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Looks like Yzak might have his own custom Slash Zaku Phantom, with a beam scythe.  Seems to speak a little for the performance of the Zaku Phantoms if he has this over the Duel.  I expected him to show up with the Duel at some point personally as well as Buster, since both made it through Seed intact (well, repairable at least in Buster's case).

It's his, not a scythe though.

The first episode was good.

Comparitivly speaking, Keith, Macross 7 comes across as just that, a parady of SDF Macross, considering how the "message" is packaged.

I don't quite think you have a clear understanding of what the word 'parody' means if you think Macross 7 in any way, shape or form comes across as one.

Sorry, but Keith happens to be completely correct on this one.

I'd rather have no Macross that something made just for the sake of being new and furthering a franchise.

Macross has been about quality over quantity and having series that are all unique in the own way, rather than churning out series after series based on a successful formula or style on a regular basis.

The problem with the tv series was more that when they (understandably) cut down the over the top melodrama of the OVA, they took it too far and killed most of the drama completely.

Shin came across as little more than an emotionless automaton. Even the episode where his first plane was shot down, had next to no emotion, no reaction to it or anything when that should have been a devestating event that set his goal of returning home back.

Mickey was about the only character that got any development at all.

I'll still be buying it on dvd when ADV put it out. Sure the CG wasn't great, but you can't expect it to be outstanding on a tv budget and time schedule. They didn't exactly have six months to make one episode Macross Zero style. I loved the soundtrack as well.

Raysta

umm...i thought this was suppose to be an astray

That's "Astray" re-spelt. Heh. Wonder wat's up with that.

"MWF-JG71 Raysta - Serial number is short for "Main Works Figure Junkyard Guild Type 71". Raysta is derived from the word Astray and means "Civilian-use Astray". Raysta was built using data gathered from Astrays in the previous war. The MS is built from various junk parts. The Junkyard Guild has Raysta for sale or rental. However, it cannot be used for war purposes."

What inside joke am I missing here?

One of the brothers is in the process of becoming a woman.

It's not showing up in Oregon theaters till sometime in mid october I think....maybe than I'll catch it......than again.......I can just wait till its released in the next year or so......wha ever

Okay I just checked around...I found...3 variations....two are DVD rips and the other is not...2 are by an unknown group while the other belong too well somebody else.  The DVD rips are a gig and a half while the other is 700 megs.....which could be the bad one?

At this point, all of them.

One of the 1gb+ rips and the 700mb one don't have English subtitles, so unless you just want to take in the visuals they're not of a lot of use. The other 1gb+ rip has English subtitles.. but they are terrible.

By terrible, I mean worse than what Animejunkies used to dump out. The subs are often very wrong, there are entire portions that have been left unsubbed, and theres a stretch of about 15-20 minutes where the subtitles are mistimed and don't match up properly with the dialogue.

I do not have Matrix yet, so I guess I'll get the boxset, though I don't see the logic in 55 min of unreleased Reloaded footage on a bonus disc and not incorporated into the movie; doesn't make sense.

Well, the main reason is that the Wachowski Brothers (although you can't really call them that anymore..) were happy with the original cuts as they were the movies they way they intended to be.

The 55 minutes of footage was all the scenes filmed for the video game, so they may not necessarily work that well if they were just spliced into the movie.

Hmm, the only thing I want there is the extended version of reloaded, will that be sold seperately?

MrDisco's list is out of date, there is no extended version of Reloaded. The 55 minutes of extra footage is on the extra features disk.

Everybody is seeing the subbed version because a dub doesn't exist. It's being released in the US by Go Fish Productions, a division of Dreamworks.

Avoid the fansub and just wait for the dvd, for your own sake. Among other things, it's very poorly done. Badly translated, missing entire lines of dialogue at times and to add insult to injury, theres a 15 minute person where the timing is off on the subtitles and is about 2 second behind what's actually being said.

Here are all shots if you don't want to go through the site.

Despite verging close to fan fiction levels at times (like all book tie ins like these) I've always like most of the books.

I never disliked Robotech because of it's story, just what it did to Macross and the other shows - in it's own right, it's perfectly fine.

For that reason the inconsistancies don't bother me at all. I just treat them as Robotech books which have nothing to do with Macross and thus aren't bound by the limitations of it's animation.

The copy of the first tokyopop DVD that I watched did not allow the effects to be disabled. Selecting either the original version or the dub didn not make a diference.

Well then I'm sorry, but you were doing something wrong.

Every TP Initial D dvd has given the option between watching the 'classic' (original, uncut, unaltered) version and the 'tricked out' version (the terrible one with all the video edits).

Addtionally, only an idiot would buy the Tokyopop DVDs. Regardless of the Japanese version changes, the edits TP has made to the dub are such that no true fan of Anime should support such a horrible desecration of any series. Buying them is giving the message to Tokyopop that it's OK to do such things to series.

Bottom line - it's just a dub. Who cares when the proper version is there in it's correct form anyway.

Well, if you watch the Japanese version, they simply added a lot of stupid video effects (split screen, negative, etc).

Um, no, this is not correct. That is *optional* and can be turned off.

The dvds contain the full uncut video and Japanese audio with subtitles. Only an idiot would buy the bootlegs over the official release.

Neo sharing Mwu's VA has got to be a sign though.

Not really.

Unless you also think that Ray Za Burrel and Stellar Loussier are also clones, since they share Le Crueset and Flay/Natarle's VA's.

"All Your Base Are Belong To Us" was pretty funny three years ago.

Bad news, it's not set for release until late next year.

Worse news...it's been licensed by Funimation, so it will likely be 1 episode per disc & span an immensly long release cycle (bastards!)

In the same announcement they said they've reconsidered and have raised the episode per disk count on Fullmetal Alchemist to 4 per disc (13 discs total), so they are finally taking fan feedback that people really don't like low disc counts that much.

Lousy timing on the licensing since I'd only just grabbed the first episode. I liked what I saw though, dispite the whole trains in space thing and Matsumoto recycling 30 year old character designs yet again.

Makes me wish the Yamato situation wasn't so messy, a remake or addition to that series with art at the level of Galaxy Railways would have been great.

Hmm, how does the fanservice compare with a series like say, Mahoromatic?

Much less. No nipples.

Far too high a rating for Onegai Twins.

I wanted to like it, but it's a perfect example of an fine idea being mishandled. I like the idea of the story and I liked all the character, but it's 13 episodes long when they had nowhere near enough material to keep in interesting for that long - it ends up being lots of filler.

You will become very, very tired of the phrase "we might be related.. but we might not be". They beat this issue to death for episode upon episode, only for things to reset back to how they were the next so they can do it all again.

If would have been better if it were 6-7 episodes long, not 13.

Wait a minute. How the hell did digitaleyes get the box art before eveyrone else? Bastards!

Thats the coverart picture that's been around for a month or two now.

Hikuro, Rightstuf only charge when it actually ships.

Instead, it seems I will shrug it off till its released in a manner normal people with bills and such can afford.

Just as a warning then, if you pass on the box set you may miss out on it completely.

According to the Bandai rep over at Animeondvd they don't have any plans to release the series as single volumes now.

I think you kind of missed the point. It's not meant to be anything insightful or deep, it's just meant to be some more amusement for fans. It's harmless fluff, basically.

That, and it's an apology from Gainax for the completely horrible abortion that was the end of the second season.

lol, anybody wanna start guessing how much Naruto is gonna cost when it comes over?

Ha, I'm going to go with "more than it's worth"

Too bad I aint dropping 200 bucks on a DVD box set that is retailing for effectively FIVE TIMES the amount the godly awesome Batman TAS sets are going for.

(Taking into account episodes per set here.)

I guess Paramount isnt the only company that likes ripping off their fans.

You're comparing a very limited edition release of a little known anime series to a wide release of a show about one of the most famous American comic characters ever created. Batman can be cheaper because it will sell about 100x as many copies at Zeta will. $200 in reality (which will not be what it costs to buy, hasn't everybody figured out you never pay retail yet?) is nothing.

The full series of Ghost in the Shell: SAC will cost over $300. The full series of Full Metal Alchemist could well upto $400. Go look up any series, this is what anime costs.

Hell, I paid $250 for 36 episodes of Macross when the first all-in-one box was released so I'm thrilled at the idea of paying $180 or so for 50 episodes of Zeta. (typo fixed thanks to Anubis' watchful eye, heh)

I don't see how you can say Kawamori has little left and to move on it would need to be without him.

Under his vision, each part of the Macross universe has been it's own unique and distinctive entity. How many long running series can claim that about themselves?

The other main point is.. why does Macross need to expand more? I think the limited amount of shows it has and that most aren't far removed from the original is one of it's greatest strengths.

More doesn't equal better, and I'd honestly rather not have a point in the future where I look at Macross and see something that has stretched so far into the future beyond the original that it may as well have no connection at all, or something that has numerous OVAs/movies stuffed into every conceivable part of the timeline where something could have been told.