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Macross Valkyrie

Nice try.

Macross Supports Cultural Imperialism?

I suppose you can't take SJW far enough... though his critique of the second Macross Frontier movie otherwise sounds reasonable. Why couldn't they just write an original story that is set after the series?

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Should we expect new issues of Macross Chronicle out soon?

Reviews by a fan.

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New Macross series! Learned of it only last night... animation quality seems to be lower than that of Macross Frontier. And it's another fey-looking main male protagonist.



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Another Macross Series On the Way

Post by Anime News Network.

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A remade done right...

Wow, and for a Pachinko game, too. Scenes from the original series redone, Macross. (Appparently that opening I found through AICN a week ago was only one scene.)

Macross FB7 Trailer

Macross 30 will be a game, not a series; but the FB7 movie will be released shortly.



Macross 30 Teaser Trailer Shows Promotional Artwork

Macross 30 trailer

No actual footage from the series, but something to tease the fans.



Trailer for the special anniversary blu-ray edition of Do You Remember Love?

The MV for Flashback 2012.

Space Battleship Yamato 2199

A remake of the 1974 classic Japanese animated series (known as Star Blazers here in the U.S.), Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (宇宙戦艦ヤマト２１９９) - apparently, even the Japanese have to mine their own classics. What's next? A new movie based on the original Macross? (Hrm, apparently a new TV series is under development for the 30th anniversary of the original show, Macross Two-Nine.)

Technically it is quite well-done, in particular the use of CGI. But I note they have added more women to the crew (including an ace pilot who is initially forced to take another role on the ship because of her brother, also a pilot). Fan service? An attempt to appeal to female viewers? Or the influence of feminism in Japan?

Yuki has more of an attitude, typical of more recent female characters and less "feminine" than the original. In some ways the characters behave more immaturely, especially in the bickering between Yuki and Susumu Kodai. This may be standard for Japanese animated fare for the last 20 or 30 years, but the original characters seemed more "mature" even if they could be young and impetuous (in the case of Susumu Kodai). Has some version of adultlescence carried over into anime?

This has probably been the way things have been for some time - the glorification of teenagers (and all their weaknesses). The new Gundam TV series are like that, and there's also Neon Genesis Evangelion. Of course, the characters in those shows were still in their teens; I think Kodai and company are a few years older. Still, I do think there is a difference in personality and maturity between those characters in the remake and their counterparts in the classic series.

The remake will undoubtedly feature great heroism as did the original; the addition of female characters (tne supporting cast includes the pilot, the nurse/medic to Dr. Sado, and the science officer) is nonetheless grating. The depiction of women in Japanese mass media has changed much in the last 30 years, even if some claim that feminism of the Uhmerican sort has a negligible presence in Japan. (Is that really the case, given the power that mothers have over children, especially sons? Even if the toxic ideology of feminism is absent in the consciousness of Japanese women, they can nevertheless be emasculating.) What prominence does anime (and manga) have in Japan today? What impact does it have on the formation of boys and teenagers?

Will they continue the series of movies that began with Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection (宇宙戦艦ヤマト 復活篇)? The CGI for the movie was good in quality, but the style was not really to my liking. There is also a lot of death in the movie, maybe too much even though it's a staple of the franchise and to be expected when the story takes place on an interplanetary scale.

The opening for the remake:


PV for the first episode after the jump.

Macross movie on Blu-ray!

ANN: Macross Movie Blu-ray to Have Changes From 1984 Original



Less violent than the original version?

Mikimoto Haruhiko Will Draw New Macross Manga (via Macross World Forums)

More info (pdf); Designer Haruhiko Mikimoto to Draw New Macross Manga.

Haruhiko Mikimoto - Wikipedia

Related links
Macross 7 Trash
Macross 7 Print
Macross Ace « わかりませんロール (’~`;)

Macross Frontier, ep 23-25

Macross Frontier - 23 | Random Curiosity
Macross Frontier 23 | Sea Slugs! Anime Blog
THAT Animeblog - Macross Frontier 23
Star Crossed Anime Blog :: Macross Frontier - 23
Macross Frontier 23 - True Begin



Macross Frontier - 24 | Random Curiosity
Macross Frontier 24 | Sea Slugs! Anime Blog
THAT Animeblog - Macross Frontier 24
Star Crossed Anime Blog :: Macross Frontier - 24
Macross Frontier 24 - Last Frontier « Calamitous Intent
Macross Frontier - Episode 24 « Kitsune’s Thoughts









Macross Frontier - 25 (END) | Random Curiosity
Macross Frontier 25 (Final) | Sea Slugs! Anime Blog
THAT Animeblog - Macross Frontier 25 (END)
Star Crossed Anime Blog :: Macross Frontier - 25
Macross Frontier 25 - Your Sound. « Calamitous Intent
Macross Frontier 25 (END) : Otaku Complex
Macross FRONTIER - 25 Final Battle - [FINAL IMPRESSIONS]
Macross Frontier - Episode 25 (End) « Kitsune’s Thoughts

The series finale of Macross Frontier certainly stayed faithful to the theme of love/music/culture being the source of humanity's strength. Once again, love triumphs over superior technology. This a theme of the other Macross stories to one degree or another, but perhaps the strongest comparison can be made with Macross Plus, with the AI of Sharon Apple representing technology, which is ultimately defeated by the 3 friends forming the love triangle of that OVA series. The cybernetic fleet of Macross Galaxy represents certain 'advances' in technology that have been made by humans since Macross Plus.

The love triangle of Macross Frontier wasn't resolved, but I think that's fine, given that Alto is still a teenager and has some growing up to do still. Why do so many fans expect so much out of what may be nothing more than a high school crush? (What reason do we have to think that there is anything deeper than some sort of superficial attraction? What do the characters really know about each other, and what do we know about the characters? Given the maturity level of anime fans in general, it may not be a surprise that they don't know much about what makes love work. Then again, we can also blame manga authors and anime creators for not knowing about what makes for a "successful match" and peddling instead romantic fantasy.)

Did the finale feel rushed? Not so much. (Though fans may have preferred more action sequences, especially dogfights between the VF-25 and the VF-27.) However, while the length of time allotted for the finale was sufficient, I would have preferred the series as a whole be longer, for the sake of character development and also more story in general--a lot of the relationships between the characters, and the characters themselves, were sketched rather lightly. While at first I dreaded another story about teenagers at a high school who happened to be mech drivers, Macross Frontier did not really use the high school that much. We are given some of the history and back story for the main characters, but very little for most of the minor characters. The Pixie Squadron was woefully neglected in my opinion as a fanboy; while I still don't care much for certain aspects of Klan Klan's character design, it would have been interesting to see more interaction between the Meltran pilots and the development of Meltran culture.

The series does leave more to the imagination, but I do not know if this is good for a story relying upon an audiovisual medium. In comparison to Macross Plus or Macross Zero, or most TV series or Hollywood movies, the amount of character development in Macross Frontier is average. But it doesn't provide much material, from which we can draw some moral. Be a decisive man?

The same complaints that were made about Macross Zero -- the final chapter being rushed, lack of sufficient details or explanations -- are probably applicable to Macross Frontier as well. It definitely could have been much better, but I don't think fans will not give up on Macross because the latest series didn't meet all their expectations.

I found what they did with the Vajra as having a hive mind and the ensuing cultural misunderstanding with the humans to be interesting. Naturally, it turns out that Ranka's song, "Aimo," is the Vajra mating song. I haven't seen the subtitles, so I don't know if they had encountered Protoculture or any of the other older sentient races in the galaxy before.

Pitting Macross Frontier against Macross Galaxy was another otaku fantasy put on the TV screen. While there were two colonization fleets engaging each other, very little of the other ships was actually shown in the episode, given time constraints. No grand fleet battles. And we didn't get a chance to see life aboard Macross Galaxy, though we do know that the Galaxy Fleet makes use of cybernetic implants. What sort of culture exists there? Do they too have a collective mind, once Grace takes over their minds through the implants (like the Borg of Star Trek)? What a contrast it would be with the more 'ecologically sensitive' and 'natural' Frontier fleet, where such implants have been banned.

There is a Macross Frontier movie in the works, but no news if it will be an original story taking place after the events of the series, or a re-telling of the series.

Bilrer turns out to be a Minmei fan and was hoping to meet her on the Vajra homeworld. The mystery of the disappearance of Megaroad 01 remains unsolved. (As many have pointed out in the Macross World Forums, Bilrer represents Macross otakus and their obsessions with Minmei and variable fighters.)

Macross Frontier Movie Announced - Anime News Network
Macross Compendium Memories: Shoji Kawamori, July 6, 2002
AICN review

All That VF Zero version

Macross 25th Anniversary

All That VF

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Macross Chronicles homepage

Macross TV - Opening by Nekki Basara


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From Anime World Order Podcast (review index):

Bonus - Interview with Noboru Ishiguro

Here's our interview from Anime Weekend Atlanta 2007 with renowned science fiction anime director Noboru Ishiguro, whose works include Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers) as well as Superdimensional Fortress Macross (part of which became Robotech).

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