ranka is cute 6
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Ranka is cute!
Actually, this isn’t a real post. It’s really an excuse to toss up Ranka screenshots as well as a thinly disguised attempt to move Haesslich’s and my discussion about Macross Frontier into a post that wasn’t about other reliable underaged DFCs. It’s also the reason you’re not getting a Maid Guy post today.
Love Ranka’s variable fighter backpack. But not as much as I love her slug cell phone. I wonder if the backpack transforms from a backpack to a purse when necessary?
Ranka reminds me a lot of Nodame, especially when they sulk and give livid musical performances. Only Ranka actually pays attention to her hygiene and doesn’t have Patty Thompson-class melonpan.
Microsoft Surface! I can’t believe that an anime franchise inspired by Apple is featuring a technology developed by Microsoft. I’ve played around with Surface, and it is slick. But I still think that Frontier is cursed the day it choose to call itself “Macross Frontier” instead of “Macross X.” Get ready for train wreckage.
In a “ZOMG DON’T DO THAT!” move, Alto not only lies about his date with Sheryl, he invites Ranka to the concert. Of course, he’s not going to be sitting next to Ranka, instead he’s going to be backstage flirting with Sheryl up until the last moment. I can’t wait for Alto to die a hero’s death like Kittan. Hopefully next episode.
Plot logic traps this episode:
1. When Michael was telling Alto that “Nothing escapes the eye of a sniper,” I find it kinda funny that in this future high tech world with space faring colony ships, people (and this sniper) wears glasses. Shouldn’t LASIK or bionic eyes be plentiful, like the sniper from GitS? And where’s his Haro ball?
2. A thinly disguised microbial story that’s really an excuse for S&M lesbians wins the Tezuka Osamu grand prize. Oh wait, this isn’t my thinly disguised post about microbes. Oops, my bad.
3. They showed Ranka running towards Sheryl’s concert, only it was like ten miles away. She was this far away when Sheryl started the ascent up her shaft using Orenge-sama’s high powered engine, and Ranka arrived during the first song. Either Ranka is Kogarashi-fast or Orenge-sama’s lift is showing its age. Oh well, at least most of it was downhill.
4. The modern day equivalent of a political leader sending his daughter out to confront an unstoppable enemy has to be George Bush holding Jenna’s wedding in Al Basrah.
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I thought Ranka had Alto right where she wanted him. Don’t underestimate the sluttiness of Sheryl Nome!
first comment…
I wonder in some twist of fate… in a few episodes that Renka end up in a wheelchair or maybe sheryl might be scar. And finally, Alto was originatively a girl in some dark past. That will be funny.
Damn, I thought I was the first, damn you wp :)
Those of the meido-melonpan faith, I fear our venerated leader is under the control of some dark evil influence! I suspect abq must had slipped in some mind control substance into Jason’s daily melonpan. Alongside the suspicions of being controlled to do nasty unspeakable actions with abq, the focus of the recent posts and vote subject smacks of the nefarious mastermind. Imouto in my meido-melonpan shrine? HERESY! Those of the faith DO NOT FALTER! I plan to intervene in this time of darkness with massive amounts of Maria/ Fubuki etc fanservice shots/pics etc, failing that, I shall use our secret weapon that is Mako-cakes doujins! Fear not Dear Leader, we shall free you of your mental(fetish-like) imprisonment!
I think you had better give me a backup copy of those Fubuki fanservice pics in case the forces of the dark evil influence move to eliminate yours. Just saying.
I hope Kogarashi punish you A.S.A.P for not posting maid guy episode.
The punishment should be rape by USB wire. This is fit for a transvestite trap like you!
> “Shouldn’t LASIK or bionic eyes”
Zeiss Ikons. Nothing beats their military-grade cyberoptics – six out of seven combat-enhanced soldiers swear by them!
With great power comes great responsibility. I swore only to use fanservice pics only in times of need….. but still…. mostly for myself, HAH!
Ranka is too cute and I will reiterate what I’ve read in other comments. They really struck gold with the open auditions for Ranka’s Seiyuu. Great signing voice especially. I can’t tell you how many times I skipped back to the “What ’bout my star” lyric in episode 5. Where the light is behind her and her hair and dress are waving and she’s just looks so happy. That and her bouncing during “Watashi no kare wa pilot” and I’m sold on Ranka. I could watch those two scenes for hours on end. Ranka’s smile= automatic win.
Well glasses are not only a sight correction – they also are a accessory. Bionics are banned by law on Frontier (not Galaxy btw.) and there are conditions Operations can´t fix (having such myself).
Alltogether I´d suggest the accessory option – without perfect eyesight he wouldn´t have been able to be a pilot in the first place.
The table-as-screen-and-user-interface thing wasn’t developed by Microsoft at all. In fact, Microsoft has hardly ever invented or developed anything at all. Even their first critical coup “MS-DOS” was originally called Quick-and-Dirty DOS, a software they bought to get the deal with IBM.
This table thing had been around for a couple of months or years even until Microsoft decided to buy the technology. I think it’s going to be a big flop just like the table PC.
Thermal: the idea of intergeaying computing into everyday objects isnt new, but having the computer know the difference between a cup, and your finger is part of the particular idea that Surface patented. Nice way to add a. Bit of extra functionality to the table though. J
ason, Ranka Iis quarter-Zentran, so she has biodegineered stamina as well as vacuum-resistance. Plus, given that Ranka has problems keeping secrets, telling her (in public) he was with Sheryl is like advertitising it in big neon letters – it would get out really fast. Like fold-fast
Int – its a Macross tradition- glasses don’t seem to matter- Jenius was the best pilot on Macross and wore glasses. Mikhail has a sight-enhancing HUD/monocle in his helmet.
Re:#4: that was probably Leon getting Glass out of the way so he could boff the Twelfth Miss Macross in peace.
so, does jason have an imouto?
Haesslich: I’m not talking about desk-integrated screens. This desk with gesture recognition has been around for a long time:
http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/.....mware.html
“I suspect abq must had slipped in some mind control substance into Jason’s daily melonpan.”
Not so far-fetched. Much like the way a baby gets drunk if the nursing mother consumes alcohol.
“Ranka is cute.”, you say?
Now, I’m not watching this Macross series (nothing but the original interests me, since I have a distaste for franchise series), so maybe I’m missing an inside joke or something, but come on, is this really the clever, biting commentary we come here for?
Either Macross Frontier rots the brain or I’m paying you too much.
While Ranka is (thankfully) an universe of being the next Lynn Minmei (God forbiddens), Sheryl is gaining major points with Alto without resorting to her so-called “sluttiness”, but by being… human. The link that she has formed with Alto is up to now that reminds her that she’s also a human being with feelings, instead of the ultra-professional songstress that almost everybody thinks she is.
Alto and Sheryl had chemistry, by being themselves one with the other. Alto treating her as a normal woman instead as a pompous star and Sheryl showing her own weakness and inner feelings.
Comparing Frontier with the BS that Gundam 00 was, is outrageous.
>>The punishment should be rape by USB wire. This is fit for a transvestite trap like you!
*Dies from laughter
@ Rikaishi
So uh….. abq is Jason’s uh…. trap-mom?? That could explain a few things, or raise more questions….
Well, our “Heart’s Content” comic project originally started from a thread on abq’s Lolitron during Loli Battle (SaiLoli) 2007, although admittedly Jason wasn’t part of the original discussion, and the original idea wasn’t from me, but from MaverickRonin and AnonymousCoward.
And for those who want to see Trap Jason, I have another theoretical projection. With a sports costume and glasses, just like tidal specified. When Sunrise logic meets J.C.Staff aesthetics…
>> I shall use our secret weapon that is Mako-cakes doujins!
How is Mako-cakes compatible with melonpan? How can you be a credible melonpan fan when your prized treasure is Mako-cakes? You had a good comment going until this line. You really should have ended it with Haruka or Ruined for Marriage Mikuru instead.
>> This desk with gesture recognition has been around for a long time:
Microsoft Surface isn’t gesture recognition. It’s object recognition. For example, if I place my empty drink down on it, it would know. Or if I placed a camera, it would extract the photos. No movement needed. Who cares if it has been done before? All that matter is that it’s been commercialized well. (i.e. Prius)
And why are we discussing Surface in a post I reserved to discuss Macross Frontier?! Derailed on a derailment.
>> Comparing Frontier with the BS that Gundam 00 was, is outrageous.
00 wasn’t bad until they introduced Trinity. But Frontier is the sequel to a series that featured a pilot who piloted his fighter with a guitar. Macross 7 wasn’t any better than Gundam Wing in terms of ridiculous (but not BL).
>> I have another theoretical projection.
Sixten, you are not helping things.
Look everybody stop picking on Jason! we all agree that he is trap so lets put that aside.
As for his gender… ummmm… lets all agree that Jason’s gender is both male and female! which means that he/she a shemale right?!
(GOD i am confusing myself!)
OR we can ask our god haruhi suzumiya what Jason true gender is.
anyway that solve everything!
Can we just forget Macross 7? Pretend it never happened?
lol, was thinking if melonpan/meido wasn’t enough to snap you out of it, might as well go all the way and break you with traps instead, if it’s possible to break you any further…
sheryl’s earing changes positions.
when she is speaking to alto while he is trying to return her earing, it’s on her right ear (front view)
then when the song starts , its on her left ear (profile view)
then when it cuts back to her again after shes started the song, its on her right ear again. (front view)
What do you people have against “sluts?” Ever seen a healthy female before? So broken it makes me rage just a little in my feminist heart.
That’s just the earing “fading” from the previous scene.
@Sixten
FTW imouto-like substance
Wow, Jason is a trap now? where have i been? >__>
I don’t get it. She’s not cute. She’s annoying.
Mmmmm… Jason-ko…. Time to make doujinshi.
I though Jason-ko would be older and have melonpan?
Mako-cakes threats are for post-op/time-slip Maki-cakes with melonpan.
Needs more Hauka IS Amazing. (but a Macross if fine too)
>>Sixten: I have another theoretical projection.
*Died from laughter* XD
Hm… I never thought Jason is a meganeko type. Guess you learn new thing everyday…
Macross F is a chonological sequel but until I see guitar pilots I’m going to continue to pretend that Macross 7 never happened. Michael is a Max homage so who knows why he’s wearing glasses. We have LASIK NOW but people still wear glasses. Anyways didn’t they say that bionic eyes are illegal on Frontier? Or was that just weird eye implants?
They should have used Catherine in a Prince Harry scenario where she has to secretly hide on the ship or something in order to enter the combat zone. Though I guess Frontier is also pretty much a combat zone as well anyway.
I didn’t realize Ranka had so many costumes until I saw the first image.
…I should start keeping count.
I bet Alto wants to Lulu the crap out of Ranka (is that the proper usage?:P)
Bionics and cybernetics in general seem to be forbidden, of which implants are a subset. At least on Frontier – in Galaxy, which seems to be the Macross equivalent of Communist Russia, they appear to be either under less strict regulation or else it’s something that money can work around.
Thermal: As Jason noted, Surface isn’t about gesture-recognizing furniture so much as it is about object-recognition.. as I stated before. Basically, the way I interact with it depends on what I’m using – a camera, a remote, my finger, etc. For example, I could (in theory) download all the photos off a camera which has an RFID tag which identifies it as such, and then throw them at a picture frame on the desk, which means I’d be uploading to it since the table recognizes it as a frame… or to another person’s phone, or to an icon which represents a specific mailbox, following up by a zoom by doing the gesture-recognition thing which has been around for a while too, followed by a cropping before tossing it at said photo frame.
Now to link this back to nekomimi meido, imagine Klein Klan in miclonized mode…
so where exactly does this anime witch-hunt end? After you accuse abq of being a loli? Or sixten of being a Sunrise executive writer? Or maybe you venture into politics and accuse fox of being fair and balanced? Where does the madness stop…. see how Kyonko has completely torn down you perceptive of real life and animation? abandon now before thee loses all hope!!!
Jason, Macross 7 invented guitar hero!!
And Guvava was 100x better than Haro, but I digress.
As for Ranka’s running, maybe her backpack transforms into a glider…
>> I bet Alto wants to Lulu the crap out of Ranka (is that the proper usage?:P)
No. It’s “I bet Ozmu wants to lulu the crap out of Ranka.”
>> I though Jason-ko would be older and have melonpan? Mako-cakes threats are for post-op/time-slip Maki-cakes with melonpan. Needs more Hauka IS Amazing. (but a Macross if fine too)
You have destroyed the anime meme counter with that comment. If any random anime fan who doesn’t normally read this blog 24/7 have any chance of understanding what you just wrote?
>> No. It’s “I bet Ozmu wants to lulu the crap out of Ranka.â€
Rejected – Ozma likes melonpan, to judge by Lieutenant Glass more than he does lolis. He may be robbing cradles, but he seems to like them with more up top than Ranka. Alto, on the other hand… who knows? He may like melonpan too, which means Sheryl and Klein Klan will be at the top of those lists.
Ah well – Sheryl seems to like them flat, which is probably where Ranka and Alto have a chance with her…
And I read this blog 24/7 and that meme STILL slips past my radar, and I’m probably one of the few not-completely-broken readers left. Broken, yes – but Haruka-broken, which means Klein Klan has me attention. Two tastes in one package… one very Haruka-neesama style package.
Haess, you’re just as broken as everyone else.
Also, “to lulu” means to adore your little sister like Lulu adores Nunnally. So for Ranka, only Ozmu can lulu since he’s the older brother. It doesn’t mean he will, just that it’s the only way the verb fits for Frontier. Unless Alto discovers Sheryl is his little sister…
Haruka-broken, not Mako-cake’s broken – this means melonpa, not wanting trap-Jason. And Ozmu cannot Lulu his adopted sister given his lack of Tanuki. Alto can sort of Lulu as he has taken over some of the oniichan role… but nobody can really out-Lulu the Geass crew, alas.
And Sheryl would be Alto’s big sister… unless it turns out she’s Ranka’s sister, in which case the Symmetrical Docking takes place. And miclonized Klein may join…
Due to Sheryl’s choice of a trap for a man, I think that perhaps what she really needs is Ranka.
I wish Ranka was my imouto…I’d be lulu too.
After seeing Sheryl’s manager poke her head to turn on her cellphone, I’m wondering where you can poke her to activate various items.
I lol’ed @teabeans
After I made the Code Geass R2 6 post, votes for Nunnally spiked and even briefly overtook Ranka. After this post, Ranka got like 30 more votes and reclaimed the lead. I’m kinda surprised that Patty is doing so well– she’s gotten like no screentime. :(
And, Haess, I have a significant amount of e-mails from you that contain images of Mako-cakes. You seemed soooooo giddy sending those to me, yet, I can’t seem to find any images of Haruka in any e-mail that you’ve sent. Mmmm. Interesting, Haess-cakes.
Oh, Maid Guy post tonight. Kukuku.
It is useless for you to deflect attention away from yourself Dear Leader, suspicion has befallen you wherever you go. I’m sure His Honorable Haesslich-dono has nothing but your best interests in mind to steer you back onto the righteous path; failing that, turn you into an epic double D battleship class trap which is worthy of the scared scriptures of I don’t care anymore. Just shoot me. No way there’s a penis on this. None. I won’t accept it. (which would be in the best interests of your loyal followers)
Repent Dear Leader. REPENT! and all shall be forgiven and forgotten.
Btw, the spam protection is evil! EVIL! I tell you!
>> And, Haess, I have a significant amount of e-mails from you that contain images of Mako-cakes. You seemed soooooo giddy sending those to me, yet, I can’t seem to find any images of Haruka in any e-mail that you’ve sent. Mmmm. Interesting, Haess-cakes.
Odd. I recall sending the Episode 7 of Okawari pic of Mako-cakes… but outside of that (and the meido picture in Episode 13), I don’t recall sending you all that much Mako-chan. I DID send Episode 8 Haruka being thrown into the pool (“We have your wife. Here are my agents throwing her into…”), and I think I sent a Haruka-fantasy that Natsuki had before fainting (completely with the cleavage) an episode after he encountered her bounteous bosom. And I believe I sent you a Hosaka shot from the Hosaka-ke thing in 9 (the eyecatch and Hosaka after being laid low). There’s also the Kana-assault Hayami-senpai tried in 10.
Oh, and some Klein Klan. I promised you a link of a (poor) comparison between their Haruka-banchou side glances. Here: http://img403.imageshack.us/im.....einds6.png
See? Very poor comparison, but Klein in a Haruka-like uniform makes up for many things. We have many, many shots we’ve sent. I can link them all later in a post for you, if need be.
Hmm… that shot didn’t get through.
http://img295.imageshack.us/im.....ukapz5.jpg
>>And where’s his Haro ball?
Luca.