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You didn't like "Turkish Delight" or "Soldier of Orange"? Why not? I thought they were masterpieces...

She'll wear it in the illustration for the History Sheet with that issue. Macross Chronicle doesn't create new art for the cover, they just cut and paste it from the interior illustrations. And since it's a HISTORY Sheet, I doubt it'll be about the movie.

OK, my favorite line so far... Alto and Michael are rather annoyed that Luca named the Ghosts after them (and Nanase), so he comes up with an excuse that the names are acronyms. For example, Alto (A Ru To, アルト) means Active Routing Transpersonal (アクトィブ・ルートィング・トランズパーソナル). Later, they ask the Ghosts themselves what the acronyms are for, and the results aren't quite as complimentary. NaNaSe, on the other hand, stands for: Nanase is sweet! Nanase is the greatest! Sexy, lovely, my angel Nasase! Too bad she gets killed.

That's what I get for pressing the snooze button this morning...

Come this fall, you'll be able to read the entire book. There's a note in the third story that I haven't translated yet (and thus, don't fully understand) talking about why they use LPs in 2009. Should be interesting...

Well, it hypothetically won't get start being hypothetically translated until Winter at the earliest...but I (I mean, "my friend") might try to hypothetically check out options...

I like your new avatar...

Chronicle 23: Mechanic Sheet: • SV-51 • VF-11MAXL Kai • Millia's Ship • Planet Eden Vehicles Character Sheet • DD Ivanov • Mylene Flare Jenius [to quote Azrael: AREWEDONEYETAREDONEYETAREWEDONEYET?] • People of UN Spacy [but which series...?] Gallery Sheet • Macross 7 Timeline Sheet • In the Shadow of the Airframe Evaluation Test History Sheet • Sheryl Nome Concert Technology Sheet • Song Energy [You knew it had to happen sometime, right?] Song Sheet • INFORMATION HIGH / Idol Talk Goods Sheet • Bandai VF100s • Megahouse Excellent Model EDIT: Damn typo.

Really? They're doing their own? I thought it was mostly A/M/G with a little bit of some of the other subbers... Keep reading...there's a Blogger address there...you'll want to click that.

Episode 8 cheesed a lot of people off, with Sheryl's panties getting stolen. Watching it week-by-week, I think a lot of the serious sci-fi fans felt that one was a week wasted. For me, it was totally worth it for the shower scene and Sheryl's failed attempt at laundry.

Not yet...it looks like they're using the Aone/Menclave subs...so there should be more soon. Aone's up to...what...21 now?

That's kinda what I figured...at any rate, I doubt it would be able to be published without them getting their beaks wet...

Well...if you're anything like me, this picture is enough to get you to buy it (censor bar added by me): (Little too loli for my taste...but it's the thought that counts, right?) Although that's somewhat set off by the fact that there's a kinda/sorta Nanase death scene on the first track (during a simulation, Luca reprograms his Ghosts to be Alto, Michael, and Nanase. Nanase gets shot down). EDIT: Listening further on...Lord help us, there's "Aimo" sung by Ozma...I really didn't need to hear that...

I'm pretty sure he specifically said that it was reviews for the site, and that he was approached by someone here. It really didn't seem like MacrossWorld's MO, though. By the way, on a completely different topic (and back to HG's license issues)...I was wondering, how vast and sweeping is their hold on the name "Macross"? If someone (naming no names) tranlsated (for example) the DYRL Novelization ((hypothetically, of course) and then tried to (let's pretend for a moment) actually publish it, would HG have to get a cut? And what about whoever holds the rights to the movie? The above naturally has no basis is fact, but is a purely theoretical question.

Crap, you're right...It was Yamata, wasn't it? Shows you how long it's been since I read it...although I think I still have it somewhere... Wow, Doug's livin' the dream, isn't he? I've asked this before but I never got an answer...on one of his early podcasts, he claimed that MacrossWorld offered his a chance to do write-ups for the site, which he declined to do. Can anyone confirm or deny this...?

Long, long, long ago, when I was about eleven or so, there was a comic shop that I went to (Another World, in Eagle Rock). Once while leaving it, I noticed some toy robots in the window of the accountant's office next door to the comic shop, and one of the was a small version of the SDF-1. So I went in, really, really excited, and asked if I could buy it. Turned out the guy who ran the place just thought robots were cool, and grabbed a bunch of them cheap in China Town. He sold if to me for fifty cents. Not a great price, not a great toy, but quite random.

Just to be clear...I'm just doing the scripts for it (and even then, it's more a matter of checking the AnimEigo and ADV scripts against each other than it is out-and-out translation...although I will be doing a new translation of DYRL). All the ripping is being done by boinger. He's also adding the subs. So yeah, I'm doing the easy work, he's doing all the hard stuff.

I had that same experience...getting Macross #1, I thought "Man, NOW I'm getting the real deal! Rick Yamashita! Lisa Hayase! The Macross!" Imagine my surprise when I looked up some hiragana in the Macross Guide Book and came across..."I-chi-jyo-Hi-ka-ru." Pwned by Macek again... Who knows, besides Macek and his good friends?

Not much, just that there are many, many Megaroad ships all flying around space. Which is pretty much where the series ended up anyway...

Ugh. Just for that, you get kancho'd:

It's been a good twenty years since I read Robotech Art 1 (I think it's available at Macrosshare, though), but i read that section many, many, MANY times and a lot of it is burned into my brain. They talked about the history of Studio Nue (mentioning a lot of the members by name), and how they wanted to get out of the business of JUST designing mecha, and actually wanted to make a show of their own. How Macross was originally going to be a big parody, but Nue was uncomfortable with that idea. They talked about Mikimoto designing Minmay, and her evolution form a minor character to the center of the whole thing. They said (erroneously) that Macross's popularity in Japan eclipsed Gundam's. Then they talked about Mospeada, and how it's dismal time slot led to its failure. They said almost nothing about Southern Cross. They DID talk about the "65-episode" rule, but ya gotta remember. The book was done in '85. At that time, Robotech seemed very faithful to the original, in comparison with horrendous things like Battle of the Planets, Voltron, and Warriors of the Wind. So some of the differences they addressed, some of them they didn't. I don't recall the authors ever saying Robotech was an improvement over the original. Just that it was different, but not too different. Anyway, most of Art 1 is pretty worthless (I even recall a few mistakes creeping in), but that last chapter, about the history of anime in general and Macross in particular, is well-researched and informative. At least, everything I learned from it "checked out" as I started reading more original sources. The Macek quotations I gave came from an interview from his website. I didn't check the date on them, but the interview was relatively recent (maybe six or seven years ago). The Macek interview naturally has more defensiveness in it. In '85, most people were praising Robotech for leaving as much "mature situations" in as it did. And with no English version of Macross (beyond HG's aborted home video version), it wasn't easy to see how close or distant it was. Later, of course, Macek himself started coming out with the Robotech Perfect Collection, which had two episodes of each original series, with the episodes of Robotech that corresponded to them. And that wasn't ALL that much later...'93? '94? Somewhere around there. the subs weren't very good, and they never finished the set, but it showed that he wasn't afraid of getting the originals out there. Anyway, I suggest going to macrosshare, downloading Robotech Art 1, and reading the final chapter. The authors of that book were some of the first westerners to REALLY get into anime, and their knowledge and enthusiasm really shines through all the RT haze around the project.

Well, Tomita's story DOES overlap TV episode 9, but he writes all new dialogue for the story. Which is weird, since he wrote the TV episode, as well... And it's not VERY different, just stuff like Minmay asking Jamis Merin for an autograph...in the show, Jamis says she doesn't feel well and runs off, in the story she just says, "I'm busy getting ready. Later, okay?" Anyway, there are footnotes to each story, with all sorts of little bits of trivia nobody cares about. DID YOU KNOW: • Nyan-Nyan's specialties include "Dynamite Ramen," "Shooting Star Fried Rice," and "Five Ingredients Parfait"? • The Choco Parfait Monster was introduced to commemorate the construction of the first Destroid Monster by the Macross's on-board factory? • Nyan-Nyan is in the Macross's left leg, but the MBS Big Hall (where the Miss Macross Contest takes place) is in the center block? • Jamis Merin had a big hit in February 2009 with the song "Hibiscus Lady"? • There are at least two cafés ("Variation" and "Purple") aboard the Macross, and a crepe shop near Minmay's school? (And the crepe she asks for? "Blueberry jam." Coincidence, or Mari Iijima song title reference?) • Minmay goes to Saint Valencia School for Girls. I'll update with more annoying trivia as I find it...

No need...I finally broke down and bought the damn thing on Ebay last week (it's the US version from Books Nippan -no, it' not in English- and I got it for $21.50, which seemed fine to me). And yes, the 39-Episode plan ends with "Love Drifts Away, but has an epilogue as they go into space, fifteen years later. But Max and Millia's sbplot seems like it would've gotten more development. They fall in love in episode 35, but wait until episode 38 to get married. Oh, and the omnidirectional barrier destroys the Moon in episode 30.

I totally missed that...but now that you point it out, yeah, that's weird. I guess it's like people typing "cannon" when they really mean "canon."

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