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I doubt I'll even have enough time to do Nanase's sheet until next month, and you KNOW what a high priority THAT page is for me...

I think you mean Wanzerfan, not Whamhammer...

Sorry...I'd like to pitch in and help more, but I'm having a hell of a time trying to complete "Dreaming Prelude~My Fair Minmay" in time for Minmay's 16th birthday on October 10th. And once I finish that it's on to Macross the First Chapters 3 and 4, before moving on to "Misa Hayase: White Reminiscences."

Unfortunately, it's not the B page...it's the A page, so there will be no big Tenjin pic of it...

Y'know, I had a feeling you were being sarcastic...but this thread in particular always seems to have people saying the most outrageous things with a straight face, so I always tend to turn my "irony-detector" off when I come in here. Sorry for underestimating you.

I doubt it. I rented a DVD of the '80s movie "Tampopo" when I was in Tokyo, and that had English subtitles on it. So, I believe, did the DVD of the '90s Japanese movie, "Swallowtail Butterfly," and THAT (unlike "Tampopo") never had an official English release. So...they CAN do it; they just don't. I'd also like to mention to anime52k8 that virtually every sign in Tokyo is in Japanese AND ENGLISH.

I'm BOTH. Why is nobody paying me...?

And convertibles are total chick-magnets!

When you decide that translating Macross novels would be a great way to spend the next five or six years.

Of course not...after that, he couldn't stand at all... Really, MY favorite bad guy in that movie was the one who tried to strangle Ricky with his intestines. For a moviegoer as jaded as myself, sometimes I feel like there really is nothing new under the sun...but that scene proved me wrong.

Before you get to Zeta, you might want to check out the Gundam Movie Trilogy, which addresses some of the weaknesses of the show. (Of course, they have their own weaknesses as well, the main one being that they are long and sprawling and very episodic...the first movie in particular seems to be drawing to a close about three times before it actually ends.) Newtypes get explained better (and much earlier), some of the sillier mecha is removed (no G-Fighter, or Guntanks flying in space), and you get to see Sayla's boobs. The third movie is esepcially good (mostly because it's the only one that has a real ending). And watch closely during the ending credits of the third movie. Anyway, I'm sorry you didn't like the ending. I thought it was great, but I guess if you were expecting "Kill "em All" to make good on his name, you're bound to be disappointed. Not all (or even most) of Tomino's works have such apocalyptic endings.

And yet, a quick Google search would've set you straight. You ARE doing this deliberately, aren't you?

*sigh* Which doesn't really explain why you passed the information along without checking it out first... This happens so often that I'm beginning to think you're DELIBERATELY adding misinformation and lies into the mix.

No it wasn't. It was "son of a bitch." There was also a "damn" in there that sometimes gets censored.

Where did you hear that? First off, he didn't die in a motorcycle accident (although that's what was initially reported), he killed himself by jumping from a building. Second, since his death, numerous likenesses of Hikaru Ichijo have appeared, in the PS2 game, on merchandise, in Macross Frontier, on DVD boxes, and most recently on the new Macross website. PLEASE. Get your facts straight BEFORE you post.

Everyone in that movie was so thoroughly nasty that the Warden doesn't really stand out much...

I call BS. The average Japanese DVD costs about two-to-three times as much as the average US DVD. The die-hard-must-have-it-now fans will buy the Japanese DVD...everyone else would wait. And there would be translation snobs who would buy both to compare the different subs.

I have to say, I don't get this. No matter what you do with Robotech, no matter who many times you dub it, tweak it, develop it, or change it...it will never be Americana. It will always be something that has had it's roots in Japan. It can be interesting in the way that fusion cuisine is interesting, but I don't think it's either possible or desirable to erase the roots so throughly so that none of it shows through. (For the record, as so that I don't seem like an insufferable Japanophile, I do like a lot of cross-cultural stuff. The Departed was every bit as good as Infernal Affairs, and the Bollywood musical version of the Godfather was a real kick, to cite just two examples. But if you really want an American sci-fi cartoon, you can't do it with Robotech, I don't think.)

I suppose that could happen...if there were really no other choice... A while back, I was having a talk with Wanzerfan over PM, where he said he would never forgive Kawamori for shoving aside the Macross II timeline to make way for his own. To me, it made perfect sense, and I think anybody in Kawamori's shoes would've done the same. Yes, he could have made "Macross III: Still Lovers After All These Years," but he would've been shackled to a continuity that A) he had had no part in creating, and B) had not been successful. If Macross II had been a hit, I'm sure the pressure would've been on Kawamori (or whoever took the reins next) to continue it; but it wasn't. And who would see Macross III if they hadn't seen Macross II? Macross probably would've died a lonely, unwatched death in 1994 if they had gone that route. And then, we would be envious of Robotech fans for getting Shadow Chronicles, instead of luxuriating in Frontier and the Macross renaissance that has erupted due to it. (I also think you're being a little unfair in your assessment of the main continuity...the Mardook were also befriended through song, after all...or at least, some of them were. )

Actually, it was the VF-1J holding the Minmay doll up to the microphone that set off the Loony Alarm.

Someone who needs help.

I remember you mentioning that at the time...and I remember thinking it was weird, since there was also the toy store mixup that had the 1/72 Ozma VF-25S model kit listed as the "Obama" VF-25S, and then there was that version of "What 'bout my star" that someone made called "Obama Star"... Something was in the air, I guess...

Hmmm... Maybe it's this one? http://www.courts.go.jp/search/jhsp0030?ac...mp;hanreiKbn=06 Or this one? http://www.courts.go.jp/search/jhsp0030?ac...mp;hanreiKbn=06 Or this one? http://www.courts.go.jp/search/jhsp0030?ac...mp;hanreiKbn=06 I'm getting all of this from the footnotes on Japanese Wikipedia discussing the lawsuit.

Y'know, when Macross II first came out, I was really, REALLY excited. But after watching the first VHS tape, I felt really, REALLY let down. I wonder how much of that was due to the fact that, as you said, there was nothing else at the time. No Plus, no 7, no Zero, no Frontier. SDFM had been so enthralling, DYRL had been so beautiful, and FB2012 had been so promising that anything less than an exquisite diamond of a series would've been disappointing. At the time, I watched the first VHS tape (episodes 1 and 2) and bought five of the ten comic book issues. And I found I really didn't care to see the rest. Much later, right before Macross Zero Vol. 1 came out, I finally got around to revisiting the series (in the *ahem* "movie" form), and found that, without the heavy burden of following up a true classic of anime, it really wasn't bad. I didn't like it as much as Plus, or even as much as 7, but I no longer hated it. I will admit that I have started dozing off during episode 4 on at least three separate occasions, but that's probably my own fault.

Here's the main one: http://www.courts.go.jp/search/jhsp0030?ac...mp;hanreiKbn=06