Macross F movie books

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Summary: get the Roman Album. If you can't, get the Fact File.

劇場版マクロス F 虚空歌姫 -イツワリノウタヒメ ガイドブック / ロマンアルバム

Theatrical Macross F - the false songstress - Guide book / Roman Album

Price including tax: 900円 （857円＋tax）

Publication date: 2009.11

Size: A4 oversized

ISBN: 9784197202867

Contents summary:

01-07 movie scenes and summary (majority on first half of the movie)

08-11 Interview of Supervisor Kawamori Shouji

12-15: character design art (complete with one art typo. Someone forgot to move the masking from one of Ranka's images!)

16-25: TV series illustration gallery (from a variety of magazines)

26-38: TV series episode synopsis

39: Macross links (references to previous series in the MF TV series)

40-46: TV series character art

47-48: TV series mechanical art

49-53: history of Macross (brief synopsises of previous Macross series. This and the following are by production date. Macross II is present)

54-57: Galaxy Divas (singers. Minmei to Mao Nome)

58-61: mechanical designs of key VFs and ships from the various series)

62-63: Frontier Keywords

my opinion: good for the MF TV series content. Not worth it for MF movie content. Does have a neat nostalgia factor for the previous Macross series.

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劇場版マクロスF〜イツワリノウタヒメ〜 公式ガイド PERFECT TRIANGLE

Theatrical Macross F - the false songstress - Formal Guide Perfect Triangle

Price: ￥1200

Publication date: 2009.12.18

Size: B5

ISBN: ISBN 978-4048544399

Contents summary:

02-03 Introduction

04-07 Movie poster art

08: Table of Contents

09-24: chapter 01 (generally each two-page section has the time in the move (ex: 0:00:00 - 0:07:51) and scene numbers (eg: A part S1-S3), a picture and written synopsis, the Supervisor's (Kawamori's) comment at the bottom, and a character (Eg Saotome Alto) in the left outside margin; complete with particulars, and brief character history, etc.)

25-48: chapter 02 (6 pages Sheryl x Ranka (character art, description, etc), 4 pages interview with Aya Endo and Megumi Nakajima, 2 pages Aruto (character art, description, etc.), 2 pages interview of Yuichi Nakamura, 1 page VF-25 Tornado Pack (space mode is itty bitty small), 1x Macross Quarter, 1x Mantis-like Vajra, 1x Vajra Battleship and Destroyer, 5x Island 1 interior shots)

49-46: chapter 03 (interviews of Kawamori Shouji (2 pages), then following, each one page with 1 page of their art facing: Yasuhito Kikuchi, Risa Ebata, Hiroshi Yagishita, Hidetaka Tenjin (apparently he added a lot of the fine details), Shunichiro Yoshihara, Itsuro Sasakura)

47-62: TV series mechanical art

63-80: chapter 04 (same as chapter 1, but covers last half of the movie)

81-57: chapter 05 (follows the pattern of text interview on right page, with storyboards and finished animation on left page. Interviews with Yoko Kanno (YK) #1, Stage Guide Sheryl Nome #1, YK #2, Ranka CM, YK #3, SGSN #2; last 2 pages are both of the universal bunny storyboards and finished animation)

my opinion: good for the technical details (read: Japanese text). Not so good for the pictures. I've looked at the other ones a bunch of times after picking them up. This one? I almost forgot about it after putting it in the bookshelf!)

Part 2 to follow

Edited February 9, 2010 by sketchley

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ロマンアルバム 劇場版マクロスF 虚空歌姫〜イツワリノウタヒメ〜

Roman Album Theatrical Macross F - the false songstress -

Price including tax: ￥1800

Publication date: 2009.11

Size: A4 oversized

ISBN: ISBN 978-4197202881

Contents summary:

01-03: TOC and introduction

04-09: movie illustration gallery

10-25: character art

26-27: character relationship map

28-57: story guide (just from these pictures, you can get a fairly decent idea of the movie)

58-59: Aya Endou interview

60-61: Megumi Nakajima interview

62: Tornado Pack VF-25 space mode only

63: VF-25 - some TV series, some movie shading level

64: Macross Quarter (movie version. Big. Drool over. cover inside the dust cover also has a large-scale Macross Quarter image being drooled on)

65: VB-6, Queadlunn-Rea, VF-171 and VF-27. Only VF-27 is movie level of details.

66: Vajra Mantis and Destroyer ship

67: Vajra battleship (these two pages have gorgous art. BIG, too)

68-69: Island 1 interiors

70-73: concert venues finished and preproduction art

74-75: Yuuichi Nakamura interview

76-79: Kawamori Shouji interview

80: synopsis of 2nd movie (?) preview clip

81-87: storyboards - concerts

88-89: Risa Ebata interview

90-91: Yuuichi Takahashi interview

92-93: Yasuhito Kikuchi interview

94-95: Tsutomu Kasai interview

96: theatre report

97-98: main cast mini-interviews

99: CD releases

100-101: the False Diva Keywords

102-104: movie and book credits

Summary: if you want the best mechanical art for the movie in a book, this is it. Content wise, it's the best of the 4. Go get it!

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Newtype February 2010 insert:

Fact File Macross F the Movie Itsuwari no Utahime

Price including tax: ￥620

Publication date: 2010.01.09

Size: A4

ISBN: ?

Contents summary:

02-03: summary

04-05: best scene selection

06-07: how did our (Newtype) our scoop from 1 year ago come out really?

08-11: staff/cast interviews, results of audience questionnaires, etc.

12-13: May'n interview

14-17: concerts in the movie

18-23: character art (smaller than that in the Guidebook, but more complete (hint! no masking malfunctions)

24-25: "the mecha strike back" Tenjin Hidetaka interview. (Apparently he really added a lot of detail. Including finishing some pencil lineart that Kawamori started on the joining sections between the Islands)

26-27: VF-25 Tornado Pack (mostly), all space mode. some quite large images. Has some front/back/side/top/bottom images not seen elsewhere)

28: Macross Quarter

29: Vajra Battleship, Destroyer, and Mantis (go get the Roman Album if you want to see it big and with a bunch more angles!)

30-33: illustration gallery from art that appeared in Newtype

34: Nanase. (subtitled: "She didn't diseappear from F!")

35: add for Perfect Triangle

Summary: if you don't have the money to buy the Roman Album, or you can't find it, this is a decent substitution. The art is a little small in parts, but otherwise it's a decent replacement.

Edited February 9, 2010 by sketchley

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Book covers:

Fact File > Roman Album > Perfect Triangle > Guidebook

Edited February 9, 2010 by sketchley