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  1. Seto Kaiba
    It does get rather samey after a while, doesn't it? The only ones I've found that stand out in that crowd are Overlord (thanks to its villain protagonist premise and the protagonist being both emotionally and physically incapable of sexual interest) and Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious for its single (and largely one-sided) love interest that is "reciprocated" with violent loathing. I've been playing catch-up this weekend while building a new terrarium stand. So I'm a Spider, So What? continues to be kind of a snore. It's not the general accountancy simulator that That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is but I wish they'd get a move on and make progress in the general direction of the actual story. It's taken almost 20 episodes to get to the point where the actual plot starts. That sh*t was forgivable back in the day when a show could have 50+ episodes guaranteed but there's no promise this one'll get renewed past 25 and TBH the story ain't that good. Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! is in its second season and... it's still basically just Actually, I am... but less compelling in every way and leaning really really hard on wordplay puns. Seven episodes in and they're finally picking up on the cliffhanger from season one. My Hero Academia is in another one of the manga's more pointless moments of filler where it tries to pretend the rest of the cast are actually relevant and fails miserably. I remain eternally bewildered how a psychopath like Bakugo is allowed to remain at that school too. I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level remains a cute, but substanceless, bit of light entertainment. It got weirdly sexual in the last episode with the Demon Lord (a young girl) seemingly being really REALLY into Azusa because of an accidental kabedon. Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro started out kinda meh and seems to be headed into mildly entertaining territory now that the protagonist has realized that Nagatoro has her own weak points he can attack for the lulz. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Omega is... faithful to the original light novel. That's a bad thing. They're between story arcs, and any semblance of a story is in danger of being drowned out by the relentless advance of fan service that only got more explicit and transgressive as the light novel went on. I am also like 99% certain that the end-of-episode art cards are now being drawn by h-doujinshi artists because I'm pretty sure I recognize some of those art styles from paid translations I did in the past. I'm really REALLY hoping they cut this one off at the knees before it reaches the point in the light novel where there were actual naughty tentacles. Just having Rose around is enough to take this one up at least one content rating level. Starting Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took In a Teenage Runaway now.
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    Eh... I'm still not sold on the VF-31's FAST Packs in general. IMO, its Armored Pack is still the fugliest thing Kawamori has ever drawn. As an addendum to previous posts, I did screw up the translation of the final two sentences of the note on Chuck's... Parmenides is apparently the affiliation of the aircraft. Unclear if it's a ship, base, etc. at this time (the text offers no hints). EDIT: Can anyone actually read the word "PARMENIDES" on that art? I sure as hell can't and am starting to feel like I need glasses or something.
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    Usually, though there are some paintjobs that put it elsewhere. I legit can't make out anything in that location in the images provided. It's an indistinct smudge. But yeah, IIRC the DX VF-31A says "HEMERA" on the tail and I know the Siegfried types say "AETHER". EDIT: Looking at the first image after a bit of digital cleanup on a proper monitor, I screwed up the last sentence. "The Siegfried and Kairos have their ship names written on them, but it is "PARMENIDES" on this aircraft. Will there be any changes in the way the corps operate?" Parmenides may not necessarily be a ship, it could also be an airbase or some other facility. Potentially even a planet.
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    Also possible, I guess... it'd be lovely if we could get a clean shot of the page to read so I don't have to guess at parts of the sentence. Though it's worth noting the Siegfried (and IIRC the Kairos too) have their names written on them as well... What publication are these shots from, anyway? I'll try to track a copy down.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    Looks like, it's Arad's emblem and Delta-01 callsign.
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    Not quite... the new material in Flash Back 2012 was originally developed as an epilogue for the TV series that was cut due to runtime constraints. That is where the design for the SDF-2 as a second Macross-class ship came from.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    A win-loss-draw record. 5 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Glad to hear they got their hosting issue sorted.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    That color scheme is from the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series. http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/nousjadeul-ger.htm It was shown among the Boddole Zer main fleet's forces. Seriously tho, let's leave anything related to the R-word in the rubbish heap of history where it belongs.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    By in large, the movie Zentradi designs seem to have almost totally supplanted the TV series ones in subsequent works. The only times we've seen the TV versions of any of their designs or gear have been in human-produced docu-dramas like The Lynn Minmay Story produced during the events of the Macross 7 TV series (which had a DYRL Vrlitwhai and TV Quamzin) and the New UN Spacy Marines in Macross Frontier and Macross Delta having a mixture of the TV version armor and Movie version armor. In Frontier, it seemed to be that the Movie version was a pilot suit and the TV version was infantry body armor.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... that was already a bit of a tangled mess even before Harmony Gold poked its oar in and started twenty years of fighting.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    So, when it comes to "movie" designs in Macross, the creators tend to include those designs in the continuity regardless. Sometimes they come up with explanations to justify that decision and sometimes it's simply done without any kind of comment. When it comes to the UN Forces mechanical designs, they were pretty uniformly brought in as post-war improvements and modernizations. Like the Macross's movie appearance being its post-war repaired form and the design for the mass-production Macross-class ships used in some emigrant fleets. The VF-1's movie appearance was rationalized as the Block 6 production standard that was already being rolled out when the war started but did not achieve full adoption until after the war. The Strike Pack has a similar explanation, being treated as a post-war improvement in some sources. Zentradi mecha designs from the movie largely just displaced their TV series counterparts. The YF-29 from the Macross Frontier second movie also found its way into the continuity of the TV series, with the prequel Macross the Ride asseting the VF-27 was completed by using leaked development data from the YF-29 program, and asserting that the YF-29 was also used by the New UN Spacy Special Forces after the Vajra conflict ended (in Macross 30) and became the developmental starting point for the YF-30 that the VF-31 was developed from, etc. etc.
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    In most versions of the First Space War narrative, yes... the Macross had the Daedalus and the Prometheus as its arms and acquired the paired ARMD-class carriers when she was repaired and retrofitted between the events of the TV series and FB2012.
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    Being less relevant than ever is also a form of change. Mind you, I'm not sure it's a form of change that merits being acknowledged in a video...
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Pretty much, yes... I'm not sure what I expected from Tatsunoko Production, especially after the mess that was The Price of Smiles, but it certainly wasn't this. Oh, the Robotech: Invasion video game? I guess the basic premises do sound a similar in a vague sense... and that game was where Robotech first introduced its equivalent of a Dark Ride Armor, albeit as a new model rather than a converted existing model like Shinobu's in the original MOSPEADA.
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    Red Death's probably a bystander now, given that he accepted retirement as a villain in order to join the Guild Council. The Order of the Triad have a history of being the ones to go after Hank and Dean while Doc and Brock are sorting out Doc's issues... so I think they'll fit right in.
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    It's coincidence. The only - and incredibly tenuous - connection between the SV-51 and VF-27 is that one of the lead developers of the SV-51 who defected to the UN Government as the Alliance was collapsing later became a co-founder of General Galaxy, a subsidiary of which developed the VF-27 decades after his death. Note that both Nora's SV-51 and Brera's VF-27 are "ace custom" units and not representative of typical fighters of their types.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Well, at the very least, a movie-length feature should be enough time for them to wrap up the two most important outstanding plot threads left at the end of the last season... If it's to be the big finale of The Venture Bros, I reckon they could probably bring Jonas Venture Sr. back one last time to act as the story's villain. And if we're really lucky it'll be well-received enough for the series to get a final season to wrap up all the other loose ends too.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    ~2000. I don't recall if a specific date was given. As far as I am aware, the VF-1SOL has not been acknowledged as an inspiration for the VF-0. There are some vague stylistic similarities, but those are present in most of Kawamori's designs from the 90's and early 00's. Kawamori's acknowledged starting point for designing the VF-0 was the F-14, though the VF-0 was only one of several modern takes on the VF-1 design he did in that period. The others were for a piece in Character Model magazine: the SW-XAI Schneeblume and SW-XAII Schneegans, both of which were in response to a prompt to the effect of "what if you designed the VF-1 today".
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Guld Goa Bowman was the head of development (開発主任) for the YF-21 as well as its senior test pilot. After his death, the Macross Galaxy fleet named its VF development group after him. I've seen it said that the reason it bears a structural resemblance to the Queadluun-Rau was to facilitate adoption of the Queadluun-Rau's inertia vector control system, a less capable (but substantially cheaper) version of the inertia capacitor technology that became a standard feature on 5th Generation VFs. So it's a functional design choice, rather than a purely aesthetic one.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Oh, that is completely intentional... the YF-21 (and VF-22) are in no small part based on the Queadluun-Rau and incorporate technologies General Galaxy obtained during its separate project to refurbish the captured Quimeliquola factory satellite that'd been relocated to Eden's orbit that began around the same time as the YF-21's development.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... everything is unfortunate for Harmony Gold. Especially - to pivot back to the topic at hand - that this is the best they could muster for an official art book in 2021. Doubly so now that the licensing deadlock is broken and comparisons will be drawn against Big West's official art books in terms of quality and presentation going forward. Udon Entertainment is normally at least a competent publisher. Between this Southern Cross book and the previous Macross book they did, the only conclusion I can reach is that the staff at Udon working on Robotech's art books phoned it in, probably while working on something more profitable. That said, the historian in me really cannot fully express without profanity how annoyed I am that they included all this stuff from the Science Fiction Sengoku Saga series concept and framed NONE OF IT in its historical context, even though the entire concept for Science Fiction Sengoku Saga was historical period dramas retold "IN SPAAAAAAACE!". You could get away with not explaining that stuff if your readers were Japanese or you had a reasonable expectation that they would already be familiar with Sengoku period history like if this was, say, an artbook for Sengoku Basara or Samurai Warriors... but most Robotech fans aren't likely to be versed in Japanese history at all, so to them this is just a gallery of bizarre armor pictures rather than a conceptual spacefuture Who's Who of Sengoku period warlords.
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    I think the Auroran transformation was published in an old issue of B-Club, but I'd have to check to be sure. But anyway, the safest assumption whenever Robotech tries to tell you something is "new" or "never before seen" is to respond with "Liar".
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    I'm pretty sure the one up top is the Hōjō clan's. The one on the bottom is the Oda clan's... (yes, that Oda clan). I'm more irritated by the fact that the book makes zero attempt to frame the concept art from Science Fiction Sengoku Saga in any useful context... like giving an explanation to the very blatant Fuurinkazan banner that shows up at one point or explaining what these seals are. Poor quality in a Robotech book? About Southern Cross? Who could have seen this coming? Oh, that's right... Everyone. Everyone saw that coming.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Well, if you were expecting us to shout "Burn the Heretic!" you're probably going to be disappointed. Wrong fandom for that, after all. It's perfectly fine if some Macross titles aren't to your taste. Everyone is different. I would note that Macross Plus is more popular with western fans than Japanese ones. It got kind of a lukewarm welcome when it came out in Japan, in no small part for the reasons you didn't much care for it. Shoji Kawamori is credited as its designer in the game. Scramble Valkyrie is... well "non-canon" isn't quite the right word, but it's not part of the official Macross setting and chronology... a game that came out in late 1993, during the runup to both Macross Plus and Macross 7. About a year after Macross II: Lovers Again was completed. While Shoji Kawamori wasn't directly involved in a lot of Macross development for a few years there, Studio Nue worked on several Macross video games including FamilySoft's trilogy and Scramble Valkyrie and created several new/original designs like the VF-1SOL series from Scramble Valkyrie, the VF-X3 Medusa, LDR-04 Maverick, QF-9iE Ghost, and SDP-1 Stampede Valkyrie.
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