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It's certainly different from most other anime. Sofar it feels familiar, a bit like some of the younger manga influenced Frenco-Belgian artists. Probably Romains infuence. It also reminds me somewhat of Les Eaux de Mortelune by Adamov/Cothias. (Hopefully no influence on the script as that story is more grim and dark then Tomino on a bad day)

It looks a bit un evangelion like, but sofar the new version has not disappointed so I'll give it the benifit of the doubt until I see the movie.

Mio's a fun character, she's like Kagami without the tsundere. Tbh the whole group gives the Lucky Star vibe. Fun, cute and quircky personalities. Just finished Kanon. Ouch, I so underestimated that series. The intro-episodes were a bit misleading. The story starts off in a lighthearted manner with Mokoto and Ayu having rather simple personalities. Until the character origins become clear... The Shiori/Kaori arc was very powerful. Let's just say I've been in that position and the way the writers handeled it was frighteningly realistic while taking some liberties it still avoids becoming overly dramatic. The plot pattern makes things a bit predictable. Still it annoys me that it took me ages to figure out Ayu, while the hints were in plain view... The ending was very clever aswell. The animation is very good and the lighting, music and directing create a surreal atmosphere. In some ways it reminds me of Groundhog Day. Can't help but like these Moe characters.... Dammit

Prices look quite good, but does Overdrive allow SAL? EMS would eat up any kind of profit for me (post office charges 15 euro handling fee per EMS shipment)

Same, I'll end up ordering a case. With Vermillion, Roy and 2x VF1J CF would make a nice display squadron at 12 pieces of 4 x 3 man groups. Wonder how large Skull squad is canon-wise.

oh sorry, seems I forgot a sentence. I meant that given the discussion of Ohnogi changing sheryl mid production seems a bit unlikely given the pace of which an anime production is run. Cour is a word used for the anime seasons which run parallel to the weather seasons (as in winter, spring, summer, autumn). One cour is 13 episodes, 2 cour is 26. etc TV series are 50 or 26 episodes so can be called a 4 or 2 cour series, most OVAs are 12-14 so are a one cour series. Numbers can vary one or two due to holiday weeks.

I have never had a problem with an item being damaged, butthen I don't care for the boxes. They do warn on the site that they don't guarantee mint packaging materials. Maybe send them an email if you have special wishes?

Just saw the first episode. Interesting off beat show. Btw... Did Sheryl Nome err I mean Spanky (what's in a name) just eat the Pickachu? Cute non plot theme creatures are untargetable! One less safe anime trope...

Nice to see a new Gundam project in the works. I have only seen unicorn modelkits. Where is the background story from?

I would agree with Gubaba and Mr March that Macross (Frontier or otherwise) cannot really withstand deep analysis. Honestly, I feel that is true for all visual media. All cinema is essentially constrained by a 3 hour time frame. Character development and themes can only be worked out, as far as this time limit allows. You can only interpret so much and quite often the reviewer sees things and concepts the creators did not intend or even realise. This topic probably among them. What interests me in this topic is the assumptions made about the time frame for anime productions. The preparation time to start on a new project is very short. Examples of anime projects starting preparations one cour or less before they air are not uncommon, certaintly not given the limited finance. I have no data on Frontier but Escaflowne ran on a budget of 276,000USD per episode(source: Canned Dogs), of which less then 25% on actual animation production. I doubt that in this kind of tightly scheduled and financed projects much room is allowed for altering already produced material.

yes, depends on the primer. I use citadel skull white as my main primer and used it over all kinds of bandai colored plastics. I'm sure any decent white primer would give the same results.

I would think there is a demand for a Focker and M&M color scheme for every valk type.

I'm enjoying this series sofar. Never played the game, though last episode really felt like a mission in an RTS game. Not very original but good fun. Tank designs are very nicely done.

Don't be silly, the majority of Verhoeven's work is good to very good. The only weak movie he made was Hollow Man. "Soldaat van Oranje" and "Turks Fruit" are amazing. As for being true to the book: Verhoeven hated Heinleins book, he thought it was Nazi propaganda and just used the visual elements described in the book to make his own story. Starship Troopers is just about Verhoevens fear of fascism coming back in the future. It's a cruel joke on Heinlein. Most of his movies are about his main obsessions: fascism or christianity or both. For example Robocop is about the resurrection of Christ. Murphy is Jesus and Robocop the ressurection, I'm still amazed he got away with that one. The man is a bit crazy, but makes visually interesting movies.

You literally have hunderds of companies working on a single aerospace project. It's not realistic to expect data streams between those companies to run over networks that are physically separate from the internet.

Wonder if there is any future for non-canon repaints, first reactions seem to favour the VF-22S heavily over the new VF-19 repaints.

I'm already sold on the VF-22S, hopefully Basara's VF-19P and Mylenes VF-11 will follow

Over the top 80s anime songs Like a greasy snack you shouldn't touch.... But it's SO GOOD!!

Erm, you had time to care about editing with Mila Jovovich around?

I'm not going to name some obscure B-movies. From the A-list: Worst of all: Star Trek 5 The Final Frontier: the less said the better. Worst Sequel: Matrix Revolutions: Only time in the cinema I have seen the audience get really angry at the crappiness of a film.

Curious if anyone knows who sang "Banana Moon Love" in Macross II?

What I mean is how can a movie that relies on say over-the-top, silly violent action like we have seen in Resevoir Dogs or Kill Bill work in a WO II setting while you know that anything that is done in that movie pales to what happened close by? Just gives a bit of a hmmm feeling. Movies like dirty dozen and such worked a few decades back, but now, I dont know. Movies like say Saving Private Ryan, Stalingrad and the Pianist changed the perception of that time.

Don't see how this movie is going to work. Over the top violence in a world war two setting? That's a self-contradiction if I ever heard one.

That discussion is in the Yamato 1/60 v.2 Roy Focker thread. VF-1S TV

Very nice clean website and some great works of modelbuiding shown, well done.