Keith

In theory, the Megaroad fleet went off with just as much technological advancement potential as the Earth had in 2012. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't also be advancing their stuff. That actually would be a great plot twist, starting out a series with some type of military academy aboard a colony fleet, then bam, later on as the story expands, finding out it's the Megaorad-01.

Actually, the impression I got after the whole Big West/Tatsunoko battle, was that HG was told to cease & decist themselves in regards to claiming ownership. All boasts that HG has made about owning the license have dissapeared from their own site, while comments in such regards are no longer made by them. Hell, take a look at the "Shaodw Chronicles," in the little documentary on the disc, absolutely "no" Macross stock footage is used, it's all Mospeada. That in and of itself says a lot.

In Macross, cannon fodder pilots could do whatever they wanted. When you can potentially die at anytime, it doesn't matter if you call yourself "sexy."

A week or so at AOD, a Bandai rep re-affirmed that they've licensed Mave chan, and that it should be out by the end of summer.

I wonder. With Big West being so quiet after their legal battle with Tatsunoko a few years ago, and now a full TV series popping up (though Zero was made in the interum), I wonder if the legal issue's have finally been resolved. It'd be nice to get a new Macross propertly licensed over here again...

With the big Metal Gear grand finale coming up, there'd never be a better time.

I'd wager they'll be around 90 minutes each. Which would put the runtime all together at roughly half the length of the TV series.

God damnit, now I want that too!

Konami needs to put Snatcher & Policenauts on the DS....what the hellare they thinking!

Sure it does. -TV Series: 2009-2012 -DYRL: Movie made in 2031

Ackbar Cereal & Jar Jar were definately the highlights. Though I also enjoyed the janitor cleaning up bodies, and the excessive revalations sketch.

Psst, it was Eva's 5-13 that were hte mass produced series, not 5-11.

Basara gets center role in the intro, he gets the most screen time, has more songs, and is at the crux of the final battle. Mylene is not. As such, Basara is clearly the lead character.

Why have a hand mounted gunpod at all on the Valkyries? Why not just have the arm be a cannon itself and be done with? Why? Because it's anime, and someone thought it looked cool!

You lost me with Macross Plus, the OVA disc's were encoded way too dark, and the ME disc was an assload of VHS transfer. There are lightyears of difference between those & this. EVA platinum however would be a much fairer comparison, considering that went through Gainax's remastering process.

Psst, I was talking about the technical quality of the release, not the show itself Though I dissagree with you on the show's merits, that's a whole other matter.

I believe the official explanation was so that the Gunship could be ditched in an emergency (perhaps in case of some type of overload or other dangerous situation). And I'd love to see the AFOS pop back up, though we'll have to see the direction that the new series goes in. I think Kawamori's saving that for his endstory.

Um, no. The Video & audio quality is significantly better than most DVD's you find in the U.S. period. Diebuster has a very high quality encode. The lack of a dub only serves to help in that there was that much extra space for higher quality audio/video. To say there's nothing special about it is just flat out ignorant.

Macross Plus was 2 episodes a disc. Blue 6 was 1 episode a disc. FLCL was 2 episodes a disc, Yukikaze was 2, 2, 1 episodes per disc, etc. OVA's are more expensive, especially when they're newer ones. As such, they get sold with fewer episodes per disc. As was already said, be glad it wasn't released like it was in Japan, at 1 episode a disc, which is pretty much the norm with OVA's over there. When you look at the awesome audio/video quality you're getting with Diebuster, you can see where all that extra space is going.

I've nothing against Orbital Frames, just not sure if I like my Gundam's looking like them, though now that I've mentioned as much, the sup'd up Excia that is almost assuredly going to pop up in the second half of the series may very well have a huge cock-pit

Still not sure if I like the new Gundam designs. They kinda remind me of ZOE's Orbital Frames, without the huge cock-pits

If the VF-22 is any indication, then beam weapons should also become standard.

The New VF looks like a total desgn mesh of the VF-19 & 22.

"MUH MUH MUH MASK!" That would be all well & fine, but wouldn't hold a candle to a live action "Rubic The Amazing Cube" movie.

No, PAW PAW BEARS!