Sanity is Optional Posted June 17, 2022 Posted June 17, 2022 Those super drones are just ridiculous looking at that size. Quote
TMBounty_Hunter Posted July 14, 2022 Posted July 14, 2022 Kawamori picking Chisato Mita as the character designer for Delta was a fantastic decision that continues to pay off. Meanwhile, the Frontier poster is going to get about a dozen Minimum Factory dioramas. Quote
Seto Kaiba Posted September 26, 2022 Posted September 26, 2022 Shipping of preorders has begun at CDJapan. I received my notice that my copy of Absolute Live!!!!!! is in transmit at about 2am local time today. Quote
brouken Posted September 27, 2022 Posted September 27, 2022 Got my availability notice from Ami-ami a few moments ago too! Hope they ship soon! Genuinely excited for this! 🙂 Quote
Gerli Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 I just finished watching it.... it was AWESOME! So... MUCH... THINGS to discuss.... Quote
azrael Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 REMINDER: Posting torrent or file sharing links are not allowed on this site. This site has members who worked on these productions and would appreciate it if you supported their efforts, legally. Thank you. Quote
Chronocidal Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 FedEx went faster than even they expected, mine got dropped off this morning on my doorstep. Probably won't watch until the weekend though, too much other stuff to do this week. Quote
Mommar Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 Wow, amazon hasn't even shipped mine yet. Quote
MacrossJunkie Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 Looks like mine shipped out from Amazon Japan a couple hours ago. Estimated arrival is next Monday. Can't wait to watch it. Quote
Seto Kaiba Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 Still waiting on mine... I've never had a package labeled "Operational delay" with FedEx before, but it's finally at the sort facility. Quote
Jasonc Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 Mine should be at home when I get there at 1600. Looking forward to some vegetable curry with rice, and a glass of shochu while taking this show in. Quote
100mega Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) Well, whatever you do don't google the name of this movie. I'm sitting here at work staring at my bluray waiting to watch it tonight and got curious enough to look up reviews. Spoiled on the FINAL DAY! Ugh... Edited September 28, 2022 by 100mega Quote
Gamma00Ray Posted September 28, 2022 Posted September 28, 2022 I just got it in the mail. I'm saving the main feature for the weekend, but I had to watch the Frontier short. OH MY GOD! It's gorgeous. Totally beautiful. But it's the very definition of leaving you wanting more! Macross Frontier Movie 3 or we riot! Quote
Mommar Posted September 29, 2022 Posted September 29, 2022 On 9/27/2022 at 11:02 PM, MacrossJunkie said: Looks like mine shipped out from Amazon Japan a couple hours ago. Estimated arrival is next Monday. Can't wait to watch it. Amazon still hasn't shipped mine. Quote
MacrossJunkie Posted September 29, 2022 Posted September 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Mommar said: Amazon still hasn't shipped mine. Wow, that sucks... I wonder what the heck is going on there. Maybe you could inquire Amazon about it? Quote
Seto Kaiba Posted September 29, 2022 Posted September 29, 2022 Just got mine. Very disappointed by the lack of info in the liner notes. Quote
Gamma00Ray Posted September 30, 2022 Posted September 30, 2022 I got mine from CD Japan. Did I get it on or before release day? Hm... I couldn't wait for the weekend. I watched the main feature tonight. It was great. I don't want to say anything more. Except Macross Frontier Movie 3 or we riot!!! Quote
brouken Posted September 30, 2022 Posted September 30, 2022 Got mine in the mail today! Excited to watch this during the weekend! Quote
Mommar Posted September 30, 2022 Posted September 30, 2022 Meanwhile Amazon Japan is telling me since it's an international order it can't go out in less than 48 hours... Quote
Sanity is Optional Posted September 30, 2022 Posted September 30, 2022 Just checked the Amazon Japan tracking number, looks like they shipped it "SF Express", and it's on a flight to LA as of 8:40am, 30th, JST. Ought to show up in a couple days I guess. Quote
betocc Posted September 30, 2022 Posted September 30, 2022 (edited) I received mine today from Amazon JP. Now I'm figuring out how to set english subtitle. I have a PS5 Edit: I was easy to activate subs on english Edited September 30, 2022 by betocc Quote
MacrossJunkie Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 Mine arrived earlier than expected from Amazon JP on Friday instead of next Monday. Watched the Labyrinth of Time portion. Will save the main event for sometime over the weekend. Quote
TFunster Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 As an Old Macross Fan who found the non-Walkure aspects of Delta pretty forgettable, this second movie is fantastic. the robot fights are fun and well animated, but the plot and character development really shine. plenty of fanservice for all the fellow Old Guys here that finally set Delta more firmly in the rest of the franchise both in personnel and thematically. i would have loved to see what they could have done with the events of the movie over multiple episodes instead of the last ~13 episodes of Delta TV series we got instead. i know a lot of folks here look down on anything that came out after the Reagan Administration, but man this was a pleasant surprise. Quote
Hikuro Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 After watching it, I felt pretty let down truthfully. You get this big tease to solve a mystery only to let it fizzle out. Quote
Immelman-Dance Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 16 hours ago, betocc said: I received mine today from Amazon JP. Now I'm figuring out how to set english subtitle. I have a PS5 Edit: I was easy to activate subs on english How did you activate your english subtitles on the PS? I'm trying to activate them on my copy on PS4 but have no idea how to. Quote
jvmacross Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 Saw this was available for "free" streaming online....so was curious to see the SV-303 in action....I hope Bandai can release a DX of it soon...was also nice seeing all these plastic toys we collect actually doing stuff onscreen....can't say I actually cared for the movie as a whole, but at least we got some new VFs out of it...some very cool visuals, especially from the Earth and the Megaroad-01, which many said would never be brought up again after FB2012...LOL! Bring on a DX of it Bandai...I'd insta-buy it! Quote
Heron Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 (edited) I enjoyed it overall. You can see the hint of the story the writers were trying to tell under the glee & glam that is Walkure. Both movies do an excellent job of improving on Delta TV. I think they hamfisted the Megaroad-01 but could see Misa trying to keep humanity from making the same mistakes as the Protoculture. Pluses: New Valks Max Character development Minuses: Overall story. Walkures Music didn't impress this time around. Forgettable is how I would describe it. Spoiler Freyja's death. It should have been more gut-wrenching. I was moved more by the Wind Priest's passing than hers. Edited October 1, 2022 by Heron Quote
Seto Kaiba Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 (edited) I'm planning to watch my copy this weekend... though, to be honest, I'm actually kind of dreading it. On the one hand, everything I've heard from my friends in Japan who saw it in theaters was broadly positive and suggested that the movie was where Macross Delta actually starts living up to the "Macross" name. I'm heartily sick of being disappointed by the lazy work on display in Macross Delta proper and the middling-at-best first movie, so I'd like nothing better than for the second movie to blow me away and leave me feeling like the slog to get here was actually worth it. On the other hand, I absolutely 200% dread the movie's "big reveal" because it's a painfully anticlimactic answer to the franchise's oldest unsolved mystery. Spoiler The Macross Delta TV series and first movie 100% made the right call by leaving Lady M shrouded in mystery and without a defined identity or origin. Revealing that she was connected to the long-vanished Megaroad-01 and that Megaroad-01 has been in contact with the greater galaxy for many years undermines parts of several other, much better, Macross stories that were driven by Richard Bilra's obsessive desire to find Megaroad-01 and Minmay at any cost. The Frontier fleet's launch was part of Bilra's plan to find Minmay, and the YF-30 was developed as part of his obsession with improving fold technology to search for her. In much the same way that Minmay's story has grown in the telling to the point that the real Minmay would probably be massively underwhelming to anyone in-universe who met her after seeing the dramas about her life, the mystery of the Megaroad-01 has grown because of the fanbase's interest in it. No answer would be satisfying at this point and the answer we get is incredibly banal at best. Made a bit worse by the fact that the villain has an actually-pretty-good point and so someone on Megaroad-01 could arguably be called a Greater Scope Villain for Macross Delta now. On the other other hand, I am greatly looking forward to seeing Delta's collection of underdeveloped expies of Macross Frontier characters, third-rate washouts from Brisingr's local New UN Forces, and other assorted bush league "talent" get completely upstaged in their own ****ing movie by a special guest character from another series. On the other other other hand, could someone please pass the geiger counter? Edited October 1, 2022 by Seto Kaiba Quote
pengbuzz Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 39 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said: I'm planning to watch my copy this weekend... though, to be honest, I'm actually kind of dreading it. On the one hand, everything I've heard from my friends in Japan who saw it in theaters was broadly positive and suggested that the movie was where Macross Delta actually starts living up to the "Macross" name. I'm heartily sick of being disappointed by the lazy work on display in Macross Delta proper and the middling-at-best first movie, so I'd like nothing better than for the second movie to blow me away and leave me feeling like the slog to get here was actually worth it. On the other hand, I absolutely 200% dread the movie's "big reveal" because it's a painfully anticlimactic answer to the franchise's oldest unsolved mystery. Reveal hidden contents The Macross Delta TV series and first movie 100% made the right call by leaving Lady M shrouded in mystery and without a defined identity or origin. Revealing that she was connected to the long-vanished Megaroad-01 and that Megaroad-01 has been in contact with the greater galaxy for many years undermines parts of several other, much better, Macross stories that were driven by Richard Bilra's obsessive desire to find Megaroad-01 and Minmay at any cost. The Frontier fleet's launch was part of Bilra's plan to find Minmay, and the YF-30 was developed as part of his obsession with improving fold technology to search for her. In much the same way that Minmay's story has grown in the telling to the point that the real Minmay would probably be massively underwhelming to anyone in-universe who met her after seeing the dramas about her life, the mystery of the Megaroad-01 has grown because of the fanbase's interest in it. No answer would be satisfying at this point and the answer we get is incredibly banal at best. Made a bit worse by the fact that the villain has an actually-pretty-good point and so someone on Megaroad-01 could arguably be called a Greater Scope Villain for Macross Delta now. Hmmm... Spoiler I'm guessing Bilra is infatuated with Minmay? Wow... the lengths some guys will go to to get a date..... 39 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said: On the other other hand, I am greatly looking forward to seeing Delta's collection of underdeveloped expies of Macross Frontier characters, third-rate washouts from Brisingr's local New UN Forces, and other assorted bush league "talent" get completely upstaged in their own ****ing movie by a special guest character from another series. Hayao Kakizaki would fly circles around this bunch. 39 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said: On the other other other hand, could someone please pass the geiger counter? Seto... they don't make a geiger counter that could measure that kind of radiation without melting.... Quote
Marzan Posted October 1, 2022 Author Posted October 1, 2022 (edited) Been a while since I posted here, but since I finally watched Zettai Live I thought it was a good time to return and psot my thoughts.I suppose it was an improvement over the last movie and having less of the Knights was always going to be be a good thing. But that said, it still cements itself as the most disappointing Macross installment of all for me. It just never clicked Spoiler I didn't like how they teased and teased with Lady M and then they don't dare actually show it. Having Max have so much screen time seemed for me to be an attempt to get the ole crowd on board but it felt like silly fan service to be honest. The writing was just never there and the new antagonists seemed badly shoehorned in. Even worse, Walküre's songs were forgettable. I'm not the biggest J-pop fan, but even I have to admit that the Delta series had some real catchy tunes. I finished this film 15 minutes ago and I can't remember a single original tune. For a show that's all about the music that's a big no no. I said before and I say it again. Kawamori should hand over control of Macross to someone who will develop it and take it into a fresh direction, but that actually cares about writing and characters. Edited October 1, 2022 by Marzan Quote
Mommar Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 3 hours ago, Heron said: I enjoyed it overall. You can see the hint of the story the writers were trying to tell under the glee & glam that is Walkure. Both movies do an excellent job of improving on Delta TV. I think they hamfisted the Megaroad-01 but could see Misa trying to keep humanity from making the same mistakes as the Protoculture. Pluses: New Valks Max Character development Minuses: Overall story. Walkures Music didn't impress this time around. Forgettable is how I would describe it. Freyja's death. It should have been more gut-wrenching. I was moved more by the Wind Priest's passing than hers. Doesn't bother me but it's only been four days since release. You'd better believe that last bullet needs to be a spoilers tag. Quote
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