Seto Kaiba
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Non-Japanese human characters in the Macross franchise?
Seto Kaiba replied to Saruta's topic in Movies and TV Series
Not sure why... ethnic background pretty much ceases to have any relevance after the first space war, on account of the eradication of national boundaries via the eradication of nations. Most Macross titles after the original don't list the ethnic background of their characters, because those national boundaries have ceased to matter and what little remains of their cultures has started to blur together. (Like Mylene, who inexplicably wears a kimono to a marriage meeting, but whose father is Western European and whose mother is not of this Earth...) There are a few isolated cases where ancestry is specifically mentioned in someone's background info, but that's not very common after the original series and DYRL. The default language in Macross's UN Government appears to be English, with a couple examples of spoken or written Japanese here or there. The Linn family is actually part Chinese and part Chinese-Japanese. Minmay's side of the family is Chinese-Japanese, while her aunt and uncle's side is listed as Chinese. The Anti-UN Alliance pilots in Macross Zero don't have a listed background... they could be from some former Soviet Republic or they could just as easily be fifth-generation Americans with Russian surnames. All that's said for Roy Focker is that he was born in North America, the same is true for Claudia. The Macross's bridge bunnies, Vanessa, Kim, and Shammy, were French, Russian, and Finnish respectively. Global was Italian, his wife was probably Japanese (with a name like Miho...). Apart from Lam Hoa (Indian) and Alto (Japanese?), Macross Frontier's cast only seems to really mention its ancestry when the person involved is part alien. Ranka never gets more specific than "1/4 Zentradi", Michael Blanc is Human, Zentradi, and Zolan but answers to the German and French pronunciations of "Michael" just to mess with us, etc. The Compendium lists Jan Neumann as Yang Neumann for reasons unclear (mistranslation?) and lists him as being ethnically Chinese and German, though at a glance I can't find where that supposedly came from and his Macross Chronicle sheet lists his birthplace as "Under Investigation" (meaning not stated). -
There's a section on that in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie. I'll lend you a hand by Skype in a bit.
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Eh? The VF-27 doesn't have a long-range sniper weapon... its beam gun pod is a rapid-fire weapon, and the "beam grenade" mode isn't exactly precise or subtle. Functionality-wise, it's not any different from the beam gun pods carried by the YF-29 and YF-30. I know Macross 30 substituted a beam sniper sort of affair for beam grenade mode so the gun's functionality would fit the game, but I don't think that's actually a thing... Once... once, in all the footage for the VF-11, do we see a gunpod jam. 's probably not something which any of the fighters the OP is concerned about need to worry about, since they're not firing bullets.
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Well, I already commented on the VF-5000's... the regular one from Macross M3 is probably part of the GU sequence, it doesn't look like it's a GU-11 variant though. Too small. The VF-14 as seen in Macross M3 was using the same gunpod as the VF-11A/B, the other one that's 35mm was probably a MC gunpod instead of GU.
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As far as I'm aware, the -C variant's gun pod is the same model as the -B variant, just after a cost-cutting session put the kibosh on the bayonet and so on.
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Not yet, no... but that information may yet be forthcoming in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-22 Sturmvogel II. Mind you, exactly when that book is going to be released is something of a mystery. It was originally marked April, but HLJ is now listing it as May. Barring an error on the cover of the previous Macross Chronicle edition's 22nd issue, I don't believe so. (The cover in question mistakenly assigned it the designation of the VF-19's gun pod... GU-15.) The VF-1 and VF-4 both used the GU-11, the VF-171 had the GU-14 and the VF-19 the GU-15, so smart money says that it's either GU-12 or GU-13. I'd suspect the latter, and that the former is probably the wedge-shaped gun pod the VF-5000B used during Macross M3.
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Seems that way... Macross 30 seems to have been kind of a big deal, since the Bandai DX version of Leon Sakaki's YF-30 Chronos wasn't the only one they made for it either. IINM, they've also done Rod Baltemar's YF-29B Percival and the YF-29s flown by Ozma Lee and Isamu Dyson in the game. I loved Macross Frontier, and thought Macross Zero was pretty fine as well. Macross 7 was the only one that didn't really do anything for me (initially). I've warmed to 7 in the past year or two.
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*blink* Someone let an owl in here? Er... pretty sure that ain't it. Namco Bandai was the publisher of Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy, that's why they're doing the YF-30.
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Which is odd to say the least, since the Mechanic Sheet ALL 01B indicated its name was VF-19 ADVANCE.
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Yeah, but as I said, it could be sold as an OVA if anyone at Studio Nue got it into their heads to make such a series. I dunno, I certainly am... but there's a lot of carping from old timers who are somehow bitterly opposed to Frontier.
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Nah, the Macross-11 has a dome over it... you can kind of see it in the screen captures. It's just the dome on Macross-11 is a more extreme version of the City-7, what with the taller buildings actually poking through the top of the dome. Milia's office was in one of those taller towers in Macross 7. IIRC, one of Tenjin Hidetaka's books identifies those huge sails on the Macross-11 as an energy collection system (basically solar sails).
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... ... ... suddenly, I feel more optimistic about our prospects for a YF-30 Chronos cover.
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At this point, I can't help but recall Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front... which managed to be quite interesting and more than a little awesome, yet there are no Federation mobile suit pilots in the cast until the very last episode. The first two parts were about infantry and tank crews, and the latter contains one of the best fights in Gundam (Between Lt. Yandell's tanks and a platoon of Zaku II's). If Gundam can succeed with a series that has no Gundams, then Macross could probably sell a series about Destroids if they really cared to.
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As far as the train goes, your guess is as good as mine. I vaguely recall there was a train briefly shown in the opening theme of Macross Dynamite 7, but all we saw of it was the roof of the passenger cars. Oh, I'm sure there were shipping wars. There are ALWAYS shipping wars. Heck, if you think about it, there's actually a bit of shipping going on by supporting characters in the show itself. Like when that tabloid journalist sister of Michael's publishes an article suggesting Basara and Mylene are an item, followed by an article suggesting Basara and Gamlin are an item, and a bit theorizing that Basara is Hikaru and Minmay's secret son. Milia's trying to marry Mylene off, first to Gamlin and later to Basara, and she also later tries to set Gamlin up with bridge bunny Miho. (Shyest. Couple. EVER.) All told, I think Sivil was the only woman who Basara really did more than acknowledge the existence of. Basara doesn't seem interested in women (or men) in the series, just in his music. He doesn't even notice when a Sivil-possessed Akiko and Rex are coming on to him... in the former case, his attention isn't on her, he's so oblivious that with her practically throwing herself at him he's more concerned about the hot dog she made him drop.
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Not that I've seen, no... but he is filthy rich, so it's not outside reason. Um... that's a good question. Macross 7 as a whole has relatively little in terms of what you called "young adult" material, there are a few moments that you probably would find inappropriate for a 9-year old. The worst offender is probably the animation in the credits, which show Mylene naked in the shower briefly. Apart from that, the series has a few blatant panty shots when a kid flips Mylene's skirt or flower girl stands in a breeze, and the series does have two cases where female characters possessed by Sivil make PG sexual advances on utterly oblivious Basara, and one case where a male character makes advances on an uninterested Mylene. There's a bit of nudity on Sivil's part when she ends up in a coma. The Macross Dynamite 7 OVA has two pretty blatant bits of "young adult" material... one being Mylene being sexually assaulted by a female manager, and one where Elma Hoyly is shown naked.
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There's the real hole in Agent ONE's carping about "highly emotional effeminate males"... Bobby Margot is simultaneously the most effeminate male in Macross and its most hotblooded character. Good times. Should we start calling you Mr. van Winkle, then? It's gonna be a while... they've only just announced the project's existence, so we've probably got a year or so.
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Well, what are you asking me about? Yes, Sunrise has committed to do a four-movie animated adaptation of the manga Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin starting in 2015. To me, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Like Macross the First, Gundam: the Origin isn't a straight retelling of the original story... they mix things up, they add a bunch of new stuff, and do it all without sacrificing all the stuff that made the original great. I've been following both, and I honestly enjoyed Gundam: the Origin quite a bit... esp. that new story arc that chronicles the Zabi family's rise to power and how Casval Rem Deikun came by the alias Char Aznable. Now, to be honest, I very much doubt that the new Macross series we've been promised will be an animated version of Macross the First. Why? Mainly because Macross the First still isn't very far along in its story. As of Volume 5 of the series, we've really only gotten to around the events of "Longest Birthday" (SDF:M Ep.. Laplamiz and Milia have only JUST appeared for the first time, but haven't gotten to do anything yet, and Hikaru's acquired his wingmen and given Minmay his medal. The rest of 5 is an original story arc that's a flashback to an Anti-UN attack on South Ataria on Christmas 2008... which throws us a couple of neat tidbits like VF-0's sortieing from the Asuka II's sister ship Graf Zeppelin II (CVN-100), and what looks to be the first use of VF-1 Valkyries in combat. However, Kawamori doesn't really seem the type to bow to nostalgia and retread old ground unless it's his trademark total re-imagining of the story... and Macross the First probably wouldn't fit that.
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Simple... because that's what Sunrise is doing with Gundam. They've announced that Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin is getting a series of four movies starting next year, so the conclusion a lot of folks are jumping to is that Macross will follow their lead with an animated version of their own original series retelling... Macross the First.
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To me, one of the things that's kept Macross fresh and interesting is the way its creators are dedicated to mixing it up and trying to take the successful formula they have to new and different places. Sometimes it goes to places that aren't necessarily to my taste, but it broadens the appeal of the series, it brings in the new fans, and keeps it from falling into the same kind of rut that Universal Century Gundam has... where all we have to wonder at is what we're going to be calling the obvious Space Nazis this year. Maybe I'm just not old and stodgy enough to belong to the "they changed it, now it sucks" crowd? Eh... considering you opened with a statement that said that Macross 7's appeal was mainly to "highly emotional effeminate males", I'd say their accusations of borderline misogyny and bigotry are probably justified.
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None that I've seen, but it's still early days...
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Eh... there's a little unwarranted/unnecessary bashing of other Macross titles to be had in here too, but we could all stand to take a step back and remember that our enjoyment (or lack thereof) of a series is purely subjective. After all, there's only the one actually objectively terrible title connected to Macross... its quasi-illegitimate creatively bankrupt counterpart Robotech. In a franchise as prone to reinventing itself as Macross is, it feels a little like missing the point to take a "They changed it, now it sucks" stance. I mean, it's odds-on that whatever we get from Kawamori and company in the near future won't rigorously follow the footsteps of what came before. They like to mix it up.
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I don't think that's something we have to worry about... Kawamori doesn't seem to be all that fond of treading old ground.
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Thank goodness for context... otherwise there's no end of amusing interpretations we could ascribe to Basara being trained by a "Pink Pecker", especially since this is Japan we're talking about. To be fair, I think Gamlin's got a right to be a little PO'd about Basara poking his oar in... the Fire Valkyrie may be a UN Forces black project, but nobody bothered to actually tell the defense forces to look the other way. That it's flown by a civilian, and its conspicuous lack of success against the enemy, would lead most upstanding soldiers to think "We really oughta get that crazy civvie outta here before he gets his dumb ass killed and the brass get on our tits about it." Seriously though, do we need to keep [harping on / militantly defending] Macross 7? This is about the new series, not a twenty year old one.
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's it just me, or does that mean Macross Dynamite 7 is Double Zeta?
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You tell him from me that if he sticks to what they said in Re:Fire about Basara never coming back to City-7 and makes the story about Mylene, he can go ahead and do that with my full support and blessing.