Kronnang Dunn

I'd like a remake...

From Daanboru...

The lack of feminine Buxom main cast.

Actually I think Mikimoto is pretty sober on this. He doesn't overexpose his characters for fan-service like Ebata does most of the time... (a habit she developed when designing Hentai characters).

That said, after seen his drawing of Sara and Mao Nome, I would love to see Mikimoto's take on the Frontier cast, and Ebata's take on the SDF cast just for the kicks. And although I hate Masayuki designs for Macross Plus with a passion, I gotta admit I have no idea how Mikimoto's style would have fit there had he done the designs for a dark story like Plus instead of the preliminary designs for 7. It worked for War in the Pocket, but Plus is just too far away from that for comfort.

Risa Ebata's designs look waaay better when done by Mikimoto...

I would say another 100 years...( or 3 more Macross series) and we might surpass the PC.

Don't think so. The "Birdman" Protoculture mecha from Macross Zero was waaaay more advanced than anything shown before and it is already millenia old...

I'd wager it was actually the Regults & Glaugs that inspired teh Green & Red Vajra, not the other way around.

Well, the final episode of Frontier showed that the "Birdman" from Zero was made by the Protoculture based on the Vajra Queen, not the other way around... so Glaugs and Regults are more likely to have been developed by them to resemble the Vajra to an extent. In fact... my theory is that the Vajra inhabited the same star system as the Protoculture and they got some ai-kuns somehow and researched them to develop space fold.

While searching for more promotional art I found a video made with all the awesome ads for the pachinko game in YouTube... (This is the closest thing to a Macross Live Action Movie right now...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtTUvZzA4w

Kazuhiko Kato composer of Ai Oboete Imasu ka found dead.

Good night, sweet prince...

So, who wanted that spicy 1J image from the pachinko boot?

Thanks, is beautiful. Do you have the source of this image? (The official site for the pachinko game I guess?)

Btw... I found this (apparently) official movie promotional image (movie poster? flyer?) in both 4chan and Daanboru... It has the new "Tornado" pack in it... and the movie release date...

I'm with Haruhiko Mikimoto's designs all the way. It is not the same as it was before, but still looks excellent, fluid and up to date. Risa Ebata's art looks more cold and "plastic" to me... And too many artists already have her style these days...

I'm not setting up this thread to trash other Macross series, but I think there's something seriously wrong with me and I'm wondering what it is and if I'm alone on this.

I watched Robocrap when I was a kid (I was probably 9 or 10 when it came out back in 1984), hated the voices, hated some of the story concepts, but loved the action. I had an inkling that Robocrap the Macross Saga was based on a series called Macross, but that's about it. Macross II came out and I thought it was ok.......I had no idea why the SDF-1 looked different. Some time after that, I discovered DYRL and loved it.....oh, that's why the SDF-1 looks different. It also explained the Strike Packs I found on some Japanese model kits of Macross. I was now on a crusade to find out all I could about the original story. Macross Plus came out, watched it, liked it. When the Animeigo DVD series came out for the original series, I blew $400 and got it.

So, here I am, 34 years old in 2009 and I find myself hating Macross 7, not really liking Macross Zero all that much, though it was cool to see the new animation styles/techniques and of course, Fokker. I have to admit, I'm not really taking to Macross Frontier either. The animation, and the fight scenes are cool, but the mech designs don't sit right for me, when everyone else seems to love them.

When I think about it, I'm not even sure if I like the designs from Mac Plus. When I'm on the forums here, I find myself drawn to topics (especially toys and models) only related to SDF Macross and DYRL, completely ignoring MF toys/models.

What's wrong with me? It seems like all the new stuff seems to be working for everyone else except for me. Is it because I'm just too old for this stuff? If I am, why do I cling on to SDF and DYRL? The same thing happened with Transformers. Everyone I talked to loved the new Transformers.....I hate Michael Bay's new Transformers and I find myself searching for images of G1 figures and toys. There are others my age that seem to like the new stuff, so I don't think age is an issue here......

I love the fact that there's still new Macross products coming out, Yamato and Hasegawa have been doing a great job with that. When Hasegawa released pics of the 1/48 scale YF-19, I was mildly amused. I'd probably buy one, but it was one of those things that didn't excite me all that much. When I saw the test model for their 1/48 VF-1, I $hit myself. Maybe I'm just getting really closed-minded. I really tried to like Macross Zero and Macross F, but I don't find myself wanting to buy the toys and models.......maybe it's a good thing....for my wallet. Am I alone or am I just old?

LOL, there's nothing wrong with you man. I'm 33 years old and loved Bayformers designs & effects (but hated the plot). I loved Frontier and Zero. Liked Plus and II. Think 7 was okay. And love the original SDF and DYRL above all the others... DYRL because of the animation and SDF because of nostalgia (and the fact that it was the first).

I don't think is an age think. But I've been told that I'm a pretty open-minded & adaptable person too... Must be a matter of taste though, hehe...

Gotta go with GERWALK as, when I first saw the show, it was something very new and interesting...I mean, I saw airplanes before and I've seen robots before but the GERWALK mode? Never saw anything like that before...hooked me...

I couldn't have said it better myself...

Well, I found these in the web. They are not line art per se, but they are pretty well done...

Very nice wallpaper!

Thanks. Here are some pieces of fan art I found in 4chan... (love the "Monster pack"...)

I have always thought Zentradis portrayed in the Macross universe actually live a tragedy. They lose their way of living, they learn they were created as a war species, and they get absorbed into a materialistic society. I think it would be cool to have a few of them scaping from this fate.

What the... "A tragedy"? "Escaping from this fate"? What the hell? Man... But that's the whole anti-war point of this series!!! Zentradi were denied culture by the Protoculture, and humanity showed them the way to be free through culture. Otherwise Zentradi would have kept being the living weapons they were and all those fleets would have continued destroying civilizations for milenia until the automated factories would malfunction or the Zentradi start destroying themselves, leaving the galaxy a deserted battleground void of inteligent life. Now Zentradi have the choice to live their life the way they see fit.

Materialistic society? I think that one died in 2009... The fleets have their own mini-versions of it, but not as bad as the one the original Earth had before the holocaust.

Oh, Kronnang, you dear little troll, you...

*deep breath*

IT'S A FREAKIN' PACHINKO GAME! IT SAYS SO ON THE SITE!

I know, I know. LOL. Sorry, couldn't resist...

Check out the official Macross page...

(Macross The First animated?)

I'm telling you people, Macross the First animated for 2012...

Ranka has absolutely no qualities...

But she has green hair...!!! *sobs*

Thanks guys.

So in essence, much like his line drawings, his sense of storytelling is ambiguous, inconsistent and nonsensical. Got it

LOL... Well, for what is worth... the man has been involved on so many anime projects doing anything from the story to the mecha designs that I really don't blame him about it. Give the guy a break...

Btw... Wait until you see the Macross The First Manga... Just another Macross production with different uniform, mecha and situations on it...

I have a question. I apologize in advance if it's been discussed previously; I went through roughly 10 pages of the thread and saw nothing about it.

All of the "sequel" Macross series seem to be derivatives of DYRL more than the TV series; I'm basing myself off of, among other things, the fact that the Q-Rea in Flontier is much closer in design to the film Q-Rau than that of the TV series, as are the Queadluun suits in Mac 7. Further, the few flashback sequences we see in EP1 of Frontier are of the film and not the TV series. Has the TV series somehow been orphaned from the official timeline in favor of the movie, or am I missing something altogether?

Episode 12 has lots of Zentradi designs from the TV series...

Kawamori himself said that each Macross production is different since they are all fictional accounts of the same story...

You need a mouse, brown paint, lots of cotton and lots of glue...

Found this one at 4chan a while ago... I don't think it has been posted here before... (I use part of it as my avatar as you all can see, hehehe...)

Meet the Saotomes...

Daanboru has the translations of all the text. Someone should edit the images with them...

The story was quite easy to understand, even without watching Robotech or Macross.

Same here. My first contact with Macross was through Robotech. I watched DYRL for the first time in 1998 and understood pretty much anything. By that time I already knew Macross was the original japanese series but I didn't know why DYRL was different. Actually I didn't care at all. All I cared for were the mecha and the action sequences. I was very surprised at the quality of the animation, which I found amazing for a 1984 anime film. I still think that DYRL is the best hand-made anime mecha film ever made...

The only other hand-made sci-fi anime film nearly as good released before DYRL must be Final Yamato (1983), but DYRL designs look waaay more advanced and sophisticated than any other hand-made anime film from the early 80s.

Is that it's name? YF-25 Prophecy?

I like it.

I like the name too. Wow... looks interesting. Perhaps the N.U.N.S. (I see the NUNS logo on its left wing) YF-25 Prophecy will be the prototype of S.M.S.'s VF-25 Messiahs. Maybe at the begining of the movie Alto and Ranka will fly it instead of Gilliam's VF-25...