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- Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:40 am
- Forum: Mecha and Technology
- Topic: Fictional vs. Real-life: Prototypes in actual combat
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6508
Re: Fictional vs. Real-life: Prototypes in actual combat
First post in aggggesssss, hi everyone. Been giving some thought this issue recently, and I find this thread rather interesting. So, is the consenus at the moment that the whole prototype issue is one of linguistic ambiguity? As various similar but seperate terms are being interchanged inappropiatel...
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:21 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: TTGL "peice the heavens with your drill"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2033
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:15 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Nadesico!!??
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15986
PoD wasn't really 'serious/emo' though. That really only applies to Akito, who was always 'emo' in the first place. Plus, he's not the focus of the movie anyways. I think you miss both the joke and the point. Akito was intended as a send up of mecha leads (he shares a voice actor with shinji in the...
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:36 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Gurren Lagaan language?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4095
First of all, it's Lagann. In the context of the story, it's just a name Kamina made up, so I doubt it has any special meaning in English, Japanese or any other language. Even Gurren was just a name he made up, although obviously it's close to Guren. Well, the ever-reliable wikipedia gives Lagann a...
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:10 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Nadesico!!??
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15986
I'm currently working up the nerve to watch POD again, so can review it, but the movie scarred me a great deal when I watched four years ago. It seems the creative staff didn't get what made the TV series worthwhile and popular, and then tried to compress an OVAs worth of material into a single movi...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:03 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Casshan is Back!!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13254
- Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:27 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Casshan is Back!!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13254
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:30 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Mark II
- Replies: 429
- Views: 102161
- Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:41 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Mark II
- Replies: 429
- Views: 102161
All that aside, I'm really interested in Parallel Works 6. It's all very similar yet undeniably different, be it in a redesigned Gurren Lagann or the red-headed hero who looks like Gimmy. A friend theorized that PW 6 might be depicting an earlier rebellion against the Spiral King's rule, as there a...
- Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:42 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
Just seen epsidoe 25. On the whole, it was a good ending to a good series. Nice characters, good animation, beatiful music, and nowhere near as irrating as Macross 7. The downside? Well I found the plot to be rather weak in comparison with the rest of the series. I found speculating about it more in...
- Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
I just watched episode 24. I'm still confident of a kill-em-all ending, though I doubt Alto is actually dead. I'd also like to say that time has made all that plot speculation we indulged in completely redundant. It seems that every possible plot thread that I had dismissed as too obvious or cliched...
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:38 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
I'd like to echo people's feelings of burnout, and also predict a Tomino style kill-em-all ending. This series needed either more actions or fewer episodes. The conspiracy and mystery plots look increasingly shallow (He's Ranka's brother, Ai-Kun is Vajra, the war is about fold quartz etc etc). As fo...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:50 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
Yes, given the Ex Gear's function as a survivial suit and powered armour, it makes sense that it would be tied into the IFF system. However, this implies that the Ex Gear's were transfferred, but the planes were not. Perhaps NUNs wanted to break up the SMS forces, rather than have them continue to h...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:16 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
I think it's preparation for September 19. It's 'International Talk like a Talk like a Pirate Day'. Shouldn't Alto and Luca be using NUNS IFF? They are still 'Skull 3 and 4'. That really surprised me aswell. It implies that an IFF is tied to an individual (or perhaps an ex-gear), rather than the me...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:15 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
I understand you're nitpicking about their sudden appearance in NUNS, which I agree with, but you're focusing on the wrong target by asking about what Valkyrie they're flying. I'm kind of focussing on the plane as the symbol of this sudden radical plot shift. It could be a VF04 and my complaint wou...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
You're talking about different things now. Whatever reason Alto and Luca decided to stay behind with NUNS has nothing to do with why they have to use the VF-171EX. I'm not. I'm pointing out that they seem to have gone from SMS topguns, to NUNS pilots with no appearent gap in between. There should h...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:26 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
When did Alto and Luca get a VF191ex? Because it's all they have to use. When the Quarter went renegade, it had their Messiahs on it, so obviously they have to use NUNS Valkyries. Yes, but I did wonder exactly why they were in that squadron. That's my point. The only reason I can think of is drama....
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:16 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
Hmm... I'm not sure whether to give Leon a little respect or consider him even more of a tool. Even if it is probably a case of stabbing before getting stabbed, I didn't think for a second he had really outmaneuvered Grace, and I still await his fate with interest. I'm starting think the guy is unt...
- Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:29 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track III: The Final
- Replies: 330
- Views: 68696
- Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:04 pm
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: The Official Macross Frontier Thread Track II
- Replies: 580
- Views: 132917