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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Probably not a lot... as far as we know, nobody in Delta Flight was a party to Wright Immelmann's crimes on Windermere IV or Xaos's creation of an illegal clone soldier (Mikumo). Of course, this presumes that the writers aren't simply going to lazily forget that Windermere IV knows Lady M violated interstellar law or inexplicably maintain perfect secrecy on a subject like that. Assuming that the New UN Government does actually go after Xaos for its illegal cloning experiments, they'd probably go after Lady M as the ringleader and anyone involved in the experiments themselves. For the rest of Xaos, if it works anything like the real world, it probably means another mandatory corporate training class about how and when to report activities that may violate the law. An irritating and entirely transitory inconvenience at best. He's definitely not going to win any friends or admirers on Windermere IV as the son of the man (only partly) responsible for the worst wartime atrocity in Windermere IV's history. That said, even the Kingdom of the Wind made no effort to hold him responsible for his father's actions when he was captured in the TV series. The only charges against him when he, Mirage, and Freyja stood trial were armed incursion into Windermere IV's territory, aggravated assault, and one charge that is a weird combination of blasphemy and unlicensed operation of an aircraft. Nothing about his father is even mentioned. There is one very interesting detail that got mentioned in passing in that trial scene that really should have SEVERE implications for Xaos as a whole, though. After Freyja is charged with high treason, Mirage attempts to invoke the spacefuture version of the Third Geneva Convention and assert that their basic rights as prisoners of war are being violated. She's flatly (and correctly!) informed that she is an unlawful combatant because she is not a uniformed soldier and therefore ineligible for the legal protections of being a prisoner of war. It's the only time it's ever mentioned that Xaos as a whole are participating in the war illegally, as any civilian contractor who fought in a war would be. The drone fighter we see in the trailer appears to have Delta Flight markings, though.
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    As sloppy as the writing has been on Macross Delta, I almost expect the fact to go completely unacknowledged. Strategic Military Services only avoided criminal penalties for desertion and piracy during the closing stages of the Vajra war because they were the ones who exposed the Galaxy fleet's conspiracy and Leon Mishima's involvement in the assassination of Frontier President Howard Glass. Xaos and Lady M don't have a similar Get Out Of Jail Free card when it comes to the fact that Lady M and Xaos have been outed as guilty of at least a twofer in that they broke New UN Government laws restricting the use of cloning technology by creating a clone soldier... from DNA obtained from an illegally-exported religious artifact obtained when Lady M's contact (Wright Immelmann) burgled a shrine. I'm going to be kind of annoyed if Xaos doesn't face some blowback for that from both the New UN Gov't and Kingdom of the Wind. Engaging in black market trade in fold quartz should bring the New UN Government down on them like a storm. Then again, considering what a pig's ear Xaos made of the Brisingr globular cluster's defenses by refusing to cooperate with the New UN Forces, it's kind of hard to believe anyone would trust them ever again.
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    There were a number of "phantom scenes" that've been mentioned by one staffer or another over the years that were cut during the storyboard phase of the movie. One was Max and Milia's wedding scene that got animated (in part) in Macross 7 ten years later. Another was that the credits were supposed to have animation showing Minmay performing Angel's Paints that was omitted due to production timing changes. I don't recall if they ever explicitly connected the two while also discussing the omitted epilogue to the TV series that became the bulk of Flash Back 2012's setting.
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    Higehiro's title definitely gives off a kind of skeevy vibe, but the content is mostly an attempt at heartwarming drama. It's definitely a little darker than what I was expecting. It doesn't downplay the kind of trauma that would come from living on the streets the way Sayu did before she was taken in by Yoshida, and most of the drama seems to revolve around the as-of-yet unspecified issues that drove her to run away from home, her general unwillingness to believe in altruism, and her growing jealousy of the number of women who've suddenly noticed Yoshida exists for some arbitrary reason.
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    Can't imagine it'll change too much. The existing customizations made to the VF-31 Kairos airframe to create the Siegfried custom were already pushing the airframe to its structural limits. That's why Hayate was getting browbeaten by Makina and the hangar crew in the TV series. His rough handling of his Siegfried was making a lot of extra work for the hangar crews. It'll be interesting to see if there are actually six members of Delta Flight in the second movie. Messer's dead in either version, so they need a new Delta 02 and whoever Delta 06 is... probably Bogue Con-vaart. Xaos has to have sunk a pretty substantial fortune into Delta Flight's machines at this point. Depending on how it shakes out, they've bought either six or seven Kairos units for conversion into Siegfrieds, and a king's ransom in fold quartz to construct six (or seven) fold wave systems. Given how the fold quartz to make one YF-29 was a massive spend for the Frontier fleet, Delta Flight alone could possibly represent a bigger investment than the half dozen or so platoons of VF-25s SMS was operating on its borrowed aircraft carrier in Frontier. (I still say it was a huge missed opportunity not to have Keith defect and take up Messer's Delta 02.) Depends how you wanna split it? I mean, there are only really three versions of the VF-31 thus far. The mass production Kairos type (AKA "Best VF-31"), the Xaos ace custom Siegfried type from the TV series and first movie, and this modified Siegfried type (name pending) for the second movie. Everything else is basically the usual assortment of redecos and variant heads we get on every model of VF so we can't really hold THAT against them.
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    I don't think they're running out of ideas... I think, to an extent, they're justified in not rolling out tons of new designs every time like Gundam does because it's just insane to have so many different models in a military environment. I do think, apropos of nothing in particular, that Kawamori did not bring his A-game to Macross Delta because he knew it was going to be focused mainly on the idols. EDIT: Which I'm still OK with, because the YF-30 was a beautiful plane and a production derivative is just as beautiful.
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    TBH, I didn't notice there was a word written there at all. It's so indistinct in the pics we've seen that it looks like a smudge.
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    Ah, thank you. To the online booksellers we go!
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    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.
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    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.
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    A win-loss-draw record. 5 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw.
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    Glad to hear they got their hosting issue sorted.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Eh... that was already a bit of a tangled mess even before Harmony Gold poked its oar in and started twenty years of fighting.
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    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...
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    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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