Aaaaawwwww... I'll call you Shiro-hime from now on, 'kay?
I won't say no to that.
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Originally Posted by Yot-chan
I wonder whose idea it was for him to dress up...? Surely he didn't think of it himself...so was it Ranka? Or Michel...?
Put it this way, Alto wouldn't have worked cosplaying as Basara.
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Originally Posted by Yot-chan
That's what I was thinking, too...
"Alto, you need to dress up like a goth loli maid in order for our plan to work."
"But...Mikhail...that makes no sense!"
"Yes it does. Now shut up and put some purple lipstick on!"
"...okay."
Come to think of it, there is quite a lot of official art where Bobby and Mikhail are playing pranks on Alto by putting make-up on him. I believe we've just discovered another side to his character.
Though I suppose part 1 was just a short paragraph...ah well. Doing this now partially because part 3 will take much longer...
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p.95 Kanno Youko on the two songs that play during the ending credits.
Hoshikira [~~“Twinkling Star”]
This is one of the songs that suddenly came to me after the creation of the Christmas album. At the time, Megumi-chan had worked herself to the ground, so I wanted to give her a song of encouragement. Additionally, the final movie has Ranka, who used to sing only as she'd been told by her producer, becoming more independent. Because of that, to me, it became something that represented Megumi-chan singing a song that she herself wanted to sing. Rather than Ranka, this is a song that was written for Megumi-chan.
d-shudisuta-b ["d-shooting star-b"]
[NB: in a blog entry, May’n notes that Kanno Youko allowed her to decide on the title of this song, as a New Year’s present. By “shudisuta” 「シュディスタ」, she meant “shooting star” (see this AS post. I have a policy of not linking Japanese blogs on forums, because some Japanese people don’t like it (I doubt May’n would be that pedantic, but policy is policy), so please google if you’d like to check the entry directly.]
This is one of the last songs we recorded. As I wanted it to be timeless, a song that could be from the past or the future, I told hal, who also wrote the lyrics to "What 'bout my star?", that I wanted something that feels like a delinquent Sheryl. In universe, it's a song written by Sheryl, which she invites Ranka as a guest to sing with her during the encore of a live. And because it's a live, I thought some MC work was needed, so I added a few lines of dialogue for the two of them.
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Kawamori Shouji’s first interview on Macross Frontier. First published in Newtype, July 2007 issue; also available in the “Official Complete Book” for Sayonara no Tsubasa, pp.114-5. I thought this was interesting because some of it covers what they were trying to do with Frontier.
Spoiler for length:
If there’s no challenge, there’s no point in making a new work.
October 3rd, 1982, Sunday. In a special television slot, the first and second episodes of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross were broadcast. Distinguishing itself from its contemporaries, SDFM raised the curtain on a history that has now spanned a quarter of a century. At the time, Japan was in the middle of a SF boom, and even amidst that boom, the symbolic, creative SF company, Studio Nue became the talk of the town with that one work.
“The first ten years seemed long, now that I’m looking back on it, and I also aged a fair bit, but after that, time seemed to fly by. Right from the start, I’d said that I didn’t ever want to do the same thing twice, so I never expected that I would continue with this series for so long (laughs).” So says Kawamori Shouji, who is deep in planning and production as the director of the new anime series, “Macross 25” (tentative title). His voice conveys the memories of 25 years of Macross.
“Even though the overarching title is the same, I never want to start off in the same way. If we’re just redoing it, then there is no meaning in making a new series. Besides that, I want something fresh to motivate me. The level of satisfaction demanded by the audience also increases with each new work – even with twice the amount of labour, you can only get around 20% more satisfaction. “Macross 25” is the first new TV series since “Macross 7”, not to mention it’s also the 25th anniversary. Hence, we’re wondering what would happen if we made all the Macross series up ‘til now into a compilation and then ‘added something extra’ (プラスアルファ). That’s the basis of our current challenge.”
“One of the special features of the Macross series is that they always reach out for new things. In the first series, the story and music were proactively linked; in ~7, the protagonist did not fire a single bullet; in ~Plus, we had digital imagery/software; and in ~Zero, we used CG for the first time for the battle scenes. Basically, we tried something new each time. From a technical standpoint, we have many trials ahead, but other than that, we’re all talking about the auditions for the heroine role(s).”
“I’m someone who likes prototypes, so rather than someone who’s already ‘perfected’ as a voice actor or as a singer, I’d rather trust the role to someone who will mature along with the work, who will cross the critical moment along with us in the process of creating it. Putting aside movies, for a television series, I think it’d be great if the actors and the work, along with the audience, come together in an interactive way to create it. The results of the audition will be presented on August 18th, at the 25th anniversary memorial live, so please keep an eye out for that.”
What kind of work “Macross 25” will turn out to be is something all the fans are curious about, so we asked the director what the story will be about.
“This time, we’re having it centered around school life with a story about youths as its nucleus. For example, in the original series, we focused on normal, everyday lives, whilst the movie was more like a play/performance. ~7 was like a manga, ~Plus like a Western film, and ~Zero a myth. So this time, we’re aiming for a “high school story”. I especially want teenagers to watch it. It’s a story about boys and girls of their generation, living with the danger, the uncertainty that even if they’re happily going through school together today, it doesn’t mean they’ll be able to meet there again. In all of my works, the previous one always contains within it something like a prototype for the next one. For some time, Macross has been away from the stage we call television, because we raised the quality with the OVA. In contrast, a TV series has many time and budget restrictions, and we didn’t want to create anything until we had the means to produce something that even those who’d seen the OVA would be satisfied. The technology we used to make ~Zero was primed for TV when we were working on “Genesis of Aquarion”. 25 years on from the first series, we’re finally reached an era where we have the ability to make the TV series I wanted to see.”
The new Macross series has thrown off those shackles, and many people anxiously await its completion.
So its crap now? Just a few weeks ago, you were holding onto that claim as if it was the greatest gift from heaven, and using it to make a variety of claims on the movie.
Of course, many of the said claims had been refuted upon watching the real thing, and your insistence on pushing the ticket only serves to make us wonder if you invented all the information in the past few weeks. Given the suspicious nature of this forum due to the last fallout, we are not very forgiving when it comes to fabrications.
Oh of course, by all means, keep your files to yourself. By the same token, it is also our business if we choose not to believe you, right? We can definitely choose to believe your claims on having a video to be utterly false and the result of pure fabrication, right? Because you know, we have uh... that right, too.
- Tak
And yet, you choose to evade the fact that, in the start, you all wanted me to prove I had the item, that I'd seen it, or post it. That goes against my rights to freedom by saying "you should post it because you want us to believe you." That's sick and twisted. And to be honest, I cared less if you guys believed me or not. But you decided to let that stick and brought it up in almost every conversation regardless when I gave you explained details about the scenes.
I call it trash because when you compare to the BD release now, it looks bad. The visual quality was trash to begin with. I couldn't see much of anything clearly.
And if you want to talk about believing people; I could easily say the same for Yot-chan. Because he had no extensive proof (pictures, video footage, or anything) that he saw the movie, he could've easily copy and pasted spoilers. Did I bother to disbelieve him because he had no extensive proof? No. He proved he was there by giving a summary of what he saw. And I did the same (though I had one scene wrong because of the small screen). Yot-chan gave a summary of what he'd seen and I did so too. But you basically are saying that I should give extensive proof where you never asked Yot-chan too. And he could've also later just given more information through buying the complete book instead of actually seeing the movie, yet you didn't bother to think to ask for proof on that either.
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So this is not about choice, it's about you singling out one person because even though they gave you a summary of the scenes (and therefore proof) you wanted more but never asked this of others who claimed to have watched the whole movie.
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Last edited by CrowKenobi; 2011-11-03 at 00:07.
Reason: Removed portion that could be considered flame-bait
I would like to remind the children to behave themselves lest I start issuing infractions again. The reason message in the deleted posts is the only warning that I'm going to give, so from here on out, there should be no disagreements between yourselves that can't be better handled through PM or VM.
No, it's not. He's still pretty bland. The fight with Ozma was pretty awesome, though, I thought...but that's more due to Ozma than it is to Brera...
I felt like Brera's death scene was too quick. I wanted him to live a little longer. You don't get a real opportunity to warm up to him like in the series. I'm sure that people who saw the movies (and not the series beforehand) weren't warm towards him.
Here's what confused me: in the series, Brera doesn't remember that Ranka is his sister; in the movies, he states outright to her that he is. Is this the result of the implant or reprogramming?
Just wanna throw that out there.
BTW, IMO, Ozma is the best fighter in the entire Frontier!
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