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エマーン could be either Emann or Emarn. I've usually seen it as Emaan, however.

Five seconds? Okay, I'm being too generous. Four, tops.

I guess I must, since the biting wit, devastating social commentary, and layered irony implicit in your comment have certainly escaped me. but enough thread-derailing. Do you have any contribution to the Eva 3.0 discussion?

Proving my point even further...

No. Evangelion is good, not a schlocky B-movie franchise.

Yeah, because Robotech had SO MUCH integrity before they came along...

Fanfiction is fiction NOT written by the original creators, no? And it shows characters and situations that the original creators may choose to ignore or change. So they were paid by HG. So what? They were not original creators, and YOU probably know more about Robotech history than they did. Ergo, it's fanfiction. End of freaking story.

So Bill Spengler and Michael Ling are some of the original Robotech creators? No? Then it's fanfiction. It may be very good, very high-level, very well-paid fanfiction, but it's fanfiction nonetheless.

Macross Chronicle #27: Mechanic Sheet * VF-19 Excalibur * Noputi Baganis 5631 * Macross 7 Fleet Aircraft * CVS-101 Prometheus Character Sheet * Lynn Minmay * Britai Kridanik * Hikaru Ichijo / Misa Hayase * Docker [DO-KAAAAAAAAAA!!! ] Timeline Sheet * The Truth about 7 Years Previous History Sheet * The Vajra Battleships Attack World Guide Sheet * Macross City Glossary Sheet * Imulator~Space Destroyer Song Sheet * Riding in your Valkyrie / Now, a Friend Goods Sheet * CM's Corporation Macross Collection * Macross Crusade (Start Up Sheet)

Yes yes yes. Blue sounded especially incredible, I thought. I think it was perhaps lovelier than the original version...but maybe that's just because it was live. "Possibly"...? No, it was bar none THE best rendition of Diamond Crevasse May'n has ever sung or ever will sing. She might be able to sing it with equal passion again, but never d it with more. She EMBODIED the extravagant sorrow of the song, and the slow building climax just made the final section of the song all the more powerful. Yeah, that was something I wasn't expecting, and I thought it was a great decision to do it that way. Something I never thought I'd see. It's been YEARS since I've listened to the Escaflowne albums...and yet I still knew every word of the song. My friend actually gasped when they came out. The appearance of the chorus was equally dramatic, I thought. You saw the Macross F concerts; I didn't, so I would add "Lion" on to the list of my personal favorite moments. "Tank" sounded stupendous as well....but I really got chills when the orchestra played "Dog Fight."

This isn't really Frontier news, but it IS Macross product news, so I guess it fits here. Anyway, check out what I picked up in Tokyo the other day: Oh wait...that's the wrong pic. Here's the right one:

Yes, the evening was certainly not without its touches of the usual head-scratching Kanno style of humor... Me, I'm still just weirded out (perhaps more than I should be) than May'n and Megumi were fully integrated into the Seatbelts. Hearing Cowboy Bebop music with them doing the backup vocals kind of blew my mind. I also thought it was kind of interesting that the two girls kept to the costuming style from the Macross F concerts, with May'n in a slinky, sexy, sequin-y thing and Megumi in a cute, poofy, fluffy dress. And Mai Yamane looks EXACTLY like I thought she would...one of the only disappointments of the night was that the band launched into "After, in the Dark" from Macross Plus, but it ended before the vocals came in. I mean...c'mon! Mai Yamane's RIGHT THERE! Why isn't she singing it? And I really hope Megumi's next single has "Voices" as a B-side.

Okay, okay...it sucked. Three hours of Kanno in a chicken costume, just like DreamsOfIshtar said. Do you feel better now, Bunky? My friend who got the tickets hasn't seen Frontier, but I tried to prepare her for the "Kira!" Unfortunately, I think she was woefully underprepared...I wasn't expecting seven or eight "Kira!"s in a row. Yeah, Kanno does a really good Gabriela Robin impersonation, doesn't she?

Um, yeah. DreamsOfIshtar's "review" is neither fair nor accurate. If someone had told me a year ago that I would be seeing the Seatbelts in 2009, with backup singing done by Megumi Nakajima and May'n...I'm not sure what I would've said. But it was awesome. There was a lot of Macross F (Lion, Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't Be Late, an "Extra Kira!" version of Seikan Hikou, a very dramatic and a lovely ten- or eleven-minute rendition of Diamond Crevasse), lots of Cowboy Bebop (with, as I said, May'n and Megumi doing backup), quite a bit of GITS, and a little bit of everything else (Aquarion, Escaflowne, "Voices"...). YK was on stage most of the time, playing piano. Then a full chorus was revealed at the rear of the stage, and they all started chanting "ESCA! FLOWNE! ESCA! FLOWNE!" The main singers (Megumi, May'n, Maaya Sakamoto, Origa, and Yamane Mai) left the stage and Kanno conducted the orchestra as the went through a small selection of orchestral music (including "Dogfight" from Macross Plus). It was an amazing show, mashing together everything that's good about Kanno's works. And I'm really, really glad I got to go.

Screw all that. I've watched this movie hundreds of times over the past twenty-some-odd years in every format from fuzzy, wavy VHS tapes, crisp'n'clear laser discs, bootleg HK DVDs, official R2 DVDs, and downloaded MKV files. I've seen it raw, in English, and with subs of widely varying quality. I loved it as a kid. I love it as an adult. I'd feel great if I could get a lovely R1 DVD of the movie, but really...does it matter? No matter what, I've seen it, and I will continue to watch it again and again until the day I die.

Pink Monsoon first, then Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't Be Late. Iteza sounded slightly different, but that may have just been because of the kick-ass movie theatre sound system. Yes. I saw it before Eva 2.0. No. Like I said, it was almost all new things. I don't recall any narrator...I *think* it was all Alto, Sheryl, and Ranka dialogue.

Turns out I didn't need to...found this on evageeks.org (translation by RockManBalls): Japanese text:

Yeah, that's why I said "for cleverness's sake." I guess I didn't make that clear enough. Actually it seems to be incorporating BOTH meanings, since the letter Q had the word "QUICKENING" written under it.

Well, on a big screen, I didn't notice any flaws. From what I can remember, shey showed Cowgirl Sheryl, Ranka on some sort of Segway, Brera (i a different outift! Yay for costuming decisions!) taking off his sunglasses, the VF-25S, the VF-27, and some cell phone text messages (which are reprinted in Macross Ace). But yeah, a lot of shots of characters' faces.

Agreed. And at this point in the story, the show was getting pretty weird too. The new movie's weirder, though. And, of course, the Angels are freakier. WAAAAAY freakier.

Yes, I talked about it in the Frontier news thread. It was pretty much all new animation, but it was hard to tell what changes to the story they're making. I can't find the official version, so this fandub will have to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0iVAqph2EA It's a full minute in both the on-air and "director's cut" versions of episode 22, as well as in Evangelion: Death. In the new movie, it's like 20 seconds.

Yeah...if you can understand German with a heavy Japanese accent, that is... Mari (voiced by Maaya Sakamoto) speaks English...okay. Some of her enunciation was a little off, though. Kaji, on the other hand, spoke a little bit of English in the movie, and I couldn't make out a word of what he was saying.

Pretty much. The mecha action in it is quite good, though. (Although the opening sequence was a little annoying because it's hard to SEE anything.)

Oh, and I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know that the infamous Rei/Asuka elevator scene is present in the movie, although it's severely cut. C'mon, guys...would it really have killed you to add 40 seconds to the running time of the movie...?

Luckily for all of us, not only was there a preview for Eva 3.0 at the end of the movie, but the program booklet (which is entertainingly sealed with a sticker that says -in English- "WARNING! Do not open this before watching the movie") has the dialogue from the preview printed at the end. I'm too tired to work on it now, but I'll get it tomorrow or the next. I can tell you the last line though: "All right! We'll give you lots of service service in the next movie, too!"