Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I liked to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the master of a fleet called Frontier That was one of the best recap episodes I have ever seen, where the usually route is to just give a run [...]
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A rearranged version of Diamond Crevasse made its way as Macross Frontier’s 15th episode ending theme. Plainly put, it’s a cutified version of the original Diamond Crevasse, done perhaps to fit Megumi’s “Ranka” voice more. May’n sings in the refrain, which we don’t hear too well because of the voices speaking over it. A few [...]
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Short Synopsis: This episode closes off the first half and introduces the second half of Macross Frontier. Oh, and in order to fill up time, it stuffs in a bunch of recaps. Highlights: Thankfully tries to be more than a recap. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 Like expected, the previous episode marked the end of the first half of [...]
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We decided to scrap our regular feature of doing Highlights & Lowlights of Macross Frontier in favor of doing a weekly pudding fight to the death between the two behemoth series of the 08 season Code Geass R2 & Macross Frontier.  So get a strap on and prepare for battle. {Yes! - snuck that [...]
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Yes, this episode of Macross Frontier was epic, what with Alto-Hime showing off his leet skillz, GAR scream and inhuman ability to not get shot in a firestorm strafing run on a Varja Capital ship.RANKA, DAYUMN GIRL CAN SING, NEKKID TOO.But what Statelight DIDN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES.SPACE PLANES.HIGH ENERGY READINGS COMING FROM THE TARGET.THE RED ROOMNOT RANKA, AYANAMI!Lolwut?PROFIT.AND THAT'S HOW YOU DEFEAT AN ANGEL THE VARJANote: This post is in no way connected to Macross 14. Srsly.
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This episode of Macross Frontier deals with the violent Zentradi that hasn’t been talked about in this series so far. The leader of the violent/rebel Zentradi IMO reminds me of Kamjin from the original Macross series. This episode deals with Sheryl and Alto being an item, and Ranka’s first live. I thought that the last [...]
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Reposted from Macross World with permission from Gubaba (Thank you!). These below are English translations of the liner notes seen in the CD jacket of OST 1: Nyan Fro. Liner Notes Nayn Fro is a nickname for “Nyan Nyan Frontier.” This album collects nothing but the hottest hits from some of the girls of Frontier. [Translation note: the [...]
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If one were to describe a Macross series, there would be many recurring concepts: war, transforming fighter jets, idol singers, love triangles, culture. However, if one were to describe the feelings conveyed by each series, theywould be hard-pressed to find too many similarities. The original Super Dimensional Fortress Macross feels different from Macross Plus, which [...]
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It seems to me that the notion of “filler” is becoming more and more difficult to define. When you’ve got a series like Macross Frontier which isn’t based on a manga, filler isn’t the same as something like Naruto where they make up stuff that doesn’t really move anything on. Can you class [...]
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This news just reached my ears, after surfing around a few doujin circle webbies.Tony Taka at T2 Art Works will be releasing his C74 doujins based on Macross F.Image from T2's webbie. I STEALS IT NOT.His booth will be at the East District, A-61ab. On the 3rd day of C74, where true loot is gleaned.Rei's room will be there too, and so will Cradle. YAY.Also, according to the latest updates at the Comiket site, the catalog will feature a 4-piece set of Zero no Tsukaima artwork by artists like MATSUDA89. THIS IS GREAT NEWS. TO ANYONE WHO IS GOING, I WILL BUY THE CATALOG OFF YOU. NO SRSLY.
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I realized after a while that you run out of insightful things to say about anime after a while. All I do nowadays is just rant and rave about how amazing a series with no real meat to back up what I’m saying except for my ephemeral feelings, the ones that you can’t hold on [...]
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Sheryl enrols in Alto et al’s high school mostly to prove some kind of point with the most inconsistent art style imaginable. Well, it’s the best Hiroyuki Yoshino ridiculous-pants-based episode yet. Despite the horrible, horrible character designs - it wasn’t as if Satelight made up for it with amazing animation or anything, it just looked [...]
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Summary: As expected, Alto grabs Luca’s pack and escapes the bomb. Luca is about to confess his love to Nanase, but has to scramble as the Vajra defold right in front of Frontier. As the Vajra advance in the Flying V, Sheryl finds Mikhail is unconscious and takes the controls. Unfortunately, she sucks. [...]
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The true face of the Vajra? Let’s make a conjecture on how Ranka is 1/4 Zentrali. Her father was probably half human, half Zentrali; her mom, on the other hand, given her absence in the photo at the lab and the revelation from this episode, was probably neither human nor Zentrali but instead a pure [...]
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This episode basically distills Macross Frontier down to two of its core components - there is fighting, and there is singing. And the fighting is good (aka Satelight blew their budget on the CG here), and the singing is good (as it always is). Although it was great fun to watch, there’s nothing [...]
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Whoa, suffice to say that Macross isn’t your run-off-the-mill mecha show but episode 14, an episode totally focused on the battle, was just awe inspiring. I’m still recovering from the sounds of stuff blowing up, Alto’s screams of passion and the rainblow-esque spectrum of colours my computer unleashed on my unprepared self. Now, being new to [...]
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Snapshots from Omni since I didn’t want subtitles in my images (damn .avi files). Superb. This episode was really awesome, although at the beginning I couldn’t stop wondering when Alto-hime would finally rescue Ranka. I like the new side of Luca — ’twas very manly indeed. [...]
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OMG! OMG! OMG! Seriously, each week I just end up loving this show more and more, and oh if you thought it was impossible for Alto-hime to get any hotter, you were wrong… The action in this episode is just kick-ass and our Alto-hime is in the thick of it, weapons ablazing. [...]
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Episode of the Week: Macross Frontier - 13 Although there were several great episodes this week, especially with the new season there are going to be a lot of contenders, I feel Macross stood out again above the rest. It seems a bit unfair to me even as I’m making these decisions that Macross would get [...]
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