Mightyblue’s Corner

Just a quickie post here to remind the readership that I’m still breathing.
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Anime fans this year are going to be deluged with bucketsful of mecha anime; Gundam 00’s first half is coming to a close, the second part coming in October. Then there’s the second part of Code Geass, a sort of CLAMP-designed revisioning of Gundam, and finally, Macross: F[rontier].
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It’s been about six years since Macross Zero, the prequel to the whole shebang which we still haven’t gotten here. It’s odd for a number of reasons, perhaps the most important being that Macross in the form of Robotech, and earlier the Star Blazer [Space Battleship Yamato] series are the biggest reasons anime has any sort of foothold in America at all. Beyond the living-in-Mom’s-basement crowd, anyway.
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At any rate, this is important because it’s also the first full length Macross series since 7 fourteen years ago, and its being animated by Satelight, arguably one of the best animation companies in Japan especially with their computer animation. Considering the sheer energy of the special first episode that was aired a few months back as a teaser, it’s hard not to be excited. Granted, it’s not high art, and the series’ continued focus on music and its strange power (in the Macross Universe, anyway) is bound to show up in one form or another.
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Personally, I just love the idea of fighters jetting around in space and blowing the hell out of anything that moves.