False Prophet wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 11:52 am
Say, has anyone here bought a Variable Fighter Girls yet? What is your impression of it?
Mecha musume and female character statuettes are definitely not my type of merchandise.
My girlfriend collects character statues and has given me one or two as gifts, but nothing provocative/exploitative.
In general, I'm kind of dismayed that
Macross Delta's merchandising is so weak that it's fallen back on waifu BS and mecha musume... but I guess that's what you get when your show doesn't have an actual story and you've got no other way for characters to appeal beyond fanservice.
False Prophet wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 11:52 am
Also, save for a few mentions in Frontier and Delta (and the games, if you count them), has there been a serious discussion on Lynn Minmay's career and its legacy as an artist? I mean, in-universe historians must have written tons of books about her involvement during the War, but what about her artistic and cultural contributions? Having people (like Ranka) trying to emulate her decades after her disappearance is the premise to a long discussion on itself.
Minmay's career wasn't even three years long (11/2009-09/2012).
Given that her career started during the First Space War and essentially ended with her departure as a passenger on the SDF-2
Megaroad-01 early in the postwar reconstruction period, in-setting discussion of Lynn Minmay's career inevitably revolves almost exclusively around her role in the war. She was a lot less active after the war's conclusion thanks to the difficult living conditions on Earth and the turbulent nature of her relationships with her manager Kaifun and her friend Hikaru Ichijyo.
Much of Lynn Minmay's enduring cultural impact in the years that followed her departure into deep space can't be attributed to her personally. Rather, it's a result of the fictionalized versions of her who've appeared in historical dramas like the 2031 film
Do You Remember Love?, the 2045 TV drama
The Lynn Minmay Story and the 206X galaxy network drama series
The Lynn Minmay Files. There were probably others as well, like the 2012 film
The Truth of South Ataria Island mentioned in
Master File. These later generations of singers are not inspired by Minmay herself so much as the fictionalized dramatizations of her life story that've been made into popular entertainment. The 2031 film
Do You Remember Love? was the inspiration for many singers, such as Basara Nekki, Mylene Jenius, and Emilia Jenius. Walkure members Reina Prowler and Makina Nakajima were both self-confessed fans of the drama series
The Lynn Minmay Files.
The only singers who acknowledge an inspiration that's other than a fictionalized version of Minmay were Chelsea Scarlett, Ranka Lee, and Freyja Wion, who were inspired (respectively) by Fire Bomber, Sheryl Nome, and Ranka Lee. Chelsea Scarlett's case is, thus far, unique in that her inspiration to become a singer came not from being a fan of Fire Bomber but from being one of the Varauta colonists rescued from mind control by them in 2046 after the Protodeviln conflict ended.