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  1. azrael
    Don't expect them anytime soon. This is Dengeki Hobby, of course. Magazine for the mech-head who likes to customize.
  2. azrael
    So is the VF-27 (Galaxy's Guld Works, which is probably an arm of General Galxy's anyways). It shouldn't be surprising.
  3. azrael
    Wishful thinking. Tatsunoko would have to "pull" those rights (i.e., buy back the rights they sold HG), or HG would have to not renew the trademark, or someone has to sue HG (good luck with that).
  4. azrael
    Duke is right. With or without HG blocking, most of that stuff would never make it here. 7 and Frontier would have music issues. DYRL? is divided in so many directions, we don't know who has what. FB2012? It's a 30-minute clip show/music video with music that would be tied up by HG. Zero? It would be the only one that won't have many problems. Books? How many anime-related production books are there, translated from Japanese in the US? Next to nil, likely zero. Novels? Nothing. Games? Very few. Music? Not much. Most are either Japanese artists trying to break into other markets or collection albums. The only things that actually have a chance of making it are animation, comics, and toys. There's not much of a market for the other stuff. And with the anime market struggling and with such a limited market for these goods, these companies have to rely on a model that makes money. And that's changing with digital distribution. A few years ago, I rarely saw people with e-readers or watching videos on their PMPs or smartphones. These days, I see e-readers, tablets, and smartphones on every corner with people staring at those screens. This is a known problem with the anime market and it's been hard for them to adapt. And then there's the phrase, "Well, I can find it online for cheaper than in a store."
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    As I mentioned, I don't think it's actually zero. It's the negative value of your original Catalyst counter. As a test, I killed a dozen of those little bugs since they give you about 20 Catalyst points and after a playing through several levels, I checked back and I found that my Catalyst points were on the positive side and some multiple of 20. The normal count on the large enemies is in the hundreds and thousands of points so seeing it as a multiple of 20 tipped me off that it's actually assigning the negative value instead of resetting to 0. So when it resets to zero, you'll need to kill lots of Ceph targets just to put you on the positive side. I was able to unlock all the upgrades only after playing through Ceph-filled levels. Most of the upgrades though are worthless.
  6. azrael
    I'll just stick to this:
  7. azrael
    I was referring to Talos' comment that the VF-19A+ and VF-19C showed up in Ride. Unless they've show up by mention in the chapter text than in the profiles, I'm not sure where he got that idea that they've shown up in Ride.
  8. azrael
    Only the VF-19A (and kinda/sorta the VF-19E) has showed up. Not sure where this VF-19A+, VF-19C came from.
  9. azrael
    I have yet to play Bulletstorm but I have finished Crysis 2. And yes, believe the talk, it's really buggy. I have yet to try the multiplayer but the buggy single player is a turn off. Levels where the voiceover or soundtrack keeps repeating for no reason, collectible points going from positive to negative values (it may indicate zero but it's actually the negative value of your points), bots that keep running into walls....Crytek has potential with this game, but they blew it making it a console port. Portals 2 looks good but I'm getting a "it's short" vibe from the gameplay vids on Youtube.
  10. azrael
    No. Southern Cross was made and produced by Tatsunoko. Big West did some promotion for it but that's about it. Mospeada was made by Artmic and produced by Tatsunoko. Nostalgia is the driving force these days. And as many people have mentioned, nostalgia only goes so far before they need to bring in new fans.
  11. azrael
    IIRC, Toynami is producing those toys for HG, so there's no problem.
  12. azrael
    It was between Tatsunoko and HG. BW was never involved in that negotiation. Do companies still do that? Yes. Do companies still do it for so long? Probably not. Tatsunoko owns those merchandising rights so they can do whatever they want with those. All HG has to do is literally slap the "Macross" name on 1 product, show they are enforcing their trademark, and renew it every 10 years to maintain the trademark. HG is using those rights they purchased from Tatsunoko. They don't "own" it and Tatsunoko could buy back HG's portion of the agreement at any time. But since neither side is moving, we're still at the same spot we were for almost 10 years.
  13. azrael
    It would depend on the kind of agreement. Most wouldn't... But then again, I don't think many try to be in the situation that BW was in. BW made its mistake by not having enough cash/backing/promotional opportunities for the project. It was either scrap the entire project when so much time/effort/money was already done or have someone else help finance it. They choose the latter and here we are.
  14. azrael
    Gee...I wonder why... *points at large number of Hasegawa Macross kits*
  15. azrael
    It depends on the side story. Cherudim SAGA appears in the 00V side stories. Those stories take place during the course of the series. It also showed up in 00I, which takes place in 2314 or during the time of the movie.
  16. azrael
    Mortal Kombat Legacy ep 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6UiEuCYXA Episode 2 next week.
  17. azrael
    If those uniforms get any tighter or that Invid's V-neck drops any farther, it might as well be a porno...
  18. azrael
    Looks like a bad database update. As stupid as it may be, you'll probably have to turn off Avast's Web Shield till they release a corrected update later today.
  19. azrael
    I should correct myself, it's the Japanese Patents & Trademarks office denial of trademark, not the courts. It's not a copyright. It's a trademark request they made after they got the trademark from the USPTO. Was it stupid? Most definitely. But this is probably something they did for procedure. The 2 requests seem to indicate that HG is a 3rd-party in the Tatsunoko/Big West copyright & trademark. They are not allowed to make that trademark request because the original scope only applies to USA and Canada and would be redundant in Japan. Judging by the dates, this seem to have been issued right before Tatsunoko tried to sued Bandai for restitution from Macross.
  20. azrael
    In case anybody is trying to figure out kresphy is posting, these are Japanese trademark office's decisions from 2001 on the "Macross" trademark in Japan by HG (I think) from their US trademark. Simply put, they were denied. But we already knew that. Either way, nice read.
  21. azrael
    Again, I have to remind you people that beyond real estate, HG does international distribution, acquisition, and licensing of shows and films. RT is really just a tiny little speck in their listings.
  22. azrael
    No. No to that question. No to that question, too. And no.
  23. azrael
    So he did meant exactly as it was in the article, i.e. "robo-tech". Allow me to quote myself from March 19, 2011 regarding this grasp for attention:
  24. azrael
    The description for the YF-25 does not say it is participating in the race. The VF-19ACTIVE also isn't "testing" EX-Gear. While there are substantial implications for its use in an actual VF, EX-Gear's role in the VF-19ACTIVE isn't "testing". The profile for the YF-25 says it is the one that's doing the actual testing. Chelsea, being part of SMS and SMS sneaking in some "testing" into its planes, equipped her racing vehicle, the VF-19ACTIVE, with some original modifications, like EX-Gear. The VF-19EF is also doing data collection for the EX-Gear system.
  25. azrael
    If you're gonna cite VeggieTales, use the proper lingo.
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