Macross Frontier

red255 · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 13, 2007 Posts: 923

Either alto took it, or the space alien guy playing the harmonica at the end took it.

Protodeviln?

The music continued to play and it was still in the ED, so yeah pretty sure its still around.

Viaria1 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 02, 2008 Posts: 76

Wow having no prior background knowledge of the macross series except for Macross: do you remember love? I must say I was blown away by these first seven episodes. The first thing that struck me was the art, I was impressed by how high the quality was and the detailed space combat, enviorments felt alive and not like the characters were cut-and-pasted against a backdrop. While the characters felt a little used to me (I've been told their basicly copies of the original series) I enjoyed them anyway. I wonder how the love trianlge between Alto, Sheryl, and Ranka plays out, I'll be rooting for Ranka Smile

Sheryl acts a little too conceited over the fact that she is a popular singer I think.
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Nef · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

Wow, the animation last episode blew me away...for the wrong reasons. Gosh, that episode was verging on ugly at times. I'm not a stickler for brilliant animation, it's more the inconsistency that bugs me.

Ohwell, it was an amusing episode, but I don't think the episode balanced particularly well with the normal realism of macross. I love it when a serious show has a few comedic fillers, but i thought episode 8 was too over the top at times.

still not bad. I would rate the episode 2.75/5 whereas other episodes were in the 4 to 4.5 range.

tabz · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:55 am Post subject:

red255 · Jikan Samurai Joined: Mar 13, 2007 Posts: 923

Macross 08 is subbed by GG

Plot synopsis:

Sheryl loses her panties

Viaria1 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 02, 2008 Posts: 76

Crappy animation and I now hate Sheryl even more, not much else to say. I guess my hopes were up a little high after episode 7.
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Faraz · A-Source Staff Joined: May 29, 2007 Posts: 343

Nah, I still like her for her attitude. But what was up with the Pirates of the Caribbean music when they started flying?

Nef · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

yeah i think Sheryl is a pretty cool as well. They're actually portraying her as a strong-willed/confident, face adversity head-on type character, which inevitably leads to moments of bimboness.

As I can understand why she's like that I don't really mind her flaws.

tabz · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

yeh, she worked hard to get where she is now, its not like she was born with a silver spoon and handed everything she wanted from the start, and she acts very professional, i think she lets loose some of the stress by wreaking havoc from time to time tho. Laughing

i can only guess she took up the pilot course to distract herself a bit, knowing the fate of galaxy is yet to b determined, at least she's didnt go into an emo wreck.

she's not the typical "girl in distress" type of character either.. Ranka more fits the Lyn Minmay mold than Sheryl.
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Nef · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:42 am Post subject:

Viaria1 · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 02, 2008 Posts: 76

I dunno she just irritated me from the first ep when she ran away during the first attack saying basicly "I'm too important to bother sticking around". Alto needs to just tell her to quit it already, but he's too passive.
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Angel_Armz · Rosen Ritter~ Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 10983

Eps 8

Man, I'm not one to complain about bad details in animation but this really sucks. Besides that eps 8 was okay. The only real good thing was
The Carrot song in the beginning.
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Burgundy · Conscript Joined: Mar 20, 2008 Posts: 147

if they had to keep true to her personality, they can't turn her into a classic anime emo girl.... But then again japanese animes often do that no matter how contracting it actually is to how they made the personality in the first place.

For now she's doing it well.

Also the animation is still very decent, i don't know where to start on the grand bias on a few changes here and there, as long the character's personality and key figures are intact there should be no need to worry nor complain about it. O.o

Expecting something like on episode 7's level each and every episode is complete insanity. You wouldn't be watching it every week then, let alone it being 26 episodes, also not to mention the funds needed.

Episodes like the 7th were meant to be special in it's own right.
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tabz · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

its a fact that some episodes are being done by differing studios(if its the same studio for every ep with varying quality thats a another matter entirely). some of us do care about consistency in animation. personally macross is a high end anime to me(the whole franchise not just this frontier series -i am a longtime fan since i saw the first series and movie back in the early 90's), while the in between animation of frontier are bearable, i find nothing wrong with pointing out its defects. i also think that they have already finished most of the animationwork of this series last year.
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darksaga · newbie! Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 1

stop complaining about animation quality, just watch ep. 9, you won't regret it ...

ep. 9 has also much better animation, than ep. 8, it's not top notch yet, but pretty close

expected this to be another "half"-filler like ep. 8

but wow, this was imo one of the best episodes thus far... especially storytelling-wise

after watching this episode somehow I also got the feeling , that grace, sheryl's manager, has to do something with the guy in this pink/purple valkyrie? or is maybe more involved than we know now...

the nest in this spaceship reminds me of the movie alien & aliens
hope we get to see some queen soon^^