The girls of the Korean cosplay group are shown above in nurse uniforms, ready to care for special patients. The cosplay is derived from the second anime film from the Macross Frontier series, Macross Frontier The Movie: The Wings of Goodbye. Macross Frontier the Movie: The Wings of Goodbye is based on the Macross Frontier
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Bandai is going to release the Figuarts ZERO Sheryl Nome ( シェリル・ノーム ) Shine of Valkyria ( シャイン・オブ・ヴァルキュリア ) non-scale PVC figure from the anime movie “Macross Frontier The Movie: The Wings of Goodbye” ( 劇場版マクロスF -サヨナラノツバサ- ). Will be released in April 2012. Around 170mm tall, 4,500 yen. **Ranka Lee sold separately** Maybe I’m [...]
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Let me bring Leibniz into the discussion: “It follows from the supreme perfection of God that he has chosen the best possible plan in producing the universe, a plan which combines the greatest variety together with the greatest order; with situation, place, and time arranged in the best way possible; with the greatest effect produced [...]
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Oh, and we thought there’d be no more of these kinds of Macross F events? The tagline of this event is even, “There’s no more stage like this!” It’s pretty clear that this event would include a song performance since May’n is in the guest list, and her role in the animation is purely to [...]
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…I was going to be able to write a post on this series without having to deal with the dysfunctional love triangle of the animellennium, the two ladies start a singing contest for Alto’s attention and lo and behold Ranka goes so far as to do a triangle with her hands.  This is something! The [...]
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…I was going to be able to write a post on this series without having to deal with the dysfunctional love triangle of the animellennium, the two ladies start a singing contest for Alto’s attention and lo and behold Ranka goes so far as to do a triangle with her hands.  This is something! The [...]
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At last, the journey that started in 2008 has finally come to its conclusion... I delayed my viewing of the 2nd Macross Frontier movie so that I could have something to really look forward to on the 24th of December (aside from the food of course). I ended up downloading 3 versions (LOL) but I decided to stick to the one with FLAC audio. Ditched the 1080p version too because my laptop couldn't play it well. ^_^; Since I've already tackled comparisons to the Macross DYRL movie in the Itsuwari no Utahime post, I won't be tackling that much again here. Why?? Because the most important item in this movie is just this: WHO WILL ALTO-HIME CHOOSE???!!!
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At last, the journey that started in 2008 has finally come to its conclusion... I delayed my viewing of the 2nd Macross Frontier movie so that I could have something to really look forward to on the 24th of December (aside from the food of course). I ended up downloading 3 versions (LOL) but I decided to stick to the one with FLAC audio. Ditched the 1080p version too because my laptop couldn't play it well. ^_^; Since I've already tackled comparisons to the Macross DYRL movie in the Itsuwari no Utahime post, I won't be tackling that much again here. Why?? Because the most important item in this movie is just this: WHO WILL ALTO-HIME CHOOSE???!!!
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1. So are the green-skinned dudes and the dudes that look like giant Altos all Zentraedi?  I was kinda confused by this, though ultimately I assumed they were all the same race. 2. I know there’s no way that this is going to turn out to be true, but everytime I look at that squiggly [...]
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1. So are the green-skinned dudes and the dudes that look like giant Altos all Zentraedi?  I was kinda confused by this, though ultimately I assumed they were all the same race. 2. I know there’s no way that this is going to turn out to be true, but everytime I look at that squiggly [...]
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The photo shown above is cosplayer Tasha cosplaying as Sheryl Nome from the science fiction anime Macross Frontier. Macross Frontier is a science fiction space drama anime that aired in Japan April 2008 to September 2008 and animated by Satelight. Macross Frontier follows the story of a human space colony fleet trying to find a
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I was so happy when Sheryl was interrogated on the most obvious question of all: “How come you’ve got so much free time these days?!”  This is all for the sake of advancing the plot, I guess, as well as the random Pegasuspaniel Hydra attack the other day, as setup for the epidemic in this [...]
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Ranka’s singing gets noticed by a film director and he invites her to join the cast.  Is this an anime fiction?  No, it’s the reality of Japanese cinema.  But I digress.. Alto gives her some lovely advice, which I must repeat since it’s in Classical Japanese and that’s all I’m studying these days: 「思わざれば花なり、思えば花ならざりき」 = [...]
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Why is Alto so grumpy with Mikhail?  Yes, he is a “bitchy pretty boy”, in the words of ghostlightning, but is there more to it than this? Since the first Frontier-related thing I ever came into contact with was a Mikhail-Alto doujinshi, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that Alto was actually getting jealous of [...]
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Cool episode! Luca So, is Luca Christian or what!!  He names his three drones Simon, John and Peter.  3 of the 12 apostles were called by those names (also, Peter was originally called Simon).  Luca (=Ruka) in Japanese is the name of the evangelist Luke.  His surname Angelloni sounds a lot like “angel”.  And in [...]
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In case you've been living upon an asteroid for the past few years, the opening scene of Macross Frontier's second theatrical outing, Sayonara no Tsubasa, opens with a pretty typical example of what you can expect from it - a lavish Sheryl Nome musical number, accompanied by a raid and subsequent dogfighting as part of an attach on a Vajra hive.  The music, of course, takes precedence to the
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When I was still in love with God / I never expected such a farewell to come. The lyrics above come from the song, “Diamond Crevasse,” in Macross Frontier.  Animekritic does his usual wonderful job of analysis, discussing the possible theological meanings of the song in his breakdown of episode 6 of the series. Kiddtic [...]
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