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Megumi Nakajima puts singing career on indefinite hiatus.

Post author By Tochiro
Post date December 1, 2013

It was announced on Megumi Nakajima’s official website earlier today that Megumi (best known to most Macross fans as the voice of Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier) will be taking an indefinite break from her singing career. She will be continuing voice acting for the time being.

While no explanation as to the reason behind this decision has been given, it should be noted that the recently formed official Megumi Nakajima fanclub will also cease accepting new members at the end of the year, meaning that we probably shouldn’t expect Megumi to return to singing anytime in the near future.

Megumi’s third album and 5th anniversary concert bluray will be released in February, while fans will be able to see her perform for the ‘last time’ at her final concert in March.

EDIT: ANN has also reported on the story HERE.
Japanese can be found HERE, HERE & HERE.

What was your favourite Megumi song? Sound off over in the FORUMS.

Arcadia’s 1:1 scale Nekki Basara “Fire Bomber” Model Guitar Official Page

Post author By EXO
Post date June 6, 2013

Arcadia’s newest Macross product page recently went live and it’s for the 1:1 scale replica of Basara’s iconic guitar from Macross 7. Previously seen as a potential Yamato Toys release, we’ve been getting images of this guitar in trade shows and at the Yamato open houses for quite a while now. We’ve even had reports of Yoshiki Fukuyama handling the guitar in one gig.

Tentatively priced at 350,000円, this fully functional collector’s piece is obviously aimed at the biggest and most well to do Fire Bomber fan. According to the page, Mr. Fukuyama himself had input as far as the guitar’s body design. The guitar will be hand made and made to order. It also warns that each piece will take several months in production. Each run will be done in quantities, the first run will be limited to ten. A case, 4 picks and guitar strap will be included, with each item emblazoned with the Fire Bomber logo.

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30th Anniversary Movies and TV Series Music

Macross FB7 BD/DVD is OUT NOW!

Post author By Tochiro
Post date April 24, 2013

The Bluray/DVD release for Macross FB7 hit retailers in Japan today, with a recommended retail price of 8190yen for the Bluray and 5040yen for the DVD respectively.

Ready to Fire and Bombaa? Do so in the FORUMS!

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Macross Net Meeting – Listen To Us Talk!

Post author By Tochiro
Post date April 13, 2013

The third Macross Net Meeting ‘Listen to us talk!’ was held on Niconico Douga on Wednesday April 10th. The special was hosted by Chiaki “Kyanchi’ Kyan and featured three main guests. Or should that be May’n guests? Yes, in attendance was the singing voice of Macross Frontier’s Sheryl Nome, May’n, as well as Shion Tsuchiya (Ash in Macross THE MUSICULTURE) and famed Valkyrie artist Hidetaka Tenjin.

This took Tenjin all of 1 minute & 50 seconds to draw.

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New FB7 Package art revealed!

Post author By Renato
Post date March 27, 2013

This one sneaked in under the radar — Amazon JP has revealed the new box art for the “Macross FB7 Ore no Uta wo Kike!” movie Blu-ray set. Oh, and it’s FANTASTIC.

Are you a Mikimoto fan, or an Ebata fan? Why choose — HAVE BOTH!

FB7 is out on April 24th, 2013.

GO, Thread, GO

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Mylene Night #03 Report: Chie sings Macross Plus

Post author By Tochiro
Post date March 19, 2013

February 2nd, 2013 was a date that will be remembered for many things. For one, it was the birthday of Mylene Jenius (-18!). Of course, this meant that Chie Kajiura held another one of her ‘Mylene Night’ concerts to commemorate Mylene’s birthday. Most importantly though, February 2nd 2013 was the day that Chie irrefutably claimed the title of Macross cover queen, something that most people had previously attributed to Megumi Nakajima.

How? Two words. Macross Plus.

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A Message to Macross World from May’n

Post author By EXO
Post date March 16, 2013

How cute is that? May’n says “Hello” to MacrossWorld! Rock much, diva? All hail May’n!

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Winter WonderFest 2013 Macross Stage images and summary

Post author By Renato
Post date February 10, 2013

As previously announced, two Macross-themed talk/stage shows were streamed live through Nico Nico on Sunday, courtesy of Max Factory and the Good Smile Company to promote the new Macross 30 game, some Nendroid figures and a Sheryl statue, featuring the Macross newcomer, Haruka Chisuga and friends.

Click the link below to see and read the highlights of the two shows!

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“Macross Crossover Live 30” teased!

Post author By Renato
Post date February 10, 2013

The Wonder Festival special events are currently underway, and during the commercial break in between the live performances by Yoshiki Fukuyama and Haruka Chisuga (see here: https://www.macrossworld.com/4238/winter-wonderfest-macross-stage-to-be-streamed-live/) was a very brief but important teaser!

Rememer this post? https://www.macrossworld.com/4261/countdown/

Well, the link now diverts to the website for the “MACROSS CROSSOVER LIVE 30” site:

http://macrosslive30.com/

Yes, the Macross Crossover Live, that once-in-a-lifetime concert from 2009 featuring all the Macross singers IS BACK!

The new concert will be held in Makuhari Messe in Chiba (where WonderFest is taking place right now) on July 13th, 2013.

Here is an image from 2009’s gathering.

If you follow the site link, you may notice the addition of a certain Marduk Emulator…

(So how is it once in a lifetime? NEVER MIND THAT!!)

More details on the rest of today’s WonderFest hijinks coming soon!

And for those of you who missed the live streaming performance of Fukuyama and Chisuga, don’t forget that one more stage is planned for later tonight featuring Chisuga and May’n:
http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv122765249?from=lv123062697