Final Vegeta

Yeah, exactly. I browsed her blog and found onani machines, or what they are called FV

It's Japanese, each kanji has several pronunciations. 有人 can be read as Arito, Arihito, Arindo, Aruto, Yuujin and Yuuto. By the way, as a word it means "piloted" FV

When you have time, can you post the original sentence, please? FV

I think it simply meant the ship is lowly armored. FV

I may have already stated this opinion, but looking at Kawamori's previous works Klan should probably be the protagonist only of a short (a TV episode), while the proper movie is the retelling. FV

Thanks to Gubaba and the others for the hard work! I know only the basics of Japanese, but I googled 空力制御 and found the term in a page of Japanese wikipedia: 空力制御では弾体に作用する空力（空気力）を利用する It would appear 空力 is indeed a reduction for 空気力 (aerodynamics). FV

One must consider that the model of war in Macross doesn't correspond to the model of war cited. In Vietnam troops were fighting in a foreign ground where they could be attacked at every moment even by people disguised as civilians, while in Macross Frontier troops fight mostly in their own territory to defend their own people, and enemy attacks are clearly signaled. The atmosphere is clearly different. More specifically, as a work of fiction, Macross represents not a war on people, but a war on valors, more exactly the same valors which would prevent war itself. It is also to say that the cultural model of the Japanese hero is a guy who achieves to mantain a serene state mind even in the midst of battle. In this condition, traumas are impossible. This is obviously different from the Western breeding which typically gives you only one teaching: "they are the bad guys, you can kill them without feeling bad". Unless you are already a psychopath, you will have no psychological defenses. Eastern philosophies instead always placed heavy emphasis on cultivating the spirit, for a reason. FV

Actually the distintion shounen/shoujo is based on the magazine where it was published, not on the anime For this reason, anime born as anime are not really classifiable in that sense. That said, Macross Frontier has 3 manga, of which 1 is shounen and 2 are seinen. There is also a light novel whose publisher is the same of the manga, and whose demographic is (obviously) male. I think I proved you definitively can't tell School romance is present in a lot of titles targeted to males. In fact, a school setting usually only means the target is teens or younger adults; the characters are about the same age of their intended audience, therefore it's reasonable they are students, unless they don't live in our contemporary world. And again you didn't explicitly name any shoujo title. If you are male, won't you like if females fawn at you more than you fawn at them? I don't understand why you can't see that Ranka and Sheryl are made to appeal mainly male audience, especially since their covert yuri relationship. Didn't the decent amount of fanservice in the show tip you off? For a similar example, Full Metal Panic has lot of school hijinks and a clueless male, and guess what? It's targeted toward males. What you would like to see sound suspiciously close to angst, and we have had enough of angsty teens in anime The keyword here is not "nature", it's "harmony", the blissful state of feeling whole. FV

Frankly, it bugs me a lot that people don't really know what they are talking about when they use the word "shojo" (maybe you come from 4chan?). Most famous school life anime are either from shonen magazines (for boys) or seinen magazines (for adult males) or even from eroge (for males). Just check the demographic of a title with Wikipedia and you'll be surprised. Trust me on this one: heterosexual love without incest -> most likely for male audience. This is why the characters of Gundam 00 are aimed at a girl audience for example, the homosexual relationship between Lockon and Tieria dominates all other possible ships. Maybe they got accustomed to? Even in SDF Macross Hikaru was shocked when he first confronted a Zentradi face to face, but then he pull himself together for the rest of the anime. I think the anime was focused instead of showing attrition in the surrounding world. You are misunderstanding even this one. There is a conflict between two styles of communication, one based on the belly (emotions), the other based on the head (thoughts). In Japanese there is a word, haragei (belly art), which means "comunication without words or gestures". If you watch anime, you should have found many cases where victory is achieved through co-ordinated team playing. In the final episode of MF all good guys are essentially doing team playing, like the Vajra were doing from the start. The opposite is Grace's implant network, which forces people together without the need for feelings of bond. FV

Maybe I've understood what it is. It's a short that will be shown before the movie, like the movie of Macross 7 and Ippatsu Gyakuten-Hen of Aquarion. Probably it's a new episode of the TV series focused on Klan (expecting something light with fanservice), while the movie is a retelling. FV

Incidentally, originally Gundam 00 had Gundams named after chess pieces (ie: Exia was Pawn Gundam, with a special move to "promote"). Probably there's a producer who likes chess FV

Nothing it's saying that it won't be awesome. Don't let your mind waver FV

She is one of the characters that have new clothes each episode, that's to be expected. FV

Maybe a more fitting comparison is what happens in SDF Macross (I think the episode was called "Blind Game") As for Gundam 00, I remember when in episode 23 they actually said "GN particles detected" and I was like . Anyway, that's not for this forum. FV

Technically there was never any debate, only mistranslations Since the first info the VF-25 was already declared the successor of the VF-19/22 in terms of battle capabilities. Anyway, there's something interesting here: We've got these three instances of "complete". I can guess what a complete Pin-Point Barrier System is, but what is the meaning of the Complete Chaff & Flare & Smoke Discharge System? FV

Ehr... Left TV Right BD FV

Happy birthday and thanks for you work on translations FV

Hmmm... now that you say it, I believe your analysis is incorrect. Pages from Wikipedia come up first when googling up so it is obvious why it is a preferred choice, but the other sites you mention have something in common: they have more information than official sites (ie: bs). The RPG site adds information guessing untold stats, the Robotech ones adds information from Robotech sources, therefore they appear deceivingly more "complete". I don't think a wiki could properly counter this type of disadvantage. FV

What? Mecha running on the walls aren't cool anymore? FV

You need to wait at least some five years, Kawamori said that he let some time pass between each series to introduce new elements (ie: mythology in Zero). FV

He is the creator of the project along with Thomas Romain, but he is not the mecha designr nor the director. He could still be called a "creative force" though. FV

I too like the M3 as it is. Wikies actually look less professional. Also, keep in mind that people like wikies because they can contribute, if they can't contribute there is no point in a wiki. FV

People commenting a show before having watched it. Internet at its finest FV

Exactly, they become the armpits. FV

No, it's not that. VF-22's thermonuclear engines: FF-2450B VF-19's thermonuclear engines: FF-2550J (I'm having some kind of deja-vu ) By the way, YF-21's thermonuclear engines: FF-2450B This, coupled with the fact that the YF-21 and the VF-22 share the same kind vernier thrusters, suggests that the VF-22 is more a modified YF-21 than a totally new VF. By the way, the VF-22's particularity is that it can hold two big missiles in the ventral bay in fighter mode (as shown in Macross 7). This may raise maximum T-O mass beyond the standards of other "vanilla" VFs, thus implying a stronger stress on the airframe. As stated, if the g-limit was calculated for standard mass (without ventral missiles), then the overall g-limit for full load may be lower and in ranges more normal for a VF, making the VF-22 a strategical bomber as agile as a fighter. On the contrary, if 27.5g is the limit of a VF-25 calculated with a protector armor full of missiles, then the standard mass g-limit will be higher. Human limits notwithstanding. FV