And Sheryl's model is?
Sheryl's seiyuu Endou Aya-san is also really fit to her role. A heroine called Sheryl is completed after met Endou-san and May'n-san then.
K: That's right. Thanks to Endou-san's voice, we can feel the "Actually a bit childish and feels lonely quite easily", but "lives as a pro at her best" feeling. As for the song, if the song were really not that good the fans won't like it and go away. This was a bet.
When you created Sheryl, do you have any real person you have as a model?
K: I don't have a particular model, but I did aware about foreign artists such Britney Spears or Beyonce. But the actual foreign artists, their private lives are extreme aren't they(laugh).
I tried it so Japanese people can see and feel familiar for, cute in her usual life. Well, anyway this is fiction, or maybe fantasy (laugh).
And how you come up with Ranka's character.
K: In Ranka's case, for the first setting was she develop and develop to become a star. So in the beginning she's unreliable, but she's getting stronger and stronger. But even if she were unreliable I don't like it if she were a hesitant girl too, so the idea is a girl who have a burden in her bitter past, but who always look forward and tries her best.
Yoshino-san told me about these two's position, for Ranka, she is TV version of Minmei, an ordinary girl become a star. and Sheryl, is the Movie version of Minmei, who is a star from the start. Indeed it has feel like that, though basically I am not the type who like to do over my past works.
Ranka and Minmei TV version, they are indeed have lots of similarities. Though Ranka doesn't as selffish(laugh).
K: About Minmei's character parts, they're 2 heroine so I divide it among them(laugh), the acrid and tsundere part to Sheryl, and 80' idol-ness to Ranka. So when I knew that Nakajima Megumi-san likes 80' idol I really were surprised(laugh).
Sheryl too, even though she inherited Minmei's acridness, she's more complex, more profound.
K: She shows her star-ness through her acridness and will of strength, and at the same time I also wanted to show her loneliness and her hard work. Abit different to ranka's hard-work, more of one of a top star with her endeavor and agony.
And how about Alto?
K: It was really hard to create a character that can rival the two divas and Nekki Basara(laugh). When I was deep in distress, an idea popped into my mind, which is a character who is completely opposite of the manly looking Basara, "a girly boy".
Even if you say "girly", a ladylike one would be completely boring. So to complete this setting, the one I came of with was a boy with a past as a "Kabuki actor". The mismatch with "space pilot" is really sharpen the character, so I thought.
And btw, Alto movie 1st version, compare with Alto Tv version, Alto himself has an awareness of a Kabuki actor more. Is there any posibility, that in the 2nd movie Alto will come back to Kabuki way?
K: Regarding Alto as an "actor", I am thinking on giving him that awareness. I hope I can display the feel of Alto being moved by Sheryl and Ranka.
And then, can you tell us the must-see things of the 2nd movie?
K: Nonetheless, the story will vastly different from tv version. Other than the journey to Vajra main planet, it will be an original story, I think the fans can enjoy a new Macross Frontier. And lots of new songs, live scenes, live battles.
And which one will Alto choose? Sheryl or Ranka!?
K: You tell me(laugh). But well, one thing for sure, Alto's decision making ability is higher than in TV version.
*what's the meaning of the "Good Bye"?
And I have something about the subtitle of 2nd movie "Sayonara no Tsubasa"...
K: the 1st subtitle "Itsuwari no utahime" meaning was, like one, Sheryl came to Frontier as a spy, there's a "lie" in her status as a "Queen". Or Ranka is still not real singer, there're lots of meaning in it. The 2nd's subtitle is also the same, have many meaning.... well I can only say that now(laugh).
And lastly, could you please give a message to the fans who have bought this Sheryl volume 1.
K: A comic filled with Sheryl's secrets who reborn in these charming drawings and story. Please enjoy this manga from now on too!