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It's being directed by a female director (specifically, the one who directed "Girlfight", about female boxers), so I would expect very little pandering to male adolescent fantasies.

The other one was "Cinderella".

Not to mention the "Completely Transformable" part

In Best Hit Series: Macross Graffiti, there's a Narumi Kakinouchi illustration of the Ichijos with Miku and the Jeniuses with Komilia and their second kid in a park setting.

"Ai wa Nagareru" (Love Drifts Away) is the song that begins with those two lines. "Tenshi no Enogu" (Angel's Paints) begins with "Tasogare utsusu, madobe e to maioriru".

I don't believe it's her (compared to Mikimoto's design of her, the nose is too pointy, the bangs are the wrong shape, and the highlights in her eyes are too uniform and close together), unless it was drawn by somebody at Anime Friend (in which case, do you really want to buy this cel ?) If it's less than USD$200 or not even labeled as a Macross cel, caveat emptor

According to the link in the first post, they're called "Live of Legend" (or "Raibu*Obu*Rejendo" in katakana), with "Lynn Minmei" and "Mylenne Jenius" as their respective subtitles.

Probably because this painting was done by Kawamori himself Actually, I agree with you. It's probably not fun for him to draw the same thing again and again, so that's how these unique, non-canon versions came about. It's mostly cel drawings of the mecha and characters from the TV series, DYRL?, and FB2012. Nothing you haven't seen in any of the other Macross books.

These were neither English translations nor published by Books Nippan (I bought them directly from Books Nippan when they first advertised them). Shogakukan reprinted them in 1990. The reply cards in them were also in Japanese, not in English like the Perfect Memory book that started this thread.

That's Ashley Scott (Birds of Prey, SWAT), in case you want a name for dreamcasting a live-action Ghost in the Shell.

Shammy is Finnish, Vanessa is French, and Kim is from the "South Asia Federation". Now, where in the heck did you find that out? That just seems like it's too obscure to be common knowledge. http://macross.anime.net/characters/index.html I bet. Macross Guide Book, where Egan Loo probably found the information, too

Sorry, nitpick alert Shammy is Finnish, Vanessa is French, and Kim is from the "South Asia Federation". He's from Eastern Europe, so either place is a possibility.

That would contradict Hideo Kojima. In issue 54 of PSM, page 19, he said "Meryl is not dead. Meryl did not make it into the game because I wanted to highlight the relationship between Otacon and Snake."

You should probably get the latest copy of Lonely Planet's guidebook on Japan; personally, I found them to be the most useful books when I travel to Japan and other places. A nice place I stayed at in 1999 in Tokyo was the Hotel Metropolitan in Ikebukuro. It's a Western-style hotel (I think in the Crowne Plaza chain of hotels) that's about a two-minute walk away from the Ikebukuro JR station, and most of its staff speaks English. According to my current Lonely Planet book (published in Oct. 2003), a double there will cost 22000 yen/night.

He told Chase earlier that they have to be detached (no double entendre intended ) to be good at their jobs, so that last scene was meant to show that he wasn't. He wasn't crying like a baby, but he was sobbing between repeating "I'm sorry" to her. It would depend on whether Palmer finishes his term before the authorities learn why Milliken's wife killed Sherry and from that learn about Palmer's false alibi. I couldn't agree more

Since the Daicon III animation was done in '81 and FB2012 was done in '87, Mikimoto (maybe at Kawamori's direction) might've drawn it deliberately as an homage.

Jack shot Chapelle in the back of the head, so it would've been pretty hard to hide some bulletproof material there. Although it would've been funny to see Chapelle wearing a big afro or rainbow clown wig to try to get away with that

If I'm reading the kanji correctly: - 28pg booklet on the Tachikoma shorts featured on the GITS SAC DVDs - some new Tachikoma shorts - music videos - cast interviews - the GITS SAC trailers that appeared on SkyPerfect TV when they were airing the first season of GITS SAC

The Official Log 1 DVD contains a quick summary of Episodes 1-19, preview clips from the rest of the first season, a character and weapons/technology summary, some staff interviews, and behind-the-scenes stuff. The booklet covers basically the same subjects, but there's a section at the back that deals with the real-life counterparts/inspiration for the technology featured in GITS SAC. The Official Log 2 DVD contains a summary of the Laughing Man storyline, more staff/cast interviews, and the making-of featurette on the TV commercials for Official Log 1. The booklet also goes over the the same subjects (except for the commercials), plus it covers the real-life scandals that inspired the Laughing Man storyline and the literary references in the first season.

Damn, you beat me to it. I saw this thread and thought "Haruka Nayuta did a much better job". Is that the models name? Does she do a lot of cosplay work? I don't know what else she has done. That's just the name they list for her in ARMS. Actually, I had to look that up. What I really thought was "that arms chick did a better job" Edit- A google search reveals that she, as far as I can tell, is an AV star. (AV being "adult video" for those not in the know). That's odd. Haruka Nayuta did the TV commercials, too, but she obviously looks different/better on the magazine cover. So it is the same woman? Maybe they stretched her face for the magazine cover lol. The trailer on the GITS DVD I have is titled TV ad for that offical log DVD/Bookset. Yes, she did the commercials (15 sec. and 30 sec.) for the GITS SAC Official Log 1. The Official Log 2 has a making-of featurette on making the commercials. PS It's not a wig; they show the hairstylists spraying her hair purple

Damn, you beat me to it. I saw this thread and thought "Haruka Nayuta did a much better job". Is that the models name? Does she do a lot of cosplay work? I don't know what else she has done. That's just the name they list for her in ARMS. Actually, I had to look that up. What I really thought was "that arms chick did a better job" Edit- A google search reveals that she, as far as I can tell, is an AV star. (AV being "adult video" for those not in the know). That's odd. Haruka Nayuta did the TV commercials, too, but she obviously looks different/better on the magazine cover.

The TV series is an "alternate universe" where the Puppet Master incident never happened. The first and second movies belong to the same timeline/universe.

After Kamjin's attack in the finale of the first TV series, the SDF-1 was repaired, resulting in the changed appearance and the ARMD carriers that you see in FB 2012, Mac+, and DYRL.

Yes, the mine energist episode was #8, but there was no regult, although Escaflowne was done by Kawamori. It was just a work melef. Look at it closer. You can't see it when Van's smashing it, but when it's working in the background it's fairly obvious. They glued a pair of arms to a Regult and painted it gold. can someone get a pic of that and post it? Here is a screen capture of that "Regult": The digging claws are attached to where the side thrusters are normally mounted on a Regult.

adult as in porno or adult as in grown up "Adult", as in "grown up", of course one of the recurring themes in FLCL.