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Streamline died before the DVD age, there was never a streamline DVD released. "However," streamline did sell themselves to Orion before they went under, who also went under & were picked up by MGM. MGM was under the impression that they still held Streamlinses licenses, & either contracted Image Entertainment (or licensed out to them) some of Streamlines titles. The short story is that they didn't actually hold the rights, and those licenses subsequently were pulled from shelves. One such release to make it to DVD with Streamline's logo still on it however was Megazone 23 Part I. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head that also made it out. Also, Ideon has never been released in the U.S. But since we're also allowing early 90's & Gall Force counts, I'll throw in The Irresponsible Captain Tylor!

Actually, the Space Gandam V DVD is all regioin.....the hard part is making it past the excessively long beach scene at the beginning, along with the fat kid getting chased by a dog that chews up his pants. The fat kid later gets a Boss Borot style robot....because he's fat!

I still need to watch my copy of Five Star Stories. Last time I tried I fell asleep hard.

Duo is indeed the baddest Gundam of all time! heh

Macross 7 is clearly superior, as well as being a significantly better show than most give it credit for. But then the fact that it managed to be a 52 episode series, movie, & 4 episode OVA, as opposed to a 6 episode OVA with the budget pulled out near the end more than speaks for itself. Also noting that the two are only 2 years apart in production time puts them as relative contemporaries. The Japanese fanbase has spoken, & Kawamori & Nue have spoken. A few U.S. fans who refuse to accept a few changes doesn't make a show bad.

Hmm, think I'll get this, as it's going to be hard to tell if Honeamise will release Diebuster this year, let alone the movies. Must have new footage! Bah, see what you've gone & done, now I've pre-ordered the damn thing!

They were VF-1X in regards to the film production, but for story purposes, since the story took place during the 2009-2010 era, there still would have been differences aside from the head.

Wait, you didn't like Get Free? Have you no soul? And the control in VFX-2 was perfect (aside from the speed options, but that was fixed in the PS2 game). BC's is just as bad as VFX-1.

Considering battlecry is pretty much The VFX-1 engine with cell shaded graphics & VFX-2's static backgrounds, I honestly don't see how you can think that.

You should start with Zeta or the 0079 3 movie pack, or nothing!

Gundam got decent scores, looks good, looks fun, I'm totally there.

Always!

Actually, I'm a diehard "Macross Fan," which includes Zero, TV, DYRL, Plus, Plus ME, 7, Dynamite, and yes, I'm even quite knowledgable about II. I'd hardly consider it a weekness to actually "get" 7 though, that is afterall your loss.

Psst, re-read that again chief. I never said the Grand Cannon was DYRL, nor did we ever specify this was just a DYRL comparison. What I actually said was that Macross II borrows 90% from DYRL, & 10% from Macross TV. Um...no. The Protodevelin's Varuta forces were far from drooling zombies. They showed independent thought (capable of choosing who's orders to follow in conflicts between Gepelnitch & Gigil), they were capable of acting autonomously for long periods of time (while seperated from their main forces trying to capture City 7), were quite skilled in their technical abilities (who do you think rebuilt that Varuta fleet, not to mention the specific tasks involved with hijacking City 7's fold system), etc. All the Marduk Zentradi were capable of was "duh don't attack, duh attack, and kamizake attack!," which I already pointed out earlier. They had no specific skills, weren't capable of acting in any detailed though on their own, and were useless outside of combat. The music was an arbitrary trigger for the Marduk Zentradi, which as I said, could have just as easily been something else. That's nothing more than conjecture on your part, not really based on anything. The music isn't shown to sooth them, it's merely a pre-determined trigger to envoke a predetermined response. Exactly. The Minmay Attack didn't work because the Marduk Zentradi had no free will, and had no mental capacities left to them aside from "don't kill, kill harder, & kill everything even yourself." If music truly had anything to do with their mind control (aside from being a pre-determined stimuli), then the Minmay Attack still would have affected them like it did the Marduk. What's the difference? One were labotomized zombie troops, and the other were not. The Protodevelin Mind control was more akin to replacing their normal human persona's, with persona's of a loyal military force. As I've clearly pointed out, they still had independent thought, were capable of communicating in words (as opposed to the Marduk Zentradi's "grunts"), were capable of complex tasks, working autonomously, and making choices. The term "Zombie" far better suits the Marduk Zentradi. What Fire Bomber's music did was awaken their original persona's, and snap them out of their control. You can drop if you like, but don't pretend for a second that this is an even sided discussion. Taking pot shots at Macross 7 to divert the topic also won't help you here. I know what your "POV" is, it's just wrong, as I've repeatedly proved it to be.

I'm sorry, but no, Macross II most definately did "not" cover aything new. It's not a generalization, it's a fact. 90% of it is directly copied from DYRL, and the other 10% is from the TV series. Since we're shown the Zentradi already had an equivilent of alchohol, being drunk doesn't weaken the fact that Kamjin threw the Minmay Attack right back in Minmay's face. The fact that he gathered up an assault force of already cultured Zentradi show this as well. The whole bit about the cocky complacent military was already in the TV series, you'll recall the whole incident with the Grand Cannon. And I suggest you watch Macross II again, as music had nothig to do with the Marduk controlling their Zentradi. The style of mind control they used was more of a Pavlov response than anything. They could have just as easily used flashing lights, varrying degree of electric shock, or smells. The Marduk's Zentradi had 3 settings. Don't Attack, Attack, and Suicide Attack, with their mind control rigged to literally only respond to the 3 songs which envoked those 3 outcomes. Music meant absolutely nothing in the equasion, which is why the Minmay Attack there had no effect, i.e. those Zentradi had all independent thought capacities stripped away from them. The Varuta in Macross 7 are another animal entirely, as they're more under a "brainwash" style of mind control than an absolute response type. They still show independent thought & tactics, can still converse like normal humans, they're just reprogrammed to think they work for the Protodevelin.

The real FX is out of production unfortunately. Though to be honest, FX quality took a giant dump towards the end, last I heard they were using DVD-R's instead of factory pressed disc's. The golden age of HK's officially died 2-3 years ago when sars broke out, all of the officials took the opportunity of closing the boarders to seize product & arrest the bootleggers. Everything after that was just R1 rip, japanese tv broadcast rip, or even more recycling of other bootleggers products. Best bet would be to find someone "really" honest on ebay, e-mail Kevin Lam to see if "maybe" he has any left from when he closed the Valkyrie Exchange, or hope for another run of the actual FX master. Or import the R2 & use a subtitle script of course

Definately Eureka Seven, besides which, Renton is only 2 years younger than Hikaru, if you can accept one, the other isn't that much of a stretch. -Gunbuster comes out in February and is a must see. As others have mentioned, Gundam 0079 (the moives set is easy to find), Zeta, Turn A, Victory. -Escaflowne -Uchuu Senkan Yamato 1-3 + movies -Votoms. And many others that have already been mentioned like Giant Robo & Megazone 23.

It's something very certain. Watch how the Zentradi go back to normal when either shutting off their com lines, or just trudging through the culture shocl. Hell, if the effects were long term, then Britai's fleet would have been useless. The Zentradi weren't retards afterall, they were just inexperienced in such things. It's in either episode 25 or 26, there are even charts shown. I believe its specified in the dialogue. Don't remember exact quotes though. Well, useless in that without the Britai Adoclas fleet, all the Minmays in the world wouldn't have gotten the Macross anywhere near Bodolza's ship. The "Minmay Attack" was specifically designed for culture shock so that the enemy would become vulnerable to attack. Basara had no such plans, as he sang not to distract, not to create a window of attack for others, he sang to directly motivate others to "willingly" stop their fighting & and enjoy a common feeling. It had the added benefit of "exciting" the Varuta forces enough to snap out of their mind control. This all goes back to the end of the first TV series though. After Kaifun threw Minmay's culture shock back in her face, she realized the reason she should be singing isn't to for fame, or to stun the Zentradi. She realized that she needed to envoke a geniuine emotion in people, otherwise what she was doing would be hollow & meaningless. This same issue was covered with Myung & Sharon. Basara carried the torch by aggressively trying to envoke emotions in people, not just by hanging out & waiting for it to happen, but getting right in their faces. His conviction turned out to be so strong that it not only snapped those Varuta soldiers out of their sleep, but also generated a lifeforce energy too raw & powerful for the Protodevelin to obsorb. Basara is the ultimate evolution of Minmay. The Varuta give us insight into just who the Supervision Army were, why the Protoculture fell, and why the Zentradi roam around taking out anyone they concieve to be a threat. Basically, the fall of the Protoculture resulted from the Protodevelin using their own technology against them. The Protoculture themselves were captured by the Protodevelin, put under mind control, and used as a shield against the Zentradi. With their orders not to attack Protoculture citizens, the Zentradi were rendered as nothing more than moving targets. With little choice left, the Protoculture had to remove the ban on the Zentradi attacking them, so that the Protoculture themselves could go after the Protodevelin with whatever their incarnation of Anima Spiritia was. This had the flipside of the Protoculture themselves becoming targets once the Protodevelin were sealed away. They tried to demilitarize the Zentradi into their own society, the Zentradi feared that (just as Bodozla feared human civilization), and went about destroying the remains of the Protoculture who'd become a threat, as well as whatever remaining Supervision Army there was. In much the same vein, the Protodevelin used what remained of the Megaroad-13 fleet, as well as the expedition fleet that went to find them, and turned them into a new Supervision Army to do their dirty work for them. It was a really good idea, especially when it was covered in the original series. We already get the whole storyline with culture shock no longer working, and it was done much better at that with Kamjin & Laplamiz choosing to go against human culture, gathering like minded Zentradi, and mounting an offensive against humanity. Macross II covers absolutely nothing new. The Minmay attack was already showed to fail when Kamjin was not only immune to it, but threw the kiss right back in Minmay's face. That's what prompted her final growth as a character. To another extend Macross Plus also covered this, though it was obviously done after II, as did 7 with the Jamming Birds. That's one of the most awesome moments in anime. Basara literally made her wet with excitement. Unlike the other Protodevelin, Sivil didn't automatically reject his power, she embraced the rawness of it, and eventually learned to create it herself. The Protodevelin not truly being evil in anway, they were just trying to survive in the universe like everyone else. Their only means of doing it being to feed off of the life of others. The reason they couldn't cope with anima spiritia was because it wasn't simply energy that could be drained away, but energy that perpetuated itself with more energy through good feeling & what not. Something that they apparently hadn't encountered in their native dimension. Once learning to sustain themselves, they were no longer a threat. The only dissapointed I had with 7, was that Sivil didn't stay with Basara, as Mylene clearly belongs with Gamlin.

Besides, after everyone hated their attempt at ripping off exosquad (robotech 3000), they had no choice but to go back to the novels

Hmm, combined with Gunbuster, there will be many breasts a jiggling in February...

Meh, I've already got it pre-ordered. Though to be fair, this will only be my 3rd time buying it.

There's another incredibly under-explained aspect to this everyone's forgetting, that being 'Fold Communication." Assumedly, this is a long distance communication signal that by all indications has no time delay at all. My theory being this can be so, because a much smaller portion of space needs to be folded in order to send communications over long distances. The term first popped up during DYRL (I think), and was later fleshed out a bit with the whole Galaxy Network concept, i.e. a network of instantanious communication that connects all of the colonies, colony fleets, & earth.

There's no reason to believe there will be any edits whatsoever.

All Valkyries eject fold their fold boosters immediately, it's pretty much a stock manuever.

And especially if he's wearing his spandex Sentinels uniform!