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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Aren't these pros, though? Guys from Titan's regular staff. Maybe she's just a really convincing trap?
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    It's the most recent one mentioned, yes. Yeah... unfortunately the non-variable stuff just isn't as action figure-friendly as the VFs.
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    Yeah... really, any functioning adult with a decent science education would've spotted Zeon Zum Deikun's newtype theory for the unscientific BS it is, given that it depends on the totally unscientific notion of evolutionary predestination. ... are you really trying to argue that reality is unrealistic? Yes, armed conflict is avoidable. Nations spend huge sums of money and man-hours going to great and frankly tedious lengths to avoid armed conflict with each other. They maintain armies of diplomats and dozens of embassies to facilitate communication and smooth over incidents that could lead to conflict. They invest their time and energy in vast international diplomatic organizations to prevent and mitigate conflict and foster international cooperation and peace. They bend over backwards making (sometimes insincere) apologies for stuff they've done that might've antagonized someone. They go to frankly obscene lengths to avoid armed conflict. Why? Because war is a messy, confusing, expensive undertaking that's an enormous drain on a nation's economy and tends to wear out its welcome VERY quickly among voters. Rare are the occasions when armed conflict is genuinely unavoidable... and most of the time, what we see are eminently avoidable conflicts that occurred because people either stopped trying, or never tried, to communicate and find common ground. There is no absolute good or absolute evil in the real world. The kind of abject evil and (often literally) cackling villainy you see in Star Wars and other fairy tales just doesn't exist in the real world. There is no great and irredeemable cult of evil. No omnipresent force of darkness that rises up and must be opposed by force of arms. No armies of darkness that exist to kick puppies and gloat about how evil they are. Evil is, all too often, quite subjective. One man's villain is another man's hero. History's most vilified leaders, the men who oversaw Earth's most terrible atrocities, firmly believed that what they were doing was good, right, and justified for the sake of their nation and people... and so did their followers. That's the kind of dichotomy you see in Macross or Star Trek. There are no card-carrying villains gleefully chortling about how nasty they are. The antagonists are people who are doing what they believe is right for their nation or species.
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    ... ... ... so, does a gig like that come with business cards or is it purely word-of-mouth advertising? (Honestly, I'd love to see the HR people at my day job slowly come unglued trying to figure out a way to safely broach that topic in the hobbies and interests part of an interview... like watching an old timey movie robot cope with a logic bomb and slowly freeze up.) It's been a good year for parody, so that actually sounds like it might be pretty enjoyable. Maybe the trailer I watched is just rubbish, since my takeaway from it was more that it was just a fanservice-centric sports anime like Wanna Be The Strongest in the World. I'm not averse to fanservice, per se, but I like it to serve a purpose in the story. Gratuitous fanservice is kind of a buzzkill to me.
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    That's probably a more realistic option nowadays... but back when we were first tossing the idea around we were full of more ambitious ideas, and less involved in our careers. Not that I've seen... though I'll admit I have not been paying particularly close attention to this one.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    While Kawamori can be unpredictable at times, a grimdark Macross series is about as unlikely as it gets. Macross is, and always has been, a fundamentally upbeat and optimistic metaseries about the power of love, communication, and music. It's closer to Star Trek than Star Wars, in that diplomacy and mutual understanding are the preferred solution and armed conflict is an avoidable result of failures to communicate and find common ground. It's basically what the Universal Century of Gundam would be if the Earth Sphere were full of functioning adults instead of borderline sociopaths.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    In the final analysis, there isn't a lot of difference between an amateur who's trying and a professional who's not. Titan is phoning this in so hard that it's come clear around from "not funny" to "actually pretty funny".
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    Well, we'll see if they can salvage this one of if this attempted return to form is Enterprise Season 4 Mk.II.
  9. 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.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    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?
  12. Seto Kaiba
    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...
  15. Seto Kaiba
    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.
  17. Seto Kaiba
    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.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    ... why? What's next, a murder mystery thriller adaptation of Where's Wally?
  19. 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.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    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.)
  21. Seto Kaiba
    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.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Oh HELL no.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    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.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    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?
  25. Seto Kaiba
    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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