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  1. Seto Kaiba
    It's a mistake, all right... just not in the way you were hoping. Considering that SEGA and SonicTeam were basically the developers that could do no right with Sonic the Hedgehog for the last twenty-five odd years, I'm a little surprised that they found someone in Hollywood drunk enough to think this was a good idea. It should've been John Goodman in a hilariously fake moustache... At least Paramount is trying to do justice to the beautiful disaster that the last twenty-five years of Sonic the Hedgehog games have been. It could be a lot worse, they could have done a movie based on the comics published by Archie.
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    That's the Zor Bioroid Dropship we've been seeing elsewhere on these boards and on Facebook? 'bout halfway.
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    TBH, from the trailer my reaction was "It's Queen's Blade for ass men". Is there actually something more to it than fanservice?
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    I'm trying to look at that idea optimistically, and the best I can come up with is "that might actually be horrible enough to make me look back on Macross Delta favorably".
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    I'm mildly bemused at how active this thread suddenly is... Surely it can't all be people queueing up to tw*t an aspiring "Robotech Defender" with sticks. Which raises only one question... where'd they trace it from? Despite Titan's strenuous efforts to the contrary, people are still buying this shoddy tome? This is what, the third time Robotech has tried this particular twist? I'd expect he's doing much the same thing this time around as the first few times, joining the military in an attempt to discover what happened to Minmei... though since this comic appears to be set to basically skip the other two sagas they've bumped it forward a bit I guess. My money's on them ending the twist the same way, with someone capping him for trying to rescue her. Well they couldn't very well use the fanliner from the Super Dimension Fortress Macross version if they were in space... Not sure why the VF-1D being armed is a surprise? There's nothing in the original Macross that would stop anyone from sticking FAST Packs and live weapons on one... the VF-1D's basically just a VF-1A that's been hastily retrofitted to accept a tandem cockpit arrangement and a monitor turret with redundant camera systems in the absence of a dedicated VF-1 training variant (the unarmed VT-1 wouldn't come in until Block 6).
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    Honestly, I'm flat amazed that Delta didn't do exactly that...
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    Rockapella's still active... maybe they can reprise the theme song from the edutainment TV series?
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    In all seriousness, Macross Delta is making at least a few references to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen which probably has something to do with the gratuitous German. Starting in Macross 30, Macross has been making a fair few Norse references with regard to the ancient Protoculture and Wagner did love loosely adapting Norse sagas. The choice of theme naming in Macross Delta's cast, making many of them references to famous aces and aircraft manufacturers, also contributed since many of the most famous historical aces are German or Prussian.
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    Hi @Brofessor. If you're worried about spoilers (really, I don't think many of us are for this topic), you can use the spoiler tag to hide the spoilers in a collapsable quote block like so... The necessary icon is the one that looks like a graphic of an eye, between the Size and Font dropdowns. Incidentally, this whole time loop schtick is just so Titan Comics doesn't have to bother adapting any farther than Robotech's adaptation of Super Dimension Fortress Macross... that's the only real purpose of it.
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    ... why? What's next, a murder mystery thriller adaptation of Where's Wally?
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Thanks for the feedback! I was looking into Rail Wars because a friend of mine who gives kind of hit-and-miss recommendations suggested it... but it sounds like it's more miss than hit this time. (So if I add Keijo!!!!!!!! to my queue I can call the ensuing marathon T&A Wars? I saw the trailer for that one and my eyes damn near rolled out of my skull trying to escape from the inanity.) Crunchyroll was aggressively pushing Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto for a while, so it landed on my queue because of that. It looks like my next-up is Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, and Mob Psycho 100.
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    We seldom get to see them, but the one I recall offhand was this chap from episode 28, one of the pilots in that platoon that Hikaru had with them when he landed in that field of flowers. Both members we see are wearing the same green trimmed suit design. Max and Milia are both at that age, you see... they're still circling, looking for the perfect parking spot. (AFAIK we don't know if they've found a planet yet or not.)
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    Dunno. We'd been told to expect a new Macross series, but when the usual time to announce such came around the announcement was for a new, all-original Macross Delta movie instead. Eh... the result is the same, but the cause is the exact opposite of what you posited here. Walkure was Macross Delta's main draw. Not the in-series Walkure either... the real one. It's painfully obvious they were carrying Macross Delta, which was pretty but otherwise nothing to write home about storywise. With the real Walkure group still making serious bank, it's not all that surprising they'd want to keep the gravy train rolling until it runs out of steam.
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    Oh HELL no.
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    CDJapan's page for the movie says the Blu-ray is region-free? (I'll doublecheck my copy to make sure that's accurate in a few minutes.) Edit: yeah, there's no sign of a region code marking on the box. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/BCXA-1376 Japan landed in the same DVD region code as Western Europe (Region 2), so the DVD should also be an option. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/BCBA-4911 The only potential sticking point is they're both NTSC formatted, so there's an outside chance you may run into some slight difficulty there. Most TVs and DVD/BD players support both PAL and NTSC these days though.
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    What I was getting at was more that the OVA's Gundam-esque story direction resulted in Gundam designers doing Gundam-esque designs, rather than vice versa. ("Going full Gundam" being mostly a reference to II sticking very close to the original's formula... though they did have a fair few Gundam references in there both overt and reasonably well-concealed.) "Obari's" Macross? IIRC wasn't Obari's credit for II just unit direction for the OP, animation direction for Ep5, and key animation for 1, 5, and 6?
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    Goin' out on a limb here, but I suspect the point of contention there isn't so much that Jeanne's eventual ambition is to be a housewife as it is that Jeanne's only reason for joining the military was to go husband-hunting in its ranks and quit the minute she snared a good one. (Not that the show's handling of Lana and Marie was any better.) It's kind of an earlier, prototypical version of the dichotomy that people would use to take shots at Twilight by comparing it to Harry Potter. Macross is about love and the power of culture and communication... Southern Cross is about how vitally important it is to have a boyfriend, even if he's batsh*t crazy. That's a dubious proposition if ever there was one... I'm wondering that myself... as this inquiry has apparently been posted on other sites besides this one too, including The Forum That Must Not Be Named. ... I must have missed that one. Please don't fill me in.
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    Any verdict on Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Rail Wars, or Caligula? I'm rather bemused that people actually got heated over the content of episode 8. It was a twist, for sure, and not one I'd have seen coming in an idol anime but...
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    The aborted Robotech II: the Sentinels animated series predates the novels by several years. "Edwards" actually predates Robotech II: the Sentinels though. He was originally supposed to be a tie-in character connecting HG's butchering of Megazone 23 Part 1 (Robotech: the Movie) to the "original" series Robotech II: the Sentinels. The original plan for their adaptation of Megazone 23 was to make it a side story to their adaptation of Super Dimension Fortress Macross. The coverup that the protagonist was to uncover was the real fate of the SDF-1 (from before the ship returned to Earth the first time). The principal antagonist, B.D. Andrews, was to be brought into Robotech II: the Sentinels as a foil for "Rick Hunter" and Eve was going to become the android girl (later known as Janice Em). That plan changed when Tatsunoko Production told HG on no uncertain terms that they were not permitted to use Macross for the movie. So Robotech: the Movie was rethought into a Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross adaptation side story about an alien attack trying to recover part of the SDF-1's computer core. With that, their plans for a tie-in were dead so they changed the names somewhat and invented a new backstory where T.R. Edwards (the renamed B.D. Andrews) was another survivor from the Grand Cannon who was bitter because he and his dying lover were missed by "Rick Hunter" when he was legging it out of the place. The goofy phantom of the opera mask was to ensure that HG could go "Original the Character: DO NOT STEAL" regarding him, even though he was supposed to be the baddie from Megazone 23. The Regent isn't the Invid queen... that's the Regess. The Regent is an original character that was modeled on the Inbit line art from the original Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, who was supposed to be the Regess's estranged husband and "king" of the Invid who was not obsessed with evolving but rather was on a massive revenge trip against the Robotech Masters that left him a delightfully hammy Saturday Morning Cartoon villain. Unless it's a technology/mecha question, then it's an AMA for me and sketchley.
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    They're both from the canceled Robotech II: the Sentinels series that was terminated early in production with only about three episodes of material finished. T.R. Edwards was the mook in the half-mask who was basically Starscream and the Invid Regent was the big, dumb, Saturday morning cartoon villain bad guy.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Is it just me, or is Lily keeping hers on the outside? I feel a bit like Focslain undersold Zombie Land Saga... six episodes in this show is great and not slowing down in the slightest. Definitely one of my favorites for the season and for 2018.
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    The irony is not lost on me one bit. Macross II was, after all, Macross's attempt to go full Gundam done by Gundam staffers from Char's Counterattack and Zeta Gundam.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Hi @Brofessor... I'm guessing you didn't read the Forum Rules & Guidelines before posting? The short answer to your question is "probably not". Robotech is, for a variety of reasons, a profoundly unwelcome topic on most any Macross fansite or Facebook group. MacrossWorld is unusually lenient with it, in that discussion of Robotech is allowed only in the context of how it relates to the original shows that were adapted to make it (Macross, Southern Cross, MOSPEADA, and the first episode of Megazone 23). Most Macross fansites and Facebook groups greet attempts to start discussion of Robotech with an immediate and permanent ban for the poor sod who didn't read the rules before posting. Even here, since the topic of how the shows changed in the adaptation was talked to death over a decade ago, the only real discussion of the topic is a thread devoted to pointing and laughing at what a crappy job Titan Comics is doing with their comic book adaptation of Robotech's adaptation of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I could recommend a place to actually have an intelligent, academic discussion of Robotech. Its fans tend to be much more interested in bickering over minutae and fan theories that were officially jossed over 15 years ago. To be frank, I'd also question the sanity of trying to do a literary analysis of Robotech given the thoroughly documented and attested-to fact that the series was an incredibly rushed adaptation wherein the rewriters and voice actors were largely making it up as they went with no time to check their work for quality or consistency. Doing an analysis of a work generally depends on seeking out authorial intent, be it overt or implicit. That would be a bit of a fool's errand in a gag dub quality edit of a pre-existing work. It'd be like looking for subtext in the cliffnotes or a blooper reel. You'd be better served to analyze the original shows, where there was a demonstrable, coordinated authorial direction set for the story and character development undiluted by a faintly racist editor who thought references to other cultures except as caricatures would cause the audience's heads to explode.
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    Yep.
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    The second one is Gall Force II: Destruction... almost exactly fifteen minutes in.
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