Macross World
Friday September 7th, 2012 saw a special gathering of high-profile Japanese animation industry guests to pay their respects for the late Noboru Ishiguro, director of “Super Dimension Fortress Macross”, just one among many, many of his works of anime spanning the entire near-50-year history of the industry.
Anime cable channel ANIMAX announced at the Megaroad Launch Ceremony on Sunday (09/02) that it would be rebroadcasting 8 different Macross movies and OVA’s over the course of 8 weeks starting from October.
Oct. 7: Do You Remember Love?
Oct. 14: Macross 2 (eps 1-3)
Oct. 21: Macross 2 (eps 4-6)
Oct. 28: Macross Plus Movie Edition
Nov. 4: Macross 7 – The Galaxy is Calling Me!
Nov. 11: Macross Dynamite 7
Nov. 18: Macross Zero
Nov. 25: False Songstress/Wings of Farewell double feature
This was followed up by an announcement on Monday (09/03 – from forum user antibiotictab) that Animax would also be broadcasting a 60min studio Macross Music event on October 7 (to be rebroadcast on Oct. 13 & 14) to commemorate the franchises 30th Anniversary. ‘Studio Musix’ is a series of monthly specials featuring anime-related artists.
A bunch of news (most of it relating to new merchandise) has just dropped, so let’s dig around a bit and see what we will all be spending too much money on over the upcoming months.
Macross FB7 – Preorder ticket bonuses.
Starting at the Chara-hobby show last weekend, special pre-order tickets for Macross FB7 have started appearing for sale at several events. These sell for 1300yen and come with a free poster. There are, however, other items that come with certain tickets.
-2000yen gets you a Crystal Print.
-1700yen gets you either a Sheryl or Ranka phone strap.
But wait! There’s more….
Rebecca Silverman over at Anime News Network has had the enviable opportunity to talk with famed Macross character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto.
Read all about it HERE.
And then discuss it!
The Official Macross Fan Club has put up a small flash game titled ‘Song for BASARA – Song (Sound) Energy Communication Project.’
Hooray for almost month-old news.
On July 25th, the Playstation Community blog uploaded a special 20-minute video featuring the then forthcoming “Macross Do You Remember Love” Blu-ray release. The video goes into detail about how the included “My Boyfriend is a Pilot 2012” PS3 game plays, how the movie looks better than ever, and it showcases many of the bonus materials contained within the limited edition “30th Anniversary Box”.
It’s a nice introduction to the set for those who have not yet had the opportunity to check out all the great contents included.
Discuss in the DYRL-BD thread HERE
A couple more pics after the jump.
Here’s a few sample pieces from the “Macross Original Art Exhibition” being held at at the Seibu Ikebukuro Seibu Gallery in Tokyo. The Gallery includes concept artwork from the series when it was being planned to air in 1982 and focuses on Macross Frontier art. It began August 10 and will close on August 22, 2012. Many of our folks in Japan have attended this exhibit and have posted about their hauls and experiences in the forums and on youtube. They site Hollywood.ch.com posted a couple of images from the event which can be seen after the jump.
This guy has more life than, well… than Kakizaki. Is the Britai Softbi figure scheduled for release again? Will it make it out before the 30th Anniversary has gone? What’s with the new bent pipe? Stop teasing me Mr. K! Yamato… how hard is it to get one vinyl figure out? I want answers! No not from you Mr. Proctologist! Sit back down!
Shogakukan, Inc. and the site “eBookJapan” e-book sales has announced a digital rerelease of the classic “MACROSS ☆ THE MOVIE ☆” book, otherwise known to fans as “The Gold Book”. The 400+ page movie memorabilia was originally released in 1984 for 8000円 by Shogakukan and reprinted in 1992 for 8800円/9800円. At one time, this book was rated by Macrossworld as “very difficult” to obtain and was valued between $150 – $250. I got my first copy for $200+ then later I bought another copy for around $130 complete with poster and film strip.
The digital download will be available for 4725円 for a very limited time on August 31, 2012 to October 31, 2012 at THIS site.
