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Whut-da-devil?! ....well, that sucks....

Anyway, thanks for clearing that up, guys.

good that the threat continues!!!

i watched the ep and totally loved it, the animation its good and the vf25 looks awesome!!!
i hope that the songs are as catchy as macross 7, and ill be a happy guy

According to ANN, regular broadcasting will start in April.
Now we'll just have to play the waiting game.

yup just a couple of months away!!!

Well, episode one was released last week by only one or two fansub groups....probably because everyone thought it would be the same as the one released as the promo back in December. Though it's similar, there are quite a few differences.

For one, the new episode one includes the OP:

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you can also see a little more into the personalities of Alto and Sheryl:

Spoiler:

Alto comes off as cool but a bit headstrong too. His showboating during the concert nearly ends in disaster when he accidently knocks Sheryl off the stage (he manages to catch her though).

Sheryl comes off as a total bitch. She smiles lovingly at Alto's group on the way to her dressing room, then rips into the accompanying Kathy Glass and demands why some kids are back stage when nobody's supposed to be there. When Ms. Glass tells her they will fly as accompaniment to her performance, she calls them amateurs. Even when Ms. Glass tells her they are from Macross Frontier's Elite school she doesn't care...

As there are extras, of course a few scenes from the promo were cut out too. Not that anyone will miss them really.

Spoiler:

They did cut out the ghost (unmanned) fighters debut though which was supposed to demonstrate that electronic brains in unmanned fighters or even missiles were affected by some form of jamming and were therefore unreliable in combat.

Another group has released episode two so I will probably catch that a little bit later on.





EDIT: Ooops forgot about the eyecatch: the "Nyan nyan" restaurant commercial

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hello...
now here after long time...

so... Macross F until these moments me it has left satisfied.
the series to every time is more interesting...

you already saw episode 3?


the episode 4 miss macross 24/abril

Really enjoying it so far. I already like where the show is going.

i have to catch up the eps, havent seen them yet, i just watched the op, its good, but i foind myself longing for for some fire bomber songs, LISTEN TO MY FIRE!!!!!!!
heheh, anyway, i like it!

Originally Posted by MrSatan

but i foind myself longing for for some fire bomber songs, LISTEN TO MY FIRE!!!!!!!

Episode 2, about 14:43. Alto and Ozma in car. Radio playing - Totsugeki LOVE HEART!!

Remember this song?

That song's a good 15 years old, it must have sounded like Ace of Base - All That She Wants to Alto.

And that Nyan Nyan commercial is freaky because it really sounds like a Chinese restaurant ditty.

Episode 3 was pretty good. More fleshing out the characters and seeing Altoh, Sheryl and Ranka's interactions is interesting and funny (the tuna buns LOL).

I can't wait to see more action coming up, though I was a bit surprised to see in the next episode preview....

Spoiler:

....that some Queadluun-Rau mecha appear. Are they enemies or perhaps part of Altoh's training?

Also:


When Earth started it's colonization journeys, you can see in the pic all the expeditions that left in 2012. The MEGAROAD-01 can be seen, which supposedly was the mission headed by Hikaru Ichijo and Misa Hayase. On the other side is the MACROSS07. M-FRONTIER can be seen on the right. Amazing how they could launch all these colonies out in the same year. MEGAROAD-04 reached EDEN in the same year and sent its own colonies out in 2013. They must've had some amazing resources as well as Zentraedi technology to pull all that off. You can even see that one of Eden's expedition colonies is the M-GALAXY, the home of Sheryl Nome.

Now waiting for episode 4 somewhat impatiently.....

Hi. Is there a lower-res encode of this anime? My PC has trouble playing the 1280x720 res videos, though I have CoreAVC installed, it's still slow.

Thanks.

AiA & I-Z are currently releasing it in something like 704x396 res version (around roughly 174mb each I guess). The quality is pretty crisp and clear too, not like the promo 1st episode. Their episodes are in MP-4 format though so you'll need MpcStar to play the files.

AiA I-Z ~ Macross Frontier ep.01
AiA I-Z ~ Macross Frontier ep.02
AiA I-Z ~ Macross Frontier ep.03





EDIT: Ah, it's 768x432!!

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!!!!

I also like how the SMS Commander/CEO? is continuing the tradition of grizzled badass space captains.

Wow thanks hikarub! I'll test these out!

EDIT: Plays like charm. Thanks

Episode 4 was pretty cool. Despite being mainly a training exercise for Altoh, the action was pretty intense and interwoven nicely with Ranka's side.


As for the Pixie Squadron's Captain Klein Klan:
ZENTRAEDI version:



and MICRONIZED version:


Looks like something went a little bit wrong in the shrinking process....
(To those who have seen the original Macross series, the huge Tuna head on another table in the background should bring back memories! )

Originally Posted by hikarub

(To those who have seen the original Macross series, the huge Tuna head on another table in the background should bring back memories! )

nnnnnnnnnnnope, I got nothin

Two comments:

1. Somebody on the design team has a profound love for San Francisco.

2. Why does Frontier have a bug up its butt over implants? Avoidance of a transparent society? Any nerds out there find backstory for this?