Renato

Well, Keith, it looks like you will get your wish extremely soon. As many already know, this game will be back from tomorrow as a downloadable PSN exclusive, thanks to an included passcode with the DYRL BD Hybrid Pack. As such, I was playing my PS1 version again this week... and guess what? I'm stuck! I had decided to start playing in NORMAL mode instead of EASY this time, and I die right before Bodolza every time now. Argh!

Yes.

Episode 4 http://www.macrossworld.com/2721/super-dimension-seminar-episode-4-airs/

That one hasn't been translated, but it is very recent and thus common enough that I didn't feel bothered. I'm more interested in rarer ones like this one. If you have seen the original storyboards for DYRL, you can see that the epilogue is almost identical to what ended up being in Flashback, with only a handful of modifications As for the "40% + alpha" thing, the phrases in bold are the headings for the different sections of the interview. This one refers to the rating that Kawamori gave himself. I'd also like to draw everyone's attention to the first part of the interview -- the lack of "explanations" of why the Macross is in space, what the war is about, etc., and Kawamori's stern refusal to bother with all that. Well, as he mentioned in the documentary recently, his "one regret was not including an explanation of why they are in space... and so I fixed it for the Blu-Ray". This guy, man... LOL!

According to THIS (which is not really that new but I just read it): http://www.macross30.com/1stmovie/journal/12.html ...the documentary that aired was made up of footage filmed for the special 70-minute documentary that will be included in the Blu-Ray. The red text is the chapter list. Looking at all that, it is clear that we are in for an information overload. Looking forward to it! By the way, the name of the documentary is "Flashback 1984".

No plans to rerun it as far as I know. And even if I recorded it, all digital broadcasts are encoded here in Japan unlike the US (as I understand it) so there would be nothing I could do. I can only watch it on my machine. And that's without getting into the whole "respect the (un)written law" stuff that Japanese fans live by.

I'm not sure. Apparently there is a making-of documentary in the set, but it is unclear if it is the same one. I seem to recall it being advertised as being more about "the music of Macross", and going into depth regarding the new 5.1 sound mix, so it probably will be something else.

I dunno, SCOOPUDA is a pretty busy guy, you know...

I bought it and watched it again last week -- it looks awful now. I like the box and the extra stuff though.

In English or Japanese?

It wasn't even a dream, more like a "misunderstanding". And in any case, watching a butchered version of DYRL should be nobody's dream. Why don't they subtitle this: "DIRECTOR'S CUT"? I guess lying shifts more numbers... Then again:

By the way, I'm guesstimating that the version we saw at the all-night preview was the "Theatrical Version" of the BD and the "Complete Version" will have the Flashback ending plus some other junk at the start. It might be just some onscreen text, but it could even just be the extra Saturn game footage! (a la Boinger!)

Read it again. The "Complete" edition will have OP/Closing changes, while the "theatrical version" will not, but BOTH will have the content edits. If I recall correctly Kawamori hinted in the "The Men who Made Macross" documentary recently that he put in more exposition in the BD because he regrets not putting in some sort of prologue explanation about the SDF-1 having been launched from Earth and the war with the Zentradi etc, even though he specifically said that he didn't want to do that because it would detract from the main story, in a 1984 interview which I am translating and will be up in the next couple of days. I have met Kawamori and we have had interesting conversations about the way the world works, society, and whatnot. I support his attitude towards his work, that he wants to send certain messages to young generations. That's fine. What really pisses me off is when creators seem to think their movies are still theirs after decades -- you created it, directed it, but now it's out there. The production is OVER. You are no longer the director. Yes, let's make the Mona Lisa wink while we do restoration work on it. Why the hell not. I don't even mind the edits that much, really (only the one instance of music change which I mentioned). It's just the principle that I find a completely wrong approach. Oh, that and the lying -- because Theatrical Version should mean Theatrical Version. That's just re-writing history, now.

How about this?

What front page

Picked this up the other day

Screencaps: http://www.macrossworld.com/2680/countdown-to-dyrl-bd-super-dimension-seminar-episode-3-airs/

Episode 3 aired last night. First part of DYRL. Will front-page it ASAP (might take a while, though).

If they utilized the tech "to save his life", then that's already a major divergence from the original since there was never any such humanistic approach to Omnicorp's actions in the original. They wanted to create the ultimate product, and cleared Murphy's identity to do so.

May I ask who it is?

Not with all their manga. Only the ones for the "shonen" crowd. Good example: Akira certainly doesn't have it.

I really liked this issue! It was good, at times funny, and character-driven. It also had a theme, which reminded me a lot of older anime, where the character (and the reader/viewer) learns a valuable lesson. Bad thing -- no MacTheFirst next month.

Erm.... Of course it is? The book came out right after the movie did. If the book had come out yesterday, I would see your point, but...

That could be a possibility. But then, again, I would have to raise the question of "what about Sayonara no Tsubasa"? Remember that was a hybrid disc with a game too, and it had plenty of violent scenes. No, because it was blurred, not cut outright.

Oh. Well, I guess the authorities have spoken, then. NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG