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It could easily be that the noise is in the original masters. I don't have a copy of the CD to check, but it wouldn't surprise me. I know a lot of early CDs that were re-releases of older albums had a note on the back informing people that CDs were so good they brought out flaws in the original recording/apologizing for background noise they could do nothing about at the time.

Much happier. A thousand thanks.

Given a full ten minutes of it is Yuki sitting in a corner reading a book... I mean, I love Yuki, but... she can't carry a scene by herself. Especially not alone.

Making of should be a core arc, like Melancholy was. If Disappearance fills that role this season... awww, they can do two core arcs. Please no.... Someday in the Rain was largely worthless. Still just two of those? Hell, the series' premiere episode was Adventures of Mikuru Asahina. I think hilarious and nonsensical is actually REQUIRED. Give in to your fanboy. You know you want to. Yuki stories are always good! I'd actually like to see Endless Eight done. Personal whim. I'm not sure it would convert well to animation, though. So much of it is conveyed in Kyon's impressions, which don't always make it to the anime totally intact, occasionally with awkward results. (Mysterique sign. Random liquid helium line, goooo! I'm still not sure why they kept that line in, other than Kyon was too quiet.) Melancholy V had a similar problem. The pure sterility of is a hard thing to illustrate, especially with the limits of animation reducing the contrast with . Most of Kyon's impressions are cut, presumably, for time. So it winds up being somewhat underwhelming. Especially when (Sanitized to protect Lady Suzumiya's newest acolyte from spoilage.) I can see Endless Eight suffering from similar issues. I'm still torn on Day of Sagitarrius. Animating everyone IN the game was priceless, but the climax was so much more impressive in text, though I can see where simplifying it made for better animation . Last quibble, and one I can't figure out why it happened... In Melancholy III you can clearly see Kyon parking by the no parking signs. They even take time to focus on it as Kyon rides up. In the book it's left ambiguous. Kyon never saw the sign when he was parking, obviously. Maaaybe he was in a rush and just missed the sign. Seems odd to add that focus on the signage to me. It changes the general tone of that sequence, given Kyon is learning about the events of Three Years Ago and what kind of person Haruhi is at that point. ... Man, I have an urge to reread everything now. GIMME BOOK TEN!!!

Given they're quoting some of Nintendo's "DS is a third pillar" statements VERBATIM... But then. the DS was new hardware. PSPGo isn't.

Wasn't a port. Was a remake. Yes, I am anal and nitpick those terms. And either way, you don't mention the SNES. HISTORY DEMANDS ACCURACY!1111

Because this week was Mysterique Sign, not a new episode.

I had to wait days between episodes. "Let's see, the fansubs hit about this time last week... REFRESH REFRESH REFRESH REFRESH!"

How can you leave the original Star Ocean out of your list? Star Ocean (Super Famicom, why the crap didn't it come to America? Oh well, that's what ROM hackers are for.)

Welcome to the Holy Order of Suzumiya. Here is your Ultra-Fan armband. And remember, you must never let The Suzumiya learn of her gift. Or become bored. Also, if they animate Sighs of Suzumiya Haruhi, the movie will become even more hilarious. Sighs is the "making of" story. And a lot of the random nonsense, like Yuki's ad-lipped leap attack after the Mikuru Beam, are immensely more amusing. You might notice that the light reflector(that piece of cardboard Koizumi's stuck holding up in several scenes) is taped together when he wanders in-frame for later scenes. There's a reason.

Of course it only has one analog stick. It's a PSP with no disk drive. Not a PSP2. Anyways... I never really saw much use for a second analog stick in a most situations. Yes, it's good for some things, but it's also one of the first controls I'd scrap if I were trying to free up some space(Really, I'd scrap BOTH analog sticks, but Sony didn't ask me).

I liked the Robotech novels... but not End of the Circle. That one was awfulawful. Ahhh, 2036.

It's probably not as badly-formatted as you think. The show as a whole is 16:9. Most, but not all, of episode 1 was 4:3. So it's pillarboxed by design. In a 4:3 display, it's both letterboxed AND pillarboxed! This caused almost as much confusion when I first watched the show(fullscreened on a CRT monitor) as the episode itself did. Though at least the black frame made sense by the time the episode was over. It was another two episodes before I understood the rest of the premiere. If you mean it was riddled with compression artifacts... okay, now we can blame YouTube. If you mean it was horribly edited... blame the ultra director. But it's noy my fault if The Suzumiya takes issue with your critiques.

*looks at PSOne Classics* I'm sure there's going to be a way to convert your existing disks for use on the PSP. No way they'd charge you again for the same game. PSP Go is about as inspiring to me as the GameBoy Micro was.

Heh. I think Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody with no subs might actually be a better introduction to the series than The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina. MIGHT.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Doubly so for the Robotech version.

I use rubbing alcohol. Usually a >70% solution. It's the universal cleaner! (The old NES kit most likely meant to go buy a bottle of 50% alcohol, not to mix it. I'm really not sure why they recommended a solution.) Just don't stick a Game Genie into it. You'll wreck the connector. Assuming it's the usual straight connector and not an actual ZIF like the original deck used.

Actually can't find any. Thought I'd seen one, but it was probably just a blog comment somewhere that my brain inflated because it was the only word there was. http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/sp/200603-04/info070514.html is all I can find that ISN'T a random blog comment somewhere. I can't read it, and a horrible babelfishing of ja.wikipedia says it has no really notable content. And MORE EPISODES! NOW! GIMMEGIMMEGIMME!

Alcohol is good. In fact, it's what was in the cleaning kits. Generally, higher % is better. Because that which is not alcohol is water. Water is not your friend. Brasso is bad. It's abrasive, and actaully scrapes the metal off. Windex I dunno about. Water, ammonia, and food coloring, basically? A standard pink pencil eraser does wonders on heavy corrosion, but you may have to take the cart apart to deploy it. Also messy. Real, honest-to-Kawamori contact cleaner is probably the best thing you can use, but that's a lot more expensive and harder to find. Also, apparently Vic Ireland's got things off the ground and moving again. http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/03/04/mia...-founders-gaiji

It makes the cleanup harder, whether it impacts like a meteor(as we know some did), or vaporizes in the air. It just causes different problems(vaporized material doesn't disappear, it remains in the air. And no one wants to breathe space metal alloy). Large chunks of exterior armor probably wouldn't burn away totally. If you're still being pelted with stuff WHILE you're trying to rebuild, it undoes all your work. The zentradi were bombarding the entire Earth. That means the planet was surrounded. For any sort of explosion to take out the majority of the fleet, it have to go THROUGH the Earth, shattering it like a tiny blue marble. http://macross.anime.net/mecha/zentradi/index.html According to the Compendium, about 3 million ships survived. ... And the Grand Cannon accounted for almost 800k in one shot. DAMN, but that's a big gun. Whether or not Kamjin's fleet counts is kind of a moot point, since his fleet is probably under a thousand ships(Britia's is around 1200), but since his people were "contaminated by the protoculture" just like Britai's and Lap'lamiz' were, they'd be targets for termination, and probably don't count.. The Grand Cannon probably accelerated everything it hit to escape velocity. Though the size THOSE leftovers were, they could probably be taken care of by good ol' solar wind. Leaves us about a million ships worth of debris. Which is still a pretty impressive trash heap, really. The barrier's also not a magical weapon of kill everything. They actually take time out in Burst Point to describe what's going on. It absorbs the energy it can't deflect, and holds it. And when it overloads, it releases it all at once. It doesn't make a small explosion into a big one, though it COULD make a lot of small explosions into a single big one. Yup. Provided you can collect them before their orbit decays. Could be hard if you're trying to deal with the situation before they can make MORE problems for your battered and bruised planet. L'see... they showed one largely-complete zentradi ship, one quel-quallie fighter with a pilot that survived long enough to climb out of his fighter(Minmay doll in hand, so he was one of our heroes), and a VF-1 that I'm just going to assume was from the surface forces. You can probably scrounge parts from several of the crashed ships, if all zentradi hardware is that durable.

Face still looks like Sinistar to me. And... that's really the only reason I want it. I hate myself sometimes.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Beats the heck out of mining planets and shipping the raw materials up to the factory. Especially since the factory itself is mobile. Just park it near an asteroid belt and start shoving rocks in. ... Hmm... given the firepower available to the zentradi, you could blow up a moon and shovel that in as well. Haven't seen any planet-buster weapons aside from the Protodeviln... but it's kind of amusing to think of, given the Robotech novels claimed the zentradi were originally created as miners. I don't think that's QUITE what they had in mind, but I'm never gonna be able to shake the image now.

The lawsuit part? Way I heard things, the reason book 10 hasn't come out yet(despite book 9 ending on a cliffhanger), and season 2 was on hold for so long, is the author got into some sort of legal battle with Kadokawa Shoten. ... Of course, it's possible it was a baseless rumor and I got suckered into believing it... in which case I feel really stupid?

Is it actually any good?

Is that confirmed? Seriously, if they make me wait for the entire rest of the series to finish running before they move into Disappearance... I'm gonna have to buy a ticket to Japan so I can hurt someone. I suppose they could be doing Sighs instead. It's the second book, and would kick in after 3 more reruns instead of after the whole darn series. And the making of the movie was actually the story I most wanted to see done in season 2... until I read Disappearance. But the ending SCREAMS Disappearance. And it's the one I most want to see done NOW, as well as the one they were implying they were going to do after the first season*. So... Maybe they're doing BOTH? *(they actually "redesigned" their website to a 404 error, then replaced the 404 with a scene from Disappearance... and then nothing happened, apparently because the franchise got hung up in lawsuits)