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I enjoyed Raxephon, smooth and well paced. I have a soft spot for the Bones artstyle and the love story was nicely done. I second Eureka Seven, one of the best anime of the last decade and totally underrated. Can't believe kids these days prefer Code Geass /grumpy old man mode.

Would love to get the TV Roy in both 1:48 and 1:60. Hopefully Yamato would also include a Hikaru figure and cockpit sticker. Can't imagine why they haven't done this already.

Just ordered my new car at the dealer, a Volkswagen Scirocco. Chose the 2010 Volkswagen Scirocco 2.0 Highline Plus 170hp TDI version with manual transmission. Due to my yearly mileage it's more economical to buy the diesel version. It's not too thirsty about 5.3l/100km or 45mpg. Going to be a while before I get it as the waitlinglist is still quite long. Even though it's going to be a pain to keep clean, I just had to go for the candywhite version.

The anime spring season: Not too bad, Gundam Unicorn as the main attraction. Let's see if PAworks can deliver on Angel Beats. A1 has a few interesting shows going on. Curious how Black Rock Shooter will turn out.

"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent."

My gut feeling would be "Back to the Future". Just because it's plain fun and pure sc-fi. Thinking of quality then I'd say Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys, both movies breathe atmosphere. Which is probably why I'm more of a Riddley Scott fan over Cameron and prefer Gilliam over Kubrick. Special mention goes to the Fifth Element. *Multipass* Got to love Leeloo

It looks like an art book of the Macross Fever Pachinko game by Sankyo. Some info in this thread, never seen the anything about an artbook though. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...5&start=175

You could try: http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/ or http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/

Clearly the Pink peckers should be manned by Bearforce 1, the boy band for older, hairy gay men... guranteed to send any Zentradi fleet running

Now this bird is great news. *must have*

I really like that 1/5000 Megaroad-01. Amzing they could make a model on so little line art.

I wish, just the R2 2004 DVD release. Replaced my old VHS and fansub versions. Afaik only the Galaxy Express movies have made it to Bluray sofar.

Watched the remastered Waga Seishun no Arcadia/Arcadia of my Youth : Glad to finally have a decent version, it's just is so damned epic.

Can we simply compare pilots from different eras? I'm under the impression that valks in the era of MF are far easier to pilot then SW I era mecha. Pilots are younger ( MFs high schooler pilots) and iirc the VF-25 lowers the G-forces the pilot is exposed to in the cockpit, removing most of the physical requirement for a pilot (points at the shotacon pilot). Comments were made that the NUNS relies on poorly trained pilots for it's VF-171s which suggests the mainstay fighter is easy to handle. Compare that to the launch ceremony in 2009 where Focker announces the VF-1 to be the latest and newest fighter. Given the small compliment aboard the SDF-1 we can assume that all original pilots were handpicked veterans from the worlds airforces. Come to think of it, the artrition of on the civilian turned VF-1 pilots during the return of the SDF-1 to earth must have been horrible (unless they were world class areobatics pilots like Hikaru or freaks of nature like Max)

Should I read that as that the F-35 is primarily an attack craft with secondary air to air capability? Most of the smaller European partners in the project are going to use it as their main air defense fighter. The lightweight F16s were ideal for that role. I guess a stealth plane will give it an advantage and off course good integration with other NATO systems. I can't help but wonder that later generation F-16s pretty much offer the same but with a proven track record.

In the way this thread develops I'm quite happy that Kawamori does not do the same thing twice. If the average of fan tastes would decide we'd end up with an SDFM remake in the form of an echi show like Queens blade with Valkyries...

In what way is the F-35 going to be an upgrade over the F-16/F-18s it's going to replace? Most of the discussions I have read seem to focus on it's cost and number built rather then what it can do. The national debate is completely absorbed by compensation orders and noise/emission worries. Any sites or magazine issues that anyone wouldn't mind recommending on it's performance and future roles?

I guess I'm sort of lucky in that department altough it leads to it's own problems. My girlfriend is a worse sci-fi/fantasy nerd then I am but she draws the line at mecha and space ships. I mean elves, fairyfolk and whatever strolls in the forrest are fine off course. Anything magic, however unrealistic is great, but starships and robots go pew pew get me a wary look as if saying, "really, that's so unrealistic, hun". Must be something hardwired in the female brain... My poor Valks and G1 transformers have to share their cupboard with her "My little pony" and "She-ra" collection *sigh*. She also loves games so getting her off the desktop whenever I need it for work is a pain if she is too wrapped up in killing stuff in CS or whatever mmorpg she is playing this month. Off course I can't complain too loud, she is a vet and any women that castrates for a living should be handeled carefully

Seems consitent with the outcome of the lawsuit. Tats owns the economic rights to SDFM and BW/Nue own the creative rights to Macross. No idea if there is any room for maneuvering under US law for shared copyrights.

Finished Bakemonogatari: I have a very double feeling about this show. The show is visually interesing with a minimalist aproach to animation, clever camera angles and a brilliant soundtrack. The dialog between the characters is refreshingly ssharp and antagonistic. Not the standard rom-com fare. But on the other hand, while this show tries very hard to look complex and different, it's still a fairly basic harem show mixed with some supernatural elements. It's weak and predicatble plot carried by the characters and voice actors. It was the most popular show of 2009 but I'm not completely convinced yet. Finished Summerwars: Nice movie on a near future world where your online identity starts to mix with the real life one. Very recognisable if you ever did some online gaming. It's not as good as the girl who leapt through time but it does show a nice insight of the rise of social and online networking without being judgemental. Finshed Kara no Kyoukai (garden of sinners): Seven movies revolving around supernatural crimes and a "slayer" (can't really think of any other description for this trope). Based on the novels of Kinoko Nasu the movies each tell part of the story in a non-chronological order. The movies have excellent build ups and the atmospheric setting and music work. Still there were some parts that really grated my nerves. I found the heavy use of CGI in the visuals and coloring very distacting and the cliches of the genre really pop up a lot. Quite often the movies reminded me of Ghost in the Shell, somehow the movies fell like a supernatural clone but without the touch that made GitS work. That said, Kara no Kyoukai is not bad by any means. Also the rather lyrical reception by reviewers as if the show is a milepont in animation was somewhat off putting. Good use of CGI effects can help the visuals but sometimes this show comes to close to being a visual novel game.

Yes, it was broadcasted in Okinawa if I'm not mistaken, there was even a member of a Japanese Robotech fansite posting on this board a while ago. That's my understanding as well, HG, Tats and Warner have no acces to the designs for future animation/movie projects. Either this or Yune forgot to consult the company lawyer and said something he really shouldn't have. Unless something has changed in the relations between both sides that we are not aware off.

I would go the Gundam treatment: 3 movies condensing the SDFM story and here and there updating some less then well animated parts but keeping everything else intact to atract new viewers. But... to celebrate the launch with these movies, I'd like to see a prequel to Macross. And I'm not taking M0. A classic space opera set in the time of the Protoculture revolving around the adventures of the crew of the protoculture exploration ship Gosroth that will eventually end up on earth. Set againt the slow collaps of the old stellar republic with massive Zentradi and Supervision army fleets duking it out, fleshing out the lore of Macross. \ hey, I can dream...

Hear, hear, wish we could get rid of all this stealth nonsense and get back to building planes that actually look good. Which is off course the most important thing!

You could be right, but the Russians will have to replace their ageing Mig29s and Su-27s someday. We may not see many in the Russian airforce but who knows how many will be built for India.

Looks amazing, really does justice to the Zent design.