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Meh, Bobby would have done the job regardless of whoever the agent was. He looks like the smooth, greasy type - remember how he talked his way into persuading Ozuma to let Ranka go ahead? I tell you, behind the bumbling personality is a real double-dealing lowlife crook, but then again there's plenty of show to go, so I might change my mind about him.

If there's anything I've learned from Macross, show managers are not to be trusted - anywhere, anytime.

Good heavens... What the heck is that sleazy agent doing with Ranka?

Selling carrots in a Zentradi shopping mall? Handing out tissues on the streets in a bikini?

She should dump him right away and get a better manager - she deserves no less!

I seriously considered voting negative simply because of that second-rate tramp, he pissed me off so much.

Other than that... Meh, Gundam-esque angst and the usual shipping, although Klan slapping Mikhail's Valkyrie was funny.

Meh, it's just a 'norm'al question... if you will.

For some reason, Ranka reminded me of Emilia Jenius in that one scene

along with the guy on drums... M7

About the Norm/Nome thing, just compare kana and solve it once and for all. If it's the same, then it really shouldn't matter since precedent has been set with M0.

Triticale is the way to go!!

Anyway, the civilian outfit that KK dons is a lot nicer than her jumpsuit;

honestly, her mammaries looked like life support systems or something, jeez..

I never stated that Minmay won because of her figure; the Ranka part is a poke at the manga. Oops, shouldn't have said that.

And to play Devil's advocate

Anyway, a wanderer and a squatter hardly seems to be what the Macross fleets were supposed to defend - it was culture, human culture. Squatters are something that would undermine and destroy culture, wouldn't you think?

Funny how Basara has those hands lent to him, while he never lends any out himself... glued to the guitar strings, that's what.

Haha, imagine Guvava pulling off an Aisha memory mousse... he'd look like a brown fireball.

No wonder Ranka keeps her hair short... imagine the things she could do with hair like Alto.

As it is, her hair is short enough that its potential is wasted - and it's bunched up too.

Mao Nome? Yeah, my bad. I just thought Mao Zedong was famous enough that people would get it in context automatically... guess not.

Anyway, the Q-Rau is red - it's KK's, right? Hopefully another red-blue ace team, maybe?

Although I must admit, I will be terribly disappointed if Ranka sings Aimo instead of DYRL, but she... oh, I'll just shut up.

While you're at it, remove Mylene's singing VA and just let Sakurai handle everything.

At the risk of incurring massive wrath, I think that Kajiura's voice lacks the body and pitch to nail the role perfectly.

Really, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the guy looks so presentable in death... Morticians are amazing people.

If you want some proof, look at Mao's body sometime - if you knew what had happen to it, Gilliam's case looks like a cakewalk by comparison. In any case, they didn't show anything below the head, so it's really a non-factor.

...and I think Geperunichi was the antimatter black hole on steroids. With, um, tree trunks growing out of it...

Ouch, you got me there. But I'm sure you get what I mean, the guy's dynamite.

Didn't he convert them eventually with his music? Ah, Basara... if Minmay was a bombshell (and make no mistake, she is... Ranka will lose MM because she's got no figure), then he's an antimatter black hole. On steroids.

I dunno... it's a good stunt, but do people necessarily know what he's out to do? I know Mylene touched on it, but that principal wanted him for his acrobatics, not singing skill.

Well, if he actually actively tried to promote himself instead of expecting everyone to magically understand him perfectly, then he wouldn't be stuck with those lousy gigs in the first place.

Then again, wasn't that the entire point of that self-discovery subplot on Lux - not to proselytize and expect instant conversion?

I have this impression of Basara that he's an eccentric that hit it lucky big time - it's a wonder with that attitude that he wasn't beaten to death by some tone-deaf thug already.

He seems like the kind of guy who makes a big front, but actually has all these thankless support staff without which he is essentially nothing.

Of course, the most can be said of most celebrities, but at least they do it after they hit gold and not before.

As to his potential other jobs, I can only say I don't want him in the cubicle next to mine - but I admire his career.

I mean, you get all your basic necessities and more for nothing, pilot cutting-edge military vehicles and sing your heart out AND get called a hero? What more do you want? He's not even registered as an inhabitant on 7; no need to pay bills!

Don't get me wrong, he's essentially a well-intentioned heart with admirable ideals; it's just the means I have a bone with, not the ends. That, of course, and his attitude.

Whiny? I defy you to show me any scene where Basara whines. Gets angry, sure. Acts like a total ass, yes. But whiny...?

Every time he whines about Mylene's attempts to get gigs is a good example.

Maybe you don't agree, but it's whining to these ears.

Not that Mylene's any better, but doesn't Barasa kind of make his living off the gigs that he does?

Mylene needn't care at all about him, really.

Of course, my take on the Maxmillian issue:

The guy doesn't make a huge deal - he flies to kill, and does a damned good job at it. He doesn't upstage anyone, just does his job.

Basara? He butts right into a battlefield, shoots speakers all over the place like a maniac and blares (admittedly good) crap over open channels. It's perfectly understandable that Gamlin would regard him as a nuisance - he's endangering others by becoming an open obstacle in the battlefield and potentially a package to be babysitted regardless of his skills.

Of course, the realities change when the series really picks off, but the first parts of M7 really damaged Basara's character because of these flaws - to an extent, irreversibly for this viewer.

Oh, and Guvava is the Christ figure in M7. All worship the omnipotent and hyperadorable Guvava!

It's the pink ribbon band from the FF7C!

But back on topic...

Basara, for all his skill, really grinds me with his.... philosophy.

It's one thing to try and abstain from violence, but to actively spurn combat when your entire world is threatened by an alien menace?

It's almost delusional that he believes his songs can somehow solve everything... it was pure luck that he possessed anima spiritia at all. One of my most contentious points about M7 is how it demotes the power of song into this pseudo-mystical quality that is really Basara magic... Culture shock I can understand, but this is pushing it too far.

Basara's attitude, of course is still the main gripe about him. He really is a good character, it's just a pity that this whiny self-righteous attitude is forced onto him. I'd almost take the whiny emofests that MCs are today over him.

My sympathy lies, oddly enough, with Physica.

ooh, the veoh one is paydirt, but the quality is terrible...