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Patlabor is truly superb show, and much under-supported. Hope you enjoy the rest of the series, and watch out for the recap episode in episode 23 of the TV series. Its a killer!

Anyways, as I understand it, first there was an OAV series. Next came the TV series, and a second OAV series. At some point during the production of the TV series, there came the two movies ( interviews on the collectors edition of WXIII, the latest movie, seem to indicate that the first movie was produced before the TV series, but I don't know that for definite ).
WXIII was a long time in development and was released some time after the second movie. I would personally recommend watching the TV series followed by the movies, and add the OAVs to taste, but you can watch all three movies on their own with little prior knowledge of the TV series - generally, only the characters are connected, not any plot points ( though bear in mind that WXIII features the cast of the TV series only in a supporting role, with the story focusing on two new protaganists. Also, don't watch WXIII in the dark. The soundtrack is really creepy! )
Edit: oh, theres also the manga, the English release of which was cruelly killed off due to poor sales. Some people just have no taste...

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Adding to this quiz, perhaps a little pet peeve question:
In all the pre-MechWarrior novels, which regiment should not be able to exist due to combat casualties (with zero mention of recruitment) but somehow managed to last not one but three books?
I suspect you are referring to the incredibly lucky Gray Death Legion, who fight Marauders with Locusts, do indeed fight three major campaigns with an ever decreasing roster of troops that never actually runs out, and grab themselves a Star League cache...

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Another classic graphic novel - which was rumoured to be lined up for filming at one point, at an estimated one million dollars a page! - is Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Once you read that, you will probably never look at comics, or superheroes, in quite the same way ever again.
Other fun comics include Preacher and, the Authority, and Planetary. Be warned, at least the first two are for [/i]mature readers.
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Of course, we could always draw the short straw...
“No-one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mans’ and yet as mortal as his own… across the great gulf of space… intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds.

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Hey, I suck at driving myself (well, I can RACE, but I can't drive in traffic..), but I love flying! So have hope!
Thanks for the vote of confidence...!
You never know, I might get a bargain two-in-one deal - a flying lesson and a parachute jump...

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I got a flying lesson.

This is what I get for asking my parents to "surprise me"...

I should perhaps explain the background here. There is scale that people like Chuck Yeager, Douglas Bader, and Max Jenius are at the top of.
I'm somewhere down at the other end. It took me nine tries to pass my driving test.
So, remind me... its back for up, and forward for down, yes?

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Ah, Project A-Ko. One of the first anime I ever saw ( after Akira ), and it set an incredibly high standard. It was quite some time before I saw something anywhere near as good again. The directors commentray makes it clear just how ground-breaking it was at the time ( as well as the fact that guy Anno crops up in the most surprising places...! ).
If someone asks you to show them the anime that has got the most elements of the medium in one package, A-Ko is the one. Shoolgirls in sailor suits, cute schoolgirls in sailor suits, superpowered schoolgirls in sailor suits, schoolgirls in battle bikinis, aliens, invasions, mecha, space dogfights, slapstick, wordplay, mile-long starships, and, of course, bento...
Edit: typo.
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that wouldn't be right..13.43 kgs(29.6 lbs)!??? even a 10 yrs old kid would have hard time carrying that thing
I think you'll find thats the gross weight for a shipping carton or container for these things - not one individual piece. Something made of 13 Kgs of metal would have set off the die-cast mass sensors of every Japanese toy freak in the country...!

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[3) Any connection to someone with a name of Justin
If any of these things come up, then you might worry.
And just what is wrong with being called Justin, hmm...? <glares> Well, I mean asides from being expected to leap around a stage in a 70s era jumpsuit screaming "I believe in a thing called love!" in a high falsetto...

Glad you asked, because now I can tell you about my theory that one of the Antichrist's name's is Justin.
Notice it's 6-letter's long, and how many Justin's do you know in your life are evil? Putting a little more on the line, evil in the sense that publicy they seem to be decent people, but when you get to know them a little better they had some evil streak going, of various degrees. I can think of 3 off the top of my head, and when I stated this opinion to 3 other people I know, all the Justins they could think off had a good bit of evil to them as well. Just don't say I didn't give you a head's up. 

Well, I guess theres nothing else for it, then.
FOOLS! I'll destroy you all! WHA-HA-HA-HAH!!!
( I suppose being the Anti-Christ beats all those incredibly original "time" jokes... )
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Bah Aliens is way overrated. Boy scouts had better grasp of tactics than those aliens. Current US Marines would do better than those undisciplined Colonial jokers.

One for the Sci-Fi Cliches list, actually:
"Elite, heavily armed soldiers who appear at the start of a movie will all be toast by the end."

Aliens vs Hannibal?!
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[3) Any connection to someone with a name of Justin
If any of these things come up, then you might worry.
And just what is wrong with being called Justin, hmm...? Well, I mean asides from being expected to leap around a stage in a 70s era jumpsuit screaming "I believe in a thing called love!" in a high falsetto...

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No. 8 is a gun from an Orguss, but it doesn't look big enough to be from one of the big 1/40 scale toys, its probably from one of the smaller ones.
No. 10 I'm fairly sure is from the Robotech action figure line, I think either from Mospeada or Southern Cross and possibly belonging to Scott Bernard ( going by the shape of what looks like the connector peg, I'd say No.5 is from the same line ).
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I have to wonder if space in modern day will ever be a battlefield. I suppose this subject will be swarmed with treaties and pacts first. But what the hell would be those weapons in space??. BTW, does oxygen have to be present in order to ignite gunpowder from a bullet (guns in space)?? And one more; how would you get a missile to home in on something with no gravity. Wouldn't the missile have to constantly cancel out its direction to turn. O well, sorry for egendering all these extra questions into your topic.
For a pretty good "hard-SF" book series with a good deal of high-G, thrust vectoring, kinetic impact, gamma-laser bursting, cluster warheaded, anti-matter fuelled action, try the "Nights Dawn" trilogy by Peter F. Hamiliton.
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Wow, an animation about two almost underage lesbian singers. Like theres a national shortage of those being produced in Japan...

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It's pachinko. This site does a better job at explaining it then I can:
It's quite popular in Japan and a lot of businessmen go to pachinko parlors after their workday is over to relax. It's basically the Japanese version of slot machine.
IIRC, pachinko is a word derived from the sounds made when firing one of the little metal balls into the machine (similar to the way the word gashapon came about).
If, after reading the explanation, you're baffled as to why pachinko is such a huge industry in Japan, well... you're not alone. I've played a pachinko machine, and well... I think my Dads theory is the closest to the truth: a pachinko parlour is somewhere where the harrassed Japanese person can just sit down and do nothing but flick a switch for hours...!

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I first came across the "anime chara mask" thing when I visted the Winter Wonderfest this year. It was a bit odd at first, but in context with the rest of the cos-playing at the event it works. I'll admit outside of such events, yes, it probably is a bit strange, but I guess it just shows the total dedication Japanese cos-players put into this sort of thing.
And it wasn't half as surprising as the Japanese Harry Potter cosplayers...

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Did they ever make an arcade game of this movie like the one they showed in the film to recruit fighters all over the universe?
They didn't. A 3D-based game like that was way too advanced for the time. Games released during 1984 were either vector graphics (Star Wars), 2D sprites (TRON) or LD-based with no game graphics (Dragon's Lair).
Universal still has the mock-up unit in one of their backlots, though.
Actually...
Atari had a crack at it, but it never got beyond uncompleted prototype form:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...r=&game_id=8394
and Atari were also not beyond 3D graphics in 1983:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter...r=&game_id=8172
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All I remember about the old movie is it had the most cussing in any anime dub I've ever heard.
Manga Video in their difficult "teenage market appeal" phase, need I say more...?

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It was interceptor aircraft that only got to the prototype stages. In all, only 3 were built total. Armament consisted of four Type 5 30 millimeter cannons with 265 pounds of bombs. Maximum speed was estimated to be 466 miles per hour. It flew for only 45 minutes, and a few problems were found, but it was still flyable.
Its a magnificent looking aircraft! I had never heard of it before! Man its sweet

Whats the largest cannon ever carried by a propeller driven aircraft? Im curious.
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The Shinden is one of my favourite WWII designs, even if it only reached the prototype stage. A beautiful aircraft ( did you know there were plans to fit it with a turbojet engine? ). The Shinden famously guest stars in one story of the Ah! My Goddess manga.
The USAAF trialled a similar configuration, the Ascender, as did the RAF with a few prototypes made by Miles aircraft.
AFAIK, the largest cannon carried by a WWII aircraft was a 102mm weapon installed on an Italian bomber. Probably the largest cannon ever carried by a propeller-driven aircraft is the 105mm weapon carried by some variants of the Hercules gunship - the "Spectre".
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You missed my favourite quote of all:
"One Gunstar? Against the whole Amarda? It'll be a slaughter!"
"Thats the spirit!"
"No, MY slaughter!"
Oh, and:
"I've always wanted to fight a desperate battle against incredible odds."
Not a great movie, but a memorable one!
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And the Supermarine Spiteful > everything mentioned so far with a propeller...

However... one should always be careful with this sort of thing; the P-47M was a much later model than the MiG-3, although the basic design dates from nearly the same period. The Spiteful only just qualifies as a wartime model - the first production version was delivered to RAF service in March 1945, but full service entry didn't start until November, too late for the war. And its generally considered that the P-47 could dive faster than any other aircraft around, simply because it was seven-odd tons of metal behind a monster radial engine.
Performance also varies with altitude, aircraft condition, type of powerplant...
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Theres a couple of other possible candidates - IIRC, the Germans experimented or used large-calibre cannons on the Me-210 and Junkers Ju-88, but along with the others I think I'd put my bets on a Henschel-Hs-129.
Hs-129 Trivia: the aircrafts cockpit was so narrow that some of the engine instruments had to mounted on the outside of the engine nacelles!
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Batou is right - the picture in Perfect Memory does indeed have "UN SPACY" down the leg; however other shots in other modes don't. The same goes for other Valkyrie model variants in the book, but the few colour scenes from the TV series which feature the VF-1J don't have it...
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Where have you read about that JsARCLIGHT?
I have done what I feel is fairly significant reading on the subject (limited to the english language unfortunately), and have never come across anything to suggest homosexuality was anymore common among the samurai class than it was anyplace else or anywhere else.
Please explain your sources.
Actually, I've come across the same story in a couple of books on Japan I've read - though where the original sources spring from, I don't know. It does seem to be a fact that gay characters are more accepted in Japanese manga and anime than they are in the West. Whether it was more common than in any other occupations at the time I've no idea.
If it is true, its perhaps yet more evidence for Arthur C. Clarkes assertion that homosexuals should be prevented from taking military careers - if only because [/i]they're too warlike by far!

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Small tip: when attaching/detaching the FAST pack laser cannons and/or missile pods, remember that the front part of these pieces are detachable - removing the front parts, inserting/detaching the back parts seems to make things a little easier as at least on my Fokker -1S, its a bit of a tight connection going into the backpack.