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he's so cute when he's angry

Don't forget the episode where he took out a squad of terrorists by himself.

You don't have to like Basara. The show has at least 20 other characters.

I want to share my love for my favorite Macross character. He's a fine young man who is also a total square. A hard worker, who likes his coffee black. I dedicate this thread to him and his superb orange shirt. Give it up for Gamlin.

All this Macross 7 hate is just a meme. That show is awesome.

lol Roy quotes Ronald Regan in Robotech? I knew people say it was Americanized but that's just hilarious.

Well the idea of everything being some interpretation of the "real events" holds true once you consider there's at least three versions of the original Macross story (TV show, DYRL, and now Macross the First) and two equally viable versions of Macross Plus. As far as DYRL's position of popularity in the franchise, it was a pretty successful anime movie. Also, it was released on VHS at the beginning of the home video market. As such it was the first time anyone could really own a complete Macross story and watch it again and again. It's the same reason why the original Transformers: The Movie is regarded by many as an important part of that franchise. It was readily available at a time when trying to collect an entire series on tape was difficult.

We're all just tsundere for Kawamori.

I wonder what Yamato did to make the VF-22's plate fit perfectly.

Well duh, if it can reach orbit then the ceiling is unlimited.

You seem very quick to pass judgment on things based on little information. As far as the specs go, mostly its just stuff to fill the box but its also consistent with the other Valkyries from Macross 7 and Macross Plus.

Even so, Southern Cross's exposure in America consists of some toys nobody bought and a DVD set nobody bought (and I'm a nobody). It's about as well exposed as Orguss, Dunbine, or Nadesico. I still have to wonder if what uberned Steve Harrison said about Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand years was true. That networks weren't happy with Robotech's structure because it made people stop watching after the Macross portion ended. Then again these were UHF stations so who knows what they were thinking.

So its taller by the height of one big Battroid.

That's a little exaggeration. Considering the number of 70's and 80's mecha shows that have gotten new merchandise in the past decade, I don't see how a show like Mospeada or Southern Cross was have completely faded away. Especially Mospeada since it was a part of that prolific Imai model market. If anything, CM's Corporation would have still made their Mospeada toys because they will make a toy of anything. If they start to exhaust their list of potential licenses they could possibly take a stab at Southern Cross. They have already made strides towards Orguss toys and even produced new Dorvack toys. Yamato produced several toys based on the J9 series, including an expensive Braiger. They even did Danguard Ace and Groizer X. Maybe without Robotech, Tatsunoko would have made more strides to promoting Mospeada and Southern Cross instead of just letting people come to them.

That's just a mistake. You can see the animators swapped the VF-1A and VF-1D heads. They also traced the lineart a lot for those poorly animated episodes and the only Valkyrie with enough different views is the VF-1A. Even Roy's VF-1S turned into a VF-1A in those poorly animated episodes.

I thought Mash was a newhalf.

Hold up there partner. Are you talking about the Varauta fighters being hit with speaker pods? How do you know the cockpits are unpressurized? Did you you read that off some RPG site with fake information? Also what mecha is overpowered? Did you check the MDC values?

Gotta love how those Robotech fans are always demonizing Macross 7 as being about tree hugging hippies. Also how they attribute the best parts of the Robotech to the tie-in products.

It's more common to Japanese sci-fi series to produce a lot of standalone works with little tie-in or background material. Which is the rub when you're trying to force Japanese series to conform to that kind of western style you just end losing what made the Japanese shows different to begin with.

The movie is just all six episodes played back to back with the OP and ED sequences edited out.

I find DYRL to be more compelling than the series. If I wanted to see tropes from Yamato and Gundam parroted back I'd read fanfic.

Most of that stuff you're complaining about didn't matter to DYRL's story. Next you'll be complaining about Bigg's lack of screentime in Star Wars.

I have to agree Saint Seiya is the best anime ever made. Pegasus Fantasy.

I was speaking more of the vertical and side scrolling videos games with their bizarre stage bosses.