New Macross (Macross Frontier) - Talkback

Yea I heard about this awhile back, I believe Macross Ace will have 1 or 2 manga storylines running in it. So hopefully the events of Frontier or the aftermath is touched on. Although what I really want to know is what became of Mylene Jenius from M7 Since she did get a mention in the manga and they said she was still a more popular singer then Sheryl heh.
 
Whoa, so that first episode on TV was literally a pilot? We sure don't see that with anime very often.

I feel a series like this is either hit or miss, I hope they make a hit and can deliver a Macross show worthy of this generation of fans.
 
So I watched ep 13

Darn another fake-out. It wasn't the original Macross, but a Macross-class ship and the episode was called Memory of Global because the name of the ship was the Global.

But other then that a crapload happened. We see Ranka remerabering bits and pieces of her past, seeing her Mother holding her (her Mother seemed to have something covering her eyes too for some reason). Grace died? I think. She set off some type of dimensional borab that destroyed all the Zentraedi while laughing maniacally about trying to sow disorder and fighting among the fleets.

Next episode looks to be some sweet space battles and continue the storyline along.
 
Poor giant hippo-cows actually.

I'm just glad Ai-kun became a standard bug and not some sort of weird humanoid thing.

At this point the show will either get even more interesting or it just jumped the shark, lets find out.
 
While the broadcast Ep1 has several changes, it doesn't really change the flow of the show, that said the longer consert parts were great, man who ever is paying for this series must have really deep pockets or goverment funRAB.

Man if only western cartoons had these kind of production vaules in a series.
 
the main reason is that most western cartoons are just kiddy shows that don't aim to be prime time shows like popular anime series are. Western cartoons get regulate to Saturday morning an aren't thought as being anything more.

Really, who can compare the shows on cartoon network to an anime. Not that those shows are bad but there are some clear differences in the aim of the shows.
 
A Birdman to Varja connection did not occur to me but that would certainly explain why Varja ship glowed when Sheryl song was sung inside it.

Still doesn't explain Ranka's gut glow.

Nyan-Nyan
 
A Macross Mag sounRAB good to me. Whiile it might not have the same strong fanbase as Gundam, Macross is a much apart of what we all love about anime, after all it introduced so much of it. In my view Macross Frontier was a push to relaunch Macross as a franchise while still staying ture to the world that is Macross.
 
I agree. I know a few people who love Frontier despite never seeing any of the previous series. I'm just glad it's doing so well in Japan, which also leaves me hopeful for the future of Macross. It really is a sort-of love letter to the fans both new and old, which highlights everything that makes the franchise so great.

I do want to commend Yoko Kanno for creating a great soundtrack that fits right in with the mood. With her work on both Frontier and Plus, I've started identifying her with the franchise. It also helps that May'n (Sheryl) and Megumi Nakajima (Ranka) are both very strong singers that continues Macross's legacy.
 
Wow.

I'm having a feeling who ever Grace works for might have the tech to upload a human mind (or she was just a AI construct from the ground-up) so we might be seeing her again just in another body.

We see Ranka's gut glow again; it seem she's connected to the "Queen". Maybe she was alter as a child so she could communicate with or control the Vajra.
 
I just realized the Chinese restaurant in this series has the same name as the Chinese restaurant in the original Macross. Just another example of me being slow on the uptake
 
Macross Frontier OP
Macross Frontier ED (apparently cut short for the first episode)

Nothing groundbreaking here at all, but pretty good. I'd say that for CG the mechs do look fairly cool, though I think the high-quality animation of Gundam 00 shows that 2D animation is still king for mecha. It does seem that the show in general will look fine aesthetically.
 
yea. It makes you wonder if the reason why she's Ranka "Lee" having taken Ozama's last name is because once we actually find out about her parentage we'd have known from the start based on what her real last name was.

We are told and she seems to have some memories of an attack on the research vessel by the Varja. We don't really know who her parents were though. Hell she could turn out to the granddaughter of Misa/Hikaru and Minmay if Minmay married a Zentraedi and had a child and then that child and Misa/Hikaru's got together. There's your 1/4 zentraedi Ranka.

I think if Macross Frontier had started a few years later in the Macross Timeline we'd have a lot of speculation on Ranka being the daughter of Mylene (half zentraedi) and Basra(full human) from M7. There's another 1/4 oRABpring possibility if those two got together, but since M7 ended 13 years before Frontier it's impossible with Ranka being 15.

There's still the possibility that her parents weren't actually part of the research fleet and this is all a smokescreen. That the research fleet "discovered" her somewhere and that Ranka is actually part of the Varja or somehow got left behind/lost in the attack and Ozama obtained her then. It's probably more of a plausible scenario then trying to tie her into the original series characters I suppose.
 
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