But if you prefer "impossible", I'll rectify my previous statement here: "It's IMPOSSIBLE to a mere stunt pilot to perform (and even to know accurately) the above combat manouvers while also successfully avoiding enemy fire and -at the same time- focusing on hitting a target." &...

A stunt pilot can be even better than a fighter pilot in performing aerobatics, but it's very unlikely he can perform a Hi-Lo-Hi strike flight pattern, or a double-scissors dogfight pattern, while aiming to, firing to and eventually hitting targets. "Unlikely" is not the same thing as &qu...

Strike Witches did get better later on, though. It is still a slog if you expect pure action, but not to the case of the earliest episode. My concern wasn't so much a lack of action as it was a profound feeling of unease with how casually the show plied viewers with lolicon fanservice. I'm no prude...

On the topic of American copies, is this true that the Robotech Defenders toyline came before the unrelated Robotech animation series? Who exactly came up with the name Robotech for Revell then? Yes. The name "Robotech" comes from Revell's failed attempt to cash in on the robot toy trend ...

What about Yamato/Star Blazers? Or it did not suffer from excessive editing? Space Battleship Yamato 's localization as Star Blazers got edited with a very light hand for the time, and apart from stringing the first three Yamato series together under a single banner and editing them all for content...

So it's already happened before, in science fiction. Why you have so much trouble according that very same degree of "suspension of disbelief" to Amuro? In general, for the reasons which I have already elaborated upon at some length. Not being much of a Star Wars fan, it occurred to me to...

@Kaiba: Wait, so Delta did the same thing as with Strike Witches when it comes to naming characters? That makes two show referring real-life pilots. Theme naming is a pretty common thing in shonen anime... though this is a lot less obvious and more highbrow than a show with theme naming usually goe...

@Kaiba: Thanks you for your answer! It really is Voltron (Fun fact: back in my country, an artist actually made and published a long-running manga series from watching Voltron Defender. It was called "Hero Hesman".) Yeah, that kind of thing used to happen a lot... and has caused a lot of ...

From Delta i must say i absolutely love lil' Drakens. I like the concept, design. Everything. I'm more amused than anything... so much from Macross Delta seems to have been borrowed from the Macross II: Lovers Again OVA, including the Lilldrakens. They're even the same color as the Squire auto-atta...

[*] A "nobody" kid from the space boonies falls into the cockpit of a Gundam and is inexplicably revealed to be a natural mobile suit pilot who, despite having no formal training, is able to brutally beat down seasoned pros who've trained for YEARS... partly thanks to innate psychic power...

Is it true that the practice of "sewing" different anime shows into a single show to be broadcasted in the U.S was born as syndicated shows needed to reach a certain number of episode? If yes, then why? Yes, that's correct. The typical number of episodes needed for first-run syndication w...

I wonder - what will come after VF-31? VF-35? How they will design it and what features it will have. Unless Kawamori jumps the story of the next series forward at least several decades, we'll likely continue to see more 5th Generation VFs. If it comes down to e VF-35, let's just hope that it won't...

Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy Isamu Dyson YF-29 Durandal This? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Macross-30-DX-Chogokin-YF-29-Durandal-Valkyrie-Isamu-machine-22cm-Figure-Japan/283023978219?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D52885%26meid%3D7e63d284c9a140b59d7f3fbddcc488de%26pid%3...

On the topic of "artsy" anime groups - i have seen fansub of GiTS SoC with 10-bit H.264 video and separate sound files in 24-bit FLACs. FLAC is the biggest waste of time... 99 times out of 100 the end user doesn't have an audio system that's capable of producing any detectable difference ...

Say, anyone here into collecting Macross trinklets? How expensive can the official things be (e.g something they gave away during the movie screenings) resold? It varies, depending on time and rarity. For instance, movie pamphlets from DYRL? are worth about ten or twenty times what they cost origin...

Sometimes i wish someone would come and slap fansubbers into some order, because there is a tendency to "upgrade" works they translate. I've seen translations with excessive swearing, "fan edits" which are being pushed as "speciall editions", "director's cut"...

Still haven't watched Zero, but did it touch the topic of how a normal fighter pilot could transit into a VF pilot? Training hard and training often... and, of course, that's also what simulators and model conversion training variants like the VF-0B, VF-0D, VF-1D, and VT-1 were for. The Macross Zer...

https://v-storage.bandaivisual.co.jp/sp-site/macrossd_movie_bddvd/ Macross Delta movie BD release date announced. August 28 Yeah, they announced that a couple months ago. Boxart was recently posted online. Seto, checked and it seems that some fansub versions of DYRL just slap Flashback ending to th...

Minmay can be seen aboard Megaroad-01 at the end sequence of DYRL, also in short Macross Flashback 2012 OVA The Megaroad-01 doesn't appear in any animation until Macross: Flashback 2012 . Yeah, it is possibly a confusion to between Robotech and Macross... But that thing really happened in Robotech?...

Say, if there is a planet or exploration fleet that has bought export-variants of the VF-24 and wishes to upgrade these machines (presumably under permission from NUNS), where would they go to have them upgraded? None that've been mentioned... but as local spec versions of variants are a fairly pro...