Archive for August, 2009
Murakami marathon
August 31st, 2009
Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, Dance Dance Dance and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. All five for less than RM 150. Also Six Suspects, Tale of Two Cities and Sherlock Holmes.
Excuse me if I don’t blog as much in the next 2 months or so. Too bad Norwegian Wood sold out. Should’ve bought them all on the first day of the Popular Bookfest. But still, awesome discounts are awesome…..
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Bakemonogatari 08
August 31st, 2009
Just as I thought Senjougahara won’t be making any more appearances in the arc…
…there she comes in to save the day (and Araragi from getting wounds worse than being disembowelled). Seriously, she’s like the MVP of the series.
And Araragi-kun is pretty cool eh, gets bitten by loli vampire and doesn’t afraid of getting disembowelled by a jealous, murdering lesbian.
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20th Century Boys Live Action I and II
August 31st, 2009
I finally took time to watch the live action 20th Century Boys movies. Man, those movies really are damn long, clocking at 2 hours plus each.
So… well. How were they? Pretty good actually considering the amount of source material they had to work with. I’ve already finished reading the whole manga so I’m aware that a lot of stuff was cut out to fit in to the confines of a movie but the production team kept the intensity and the psychological mindfuck of the story well enough. In fact, I would say they did a great job condensing it, it feels more coherent in the movie than the manga.
Also the climax scenes were very well done, such as the explosion in the end of the first movie to destroy the robot and the funeral ceremony in the second movie. They weren’t kidding when wiki said that this was one of the biggest projects of the Japanese movie industry. Looking at all the extras in the crowd scenes of the second movie as well as the international news reports really makes you go “oh wow”.
On the negative side of things, character development was sacrificed, most notably in the second movie, but the important points were kept well enough for me to like it.
Overall, the first two movies are a pretty good adaptation of the manga, despite some drawbacks such as the sheer length and the missing character development. Too bad movies like this won’t be coming to Malaysia. Can’t wait for the final part of the trilogy to come out too.
P.S. Takako Tokiwa looks too ‘cool’ to be Yukiji 
.
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MS IGLOO 2 – 3: The only good Zeke is a dead Zeke and the only thing better than that is a dead Zeke you use to grease the treads of RTX-440
August 30th, 2009
Not so fun now is it Zeke? Now the Feddies got GMs you are so FUCKED.
So I was stuck in Virginia until Saturday for another C-School in the same ratty old barracks. At least though I finally got a hold of episode 3 of IGLOO 2 after multiple tries on a slow connection. While IGLOO will never get a grade A story it still matters little as all of them are about the best damn mecha action you will ever see in 30 minutes, the stories are simple and straight forward. This time it was about another crop of lunatics that drive guntanks as part of a penal legion. This time the fucking Zekes are on the run after the humble GM along with they mighty Type 61 with ample Big Tray and air support have been kicking Zeke ass across whole continents.
Ah the RGM-79[G] Ground Type it feels like 8th MS Team again.
No longer does the Zaku hold dominance as Feddie combined arms tactics have been kicking the shit out of the one trick pony Zeke strategy of “Send Zakus There.” While it was about the RTX-440 I was giddy at how much love the GM got, even after all this time I still have a weak spot for the workhorse of the Federation. It was fucking magical to see core fighters downing Zeke transports which hopefully full of Zekes and badly needed supplies. While Yandell maybe dead the Type 61 soldiered on and helps the new GMs reap a fearsome toll on the hated forces of the corrupt and genocidal forces of the Principality of Zeon.
I like how artillery was critical in this episode as it is about as gritty as you can get for artillery is King of the Battlefield and can knock anything dead. Things like that are all but absent in AU Gundams. That is why UC for me will remain superior to every thing AU except for G Gundam. It is rather sad to see that while Sunrise has a talented team in IGLOO, the IGLOO team along with the Pailsen Files team labor away in obscurity while Jihad-kun gets undue praise as Yandell goes unsung.
Good to see that the Type-61 is still around killing Zekes, Yandell must be happy that his old warhorse is still rolling.
So the lead this time is a technical officer (I’d just call her a warrant officer) Arleen Nazon whose beloved weapons project was scrapped after her former test pilot and lover went traitor she and her team get thrown in the brig while their funding goes away. She swears revenge and is allowed to form a penal unit to avenge her loss, it seems death likes Nazon a lot more than Yandell but it seems that Death is strong with the yuri and starts hitting on Nazon right away.
Major giggles makes a return and constantly gets shown up, at first he is derisive of the Guntank but soon he realizes the error of his ways as the RTX-440 platoon makes a dramatic breakthrough with the help of some GMs and a Big Tray strike group. No Zaku, Gouf, Dom, or any Zeke are a match for their might and they amply prove their superiority over the despicable Zekes. After taking out one Dabude Major Giggles tries to order Nazon to call off her attack but the fires of revenge were burning bright as her anguish over the untimely demise of her beloved RTX-440 program demanded satisfaction. Despite her erstwhile non-mecha lover begging for his life, Nazon loved the RTX-440 more and blew them all to hell.
Hey look no beam spam!
Death in the mean time constructed a wonderful story a out Nazon’s former non-mecha lover was actually a double agent. Certainly it seems quite possible as Major Giggles did order her to back off, but I think it was just a ploy by Death to get Nazon to give up on men so that she could have a night of her and Nazon that went on forever and ever… I have to say it worked perfectly.
Still it’s hard to put into words how awesome this episode was hopefully the screen caps will convince non- believers of how much WIN IGLOO 2 is and why UC is still better than any of that new CE crap. I hope they will have more Feddie centric IGLOO stuff somewhere down the line, certainly other things could use the same treatment, GM, Guncannon, Magellan, Salamis, and let’s not forget the big boys, Big Tray and Heavy Fork…
In the end I am going to miss this since this is probably the last dose of Real Robot I am going to get for a while since the Gundam Franchise has largely moved away from gritty killing and burning of Zekes to beam spam. Still there is hope once Gundam Unicorn arrives but that is a bit ways off, even if UC is just a faint memory these days at least there is still a team at Sunrise slaving away while their deeds largely go unsung as IGLOO 2 did not get as much love as the accursed Jesus Yamato and Jihad-kun. I liked this episode the most since it had the most combined arms mecha action of the OVA series and it was a rare treat that I can watch ovber and over again. The roster of models taking to the fight was pretty impressive, and even if IGLOO will not be remembered for being the greatest or deepest story told I did like simply because it was about the poor Feddies who died and lived only to kill Zekes, kill Zerkes, and kill more Zekes surely they would have made Halsey proud. Certainly it does reflect the fact that a person can run largely on hatred alone without having to have a shred of sympathy for the other side. As such it avoided the “Let’s All be Friends” bullshit that is spouted out these days and spoon fed to a whole generation that cannot appreciate the whole horror or war and can only see it as a place for moralistic platitudes and soap box preaching of the obvious.
Also this is clear proof that when you have a girl as the main pilot that great things can happen. While it may not tug on heart strings nor impart the treagedy that Gundam 0080 did, at least with Nazon we got the best damn combined arms slug out knock out fight that every mecha fans dream of. My only complaint was that it was not some hours longer…
Your point defense MGs only work in a box formation…Also I hope that Gaw was full of Zeke wounded and badly needed supplies, preferably medical supplies.
Our Core Fighter proves it’s superiority once again.
Zekes have piss poor aim and can’t sight their guns for shit. and how could you miss three GMs coming at you…?
Dang where are the GM Snipers?
Dabudes have broadsides made of weaksauce.
RTX-440s are here at this OK Corral, their names are Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt…
Tank platoons usually come in fours these days but I’ll take what I can get and I guess Nazon here counts as two…
I see Major Giggles is back…
The GM found it so funny that he had to ROFLMAO on Giggles’ ride.
FUCK YEAH Yuri in my IGLOO!
She is Chikane and you are Himeko in this rolepay…hell you already have the corresponding hair colors.
Well a moon shines because of the sun…
A Night of Nazon and Death that went on forever and ever…
Man this is a beautiful sight the only thing missing is the air support…
Land Battleship Squardron FUCK YEAH! Big Tray in the lead and two Heavy Forks bringing up the rear.
But seriously how did they miss that huge defensive ditch?
That one’s for ranging…
This one is for you…
Not that is MOBILE
RTX-440 literally blows the Zaku II away…
Hey look a Norris Packard wannabe…
Shot in the ass by a GM…
Shot in the balls by RTX-440…No Zaku amirte?
The GM is only here to help…
Fixed defenses are a monument to the stupidity of Zeon, what a Zeke can build a Feddie can blow up…
So many Type-61s…if only Yandell were still here to help.
For a moment like this… some people wait a lifetime…for a moment like this…
Because he is a Man of Destiny…and guess what he’s not in love with a Nina Purpleton…
Organic artillery support included!
Stupid Zeke MLRS would have sufficed…we Feddies call it Gird Square Removal System
Now you see them…
Now you don’t…it’s so…magical.
Magella Attack Tanks eh?
Feel the Fires of Retribution Zeke scum! These are the fires that cleanse your souls of your impudence and stupidity. ZEUS AKBAR!
I love the smell of burnt Zeke in the morning…
The Magella Attack Tank is not match for the RTX-440’s might.
Much more effective than a burning bag of dog shit…
How did you like them Valentine’s chocolate motherfucker?
Steven Hawking helped make the the RTX-440 possible, he even voiced the computer…
That is some GLOMP…
And then the Zaku I pilot shat himself…
He’s a Black one eyed Scoittish Cyclops…
Order now and you get this free Itano Circus!
Ima anata no koe ga kikoeru
“Koko ni oide” to
Samishisa ni makesouna watashi ni
Ima anata no sugata ga mieru
Aruite kuru
Me wo tojite matte iru watashi ni
Kinou made namida de kumotteta
Kokora wa ima…
The shaft is ray sheilded so you will have to use proton torpedoes…
Nazon trust me…
Oh they brought three Magella Attack Tanks…
This one is for Yandell.
Hey it’s Robosaurus…
Best Monster Tank Rally EVAR!
Always two there are…
Too Fast, Too Furious, Too Weeabo…
Dom Jedi…?
More lIke Dom the Star Wars Kid…
Here have a can…
…of WHUPASS.
Damn Zekes only coming out when the RTX-440 is wrecked…
Woah there was a big RED BUTTON on this thing?
Arleen will not let him kill her softly with that song.
Zekes have trouble finding the proper words to beg for their lives…
ZEUS AKBAR!
For getting her beloved Nazon to leave her mortal coil I guess that makes Death the Winner of IGLOO 2.
The best thing about episode was the SCALE.
Asahina Mikuru no Tameiki II
August 29th, 2009
Really, this arc is all about abusing poor Mikuru. :3
What’s worse is that I’m actually enjoying it! orz
Deadly Mikuru beam is deadly.
Oh shi… it’s smoked cheese Tsuruya-san!
And I’m beginning to wonder when will KyoAni move to HD broadcasts. This week’s video quality is so horrible!
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Negima! 262
August 29th, 2009
Well, Kotaro’s looking quite manly here.
Being best friends with Negi sure has rubbed some playa’ moves on him, eh.
So it looks like the next one is Chachamaru… but can she even Pactio? This will be interesting to watch.
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 07 – YUUKI CANNOT DIE
August 29th, 2009
Is Yuuki Dead?!!
“Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated, geez”
I was also among the people who went “NOOOOO YUUUKKIIIII!!!” as the ending credits rolled, but one quick search on the synopsis of the upcoming episodes is enough to dispel me of this fear, hah! >:]
So calm down people, rest assured that Yuuki is going to be alright~ He’ll just be taken to the hospital, undergo some operation (I’m thinking he has appendicitis, given the indigestion-like symptoms), alive and genki not before long, and homeward bound they go~
Episodic Ramblings
From the time the new character Kento-kun appeared, I actually thought Mirai found her love interest, but then he had to leave as soon as the episode ended. Darn. Back to our regular Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 programming.
Would’ve loved it if this scene turned out something like this instead:
Kento: that was close.
Mirai: no, this one’s closer. * blush *
* cheeezyyyy *
* cough *
were the ones behind this show trying to make a pun out of ‘kaeru’, I wonder? kaeru is the japanese for frog, which could also mean ‘change’ (different kanji — can’t write in Nihongo dammit -_-)
Mirai sure has grown up. From being a selfish little brat who constantly grumbles, she has now learned to be grateful — grateful for her parents for the things they have done for her, grateful for the people around her, and grateful just to be alive.
Her perspective of the world has certainly changed through the course of this earthquake incident. After realizing there’s more to this life than “what people can/should do for me” or “what’s miserable about my life”, that there’s something she can do for them instead, suddenly the world becomes a much better place, a world of endless possibilities and not of problems. And in the end, she chooses to delight in the world than be disgusted by it. [credits goes to our pastor for the aforementioned alliteration]
Gotta admire her honesty (and humility) for admitting to envying Kento, who, despite being her age, has already found what he wants to do in his life. Mirai had none of such dreams, at least not yet. Despite having realized her own faults and what she ought to do to live a more fulfilling life, Mirai has yet to discover what her passion is.
I can relate with Mirai in this sense. I might be passionate about anime/manga/Nihongo, but career-wise… =/ Talk about some mid-mid-life crisis where I find myself asking whether I’d stick to being a geeky computer programmer / software designer, or do some Takemoto-ish soul-searching to find what I really want, change my career path or whatnot. Will Solanin be relevant to my interests given this premise? –or wait, that’s like a rhetorical question.
Similarly, I feel envious of people who have found exactly what they want in life, people who know exactly what they want — decisive people who have clear goals in mind. I have yet to find that sweet spot to gaining happiness in my career in the long run, it seems.
Not knowing what you want to do with your life at present is even worse than being uncertain about the future.
How exactly does one get to discover what he/she wants to do in life? Perhaps it takes one momentous event like what happened to Kento, or simply by spending time with people, as Marigold Ran says.
Perhaps along the way, you’d get to meet people who would serve as your role-models — the Kamina(s) of your life, your source of Spiral Energy. Perhaps you won’t even have to find it yourself, it’ll just happen when you least expect it — the turning points in our lives, little things that change our lives forever (Cross Game comes into mind with this, particularly Akaishi and how he got into baseball thanks to a little encounter with Wakaba, as bateszi also mentioned)
Mirai might still be a little lost at this point, but at least we know that her life is now headed to the right direction. She may not know exactly what she wants just yet, but I’m positive she will be able to, for as long as she keeps moving her hands, learn about life and herself in every possible circumstance, accomplishing little goals along the way, one step at a time, until she eventually finds what her heart so desires.
Here’s to hoping I’ll find mine too 
Oh and did I mention I love the whole conversation between Mirai and Yuuki in this episode? It was filled with ‘kaeru’, literally and figuratively, and definitely lots of love. Such a warm little picture amidst the chaos.
Likewise, I love how this series brims with optimism and hopefulness. It’s soothing to the soul desu~
Yamato Takahiro X Kaze no Stigma: In Memoriam
August 27th, 2009
Condolences, Kaze no Stigma author Yamato Takahiro, you may have passed away, but your work will forever be remembered 
Reminiscence
It’s been 2 years since the good ol’ Kaze no Stigma days, and boy was it one heck of a ride. To those who’ve been with this blog since those days when we were just starting out, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for supporting this n00b.
Though now that I think about it, our blog was even more made of epic win back then, because those KnS posts, despite being ‘unpolished’, filled with typos and grammatical errors, and overflowing with n00bness, were MADE OF LOVE, and all those who read ‘em most likely felt that too. And as I type this post, I can still… remember love.
Kaze no Stigma was the first ever series I blogged from start to end (how the heck I managed to make those posts with batshit insane ‘deep frying’ back then is beyond me), first series I blogged [semi-live] straight from Japan, the first light novel I ever read (in moonspeak!), the first series to make me feel the JOY of watching/blogging an anime with a ‘community’, one with fans in supporting this underdog of a series… definitely makes for a warm and fuzzy feeling.
It was, and will forever be, oh so special to me.
KnS: Past, Present, Future
Man, this is so sad… saying goodbye to Yamato Takahiro is short for saying “Goodbye Kaze no Stigma, as we have all feared, we really won’t get to see how the whole story ends, we won’t get to see any more Kazuma x Ayano antics either. Goodbye hopes for a second season, goodbye hopes for KnS anime adaptation justice”
I never even got to finish (or even formally start) my review/summary of the 4th and 5th Ignition novel (which were zOMG DOKI DOKI), gave nothing else but a teaser, o poor KnS fans who I simply kept at arms’ length 
While I sort-of made up for it with this manga review post, I still failed to show my love for the novels.
Kaze no Stigma isn’t really the PINNACLE OF ANIMES, I can’t even bring myself to recommend it to anyone, no matter how special it is to me. But it was fun… real fun.
Kaze no Stigma started out on an epic note, screwed up along the way, ended up in a ‘trainwreck’. Either way the characters stood out, Ayano x Kazuma is my OTP, somewhat how I imagine my relationship will turn out to be once I’m finally in one, an ever-so-teasable Ayano, hopefully paired up with a much better Kazuma (hawtness and badass levels definitely a PLUS), but ahh I digress.
A trainwreck it might have turned into, but forgettable it is not. Even the WTF GIANT TURTLE won’t be forgotten.
I’m still tsundere for it, but all things considered, I still love it.
a little SAABISU before we proceed to the next section
Kazuma x Ayano: A Tribute
credits due to the ones who made these AMV/tributes
For the love of Kazuma x Ayano~!
If you ever feel like reminiscing Kazuma x Ayano’s “moments”, this one’s for you:
Byebye Yamato Takahiro, byebye Kaze no Stigma I’ll forever be a fan~~~
And the million dollar question is, when will I ever get to write about those darn novels. Gotta wonder if people would still be interested to know about them o.O * put your hands up~! *
SDF Macross Episodes 03 and 04 – The Great Indoors
August 27th, 2009
It’s Wednesday and that means Macross. We have two somewhat less eventful episodes this week but we do get an introduction and much screentime for Minmay as well as a bit of information on the capabilities and structure of the Macross. Fighting continues on South Ataria Island as the Macross lifts off under the power of its human built rocket backup thrusters and Roy heads back to look for Hikaru and Minmay. After pulling off another rescue all three return to the Macross, now in Earth orbit.
The last of the Zentradi platoon fighting it out with the retreating UN forces.
Roy tells her who Hikaru is. Mise’s reaction shot are priceless.
Hikaru’s VF-1 being chained down by Earth’s gravity a dead Zentradi.
Roy Focker to the rescue once more.
After dodging several enemy units and animation SNAFUs Roy, Hikaru, and Minmay ascend to orbit and land onboard the Macross. There is some nice banter between several characters at this point, starting with Hikaru’s distrust of Roy’s suave ways when he offers to return Minmay to South Ataria Island after the immediate crisis has passed. Mise contacts them as well, chastising their laxness to which Hikaru replies “who’s this old lady?” for another great Mise reaction shot. Even old Captain Global can’t help but laugh.
Aren’t we forgetting something? That cockpit pod was secured to the centerline hardpoint last I checked.
Well now you’ve got something there, too bad it’s the rifle/gunpod that Roy dropped earlier.
I’ve always loved cockpit based shots like this one, or the one they used in the ‘final flight’ scene during the last episode of Battlestar Galactica here (first 35 sec.)
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Saigo ni waracchau no wa Global-kancho no hazu! To paraphrase Motteke! Seeraafuku.
Once onboard Roy shows Hikaru that he managed to pick up his stunt plane before the ship launched, but then has to depart as the Macross sounds battle stations. The Zentradi fleet is closing in while the Macross attempts to rendezvous with the ARMD I/ARMD II battlegroup. They make quick work of the human-built spacecraft and Global attempts to get the Macross away from the enemy by engaging its fold drive near Earth, expecting the enemy to not anticipate such a move. Hikaru is acting emo and decides to try and fly away in his plane with Minmay just as the fold happens, warping the Macross, South Ataria Island, the Prometheus and Daedalus, and everything else within a large sphere around the Macross to somewhere near Pluto instead of the intended target of the Moon. Hikaru is damn lucky to have, for some reason, a completely pressurized and airtight acrobatics aircraft and manages to use its rocket boosters and ricocheting off of debris to get back inside the Macross. There the two are lost amid the massive interior of the ship. Back on the bridge, the crew finds out that the fold engines are now also missing.
It…it’s not like I like your plane or anything…I just didn’t want it cluttering the ground, that’s all *blushes*.
They’re playing really upbeat music while the hundreds of people not in shelters and on the Prometheus and Daedalus are dying of asphyxiation.
Hikaru’s plane just drifts away with the rest of the garbage.
Be happy you’re still alive after that. Minmay is. That or she’s too dense to see the danger you’re in.
Now the fold drive is gone? Who built this thing, Chrysler? Now the bridge bunnies (as I’ve heard a similar crew in Frontier referred to) are all worried.
Somewhere between WTF and cute.
The bridge crew sits down to have a quick coffee break while the computer figures out their location and Hikaru and Minmay try finding their way to the occupied parts of the ship. This is the beginning or a pretty difficult endeavor for the two since the ship is huge and likely undercrewed at the moment. Their first day below deck they break open a water pipe to create a shower, start eating some of Hikaru’s plane’s rations, and share the night with some rats. Just be glad you’re not lost belowdecks on an Imperium of Man warship, there are far worse things than rats.
Taking a break after their flight from the Zentradi
Indeed. I’m glad the Macross crew also appreciates this.
Good job. That water could be cooling something important like a nuclear reactor. And how do you know it’s not waste water?
Mmmm dogfood
Survivor: Macross.
Several days pass and Hikaru and Minmay start getting worried about their prospects for being found before they run out of food. Hikaru decides on a great plan to go outside the airlock they found and try to signal for help. Oh, wait he doesn’t have a SPACE SUIT. He somehow insists that his flight helmet is airtight (I don’t see any seals or even a complete face covering) and that he can hold his breath ‘just like swimming’ for a few minutes. As he goes to a window to decide which direction to go, they spot a huge tuna transported and flash frozen when the Macross space folded. After I stopped playback for a couple minutes to laugh uncontrollably at the Tuna slowly drifting through space and the closeup on its eye, Hikaru and Minmay decide to catch the Tuna and bring it back in for sashimi. Unfortunately for them Hikaru only brings it head through the threshold of the airlock on his scientific-facts-ignoring spacewalk when he signals Minmay to close the door and they only get the head of the fish.
This scene needs some Strauss.
Chicken of the void.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh yeah. If your suit, gloves, boots, and helmet all seal airtight. And are pressurized. And are heated. And something from all that space fold debris doesn’t puncture it. At least they gave the physics of Hikaru throwing the weights to move some show.
Meanwhile the crew eats in style. DO WANT one of those SDF-1 tray/cup sets.
That night, after cooking their unsettling prize and going to sleep, Minmay starts to sing. Hikaru is quite impressed and asks her if she’s had lessons, to which she replies that she’s has taken lessons in singing, dance, and other arts. He then asks her what she’d like to be in life. Setting women back several years she says she wants to be a bride (though I guess since this is an old series the formula for how far is: several years minus (2009 minus 1982) = exactly how far she’s set women back.) The next day she then goes into pessimism overdrive and suggests that they throw themselves out of the airlock to end their ordeal. But going all Makoto Sawatari on us, she says that she wants to wear a wedding dress once before she dies. In a scene that the Kanon writers could not have been unaware of Hikaru puts his kerchief over her head and looks like he’ll go through with the mock marriage ceremony.
*sigh*
So you’re a fox spirit in human form?
You don’t say.
But before this lovely ball of emo-wedding-kitsune spirit-suicide pact-crazy can resolve itself, and just as they are about to kiss, a dud alien missile crashes down through the ceiling above the two. Opening up to the street above, they find the buildings and people of the city that surrounded the Macross set up on the deck above. After being brought to the upper deck they meet the townspeople and Minmay is reunited with her aunt and other relatives. Now she seems perfectly fine, having gone from suicidal to cheerful in a few moments. Hikaru is understandably confused, but probably not smart enough to stay away from a girl who by all evidence seems to have a pretty big case of ‘the crazy.’ Concluding the episode, the Macross docks with the two aircraft carriers that warped in with them and Captain Global notes that their crews are dead. Hopefully their sacrifice was not in vain.
This moment is so sweet. But crazy. But sweet. But crazy.
Apparently the Zentradi use Honorverse-sized missiles.
That’s some quick rebuilding. Also, more physics ignored as I doubt so many buildings would have survived the pressure change and the physical forces of being uprooted like that.
SDF-1 Macross docking with the unfortunate terrestrial carriers.
Final Thoughts: – Hikaru is starting to grow more tolerable and reasonable. Or maybe it was just that he looked better in comparison to Minmay.
- That spacewalk scene made the scientist in me cry.
- I can see the beginnings of the singing element of this show that was at the center of several characters’ lives in Frontier. But who will be Minmay’s rival?
- I still can’t get over that Tuna scene.
- Hikaru keeps using the pronoun ‘otaku’ for others instead of more common ones (like ‘kimi’, ‘anata’, ‘omae’ or just their names.) I wonder if this was more common decades ago or if he just speaks oddly. I’m not a linguist so the only things I know about the word are that it isn’t used commonly as a pronoun nowadays (I’ve never personally encountered it in any conversation I’ve had or textbook exercise) and that it was an old pronoun and then became used to refer to otaku in the fan context after some animators used it when refering to each other.
- Still very much enjoying the ‘doesn’t always work’ aspect of the technology with both the Macross and the Zentradi missile.