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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Finished How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom. The animation quality took a noticeable dive in the show's last few episodes, almost like the animators got bored and gave up. I realize that most isekai is low-hanging-fruit otaku wish fulfillment, but the excuses some of these shows come up with to give the isekai'd protagonist a harem are starting to get rather flimsy. The story stuck with its unusual and oddly compelling premise, but got derailed pretty quick by a war story arc that has an ending that completely defeats the point of the whole thing and robs it of any significance or impact. I really don't feel like any of the characters besides Kazuya and maybe Poncho are distinct, too. All the girls surrounding him are pretty similar in looks and temperment... which means none of them really stand out unless they're acting out. Started The Dungeon of Black Company just a moment ago, and I have to admit I instantly like this protagonist without even knowing his name. He may profess to be a NEET, but he's got mad engineer energy. He put a gargantuan amount of effort and intelligence to work creating tools and optimizing processes to the point that he could remove himself from the process he'd created without negatively impacting it or sacrificing any of the benefits. That is the soul of engineering. If he didn't get isekai'd, I'd say this guy is going places... or not going places, since his stated goal is to be a NEET. Could've done without him soliloquizing about his brilliance in naught but a banana hammock, though. EDIT: I question his terms... a NEET implies he's not employed, but he's clearly the landlord/owner of the management firm for three highrise apartment complexes in Tokyo. That's employment. So he can't be a NEET.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    Currently watching How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom... and it's pretty tedious. Granted, it's an approach to isekai that I haven't seen anyone else attempt but it's kind of surprising the inhabitants of this fantasy world survived long enough for Kazuya to arrive when their leaders are so blitheringly incompetent on every level.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Palladium's game system is clunky, sure... but Strange Machine's is way worse in that it's barely there at all and combines that with a punishing lack of accuracy with respect to the setting. Palladium may have phoned in the art, but Strange Machine phoned in everything else.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Maybe... or it might just be that Toy Galaxy did one short-ish episode on the whole Robotech/Macross thing without any dedicated/separate funding for that project specifically. Or it may be that Toy Galaxy used the absolute minimum amount of imagery from the animation. Using the minimum amount necessary for review is one of the standard criteria for a Fair Use defense. I'd imagine that most, if not all, of the stakeholders in Macross distribution have a dim view of crowdfunding after the Palladium Books Robotech Kickstarter scandal(s) too. We do know HG's absolutely death on crowdfunding between that and their own original epic fail, and I'd expect Big West probably wasn't happy about its IP being peripherally involved in Kevin Siembieda's financial misconduct either.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    Shot through The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent in a single sitting. Short, but wholesome enough... even if it doesn't really have much to offer in the way of original thought. It's cute, at least. I can't help but look at Prince Kyle and think "wow, that's basically just Bogue... but being taken seriously by someone".
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Summer 2021 was a pretty lackluster season, and the Winter 2021 season looks to be similarly sparse pickings. The only ones I can find on the currently announced channels that looks even mildly interesting Komi Can't Communicate, Lupin III Part VI, and the inevitable promise of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    IMO, it's better for that than for playing the game.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Fair Use has to meet certain qualifications outlined by law and legal precedent. The most likely explanation is that it got nuked was because it was crowdfunded. That would arguably make it a commercial, for-profit endeavour and precedent makes such uses of copyrighted material without permission presumptively unfair. Did the Toy Galaxy guy crowdfund his?
  9. Seto Kaiba
    In all fairness, Strange Machine Games has a major advantage over Palladium Books in the management of their Robotech license: Strange Machine Games knew from the start that there wasn't any more Robotech coming. Palladium Books was stalling for time with its last couple books. They were basically out of canon material by the time the New Gen book was being written. Harmony Gold had said it planned to release new episodes of the RTSC OVA every two years, and that's what the RPG had been planned around. That never came to pass, so they were stuck in a holding pattern waiting for new material that wasn't coming.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, Macross II had a completely different concept for the future of VFs that was more in line with the Gundam franchise, focusing more on weaponry than speed/thrust. The VF-2SS is only about on par with the VF-11 flight performance-wise, but laser weapons were replaced with particle beam guns, the OTM-improved rotary cannons with (true) railguns, the use of bits and funnels, etc. (Though in the OVA it's noted quite often that the military has become complacent thanks to the effectiveness of.the Minmay Attack.)
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Nah... just a strategic adjustment for the lower level of fan/audience interest in the latter two Robotech sagas. From a certain point of view, it makes good game sense in the context of the Robotech setting. There wasn't really anything going on between the Macross Saga's end (2014) and Masters Saga's beginning (2029). There was a brief but furious war that almost immediately segued into resistance against the Invid occupation, so combining those two into one book (Homefront) is actually a pretty good decision that would facilitate a campaign flowing directly from one into the other. Consolidating both stories into one book also means they don't have to try to pad two separate books with stats for background mecha or unused concept art that 99% of their audience doesn't give a flip about the way the Palladium RPG did. Sentinels and Shadow Chronicles are an even easier combination since they're the beginning and the end, respectively, of the same story arc and can just run as a sort of adventure manual by putting up the unused-in-the-animation setting materials and calling it a day.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    's kind of a non-issue on many levels. The "fold crystals" just attached a new name to something that'd already been present in the technical setting for a long time as the heart of the Gravity and Inertia Controller that makes the artificial gravity used in thermonuclear reactors. You could say they might've already done... the Minmay Attack girl appears in Macross 7, along with much of Macross II's soundtrack.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Macross Ace #1, pages 6-7. Basically, the confusion here is a matter of imprecise terms being used. There was, for a time, a persistent and baseless bit of fanon going around that claimed that Macross II: Lovers Again was not considered a legitimate Macross title because it had the official status of a Parallel World story. It was spread with malicious intent on these boards by certain fans to troll the fans of Macross II. Kawamori, as noted above, publicly refuted that particular claim on multiple occasions, but there was never actually any evidence behind that claim to begin with. Official publications were only too happy to tip the hat to Macross II and even its two tie-in/prequel games even though it was a Parallel World story. So... where the imprecise terms come into this is that Macross II: Lovers Again is an official Macross title and part of the broad strokes Macross setting/franchise, but at the same time it's still officially a Parallel World story with its own alternate history that isn't in continuity with the Macross titles that came after it. Kawamori's attitude that each Macross is its own stand-alone story makes trying to explain it problematic since he doesn't regard continuity as existing at all. 2090's still objectively wrong in any sense, though... the OVA's official materials give the year as 2092, though Macross Chronicle listed it as 2091.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    They probably did, but proofreaders are human too ... they can and do make mistakes or fail to catch mistakes. Odds are they copied their timeline from Macross Ace and never questioned it.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    No, Macross II's status has been that of a parallel world story since the mid 90s. This periodical simply made the same mistake that was made ~12 years ago in Macross Ace. They didn't even cite the correct years for the OVA's events (2091-2092).
  16. Seto Kaiba
    Their problem was they asked someone who couldn't actually legally give permission... and then both they AND the people they asked got in trouble. 😅 This is more straightforward.
  17. Seto Kaiba
    ... it's not, though. After the Macross Saga core book, Strange Machine Games decided to consolidate the rest of Robotech into just two books. That book is a combined Masters Saga/New Generation book. Seems like they're not expecting the later sagas to sell very well. Here's one of the other two covers. Robotech II: the Sentinels and Robotech: the Shadow Chronicles are also being consolidated into a single book.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Predictable outcome was predictable... esp. given how the Macross international licensing is still in the process of being un****ed.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Probably started out as a pair of military-issue Birth Control Glasses and as he rose in rank he was gradually able to clout his way into more fashionable frames.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    That was me who said it, but the actual theory comes from the Macross Delta TV series itself. One of the rumors Berger Stone relates to the crew of the Macross Elysion is that Lady M's clandestine program to create a music-based ultimate weapon was believed to either be through cloning or through AI.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    OK, yeah... this new crop of images definitely feels like confirmation of my earlier hypothesis that this is a General Galaxy-made Variable Fighter. I'm gonna go ahead and call it now. This is a further development of the Neo Glaug and Neo Glaug bis, the unmanned variable fighter that was the rival prototype to the Ghost X-9 way back in 2040 and found further utility after being reconverted back into a manned variable fighter for the NUNS Marine Corps. We know the Neo Glaug bis was in use into the late 2050s and 2060s with the Marines and that a few had fallen into the hands of anti-government forces like Naresuan's group Fasces. I have a feeling that's still a good ways off. Efforts to miniaturize a fold system were problematic enough, since energy storage is the main determiner of a fold system's range and the initial model miniaturized fold systems ("fold boosters") were only good for a one-way trip of not more than 20ly. It'll be a long time before they can make the unit small enough that it can fit into a VF, and longer still before they can have one store enough power to actually go any useful distance.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    I'm not sure it's necessarily a new spin... it's more like a nod to the Advanced Valkyrie: the original, non-Macross, draft of the story from 1985. In Advanced Valkyrie, the name of the organization testing the variable fighter prototypes was NOVA.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    At least a semi-understandable flub... the "shin" in Shinsei is the kanji for "New" (新). "Shinsei" itself is the word for a nova, literally "new star" (新星).
  24. Seto Kaiba
    So... it's Fire Bomber vs. Fire Bomber American all over again?
  25. Seto Kaiba
    We haven't heard anything of Vrlitwhai in the main timeline apart from him becoming the chief of staff of the Spacy in 2016. The last we heard of Exsedol was in 2047 in Macross Dynamite 7 unless we're counting the movie novelization of Frontier... but Exsedol was a civilian advisor not a soldier so he wouldn't necessarily be subject to the mandatory age requirements.
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