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  1. Seto Kaiba
    In manga form, yes... with modernized aesthetics.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    The Compendium's timeline mentions the ones on Isamu's bio... but we have no in-universe details about those conflicts, so it's basically just repetition of the same information in the screen capture. It also mentions some of the brushfire conflicts that were depicted in Macross M3 and Macross VF-X2 in slightly more detail.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    So... a Macross story about a group of misfits and incompetents who triumph over adversity more by luck than good judgment? We just got done with that. Yes please! I'm sick of having to get my badass lady fighter pilot fix from Macross manga and light novels. Gimme another Milia, Komilia, Sylvie, or Chelsea please!
  4. Seto Kaiba
    I'd call that a victory of sorts, yeah. The poll doesn't quite capture the truth of the matter... there were a lot of us who liked the individual pieces of the show, but felt the writing didn't effectively gel them together into a whole greater than the sum of its parts. As a result, I think there's high hopes for this next series being able to more effectively merge the stunning visuals that've become standard fare with their newest story.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    No, I am not wrong... you are, I'm afraid, and I can prove it. You claim Nemoto didn't write any episode after #14. I'm certainly looking forward to your explanation of this screen capture from Episode 26, which shows him being credited with the screenplay for that episode. Shoji Kawamori did not write ANY of the 26 screenplays used in Macross Delta.In point of fact, Toshizo Nemoto has a solo screenplay writing credit on episodes 1-6, 9, 10, 12-15, 19, 21, and 23-26. He's also credited as co-writing the screenplay for episode 8 with Ukyo Kodachi. Episodes 7, 11, 17, 18, and 22 had their screenplays written by Tatsuo Higuchi. Episodes 16 and 20 had screenplays by Touko Machida. Apart from directing and being chief director, Kawamori's only credits are shared credits for storyboarding on episodes 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 14, 16, 17, and 22, and solo storyboard credits on episodes 13 and 26. I can provide screen captures from the credits to attest to all of these facts. You can't blame Kawamori for the writing in Macross Delta because he demonstrably didn't write it. Like George Lucas or Gene Roddenberry or Yoshiyuki Tomino he comes up with some weird stuff and can really make a hard-to-watch show when he's left to his own devices. That's why, just like all those other blokes I just named, his ideas are developed by other people who actually outline the series and write the screenplays. This new series will likely be no different in that respect. Kawamori will lob a concept over the wall and the designated writers will pick it apart, tweak it into new shapes, flesh it out, and punt it back over the wall as a screenplay for storyboarding. That's how it worked on every Macross series except for Macross II: Lovers Again, which he didn't work on. Franchise seems to be doin' just fine, the DX's are still selling like hotcakes, the video games are coming out regularly, manga titles are in serialization, novelizations coming out regularly, Walkure playing to packed houses and regularly charting near the top... it would seem like, while Delta was not the strongest offering to date, plenty of fans found it eminently watchable and good. So I suppose it's a YMMV thing between your special personal definition of "good" and that of the target audience. Y'know, I'm pretty sure one of the Macross Quarter-class ships mentioned in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-25 Messiah was the Macross Half. IIRC there was a Macross One-Third too. Come to that, I'd be down for either another show in the 2060s with a Macross Quarter-class or a historical title set between the original series and Plus ala Macross M3. Hell, I'd love to see them go back and animate Macross 2036... some VF-1 action AND a grown-up Komilia? 's that what that was? I honestly couldn't find an Aesop in Zero, it was either really well hidden by all the Kadun stuff or not there at all. Zero was damned pretty, but would've been a lot better if the plot wasn't so obtuse. That's one reason I want a longer run from this new series, so there isn't the opportunity for there to be too much plot left at the end of the episode... I want to avoid the kind of situation that necessitates either exposition dumps like Delta did or incredible vagueness like Zero resorted to. I am 210% OK with The Seatbelts doing music for a Macross series... just puttin' that out there. Still, I somehow can't help but picture something like TM Revolution being used for a Macross the Ride-style series.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    Eh, maybe... but SV2 was actually good at it. I wanna see someone be rubbish.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    We can only hope that Big West is smart enough not to oversaturate the market by leaning too heavily on idol singers. The turnaround time between the end of Macross Delta and the announcement of this new Macross project is so fast, you could almost wonder if Kawamori's going to be involved or if we're headed into another series helmed by someone else. Isn't he still committed to some project over in China that kicked off shortly before Delta ended? It'd be interesting to see what another creator could do with the franchise, since we haven't had an official Macross narrative drawn up without Kawamori since Macross II: Lovers Again and its prequels. My girlfriend had a fun idea for a Macross series... she suggested something like Terrestrial Defense Enterprise Dai-Guard could be done with a less-than-competent PMC, with a bunch of green pilots from a private security company who are only used to routine flights and cargo escorts suddenly get dropped into a combat situation and have to make it up as they go along because nobody expected to ever have to actually fight anyone. It'd be a great subversion of all of stories like the Macross Frontier and Macross Delta series where incredibly well-funded, allegedly-elite PMCs ride roughshod over the military. We already got an OVA that's all flash and no substance with a nonsense plot... it's called Macross Zero.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Will you settle for a yaoi love triangle between three men named Yuri?
  9. Seto Kaiba
    To be fair, couldn't the same description of "a serious story with a silly plot" be applied to almost any Macross title? I think that's part of its charm, really. The focus on the love plot over the war plot and solving interstellar conflicts with bouncy pop songs or a power ballad isn't exactly gritty realism in sci-fi. It keeps the story's overall tone light and optimistic and prevents it from getting bogged down with the WAR IS HELL amateur dramatics that most other mecha shows are so fond of. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and that helps keep it fun... along with the knowledge that you're going to get something that passes for an uplifting ending. For me, it's infinitely preferable to Gundam... which sometimes gets so caught up in its WAR IS HELL message that it feels like the staff is out to exact as much misery on the viewer as possible. After watching Macross you can leave feeling pretty good. After watching certain Gundam shows like Victory you leave feeling the need for an antidepressant or maybe a stiff drink. It's become such a staple for that franchise that the rare optimistic Gundam series feels alien and wrong. I'll be quite happy if that state of affairs continues in the new series. Frontier did a good job of keeping it fun. Delta's first half did too.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Did I identify you in particular as someone who wants that? I'm fairly certain I didn't. I was just giving a nice, general example of the tone we see in new series wishes from people who didn't like Delta here and on Facebook. I'm sure you can predict what I'm going to say before I can even say it... "I want another series like Macross Plus" "I want a gritty, hardcore war series" "I want a bleak, depressing series about Destroids" All of which basically boil down to wanting Macross to regress to an earlier state... something more along the lines of Macross Plus or Macross II: Lovers Again, which is odd considering the amount of badmouthing the latter used to get on here. It's a safe bet we'll get none of the above, especially given that Macross's creators have an avowed dislike for retreading old ground. There's nothing wrong with expressing distaste for a particular show, but the "I didn't like X, therefore it is objectively crap" needs to stop. The fandom in the west is going to have to reconcile itself to the fact that it is NOT Macross's target demographic, and it never will be. Macross's creators are going to aim to please the target demographic in Japan, and our satisfaction or dissatisfaction with it is incidental at best. The unpleasant truth is that it's hard to NOT sound like a grumpy old fart when the complaints are framed as "it's not like it was back in the day". Isn't that basically what Macross Delta was? The mecha, as pretty as they were, were practically an afterthought. It did the music sales a world of good, but the rest of the merchandising is kind of a limp fish by comparison. The most balanced offerings are the ones that seem to play the best in Japan, we need a new series that seamlessly marries the romance plot, the music, and the mecha action the way Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Macross 7, and Macross Frontier did. (Even Macross 30 did what I'd characterize as a fairly good job integrating the singing into the story and gameplay mechanics.) I'll consider it a rousing success if we get better story-action integration, a plot that flows well without the rushed pacing of Delta's second half and Frontier's last three episodes, and maybe some love for the New UN Forces instead of PMCs. If I were to really get my wish, we'd get a ~50 episode Macross series that's properly paced for that length, so they can afford to lavish extra attention on characterization and the war subplot. You sure you're not mistaking Kawamori's involvement in storyboarding for that, because I don't recall seeing him get a writing credit for the series. Toshizo Nemoto did the series composition (the plot outline) and had two supporting writers doing the actual screenplay with him. Ooo... I think I touched a nerve. The ad hominem isn't helping you either. "Depth" is definitely not a property I would ascribe to Macross Plus's story... it's fast-paced, simple, and straightforward. There aren't any real twists in the story, no deeper meanings behind people's actions, everything is laid out neatly and precisely with the bare minimum necessary backstory to frame the events without getting bogged down in exposition. That's fine for an OVA, but a series should have a bit more to it than that.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    ... are you serious? You DO know that Shoji Kawamori didn't write Macross and that Yoshiyuki Tomino didn't write Gundam, right? They created the core concepts for their respective series and directed (in whole or in part) the shows that came from those concepts, but the screenplays for the shows and movies in their respective metaseries mostly came from other pens. You could argue neither is a fantastic writer based on their solo writing credits in those franchises (Macross Zero and Reconguista in G respectively), but neither can be credited with the actual writing in most of the titles in the franchises they created. You can't blame Kawamori for the writing in Macross Delta because he wasn't the writer... Toshizo Nemoto was. Also, that argument lost any real weight it might've had when you tried to pass that hack Hideo "Nanobot Textdump" Kojima off as a writer of any skill... the man is famous for mistaking obtuseness for depth.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Man, I wasn't gonna say it... but I was certainly thinking it loudly. There certainly is a parallel in that the fans here keep coming back to Macross Plus as if it were the platonic ideal of a Macross show, despite the fact that it didn't do very well in Japan and is almost literally Macross in name only, simply because it's darker and more action-oriented. Some of it starts to edge into this territory... which is all the more surreal for the fact that Macross is a happy-clappy triumph-by-the-power-of-love-and-understanding romance series set against a space war backdrop. It's Star Trek by way of Mobile Suit Gundam, not Warhammer 40K. There's no doubt in my mind the new series will be in a similar vein... all that jazz about peace, love, and understanding triumphing through music in a war brought about by a failure to communicate. ... no idea how you got that out of it, especially since the bombing was depicted as an attempt to stop the jerkass woobies from deploying a weapon they didn't understand that could cause a galaxy-wide mass extinction event and the whole thing ended with Windermere's Aerial Knights having a heel realization and turning on their boss. If anything, the anvilicious Aesop this time was "Nationalism as a response to fears about globalism will make you do stupid crap that will only hurt you and everyone else in the long run". Kawamori never was especially subtle about things like this. (Also, the riff on Newtype powers isn't exactly new... that was played with in Macross Frontier, but they've been doing affectionate nods to the Mobile Suit Gundam metaseries since the very beginning, when Battle City Megaroad was developed as an affectionate parody of 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam. Gundam has returned the favor many a time with nods to Macross... the iconic Zeta Gundam is explicitly one such homage.)
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Not to put a razor-fine point on it, but HannouHeiki hit the the mark with laser precision in the last sentence of his last post. A fair portion of the grumbling about Macross Delta has less to do with the quality of the series itself than it does the fact that the folks doing the grumbling aren't in the franchise's target demographic. It really does start to sound like old people grumbling about young people after a while, and when you think about it... it kind of is. Almost stereotypically so when it comes to the music. Trying to frame "it's not doing as well as Frontier" as a criticism doesn't make a ton of sense either, given that every previous Macross title can be found wanting by that lofty standard. If I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath for this new Macross series to go back to the way things were done in the 80's. Macross has never been a franchise that cared overmuch for nostalgia, so I'd expect the franchise to continue to move forward... and that means some of the periphery demographic of older fans is going to get left behind.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Sort of... it's more like I'm establishing the base level of my expectations. All things considered, we can pretty much take it as read that the new Macross series is going to be visually impressive and have great music behind it. There's no reason to believe they won't achieve at least that much... and it's a hell of a thing that THAT'S what we can consider their minimum obligation with a new series. The only thing that's really in question here in production terms is whether the writers are up to the job. Frontier's were. Delta's weren't. There's no doubt in my mind that Macross 2018 will be eminently watchable. It's just a matter of whether it'll be exceptional, or merely good.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... for my money, Macross Delta was a mediocre mess that did a lot to undermine the confidence I had in Macross's creators after the huge success of Macross Frontier. No exaggeration, I loved Macross Frontier. It was, for me, the closest a Macross television series has come to perfection... with everything that makes Macross what it is, and almost all of it perfectly balanced. Its only noteworthy issues were that the pacing was rushed near the end and Ranka's participation in the love triangle was less than it should have been in the second half. She never made that same romantic comeback that Minmay achieved in the post-timeskip arc of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and that left the outcome of the love triangle feeling a bit like a foregone conclusion. All the same pieces were there in Macross Delta, but the writers did a lousy job putting them together. The music was fantastic, the main trio were some of the most likeable characters Macross has ever had, the mechanical designs were gorgeous, the character designs were mostly excellent, but the writing was a bloody trainwreck that failed miserably to seal the deal and tie it all together. That the potential was obvious, and obviously being wasted, made the show incredibly frustrating to watch. It could've been better than Frontier. It could've handily been my new favorite Macross series... but the writer tripped his team up at the starting line. Based on the last two shows, I have every reason to expect that the new Macross project will be visually stunning and musically exceptional. It'll take the Macross universe to somewhere new and different and add a few new wrinkles to the setting. What I have less confidence in is their writer's ability to tie it all together into a seamless package the way the writers of DYRL?, Plus, 7, and Frontier did. That's a tall order, and we're spoiled in that what's workmanlike for Macross is exceptional by the standards of many other franchises, but I'd love an excuse to keep my standards high.
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    Bingo... let's just say I've been down this particular road about half a dozen times before and wanted to head that one off at the pass, both due to the press's bad habit of forgetting that important bit of context about stability when talking about the applications of metallic hydrogen and because they tend to overstate the benefits of the stuff as well. Based on Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.2, it's not clear if the hydrogen slush in the internal tanks is used as a coolant as well as the fuel for the compact thermonuclear reactor in atmospheric service. However, the book does suggest the fuel slush in the CTF-04 tanks was used both as fuel and as coolant for operations in space where radiative cooling isn't as effective. Overtechnology materials are acknowledged to have incredible thermal resistance, though. The hypercarbon composite armor of the VF-25 is noted to have a temperature resistance of 3,200 degrees C (that's about 5,800 degrees F). Reentry heat normally clocks in at about 1,650 degrees C.
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    Here's hoping they don't screw it up the way they did with Delta... good music is fine, but I'd like the whole Macross equation not just a piece of it.
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    Not a bad guess, but that's not the origin of The-Show-That-Must-Not-Be-Named's retcon. A few days after the retcon first came to light, I had a good long chat with that franchise's creative director about the change. He identified the origin of the retcon as being a line in their dub of Super Dimension Fortress Macross Ep.5, which referred to the engines of a VF-1 as "based on a reactor design". The writers of the licensed RPG went with metallic hydrogen as a fuel because 1. they weren't aware of any Macross source that stated what fuel VFs use, 2. they wanted something exotic and sci-fi sounding, and 3. they saw some stuff about metallic hydrogen being toyed with as a possible fuel for NASA rockets and SSTO spaceplanes in one of that year's issues of Popular Science. (The mecha in Genesis Climber MOSPEADA are powered by advanced hydrogen fuel cells.) Metallic hydrogen's actual benefit to space travel is pretty minimal... more like nonexistant if there's no way to make it retain its metallic state without nearly 5 million atmospheres of compression. Under that much pressure, damn near any gas would make pretty effective rocket just by releasing the pressure in a controlled fashion like a giant bottle rocket. The only real benefit it offers is packing efficiency, since the same amount of mass is packed into approximately 1/10th the fluid volume of slush hydrogen and you still need a mass-equivalent volume of fuel oxidizer. Variable fighters wouldn't have a lot of call for metallic hydrogen, since it's best applied to scenarios where you need to store a lot of fuel in a very small space. By nature, the compact thermonuclear reactor at the heart of a thermonuclear reaction turbine engine is very fuel efficient thanks to the use of heavy quantum to provide continuous gravitational compression of the fuel. The efficiency only improved with time, so thermonuclear reaction burst turbines and Stage II thermonuclear reaction turbine engines are even gentler on their fuel supplies despite an expanded airframe enabling them to carry more fuel internally... unless you're flying a Sv-262, where the transformation system screws you out of most of that.
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    Delta had a plot?
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Unfortunately, the news media's bad habit of printing first and asking questions later (if at all) led to them missing the fact that this is only the latest in a decade-long series of unverified and disputed claims of having observed metallicity in hydrogen under laboratory conditions. That could very well be the breakthrough of the century... for the previous century. The first credible claim of having observed metallic hydrogen in laboratory conditions was made back in 1996 by the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Mind you, metallic hydrogen only remains metallic as long as it's subjected to around five million atmospheres of pressure... once the pressure drops, it returns to being normal elemental hydrogen. Achieving stability or metastability in metallic hydrogen such that it will remain metallic once the pressure is removed or reduced is still the realm of unverifiable scientific theory (AKA a Scientific Wild-Ass Guess). If you can't get it metastable, it would be impossible to store it for any length of time and the logistics of keeping it metallic would render it a useless scientific curiosity. All these grand declarations of how it'd redefine various fields of scientific endeavor are all based on the assumption we can make the stuff stay metallic at STP instead of sublimating back into hydrogen gas. When it comes to material sciences, we do actually have a decent bit of detail about what the advancements overtechnology conferred were and what some of the properties of overtechnology materials like hypercarbon are... e.g. thermal limits, structural strength, etc. (There's the most bizzare entry in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.1 about the impact OTMat composites had on threaded fasteners...) We also know they have things like room temperature superconductors, super-efficient thermoelectric materials, etc. I doubt metallic hydrogen would be an attractive option for any application on a variable fighter. The amount of energy necessary to produce the stuff (at ~4-5 million atmospheres of pressure) far exceeds the amount of energy you'd get out of it, and when elemental hydrogen works just as well in a thermonuclear reaction engine and has the added benefit of its cryogenic nature making it pull double duty as a coolant, the appeal of metallic hydrogen is somewhat limited... especially as the reactors are not particularly thirsty things, burning about 1L of hydrogen slush per hour per engine on the VF-1. If you can run for almost a calendar month between refuelings on regular hydrogen, there isn't a lot of incentive to go to something more volatile and harder to produce. EDIT: The licensed role-playing game for The-Show-That-Must-Not-Be-Named identifies stabilized liquid metallic hydrogen as a fuel used by most of its mecha, which that franchise's creative director alleged was inspired by an issue of Popular Science and the franchise retconning many of its mecha to being powered by fusion.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    There's a slight inconsistency in Macross the Ride's description of Magdalena Zielonaska's Sv-52 Oryol. The technical writeup describes it as being a custom replica of the Sv-52 developed and built by persons unknown, but in the story itself Magdalena Zielonaska identifies her Sv-52 as a family heirloom that her grandfather flew in the First Space War (?!) and which she had modernized for use as an air racing plane with her family's substantial wealth. (So, basically, like Hakuna Aoba's VF-0改 "Zeak", it was a Unification Wars-era airframe rebuilt from the ground up using materials and technology from more modern variable fighters... in this case, a VF-17 instead of a YF-25.) As far as fuel goes, the Variable Fighter Master File books identify the preferred fuel for thermonuclear reaction turbine engines was hydrogen slush. Hydrogen may be particularly advantageous since hydrogen slush can be produced in industrial quantities using 1970s technology and the gravitational compression used in the reactor would enable the fusion process to go beyond a single stage reaction like a D-He3 reactor's operation and exploit the kind of chain reactions normally found in stellar nucleogenesis like the proton-proton chain reactions and CNO cycle. Aerogel's more an insulator than a heat sink, though carbon nanomaterials are noted for having high Seebeck coefficients that lend themselves well to use in thermoelectric heat exchange.
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    Well, to be fair... the entire surface of the Earth was a pretty crappy place to land by the time they got 'round to landing on it. After the Boddole Zer main fleet got done with it, Earth was a planet that had a LOT of problems. The damage was so extensive that the New UN Government is stuck trying to mitigate the damage by terraforming the planet back into something halfway liveable, and it's expected that it'll take millennia to finally restore the planet to something resembling its prewar state. With the planet's biosphere all but annihilated, one of the biggest problems was that the composition of the atmosphere was altered leading to significant global warming that necessitated using both technologies to shade the planet and engineered bacteria to restore the proper atmospheric composition. The contaminants kicked up into the atmosphere by the bombardment also necessitated a cleanup (though apparently the global warming was enough to offset nuclear winter?). On top of that, there was radioactive contamination from things like destroyed nuclear plants and shipboard reactors which had to be cleaned up by engineered bacteria, and the ever-present threat of debris ranging from random shrapnel to crippled starships falling out of orbit onto your head. Alaska seems like a relatively smart place to stay, and that specific location seems like an especially advantageous one considering: It was conveniently close to the destroyed Grand Cannon 1, meaning they had easy access to salvagable refined metals and working technology. Its location in or near the former Yukon-Charlie Rivers Nature Preserve puts it relatively close to two major rivers to provide fresh water (after cleanup) and far enough north that latitude might compensate somewhat for global warming. It's a relatively isolated area, meaning the level of local contamination was probably lower compared to formerly urban areas where whole towns had been vaporized. Aircraft with thermonuclear reaction turbine engines aren't going to care much about the distance, since there's almost nowhere else to go and the technology is legendarily fuel efficient meaning they don't have to be terribly concerned about running out of fuel on the way back from wherever. With approximately 700 hours between refuelings, the VF-1 can go pretty much anywhere.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Officially, it's in Alaska near the former site of Grand Cannon 1. Based on Macross Chronicle's map of the Grand Cannon locations, it's probably somewhere in the vicinity of the Yukon-Charlie Rivers National Preserve.
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    That was inevitable... like the VF-4 book, they teased this one in a previous volume. I figured we'd be seeing this one sooner rather than later once the VF-4 book dropped and I noticed the date of publication in-universe was July 2067. It was an unusual date for a Main VF that'd been introduced in 2012 and retired at some point in the 2040s, and that the featured squadron in the story section just happened to be flying the VF-31A in the book's present day clinched it. Kind of disappointed the book is dedicated to the VF-31改 Siegfried rather than the production-intent VF-31 Kairos... after all, there are only five Siegfrieds in service, whereas the Kairos was expected to become the next main VF of the Brisingr Alliance New UN Forces circa 2069-2070. Since the VF-31 has so little information available, I'm just left to hope it won't be another book of filler and garbage like the Variable Fighter Master File: VF-4 Lightning III book was... I wouldn't hold my breath... SoftBank has a bad habit of missing their announced release dates a few times before each book comes out. My money's on June, maybe July. Didn't the VF-5000 get covered in short in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.2. Nothing as of about five minutes ago... but they probably won't commit until there's a semi-firm date.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    That one's not exactly obvious... it had to be explained by Kawamori in an interview, while the rest of the Sv-262 is a pretty blatant love letter to Saab and the J 35. Possibly... though it's nothing like as blatant as the rest of Delta Flight's: Arado Molders Named for German aircraft manufacturer Arado Flugzeugwerke and German fighter pilot Werner Molders. Messer Ihlefeld Named for German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt and German fighter pilot Herbert Ihlefeld. Chuck Mustang Named for American fighter pilot Chuck Yeager and the fighter he flew during wartime, the North American P-51 Mustang. Hayate Immelmann Named for the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate fighter and German fighter pilot Max Immelmann. I suppose Mirage might count as a paired reference like the others if you consider her family name a reference to the famous Jenius flying aces of the First Space War. Walkure is a German word, yes... though it's so innocuous that it never occurred to me you were referring to that. It's a relatively safe bet that most, if not all, of the Human cast is of mixed ancestry and national heritage... not that national origin in terms we would recognize counts for much with characters who were born and raised decades after all modern nations ceased to exist. The Macross Delta series is a bit unusual in that we have more than just the usual one or two characters who are at least part-Japanese in the name of giving the audience a protagonist who falls into "but not too foreign". They're typically the exception in a cast that's otherwise mostly either western or of unidentifiable ethnicity... which you'd expect considering the main areas where humans survived the orbital bombardment were the subterranean UN Forces bases in South America and Africa, the UN Forces base on the moon, and space colonies. The survivors on the Macross itself were a mixed lot and they only made up about 5-6% of the total survivors of the war. Until Frontier, we saw almost nothing when it came to written Japanese (almost all onscreen text was English), and in Frontier it's implied this is because the fleet has an atypically large Japanese population and several districts that are replicas of Japan. The series dialog is presented in Japanese for the convenience of the audience, but they're implied to be speaking English most, if not all, of the time. (The one really jarring exeption being Fire Bomber, which was explicitly indicated to be a Japanese language group, though even their in-universe album packaging and promotional material is written in English.)
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