Macross Frontier 24: Battle Galaxy sighted prepare for and EPIC END!

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EPIC END! I demand that we have no more of these blasphemous demands for RankaxAlto-hime. It’s not that I love Ranka less, but by Kadun! I prayed and Kawamori is going to deliver. Fucking Battle Galaxy vs. Battle Frontier, DO WANT! YES WE CAN!

So yeah I want that RankaxAlto-hime ship scuttled and torched, screw that and I mean it! I will not forgive Ranka for trying to explain her actions as it means robbing time away from the best mecha fight of the year, Battle Frontier vs. Battle Galaxy, may Macross Quarter jump in as well, Kawamori be praised! Any one who wants the Ranka ship now is no Macross fan they deserve to rot in Minmei hell for their insolence for hoping for an ass pull at the expense of what may well be the best mecha fight of the year. We can either choose to watch transforming kilometer long capital ships slugging it out or Ranka going “Alto-kun save me”… The choice is clear! Ranka you better save yourself anything less would mean despoiling the hopes and dreams of every Macross fan that ever was and ever shall be. We live to see mecha battles; Kawamori has shown us Battle Galaxy! If Ranka so much as tries to steal one second then she will be more hated than SDFM Minmei. Oh I cannot wait for next week it’s agonizing, well played Kawamori thanks for trolling psgels for daring to suggest the Great Kawamori had a ho hum end planned. Well played, well played…(Thank you comrade psgels for taking the hit and goading Kawamori)

The time for cowardice has come to an end. Save yourself or risk being destroyed when the Battle Frontier does a Daedalus Attack.

It seems that it was no joke when we were talking about Ranka’s fleet killing powers. Ranka really did kill the 117th Fleet, probably in some vain attempt to kill Grace on behalf of Ranshe no doubt. Sadly the final tally of collateral damage was nearly the entire 117th Fleet sans a few dozen survivors. Ranka now under the full weight of her own guilt decides to protect the bugs by slaughtering Frontier which has come to fight in one desperate bid to secure a planet to ensure their survival. SMS has been snooping around, likely at Bilrer’s insistence, and find evidence linking Ranka to Vajra and dug up some good dirt on Grace. Given how Ozma and Cathy were only looking at Leon as the big bad I am sure Bilrer had a hand in telling the Pirates of Quarter where to go since Ozma would have never thought that Grace was the real threat and would have instead tried to get at Leon. Like Ozma said he is an idiot for not noticing Grace when she used her real name and boldly walked on to Frontier jumped onto the air waves. Ozma has much to be embarrassed about since Grace was everywhere and she even took over Ranka’s management. Good going Ozma, thank goodness Bilrer is the one calling the shots.

Heck even Mr. Bilrer has a special someone, the mushy old Zentran.

It seems that comrade Haesslich was mostly right in that Grace wants to control the communication lines to secure her Cylon Empire that will be enforced by the might of the Vajra. The pirates realize that Grace intends to make them all her cylon servants and send out a warning to NUNS, but given how they never invested in Grace’s tech, fold lag means that they will have to act and act quick. Frontier in the mean time prepares for battle, Luca confesses to a comatose Nanase, Klein onee-chan mourns the loss of Mikhail, and Alto-hime tells Sheryl that hime can no longer fly alone and that hime wants to fly with her. Sheryl, under the mistaken impression that Alto-hime will go back to Ranka, and Sheryl tells hime to shut up and kiss her. Sheryl then gives hime her last earring, which Alto-hime very much enjoys. It was very much YAKK DECULTURE! My Alto-hime promises to come back for Sheryl and sets off. The battle begins in with Sheryl’s “Iteza☆Gogo Kuji Don’t be late,” but things go bad once Ranka steps in with her “Ai Oboete Imasu ka ~ bless the little queen” under the guise of Sharon Apple. Under the influence of Ranka the Vajra continue to slaughter the Frontier fleet while allowing Grace’s commandos on the Dulfim pass by. Grace sets off to claim her throne as Brera beats both Alto-hime and Klein onee-chan. Not content with just defeating his arch nemesis Brera also shoots down Alto-hime’s VF-171EX as Sheryl cries out hime’s name in anguish. Ranka however held aloft the flaming wreckage for all to see in a sign of her current level of affection for Alto-hime.

Wow Maruyama Kakizaki really does look like Kakizaki. Mein Kadun Alto-hime has a bunch of underlings ready to fight for their taicho-hime.

So yes aside from that epic preview of Battle Galaxy this episode was everything a Macross fan could want, love is in the air as Frontier makes one last sortie to save its citizens. Confessions are given, love runs amok, and my Alto-hime has reaffirmed his resolve to stay by Sheryl and that hime will return to her. The strength of Ai Ai Alto-hime has swelled, as there is no shortage of pilots willing to fight under the inspired leadership of Diamond Force’s Machida, and Taicho-hime, those who have criticized my Alto-hime have decided to cower in shelters, I say let them! Like Ranka they know nothing of duty or freedom, they are merely protected, ignore their base accusations towards my Alto-hime. Not only has hime made good on his promise to be with Sheryl, but hime has also made good on his word fire on Ranka, and protect volk and fatherland. Sadly the power of Ranka “Fleet Killer” Lee was too much and the Frontier fleet suffered the loss of two islands and numerous capital ships and fighters. Ranka can now never be forgiven by the fleet, not only did she abandon them, but now she is actively aiding the Vajra enemy in sinking more islands and more of the Fleet in her heart broken state. Clearly the Vajra and Ranka intend to finish the job they started in 21…so much for Ranka’s claims to want love and peace. The only peace she wants is a debris field made up of bits of the entire Frontier Fleet.

Oh Ranka why must you emulate the losers in love of the Macross universe? Well at least you beat out Sharon Apple as most dangerous giant singer.

Ranka did not even so much as lift a finger against Grace and everyone paid dearly for Ranka’s compliance to Graces whims. To be fair Brera was telling Ranka to do bad things, but that conversely shows how much Ranka loves her onii-chan rather than her old fans and friends. Not even Alto-hime getting shot down and supposedly exploding phased Ranka one bit, rather she opened up her arms making it seem as if she had just crushed Alto-hime to death. Perhaps Ranka did not intend to crush hime, but it is most evil of Ranka to be spreading out Alto-hime to the far reaches of the Galaxy and help realize Brera-nii’s boast of scattering Alto-hime’s throughout the galaxy. Oh, Ranka, so much for your ship, there just isn’t that much time now, and I want to see more of Battle Galaxy than another go Ninjin Loves You Yeah. Such a pity Ranka opted to stay catatonic the whole time…now that every one knows that Ranka is singing for the Vajra I think she just forfeited her chance of being that silhouette that will be projecting on Battle Frontier. No, it will be Basara, Alto-hime, or Bilrer and Tokugawa-san who will do something to save the Frontier. As for Ranka after seeing her Sharon Apple projection prompting devastating salvos that death for numerous humans and zentrans, there is no one left on Frontier that would not shoot her the first chance they get. Such a pity Ranka now has earned the eternal hatred of Frontier. Ranka better hope that those two islands Ranka just helped blow away were really empty. If the Vajra start attacking Island 1 well not even the Pirates of Quarter are guaranteed to help. I can’t see the logic behind atoning for the destruction of one fleet with the massacre of another, but hey Ranka what ever makes you feel better about I guess…

Now at the end do you realize…

As I said before Alto-hime was just great this time around hime kept his work and led his army of grunts into the fray. Where once Alto-hime was doing things largely solo now we see hime taking car of his vic and fighting alongside Klein onee-chan to fight Brera. I like how hime went to promise Sheryl that hime will come back for her, it’s pretty much a confession at this point since its so late in the series and the Ranka ship deserves to sink since she spent more time dallying with Brera-nii than she ever spent with Alto-hime. Now that Battle Galaxy is going to enter the fray Alto-hime will have more to worry about than saving Ranka. My Alto-hime is a hime of his word if hime says he will come back for Sheryl hime will come back for her. Reports of hime’s death have been greatly exaggerated Alto-hime had plenty of time to get out of his VF-171EX to decoy Brera in order to save hime’s Klein onee-chan. In fact I look forward to more blue haired alliance action between Klein onee-chan and imouto-hime. Thus there is another reason why the Ranka ship must sink; any Macross fan would scuttle that decrepit ship in order to have a Valkyrie fight back to back with Queadaluun.

Klan onee-chan will protect her imouto-hime to the death!

Alto-hime has become a responsible adult now with responsibilities hime did not even look sad when he saw Ranka, only utter shock and disgust at the sight of her Sharon Apple cosplay and unfathomable RAGE as hime saw Ranka’s new friends wiping out the Frontier Fleet as Ranka sang about love. So much for Ranka’s love for her former friends, now that she has made clear that Ranka “loves” Frontier to bits, hime will also “love” Ranka into nothingness. Alto-hime was once tasked with protecting Ranka, but now like a real man and not just some hot blooded old timer past his prime, Alto-hime has decided that the Fleet is worth more than Ranka and hime rejected Ozma and any plans and pleas to save Ranka. Clearly the Kamejin Clone has had a bigger influence on Alto-hime than Ranka ever did. Hime is still out to kill bugs, and even if Quarter comes back with evidence the hard feelings will remain. At least now Ranzo is proud of his Kabuki-hime as he smiled as hime went off to destroy Ranka.

RANKA!

Sheryl was spectacular once again, not only does she try to take her heart break like a woman, Sheryl also gives Alto-hime a clear go and gave hime the last of her luck so that hime might go on. Silly Sheryl Alto-hime will come back to you no matter what, and that is more than can be said for Ranka. Alto-hime said that he no longer wants to fly alone, and hime chose to take Sheryl’s earring with him in a grand gesture of affection (not as a means to get a full set of some fabulous earrings) in a bit of black humor. For most of the series Alto-hime has tried in vain to assert that he is a man, but when hime saw Sheryl one last time Alto let Sheryl make hime more girly and deculture. Heck not even Ranka could get hime to act like a girl to get a bit role, so I think by wearing that earring Alto-hime is making a grand gesture. Most tellingly of all was how Alto-hime chose to fly with Sheryl’s earring and song, while hime is flying against Ranka and the power of her song. To add to Alto-hime’s barrage of grand gestures hime even took the call sign of Sagittarius 1. Silly Sheryl my Alto-hime has chosen to fly with you that was supposed to be a confession, but if you want to wait hime will wait.

Sheryl is Basra and cemented it by leaping down onto her stage. By Kadun Sheryl is most worthy of my Alto-hime’s hand! Not only does she suck it up and sing for the fleet but showed much more concern about Alto-hime than Ranka who appeared to have crushed Alto-hime. Truly the remark that such a woman is rare applies to both of them equally. My Alto-hime has finally realized it and for the first time in a long time became more girly for Sheryl. Ai Ai Alto-hime appreciates Sheryl for giving hime her remaining precious fold quartz earring, it looks so yakk deculture. I am sure Sheryl agrees… Good to see that Sheryl has some fight still left in her and she did not stop singing even when Ranka’s song just blew her and the whole fleet away. Maybe Sheryl will get some more power out of her feelings of a love lost. Like Elmo says Sheryl’s songs have love in them while right now Ranka’s are just soulless and without real love.

Listen to my SONG!

The rest of SMS is doing okay and the Bilrer was most wise in sending them off to dig up some dirt on Grace. I bet that projection will be the honorable Mr. Bilrer himself as he announces that Leon is a traitor in cahoots with the criminal Grace. General Perry will then summarily execute Leon, because having the bridge of Battle Frontier blown away by Ranka or Quarter would suck when there is still Battle Galaxy to fight. Monica finally gets her man, as Cathy and Ozma grow a bit closer. Good thing Alto-hime kept “Dead Meat” Jones and Maruyama Kakizaki (who looks just like Kakizaki) alive so that Mina and Ram might also find some nice boys. Seeing as how there is little hope for reinforcement and that since Grace is very much in command the only way Quarter can have a shot at doing anything to make up for their desertion is to help Bilrer take Leon down and get the Frontier Fleet back in shape for the epic match between Battle Frontier and Battle Galaxy. So don’t screw it up Ozma, you will still have to answer for your poor parenting skills…

Well idiots like Ozma will always be around, bt it’s a good thing that this idiot has a Cathy Glass.

Klein onee-chan did not die and helped out her imoutos, Alto-hime and Nene nicely. Even if Mikhail is gone Klein one-chan still has a reason to live so that she might take care of Nene and Alto-hime. Luca gets some action too the little Knight Templar. Even if Luca discarded his SMS uniform and joined Leon to kill more bugs I think that so long as Luca can kill more of the bugs that hut his beloved Nanase then he won’t mind if General Perry shoots Leon in the face. Thank goodness Luca only stole a kiss from Nanase, at least he didn’t go Shinji on us. The battle was good an not ho hum, in fact this was a very good tip of the hat by Kawamori and his crew to Macross II with dueling songstresses. I also liked how hime was only complaining internally about his VF-171EX as his vic just flew there in awe. Glad to see that Ai Ai Alto-hime has grown so large on Frontier, and now that Alto-hime has Sheryl’s earring we are one step closer to a Kabuki-hime end. I am sure Maruyama Kakizaki, “Dead Meat” Jones, Machida, and the rest of the Frontier chapter of Ai Ai Alto-hime will be looking forward to seeing Kabuki-hime come onto Battle Frontier kiss Sheryl and sing Enka to defeat Grace and her Ranka puppet. The finishing blow will be Sakura-hime Azuma Bunsho. Then and only then will Ranka snap out of it since Alto-hime “dying” was insufficient to bring her back to reality, or we can have Sheryl slap Ranka again.

Grace will surpass Morgoth!

Grace was just awesome she swore her revenge and is getting it. Oberst Grace is truly the greatest villain of the season, she has fold bombed a planet, wiped out a Zentradi division, taken over one of the most advanced fleets in human, and is about to seize the throne of her galactic empire that makes ever other empire look like a small hovel. Ranka tried to kill Grace with bugs and flame, but that was not enough to stop almighty Grace. Not only has Grace avenged her self on Mao and Ranshe, she has set their descendants on a collision course. The name of Mei will forever be associated with the massacre of fleets while the blood of the Nome family will be all but spent unless Alto-hime and Sheryl make a little queen of their own. No doubt Bilrer has been aware of Grace for some time and has done his home work the showdown between the Zentradi Billionaire and the Greatest Cylon to ever end up in a Macross series are about to have an epic match. Grace seems to have forgotten about Bilrer in her seizure of the throne, but Bilrer has not forgotten Grace, perhaps at last there is one who can go toe to toe with Grace.

Good to see that Nene did not die so far, I hope she finds a nice boy too…

All in all a great episode which makes me eagerly anticipate the finale which can do no wrong so long as they have Battle Frontier in a slugging match with Battle Galaxy. By Kadun I think Kawamori is going to over awe us all. I hope Machida makes it out okay, awesome grunt is awesome.

Ozma saw his home blow up and he cowered in fear…

Well what were you going to do about it?

You should have asked Mr. Bilrer, but sadly the boss man trusts hime more than some guy who ditched his fleet to save his own ass. As if saving Ranka would have washed away the stain of your cowardice…

Man even Wilder is thick, does he even have to ask?

Monica got her good end!

Wow Frontier boasts a fine share of MILFs.

Well that’s one down, all Bobby has to to now is marry off her other two kids.

General Perry supports Suki Suki Sheryl.

Now that is a good role model, such a pity Ranka never took a liking to Klan onee-chan, Ranka must have felt treatened by another loli hanging around Alto-hime or something.

Luca is a coward.

Well maybe next time you can say it to her when she is awake, eh?

At least it’s only a kiss, such a pity the Prince of LAI cannot awaken his princess.

To confess.

My Alto-hime will survive.

Mission Accepted.

Oh a flying analogy…

Should have just said you wanted to fly with her…

I think Sheryl ahs come to a wrong conclusion…

Look who’s talking.

So…?

Don’t get cocky your not being very clear because your flying analogy sucked.

How about simple statement one whose meaning hits with the force of a fold bomb?

Oh Alto-hime was paying attention when Sheryl said that…

Wait-

I told you Alto-hime that you should have gone with something simple, but no it had to be a flying confession…

Yes, keep it simple.

Well if Alto-hime didn’t like Sheryl in that way he sure does enjoy standing there with Sheryl’s lips on his…

…

Yeah shut up and kiss her again!

Uh Sheryl…

Look I know its confusing, but Alto-hime has always loved the sky and he wants to fly with you…

Oi oi, Sheryl Nome can’t help but sing like Hime cannot help but fly.

Well, shut up and kiss her Alto-hime…

It seems My alto-hime is about as thick as Sheryl right now, must they do everything together…

Now Alto-hime has a real reason to come back. If hime wants to confess properly then hime can do it after killing some bugs.

Nani mai hunni?

Were it so easy…

…

Second chance!

Wow…

You want to see Sakura-hime?

Sheryl wink!

In any case Alto-hime is proud of Sheryl.

YAKKKK DECULTURE!

Sakura-hime end is a GOOOOOOO!

All wings report in…

Machida in “Fists of Fury”

I like this job. I like it.

Capital ship charge!

Go Machida!

Saggittarius 1 standing by…

You worry about those bugs, I’ll worry about Brera.

I am going in, cover me Kakizaki.

Saggitarius 1 get set up for your attack run…

I’ll cut across Ranka’s axis and try to draw her fire…

Today Luca finally got his first confirmed kill…

That’s taicho-hime to you.

Only if you make them your enemy…

Kill Alto…

You have to do better Ranka. I’m over here.

It seems the Perry Brothers are not taking kindly to Ranka’s treachery.

I just want my phone call.

Ranka’s love beams…

With love like that who needs hate?

I am Alto Saotome, I am here to avenge my colony.

Grace is so awesome she snuck in a Dulfim in the middle of a fire fight.

Grace will violate you…

Yes, my Queen.

The Royalty commands!

Not exactly the way to refer to the person you might be in love with…

Yeah why?

Nothing says I love you like wearing the other girl’s earring and actually getting more femminine when you could not even do that to get you favorite girl a bit role…

Ranka will give Alto-hime the thrill and death hime always wanted…

Were it so easy to forget such a hime…

…

Still pretty when mad?

Brera-nii sayeth so!

It cam from…behind…

Sheryl cares…

Klan onee-chan cares…

Heck even Luca cares…

…and yet here is Ranka spreading out hime’s ashes, just like Brera wanted.

Well next time hime comes back you won’t be so coy.

Alto-hime will be fine, but that should help motivate Alto-hime to survive.