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Macross 7 Bluray Boxset Details Announced

Post author By Tochiro
Post date June 21, 2012

Forum user Antibiotictab has come up with a scoop regarding details for the upcoming Macross 7 BD boxsets.

There will be two separate boxsets, with an RRP of 29,400yen each.

Complete Fire 1 will be released on October 26 and includes eps 1-29 and 60mins worth of extras.

Extras will include a tv special ‘Macross Full Speed Ahead!’, seven of the comical Macross 7 plus shorts, music videos for Try Again (acoustic ver.), Holy Lonely Night (Live ver.), and clean versions of OP & ED ‘Seventh Moon’ and ‘My Friends.’ Audio extras will include a new audio commentary track, ‘Macross Festival ’95’, ‘Macross 7 Fire Bomber Galaxy network Vol. 0’, and ‘Macross Dynamite 7 Fire Bomber Galaxy Fun Net.’

Complete Fire 2 will be released on December 21 and includes eps 30-49, The Galaxy is Calling Me theatrical movie and the 4 episode Macross 7 Dynamite OVA, as well as an additional 60mins worth of extras.

Extras will include the remaining Macross 7 plus shorts, a TV Commercial collection, ‘Fire Movie Karaoke’, ‘Macross 25th Anniversary Live Digest’, clean OP & ED for ‘dakedo baby’, ‘Dynamite Explosion’ and ‘Parade’, theatrical trailer, ‘Macross Festival ’95’, and the opening animation from the M3 Dreamcast game, as well as a newly recorded audio commentary.

Both boxsets are currently available for preorder on Amazon Japan at a 26% discount.

Complete Fire 1 preorder.

Complete Fire 2 preorder.

“Macross: Do You Remember Love” & “Macross Frontier Movies 1+2”: Triple bill theatrical screening in July; plus “DYRL” TV Special to air

Post author By Renato
Post date June 20, 2012

This has been known for a while but I figured I ought to front-page it sooner rather than later, plus new details keep being added every so often.

To celebrate its much-hyped Blu-ray debut next month, “Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love”, the movie that showed impressionable 80s kids that “you can still fight when you’re drunk” * is back on the BIG SCREEN, yes, in Technicolor and all that jazz, for a limited time only. To differentiate it from the last Tokyo screening in 2010, this time they are using the newly remixed 5.1 channel soundtrack, so you can experience it in a completely fresh way.

Not only that, but it’s running back-to-back with screenings of the two “Macross Frontier” movies (“Itsuwari no Utahime/The False Songstress” and “Sayonara no Tsubasa/The Wings of Farewell”), to round off a monster triple-bill TRIANGLER of a Macross movie marathon.

So bring your friends, your mega-size popcorn and your deodorant, because we’re in for a dusk-till-dawn test of hardcore sci-fi-robot-action-romance-all-singing-all-dancing-space-opera-schoolgirl-slapping endurance! “The women must not penetrate!”

Shinjuku Wald 9 (katakana-pronounced as “Baruto 9”, bizzarely) will be hosting this triple screening on three nights, details follow.

SpeakerPodCast

Macross SpeakerPODcast Ep. 4

Post author By Renato
Post date June 18, 2012

AKB 0048! The dramatic saga of Howard’s hat! Valk Shortages!

……oh and something about a 1:1 Valkyrie too 😉

With the 30th Anniversary of Macross in full swing, it’s time for another episode of Macross SpeakerPODcast!

Audience — No YF-29’s were harmed during this recording…well, not too many….

SpeakerPodCast

Macross SpeakerPODcast Ep. 3

Post author By Tochiro
Post date June 13, 2012

‘New’ Macross Podcast (Ep. 3) is LIVE!

Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to us on iTunes!

And when I say ‘new’ I mean ‘its a few months old.’ There were some server/hosting issues that are now all worked out (thanks a bunch to EXO for all his help!) – so I should be able to get this thing posted a lot quicker in the future. Still, not only do we discuss some of the concerts that happened earlier on in the year, we also have a very special guest in the form of Tim Eldred from Starblazers.com!

As always, any feedback, suggestions or requests are greatly appreciated, so feel free to sound off over in the forums.

So sit back, pump the volume up, and remember, as Save says, ‘Who cares? Aya Endo!’

Direct download HERE (right-click, save)

30th Anniversary Events

Megaroad Launch Ceremony Announced

Post author By Tochiro
Post date June 13, 2012

While some sort of event has been alluded to in recent months, the first details of the Megaroad launch ceremony were announced via the Macross Fanclub yesterday.

Titled ‘First Long-Distance Immigration Fleet, Megaroad Launch Ceremony 2012‘, the event will be held on September 2nd in two parts.

Currently confirmed guests (with more to be announced) include Megaroad Captain Mika Doi (Misa Hayase), as well as Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee) and Aya Endo (Sheryl Nome).

Standard tickets are 4500yen, with special tickets (which come with some sort of as of yet unannounced merchandise) costing 5800 yen. The event is limited to Macross fanclub members only, although even then ticket sales will be decided by a draw, meaning they will be more difficult to get that a bandai valk preorder.

Discuss here.

SpeakerPodCast

Macross SpeakerPODcast Ep. 2

Post author By Tochiro
Post date June 11, 2012

Episode 2 is back up! – Once again hearkening back to those primitive times of 2011 comes our original 2nd episode of Macross SpeakerPODcast – now with improved audio for your listening pleasure!

With this we have all episodes to date (1-3) hosted here on Macross World. Episode 4 was recorded yesterday and I hope to have it edited and encoded by the end of the week. Once again, from episode 4 onwards I will be providing descriptions and timestamps for ongoing episodes.

As always, any feedback or suggestions are welcome.

Download episode 2 here (right-click, save as)

Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Music

Macross 7’s Yoshiki Fukuyama taking break due to poor health.

Post author By Tochiro
Post date June 10, 2012

Anime News Network is reporting that Yoshiki Fukuyama, singing voice for Basara in Macross 7 and Macross Dynamite 7 has, at the recommendation of his doctor, put immediate and upcoming projects on hold due to poor health. No further details regarding the cause of Fukuyama’s poor health or potential effect on the recently announced FireBomber concerts in November are known at this time.

Here’s hoping that big man makes a full recovery soon and can get back to trying to move that mountain!

Movies and TV Series staff interviews

“I’m like a backlash against Kawamori-san and Mikimoto-san”: Hidetaka Tenjin Interview from “Macross The First: Volume 1”

Post author By Renato
Post date June 9, 2012

As we count down to master illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin’s triumphant appearance on U.S. soil during Otakon 2012 in July, I thought we ought to take a bit of time to learn a bit more about the man and his attitude towards his work.

Tenjin-san is one of the fresh faces on the creative team behind the scenes of Macross in the 21st century. As a fan-turned-creator, how does he balance his love for the series with his duty to his respected superiors? Let’s dig in to an interview published in “Macross The First, volume 1” and find out!

30th Anniversary Movies and TV Series Music

Firebomber Concert in November, Tokyo and Osaka　(UPDATED)

Post author By EXO
Post date June 6, 2012

Wow… Fans in Japan should be happy about this!

To celebrate the 30th anniversery of Macross, the Fire Bomber band from Macross
Seven will be having a concert on November 23rd in Tokyo followed by a
show on the 24th in Osaka. The last Fire Bomber reunion concert was in 2009 and the one prior to that was 2007.

Both Chie Kajiura(Mylene) and Yoshiki Fukuyama (Basara) have been
confirmed of the show.

General public ticket sales start on September 1st.

Source: http://www.ota-suke.jp/news/72458

Yoshiki Fukuyama has also announced via his website and the Official Macfross Fan Club that he will be doing a tribute tour: ‘Yoshiki Fukuyama Sings FIRE BOMBER ~ A Tribute to Nekki Basara~.’

The tour will kick off on September 1st and include 8 shows over the course of four weeks at different cities throughout Japan. The last solo Tribute concert that Fukuyama did was in 2005, although he has been known to spring the odd impromtu Macross gig on fans, as he did during Christmas in 2010.

Tags 2012, 30th Anniversary, Basara, basara nekki, fire bomber, Macross 7, Mylene, mylene jenius

Collectors Models Toys

The Legend of the Zentradi Stamp Kit — Part Three

Post author By Renato
Post date June 4, 2012

“And now… The conclusion.”

In the third and final part of this video series, we put our skills to the test and actually build the kit, and then move on to trying our hand at printing secret messages in alien language. We conclude with some afterthoughts about collecting and the obsession with MISB (Mint In Sealed Box) items versus “fun”.