Kronnang Dunn

They're the Macross Frontier Fleet smaller "Islands" I believe...

From the Macross F wikipedia article...

...Remember the Supervision Army...???

BibibibibiBIBIBibibibiiiiiiiiIIIIIIGGGG MISTAKE!!!! (If u really liked DYRL, u should watch it)

First I should say that I like both Robotech & Macross... & I LOVED DYRL!!!! You should understand the origins of it all. First, DYRL is an animated movie that was released in 1984, a whole 2 years after the animated T.V. series, to capitalize in the commercial success of the TV series in Japan. Shoji Kawamori directed it when he was only 24 years old... At first it was a different take on the same concepts of the TV series... so they could fit more the movie format. Many designs from the TV series were revamped & or modified. The animation is much much better/more fluid & the art is waaay more detailed than that of the TV show. As for the nudity, actually the original Macross also had some in it... but it was censored in the West adaptation. The movie is more violent & graphic than the TV series, because it was aimed at a different, more mature audience. U see, the youngsters who watched the TV series were supposed to be older, you know? The DYRL movie didn't have just one antagonist like the TV series, but 2 factions: Meltrandis (giant alien women) & Zentradis (giant alien men). The film also introduced more information regarding the mysterious Protoculture... The true creators of all (Mankind, Meltrandis & Zentradis). Now, since many other series/OVAS have been released since then, the events in DYRL have been declared to occur in a movie inside a movie (DYRL is a movie made in the Macross universe) that re-tells the events of the T.V. series. Is kinda complex, but AFAIK is the official word from Kawamori himself...

Of course!!! Damn... What was I thinking? Hehehe... Thx for the tip...

My choice would be VF-27 Slayer... (Another reference to Shao Pai Long just like the VF-25 Messiah)

I noticed that Ranka was biting what seemed to be a paintbrush when watching the news in her hippo pajamas... Could this mean that she also paints??? Perhaps the Large Vajra drawing at the SMS Bar in one of the previous episodes was made by her when she was little...

Macross Quarter = Macross 25 (Seems like 25 is the quarter part of 100, duh... hehehe)

I think the name will end up being VF-27 SLAYER... "REMEMBER Oosora mau shirogareno tsubasa Shao Pai Long*, Shao Pai Long REMEMBER Moeru hitomi yamiwo saku Shao Pai Long, Shao Pai Long Yameru miyaku motomete kita otoko EVIL SLAYERS SLAYERS, SLAYERS Shao pai long IS A VERY MESSIAH kibouno hikariyo MESSIAH Shao Pai Long..." * The correct Chinese pronounciation is "Xiao Bai Long", Little White Dragon... Actually, the red Large Vajra unit looks a lot like the Octos (guess it was designed also by Junya Ishikagi...). I believe that

I don't know why, but suddenly I've got the feeling that we may see many many things from previous Macross OVAS/series/movies in the upcoming episodes, hehehehe... Why could it be? (Macross 7/Zero haters... BEWARE!!!)

Kazutaka Miyatake also worked in Space Battleship Yamato during 1974. He was 28 years old at the time. That's why his ships in Macross (1982) look inspired by Yamato's. He was also responsible for the creation of the Destroids, the Quaedlunn-Rau (my favorite mecha ever) & the Nousjaedul-Ger Meltrandi/Zentradi Power Armors in Macross & DYRL (the Nousja was heavily modified for DYRL by another designer... can't remember his name). I believe Junya Ishikagi also did the re-design of Miyatake's original Quaedlunn-Rau for Frontier...

Indeed... Btw...

Junya Ishigaki designed the VAJRA. He has worked in games too. Some of his designs are: Exkaiser, Gundam Wing, GPX Cyber Formula, Gundam F91, Gundam 0083, V Gundam, Gundam X, 08th MS Team, Iron League, Ryu Knight, Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, DT Eitoron, Eatman 98, Turn ? Gundam, King of Braves Gaogaigar Final, Angelic Layer, Zone of the Enders Dolores, Heat Guy J, Macross Zero, Xenogears (game), Xenosaga Episode 1 (game), SD Gundam G-Generation 0 (game), SD Gundam G-Generation F (game), Surveillance (game), G-Breaker (game), Gundam Wing Episode Zero (manga), Gundam Wing Battlefield of Pacifist (manga)...

That seems to be a tribute to Star Blazers/ Space Battleship Yamato (Uchuu Senkan Yamato - 1974), where they used goggles when the Yamato's Wave Motion gun was fired... Shoji Kawamori is very fond of that show (I believe he also was a guest designer/intern on it when he was like 14 years old or so... never credited for his work there...). Lots of designs from Macross (weapons, ships, uniforms, etc.) are clearly inspired by that show... In fact... the Bolognese Class Stealth Frigate looks a lot like a design that appeared in one of its episodes...

According to the Macross Compendium... Don't know where they got that info though, so it could very well not happen at all, hehe...

Ranka all the way... Sheryl sounds like a XX/XX manufactured Basara all over again...

fr = FRONTIER You said it... The Alto-Ranka-Sheryl love triangle reminds me a lot of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera... & u know which girl the guy got in the end... ( ). I liked it. & believe me, I can be very very picky regarding animation quality. However, the story here is the important thing. It is not an OVA... but a T.V. animated series... You can't say an episode has been a horrible work based on animation alone... The way the music of the concert connected with the end credits was very good & pretty different from countless anime of today. The pace of the story was perfect & really added tension for the next episode. I can't wait for it... Btw... I liked the scene in at the drinks outlet ("Galaxy Bucks?" ) a lot... they were in a

Yes... He looks creepy & EVIL. I remember some ppl said that Leon was evil. I think Leon may be guilty by association (or utilitarism, hehe)... But I don't think he is the one pulling the strings... Mr. Bilrer on the other hand... Aaaah.... SAAB... Such a gooood short show. I always wanted an anime version of it, hehehe...

¿? I thought the diva was Sheryl...

So this is where MESSIAH comes from... "REMEMBER Oosora mau shirogareno tsubasa Shao Pai Long*, Shao Pai Long REMEMBER Moeru hitomi yamiwo saku Shao Pai Long, Shao Pai Long Yameru miyaku motomete kita otoko... EVIL SLAYERS SLAYERS, SLAYERS Shao pai long IS A VERY MESSIAH kibouno hikariyo MESSIAH Shao Pai Long" * The correct Chinese pronounciation is "Xiao Bai Long" ( ). Man... I like this song a lot. It was used in the ... Oooh so many good memories...

...& yet he couldn't reach the Vajra on time to keep it from breaching the Island 1 dome...

That would make me explode in my pants. I just love that design... Imagine an updated version of it piloted by the Pixies & with S.M.S. colors... Its beam cannon would be very adecuate to deal with the Vajra... & its slim looking battroid mode would look great side by side with the VF-25, hehe... (Imagine Nene finally kicking bug ass in it.... saving Klan Klan from a Vajra, hehehe...).

He does a model with LEGOS, then takes pictures of it from different angles. Then draws above those pictures the final design sketches. There was a video on Youtube, but they took it down... (it was recorded from some japanese T.V. show that had Kawamori as a guest I believe). I suspect he must have been using this technique since the 90s, because I find his designs from that era more mechanically realistic like the actual ones...

I believe many of u ppl are being way too hard on the poor N.U.N.S. guys... I mean... By now it must be obvious that all the Vajra units are super-dupper-ultra-mega-fast... Not even the VF-25 could reach them (& I'm talking about Ozma's Super Armored/Packed VF-25 from episode 1). The VF-25 seems to barely be able to reach their speeds. Those damned bugs are just too fast. Imagine the poor N.U.N.S. weapon operator guys trying to get them on their crosshairs. It must have been like in WW2, when the axis forces used jet planes against the allied Bombers... The machine gun operators just couldn't turn their turrets fast enough... (BOMBER!!!).