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The version of that I've heard is it was a patch to CORRECT an animation error. The guys drawing the episode had given Max a giant beam gun(much like Gamlin would routinely use many years later, strangely enough) that he one-shot'ed the recon craft with, and it was too late to completely redraw the sequence by the time anyone else found out. Hence a lot of missiles were added to Max's VF so he could still one-shot it, but do so from an appropriate tech level. That way they just had to reshoot the attack scene with a missile rack(hastily drawn) and some missile trails(probably recycled) overlaid on the Valkyrie instead of the deathray that was initially overlaid. That's why you never see that particular expansion pack ever again. It was the anime equivalent of white-out. It's interesting to know that AnimeFiend isn't incompetent. Though I shall now never forgive them for farming Virgin Road out to Star Pro without adequate information to draw anything right instead of never forgiving them for animating Virgin Road. As you noted, it's still their fault, though it's management's fault and not the animators'.

Or "The truth about the Vajra is... they're pretty badass. And they kill stuff. Beyond that... who cares?"

Gattai has the best image quality... provided you download the .ass file and combine it with a raw. I found all the presubbed videos to have rather low image quality. The HD raws are beautiful, though.

Could've been an excuse to introduce a bit of realism regarding space to a viewing audience that's never gotten to see it before, and typically believes you pop like a balloon. We've had TWO decompression incidents now, which is a rather stark comparison to the zero of everything else. ... Okay, so there was one in the original TV series, and if I recall it was included for similar reasons. But I'm not sure the Britai spacewalk counts, what with all the subsequent dialog talking about how badass Britai was for not dying immediatly when he hit space(certainly he WAS badass, but it undermined the original point of "hard vacuum isn't immediatly fatal"). And like that first time so very long ago, I'm sure there's people misunderstanding the point of the latest one and going "Gee, it sure is lucky they were near the emergency shelter" instead of getting that there's LOTs of these shelters peppering the ships so you're ALWAYS near one, and the ordinary civilians(okay, so our heroes aren't ordinary, but...) are trained to find the nearest shelter if they see a dome failing. (It's probably less important in the main dome due to the massive volume of air and self-sealing dome, but on the smaller ones it would be a serious concern). What we've learned from MacF so far: 1. You too can survive hard vacuum. 2. That doesn't mean you play around with it. I just want to know why the VF-25 carries a lightsaber-knife. Oh, and is it me, or do the lobsters have some sort of obsession with Ranka?

Probably just that everyone's seen them already. Though we've already used more bandwidth discussing the OP/ED validity than would've been used linking them...

I strongly recommend grabbing the raw and using the .ass files Gattai's been releasing. The quality difference between the raws and the pre-subbed video files is huge.

Are they still VFGirl cosplayers if they're naked?

I'm still resisting. My raw is downloaded, anxiously awaiting a sub file to make it complete. I'm still amazed at Ranka's hair. It's more like a living being than actual hair.

Now, to be fair, he didn't accuse it of causing children to turn gay. ... I'm still not touching the doorknobs. *climbs out a window*

Yes, we DO know who fired first. Episode 27: 5 minutes, 25 seconds: The Zentradi fleet fires on Earth, as Hikaru and Minmay express mutual angst. 7:05: Bodol laughs evilly at the devastation of the Earth. 10:25: The Grand Cannon unleashes holy hell on the Zentradi fleet. The cannon fires AFTER the zentradi bombardment. Other notable points: Bodol orders the fleet to fire on the Earth as soon as the fleet's defold is confirmed. The brass in the Grand Cannon base are attempting to contact the zentradi fleet and being completely ignored. This ain't your modern pacifist hippie anime where all pain and suffering is the direct fault of the evil warmongering military. The zentradi fleet only came to Earth because it had ALREADY been decided that the planet, the Macross, and the "infected" zentradi ships would be destroyed to prevent cultural contamination. And yes, I just HAPPENED to have my DVDs sitting next to me and got obsessive with the timestamps. Not obsessive enough to back up and find the episode where they establish that this is standard operating procedure for the zentradi when they find a "cultured" world, though. Okay, love him or hate him, you have to admit that's hilarious.

But the aerial performer job is Hikaru's back-story.

Flying. Just like Hikaru or Isamu.

Plus started as a movie. And in fact, most of the footage wound up on the big screen, where the smaller-size film would have made grain hopelessly visible(if you saw Fantasia 2000 at an Imax theater... think Sorcerer's Apprentice). So most, if not all, of it is fit for an HD transfer. I suspect the OVA-exclusive parts are fit too. Just for consistency's sake(I also gather Japan had a high-resolution LaserDisc format, so there'd be a logical reason if they intended to publish that way). But that may be semi-wishful thinking(only semi-wishful because... I'd rather see the movie version anyways). I have my doubts that 7 is fit to expand.

Wasn't that Gundam SEED? Gah! I sincerely hope that Fleet of the Strongest Women is not considered canon. Given it was dropped from broadcast plans, then packed in as a DVD extra, it's kind of in a gray area... right?

2 words: Operation Stargazer.

Did Animeigo do a DYRL release? I'm only questioning the point of a BluRay original series. I meant to make that clearer. It got lost somewhere between my brain and keyboard. I completely agree that DYRL needs the HD treatment. Now.... when do we get Imax-res TV, so I can rebuy Fantasia 2000?

It happened in Gaogaigar too. But only once or twice.

The DVD version is already at the limits of the source image. You CANNOT extract more detail once you start seeing film grain. Animeigo hit the grain limit. They DID remove the film grain at one point during the remastering, but then had to add it back in for the final revision because it looked too flat without any grain.

But Animeigo isn't getting anything anymore anyways, so it's a moot point. I've got the original 9-disk box, though. And I will proudly proclaim my affection for the artwork until the end of time.

But you strike a blow against the evil empire in the process! Use the Force, Luke!

There's not a legal J release? You could buy that and print out a script.

This here is the big problem. The colonization fleets are FLEETS. There's a lot of allies to worry about, and a single ship's barrier overload could be catastrophic for the rest of the fleet. Though by spec, the New Macross vessels HAVE an omnidirectional barrier. They just don't use it. http://macross.anime.net/mecha/united_nati...ross/index.html under countermeasures. ... Pity so many of the numbers are sevens. It'd be nice to not have such a significant vessel in the continuity defined in terms of a very large pun. Ehhh.... I guess this was already dealt with. But I at least get to be the first to point out the ODB is still in use! +$0.02 anyways.

Yah. Apparently Atlus has decided that SRW has not shown itself to be a marketable franchise in America. ... Maybe if they spent more than five dollars on ADVERTISING, so people actually knew the game was coming... But this IS the same company that kept on not reprinting Disgaea while eBay scalpers made a killing.

But how did you feel about the bonus dungeon in Tales of Destiny?

I remember that. Then when it fell through, HG deleted the news from their website archives.