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QUOTE (Midnight Star @ Apr 27 2008, 06:11 PM)
Yeah, one of the greatest anime series ever! This series started way back in the 80s with the original series and is still going today with the latest series Macross Frontier airing in Japan right now. So this thread is to discuss anything Macross related.
I just finished watching the first 3 episodes of Macross Frontier, my god it was good. After watching them all except Macross 7, I thought there would never be a series able to compare with the movie "Do you remember love?". But the CGI effects are great. And the new VF-25 mecha looks awesome.
The characters and the storyline so far are really cool too. I noticed that they tried to re-create some of the scenes from the original Macross series in this one. For example, Hikaru flying around Macross city carrying Minmay in the Valkyrie's hand. Aliens shoot off the hand from the mecha and Minme falls. I think that was a cool tribute to the original series.
But yeah, finally a worthy successor to the original Macross storyline. Macross Zero and Plus were good and all, but they weren't as good as the original. Macross 2 isn't really part of the storyline, and Macross 7 was weird. They took the realism away and started to use magic and stuff. Didn't like that.
Greatest, yes. IMO, could do w/o the conspiracy thing, tho.
VF-25 looks like a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker (and variants). Awesome - Pugachev Cobra w/ that bird would be fancy but sorta pointless. Sucks that Michael died, and just when I got to liking him after that friendly-fire episode (I think it was 9); however, Sheryl's friggin' annoying as f*** - anyone who's watched Gundam SEED/GSD could easily compare her to Flay (and maybe Meer).
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yea sheryl is just a drama queen, think she returns in a band this episode...besides i wanted to see something like isamu dyson or a copy of roy focker
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QUOTE (DrnkJawa @ Sep 4 2008, 10:07 PM)
yea sheryl is just a drama queen, think she returns in a band this episode...besides i wanted to see something like isamu dyson or a copy of roy focker
Here here, Frontier needs some more GAR. Manly characters are always the most awesome XD. Focker had so many memorable quotes. Loved the way he used his job in the military to pick up.
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QUOTE (Midnight Star @ Today at 8:43 PM)
Here here, Frontier needs some more GAR. Manly characters are always the most awesome XD. Focker had so many memorable quotes. Loved the way he used his job in the military to pick up.
Focker was just awesome, remember how in DYRL he went fighting while totally drunk? atleast hes one of the biggest aces in macross universe
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yea..the one and oni macross anime i ever watch..frontier..caught attention..more den gundams series..love the song they sang..interesting...anyway..i wanna buy a macross model kit badly..
I don't get where they get these quantitative numbers from and what purpose it really serves. Its a cartoon, fiction.
its like trying to find out what superman's top speed is .
Well, I'll be surprised, if the movie even makes it to theaters, than straight to dvd... then the trash . There are just too many ways to FUBAR it up, by "modernizing" it. And the whole notion that a love song is an warrior alien race's weakness is just too "kid friendly" and lame, even back in the 90s
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Eh...theres one thing to make it a success...needs MOAR M3/itano circus attacks! anyways a long song being a good weapon...sounds like old science fiction movies lol...btw anybody seen Mars Attacks?
yea i know its in russian but damn its a good song
Figured ill add the lyrics as spoiler aswell
SPOILER
I am running on the burnt ground, Slamming the helmet on the run. My "Phantom" like a white arrow in split wing Ascends with a roar.
I see light blue in the distance - To break such is simply a pity. It is a pity, that you do not see it! Our way is difficult and far. My "Phantom" rushes to the east.
I do the left turn, I am now an executioner, not a pilot: I bend down above the sight - and rockets rush to their purpose. Ahead one more call.
I see in the sky a white feature - my "Phantom" loses height. A catapult - here rescue! And on slings - a tension, My heart - in my heel: I go into a corkscrew.
At the very same moment I landed From bushes a wild shout was heard: Yellow-faced Vietnamese squall in bushes, as hares. I have fallen to the ground and have calmed down.
Again I walk on the damned ground. The helmet is not on my head. Soldiers jab my back from behind with the barrel of an automatic, my life hangs on strand of hair.
"Who's that pilot, who brought me down?" - I asked one Vietnamese. He answered me slanting, that commanded interrogation: "Our pilot Lee See Tsin brought you down "
This you, Vietnamese, tell lies in vain! In the microphone I precisely heard: "Kolya, press, and I'll cover!" - "Vanya, shoot, and I'll cover!" Russian ace Ivan has lined me.
Somewhere there in the distance native Texas, Houses, father and mother wait for me. My "Phantom" has suddenly blown up in the sky blue and pure - Now you wont see much of me any more...
This post has been edited by DrnkJawa on Jul 1 2009, 12:56 PM