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  1. ChrisG
    Gundam 00V features the Union Flag Orbit Package Colony Guard Type, which is designed to construct and patrol space colonies.
  2. ChrisG
    Duke Togo is technically right and you're a bit wrong. Hideo Kojima didn't design the orbital frames - it was Metal Gear designer Yoji Shinkawa. However, Shinkawa only designed the orbital frames that appear in the PS2 games. The orbital frames that show up in the anime were designed by... Tsutomu Suzuki.
  3. ChrisG
    You really shouldn't be pleased because that doesn't even happen in the same continuity. Hathaway gets executed in Hathaway's Flash, which follows the continuity of the CCA Beltorchika's Children novel, not the CCA movie. In the novel, Hathaway is treated as a hero because he's the one who killed Quess.
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    Aside from the Orguss Valkyrie, I think you're stretching with the other ones. Dinosaurs on a planet isn't unique to Macross 7, and while those dinosaurs slightly resemble Jayviet, I don't think it's enough to count as a reference. Also, the dimension eater and the space/time oscillation bomb are entirely different things. The space/time oscillation bomb is designed to send things to other dimensions, and the dimension eater just destroys stuff.
  5. ChrisG
    People need to really not use Crunchyroll as a news source for licenses. They list everything they take down as licensed, whether it's an actual license or just a request from the Japanese company. The same goes for AnimeSuki. Crunchyroll also lists plenty of Gundam shows as licensed, but they aren't. As we all know, given Macross' licensing hell in America, if it really WAS licensed, we'd have all heard about it in a big way, and not from Crunchyroll.
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    As VF-25 Messiah has pointed out, that wouldn't work. Above love triangles and music, there's one prime element that has always been present in every Macross series: Valkyries. And in every production aside from Zero, there's been a Macross ship of some kind. Something focusing on the Protoculture will have neither, and thus no kits to sell. It's the same with Gundam - I've seen plenty of people saying it'd be good to have an OVA about the history of UC, or the events leading up to the One Year War. But the one truth in every Gundam series is that it will always have mobile suits of some kind, and anything set too far before the OYW wouldn't have that. Because of this, I don't think we'll ever see any Macross OVAs set before around 2008 when you wouldn't have transforming Valkyries.
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    Even with Macross Zero, as great as the CG was, they were also inconsistent and did some mecha combat in regular animation. That's one of the things that annoyed me about the production of that series - if you're going to do the mecha in CG, keep it that way 100% of the time. Also, Zero was a big budget short OVA, so obviously they can devote more money to making the CG look good. Even though Pailsen Files was also an OVA, they had to stretch that budget to cover 12 episodes compared to Zero's 5. Although I don't know how much Frontier costs, for the most part its animation looks better than the average TV show. For many other mecha shows with CG, I've noticed it's either usually "meh" or starts out kind of mediocre and doesn't improve until much later on (ie SRWOG Divine Wars).
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    Yes, Bandai used limited CG on SEED, but all the mecha combat was still traditional animation. I just don't like to see full CD mixed with 2D cel animation because it doesn't match. Even in Pailsen Files, the CG is pretty crappy early on and doesn't improve until much later on. Also, good animation will age much better than CG ever will. The CG used in shows like the first season of Initial D (1998) is horrendous compared to what you see in the fourth season (2005). In the case of Pailsen Files, supposedly Sunrise insisted on CG combat over the staff's objection. If CG is seen as the "new" thing, directors may not have much choice, even if that CG is pretty meh, as it was for the beginning of Pailsen Files.
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    I would agree with you on the CG, but unfortunately, our preferences don't really matter in the long run. The sad truth is that eventually an even larger number of mecha shows will feature CG rather than cel animated mecha. I'm surprised Gundam has managed to hold out so long with its TV series, but I suspect even it too will succumb to CG mecha someday.
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    I don't really buy the "Macross has always been _________" arguments I see in various places. As Radd pointed out, the final arc of the original series was added after the fact when the series was going to end at episode 27. We all know that story. A Macross TV series has also never been as short as Frontier looks to be, so obviously things are different with this incarnation. If there was a second season and it ended up being about 50 episodes, it'd be the same length as M7, so would that make any difference to you?
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    I personally don't understand why people are so hung up on the Megaroad. As far as I'm concerned, SDF Macross told the story it needed to tell about Hikaru, Misa and Minmay. Maybe something further with them would've worked in the 1980s, but that time has passed. I'm not in the least bit interested in seeing those three characters again, not the least of which is due to Arihiro Hase being dead. By the same token, it's like how people are still obsessed 20 years later as to whether Amuro and Char survived the end of Char's Counterattack. My feeling there is the same - the story of those two characters has already been told, and they're not needed anymore. Both Macross and Gundam have grown up and moved beyond their respective sets of iconic characters. Yes, both franchises have Char and Roy clones, but they've put the characters themselves to rest, and I think fans should too.
  12. ChrisG
    There's quite a lot of shows that get their second op sequence late. Also, extensions usually aren't possible since the shows that are placed into timeslots are usually decided months in advance. Some shows with late op sequence: Gundam Wing - doesn't get a second op until episode 41 Turn A Gundam - doesn't get a second op until episode 39 Super Robot Wars - didn't get a second op until around episode 17, out of 25 ep broadcast run (epilogue episode added on DVD)
  13. ChrisG
    I'll have to agree with Strumvogel. Until we get actual SALES numbers, the SHIPPED numbers tell us nothing. Yes, there is probably high demand for Frontier on DVD and BD, but by the same token, Bandai could be overestimating demand with the amount of copies shipped. That's why it's best to ignore any statements/press releases where a company brags about how many units of something they've just "shipped."
  14. ChrisG
    Not knowing how Frontier will end, I hope Frontier introduces a whole new generation of fans to the Macross franchise. And if that happens, I'd like to see more, but different Macross. I'd want to see a new OVA - maybe something in that 30 year gap between SDFM and Plus. I'd like to see a new TV series - but something different from the deep space fleet stories in M7 and MF. It'd all have to be done carefully, as I don't want to see Macross blow up and become overdone like Gundam.
  15. ChrisG
    My apologies on the confusion.
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    I'm not really going to bother addressing this, because like almost all the other speculation on this subject, people seem to prefer making tons of unfounded assumptions rather than just accepting the most likely explanation - that it IS the Macross. That's the most obvious answer going by Occam's Razor, rather than all this speculation.
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    Again, as has been stated in this thread and others, it isn't possible. This SDF's appearance with ARMD carriers for arms is clearly of human design, not Supervision Army. Whether or not this ship is the Macross, it simply can't be an unmodified Supervision Army ship.
  18. ChrisG
    There's an azrael on Mecha Talk, but I'm not sure if it's you. If it's not, I guess you didn't see any of the dozen threads we had for Gundam 00 starting from the moment the show was announced to the season finale. Some of that stuff was so out there that it makes these debates on the WTF-1 look like a scientific discussion between Einstein and Hawking.
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    That entry hasn't been updated and is just an importation of what was on the old Compendium, so it can't be used to account for things in Frontier. Let's assume for a moment that this really is the SDF-1 Macross. If episode 13 is going to presumably explain how it left Earth, and the episode hasn't aired yet, how would that information magically be in its profile entry in the Compendium? That's like pointing to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1930 to prove that TVs and computers don't exist. On a separate note, I've seen so many people arguing this back and forth everywhere online, and frankly it's getting tiring and annoying. Is it really so hard to wait until Thursday and see what episode 13 has to say on this subject?
  20. ChrisG
    It definitely was there. I just finished watching FotSW again for my re-review, and in some other shots you can see those purple bands in space.
  21. ChrisG
    I think legato pretty much covered it. Pailsen Files isn't about making Earth-shattering revelations to the VOTOMS world or about Chirico's past - it's about filing in the gaps. At the very least, it looks like it's connecting Roots of Ambition more to the TV series, and showing us what happens to get Pailsen from Roots to where he is in The Last Red Shoulder. For me, that makes this work fine as a prequel.
  22. ChrisG
    Given that the series still isn't over yet, I think it's too early for anyone to be claiming that it's a "mistake" or that it won't gel with what happens at the beginning of the TV series. It'd be wiser to just wait for these last 5 episodes before rushing to any judgments.
  23. ChrisG
    I don't mean to go off topic here, but whatever happened to the release of SPT Layzner?
  24. ChrisG
    It'd be nice to assume this would be true, but it isn't. There have been plenty of Japanese BD releases of stuff that's already been released in America, and it's vastly inconsistent. Some releases have English dubs, or no English at all, but even if they do include an English dub, they almost never have English subtitles. Even brand new releases like Gundam 00 and Code Geass R2 don't have them, so there's no reason to assume Frontier somehow will.
  25. ChrisG
    I really don't see why the events from Macross Plus would be mentioned, seeing as how Frontier is set 19 years after Plus. And given that the incident took place on Earth, it wouldn't really have any bearing on something happening in deep space like Frontier. If they didn't address it in Macross 7, which was only 5 years later, there's even less reason for it to be mentioned in Frontier.
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