just looked and felt so awesome that I could see no bitching anywhere I go. That, or I haven't looked hard enough

So, who's the enemy right now? Aeolia is starting to sound more and more like a crazed genius. He helped design that elevator and is now having a hand bringing it down. And I did not expect that cooperation scene at all.

For those interested: an ad in Macross Ace has revealed the full kanji for Saotome Alto's name:

It is 早乙女有人。

Could be a typo because so far this is the only instance of this that I have seen.

Actually I've heard about that before, but I didn't bother. Besides, it's too far off to be a typo It's Yujin Saotome?

Just checked out your amazing site-- the dates for the releases are one year off, 2008 instead of 2009!

Oops, major copy paste boo boo.

Ooooh, and she's got a full album coming out in March...Cool.

That's actually a live DVD from her May'n Act tour

On a related note, Gabriela Robin's site has been down for a few days now... does anybody know what's up with that?

Site admin here, it's back up. I looked for a better hosting company that could accommodate the higher traffic, is more stable, and has polite support (all of which were not present in my old host!!!). So there, it's back up, I'll be posting about Kazeyomi when I can. It debuted on #2 in the Oricon dailies.

And Graham - I also wish for that. There are quite a good number of unreleased bgm too, but perhaps we have to wait until the movie is released. Though I wonder if they're not writing new ones for the movie...

I have seen the third of Ranka's stickers just yesterday and I went uh-oh. Anyone else here seen it? I now think that the Sheryl ones are done with better detail and... with a bit more taste.