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    Mikimoto character designs are good and so are Kawamori's mecha designs. I sure would like to see more of Kawamori's mecha designs. If only there was an anime series currently airing that features frequent use of Kawamori's mecha designs.
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    Roy Focker replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    What's the cost that $400 plus $150 shipping?
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    After reading that poll and seeing Mikimoto as a character designer on Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress I decided to watch a couple episodes. Already half way through the series. Now that is a good series. There's good animation, great character designs, there's a large cast of strong supporting characters but the main focus is on the leads. Plots introduce in one episode are carried over to the next. There's plenty of action, drama and character development. It is set on a train making a journey while being chased. Doesn't that sound familiar? It has been done a lot in anime. Macross does it often. That one ship or small fleet alone in space trying to escape restless enemies chasing them. That's where I thought the 2nd half of Delta was headed. They escape fish people planet with fish people refugees. Delta at this point could have featured them being chased by the Knights. Each episode features a different knight as the enemy of the week to be defeated by Delta team. Then towards the end instead of running they decide to turn around take the fight direct to Windermere. I guess that's what they did but instead of providing us more episodes of action and compelling drama. They gave us filler episodes where stuff sort of happened. That Iron Fortress show appears to be doing everything right.
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    Wait there's character, style and music in Delta? Delta plays it pretty safe with those. It uses the standard stereotypes in the most bland and uninspired way possible. The music is adequate but it is performed by a group of young and cute girls. There's always fans for stuff like that. Those results are from readers of a magazine. What is Delta's impact beyond those readers? What do the critics think? What are its ratings? Have they been going up or down?
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    You know what Carl Macek would do with Delta? He say there's not enough action and would splice in mecha battles from an unrelated series.
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    All post Macross 2 series had issues but where they lacked in one area they made up for it in others. Delta strengths isn't that stellar to make up for its weaknesses.
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    The animation in the last episode of Macross II was lacking and it suffers from not being official. In hindsight after watching Delta Macross Ii doesn't get enough credit. Sure it is retelling of dyrl but all sequels are essentially repeats of the same formula.
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    Roy Focker replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    They'll cost almost as much as catnip.
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    Hayate will pilot the VF-22 but only in fighter mode and will scissor hard with with Keith until one of them breaks a mighty wind.
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    Are you saying Kawamori is anime's George Lucas?
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    Almost forgot to watch it. Neutral vote. Stuff happens that's good. Animation is still lacking but I do like the background images. Maybe I played too much Metal Gear but it would have been cool if Walkure were doing a bunch of violent silent take downs.
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    Speaking of Ace Combat. I'm reminded of (I believe) Ace Combat III. The one with the kid living in a town occupied by an enemy fighter squadron. Kid is the narrator of the game. The cut scenes have super limited animation. Might just be all still images. On the other hand the story within the cut scenes is engaging. A good story can make up for animation that is lacking. If there's good animation at least you can make up for a weak story by looking at the pretty pictures.
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    An important thing to know is the making movies & television is a collaborate process. One person can seen as the mastermind with the guiding vision but more than one person is responsible for the success or failure. Kawamori is great at mechanical designs and has some good overall ideas. He wasn't the only one involved. I would say that his visions from Macross Zero and onward has been too visionary. That's not to say a good team couldn't make something good out of his visions.
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    Hey I wasn't a fan of Frontier either but at least there were fewer poorly animated episodes.
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    You'd think they'd ask for more money with the requests for more episodes. "We like what you did with those 13 episodes and your budget of 13 million. If we give you an extra 2 million can you make us 13 more episode?" Who agrees to that?
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    Roy Focker replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    But not selling out on the Monster, Glaug and mecha like them might mean they'll make less.
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    I'm still waiting for Keith to say, "For you are the wind beneath my wings." To Roid.
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    Roy Focker replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I got Max on pre-order but no Hikaru. It will just be Roy & Max defending Robotech.
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    My favorite battle scene is when Keith yelled "Scissor me timbers!"
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    Roy Focker replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    That's the store I paid full price from.
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    I think I'm going to answer every question that I don't know the answer to with "Wind Something."
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    13 episodes does make sense. It would be easy to edit show afterwards down to 13. Even 13 half and hour episode wouldn't have been enough to feature all 3 groups of characters. Likely would have just focused on one. Delta reminds me of the last episode of Macross II. The animation was very good in Macross II until you get to the last episode. When it looked like the budget was cut and all the character animation suffered. Whatever was good about Macross II was damaged by how bad that last episode looked.
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    While this is one of the better episodes. It doesn't fix the overall problem with this series. Too much plot and not enough time. They got the Triangle, Walkure & the Knights. With less than half an hour in each episode for them. In reality they needed hour long episodes. I think the 2nd half of the series suffered because they were playing catch up for the Walkure and the Knights. Now that they're caught up things can continue.
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