Renato

It was supposed to be refinements to the sculpt. No, it was about the Hi-metal.

There's no way I will be able to remember all of that.

Yeah, those were my pictures. I was also expecting Kawamori's refinements to be reflected somehow, but it looks like it's just 99.8% the same thing.

Why? What do you intend to do?

I'm sure there's a lot more that got cut out, so I believe it's Tochiro's editing that keeps it within the realm of funny... otherwise it would just be nonsensical chaos with Macross peppered throughout.. Thanks! To be sure, Tochiro was the only one who won all three. He has the (Proto)devil(n)'s luck. He'll make an appearance when he reveals that he can speak English! Actually, I don't know, we used to do interviews with fans, but not so much recently. Maybe we'll give it another go soon? I mean, this guy is super old-school and we've mostly focused on younger, and female, fans so far. It might be an interesting change of pace.

He was designing your Optimus Primes and Diaclone Robot Bases, etc. at around 18. And what have I done.

http://www.voice-style.jp/archives/6244 On the DYRL audio commentary: Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Show Hayami, Eri Takeda, Yasunori Honda, Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Toshihiro Hirano, Narumi Kakunouchi and Ryusuke Hikawa having his work cut out as the MC!!

More Blu-ray teases!! http://www.voice-style.jp/archives/6244 Oh my god, now I want to buy these A MILLION TIMES OVER! Who's on the DYRL audio commentary? Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Show Hayami, Eri Takeda, Yasunori Honda, Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Toshihiro Hirano, Narumi Kakunouchi and Ryusuke Hikawa having his work cut out as the MC!! And even Shinji Higuchi took a break from directing the new Godzilla remake to chat about Macross Plus with Itano!! Delta?? What's that?!?!

I don't think it was mastered to video. I think they are 35mm.

Nobody knows. Not even Ishiguro had a clue.

Jenius said it is a "gimmick" that "locks" it in place. Are you sure the "gimmick" is just a double-hinge? That doesn't sound like a gimmick, it sounds like every other valk toy except maybe the 1/55. I have the old Focker Strike 1S, the old Hikaru 1J and the new GBP. Yes, they have double hinges, but none of them "lock". They stay in place due to friction alone, and some more than others. The GBP is the worst.

Let me bump this thread with some Miyasato Kumi from the bonus disc so that the top two threads on this forum are actually about Star Wars and Megazone, finally fulfilling the quota on the forum description: "Everything from Megazone to Star Wars"!

Sounds like a deliberate omission. Anyway, with regards to picture quality in DYRL.... And the forthcoming MacPlus Movie Edition. I had an interesting conversation online today with a couple of the most in-the-know people in the animation industry. One of them worked on the DYRL project and was witness to all sorts of goings-on behind the scenes back in 1984. I had asked about why some anime looks fantastic on Blu-ray and some looks like it still needs a lot of work. For example, 1974 Yamato and 1983 Orguss look incredible, while 1982 SDFM TV looks... sort of meh. Similarly, Macross7 and Macross Plus are contemporaneous with each other, being as they are both from 1994, and clearly (literally) M7 looks a lot less grainy. I asked if it was just the storage conditions for film, as well as film stock. I knew that Orguss and M7 were shot in 35mm, while SDFM TV was 16mm for cost-cutting. Turns out that both Orguss and M7 were both produced with home video merchandising in mind, so it had to be better than broadcast quality. SDFM was not. Add to that the fact that TMS (who produced Orguss) at the time were doing all their output in 35mm (Ironman28, GodMars, etc.) because they wanted to keep their options open with regards to potential digest movie editions later down the line. But both DYRL and MacPlus were planned from the get-go to be screened in theaters, and so both are 35mm... So why do M7 and Orguss look clearer? The answer is, funnily enough, that they used special filtering techniques during the photographing stage that makes the whole picture seem less like a bunch of cels on a screen. That made me recall a comment here on MW by a user a long time ago, way back when the M7 HD Remaster DVDs came out and side-by-side comparison pics were being posted (before we even had any Macross on Bluray, I think), about how some scenes look "filmed" on the original VHS/DVDs, but in the new sets, they look clearer, yes, but more like "drawings", and thus it detracts away from the feeling of "realism". I think the staff on DYRL and MPlus were after this kind of "visual realism"... However, if you are after crystal clarity, there will be a limit, since the only thing improved resolution is going to will be to highlight the grain. Orguss, M7 and now Megazone23 look really great, though.

I don't remember that gimmick... They have always been "floaty" in my experience.

It is not fair to compare Mikimoto to other manga artists, since that is not his main profession. He is an illustrator and concentrates mostly on his own original artwork which is sold as limited prints. As for what he's busy with, there is currently an exhibition at the Kyoto International Manga Museum that has a few brand new works of his on display. http://www.mikimotoharuhiko.com/works/index.php Having said that, I noticed something... This thread is going to be six years old in a couple of weeks. We still have to see Minmay make her debut. Just saying.

Boom! Operator 7G in da hooouuuse!!

It's odd because we know that they did add English subs to the previous releases of MacrossPlus Movie Edition and the Frontier movies, which I thought was a step in the right direction, but now they've actually gone and taken them out. So much for progress.

I'm so sick of the word "canon". :/

They *did* do time dilation in the original series. Specifically, if you look at episode 11, Misa says that they've been folding for over an hour, which means that "ten days have passed on Earth". So Kakizaki exclaims that they missed Minmay's debut. It's a major plot point. Later on, with MacPlus and 7, though, everybody can fold everywhere and anywhere with no temporal consequence.

They'll do it as soon as Arcadia announces a 1/60 one and not a minute earlier.

For reference. 50,000y is around the price of their Great Mazinger. Which doesn't transform.

Of course it was, the BD is the only time it has been edited. I've seen the movie on TV in Japan and in Europe, and it has always been intact.

True fandom!! http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/as-yet-unmade-series-of-star-trek-is-crap-say-trekkies-20151103103507

Macross the Worst. :/

There was a lot of fan backlash in Japanese. 2chan exploded. It must have been pretty bad for BandaiNamco to have put a message on their homepage saying that even though there is an option to change the version of the movie on the BD from "new BD edition" to "original theatrical version", that the "処理" was present in both. Sounds like "Buyer beware"/"damage control" to me. I'm very intrigued as to what this new disc will bring to the table, since we know that they are touting it as being "even higher quality"... Wait and see. I don't know, but I agree with Keith, that most of the blurry shots are most likely there because that is the way they were filmed -- out of focus. If you took a blurry photo in the mid-90s you can clean the negatives all you like, but you cannot "focus" the image. Some of them are so bad that they are visibly different even on the VHS and LD releases.