In the first movie, it had a better story and a nice close; however, the blend of the new character personalities with the old ones (in the old scenes) was bad. Regardless, the movie was nice, as it showed structure. Therefore, this feature, to me - who has seen the structure of DYRL countless times - was directed (and the script was written) by Kawamori.
The second movie had an outlandish plot that overlapped with many others and also had a dumb story. It focused way too much on Sheryl, even more so than the main character, which was Alto, by the way. Ranka's past was never emphasized as much as Sheryl's even though she is the one directly connected to the plot still (being attached to the Vajra). Alto's personality was completely warped compared to the series version (plus his past was also kicked down the drain) and his demons forgotten. The structure of the movie also fell apart after the first fake death and even more so after Sheryl was magically saved by Ai-kun. When compared to the structure of the first, it is easy to see that this was directed (and/or the script was written) by Yoshino.
Just like Kawamori directed the first half of the series and Yoshino the second, all of the second half of the season was pretty much the same as the 2nd movie; it had a plot that just fell apart before you could get into it. Whereas, in movies and series that Kawamori has directed and written the story for, it has never fallen apart.
The fact of the matter is, the series plot fell apart after Ranka left.
I even remember that someone translated an interview in which Kawamori stated the script for Episode 21 threw him off entirely. Ranka leaving was apparently not in the original idea. And looking at what he says "this was my original ending" (for the war, probably); that threw Kawamori off. Episode 22 apparently was also Yoshino's idea entirely. Had the series continued with Ranka on Frontier and built up like the 2nd movie, though a little more stable towards all three characters, perhaps this ending (in terms of war) would've played out in the series like Kawamori had wanted it to.
However, the 2nd movie is the same way: fake death for Sheryl and a magical save for her.
You all talk about Ranka's Jesus powers in the series, right? Well try Ai-kun magically making a barrier around her and then folding her (and Ozma) to Island 1. How is that realistic? How is that any different from the series? Yes, there is no Jesus power directly, but it is similar. Almost TOO similar.
Yes, the scripts are written ahead of time, but speaking as a writer, sometimes you go back and change things to fit things that will come in the future. For the series, they seemed to just throw in Sheryl's illness out of the blue in the later episodes. She showed no signs during the beginning of the series. However, Ranka was tied to the plot right from the first flashback in Episode 1. But if you look at it, that is the only flashback, then Ranka runs to Ozma stating that she said she'd never tell anyone about "it." This shows that they had to go back and insert things in after writing the rest of the episodes. So when Ranka leaves in Episode 21, the following episodes show Alto thinking about her and among other things, still trying to tie her to the plot, however, they do not focus on her anymore (not for long periods of time) and the plot starts to fall apart. It becomes mostly Sheryl focused even though it should be more Alto focused, for he should be making the final vast decisions.
Here, I'll state in simple terms: when you write a draft of something, you often write the whole thing out and then go back. But when two people are writing the scripts, you have to reach an understanding and find the halfway point in which the script will come out making sense.
In Frontier's case, it never reached that point. When Yoshino had Ranka leave Frontier, Kawamori, for Episode 23, seemed thrown at a loop for how to reinsert her and still keep the plot flowing correctly. That is why he could not get the ending he'd wanted.
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Your sole argument for him being a bad writer or bad storyteller rests on the fact that Ranka had lost the triangle. Thats it. If this is the best you can come up with in criticizing Yoshino's works, then I highly doubt he, and the rest of us, will be missing much losing you as a fan.
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I've seen other of Yoshino's works before this, even without knowing. Series that I no longer want to see, I rarely look up. But upon looking at his bio, I noticed quite a few series I've watched that he's directed that I did not like the ending, regardless of triangles. Just the simple fact the plot fell apart or became stupid at the halfway point drove me away.
It has nothing to do with Macross or Ranka directly. Stop assuming that. You have no idea what other series or works I have seen by him to make that assumption.
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Ranka crying in that pic, while Alto looks like he wants to fall asleep... coincidence or conspiracy? Dun, dun, dunnnn.
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Nope. He's thinking why he didn't notice she was so cute this close up to begin with and is daydreaming about her.
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