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Veritech Fighter in Guardian Mode
Back when I was little I used to love going to the library. That’s right. The library.My firt experience with Macross came not from the anime, but from the series of books from the Robotech Saga. That was when my love of the Macross universe began. Ever since the very chapter where Zor sent the SDF to Earth, all the way to the battle at Reflex Point and the retreat of the Invid, the books captured my imagination from prologue to epilogue.
Alto preparing to fire on the eye.
When I heard that there was going to be another Macross series coming out, I actually hesitated. Gundam Seed Destiny left a never-ending scar in my head, reminding me how painfully bad even the greatest a mecha-space battle series can be. I hesitated, afraid of the possibility that a grand story would forever be ruined with me. 5 episodes later, after reading the reviews and looking at the screenshots, I decided to give it a go, and I was not disappointed. Macross Frontier keeps all the antics of a battle mecha series that came from back in the 70’s. OPs with characters’ faces drifting across the screen in a background of war and angst, cute girls who are like the saving grace of an universe that could be doomed any second now… That’s the idea. That’s what a mecha anime should be. Coupled with today’s anime studios’ awesome graphics capabilities, we get a truly amazing view of the story, and finally, a truer to life representation of the fantasy story that once could only be described in words.
Another pink-hairer… Sheryl is the Minmei of this Macross.
For some reason Sheryl reminds me of Lacus. I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe its just because she is like the only star ever in the colony(ies) like Lacus. As if people don’t listen to anybody else except her. Oh well, come a day when everyone will be genetically-engineered to be good at something, we’d benefit from the services of an ultimate singer. Of course, I’d love to see Ranka singing upstage too.
Vajra… These things remind me of Japanese tentacle porn.
For one thing, we get a few very powerful and not-so scary monsters running around. Well, it might be scary if I were there. But I’m not there so meh. These monsters look a lot like more advanced forms of the Invid Inorganics. Although research shows that these monsters are indeed organic, and quite autonomous as well. They can even fold on their own and they grow their own missiles! Every little boy’s dream! It would be interesting to see if they are somehow connected to the Invid later in the series. Then we can see what new evil plans the Regis is up to.
I’m extremely curious to know why Ranka has two large flaps of hair on the sides of her head. Is it a genetic thing? I think the producers just had a hunch that it would be cute to make her look like a puppy. Or maybe its just the replacement for the sharp ears. Either way, when Ranka said she was one quarter Zentraedi, her hair colour suddenly alerted me to the possibility that… perhaps Ranka is a grandchild, or great-grandchild or great-great-grandchild of Max and Miriya! You never know who Dana’s children hooked up with XD. Though… Dana had yellow hair.
Missiles are the thing I like MOST about this series.
Where have the legendary Alpha and Beta Veritechs gone? The Veritechs certainly are flashier compared to normal fighters, but the missile shooting in this series is just awesome fucking win. The way they scatter out of the plane like angry bees from a hive just make me shiver in awe looking at what might perhaps be a normal sight if a World War III ever occurred. My that is scary. But what the hell, gotta love the missiles and the Zentraedi battlepods. Their missiles are better that anyone could have written them to be.
Ooh… A real Zentraedi!
When I saw this at first she looked pretty normal, until I realized the stuff hanging off her chest isn’t a decoration. Lieutenant Klan Klein is a MILF and she is BIG in so many ways. Sizes apart, she is big on win and if I see her more in her micronized form, she will soon top my list of favorite lolis (which I have yet to make). Never have I seen this truly ingeniously created being, who can be both MILF and loli at the same time! This may just convert me from Loliconism to Milfconism. Klan Klein is lolirawr. I also noticed that these particular Zentraedi have sharp ears. I wonder why… Maybe they are the elves that everyone in the Dark Ages always talked about, and maybe that’s why the Night Elves are so huge. The elves were simply micronized by the sun.
Come to think of it, Klan wears bright colours and acts like the cool kid on the block when she’s micronized… does micronization cause a change in behaviour too?
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1. Anchen Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 5:08 amRobotech was technically comprised of 3 different anime, Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospedea. You can read about reasons/differences on wikipedia or probably anywhere on the net, but yeah, safe to say you won’t be seeing any Alphas or Betas here. The robotech universe isn’t the same as the actual Macross Universe that Frontier occurs in. Oh, and Macross technically came out in the early 1980’s not the 1970s =) Glad you are into the series, it does look pretty good so hope they keep it up, both story and animation-wise.
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2. 009FGH Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 1:57 amYour dumbass, there is no Dana in Macross, there is no Veritechs in MACROSS, NO GUARDIAN MODE IN MACROSS!!!! NO INVIDS IN MAAAACRROOOOOSSS!!!!
THIS IS M-A-C-R-O-S-S!!! NOT THE UBER SHIT YOU KNOW AS ROBOTECH!!!!!
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3. Robosuck Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 2:14 amAstrobunny, you are a real astro-dumbass. I can’t believe you have your own anime blog, but you don’t know the first thing about the difference between Robocrap and Macross. This review just proves your ignorance, so just stop now before you make yourself look even more the fool.
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4. Homotech Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 8:46 amOnly a stupid fuck can confuse the great Macross with the shit Homotech. So go fuck yourself stupid piece of shit Homotech fan and leave Macross alone.
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5. Robocrap Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 8:55 amHey guys, don’t be so hard on him OK. He surely did know that Macross and Robocrap are two different things because of the fuckers from Harmony Gay creating confusing regarding this whole Macross-Homotech mess.
One thing :
Variable fighters not veriGAY fighters,
GERWALK not GuardASS,
Battroid not Batt … can’t find a good insult there (fucking Robocrap.)
It’s Macross not Homotech after all.
P.S.: Dana does not exist in Macross. Only in Roboshit.
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6. Anonymous Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 8:58 amDon’t mind them. They forget that we all start off not knowing anything about macross. I would pay attention to what Anchen says.
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7. Anonymous Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 9:00 amand what robocrap says as well.
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8. Robocrap Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 9:00 amAlso, no Invid and no Alpha and Beta. Macross does not need that kind of crap ridiculious Homotech fighters anyways when you have a state of the art VF-25 (VF for Variable Fighter and not veriGAY fighter remember).
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9. Drive By Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 10:44 amThese people are making fun of you:
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10. ThePlasticWerks Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pmI’ll be a little gentler than the Row-boat-tech gang.
I’m glad that you know what the original Macross is, but Macross and Robotech are totally different universes that split off from the first anime. Robotech is comprised of three otherwise unrelated anime series: Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (similar name aside, is totally unrelated to the original Macross), and Genesis Climber Mospeada. The
Japanese Macross is a single, fluid continuity comprised of SDF Macross, Macross II, Macross Plus, Macross 7, Macross Zero, and Macross Frontier, not to mention a few other movies and OVAs.To highlight the differences, Dana is Max’s daughter in Robotech, but looks nothing like him or her mother. This is because Southern Cross is a standalone anime unrelated to Macross, although it shares transforming mecha and aliens. The female lead of Southern Cross, Jeanne Fránçaix, is her own character – in the creation of the Robotech continuity, she simply became Max and Miriya’s daughter.
In the Macross universe, Maximilian Jenius has seven kids and another adopted daughter scattered across the stars – in Macross 7, a picture of a 20-year-old Komillia (AKA Dana in the original R-Tech) shows she has green hair like her mother (the same color she was born with).
I like to think of them as alternate universes with a common origin. To use a religious analogy Macross is the Old Testament, which is also the Judaic scriptures, while the New Testament of Robotech is unique to Christianity. One starting point, two branches.
Thusly, things seem a little backward if you watch Frontier with a Robotech background. In Macross, the tech has consistently looked like real-world aircraft, simply getting sleeker as time goes on – the reasoning being that Valkyries (Veritechs in RT) travel with colony ships, and will hopefully one day end up in an atmosphere. If you don’t know when you’re going to land, you may as well have one weapon that can do it all rather than have vast fleets of unusable equipment mothballed for who knows how long. This is why you don’t have your boxy Alpha descendants – the Valkyries have a long, established design continuity, whereas the Alphas were simply written into the RT story. Check out the Mecha section of MAHQ.net to see Valks from other Macross series – in their Anime section, you can also find episode recaps from every Macross series!
Frontier occurs just under fifty years from the original series, so all the heroes are in their mid-sixties and likely kicking around (Max and Millia were in Macross 7, which occurred a few years before Frontier – mid-50s and still kicking ass!). Ranka is the descendant of Mao Nome from Macross Zero (the prequel to Macross). Mao is only a few years younger than Rick (Hikaru), Max, and company, making her their contemporary (in fact, she met Roy’s former wingman Shin, but not Roy himself – her offscreen relationship to the cast of Macross is unknown). Ranka is Mao’s granddaughter – we even see a picture of an aged Mao in Frontier (who is the “Dr. Mao” referenced a few times). Whoever came in between is a mystery, but Max only had daughters in Macross – Ranshe Mei, who we see as Ranka’s mother, is not one of them, and Max has no known grandchildren (Komillia/Dana would be 46 by Frontier).
Klan Klein’s condition is a weird uncorrectable genetic flaw – her wingmates are also Zentraedi (Meltrandi, actually, in Macross terminology) and micronize normally. Her age doesn’t change at all, but her body does, and her behavior in response to her body. And while we’re on it, Mr. Kawamori (creator of the Macross saga) took some liberties and did things with Zentradi that we’ve never seen before – namely, pointy ears and moving hair. No real reason to do it other than to make them a little more overtly non-human.
I think you’ll appreciate Frontier a lot more with a little more research into the real Macross universe.
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11. More Macross Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pmWell ThePlasticWerks has already explained the difference between Robotech and Macross very well, if you like Frontier then i would recomend you to watch something else from Macross like Macross Plus, Seven or Zero.
And just to correct a little mistake that ThePlasticWerks made, Ranka is indeed the daughter of Ranshe Mei but she is not related to Mao Nome (from Macross Zero), the character that is related to Mao is Sheryl, because she is Mao´s granddaughter
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12. ThePlasticWerks Says:
December 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pmYup, my bad. Ranshe Mei was an associate of Mao’s.
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13. lord_breetai Says:
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 amPlastic Works covered a lot of it just to top on some points.
Meltraedi or Meltrandi or Meltran are still Zentraedi… and reffered to by both terms essentially Meltran and Zentran are the Zentraedi language terms for Female and Male repsectivly. However since the two parts of the race were strictly segregated prior to becoming cultured they are sometimes reffered to by the gender terms as racial terms (much more so because in the movie version of Macross they were actually at war with each other… that movie exists as a movie in the Macross world and shapes a lot o public conception).
And Super Dimension Calvary Southern Cross, is not related to Macross plot wise no… but production wise it is to some extent… it was one of two shows created as sort of conceptual sequals to Macross (think of something like Ultraman or Super Sentai that re-invents itself every year, or Combattler V and Voltes V, shows that are connected by concept but not story), though even this is dubious because Southern Cross had a long evolution point before it became a transforming robot show with space aliens… and it was a conceptual sequal created by the animation studio for Macross and not the studio which created the designs and story.
Regaurdless SDC: Southern Cross aired along side, re-runs of Macross as a cash in to create a “super dimension hour” of sorts, as did it’s immediate predecesor in the “super dimension trilogy” Super Dimension Century Orguss.
so just some key differences for you, that wern’t touched on yet.
In Macross, Protoculture is the PROTOtype human CULTURE, they were a vast human federation that created hyperspace folding (after studying the Varja), and eventually the Zentraedi. They were virutually wiped out in a civil war between the Zentraedi and the Supervision Army (which came under the sway of a power which shows up in Macross 7).
Much of Macross, like Robotech revolves around unravelling the mystery of Protoculture… but what Protoculture is is totally different.
I’m one of those who enjoys a lot of the suplemental material created for Robotech… so don’t worry, that’s okay.
And welcome to the Macross fan community.
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14. Mighty Fast Pig Says:
September 8th, 2009 at 8:56 amFurther complicating the issue:
Macross II is not in the same continuity as the other Macross series.
And IIRC, the original Macross TV series is not in the same continuity as the Macross: Love, Do You Remember? movie, which is the basis for all the other series.
Then there’s the Brian Daley Robotech books, including the Sentinels, versus the Waltrip Bros. comics of the Robotech: The Sentinels,
And then there’s the Robotech movie, based on Megazone 23, which is generally ignored by everybody.
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15. Lolleroni Says:
December 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pmi just finished Macross Frontier and it was excellent. I love Klan as well~ ^^
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December 20th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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