VF-25 Messiah

Excuse me, but, huh? She did say ( Quoting the fansub ) "Don´t go. Stay by my side forever".

Okay, that is open to your interpretation of it, but I read it in a way that she simply wanted him to stay with her, forever.

Right before that, she asks him to stay by her side, she says 帰っちゃだめだよ。

帰る (1) to return; to come home; to go home; to go back; (2) (of a guest, customer, etc.) to leave; (3) (of a baseball player rounding the bases) to get home

Nothing much open to interpretation in that. You don't use that particular verb to someone who is already 'home'.

I´d like to think that they will continue to live together, yeah.

Whatever gave you the idea they were? As late as episode 23, Sheryl told Alto he wasnt allowed to go home, something she wouldn't do if they actually did live together. Conclusion: they don't.

that is not what the japanese text says at all. not even close.

Indeed you're right about that. Yet I get the impression people here only think it may be a hoax, when it's most definately a hoax. It was a 4chan user trolling. The guy who posted it probably can't even read japanese, and hoped to sucker a few others who can't either. That's part of the daily routine there. And well, given that we even have people here thinking there may be a chance of truth in it, I'd say he was successfull.

More mecha... (I wonder if the one with Alto and Ranka was already posted here?)

I've seen this picture before, from some magazine, covered with text. Where'd you get a textless version?

Direct copy paste from 4chan, take it with a bucket of salt.

100% Fake, as a lot of people have pointed out. The japanese text that those supposedly came from, says nothing of the sort. It's just a guy trolling.

Don't know if this has been posted before, I just noticed it while checking lunar's status...

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=5415

Apparently five short SD frontier parodies aired or announced today, done by Studio Nu. Anyone hear of these things before?

Macross fufonfia? they're 1 minute shorts that are shown on the macross F site. Believe it's up to episode 19 there. The fif translated eps been out a while now.

I'm not convinced that Battle Galaxy was destroyed. Badly damaged and without it's gunship yes, but totally destroyed, perhaps not.

Although we see Battle Frontier do a pinpoint barrier punch to Battle Galaxy's torso, we do not actually see it explode.

Graham

Looks to me like the punch more or less goes through the torso... the upper half seems to be drifting away upwards for that split moment before the focus shifts away.

The Galaxy Fleet didn't go turncoat, just Grace did... Am I missing something?

I figured they were all dead.

Grace wasn't alone. There were the voices who she was working with, which I believe were revealed to be the Galaxy top brass in a magazine interview (think it's still in the news thread some 20 pages or so back.) Aside from Battle Galaxy, which I doubt Grace had any hand in controlling, we saw at least 4 of the Galaxy escort vessels present (2 'dulfim class' and 2 'kaitos class) as well as at least a dozen VF-27's. Probably a significant portion of the Galaxy militairy present, the most notable absense being the Galaxy Mainland.

Here's two nice sketches of Sheryl and Ranka. Don't think they've been posted yet...

Hey if they can't fix Far/Near sightedness you think they can fix your spine?

Believe its been stated in magazine interviews that people wearing glasses in Frontier do it for fashion and not because they need them.

hmmm... I don't get all the Zero bashing. I personally loved that OAV series, although episode 4 was too slow for the most part. episode 5 strangely can still pull tears from me even after many viewings, and given the revelations of M:F I can now understand much of the premise behind the power of song in zero within the proper context. the main reason why I put zero in 3rd place in another thread here was because it was too short IMHO for the kind of story it was - much like frontier - and should have gone to a full 13 eps.

I thought it was too short as well. Actually I'm convinced it was cut short somehow, bad sales perhaps? The transition between episode 4 and 5 is just so hideous and reeks of it getting the plug pulled, giving them one more episode to wrap things up. Makes me wonder how the sales fare now that Frontier has made more than a few references to it...

OK.....So I started early in my Macross Frontier Re-Watching Binge so I was wondering.....did anybody get the homage of Alto screaming "ATTACK?"

I seem to recall an episode in SDFM where he Hikaru screams the same word, but for the life of me I couldn't remember which episode it was.

EDIT: Falcon PUNCH, FTW!!!!

Man...that part of Episode14 never gets old.

Episode 27 i believe.

Well, the thing is sometimes they actually have the real product, but they are sold a very low prices, one of my coworkers wandered over to the Golden Arcade and bought a lot of real region 1 PS2 games complete with the real manual and anti-theft tape. I'm sure tracking down an original blu-ray wouldn't be a problem. I'll have to wait and see, I got some big budget items coming this year ranging from a car, 40+ inch LCD and a PS3 when I get back to JP. Not to mention the 1/60 M+ Valks...

Oh yeah, no doubt about that. Fake or real, shopping in Hong Kong was cheap but I got the impression you were going to look for a complete series set. Given that they're up to volume 2 right now, any full series set you do come across assuredly wont be real.

I'm not sure where you got that idea, but Japanese R2-discs do require and enforce region-coding.

Depends on the maker of the disc in question, doesn't it? Of course I realize i'm walking on thin ice here since I don't even own the disc in question...

EDIT: Also, realize I'm expressing what I mean very poorly. What I really meant is that a lot of discs (I think) released in Japan, are in fact Region 0. If the disc in question is indeed a R2, then of course it wont play in an untampered region 1 player.

err opps

Just watch ep 25 already.

Edit: Seriously just watch it right now. Don't waste another second.

Got the set today. Noice! Only got to watch a few minutes of the HD version but the region 2 discs apparently work just fine on my DVD player.

Mr. Reagan

Japanese region 2 discs rarely enforce region coding, I believe. Tbh, it's mostly just hollywood that even give a damn about the feature, I think?

I was quite shocked you know because it was something totally out of the blue. From what I read in earlier posts, quite a few people were shocked. Gods, I'm still wondering if I should throw away part of my paycheck to buy a copy of Shadow Farce, but I always shy away and think about buying Carrier, but I shy away from that too...oh well, looks like I'll just wait till I go to Hong Kong and buy it there for a buck and hopefully Region 0 Macross F Blu-Ray set for like 50 or whatever they wanna charge.

I'd say any Blu-ray set you'd be able to buy of the series there at this point would just be a burned collection of TV-rips. We are talking about Hong Kong after all. Anyway, the japanese Macross F Blu-rays play on any region player so I'll just continue with that gorgeous (and admittedly a wee overpriced ; set.

I'd love to see this as well. We'd have Leon and Grace hijacking a ship and ramming it into Island 1.

With Grace more interested in doing 'culture' with Leon than anything else

I called the ending except the part where Lelouch really dies. I would've thought he would have fulfilled his contract with C.C. and gained the code from her. Or at the very least make a dramatic end apologising for not fulfilling his promise to make her smile as she dies.

and after watching the end it might be this was the case. But meh...i dun really care if he was dead or not. Its just that the whole C.C. arc was left open and to ppl who were too busy bawwwing, might have missed that C.C's code might already be transferred in that 2 months Emperor Lelouch got the Damocles.

Beh who knows now.

About Nunally touching Lelouch as he was dying and seeing his past, i wonder if that was a sign that the immortality code was transferred since it usually shows the person who touch the immortal his past, not the immortal's past?

Overall I think i loved Code Geass' epilogue more than Macross Frontier's.

*dodges pots and pans thrown at him*

*while throwing pots and pans with a fervor*

I think I recall lelouch seeing both Suzaku's and CC's past when he touched her during that time in the Narita arc in season 1. He also learned her true name then.

This must be the most complete conspiracy theory ever You forgot to mention that they both roughly tie their hair the same way (I think, if I remember correctly).

Like I said, there were more, but mentioning them would just be redundant.

Dunno the movie could put a twist that Nanase lost her memory due to trauma.

I shall now rage at all of you for not realizing the simple truth. Namely that Nanase is in fact Grace O'Connor. It is SO obvious that I cannot fathom why you all refuse to see this. I mean the evidence are clear as day, yet you still refuse to see it. Let's review them shall we:

1. They both have glasses. All people with glasses in this show are evil. This alone should dispel any doubt, but I shall go on.

2. They have roughly the same haircolor.

3. They have roughly the same eyecolor.

4. They both have sizeable female assets.

Now you could argue that point 1 is invalid because Michael had glasses too. Boy are you wrong! It is clear as day that Michael too is in leauge with Grace, and he will reappear as her righthand man in the movie. Adding to this I list no less than 3 similiarities between the two. Giving more would just be redundant but I shall mention that another very strong hint is the fact that Nanase wakes up just at the end of episode 25. Why? Obviously because Grace's other body was killed so her mind transfered to this body. That Nanase earlier appeared to be moving under a will of her own, is simply because that body was installed with an android program to draw away suspicion. Anyone who cannot see this are simply narrowminded fools. Do you all really need to have it spelled out for you in plain text before you see the obvious?! Be thankful that I have educated you all, fools!

Well not really for the other recent animes. No wonder why Yamato always releases new DYRL VFs first with ay new scale . I my self I`m not DYRL fan that much, always preferred SDFM.

So Graham after Macross Frontier have been completed so whats your fave VF of all time now ?

My guess is his standing preference uh.. stands.

After all, both VF-171 and VF-171EX can be seen as variations of the VF-17...

It's not the same thing. The scenes with the Hydra were very fluid and were drawn in a way that was consistent in itself, thus the work of a specific animator, that was chosen exactly because he was able to animate such dynamic scenes. Because there was so much movement the number of lines used to draw things was lowered, but in no case it was bad animation, and as such authors aren't likely to correct it in the BD.

FV

I'm gonna make you eat those words if the scene ends up looking different

Yes, except not a Sound booster.

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