:D Source: ANN That marks the highest Blu-ray Disc pressing among all Bandai Entertainment releases, including the Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell movies. It is also the first television anime series to ship simultaneously on both disc formats in Japan. You can call it a record or whatever it is but it is definitely good to [...]
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Best feature ever. Take that PSP 40. Oh good grief it looks like Ranka’s chances with Alto-hime keep getting dinged more and more. Looks like Kaifun Brera has finally hit home and will be devastating the RankaxAlto-hime ship. Brera amply demonstrates how much of a Kaifun-class antagonist he is by one upping Alto-hime roughly four times [...]
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First, allow me to express how I feel about this episode: “Ranka!” is the new “Jesus Christ!” Yes, seriously. “Sugei” sounded better. My face certainly has deculture written all over it. You know you want to believe! If I was that evil, I’d snigger like that too. Affirmative: This was one kick-ass episode. Act II of Macross F starts off with a [...]
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Exhibit A in the case that Brera-nii is in fact Sasuke-kun with contacts and a dyed hair, check out that stoic face, its sheer Uchiha icy perfection! The episode opens with a space battle in which it appears Alto is being reckless and getting too close to the enemy. Perhaps because his mind is still [...]
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Summary: Richard uses a building as his coaster, and then talks about Fold Quartz and his dream of overcoming fold faults to bring the universe together. While the government experiments on Vajra corpses, Ranka is kept under tight security. Grace has a grand plan to make Ranka into a huge celebrity with Aimo as [...]
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Ranka Attack means failure. There’s sadly no doubt that losing to your enemy twice will leave you walking the rest of your life on earth Macross in shame. Having lost to Brera again, I do pity Alto-hime and hope that he will eventually beat Brera in whatever way, but what I’m [...]
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I don’t know if it makes any sense whatsoever, but apparently Macross Zero IS canon! Aside from the “let’s pretend it doesn’t exist” Macross II, it’s the only other Macross I’ve seen (and, in fact, you’ll find a couple of episodes worth of summary in the archives here) and I loved it to bits [...]
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This episode of Macross Frontier is full of Macross references from previous Macross installments like Macross Zero, Macross Plus, and the original Macross series. If you’re an Alto X Ranka fan, then you will enjoy this episode. There’s also more Itano circus in this episode. The ending of this episode I found to be very interesting, [...]
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It’s artsy Episode 16 of Macross Frontier gets a new ending theme Northern Cross performed by May Nakabayashi. It’s a really beautiful song written to fit Sheryl’s image. YouTube video and my rough estimation of the song lyrics after the jump. (...)Read the rest of Macross Frontier new ending - Northern Cross (238 words) © DarkMirage for Ramblings [...]
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Short Synopsis: Grace uses Ranka’s abilities as Sheryl gets more and more jealous. Highlights: Best soundtracks of the series yet. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Ah, of course. The reason why Grace went after singers like Ranka and Sheryl was for their deculture-ability, in an attempt to get rid of the Vajra. Apparently, the deculture didn’t work with Sheryl, [...]
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Ooooh, rock. I thought it was going to be a ballad. Is that May’n? This seems to have been used in the ED sequence: I can’t wait to hear a HQ version of this song, rock doesn’t sound good on LQ Image source: May’n’s Blog
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The Vajra launch a full scale assault on the Frontier, while the SMS tries to defend against it and save Ranka.
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Seems like the industry is hellbent on getting as much out of Macross Frontier as possible, and I wouldn't say that's exactly unjustified, whatnot with Nyan Furo grabbing second place on the Oricon charts. (Even Evangelion didn't do that wtf)Now, the release dates for the new Macross F OP and ED singles have been revealed.Apparently, it is set for an August 20th 2008 release, with a retail value of 1155 Yen, tax included.Tracklist: 1. Lion - May'n feat. Megumi Nakajima2. Northern Cross - May'n3. Lion (instrumental)4. Northern Cross (instrumental)Publishers: Flying DOG/JVC ent.Distributors: Victor ent.[[Thank you Famitsu!]]And in other related Macross F news, T2 artworks has released an illustrations sample as to what we can expect from his C74 Macross F work.Find it here, cause if I were to post it, I'd be violating blogger's ToS. T_T
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Random episode selection method did not help Macross F, the story did not pull me in. The acclaimed meeting with Klein was a very small part of the episode. The art and animation made a big impression on me. I did not like all parts, but it sure looked like the future of the anime, with [...]
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I just want to go on the record as stating that episode 15 of Macross Frontier was extremely bizarre. Entertainingly bizarre, but bizarre nonetheless. Of course, 15 was half a recap episode and half new content, and I’d just come off watching 13 and 14 as part of my sinister plan to catch up on Macross [...]
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After last week’s crushing defeat a recap episode of Macross Frontier has left the door open for Geass to claim victory this week. As per normal, we’ll take a look at both episode in 3 categories to find out who come out on top during this week’s pudding fight. Story Even though Frontier was a recap [...]
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Unfortunately for Sheryl, it doesn’t look like this will be happening very soon! Picture courtesy of Hubby-sama btw. So this is a re-cap episode, but don’t let that stop you from watching, since compared to re-caps I‘ve seen in the past this was just as entertaining as an all new episode would have been. [...]
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Summary: Grace is talking to the voices in her head while waiting for her next clone to download the latest firmware. Although Gallia-4 was Grace’s birthplace, the bomb was all part of Operation Carnival. Amazingly, Grace was responsible for leading the Vajra to Macross Frontier when she brought Sheryl, aka Fairy 9, for a [...]
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One is a failed project—to be replaced by the other. The opera that is Macross F has entered into an intermission or otherwise known as recap episode. But before you cry, “filler crap!” this was one captivating, refreshing recap. OK, “refreshing recap” may sound like an oxymoron, but the writers made it worked by [...]
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