Keith

Just got my Yamato box today. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I did take a look at all the disc's. There are actually some pretty nice extra's included. Lots of artwork (promotional, design, etc) for just about every film. Translated program books for each film, and even extra scenes. So much effort was put into the extra's infact that it really makes me wonder why they half assed the video so much. The box itself is a lot nicer than I initially thought it would be from the picture. It's a very sturdy box, all the white on it is nice & shiny, and the red has that foil stamped look. The top has a picture of the bridge along with Kodai getting into his Cosmo Zero, and the back has a bit of information & a couple of pictures from the movies. All in all, I'm much more impressed than I thought I would be with the art. The video itself is definately VHS dumped. The worst of it is shown in the subtitles which look a bit soft on all of the films, though the middle two (Be forever Yamato & New Voyage) show the worst of the video. All in all, nothing worse than the softness & grain of the Macross Plus Movie Edition disc. New Voyage even still has the part where it goes from full frame to widescreen. A quick question for anyone who may know. What Aspect ratio was Arrividerci shot in? ? Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look slightly cropped into fullframe. All in all, while it could have been a hell of a lot better, the Video is passable, especially considering it's the only way to get these films subtitled. The audio is solid through out though, no real complaints with what I checked, for the most partl the audio was better than the video if anything. Getting back to the extra's though, I think it's The New Voyage that has scenes that weren't included in the original release, and or just weren't included as extra's. The First movie has the alternate TV edit (or re-TV edit if you will) Iscandar scene included as an extra. And Final Yamato has both versiosn of the after credit epilogue/song scene as extra's (Kodai & Yuki coitus & non-coitus versions) instead of having them play right after the credits (acceptable since they are both still there). There's also a 24 page booklet (haven't read it yet, so not exactly sure what's there) that's only included with the box set. Combined with the lower online price (under $100 for all 5 movies, as opposed to almost $30 each individually at online shops), it seals the deal in making this the preferable way to get the DVD's. All films with theatrical releases also had the theatrical trailers included. While I am dissapointed about the video quality, it's still better than VHS, and it's not like I didn't know walking into it what I was getting. I'd definately say it's a worthy purchase for any Matsumoto fan, and is a great companion to the HK TV series sets (I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for the crapass video & edits of the starblazers tv sets). Any way you cut it, it's an infinately cheaper alternative to buying the R2's, and the extra's warrent the upgrade from VHS for whoever paid out the ass to pick those up (my Final Yamato tape cost almost a 3rd of the whole box set...what am I saying, it did cost me a 3rd damnit!).

The answer is much simpler than any of that. Gundam, at least UC, had nearly all radar nullified by the invention of minovsky particles. All targetting was pretty much done manually, though it appears some IR technology came about by the time of Zeta & along with the panoramic view cockpick. Close combat weapons like the beam saber were necessary because fights would take place in close quarters anyway. That's what was so important about Newtypes, their precognition worked as a radar system allowing them to track enemies when they weren't within an imidiate line of sight. Macross doesn't have that problem, and no beam sable would be able to hold up against a full missile barage.

First, Roy & Claudia originally met while stationed on a base during the Unification Wars (the scene where Roy check's out all the new operater recruits, then goes off on a mission in his Dragon II). -Roy & Claudia never went out on any dates (before getting together on South Atalia). On their first date Roy drove up with a car full of girls to pick up Claudia, which she wasn't too big on. He attempted to make it up with gifts, but both were eventually re-stationed. -Roy & Claudia don't get back together until being stationed on the Macross, though they do meet up again while Roy was testing the VF-X-1 (or was it a final prototype for the VF-1?), when he expresses his fears of flying it to her (likely before the events in Macross Zero). -Claudia & Misa chat at Claudia's home, not a coffee shop. As such,k anything goes for Roy & Aries. Aries by the way is my vote for who dies, not Edger.

Considering anime friend was involved in the production, and used their most half assed animators at that, it would definately benefit from being re-animated. Just as long as all the original audio is used (though some new Max & Milia scenes wouldn't hurt..., but only in addition to the original material). As for M7, it was in no way shape or form recycled anything, 100% original Macross story.

You're going to have an incredly hard time looking for macross art from the 70's.... But the box in question was mostly likely robotech. Macross hasn't been released in France until recently, an import of the AnimEigo masters with french subtitles is either released now, or is going to be soon. Seriously though, you need to make some attempt at describing the art though.

I use a shareware copy of gif construction set, pretty easy & straightforward.

The Uchuu Senkan Yamato Flagship Andromeda Arcadia And hell, another vote for just about any ship designed by Matsumoto.

How can you not own Arcadia Of My Youth yet! Screw money, go out and steal one. That's life under the flag of freedom! I wonder what's taking so long for the HK companies (or hell, even a U.S. company) to touch Galaxy Railways. Hell, I'm surprised no ones ripped the harlock TV box set that just came out yet. And damnit, they need to finish GE:999 TV. Stopping at episode 36 is nothing resembling fair damnit!!!!

Here's an update on the Yamato movies set, honestly I was hoping for a bit more of the box art but hey, what can you do. Still haven't recieved mine yet, hopefully within a week though.

I wonder how much they'll edit all the bouncing breasts in the show...

Unless media blasters fix their little "mono" audio problem, I'll stick with my R3 set.

Does anyone know why the hell they do that? To fit in more commercials. Glad I picked up the HK set last year though, don't think I'd be able to sit through the series as it is on CN.

The omission of the intro, excessive commercial breaks, and altering of the end credits just ruin the whole flow of the show.

Now you are just whining. That's ok, you can have your last word, I'll stand firm knowing I had the last relavent portion of the argument.

Looks like MZ23 volume 1 is set for June 1st http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/3039.php Appears to be a disc 1 only & disc 1 with box release (would have prefered a soundtrack damnit!). What an odd choice in art though, I expected them to use some of the Mikimoto art.....oh wait, it's ADV, nevermind... Hell, look at the heavy use of green, already going for the Matrix tye-in.

Don't let little old me hold hostage your drive for self improvement! Get on it now. Oh...And for future refrence, it's "learn to master the art of wit" Nope, I specifically said "learn the masterful art of wit," of course how could I expect such a thing from someone who can only resort to trying to re-organize sentance & word struction (of a sentence there was nothing wrong with in the first place) as a reply.

You really should follow your own advice... I'll get on that as soon as you learn the masterful art of wit.

:yawn: yeap...that went right over your head Cut the B.S., and at least make some effort in paying attention to a show when you're trying to argue a point about it.

I'll try to make this as simple as possable...just focusing on the Emaan universe, but it will still fly right over your head ... Scenario 1: Emaan universe exists, Mimsy exists, the space-time bomb never detonates and thus nothing is effected in this universe...Mimsy and some male Emaan get together and she has a child, grows old and dies...this is the "normal" timeline Scenario 2: again Emaan universe exists, as does Mimsy...but the space-time bomb goes boom...Mimsy gets sucked to other universe...life continues on...the would be father to Mimsy's child in Scenario 1 doesn't get transported to another universe and so he hooks up with some other woman..and they have a child Scenario 3: same as scenario 2, but Mimsy returns pregnant with Kei's child...Male whom was left behind has child with other woman Each scenario results in a completely different set of children... things can't return to the normal timeline if the bomb goes off, and if the bomb never detonates, there would be no TV series ... end of story! Don't give me your tv sci-fi "if you go back in time & make something never happen, then it will happen all over again in an endless loop" crap! As shown, Kei & Orsen "did" fix things by traveling back in time, there's no reason to believe that it would result in them never traveling back in time for the original events to loop all over again, and obviously Mimsy wouldn't have Kei's child once events were corrected.

What's wrong? Perhaps the fact that Shogo didn't get laid all summer long, and that there doesn't appear to be any distinction in seasons inside the Megazone...and it's freakin' stupid!

Who wants to take bets on whether or not they'll try to throw matrix references into the dub?

And what would be the point in showing Mimsy in the time relative to that which Kei traveled back to (or if you prefer, originated from?), none! Argue all you want, but the fact remains it was specifically explained in Orguss that only a handful of Universes were intertwined (not infinate possabilities), that it was isolated entirely to the Earth, and that Kei & Orsen did indeed travel back in time to kill their younger selves (they didn't detonate another dimensioanl bomb to blow the universes apart). There is afterall only "1" Orguss TV series, with "1" ending.

ADV finally put up "something" about Megazone 23 other than the fact that they licensed it. http://www.advfilms.com/titles/megazone/ Barely any info, but from the looks of it there's a new dub (guess even they couldn't stand the streamline dub, not that the new one seems to be any better), and it's due out this summer. The copyrights are shown for all 3 parts, so hopefully they'll release it in a single set instead of individual releases. Whoever wrote the copy for that trailer should be shot.

No, there isn't the possability for an infinate number of things to happen. It was explicitely explained during the series, only a few dimensions were caught in the anomoly (Chilam, Eiman, dragon/dinosaur, etc), it was a very localized mishap. As such, the only outcome of the situation was the one seen. As for Orguss 02, I wouldn't waste time with it, much like Macross II & Megazone 23 Prt II it vastly contradicts everything that came before it, leaving you wondering why they even bothered to make it. In the specific case of Orguss 02, they claim that a second dimensional bomb was set off to correct the effects of the first, but still leaving some mishaps leftover. In the actual Orguss ending, no second bomb is set off, and Kei & Orsen travel back in time. This is but "1" bizarre chocie made in the Orguss 02 production.

Pick up a cheap U.S. kit, you'll get a basic idea of how the manuels work.