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(Rough) translations of the news items on the renewed Macross site: http://www.macross.co.jp/ News items (3): - It'll be 25 years of Macross on Oct. 3rd. There will be new movement (in Macross) from the website renewal; this year is the turning point in Macross. It is large attention of "Macross" that begins to move bewilderingly from this year to next year. - Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007 - going to have a booth there. They're going to have a display on the previous series, and mechanical designs. - searching for voice talent (for the heroin of a new Macross production.)

Don't you mean Ch'an wasn't offended? Now if you're going to get picky about Buddhism in Macross, then you have to do the same for all anime that is produced in Japan. But don't stop at Buddhism! Don't forget about Confucianism, Shintoism, and all of the other things that makes the culture different from your own! I agree that you have a life, in the sense that you are living, but you apparently lack education. Please correct us if I am wrong. Also, going back to your first post, shouldn't it be 'nature loving' and not 'tree hugging', as the two are quite different and the later is more applicable to the work in question. I was thinking about that (nature in Macross Zero), and I concluded that Macross Zero cannot exist without some type of exposition and highlighting of nature; in the context of the greater Macross series in general. Why? One key element of the Macross storyline is the destruction of the Earth and human's actions after it. If Macross Zero were to not highlight nature, it would be a failure on the part of the writers as they would have neglected one of the overall Macross story's main points and theme. I have no doubt that nature (either the lack of it (ie: crater filled landscape a la DYRL and M+), or highlighting of it) will appear in the next Macross production; along with singing, love triangles, VFs, and the missile circus. I don't agree that it will be entirely CG (CGA's cost and time prohibitive in general) and I hope that it will be a continuation of the post-Macross 7, VF-X2 storyline.

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http://escaflowne.anime.net/story/chronology/1999/index.html 2004. June - the Plundering Fleet 2005. Sept 8th - the returning fleet from Mars Base Sara is destroyed. Two seperate events have been confused as being one and the same. The exact words used in the Compendium chronology (about the plundering fleet) are:

Zen Buddhist? Please point out what is Zen Buddhist in Macross Zero. Perhaps it was Mayahana Buddhism (but I didn't see any Bodhisattvas) and not Theravada, but Zen?

http://www.bandai-museum.jp/ scroll down, there's English. None of the push-buttons on the webpage work...

If I'm not mistaken, it's a short story (prose) in the middle of the Macross Memory Perfect book. It takes place during the UN wars, and is about Captain Global prior to him being assigned to captain the SDF-1.

Given the mission role envisioned for the VF-19, maybe the "limited" missile load is to be used mainly as a distraction to cover it's retreat after completing the assassination of the mission target with non-missile weapons?

Not necessarily. They could have been naturally occuring. Nature is more diverse than it sometimes appears to be - fish that can fly, etc.. Why not Galactic Whales that can enter Super Dimension Space? Maybe we are looking at it backwards - it's not so much that the Protoculture created the Galactic Whales, but that the Protoculture were inspired to create engines that copied the natural abilities of the Galactic Whales?

It depends on the FAST pack used. Essentially, every FAST pack seen from about the halfway point of Macross 7 onwards (including Dynamite, and Zero,) are transatmospheric. Some of them include scram jets (or is it ram jets?) instead of rocket motors. Specifically for the VF-11, the SES FAST packs introduced with the VF-11 Kai are the only ones that are transatmospheric and able to work equally in atmospheres and space, and not needing to be ejected.

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Apparently with progress, the thermonuclear engines of VFs have been reduced in size enough to fit in weapons pallets or bays in the engine nacelles of all VFs from the 2030's onwards. The VF-22, VF-19, YF-19, VF-17, Fz-109, Az-130 and VF-11 MAXL Kai all have them. One could even say that the (non-canon? your opinion) VF-11, VF-5000 and VF-4 have the extra space too (VF-4 has conformally mounted munitions - definitely taking space, just not a lot of it.)

1. If by armour, you mean the FAST packs, than yes. But it's not so much 'rise' as it is 'opens like a door on a hinge.' 2. Same as 1 - opens like a door on a hinge to reveal what is inside.

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Pg 120 of Shoji Kawamori Macross Design Works has a rough drawing of the internal weapon bay of the VF-11C. Pg 78 of the same book has a rough of a VF-11B with a single "stealth pod" mounted on each wing. It is possible that these eventually developed into what I consider the 'aerodynamic UUM-7' missile pods as seen on the cover of the "This is Animation Special Macross Plus" book, in front of the YF-19.

It depends on how the meteor hits. Usually, a meteor will slowly vaporize, leaving only a few chunks that actually hit the surface of the Earth. It should be considered rare the number of big ones that survive long enough to literally hits the dense air closer to the surface. At that point, they usually explode with the force of an atom bomb, or greater. The Tunguska event is a great example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event The ASS-1 obviously didn't do any of these, which basically boils down to anime magic; followed by a lower, slower, and controlled tragectory of approach. Even though it isn't mentioned directly, we can assume that the ASS-1 contains super materials or even the 'structural integrety field' of Star Trek, which kept it in basically one piece. And yes, Zinjo, it did come down under it's own power, or at least on a controlled crash landing course. The ship, sans crew, was left on Earth as a "Booby Trap" by the Supervision Army to delay the Zentraedi who were chasing them, as they (the Supervision Army) left the area (by area, it's probably safe to presume the Local Spur, or even the Orion Arm of the galaxy.) This was made clear in SDF:M, in the first two episodes.

Matt Groeing is someone who does throw in a plethora of in-jokes - some of them being so esoteric, that few, if any, get the joke. I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those esoteric jokes.

I think it's all of the above. The character designs by Mikimoto in Macross 7 are some of his best - simple, clear, and cute. Though, I do agree that some of them are less than desirable (Basara.) But we should keep in mind that Mikimoto is essentially a freelancer to this job, and he only produced what he was told to do. I think his work should be judged more along the lines of 'look what he created given his limitations' as opposed to 'man, he was solely responsible for the characters in Macross 7.' Anyhow, Jenius, you may think that Macross 7 sucks, but not everyone does. Boiling the arguement down to 'how much it sucks' isn't a good summation of the debate, as it completely ignores the opinions of those who don't think it sucks, though don't necessarily think that it is a great anime either.

She hoped he was alive. He was killed, along with the rest of the personnel of Mars Base Sara AND the fleet that went to pick them up and return them to Earth, when the Anti-UN destroyed them in their hijacked Oberth destroyer near Earth.

Tanks and APCs on the moon. The next generation Hound Dog and/or Lancer II space fighter for non-atmospheric, non-terrain operations.

Not necessarily. With no threat on the horizon, and a general switching to cheaper is better, there'd be little incentive to continue development and deployment of Destroids, and we'd see a continued deployment of things like tanks, APCs, and helicopters. Of course, if the UN Wars continued (or the economy of the UN decided to go the route of the military-industrial economy, and create a war simply to fuel the economy) then there'd be continued development and deployment of Destroids; possibly even VFs. But, there'd still be plenty of tanks, APCs and helicopters.

Inflation. Inflation + changes in the exchange rate + increases in shipping costs & import fees. AND, people have been willing to purchase these things at inflated costs. The manufacturer wants in on that action, so the costs go up. Personally, as long as people are willing to spend as much as they have been on these things, the price will remain high, and possibly climb higher. If everyone (and I do mean everyone) stops purchasing them at the high prices, we'll see price cuts, but on the flip side, less variety produced by the company. Part of the increased costs are due to R&D (need to buy the latest computers and the latest CAD software, and retrain your workers to remain compatable with the factory), but they are also due to an entirely new set of molds needing to be created. 'Simple' fixes as well, require new molds being made, and those things are expensive, in the thousands of dollars range. I have a general question: are these kits hand or machine assembled?

He may just be called Skull-2 simply because Skull-1 is Fokker's callsign, and, at least in some airforces, wingpairs are generally referred to by the callsign of the wingleader, not necessarily by their squadron name. This may also be the reason why DD Ivanov instantly recognizes Roy Fokker's VF as Fokker, and not any random pilot in the skull squadron.

I fully agree with you, VFTF1, especially: Though, I don't limit it to anime, and SDF:M in particular. This is an important aspect of all entertainment - give highlights and important moments of a story, just enough to leave the viewers wanting more, but at the same time, developing as much of a well-rounded view of the situation inside of the story as is possible. The master of this is George Lucas, especially when it comes to action scenes: we never see the same circumstances or equipment used twice - and for those of us with the means, we want to go back and relive those moments, as they only come once. Even the lightsaber duels are wildly different throughout the six movies (and they are rarely shown more than once per movie.) DYRL is another good example of this - the entire SDF:M series is condenced into a movie. Sure, some things get lost in the process, but the main point of DYRL is to act as a reminder of the TV series, cased in better animation. It, too, follows the technique of having wildly different action scenes. Simply for comparison purposes: "Die Another Day" is an example of repetative action scenes: the sword fight early in the movie was great IMHO the best sequence in the entire movie as I actually felt JB would be harmed, redoing the sword fight on the burning airplane at the end of the movie (despite being between the two female leads), was not good, and actually hurt the movie, IMHO. There were also far too many scenes of "men firing guns at each other". Watching that movie made me yearn for the creativity in "Goldeneye" - probably the best being the exploding pen gimmick. But this is all for another discussion in a different forum.

New VF. New VF, not because the old ones don't work, but because that's the way these things generally turn out. If we look at all the Macross anime released to date, every one has a new VF - some of the games even introduced new VFs as well! What will it most likely be? Somewhere in the middle of what we've seen. The VF-1/0 are a bit 'limited' (but have great selling potential in all markets,) and the VF-19/22 are a bit too uber, and may make the series a little less than interesting (who cares if the hero can take out all the enemies, with no fear of damage or injury?)