Seto Kaiba

The problem with that rationale is if you're buying the Robotech DVDs and trying to call them Macross you've got another thing coming. The RT fans are idiots. They've bought the same poorly dubbed, poorly edited crap again and again, first on VHS, then DVD, and now a remastered DVD to "the director's cut" which is just adding half the stuff they cut to make it fit before. As a former RT fan, I can safely tell you that the quality of each successive "remastering" of Robotech, the quality of the product gets lower and lower. RT Remastered is plagued by some problems as fundamental as disc formatting and errors on disc. Sure, TMS and Macross share animation, but there's a whole world of difference between the dubbing, the editing and the overall quality of the work. This, to me, reeks of a Harmony Gold attempt to remove potential competition for their new Robotech series, which the guys on my website dubbed Shadow Farce before they changed the title from Shadow Force to Shadow Chronicles. Mind you they'll probably whore the liscence to ADV once Shadow Farce goes under (and there is no doubt in my mind that it will flop abysmally and drag Harmony Gold into the red on project budget once more), or maybe if we're extremely lucky, give it back to Animeigo at a bargain price. Either way we lose.

I'm suprised, I've gotten about a dozen PM's asking for the song. I'll be making a temporary DL of it instead of sending it via email, since it'll be easier. I am however, currently hampered by server-based complications, which will be resolved in the next few days, and the looming personal deadline for the completion of SVFA-88.org so hopefully the download will be prepared along with the site, which is, by the way, entirely devoted to Macross II (and a few different RPGs) and open to guests. I'll let all those who requested it know when it's ready. I appreciate your patience.

Will do, as soon as I get home to my PC with the song on it.

Damnation...

I'll see to it as soon as I finish chasing down a hack attempt on my website's forums.

I have a copy extracted from the DVD and was digitally cleaned up by a buddy of mine with Sony Soundforge.

She's singing the notes to the same song Wendy Ryder sings during the UN Spacy Moon Festival. She's singing a less upbeat version of "Only Your Friend" If you'd like more info, email me.

First Macross that grabbed me was Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, and a few weeks later, confirming my addiction to Macross was Macross II: Lovers Again.

Nah Outpatient, pretty much any four-letter curse you can think of is used to describe robotech. See you back on Arcadia, Signed, Schwarzwald

Maybe the animators suffer from the same problem most people do, when someone facing them says left, they think that it's that person's left, in other words, their own right hand. Maybe they got it reversed and by that time it was too late to do anything about it.

It does bear a strong resemblence to a VF-1R from the 2036 art. Perhaps a preliminary sketch?

Excellent work.

Oh like that hasn't been obvious over the last ten or so years, with the Master-Piece-Of-Crap models, the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-mastering of their DVDs, and the overall quality of their work. They'll do anything for a quick buck. The ugliest head definately has to be the Masterpiece VF-1R "Jack Archer" model made by Harmony Gold. It's beyond ugly, it just looks like someone's been drawing VF-1A's without their glasses.

Um... hate to burst your bubble there, friend, but there is no Macross II VF-1R. The only fighters in Macross II are the VF-2SS, VF-2JA, VF-1MS and VF-1XX. The supposed VF-1R that you're thinking of is one of two things. It's the Harmony Gold interpretation of the Macross animation error, which has three head lasers on a VF-1A head, or it's the Palladium lineart of the VF-1 chassis with permanently attached FAST packs. So you're either thinking of this (the art error from SDF Macross) http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/mecha/viewmecha.php?id=57 Or this... the palladium books concoction. http://www.robotechresearch.com/rpg/mecha/...f-1r/vf_1r.html The page says it's from "Entertainment Bible 51: Macross II" but no such fighter ever appeared in Macross II: Lovers Again. The only fighters appearing in that series were the VF-2SS Valkyrie II, the VF-2JA Icarus, the VF-XX Zentran Valkyrie and the VF-1MS Metal Siren. (The fighter is also absent from the Macross Compendium)

1.) VF-2SS Space Superiority Valkyrie Mk II (Macross II: Lovers Again) 2.) ARX-7 Arbalest (Full Metal Panic) 3.) VF-1S Skull Leader (If you don't know where this is from...) 4.) M-9 Gernsback (Full Metal Panic)

Heh... that just proves my point. "If Ultraman and a YF-19 had children... the result would be..." I still prefer the Macross II Valkyries to the Macross 7 ones. I'll concede that the VF-1MS Metal Siren and VF-1XX Wicked Angel (Zentraedi Valkyrie) aren't the most aesthetically pleasing fighters out there, but they're better than Nekki Basara's "Ultraman Jr." My fave has always been and will always be the VF-2SS Valkyrie II

Hmmm... funny and romantic? Perhaps Love Hina, Saber Marionette J and Full Metal Panic?

Meh... VF-19 Kai. The stupid thing looks like someone broke Ultraman and a VF-19 into pieces and played mix-and-match.

Meh... I've always been a fan of war stories, and this one was too good to pass up.