Macross Frontier (spring 2008 anime)

April 30, 2008 at 7:00 am | In adventure, anime, macross, school syndrome, spring 2008 | 1 Comment

Summary: It’s Macross. Not bad if you want music and robots and dogfights.
Based on: 12 episodes
Series info: at Anime News Network

This is Macross, so you get all the Macross cliches in full force. Now with that said, it’s not too badly done.

On the plus side, the music is by Yoko Kanno with vocals by Maaya Sakamoto, the production values are fairly high, the premise isn’t nearly as ridiculous as Macross 7, and there’s a lot of action. On the minus side you’ll have to endure gratuitous music ‘videos’, high school fighter pilots, and so far a razor thin plot. This all culminates in episode 7 with a full-episode 24 minute orgy of non-stop space combat and music concert.

If you want to check out Macross for the first time, I recommend Macross Plus instead, but you could do worse. Though I have the sinking feeling that this is all going to end with Ranka singing the evil alien badguys (the vajira) into submission.

Update: Ugh, ugh, ugh, I guess it was to be expected after they blew the budget on ep 7, but ep 8 is an insanely bad ‘Ranka and Sheryl transfer to Alto’s school’ thing that gets even worse since the main plotline is a panty-chase. If ep 9 is this bad, I’m giving up on it.

define: macross

April 30, 2008 at 6:49 am | In definition, macross | 2 Comments

The Macross series pretty much deserves its own category. Any given Macross series will not necessarily be in the same universe as the others, but will involve most of the following:

  • gratuitous music and music videos
  • annoying female singing idol(s)
  • frantic aerial and/or space combat with heat-seeking missiles going everywhere
  • ’ships’ (Valkyries) that transform between aerodynamic and robot forms
  • high production values

The pinnacle of these is probably Macross Plus.

Macross fans are ‘protoculture addicts’, sort of like Jimmy Buffet:parrotheads or evangelicals: various armageddon death cults.

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