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  1. Now we have a new series with a dramatically different history than the original chronology and yet some are desperate to conclude that it "must" be part of the original chronology because of similarities, dispite what has been shown and described in the new series...

    To quote the Compendium, "The real Macross is out there, somewhere. If I tell the story in the length of a TV series, it looks one way, and if I tell it as a movie-length story, it's organized another way."

    What you see in the colonization departure sequence is the story of the colony fleets as told in the length of NINE SECONDS. It's rather obviously tailored for dramatic effect and to look impressive.

  2. With the exception of Yoko Kanno and Kawamori himself, the previous works of others involved in Macross F are worrying. By all accounts a crappy director and a crappy writer.

    Are there two different staff lists out there or something? Because the one I've seen was far better than I ever expected.

    To have a creative guy behind some of the bigger hits of the last couple of years, including some mecha shows is a long way from a bad thing in my mind.

    Not to mention that the creepy losers over at Heisei Democracy are excited about it... which isn't a good sign.

    People in glass houses...

  3. Like I said, Gundam 00 has absolutely no relation to the UC universe. UC's previous calendar was AD - we just don't know when it switched to UC.

    Same with FC, same with CE. This being AD calender based means nothing in regards to any of the other universes.

    One (somewhat obvious I thought) implication of the "00" name would "first year of a new era"

  4. If you've actually played the game, you'd know Fate Stay Night isn't a porn game that is about it's sex or nudity.

    That content is relatively minor, it's a heavily story and dialogue based visual novel game.

    The Fate anime had two problems - one is it's pacing, at times it's perhaps a little too faithful to the game and get's very wordy and it just really kind of drags at times.

    The second probem is, it's the Fate storyline of F/SN - arguably the simpler and more generic of the games three storylines. The other two storylines, Heavens Feel and especially Unlimited Blade Works are considerably more interesting, but the problem is you can't just make an anime based on either of them because they rely on the Fate storyline to introduce characters and set up their personalities and motivations, etc. They also don't showcase the full range of servants the way Fate does.

    The anime kind of does itself a disservice by showing hints of those other storylines, since it gave gimpses of interesting things it wouldn't cover.

  5. Gah...why bother with a redub.

    It's an extra hook to give people a reason to see it. Kind of how Gundam compilation movies have the audio redone.

    I mean, I don't think these compilation movies will be particulary good, but now knowing there will be one for each series I don't see the problem with it. It's all to get more people to see them. I'd be lying if I said I'd pass up the chance to see Gunbuster and Diebuster on the big silver screen.

  6. I admit i wasn't one of the people who played TA due to Starcraft which was released about the same time. So i'm not sure how this one's gameplay is like. It seems to me like "build as much and as fast as you can and then tank rush the opposition". The game has tonnes of units, so how you're gonna micro them all or keep clicking the "build" button is gonna be a chore. If the battles are at that huge a magnitude in game as shown on the trailer, computer AI has to be superbly good.

    The game isn't built around micromanagement, which is why unlike Starcraft it's actually fun.

    Building is all queue based.

  7. http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=10963463 is a working torrent for episodes 37-50.

    They're all subbed but not properly timed and such

    That's certainly what Nanashi want you to think.

    The subtitles are all properly timed, the only thing different from normal is they haven't gone through Nanashi's (absurdly slow) quality checking process. They have some typos and the like, and usage of older translations they've since replaced (they still use "skurve" rather than "scab" for example).

    They are perfectly fine and it is absolutely NOT worth waiting the ridiculously long time Nanashi take to release anything.

    I grabbed them and ended up marathoning the entire batch in one sitting, it just wasn't possible to stop and leave more episodes for another day. I'd quite easily say that E7 turned out to be one of the best mecha shows I've seen in a long time.

  8. Sorry man- Gundam is just not done with aliens and things that are far beyond the realm of scientific possibility. As Aliens are not a proven fact, they don't exist in Gundam. Mobile suits are about as close to disbeleif as you're gonna get.

    Thanks for the laugh!

    I must have missed when mobile suits gaining super powers with the help of spirits of the dead entered the realm of scientific possibility.

  9. http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/comic/06...14kawamori.html

    http://www.manganomori.com/cgi-bin/mangano...code=484435843X

    3675 Yen.  Hmm... No word on no. of pages yet, or actual specific content (how much colour or b/w etc.).  But we are promised unreleased rough sketches and interviews etc

    208 pages, containing -

    - Macross

    - Macross Plus

    - Macross Zero

    - Patlabor

    - Ghost in the Shell

    - GPX Cyber Formula

    - Sousei no Aquarion

    - Eureka Seven

    - Gunhead

    - Sony AIBO ERS-220

  10. Just to clear it up, Odex are legitimate, and they do not sub-license titles from the US.

    The reason for their comparitive cheapness is simple, they're not America. Smaller market, small licensing fees.

    I think ODEX is able to get away with cheaper releases as they keep them nice and simple; without dubs.

    Odex releases do have dubs, just not English dubs.

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