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  1. Gubaba
    I have to disagree with Seto here... Nyan-Nyan, Nyan Nyan, and Nyannyan would all be technically correct.
  2. Gubaba
    Good question. It'd be nice if there were hundreds of posts over the past decade or so here dissecting the exact reasons why it hasn't happened, wouldn't it?
  3. Gubaba
    And Project M was Max's idea. I dont remember which episode they said it in, but they said it.
  4. Gubaba
    Once more...
  5. Gubaba
    You can't improve on perfection.
  6. Gubaba
    Oh goody. Another "Why I Hate Macross 7" thread. We haven't had anywhere near enough of those lately.
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    But... Basara was SPONSORED by Max. Without Max's help he never would've gotten his VF-19, or be in a position to fly out in the battlefield in the first place.
  8. Gubaba
    Unfortunately,, apparently in the email sent out to the members about the hack, Steve Yun CC'd everyone, and didn't hide any of the addresses. So now every current member has every other current member's email. Way to go...
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    Doesn't matter. Most of it isn't even in Japanese.
  10. Gubaba
    Valkyrie Driver, I'm sorry... Despite your attempts, you haven't convinced me that you know enough about '80s Japanese idols to dismiss most of their music as crap. Stick to what you know, man.
  11. Gubaba
    Your Japanese must be pretty good, then. A lot of Japanese lyrics still pass me right by...
  12. Gubaba
    Who didn't you like? Most of the big names are actually quite good, so you've gotta dig pretty deep in idol-ology to find the real bad stuff these days. Most of it was never reissued, so if you've got some, I wanna compare notes!
  13. Gubaba
    I've been trying to figure out if there's any way to contact his widow about it, actually...
  14. Gubaba
    I's say you could do that, but only if you really wanted to rip the heart out of the series. Macross is important in anime history for many different reasons, but one of the biggest is that it really was at the ground zero of the otaku subculture (or "anime generation," if you prefer). The fact that it incorporated the "idol boom" of the mid-'80s pretty much just as it was getting started is a massive part of that. I think a lot of western viewers tend to dismiss or underrate Minmay because the idol boom really isn't well understood in the west (sometimes rightly so... while some of the music is excellent, a lot of it is pure crap). Soon after her debut in 1980, Seiko Matsuda became THE big star in Japan (and many other parts of Asia), primarily as a singer, but also as an actress and model. No one really arose to rival her, until Akina Nakamori debuted right around the same time the first episode of Macross aired. There are TONS of tributes to both of them throughout the series, mostly on signs in the background, but also as characters (Hikaru's nurse in episode 18 is Mikimoto's rendition of Seiko) and influencing the fashion (Minmay's debut dress is based on one of Seiko's dresses, and the green dress she wore in episode 27 is almost identical to one Akina wore on her first tour). Minmay herself is based on Seiko (Mikimoto was a huge fan, and even belonged to her fan club). During Macross's run, the idol boom became a huge part of mainstream Japanese culture, with new hopefuls debuting every week. Most of them, of course, went absolutely nowhere, but Seiko, Akina, and a handful of others remain famous, and are still active and popular today (Akina just came out with her latest album a couple of months ago). But even though it became mainstream (for a while... the first idol boom ran out of stream by the late eighties, although it comes back occasionally... we're in one right now, although I think we're at the tail end of it, and it's focused more on idol GROUPS than on solo performers), it's first and foremost an essential part of what would become otaku culture. In the realm of anime, idol anime is definitely its own genre (often crossing over with "magical girl" anime), and Macross was, as far as I know, the first series to mix it with mecha anime, in essence creating the ultimate otaku series roughly a decade before otaku culture would be a defined, understood phenomenon. Again, this aspect of Macross is probably the least investigated part of it in the west, because it really doesn't translate very well (which is why it was de-emphasized as much as possible in Robotech), but it is absolutely intrinsic to the series and its lasting legacy.
  15. Gubaba
    Well, the first pics from Macross Tricorner (and that IS the official pronunciation) have been released... I think the characters look... okay... But the Valks really aren't up to snuff.
  16. Gubaba
    I think it was supposed to be a retelling of DYRL... Minmay was in it, that's for certain.
  17. Gubaba
    Once again...
  18. Gubaba
    Manly tears were shed.
  19. Gubaba
    Speak for yourself, man!
  20. Gubaba
    Well, we'll always have the manga. For me, THAT'S the perfect version. Making it move can't improve it.
  21. Gubaba
    No, that's still the young Isamu. It's complicated...
  22. Gubaba
    Yes, Hikuro, I think someone else mentioned that, too...
  23. Gubaba
    The first three chapters that were published on Comic Walker were originally published in Newtype Ace about a year previous. They are also included in Vol. 5 of the collected books.
  24. Gubaba
    Newtype Ace is dead and gone. It's only on Comic Walker now.
  25. Gubaba
    Yes. Apparently, Basara never returned to the Macross 7 Fleet after the events of Dynamite. Mylene went solo, Ray became a producer, and Veffidas became a session drummer. To make the Re:Fire album, Basara recorded his parts separately from the rest of the band (since he was still off somewhere else), and they completed the tracks.
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