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  1. Seto Kaiba
    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.
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    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.
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    ~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".
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  9. 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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    "Gate" AKA Breaker-1 is the only one given any discussion/description, but only in vague terms as a ~19 year old consummate professional operative. There's mention in passing of more members of the Breakers in the field with her. Mainly in terms of how the Breakers are described as an ultra-super-top-secret organization of elite intelligence operatives with the latest tech even the military doesn't have yet and a license to kill. (I guess it doesn't really help the edgy fanfic feel that ships and mecha with the Dark stealth upgrade were already being painted black...) But this is just an initial impression based on the description in Mospeada File.
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    No word on that that I can find... and Tatsunoko Production's page for it has a region-lock that defeated even my main VPN. What I was able to glean from Entertainment Archive Alpha: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA File is: Not much else is said about the setting of Genesis Breaker, the article is mostly a recap of the MOSPEADA setting.
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    I'm still just plain baffled that the name of this new custom VF-31 is apparently "Parmenides"... Of all the possible names for a fighter aircraft, why name it after a Greek philosopher who specialized in metaphysics?
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    If Game of Thrones hadn't tanked in its final season this would be a license to print money... but now? This feels like a big risk for very little reward.
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    Random question. Did anyone ever translate the Genesis Breaker section in the last MOSPEADA File artbook? I've been skimming it to answer some questions on another site and was wondering if I'm duplicating effort or not by doing a translation. (I'm very amused to see that we've all apparently been spelling the aliens name wrong this whole time... oh well.)
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    I could buy that argument if the other members of her guild were actually around when she does this nonsense... but increasingly she's on her own and they only find out about it well after the fact so they're not even reacting to it.
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    Making my way through Borufi, and at episode 8 it feels like the story has run out of ideas. It's a comedy, but the only joke is that Maple is stupidly overpowered because she keeps picking up overpowered abilities from hidden bosses she bumps into and using them in ways that the devs didn't anticipate. It doesn't really go anywhere or do anything with that except repeat it. Her gaining some new overpowered upgrade has reached the point of being a once-an-episode gag.
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    Macross 7 Encore isn't explicitly placed in-continuity... fans have tabled a number of guesses based on circumstantial evidence from the episodes themselves, but there's no obvious fit for them. Their stories are essentially out of continuity with the TV series proper so you can watch them after it with no real impact to your enjoyment of it. Bare minimum, they have to be set after episode 28 because of certain mechanical designs that are present which first appeared in episode 28 and also feature some mecha that were first used in episode 44 but obviously built beforehand. Most fan assessments usually put them somewhere around episodes 39-42. They're... all over the place, and in no particular order. About half of them are set before the series, showing little tidbits of backstory for characters like Ray, Veffidas, Gamlin, Gubaba, Gepernich, etc., while most of the rest aren't set at any particular/obvious time during the series.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Nope. Absolutely not. Wouldn't dream of it. OK. As you'd expect, it's mostly obvious stuff like that this is its Fighter form, that the mark on top is "eye-catching" and "probably a person's personal mark". That "unlike the Siegfried, the Super Pack is attached by folding the main wing down" and that "the minigun pod is so large that it does not fit under the main wing". The only noteworthy bit is that this new VF is apparently called the "Parmenides"... an odd choice, since Parmenides was a Greek philosopher whose fragmentary surviving work is best known for dictums like "Nothing comes from nothing" and ruminations like the distinction between objective and subjective experience. The YF-30 and stock VF-31 are named for Greek personifications of time (chronological time/Chronos and moments of great change/Kairos) while the original Xaos VF-31 custom was named for the mythic hero Siegfried.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Or when some Zentradi decides to repurpose a suit made for extravehicular activity for combat...
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    That's not the standard Zentradi spacesuit... this is: That's the general duty Zentradi space suit, variants of which were used in almost every battlefield role including being worn by spacecraft crews. This is a heavier armored spacesuit meant for hand-to-hand combat issued to the armored divisions. A lightweight variant of it was occasionally used as a pilot suit. Neither the standard-issue spacesuit nor the armored spacesuit is, in its standard configuration, equipped with flight capability or a powered motion assist. A variant of the armored spacesuit that appeared in the official setting PS3 game Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy WAS presented as a flight-capable powered suit... but it wasn't exactly great in actual combat. (It's basically the weakest enemy unit in the game by a substantial margin, and understandably so as it's basically just an ordinary infantry spacesuit that some idiot put rocket boots on.)
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Nah, the Nousjadeul-Ger battle suit is a mass-produced mecha in the Zentradi forces in either version of the story. From the dates on the art, the Nousjadeul-Ger may have been so late to appear in the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series because its design wasn't completed until the series had been on the air for several months.
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    So, we've got another look at the new VF-31 Custom that Delta Flight is using... GERWALK and Battroid modes this time.
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    ... why Barbie pink? Meltrandi gear is typically either kind of lavender, blue, or red.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    There is that, yeah... we first saw something like this in Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy, where the ancient Protoculture's ruins on Uroboros had what amounted to a fold-based teleporter network that was used to facilitate moving between the area map and the various "dungeons" in-game. That got scaled up to interplanetary levels in Macross Delta when the activated Protoculture ruins in the Brisingr cluster revealed an interplanetary fold network joining the key worlds of the delta wave system.
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