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 Macross Δ (マクロスΔ Makurosu Deruta) sci-fi, space opera, mecha, idols, romance Producer: Bandai Visual, flying DOG Studio: Satelight The next installment in the Macross franchise, Macross Delta is scheduled to run in Spring 2016, with a preview special version of episode 1 out already to ring in the new year. Set 8 years after the events of Macross Frontier (year 2067), the show follows Walküre (a tag-team of jpop idols and Valkyre pilots), Delta Squadron (some good-rear end valkyrie pilots), and the spooky mysterious Aerial Knights (even more Valkyrie pilots but this time from the Kingdom of Wind) as they battle against the Var Syndrome and each other. Staff & Cast: Original Creators: Shōji Kawamori/Studio Nue Director: Kenji Yasuda Series Script Supervisor: Toshizo Nemoto Original Character Design: Chisato Mita (CAPCOM) Character Design/Chief Animation Directors: Majiro/Yuu Shindou Animation Production: Satelight Chief Director: Shōji Kawamori Color Key Artist: Kanako Hayashi Art Directors: Shigemi Ikeda (Atelier Musa), Yukiko Maruyama (Atelier Musa) Worldview Design: Thomas Romain Art Design: Vincento Niemu Valkyrie Design: Shoji Kawamori Mechanic Design: Stanislas Brunet Director of Photography: Atsushi Iwasaki (T2 Studio) CG Director: Hironori Morino CG Supervisor: Hiroyuki Kashima (unknownCASE) CG Animation Director: Atsushi Sakiyama (unknownCASE) Editor: Kentarou Tsubone (REAL-T) Sound Production: Flying Dog Sound Director: Masafumi Mima Availability: Crunchyroll: ??? Hulu: ??? Daisuki: ??? Other: Yeah Characters: Main Characters There's your run-of-the-mill MC whose good at his job but lazy and always hungry, wannabe best girl contender who ran away from home to audition for American Idol, and cop lady, who busts MC and FEMC doing something lewd. Hayate Immelman (ハヤテ・インメルマン Hayate Inmeruman) Voiced by: Yūma Uchida Freyja Wion (フレイア・ヴィオン Fureia Vion) Voiced by: Minori Suzuki Mirage Farina Jenius (ミラージュ・ファリーナ・ジーナス Miraaju Fariina Jiinasu) Voiced by: Asami Seto Walküre J-pop waifus operating defensive technology beyond your wildest dreams and saving the universe with the power of song!  Mikumo Guynemer (美雲・ギンヌメール Mikumo Ginnumeeru) Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu Kaname Buccaneer (カナメ・バッカニア Kaname Bakkania) Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno Makina Nakajima (マキナ・中島 Makina Nakajima) Voiced by: Nozomi Nishida Reina Prowler (レイナ・プラウラー Reina Purauraa) Voiced by: Nao Toyama Delta Squadron They're the good guy military pilots. Chuck Mustang (チャック・マスタング Chakku Masutangu) Voiced by: Shinji Kawada Messer Ihlefeld (メッサー・イーレフェルト Messaa Iireferuto) Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama Arad Moelders (アラド・メルダース Arado Merudaasu) Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa Ernest Johnson (アーネスト・ジョンソン Aanesuto Jonson) Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka Aerial Knights Highly organized and super skilled variable fighter pilots invading from the Kingdom of Wind, who are totally not in any way like the Vers Empire from Aldnoah Zero.  Roid Brehm (ロイド・ブレーム Roido Bureemu) Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa Keith Aero Windermere (キース・エアロ・ウィンダミア Kiisu Earo Windamia) Voiced by: Ryohei Kimura Bogue Con-Vaart (ボーグ・コンファールト Boogu Konfaaruto) Voiced by: KENN Theo Jussila (テオ・ユッシラ Teo Yusshira) Voiced by: Kei Minegishi Xao Jussila (ザオ・ユッシラ Zao Yusshira) Voiced by: Kei Minegishi Zentradi They're back baby, but with a twist! Mecha VF-31 Siegfried A cross between the YF-30 Chronos and the VF-19 from Macross Plus. It has built in gun ports in the arms and its wingtips transform in flight so it can pull some mad cool moves on bad guys.  Sv-262 Draken III Crazy new delta wing design and opaque cockpit. This poo poo is somethin new!  Regult 104s They're Zentradi Regult 104s.  PVs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKiLsbWiHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8-5LV0uPE Should I watch this? Did you like Macross 2? How about J-Pop? Yeah? Judging by the first episode, Macross Delta is shaping up to be a show about jap idols, music videos, and a occasionally really heavy mecha combat, so if those things get you going, check this out. Do I need to watch other Macross before I watch this? no, each show is generally self contained enough so that you can pick up the franchise wherever you want really. However it would be a good idea to check these out beforehand: Macross: Do You Remember Love Macross Plus Macross Frontier You've got time. The next episode aint comin out til April. Gihon fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Delta looks great and has a fun preview episode with a song that's been playing constantly, whether in my head or on my computer, since I watched it, but this seems a bit premature.
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Jan 5, 2016 07:17
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:Delta looks great and has a fun preview episode with a song that's been playing constantly, whether in my head or on my computer, since I watched it, but this seems a bit premature. don't you think with the preview ver of ep 1 and a shitton of info about the series out already, that we could maybe talk about it? what did you like about the first ep?
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I like our leads. He's snarky in a fun-to-watch way, she's energetic and optimistic in an endearing way, and that latter normally isn't my favorite sort of lead. All the action is ridiculous, and a bit hard to follow, whether it's the dogfighting or the songfighting, but it's fun. I like the songs well enough, particularly Ikenai BORDERLINE, which seems to have a strange power over me. The songfighting is particularly ridiculous, and I'm curious if they'll try to explain why it's a good idea to jump around outside of any sort of vehicle, and why, given that it is apparently a good idea, they bother with the dogfighting. I'd be OK with them asking the audience to just roll with it, though, I'm in this for the spectacle, I think. I like the glimpse of the enemy pilots we got, they seem like a good haughty bunch, the sort of villains I like to watch when they're winning and like to watch when they're losing. The pacing is a bit wonky. They seemed to feel a need to put everything into it, which leaves nothing time to breathe, and I feel they've told us too much of what's going on it too short a time. These are my disorganized thoughts on the preview. Hopefully they'll iron out some of the kinks by the time it comes for the series to actually air. Oh, and the dancing robots are wonderful, whether it's our male lead pirouetting while he works or the Delta folks doing their synchronized number.
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Jan 5, 2016 09:20
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Macross: Do You Remember Love Live.
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Daedalus1134 posted:Macross: Do You Remember Love Live. For some reason Plex thinks my copy of the Love Live movie is Robotech: Love Live Alive
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i dunno if it is just their outfits or what, but 3/5 of the idols in that picture look like little girls.
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Serious Frolicking posted:i dunno if it is just their outfits or what, but 3/5 of the idols in that picture look like little girls. SPOILER ALERT: 3/5 of those idols probably are little girls. In fact, this being anime, 5/5 of them probably are, it's just that two of them inexplicably look about a decade too old.
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Jan 5, 2016 23:15
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I think the canon ages are, left to right in that picture, something like 16, classified, 15, 22, and 14. I forget where exactly I read this to double check, but I'm pretty sure the pink one is supposed to be early 20s, and Mikumo's is basically classified/unknown at the moment.
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No, wait, I found it. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-26/macross-delta-anime-pilots-teased-with-link-to-original-macross-character-max/.96889 If this is correct the canon ages are: Mikumo/dark one is unknown age. Probably a 2000 year old space dragon idol singer with a mysterious past. Freya/red one/main character is 14 Kaname/green one with red hair is 22 Makina/pink one is 18 Reina/green one with green hair is 15 Kylra fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Jan 5, 2016 23:27
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I really never liked the macross shows in which the idol singers were also pilots, so I'm going to have to get over my intrinsic dislike of the concept when watching this show.
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Jan 5, 2016 23:37
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Good news: they don't seem to be the pilots. Each of them is paired with their own pilot.
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I care a lot about anime character ages, because they aren't just made-up numbers.
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what lewd thing are the mc and femc doing
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Kylra posted:Good news: they don't seem to be the pilots. Each of them is paired with their own pilot. That's good news? It'd be far more entertaining if they were the pilots. Embrace the absurdity.
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:I care a lot about anime character ages, because they aren't just made-up numbers. Davincie posted:what lewd thing are the mc and femc doing
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Jan 6, 2016 00:26
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GIRI GIRI AI
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Mokinokaro posted:That's good news? It'd be far more entertaining if they were the pilots. Embrace the absurdity. It would be cool they do end up doing a piloting sequence though.
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:The songfighting is particularly ridiculous, and I'm curious if they'll try to explain why it's a good idea to jump around outside of any sort of vehicle, and why, given that it is apparently a good idea, they bother with the dogfighting. I'd be OK with them asking the audience to just roll with it, though, I'm in this for the spectacle, I think. I think they've already done a pretty good job of demonstrating it without spelling it out to be honest. They're basically a first response unit and an emergency service against a new type of emergency: var attacks. So they patrol in variable fighters that allow them to cover large distances in short order to deploy where they're needed as fast as possible along with a rack of drones that can be recharged on the fly by one of the variable fighters. Their song only has a limited range that appears to cover perhaps a kilometer squared or so, and within that range only appears to act as a mild pacifying measure that basically just stops the enemy actively attacking and confuses them a bit, with the effect growing weaker the further out they are so they have to get up literally right in the face of the enemy like that one Zentradi Mikumo decultured if they want to completely cure them on the spot. Outside of that it was actually the variable fighters taking down the other enemies, and they weren't putting up much resistance thanks to Walkure's song. So Walkure being on foot seems to serve a couple of purposes. Seeing a bunch of idols hopping around the place is much less terrifying that seeing just a poo poo load of planes blasting around, especially when they're able to transform a battlefield in to a concert since it makes people feel safer automatically to have all that light and sound and fun going on around them. The idols can also act as a ground force using the drones with a much better ground level view of events to protect and assist civilians that are in trouble while keeping them distracted and stopping them from panicking. Meanwhile, Delta squad give them a birds-eye view of events so that they have a more complete picture of what's going on around them. By being on foot it's also a lot easier for them to get up close and personal with any enemies suffering from var syndrome if need be to neutralize them immediately instead of taking their machines out and then neutralizing them later. It all works fine so long as the girls accept that their lives are at risk by doing so, which is the case for any emergency worker anyways. It's also not like they're going in to things unprotected anyways, given that they have a poo poo load of drones to act as protection, rocket skirts and probably other poo poo we've not yet seen to keep them safe. Outside of that the planes also seem to double as part of the concert, deploying lights, smoke and hologram projectors (outside of the drones) that help make the experience more overwhelming, both for the var syndrome sufferers and the civilians within the area. They can also be used for shoulder surfing as Mikumo demonstrated. What else would they need to do to explain it really?
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I thought I was getting over it, but I had to watch the Giri Giri Ai segment again.tsob posted:It's also not like they're going in to things unprotected anyways, given that they have a poo poo load of drones to act as protection, rocket skirts and probably other poo poo we've not yet seen to keep them safe.
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Kylra posted:I thought I was getting over it, but I had to watch the Giri Giri Ai segment again. WALKÜRE - Ikenai BORDERLINE Mitsumeatte koi wo shite mugamuchuu de oikakete Dakedo motto shiritakute MERA MERA shiteru Negau hodo nazo wa fue omou hodo netsu ni naru Dakara motto tobikomu no mikai no sekai Koi toka yume toka dare demo shinjiru kedo SOKO SOKO semenakya tsumannai yo GIRI GIRI EYE ikenai BORDERLINE Gaido G demo subete kowashite miseru GIRI GIRI MIND sara naru G he to Ishiki wa tokeru karada wa seigyo funou Icchau kamo ne Fuzake atta tomodachi to motomeatta ano toki to Mata aeru hi no tame ni KIRA KIRA shiteru Hikaru hodo kage wa deki moeru hodo HIGH ni naru Hashiru hodo miete kuru abunai RAIN Jiyuu mo hei wa mo nozomeba umareru kedo MOTA MOTA shitetara kusatchau yo GIRI GIRI EYE abunai BORDERLESS Hijou shiki dane mada kasoku shiteiru yo GIRI GIRI MIND Genkai tennara nurikaete ii Hakai to saisei kara watashi wa dekiru GIRI GIRI EYE ikenai BORDERLINE Gaido G demo subete kowashite miseru GIRI GIRI MIND sara naru G he to Ishiki wa tokeru karada wa seigyo funou Icchau kamo ne GIRI GIRI EYE eye ikenai BORDERLINE Moetsuki nagara mada kagayaite miseru GIRI GIRI MIND anata no tame ni Mirai no tame ni nando kudake chitte mo Aisuru koto de umare kawaru Aisa retakute ikite kaeru
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Well, at least eye and ai sound roughly the same.
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Jan 6, 2016 03:06
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Amazon.co.jp won't let me buy it and it is total bullshit.
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:The songfighting is particularly ridiculous It is and I hope it's not going to be the main type of combat scene we see in the rest of the series because it's just so over the top that I don't think I can handle it every episode.
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Teenagers, in my Macross?
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Gihon posted:It is and I hope it's not going to be the main type of combat scene we see in the rest of the series because it's just so over the top that I don't think I can handle it every episode. We seem to have come to opposite conclusions from the same starting point.
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Jan 6, 2016 05:35
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Take me for a ride Macross Delta. I'm ready.
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Gihon posted:It is and I hope it's not going to be the main type of combat scene we see in the rest of the series because it's just so over the top that I don't think I can handle it every episode.
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homeless snail posted:I need to see it twice an episode
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Jan 6, 2016 08:09
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Macross was the first series to show us that moe always wins.
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a kitten posted:WALKÜRE - Ikenai BORDERLINE I hope that the songs we're yet to hear are as good as this.
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i'd just prefer if the heroines were all sexy ladies instead of looking like they are 12 years old.
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Jan 6, 2016 15:59
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Thread title should've been "Macross Delta: iDOLM@NSTER"
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Idol...manster?
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Kylra posted:Idol...manster? iDOLMONSTER a.k.a. 
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Jan 6, 2016 17:57
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I think Do You Remember Love Live was the best suggestion.
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Jan 6, 2016 18:52
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AlternateNu posted:iDOLMONSTER But this is good regardless.
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i liked macross frontier. watched this for like 2 minutes, saw the tactical j-pop unit and closed the screen
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Condiv posted:i liked macross frontier. watched this for like 2 minutes, saw the tactical j-pop unit and closed the screen
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i'm disappointed that the idols don't fly the robots
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