Gubaba

Prog Knife, I can see. Beam sabers, not so much. No, it doesn't. All the swing bars are there. Now, the VF-25 uses magnets for some parts of the transformation, but nothing splits or breaks off. It all holds together.

Looks like they're listed here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=603

So you know that HG is telling the truth because HG told you that they're telling the truth. Air-tight, that one is.

Very cool!

I have to admit I've only seen a total of two camrips in my life...Eva 2.0 (and I didn't even watch the whole thing...just refrshed my memory of selected highlights) and (many, many years ago) Jurassic Park. But I watched that one because one of my friends had SPECIFICALLY sought it down. It was shaky, 1993, handheld VHS camcorder quality...totally unremarkable until about halfway through, when a voice next to the camera said, "Excuse me, sir. Could you come with us?" And then the camera shut off. Anyway, I assumed that possibly there were good camrips these days. I guess I was mistaken.

Well, 1.0 is coming out in R1 DVD...next month or the month after. There's a truly crappy camrip of 2.0 floating around the torrent sites, but I'd avoid it if I were you. The official R2 DVD should be out late this year.

Nothing here but us chickens.

You'll need a time machine, first of all. It probably won't be out until the end of 2010 at the earliest...

Hey, you asked in public, so I answered in public. I didn't think it would be a problem. Case closed indeed. Checking my notes, it turns out you're right and I'm wrong. About everything. Fair enough?

I'm not EVEN gonna ask about the rabbit...I hope your hand heals quickly, though. He hates you because he hates BOBBY? Again, words fail me. He misses the point. And why can't he tell me himself? Is he a member here? Dammit, this is all a conspiracy to get me to join RT.com, isn't it? Well said.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to make that connection (if I had been, it would've made me feel a little TOO self-absorbed... ) Seto, unsurprisingly, I think you should cut your losses. You've got the facts on your side, but clearly, they don't care about facts. And then idiots like Pizza the Hutt call you a "proven liar," a few posts after you link to your sources... Well, words fail me. Get out of that place. It'll do you a world of good, and it'll take away their punching bag. If they want to indulge a persecution complex, let 'em do it without someone easily classified as a persecutor. They'll be turning on each other before you know it. I know I've said all this before, and I know you've got a million reasons why they need to be "educated," but really...you're outnumbered, and you can't argue logic with people who don't care about being logical. I mean, look at Pizza. He initially talked about Macross like it was some kind of illicit drug or perversion that he was going to "experiment" with. He tried it, he liked it, he peppered you with questions and was grateful for the answers...and now he's talking about how Frontier is a rip-off of BSG and Gundam, and insulting you personally. Screw him. And screw the moderators for not reining him in. Just leave them be. And hang out with people who actually APPRECIATE you instead.

When you sent me the PM a month ago asking if you could use my translation instead of paying someone else to do it, I outlined why I thought posting scans of the entirety of Macross Ace was a bad idea at this point. If you still want to go ahead and do it, fine. But please don't ask for my assistance. Thanks.

PM'd you.

Fire Bomber concerts? At the end of November? I might have to go to one of those...

Well...at the very least, you can't say the man's not versatile...right?

You never got the Strawberry Shortcake cartoons in the UK? You lucky, lucky dog.

Of the VF-1 book, yes. Of the three doujinshis, no. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/dou_mat2.htm http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/dou_mat3.htm This was one of those (many) dead-ends in my attempts to find Shaloom's sources. Not only does he cite the contents of the M.A.T. doujins, he also says that they are the oldest Macross Fan Club, continuing to this day. According to one of Shaloom's tales, after episode 20 of Frontier aired, many Japanese fans were expressing their outrage on 2ch, until Shigeru Gozai, head of the M.A.T., posted, applauding Ohnogi for writing such an excellent script. The other fans, chastened, also started applauding Ohnogi. Now, since we know Ohnogi had nothing to do with Frontier, this story is either embellished, or fabricated outright. After many, many Google searches (in English and in Japanese), I couldn't find much info on the M.A.T. doujins, except that they existed. This page: http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/AZICON1/1980_S.htm has a few pics about halfway down the page). I can't find any evidence of any activity AFTER the "Sky Angels" book, however. So they may still exist, but there doesn't seem to be any info about them, in English or in Japanese. And no one seems to be claiming affliation with them on either the macross.co.jp BBS or the macrossf.com BBS. So, I can't conclusively prove they no longer exist, but it seems unlikely that they do. I'm 99% sure Shaloom just made up anything involving them.

Um, yeah. Okay. Forget what I said earlier.

No, I'm not. I never got the toys, I thought the TV show was dumb, and I generally hate Hollywood action flicks. The movie doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

You might want to rethink that...I believe it's "Rated R for pervasive bloody violence" or something like that... Don't want the girl growin' up all desensitized an' shit, would we?

Seeing as the nature shots were some of my favorite scenes in MD7 and M0, I might have to check this out.

Er...Eva 2.0 just came out, like, a month and a half ago...3.0 and Final are probably a year and a half away from their debut.

So...which is this? Anime, or science-fiction...?

HUH? You realize that there are other comics in Macross Ace BESIDES Macross the First, right...? I'd say it's about 290 pages of comics and articles, and about ten pages of ads...maybe even fewer.

So who have you been listening to? Mahler's been my all-time favorite for about ten years now.