Keith

That's not sentai dude.

I'm actually curious why this topic never comes up in regards to situation like the AEUG in relation to the TITANS/EFSF. Sure the NUNS hadn't reached the level of curruption that the EFSF did, but the gist I got is that they were on their way there. Actually, historically in Macross, the protagonists have almost always been somewhat rebellious against the main military force. Global didn't back down to the brass who told him to basically take his 50,000 survivors, and collectively fall on their swords. Isamu could have given less of a crap about anyone's orders. Max & Exedor seem to have played a bit fast & loose with their following of UNS rules, and Roy, Shin & Edgar all peformed a mini coup just to launch. Putting things into that context, it's actually not much of a surprise that Frontier's heroes ar already apathetic about standard military channels, and don't give much of a care for their procedures. I don't want to get itno the political/psychological aspects of this, but more likely than not this is still Japanese cultural fallout over how their govermnent/miltary handled WWII. And taking it into that context, I don't think U.S. military/fans should take the situation as spitting in the face of military proper in general, but specifically currupt military practices that don't take their peoples best interest to heart. I can't really think of an anime series off the top of my head, where the "heroes" didn't butt heads against their proper military structure. Evangelion, FMP, Votoms, EVERY Gundam series ever, Yamato, SRW, etc, etc, etc. If anything, Japan's anime interpretation of the U.S. military is somewhat positive. Of course I speak of the Gamilus empire in Yamato. Sure they were (initially) the bad guys. And sure they were taken down by the Yamato. But they were shown to be a very honorable methotical strong/smart foe.

If you're going to be intentionally ignorant, there's no point in you discussing this at all. Song energy/spiritia itself had nothing to do with singing itself. It's the natural energy given off by all living things. Anima Spiritia is the rawest/purest form of said energy, and is radiated by hot blooded passion. The protodevelin subisded on the energy of other living biengs, and couldn't digest the hot blooded anima spiritia. They understood that endlessly feeding on all living things in our universe, would result in the extinction of themselves, in addition to all other life. And as such, Basara showed them the only logical conclusion to their dilemma, to learn how to produce their own energy, making them 100% self sufficient beings. The overall message of Macross 7, is what do you do when no matter what, your enemy has a bigger badder gun/bomb than you do.

To be fair, there's more going on behind the scenes there than meets the eye. According to Kawamori, the way the NUNS work, is that they are a govermnment military to the Frontier "state" fleet, or something to that effect. Bilra funded the Frontier fleet. Bilra Funded the SMS. He clearly had major string pull on both sides, at least in the series.

Now don't be so pessamistic. Maybe it'll turn out like this

I don't know, I always thought Orguss 02 spit in the face of Orguss's ending

Because they probably couldn't get Nishizaki to agree not to mess with production unless Matsumoto also wasn't involved.

I find this to be an acceptable conclusion! Although I think you forgot the part where Grace unleashes 100's of MDE's, whiping everything in the robotech universe out of existence.

Not sure what Unicorn OVA 2 you were watching, but everything still looked freakin' awesome in mine.

We've been left hanging on "The Shadow Chronicles" for like 4 -5 years now. I demand to know what happens next. What happens when I try to find out what's going on? I get banned from RT.com, WTF!

Is this really a story that needs to be told? Also, I'll watch if they bring back Rob Schnieder.

Hey, any updates on the new Robotech Projects? lol, sorry, couldn't resist!

Gundam SEED Syndrom? Well maybe Brera a bit, but everything else was just updated Macross TV.

Nope, they chose to credit Gits instead, but really, there is way too much Megazone in The Matrix, right down to Wong Dai in part III.

Thanks for the heads up!

Both parts reminded me of the Hollywood World episode of Abenobashi.

Killing zombies with dildo's, Tom Cruise, Stimpy, Panty straddling a pole with her ass, this episode felt very Abenobashi to me, but then I loved Abenobashi too

this trend of good comic book movies disturbs me. I don't know if I trust it...

Yup, Scrapped Princess is a very nicely deceptive series in the beginning, that handles its concepts well. Would have also made a great RPG.

Finally, I shall know WTF Kaji was saying in the prologue. Worth the price alone!

Current order -7 -Frontier (TV + Movie) -TV -DYRL / FB 2012 -Zero -Plus -II

That was actually the golden age of HK DVD's. Considering the base translaction were fairly decent for the time, I think they intentionally mispelled every name imaginable just to keep official company's from going full ass on shutting them down. At least until SARS hit, and authorities had an opening to blindly raid them. Couldn't let them finish GE:999 TV first....

Sorry it took so long to check on this, I've been a bit busy. Oh hell yeah, forwards, backwards, left, right, above, the Tornado's beam gun can hit anywhere that's not underneath you in all 3 modes. Well, I guess technically it could shoot beneath you in battroid. Most notably during boosting manuevers, but they've got very fluid movement, including boosting you backwards in Gerwalk. As a nice extra, the launch sequences also vary up with them. In space, they're positioned with the boosters behind you, in a standard posture. In atmosphere they're pointed downward, to help you hover above the flight deck. Haven't really done any speed test differences with them, but I'm sure the Tornado has higher base stats than the standard super pack. The level of detaiil in this demo is staggering.

Imagineasion actually did finish Orguss, but availablility didn't last long past the release of the final disc. Considering they were DVD-R's with a high defect rate, it's not a surprise. Their subs also left a few things to be desired (odd spelling choices such as "moo", no seriously, "moo"). But they vastly outclassed the old HK set, with its evil robots of "timmy."

Tried Black Ops, and wasn't impressed. I'll stick with my MGO thank you very much!