minmay defense 16
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Kyuun kyuun
Kyuun kyuun
Watashi no kare wa PAIROTTO
This week’s Ranka-puppy is cute montage.
I want to buy an iSlug so bad.
(Andohbytheway, last week, I stopped by the Apple store, and there was a line around the store for people waiting to buy an iPhone 3G. I asked someone in line how long they were in line for, and he said two hours. Two hours?! It really reminded me of the line at Tryst when I was at Vegas, only instead of getting inside to party and drink with beautiful women, it’s for a cell phone. Apple really should start charging $40 cover just to get into their store. Funny thing was, across the street, the Sony Style store was completely empty.)
Not creepy. Not creepy at all.
Minmay defense! Always good to see the Minamy defense in action, much like seeing Mikuru bullied, Simon drilling, Keitaro kicked, and Tenma misunderstanding.
I like how they rationalize how Ranka’s singing will disturb the Vajra because she emits fold waves. I laughed when someone asked why are they bothering if they’re not equipping her with speakers… yeah… because sound travels so well in space. Though I wonder what kind of human organ would be necessary to produce fold waves? Wouldn’t a quick medical scan reveal that Ranka’s body is special if she is able to emit fold waves?
Something similar bugged me about Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi). Cylons were described as being identical to normal humans, so even a medical examine wouldn’t reveal who is a Cylon and who is not. Of course, Cylons can instantly download themselves to a new body if the old one is destroyed… they must have some sort of internal device or organ capable of multi-terabit interstellar communication. I am not a doctor, but I’m pretty damn sure no human has anything even remotely close, and this could be easily detectable by a medical examine. Unless my appendix is really meant for interstellar communications…
If the VF-27 is so pimp, why did Macross Galaxy got steamrolled by the Vajra yet Frontier did not? Oh right, the VF-25, an inferior ship with inferior pilots, is overall superior. And, of course, even though the VF-25 isn’t up to snuff compared to the VF-27, Grace couldn’t predict it. Makes perfect sense. If you’ve been drinking their Kool Aid.
Does Brera shop at Hosaka’s clothing emporium? Why does his clothes have exposed chest areas when no one else around has exposed chest areas?
The “Alto sneaks Sheryl onto Macross Quarter” scene was great. Sheryl’s pissed look… their banter… everything.
When BH90210 started, it was basically about Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty fighting over Luke Perry. As the show progressed, it changed to Jason Priestly fighting Luke Perry for Jennie Garth. In other words, how is that so different from a love triangle change from Ranka / Sheryl / Alto to Brera / Alto / Ranka? Probably be good to note that towards the end, the homoerotic overtones between Luke Perry and Jason Priestly were nearing the “uncomfortable” level, especially every volleyball scene where they slapped each other’s asses after a side out. Fortunately, they got rid of Luke Perry before the OH GEASS NO level.
(You can probably guess I’m just as pumped for 90210 as I am for Gundam 00 S2. Looking at the cast list, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty, and Joe E. Tata are all reprising their old roles. I’m shocked? They were available? I mean, don’t they have lucrative film and TV careers after they left BH90210… oh right, nevermind. Even funnier, Ian Ziering is willing to do anything to reprise Steve Sanders.)
I like the new ED, Northern Cross. Aside from not giving Maaya Sakamoto a larger role, the production team has done a really good job with the music for Macross Frontier. (As it should.)
We get both harem reject Klan and Duke Ozmu in the next episode preview? Just looking at these two images, did the art style oscillate between Raki Suta and Golgo 13? Can’t wait.
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It was kind of funny to see a new Sheryl focused ED right after a Ranka centric episode.
It almost felt like a consolation prize for the girl, really.
Hope this works…
Minmay defense! Always good to see the Minamy defense in action, much like seeing Mikuru bullied, Simon drilling, Keitaro kicked, and Tenma misunderstanding.
Woo, Finally a Monster reference! About damn time I say.
I want to see you try to derail it, I’d say it would be fairly difficult, even for you :P.
Macross Frontier should honestly just be one incredibly long Ranka-puppy montage, with the possible prospect of selling iSlugs. Either that, or Alto needs to grow some balls and go for a threesome.
I can feel it…
the reigns are slackening, the steering is becoming less responsive…
the wheels are violently rattling and in danger of falling off…
The more Macross F continues to linger its focus on yaoi-bait Brera and his overpower’d
GundamVF-27, the more I get the feeling I’ve ridden this train before.Fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen. I think we’re fast approaching Sunrise territory. The final warning: when all the older pilots with beard stubble are killed off. (Please live Ozma!!)
VF-27 is an elegant next generation dogfighter and shipkiller armed with an ultra-tech beam cannon.
VF-25 is an old (prooven, refined) generation missile boat armed with dirty nukes.
’nuff said.
If I wanted to scythe my way through my supposed allies? VF-27.
If I wanted to hold the line against mind-bogglingly technologically superior ascended biomechanical hordes with stupid-huge numerical superiority? VF-25s.
Actually, the last episode (16) showed Galaxy intact along with a few ships… which means that the Galaxy didn’t get defeated by the Vajra. They merely left their escorts to die and vanished – and the Kaitos had Grace’s co-conspirators aboard it with a spare body.
And I see that Brera’s got the bodyguard thing down – Alto’s sure useless in a hand-to-hand fight. That’s TWO times he’s been taken to the floor. Now, Klan in Miclone mode… damn it, am I supposed to go after it or stay away?
Also, it must be killing Ozma to have Ranka’s bikini-wearing image painted on the sides of the squadron’s bomber.
>> VF-25 is an old (prooven, refined) generation missile boat armed with dirty nukes.
Except that the VF-25 is the newest thing in the fleet. Remember, instead of giving NUNS the 25, they gave them to SMS to study before mass deployment.
Your comment would be kinda right if you subbed “VF-25 and VF-27” for “VF-27” and “VF-171” for “VF-25.”
http://www.new-un-spacy.com/ma.....index.html
*sniffs* Who ordered a helping of Pineapple Salad? Oh, right, based on the preview, Ozma did. Oh dear…
Myssa Rei: He ordered it? Or it was given to him?
There’s something slightly off here – the VF-27’s not designed for use by unenhanced human pilots – it accelerates too fast and pulls too many G’s for a non-cyborg to apparently survive, even with an Ex-Gear frame. It’s more like ‘the Special-Ops space-superiority fighter designed for killer cyborgs’, whereas the VF-25 is for mere mortals; a master of none, but an excellent pinch-hitter for almost any role due to its versatility thanks to easily-exchanged ordinance packages.
I think Ranka’s effect on Vajra has very little to do with sound.
Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if Galaxy fell because of Grace (who might also be messing up with medical scans).
Macross Galaxy is alive and well, just look at the ED from the last ep and there you will see them lurking in an asteroid field.
I agree with Haesslich the VF-27 is not for puny miclones, but for cyborgs like Brera and Grace.
I see now it makes sense just as Alto-hime is descended from Mako-cakes, Brera is descended from Hosaka. I sense that there will soon be a flood of Brera cosplayers, one of whom will be Jason. For Jason has actually confessed to going to Hosaka’s clothing emporium.
Anybody else notice Ranka’s not wearing a bikini bottom on the ship decal, and it looks like her top is undone as well?
http://i35.tinypic.com/2ugl2cj.png
Pretty fucking racy for a 15 year-old that’s supposed to be the military’s new secret weapon.
Ranka must probably be the future granddaughter of Kogarashi because who else would she gets her superior genetics of producing and emitting fold waves?? ^_~
All I understand bout Macross right now is that how come nobody or they ever use tactical nukes in space against their enemies (or maybe I just forgot or missed some “important” episodes)? The last time I’ve seen someone use a nuke was in Gundam: Stardust Memories and it was just a one time thing (it was old…really old… ^_~). Oh sure, they got lasers and superior planes and they got the all powerful and all spamming minmay defense but what the heck??
Another thing I got a question for…how do they get people to continue to fill up their army? Do they use force drafting, promotional recruitment ir the usual anime-styled academy pilots? (Rick Hunter was just recruited by Roy Fokker out of the blue from what I remember of the original Macross). Because if they do any of the above, then they cannot affod to lose any pilots (which happens often due to spamming) because there will be a domino effect and repercussions in terms of population depletion, financial and economic funding and morale reflection and it will eventually produce a lot of low-trained ineffective pilots because they just start losing people left and right…
Do they still uses Protoculture in this series (Cause I honestly doesn’t follow its episodes)? Oh well…^_~
Given that this is anime and they do not hire military advisors to help them out in this series to make it a little bit more easy to digest and it may be excusable to others but to some, it will really drive people up to the wall the same way it drives fangirls to draw more Lulu x Rolo doujins…^_~
*teleports through Space/Time to punch bLAh!*
No, in the original Macross Ichijo Hikaru flew a combat plane by accident when the SDF-1 Macross took off, then was stuck on the ship because of the fold (lol space tuna fishing), and then decided to join the military later on.
Rick Hunter is from Robotech.
Sorry, I feel anger about Robotech.
Interesting new episode. Not sure I like the new version of Aimo. The old version was a whole lot more… i dont know….. like audio ecstasy. This version makes me think we are rallying the troops. (which I think is how its ment to sound, which sucks).
@Myssa Rei: And I am afraid we might be in for some Pineapple Salad, as you mentioned. The episode title is too ominous.
Fact no-one might have noticed past flustered loli-Klan…. In the background you can see at a lower level Luca getting out of a black car with guards…
My pick for best line of the episode? Goes to Luca…. After Nanase says “I wonder what happened to Saotome-kun.” he replies with… I will let you see it yourself…
http://img.photobucket.com/alb.....ned-to.jpg
bLAh!: Yes, you were definitely NOT paying attention.
One, they already used Tactical Nukes (in the Macross universe they’re called Reflex weaponry) during the big battle where NUNS fielded its elite Diamond Force. It’s not too hard to miss, since the wings of both Ozma and Alto’s valkyries were bristling with the things.
Two, Protoculture in Macross refers to the progenitor race that created the Zentraedi, and had a hand in Human evolution. They were also eventually wiped out by the Protodevlin-possessed Supervision Army. It’s only in Robotech where Protoculture is used as an energy source; in Macross, the machines they use run on micro-fusion engines.
Three, it’s assumed that NUNS at least replenishes its numbers via active recruitment among Frontier’s populace (like alluded to in Macross) for a specific duty period. SMS, however, being a military subcontractor, more or less hire personnel from interested/able parties that catch their eye.
screw Brera, he’s too prettyboyish for my liking. wait,…Alto is a hime…ah damn!!!
>>Pretty fucking racy for a 15 year-old that’s supposed to be the military’s new secret weapon.
Works for Strike Witches … also if enemy would be … say 4chan /a/ it would be super effective.
>>in the Macross universe they’re called Reflex weaponry
I think you mean Reaction Weapons, and yes they were thermonuclear weapons but the current ones are “pair-annihilation reaction by Overtechnology”, something that I guess makes the old ones from Macross look like farts.
Of course everyone must realize having the good guys use nukes in a Japanese show its going to be a no-no … that is why it was called “Reaction” and not “Nuclear” …
>>>Anybody else notice Ranka’s not wearing a bikini bottom on the ship decal, and it looks like her top is undone as well?
http://i35.tinypic.com/2ugl2cj.png
That’s because Ranka is a whore. Did I mention that I really, really, really hate Ranka?
So if that was Sheryl, it’d be okay then whereas if it’s Ranka, it’s because she’s a whore?
Double-standards. However, Ozma has GOT to be seething over that painting, if only because he’s overprotective.
If you do not like Ranka then I wonder what you feel about Minmay …
Hmm…so I guess I miss a LOT huh? ^_^ So what does Overtechnology do anyway? Does it function the same way as Protoculture or Robotechnology (US version)?
Robotech was the US version of Macross right? So that’s why I was so confused on who the hell is Hikaru Ichijo…damn…well hey, the one that I remember was the one they broadcast at our country (do you have any inkling on what I’m saying Myssa? The one that they broadcast early in the morning at ch.2…^_~) and it was the US version (aka Robotech)…and I’ve read the novels produced by DelRey up to the Invid Invasions…^_~
I guess it is really true that Macross becomes more enjoyable to watch in movie form than in an anime format…and I definitely agree, Ranka is a slut, her green hair is atrocious and she is a shame to all green haired anime girls everywhere…hahahaha…^_~
>>>So if that was Sheryl, it’d be okay then whereas if it’s Ranka, it’s because she’s a whore?
No, it’s because she’s the Vajra queen. You don’t think all of those little Vajra bugs were made through immaculate conception, do you?
Ranka is not cute. Down with Ranka!
We didn’t see Ranka fucking any Vajra, and she’d apparently had that suit on (and been in that green egg-thing) the whole time. We also saw her tummy glowing back in Episode 7, which suggests she was engineered that way as much as anything else.
Plus, she was wearing a LOT more than Sheryl tends to on stage – that same episode showed a Magical Naked Transformation Scene just as “Saggitarius @9PM” kicked in… so Sheryl’s equally a whore in that case, especially given that she was apparently the predecessor to Ranka as far as being a Vajra-control project goes, and may be related to her given the fact she has a fold quartz earring from her mother… who (if it’s the same person as Episode 14’s Vajra queen) looks an awful lot like Sheryl, but with green hair. If Sheryl is a failed Proto-Queen, will we get the pleasure of seeing you publically calling Sheryl a whore?
Robotech is more like a quarter bastardized Macross. The first third of Robotech is a partially tweeked version of Macross with some Engish style names and altered reasons for things to fit with the plotlines of two rather different anime used for the second and third arcs of Robotech.
I actually like the first third of Robotech and have part of the second third, but never really watched it. The basic story seems the same, and the events are mostly the same. There are some key differences due to the nature of the remaining two thirds of the story.
Now if Robotech had been done a decade later, they could have tried to fill all that air time with Macross and then the Macross 7 shows. Image how Robotech would be then. Does anyone think a American audiance could fathon that…with all the rock songs in English rather than Minmay’s pop songs. On second thought, maybe it would have worked…JEM worked in the mid-80s…but Macross 7 would have been early-mid 90s…so…who knows.
@ bLAh!
Overtechnology is just the name given to the technology found in ASS-1 (ASS-1 being the Alien Space Ship 1, later SDF-1 Macross).
Also Robotech=/=Macross.
@ Haesslich
Sheryl is wearing a lot more since her stage clothing seems to be some kind of “holosuit” that makes changing “clothing” on the fly very easy, I take is a full bodysuit and not very comfortable since we seen her naked during a break.
drakron: you forgot about the ass-crack we saw during the close-up? She still shows an awful lot of skin during shows, and has little body modesty. I suspect the reason she ragged on Alto in the shelter was not because he saw her tuna buns, but because he was so horrifically embarrassed that he denied seeing anything. As Alto noted, her public outfits leave little to the imagination, and she certainly doesn’t seem ashamed of her body. Even if she’s wearing a suit, it shows her naked form during that Holo-transformation. And calling Ranka a whore for a painting of her that shows the top maybe hanging open but not doing the same to Sheryl when she shows off more virtual or real flesh is just Geass-level hypocrisy.
Fair enough, I just wanted to point out her stage suit seems to be a holosuit … giving a new meaning to “wardrobe malfunction” is it malfunctions … or maybe not.
I think the only malfunction was during the first episode when the Vajra attacked during the concert and if turned off to leave her in that suit. Saying Ranka’s a who’re for having someone draw a picture of her with the top possibly being open is hypocrisy. Hating a character is one thing… but Roy Mustang was taking it to another level.
Hell, its a heck of a tribute to old-style nose art on bombers, where some of those girls were topless.
Oh wow, the underdog phenomenon is in full swing now. A vast sea of passive-aggressive’s who immediately turn on anything that looks like its ‘on top’. They’ll give reasons and this and that, the real explanation is that they support underdogs with baseless fanaticism (ZOMG RANKA CUTE), and then heavily scrutinize those who are on top (OMG RANKA IS A ALIEN WHORE). This same strange phenomenon is now affecting Barack Obama. Its not his trip or energy policy that brought his numbers down, its the media blaring his ‘6 point lead’ over and over. The UnderTards immediately shuffled to Mccain.
I still love Ranka, and Sheryl, and hope that Alto can rise above the undertards and male harem leads of the world and forge a threesome to end all threesomes!
Sheryl seems to swing both ways, so even just her and Ranka would be… well, a pair is fine too.
The Pineapple Salad was actually a Pineapple CAKE.
Thank you, GlaDoS. Oh, and well-played.
Actually I was amused by the fact that all the PINEAPPLE was shoved in our faces. That, plus all the death flags Ozma seems to have tripped, and the episode number…
Well, it was just one before the salad. Maybe the fact that he ate it first BEFORE flying contributed to it? I loved Kawamori’s comment, snuck in through Mikhail, towards the end: