Macross Frontier 23: This bomb of Alto-hime's glows with an awesome love! It's hissing hum tells hime to destroy Ranka!

Well it seems if have found a nice boy for Mina…I have high hopes for you Maruyama Kakizaki…oh and the answer is we’re not sure though they are living together.

True beginning indeed with the last stretch of Macross Frontier before us I expect a most epic ending with Alto-hime performing Sakura-hime Azumu Bunsho to end the war while hime fold bombs Ranka via a kabuki-hime fan. Basara-sama will come and cure Sheryl through some good old Fire Bomber as they sing a duet that will drive Leon to an hero himself and Grace to go BASARA-SAMA in a fangirl squeal. Admiral Jenius and Supreme President of NUNS, Millia will de-fold to conclude the conquest of the Vajra homeworld. It will be an epic end to a great series, and we all will LISTEN TO THEIR SONG! Yes this will not be some mundane end where Ranka sings her song to save the fleet, oh no my Kawamori sense is tingling that it will be the prettiest hime on Frontier who is fated to save the fleet after Sheryl passes out after giving her all to protect volk and fatherland. After all Bilrer expects great things from Alto-hime…

Oh ho…so it seems Grace has been paying special attention to Ranshe’s body. I like where this is going.

Ranka begins to remember a bit of her past as she recalls her mother Ranshe being bullied by Grace, the little runt Brera starts criticizing Ranshe and Grace for fighting but the little brat knows nothing. Grace wanted to better the galaxy by uniting the Vajra with her cyborg network while Ranshe is still sick from dancing with the bugs. Frontier is losing islands at an alarming rate oxygen is being rationed and they have crossed the point where they can no longer sustain themselves. The Frontier congress is furious with Ozma’s antics as already the SMS defection has spread rumors that the pirates were leaving a sinking ship. Fortunately while Ozma is a stupid mercenary who really can’t to much more than protect his Cathy (note not Ranka), Richard Bilrer is a far more composed and intelligent Zentradi billionaire who has kept the remnants of SMS in fighting condition and monitoring the progress of both Leon and Grace. Alto-hime has been given his own vic complete with Maruyama Kakizaki and Johnny “Dead Meat” Jones. The NUNS guys seem like good blokes who are proud of having a squadron leader like Alto-hime. Kakizaki is absolutely delighted and can barely keep his joy in check, as rumor of Alto-hime and Sheryl dating is all over the place. Clearly Kakizaki has is yuri-goggles set to over 9000. Suffice to say I enjoyed every moment of the Alto-hime vic banter.

Oh Ranshe time you’re daily nibble from Grace, oh don’t mind the kids it’s better if they watch.

Sheryl and Alto-hime are living together after hime was left homeless after Quarter left and Sheryl followed Alto-hime in leaving the Saotome home. In an all too brief bit of marital bliss they have dinner together with their pooled rations as Sheryl takes a fondness to the drink. Sheryl gets drunk quickly and asks Alto-hime to carry her as she asks hime to never leave her until her duty is done. Alto-hime has noticed that Sheryl is acting differently but accepts it without question. Hime suspects that Sheryl might not be taking her medicine at this point and while hime might not like it Alto-hime will respect Sheryl’s decision to sing to her dying breath. I think that the speed subbers are right since Alto-hime doesn’t wnat to go back to the Saotome mansion, and hime did lose his home when Quarter left as he was staying on the ship. Sheryl has been homeless ever since she was tossed aside by Grace, so Sheryl didn’t have a home. Also as delicious as it might be they are not taking over Ozma’s house since Ozma lived on a hill and didn’t have a store underneath him. So with intact housing being at a premium I think it is very likely that they are living together since Alto-hime is an adult hime will honor his oath and never leave Sheryl until she can sing no more. Besides there too many pictures of the sky to say that it isn’t hime’s place and those curtains in Sheryl’s room were certainly for a female as not even Alto-hime has shown an affinity for frilly things.

Yeah I bet if word got out Alto-hime and Sheryl were staying in the same house Kakizaki and “Dead Meat” Jones would be visiting every day…and with a few new “friends.”

While Frontier is falling apart Ranka is on her little journey with Brera as Ranka starts asking questions about Brera. Such a pity that Ranka has asked more about Brera than she has Alto-hime but I guess that is about the extent of her love at this point. The Vajra break out a welcoming party as Ranka is shocked that whenever she stops singing that the Vajra go hostile. Like Kabitzin was saying, clearly the Vajra are none too happy that Ranka sold out and betrayed the spirit of Aimo. I have not forgotten the travesty that was the Grace re-mix, and neither have they. Brera tries his best to protect Ranka as she laments how things are not going to plan. Ranka thinks that the Vajra will still listen to her song and gets out of the VF-27 to beg Ai-kun to help Ranka talk to the Vajra. Sadly for Ranka Ai-kun has had enough of Brera and snatches Ranka away from Brera. Grace intervenes and saves that idiot Brera telling the “major” that his Oberst Grace cannot be so easily thwarted by merely deactivating the tracer, Grace knows everything about Brera’s elopement with Ranka and reveals to his horror that Ranka is his sister before Grace activates Brera’s slave mode.

Ai-kun just took your Ranka and trolled you good Brera. There there Ranka I am sure Ai-kun will love you more than anyone else…Sweet ride by the way Ai-kun. Oh where o where is Alto? O where o where o where…

Leon is forced to invite Alto-hime to meeting at the insistence of Bilrer. They have divined the location of Ranka and the Vajra homeworld by tracing her song that is all but useless against the Vajra. They inform Alto-hime that the bugs are all part of a gestalt consciousness and that communicating with one is all but impossible as each Vajra is only a single synapse in a vast network that makes up the Vajra. Leon thinks that Ranka was always intended as a spy, but Bilrer knows better. Grace has Ranka in her possession and as such will use Ranka to further her ends Bilrer informs Alto-hime the hard truth that Ranka will be his enemy. Despite Ranka’s resistance she will be powerless before Grace and will be dancing to the cylon’s tune. Alto-hime takes Sheryl to the hospital where she declares that she knows that she is a tool and will not take her medication because it would compromise her ability to sing against the Vajra. Luca in his new NUNS uniform can do nothing. Alto-hime runs into his dad and Yasaburo. Yasaburo asks Alto-hime to go back to acting and asks hime if he would still be a pilot if there was no enemy to fight. Klan onee-chan informs Alto-hime that she too received the memo about Ranka.

Ah the infamous “Barry Goldwater Ranka Lee will kill us all…” ad, and that was how Leon won a landslide election after Howard Glass died, with a single smear campaign. It also helped that Leon was the only name on the ballot.

Alto-hime declares that he joined SMS to protect Ranka, an activity at which hime has consistently failed at due to Brera. Alto-hime says that he deliberately ignored some things but no longer. Alto-hime will defned the fatherland until death, the people of Frontier have a right to live and now the Fleet is too far gone to continue on their journey. Alto-hime says that if Ranka is an enemy that hime will kill her. Klan asks if that is Alto-hime’s love for Ranka, the answer is of course yes. The confession at Griffith Park when Ranka left has finally been answered hime loves Ranka enough to blow her to hell for the volk and fatherland. Klan onee-chan thinks that this is sad; Sheryl after only hearing half the conversation sheds a tear over how hime will not love her. No sooner is the final verdict given that the announcement is made that Frontier will be headed for one final sortie to wipe of the Vajra and claim a world which is so rightful theirs due to the Vajra wrecking their fleet. Sheryl being the fantastic and mature woman that she is wipes away her tears and braces herself for her last concert to save Frontier.

I smell a rooftop confession.

Well it’s about time my Alto-hime has decided to answer Ranka’ confessions, imagine my delight when my pilot-hime decided to answer Ranka’s love with the promise of a fold bomb. Maybe then it will add some much needed spark and hawtness to their decrepit relationship based on rescuing Ranka. Oh sure the Ranka fans will cry hime has chosen Ranka while ignoring the threat of fold bombing her into oblivion, but such talk is silly for if bombs were a measure of love then by such flawed and uncouth logic the Palestinians love the Israelis (and vice versa) and the US really loved Japan to atomic levels. Clearly these people have it wrong…My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary. Soldaten-hime has chose volk and fatherland over Ranka, duty is hime’s reason for flying not Ranka. Duty is the most important word in the English language, without duty men are but worthless cowards and women nothing more perpetual victims of their own stupidity. Duty makes men and women strong it gives them unshakable will to see things through to the end, it allows for men and women to be great. If Ranka is an enemy, if she dares in her insolence to use her pet bugs to harm Frontier then Soldaten-hime will offer Ranka a token of his explosive and deadly love for her. Desire does not enter into it, the line has been drawn. If Ranka, for whatever reason, crosses it she will be bombed mercilessly along with her new friends.

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So say we all!

No doubt lesser children will cry foul at such thinking or adherence to duty. Ignore their honeyed lies and sorry excuse for logic. They will cry that the millions on Frontier have no right to ask that Ranka die, but such fools fail to ask the proper and correct question: by what right does Ranka have to demand that millions on Frontier die for her sake? I say she has none. If Ranka wishes to be spared from the coming fire then she better well get the hell out of Alto-hime’s way. Right now all Alto-hime is declaring to Ranka to lead hime (i.e. Bilrer and Klan), follow hime (Sheryl, Maruyama Kakizaki, and Johnny “Dead Meat” Jones), or get the fuck out of hime’s way (i.e. Ranka and Ozma). Alto-hime understands that it is not a matter of by what right hime has to kill Ranka, but rather by what right does Alto-hime have to let Ranka live? Alto-hime is an adult now so hime now has responsibilities to Frontier, and to the men under hime’s command. Sorry Ranka but as much as Alto-hime loves you with a fiery passion, hime has obligations and responsibilities now that come before rescuing Ranka or wasting his breath trying to get you to walk out on your beloved bugs as Ranka has chosen to help Ai-kun. Ranka has chosen to be with the bugs, Alto-hime has chosen volk and fatherland. Don’t make hime destroy you Ranka…Ranshe knew this to be true. Join Alto-hime and together you can destroy Leon and bring an end to this destructive conflict. Together you can rule the galaxy as hime and loli.

Alto-hime has a grateful fatherland and a glorious struggle. Honor and blood for the Northern Cross.

I am over all delighted with my Alto-hime for doing the right thing and choosing the hardest and most demanding path of all in life. Alto-hime had no hand in starting this war but by Deculture Alto-hime will finish it even if it means obliterating the Vajra menace along with Ranka. Alto-hime will not just shoot the damn bugs, hime is going to rip out their Goddamn guts and use them to make more warheads. Alto-hime is going to murder those lousy Vajra cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. Hime has got to spill their blood, or they will spill his. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When beams are hitting all around Alto-hime and hime wipes the dust off hime’s Valkyrie and realize that instead of space debris it’s the blood and guts of what once was hime’s wingmate, Alto-hime will know what to do! Where once Alto-hime held Ranka’s life as a something value, hime has now found Ranka’s life to be but a paltry price to pay for the safety of volk and fatherland. Things have changed, Alto-hime has changed and for the better. With Klein, Sheryl, Maruyama Kakizaki, Johnny “Dead Meat” Jones, and Bilrer supporting hime, my Alto-hime will defend the fatherland until death. Honor and blood for the Northern Cross!

I guess my Alto-hime wasn’t just being thick about Ranka, in fact hime was actively ignoring her growing feelings for hime. If it is true that Alto-hime was deliberately ignoring things then hime’s love for Ranka is most cold and distant. I am glad hime has given some insight about what goes one in that pretty little head of hime’s. Ai Ai Alto-hime will support our kabuki-hime no matter what! We are proud to have a new Soldaten-hime who is ready to give his all for the safety of Frontier and all her citizens.

Dang it Ranka why couldn’t you just stay that way for the rest of your life, like Klein onee-chan.

So yes Ranka is in dire need of rescue once again because she grossly overestimated her power and severely underestimated what Ai-kun was capable of. Ranka really has only herself to blame for this, such poor choice of allies and companions… I have been saying all along that Ai-kun and Brera were not to be trusted, but no… Ranka didn’t listen as I shouted at the screen when she took in Ai-kun and got chummy with Brera. Well Ranka better hope that Brera or Ozma will rescue her first otherwise the results could be quite, shall we say spectacular and final. I hope that Ranka will muster the courage to rescue herself because I grow tired of her always being that damsel in distress, the kind of typical clueless bint who always finds herself in trouble because of her own indiscretion and ignorance. I hope Ranka is better than that, for a woman who has nothing which she is willing to fight for, nothing which she cares more about than she does about her personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better women and hime than herself. Now, that Grace has Ranka in her clutches Ranka better hope that she inherited some of her father’s courage because it seems that Ranshe was always being bullied by Grace, as they say like mother like daughter. Speaking of my favorite evil Cylon, I am hoping Kawamori will give us a Grace and Ranshe OVA so that I can see more of Grace bullying Ranshe. I imagine it to be very much like how Haruhi-sama bullied Mikuru, and it would make science much more fun, yes…

Wow amazing what you find by just randomly mashing the f5 key when taking screen caps…

It’s fine if she decided to try and end the war after she left declaring the return of Ai-kun as her only intention. Sadly Ranka did not do her homework and had a piss poor plan to go with her good intentions. Good intentions are fine, they pave the road to hell, but I want results not a statement of intent after she left. No Ranka better make good on her wish to stop the conflict, it would be sad if some one else had to do it for her. It’s not okay for her to sit idly by while Frontier is locked in a battle to the death. Frontier has no choice left but to attempt the conquest of the Vajra homeworld, after Ranka’s new friends ran amok, such a pity it had to come to this.

Valiant Sheryl knew what it meant to fill in for Ranka, like a real woman she saw through the lies and pretense.

Sheryl is a tough woman the kind of woman I would gladly betroth my Alto-hime to. Sheryl is formidable, has self esteem, and above all has a sense of duty. Like Soldaten-hime Sheryl has chosen to defend the fatherland until death. Sheryl has decided to share Alto-hime’s fate of honor and blood for the Northern Cross like a real woman. These may be her last days but Sheryl will not suffer to see them wasted in a bout of self pity, while the lives of millions are at stake. Even if she feels that Alto-hime will never love her Sheryl is glad to have known hime and will do her part to protect hime and all that hime fights for. I applaud her selfless courage, indomitable will to die standing, and her faithful love for Alto-hime. I can see why Sheryl fell for alto-hime, not only for hime’s good looks, but because he has a sweet side and despite the hime aloofness does care about those around him. Sheryl knows that since hime is not above cooking and housework that Alto-hime is more than just a Princess who comes to the rescue, not hime is that and much more. Sheryl knows that hime is a fine catch and good husband material, not a mere rescuer of damsels in perpetual distress.

Yeah don’t think Sheryl could manage living on her own, that is why she lives with Alto-hime.

I still think that Sheryl might find the love that she truly deserves from my Alto-hime. The spirit of Misa and Sara are with her and I was elated when Sheryl and Alto-hime were playing house. Alto-hime will be with Sheryl until the end that much is certain. Their happy time together will shine forever because of how their last game of house was undercut by the impending doom of Sheryl. Sheryl can take comfort in knowing that hime cares for her to a great degree, enough to carry her, and cook for her. At least she got to drink with Alto-hime since Ranka won’t be able to experience that for a few years until she grows up. I still think Alto-hime cares more about Sheryl than hime does Ranka at least hime is not threatening to bomb Sheryl for getting in the way. No instead Alto-hime being a real hime will carry Sheryl off to her bed, a far happier fate than being fold bombed. Just as Sheryl will protect Alto-hime and all of Frontier so too will Alto-hime protect Sheryl and all of Frontier. Ai Ai Alto-hime applauds her valor and faithful service to volk, fatherland, and hime. Long shall we remember the efforts of Valiant Sheryl and her unwavering and 100% faithful love for Alto-hime.

We’re the pirates who don’t do anything! We just stay home and lie around! And if you ask us to do anything…

The Pirates of Quarter haven’t done much though it seems that Bilrer is playing Leon for a sucker. Surely as the respected owner of SMS Bilrer is aware and wary of Grace and Leon, Ozma found out too late, but Bilrer has been planning for a show down with Oberst Grace and her Galaxy conspirators. I am sure that Bilrer is right that Alto-hime will do great things in defense of volk and fatherland. I hope Maruyama Kakizaki and Johnny “Dead Meat” Jones makes it out alive; I know two of Bobby’s daughters that deserve to have some nice boys of their own. Hopefully there will be some pairing of the spares come the ED credits of episode 25.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the true savior of the fleet. Alto-hime is still the prettiest of them all on Frontier, sorry Vajra but your attempts to poison hime for Brera have failed… Ranka stand aside, Sheryl go get some rest, Bobby make that make-up deculture, Ozma you are broken, and Grace prepare to squeel like a fangirl.  Mr. Bilrer will fund it…

As I said before I look forward to an EPIC ENDING along those lines. As much as I liked Ranka, despite her cuteness and Aoi no Ether, my inner Macross Fan is demanding a lot more. Having Sakura-hime as the savior of Frontier would be just that, the second coming of Basara, Max, and Millia would just be icing on the cake. No a Ranka concert is simply not enough, I want to see Sakura-hime Azuma Bunsho, I want to see Kawamori fanboying on Battle Frontier, I want to see Grace say “Yakk DECULTURE!” as Alto-hime walks onto stage. Any one who thinks a mere singing of Lion is a fool that needs their Macross Fan membership revoked, my desired ending would make every Macross fanboy and fangirl cry Yakk Deculture at the sheer amount of win and awesome. Mr. Kawamori I implore you to make it happen using Mr. Bilrer’s billions!

Because they want to know more about hime. Kakizaki plans to ask more questions as a true fan of Alto-hime should.

Maruyama Kakizaki really likes his taicho-hime.

See even people in the show know this to be true.

Boo…we wanna know more.

Is it still pineapple salad?

Oh…

Maruyama Kakizaki is so glad tht his taicho-hime cares.

Kakizaki and “Dead Meat” jones were so gladt to have such a glorious taicho-hime that they added custom colors to hime’s VF-171EX.

Alto-hime’s waifu comes to pick hime up every day…

“Dead Meat” Jones always keeps his yuri goggles with him.

Maruyama Kakizaki has his set to OVER 9000 at all times.

Oh taicho-hime no matter where you go every one remembers Sakura-hime Azuma Bunsho, except one…who never bothered to ask.

Well if hime didn’t Kakizaki and “Dead Meat” Jones might end up being roommates.

Hime is not ashemed to be with Sheryl, hime just doesn’t want his underlings as squaters.

Sheryl remember when cutting use a cat’s paw…

Hime wants to kiss your boo boo Sheryl…

Hime will just suck the blood and put a band aid on it…

Oh right, the v-type infection thing…

That she is.

:3

I see now why Sheryl fell for that smile.

It seems that all blue haired pilots can cook, isn’t that right Max?

Sheryl likes himes who can cook. I also see that Sheryl is ready for marriage too.

At least it don’t taste bitter.

Well…

…what do you think?

Sheryl’s dream was to have a hot meal with some one she loved.

Today Sheryl’s wish will come true, even if her etiquette isn’t up to snuff…

I think she’s giving a hint about something…

I think Sheryl meant sexy Alto-hime.

There is a British word for being drunk to the point you become a toddler, but I seem to have forgotten it…

I think Sheryl was trying to give Alto-hime a kiss…

Well if only Sheryl were a couple feet closer…

It’s part of being an adult hime…

Wow Alto-hime is pretty strong even without his EX-Gear.

Hime is a Kabuki hime of his word.

See hime will always be there.

It’s odd…

Hime knows, hime knows…

That evil Grace…

Sorry Ai-kun, but the Vajra need to pay you back for tearing up Alto-hime’s papaer plane.

As do we all Mr. Bilrer.

Tell them what?

Umm…Ranka Ai-kun’s eyes are glowing red, their bright hue tells Ai-kun to give thou thine due…

Don’t look so surprised Ranka the only difference between Ai-kun and the one who killed Mikhail was about 24 hours.

And lo did Ai-kun doth snatcheth his amorous beloved Ranka.

Well met Brera. We meet again ere the end…

Stupid Brera, like that would have done anything…

No Grace’s gaze pierces earth, cloud, shadow, and flesh…

They don’t think much of Brera, obviously…

Here here!

Grace knew the whole time…

…and the greatest of your crimes Ranka shall feel within herself!

Yes…

Grace is the fairy godmother.

No there will be no glass slippers…

Welcome to the Cylons Brera, I think we will get along fine as long as you know who is your master…

What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a Vajra? Is it a Vajra…?

Only at the end do you understand.

Raep tyme?

Grace likes to hear people scream and beg for mercy…

Grace is victorious once again.

Because hime had no where else to go!

Me neither.

Loli shouta Alto-hime is still cuter…

Miyo-sama will watch over Frontier, also she’s a prettier mom than Ranshe. Those really are some genes.

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Like I said funny how button mashing the F5 Key sometimes results in unintended shots, but by your command Klein onee-chan.

Say goodbye Relena Ranka.

To be fair hime never answered…

Sheryl was a bit sad…

…but not defeated. Sheryl will do her duty onto death.

War’s coming…

Nene is back!

If the whole world has gone crazy, then I’ll believe in myself and keep on fighting. Ranka… I will kill you.

Alto-hime, life is cheap. Especially mine.

You’re going to self-destruct? That’s not a bad plan either…(done)