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  1. Seto Kaiba
    IMO, he was in excessive territory a bit before that... remember how many missiles the APS-25A/MF25 officially has? 274! (Master File's take on the SPS-25S/MF25 takes it over 200 as well.) I had quite forgotten there was line art of the launchers in Variable Fighter Designer's Note. Yeah, that skews matters a bit, makes me wonder where the writers got 100 when they originally quoted the launchers... though I'm also not sure they technically belong to the same category we're talking about since these are "clamshell"-type launchers like the ones on the VF-25 Super Pack that also have firing ports instead of being just port-based. Those are also the "clamshell" type, though. Yes and no? I mean, the clamshell type launchers have always held more because they're usually big external modules rather than integrated directly into the VF. It's the little conformal port type ones that've been the ones with relatively limited ammo and that was a trend preserved into Delta. The VF-31's micro-missile launchers have a total of 6 missiles per port, 3 ports per leg, for a total of 36 missiles in total. (Though the modular payload bay in the back of the leg on the VF-31A DX Chogokin is sculpted with another 18 missiles per leg, bringing the total there to 72.) So, going from my notes... Pre-First Space War the VF-0's external micro-missile launchers were 3 missiles for each of the 8 ports on the launcher. Per the line art and official cutaways, the VF-1 Valkyrie's HMMP-02 missile pod from its Super Pack has 3 missiles for each of the 4 ports on the launcher assembly. The same 3 count is also used for the UUM-7 micro-missile pods. Several plamodels and the Arcadia 1/60 VF-1S Roy Super Pack show the HMMP-02 with 5 missiles for each of the 4 ports on the launcher assembly. Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.2 rationalizes this as a later improvement achieved by using a later model of missile (HMM-03) that was also smaller than the initial HMM-01. The Valkyrie II's launchers in Macross II each held exactly 3 micro-missiles. For a while there, the VF-19 spec was quoting 12 micro-missiles per pallet, which would've made for 6 per port on the YF-19's Super Pack. The reduced count of 6 would take it down to 3 per port. The VF-31 spec lists the micro-missile launchers in the VF-31's legs as holding a combined total of 36 missiles, spread across 6 ports is 6 missiles per port. So that's where the 3-6 for internal launchers comes from. Clamshell-type launchers change the game up a bit since they tend to hold way more missiles due to more flexible launch angles and are usually external packs rather than built into the VF for aerodynamic purposes. The PSW-0X's clamshell launchers had 15 missiles apiece per shoulder and 10 per side of the chest. The GBP-1S's had 11 per shoulder and 5 per side of the chest. The Tomahawk's and Spartan's had 12. The VF-17 Super Pack's had 11. It starts going quite a bit nuts in Frontier... though it's worth noting the stated counts don't quite match the published line art either. The line art shows 18 in each chest-mounted clamshell launcher, 23 in the shoulder-mounted ones, the upper leg has 25, and the lower leg has 28, while the wing boosters have 15 a side for a total of 218. The spec gives that as 20, 38, 16 (x2), 16 (x2), and 15 for 274. The clamshell missile pods for the VF-25's Tornado Pack (DX Renewal Ver.) are sculpted with 80 missiles, but since the hinges are in the way it's probably ~86 per pod. Pre-Renewal shows 81. The DX Chogokin Sv-262 shows, I think, 33 per pod? It's not well-sculpted I'm afraid. As you've said, the plamodel has ~30 and the art shows 42. Naresuan wanted to revive the Protodeviln Legacy factory satellite that was able to produce weapons without limitation because it could violate conservation of matter.
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    I wonder if this one'll be hurt by the current backlash against John Cena.
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    Definitely Roy's. Hikaru's VF-1S only shows up for a couple minutes and basically never appears again after that except in video games. Roy's VF-1S is basically the VF-1S and inspires paintjobs for a variety of later VF models including the VF-1JR, VF-25, and a DX for the YF-29.
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    It's more that the Second Unification War was effectively fought over the amount of autonomy that individual New UN Government members should have. As the ruler of one of the New UN Government member worlds, Grammier naturally fell in with the pro-autonomy faction that ended up winning. King Grammier himself wasn't a Windermerean supremacist. He was just upset with the slow pace of Windermere IV's economic development because his world's almost exclusively agricultural economy had little else to offer. It was kind of a self-centered view since the rest of the Brisingr globular cluster had similar economic issues due to its isolation. He was also somewhat unhappy with his obligations under treaty to reinforce his neighbors in the event of an outside threat. It was his chancellor c.2067, Roid Brehm, who began to add all that stuff about Windermerean manifest destiny to the nationalistic fervor that'd overtaken Windermere IV since 2060. It wasn't, though. They mention in the OVA that it was growing by absorbing matter from the air. In the Frontier TV series, they mention the Vajra mine asteroids and such for raw materials. (It's conservation of energy they're nominally violating by siphoning power directly out of higher dimensions.)
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    In some sources, it's straight-up referred to as the "VF-19A Ravens" type (e.g. Macross 30). Manfred only appears as one of the "Cyber Nobles" who run the Macross Galaxy fleet in the novelizations of the TV series and Movies. Unlike the other Cyber Nobles, he appears to be a consciousness divorced of a body ala Ghost in the Shell as he has to borrow one of Grace's to attack SMS. The Vajra don't produce armaments like that, they use bio-technological beam weapons, grow their missiles internally as an organic process, and their large beam weapons are heavy quantum beam weapons like the a Macross Cannon. Fold dimensional energy conversion - extracting energy directly from fold space - is implied to be how they power energy-intensive abilities.
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    Yeah, but least there it was justified by available internal volume. Eh... the Master File book kind of forgets that little detail. (That's one reason among many I mentioned it's a bit... out there.) So it conflates the B-21A pallet with the dorsal micro-missile launchers carried over from the YF-21 prototype and those are what it attributes the 40 per port/160 total to. It doesn't even mention the ventral launchers/bays and instead talks about mounting missiles to the inside and outside of the limb bay centerline... as well as to a bunch of pylons the VF-22 has never been depicted with in official materials. The usual assumption is that any given micro-missile launcher system has between 3 and 6 missiles per launch port based on official counts from published stats from the VF-1 all the way up to the VF-31. The initial assumption was 3, based on the VF-1 Super Pack's HMMP-02 micro-missile launcher having 4 ports and 3 missiles per port for a total of 12 in each launcher system. The one real exception/outlier with a specific missile count was the YF-29. It has 12 launcher systems, but 100 missiles total meaning there's an average of 8.333 per launcher and uneven allocation. As Kouta Hirano, the author of Hellsing, once put it: "They're all cosmoguns that can hold a million rounds."
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    Yeah, a few of the Master File books go to some odd places and come up with some very strange things that definitely are not in (or outright contradict) the official specs and shows. The VF-22, VF-31, and VF-4 books are the three worst offenders there. I'd assume the correct pallet count probably holds a number closer to what the VF-19's do.
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    Eh... sort of? Variable Fighter Master File: VF-22 Sturmvogel II is one of the more "out there" installments in the series. For the internal micro-missile launchers, it shows a very different missile from the one seen in the animation and asserts the VF-22 carries a whopping 160 of them (40 per launcher!). It asserts that this massive quantity of micro-missiles is the B-21A pallet that's mentioned in the official spec. It also mentions that the VF-22 enlarged and structurally reinforced the cover panel over the bay holding the legs so that it could accommodate missile payloads, which the book asserts can be two RMS-5 reaction missiles or four high-maneuver missiles. (Though this differs from what was shown in Macross 7, where one of the gunpod bays opens to deploy a reaction missile.)
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    From a corner of the fandom that breeds false information like an unmaintained high school locker room breeds mildew.
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    It definitely doesn't help that the Japanese and Korean idol industries see that a feature, not a bug, and actively cultivate that obsessive fan behavior to maximize profits until the idol burns out or transitions to another industry.
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    Ah, yeah... that's the problem with playing an iconic character in a popular movie or TV series. You never ever get to escape association with that character. Doesn't matter how much other stuff you do, that first association is what sticks. Tim Russ did a bit a while back complaining, partly in jest, about how despite over a hundred IMDB credits, an ensemble cast role on Star Trek: Voyager, and everything else he's done he's still known as "We ain't found sh*t!" guy from Spaceballs. Mark Hamill will always and forever be Luke Skywalker to most of his fans. Leonard Nimoy grappled with being fundamentally associated with Spock for the entire rest of his career and based both of his autobiographies around the idea. Emma Watson will never escape Hermione Granger. Mari Iijima's unlikely to ever outpace the shadow of the Lynn Minmay she created. It must be awful to be a professional in a career that thrives in name recognition and be known almost exclusively for the very first thing you did as if the rest of your career simply didn't register with the rest of the world. There needs to be a support group for actors suffering from this or something.
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    Nope. At some point after Major Dyson's demonstration of the YF-24 Evolution to the Earth New UN Forces brass and their subsequent decision to adopt the YF-24 Evolution as next main fighter. The New UN Government circulated the YF-24 Evolution spec in redacted form to the individual member governments after the New UN Forces decision. No, they definitely used the YF-24 Evolution as their starting point. The fast turnaround is more to do with the YF-25 and initial-type YF-27 being little different from the YF-24's basic design. There was some tweaking of airframe shape and engine design based on local production capabilities and individual needs/wants, but the basic design itself didn't change all that much.
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    Yeah, the first couple episodes muse on that very reality several times... they stop just short of showing one of those "Do not attempt" warnings when Yoshida invites Sayu to his home and tells her she can live there. They mention at least twice that taking in a runaway and living with her could conceivably end with him being arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and such.
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    Tragic news indeed. This tweet is from Studio Nue cofounder Kimiyoshi Takekawa - alias Haruka Takachiho - about a house fire that occured at Kazutaka Miyatake's home. Miyatake-sensei himself is alive and being treated for smoke inhalation. His wife Tomoko, unfortunately, passed away in the fire.
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    This tweet is from Studio Nue cofounder Kimiyoshi Takekawa, better known by the pen name Haruka Takachiho as the creator of Crusher Joe and Dirty Pair. He's informing people that the Mr. and Mrs. Watanabe in the TBS article are Kazutaka Miyatake and his wife. From the news article itself, it appears there was a house fire that started in the kitchen of their home. Mr. Miyatake was able to escape the burning house and was hospitalized to be treated for smoke inhalation, but is expected to recover. His wife was unable to escape the housefire and was confirmed by the hospital to have passed away.
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    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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