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Was Ray a flaming Homo? Come on, think about it. He was once part of the..okay, not the Diamond Force or the Emerald force, but the Pink Squadron??????? Okay, he wasn't a homo, but "Pink Squadron" ????

Vermillion's not the most masculine of colors either, yet I don't see anyone questioning Hikaru, Max or Kakizaki's manhood...

I'm really surprised Hasegawa hasn't come out with Gerwalks yet...after making the fighter and the battroid, I would imagine it would be relatively cheap for them to make one...

Well, I have a pretty clear memory (in ep. 44 or 45, whichever the one was when the cast was confronted with Geperunichi in person for the first time) of Irina calling Ivano "kare," or "him." I might be mistaken about it, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Veddy, veddy interesting...I was expecting the last "Coming soon" box on the character list to be filled by either Global or Claudia...

It would also be nice if they went all out, Studio Ghibli style, and one could watch the entrie movie in storyboards.

IIRC, DYRL was released in Hong Kong as Super Space Fortress Macross. This was released in 1987 (or 89) and had nothing edited out. After 1992, every version of DYRL included the Flashback Minmay concert at the end.

CotB is horrible, it was a hack job done for Americans.

Technically, it wasn't for Americans. CotB was done (along with the equally horribly dubbed Megazone Part II) for Japanese people to help them learn English, using British and Austrailian voice actors living in Hong Kong.

I actually question the intended gender AND sexual orientation of ALL Macross 7 characters!

Even Max and Millia??? BURN THE HERTIC!!

Somehow sharing my birthday with Minmay doesn't excite me, now if it was say Roy or Max, that would be cool.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, you also share your birthday with Haikaru and Misa's wedding anniversary (Can you imagine THAT conversation? Minmay: "Hikaru, you jerk! You jilt me and then you're getting married ON MY BIRTHDAY???" Hikaru: "Uhhh...sorry...I guess we weren't thinking..." Misa simply smirks).

And Keith of course is right...I have no idea why I was thinking she was eleven...

The old girl turns eleven today...or at least she would if she were real...

About the rain of fire... So, in the TV series, 10% of the surface population survives? (Not counting the 70,000~ on Macross.) But in DYRL, there are no survivors on the surface of the Earth whatsoever, right? (Atleast as far as we know)

I would like to know...

Yeah, that's right.

In the TV series, there were also presumably survivors on the Moon Base (Bases...?) and, apparently, in some space colonies.

In DYRL, I suppose there could have been some survivors that Hikaru and Misa missed, but nothing in the movie implies that.

About the rain of fire... So, in the TV series, 10% of the surface population survives? (Not counting the 70,000~ on Macross.) But in DYRL, there are no survivors on the surface of the Earth whatsoever, right? (Atleast as far as we know)

I would like to know...

Yeah, that's right.

In the TV series, there were also presumably survivors on the Moon Base (Bases...?) and, apparently, in some space colonies.

In DYRL, I suppose there could have been some survivors that Hikaru and Misa missed, but nothing in the movie implies that.

or,Oct 7 2003, 12:36 AM] iand didn't it really tear up the inside of the ship to do the "transformation"  i only seem to remember them transforming once or twice in the show, and then it just stayed in "man-boy" mode.

Well, it didn't tear up the inside of the ship once they rebuilt everything to fit the transformation process...that first time was a doozy, though.

As I recall, Captain Global was initially against transforming at all, because of the havoc it would cause in the city...

So, the ASS-1 is just like the SDF-2,  no transformation or something like that, just a gunship, isn't it?

I'm guessing that it could transform...I doubt that's something that the humans would have been able to engineer. They refitted and fixed up the ship, they didn't rip it to pieces and build a new one with the parts...

And we still don't know whether or not the SDF-2 could or couldn't transform...Kawamori hasn't said that it can't...

It's just the shot of Roy flying past the VF-1D to check out any damage, except it's in space.

If anyone wants, I can post a screenshot of the special's version of the eye catch. I haven't seen teh Animeigo set so I don't know if it's on it or not.

It's not, so post away, if you wish.

Call me a ungreedy, ungrateful fan if you will, but I wish that the first episode opening, the fanracer edning, the SD opening, and maybe even Macross Mecha Grafitti were on the Animeigo set. That would have made it TRULY definitive...although the Ishiguro interview is a great, great bonus.

Wow...that takes me back. I did a couple of those when I was about fourteen or fifteen. Needless to say, none of mine look anywhere NEAR as good as yours...awesome work!

But it's true; coffee DOES taste better when you're naked with your family.

Is it really? I'll have to try it...

Be that as it may, and admittedly in a small way, Animeigo dropped the ball on this one. How much trouble would it have been to use the material off the LD? Or even videotapes, if necessary for the first airing opening? Even if it couldn't be brought up to the quality of the transfers from film, I'm sure all Macross afficionados would have preferred to have the "special" material included.

Bottom line is, video wise, AnimEigo could only use what HG handed them, and unfortunately those weren't included.

Which is odd, since both the first epsiode opening at the fanracer ending are on the Robotech Perfect Collection Vol. 1...

One thing that's been bugging me about Mac0 which I haven't seen covered here (at the new server -- I have no idea about the old) is, well...isn't pretty much everyone in M0 doomed? Sure, Shin, Edgar and Aries might end up on the Macross (I kind of doubt it, though), but what about the people of Mayan? The "Rain of Fire" is going to hit in two years and wipe out most of the planet.

I'm beginning to wonder if Mayan Island itself isn't some kind of ship (all that "turtle shell" stuff), but that seems like a cheesy theory.

Any thoughts?

Very, very nice. Thank you!

The liner notes say it's a Tatsunoko employee doing the page flipping, but doesn't give a name.

Incidentally, the voice actress for Misa also did the voice for Lana Isavia (Nova Satori) in Southern Cross.

Thanks to all you guys for the info and suggestions.

She also did Hoquet in Mospeada, Naoko Akagi in Evangelion, Jet's ex-girlfriend in Cowboy Bebop, and many many others.

Don't forget Megumi Takani in Rurouni Kenshin.

And Naoko Akagi in Eva...I guess getting called an old lady for the second time really proved to be the breaking point...

Now if I could only figure out why the label on Blendy coffee says, "Coffee tastes better when you're naked with your family," I'd say that today was a good day for learning more about Engrish...

Uma? Lucy? I wanna see this chick!!!

Hands off! Chiaki Kuriyama is MINE! MINE, you hear?!?

It's not bad...the Battroid and Gerwalk modes look pretty accurate. The fighter mode is rather unconvincing, though.

They're pretty easy to put together. Paint helps, but isn't necessary. The foil stickers are pretty hideous, though.

Yep, "tatsu" is dragon, and "Tatsu no Ko" (lit. Dragon's child) is the Japanese word for "seahorse."

But yeah, it looks like Tatsunoko has the rights to the animation, and Big West has the rights to the characters and story ideas.

How this will play out in the eventual assualt on HG is unclear to me, but then, i know almost nothing about law...