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Anyone know who they're chasing?...It's lost on me.

Zero, without a doubt, followed by DYRL

Yay Misa & Hikaru art!

Yes it is, it's lossless! http://www.monkeysaudio.com/download.html

Found this one on AnimeSuki, can someone translate?

I was right about being right! MWF needs some kind of dancing smiley.

Would you like a paternity test? Because that's a little tough to do with animation. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM US?!

Same hair color, same earrings, same name, seems pretty obvious to me.

I like the way you think

Actually, yeah, they did. Episode 24, around 16:12

I was right about how if Sheryl will be cured/healed, it would have to come by Ranka's doing.

Nobody else is interested in the fact that Sheryl really Mao's granddaughter or what happened to Sheryl's mother?

I liked the episode, . Feel bad for Sheryl being outmatched by Ranka in the Vajra-control department, Ranka just needs to.....go away and Sheryl be happy. I like your theory, would make sense since he more or less knows he can't beat Brera head to head and made a plan just in case. Anyone have some corruption with the GG sub? It happens when there's Japanese symbols overlayed on the rest of the action. edit: Also, what's with future battle strategy?... Charge in with Island-1?! What are they thinking? How could they consider that a good idea? Also: Why don't the humans bring out the big guns right away? Suddenly all the Vajra decide to pull back and fire all at once and it's hits for massive damage?! Bah!.... *throws arms into the air*

You better believe it! Someone built an Sv-51, all the flight control surfaces works and it flies. Thread of him building: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=403195 Thrust vectoring and control surface testing: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=86...28584&hl=en Flying:

I'm really pulling for Sheryl, seems like life hasn't been very fair. Sure she's been turned into a pop-star, but it's all artificial.

The discussion between Alto, Klan around 19:25 of ep23 left me completely confused. He said he joined the SMS to protect Ranka, ? and Klan cries a bit?... And Sheryl lets a tear go. I'm lost. Can someone spell it out for me? It looks like Sheryl kind of conceded the triangle? Or is it just of what Alto's willing to do?

For me, Zero is my favorite and I think has the best dogfights for a couple reasons. Zero has the perfect opening and introduction to Variable Fighters. Let's assume you've never heard of Macross or Variable Fighters or Mecha or anime or anything that could expand your imagination and I told you there was an entire series based around F-14's and other fighters that transform into robots and chicken walkers, would you think I'm crazy? Why would you need a fighter to transform into a robot or a chicken walker? That's where Zero absolutely nails it. Open up with F-14's taking on MiG's, fighters that are certainly capable of doing some damage( Were Macross to be updated, I say to have F-22's taking on Su-47's because they are the modern fighters ), but they're limited. Sure the F-14 has the Phoenix missile and the MiGs can handle like no other, but they fill one particular role and even then, cannot perform extreme maneuvers. Show the usefulness of being able to transform into a battroid and gerwalk by having a Variable Fighter take on F-14s and absolutely decimate them. What's interesting though is a variable fighter can more or less replace an assault helicopter like the Apache using gerwalk and provide close support through battroid and air superiority though fighter mode. What I like about Zero is the escalation of the use of all the different modes of a Variable Fighter and how well grounded in reality the OVA is( Compared to the rest of the franchise ). If I were to introduce someone to Macross, I think I'd do it with Zero because of the ramping up it does, plus once they're open to the idea of ridiculous maneuvers, combat decisions and everything transforming, psychological warfare through singing might not seem so ridiculous I'd have to put M+ second too, I didn't care for the story, but seeing so much care and attention put into the dogfights, all hand animated is something very special.

What can I say? I love the downer endings, they reinforce how much you've invested and cared about that character. Edit: Would it be a fair balance if Alto was in his 80's and it's clear that he an Sheryl lived a long and happy life together? I just don't think enough was done with the time that they had because even with the time they had, a well developed antagonist wasn't really developed. We know Grace and Co. are doing something behind the scenes, but we've been in the dark too long and not enough information has come through; The Vajra aren't really very interesting villains either. To get back on topic of who wins Alto's heart, I'm banking on Sheryl since he's finally realizing how important he is to Sheryl. That's not to say he's not important to Ranka, but the same level of need and finding 'the one' isn't there.

I doubt it's all a flashback...unless it's actually Sheryl's life flashing before her eyes and it all fades away and Alto is there holding her and the screen fades to black as though it's her eyes closing and the credits roll with the saddest song you've ever heard...Now that's an ending, that's how I'd end a series, especially if everyone already knows the character will die, which we do. If you can make someone sad even though they've known for some time that the character was invariably going to die, then you've done a good job. My gripe is that I'm just now starting to grow attached to some of the characters and it's 22 episodes in, it feels like there were so many episodes wasted without solid development. Let us burn the witch!

Wow. Ew. I think it's a very real possibility for a 'magic' ending to save Sheryl. Frontier will make it to the Vajra homeworld and it is discovered that the Vajra mega-queen or Ranka can save Sheryl, but somehow it will have to be by Ranka's hand.

I haven't seen Claudia mentioned in this thread, but I wonder if someone *did* mention it elsewhere...interesting stuff. I can stretch the parallels quite a bit here: Misa was already established into her position, much like Sheryl is and Minmay was the discovered, up and coming star, much like Ranka...

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but: Klan = Claudia? Roy died on Claudia and Claudia tried to get Hikaru and Misa closer; Michel died on Klan and she's trying to get Alto and Sheryl closer. Just a thought.

For what it's worth, Misa was older than Minmay, Sara was older than Mao...see where I'm going with this? I'm hoping it's Sheryl because she found someone who treats her like a normal person rather than a superstar and that's something really important to her and I think Alto is beginning to realize this.

Some of those covers are really, really impressive. Enough so to make me want to pick up an instrument.