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Now and Then, Here and There episodes 01 and 02 – It Could Always Be Worse
Bidding farewell to most of the Macross canon, the next retroblogging series is Now and Then, Here and There. A 13 episode series from 1999, Now and Then, Here and There follows a boy named Shu, who is going about his daily life in a town in Japan until he sees a strange looking girl [...]
Posted in Now and Then Here and There, Retroblogging 14 Comments
Why Is It (Almost) Always Three? Small Unit Organization in Gundam and Macross
If you’ve watched enough of the two biggest mecha franchises you might have noticed that most mecha teams seem to operate in units of three, when they do operate in coherent units. But why units of three, why not units of four like modern fighter aircraft? Tanks offer a more varied model, where platoons have [...]
Posted in Editorials, Gundam, SDF Macross 32 Comments
Kimi ni Todoke episode 21 – Do You Remember Love?
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE REPORT – RESTRICTED DISSEMINATION
SUBJECT: CLOSURE REACHED IN CHIZU-TOORU RELATIONS WITH INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT OF RYU.
DATE: EARLY MARCH 2010.
A FINAL MEETING TO RESOLVE UNREQUITED LOVE TENSIONS BETWEEN CHIZU AND TOORU WAS SECRETLY ARRANGED BY RYU. RYU EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATED THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION TO HIS BROTHER, BRINGING TOORU OUT DESPITE A TIGHT SCHEDULE. AFTER [...]
Posted in Kimi ni Todoke 6 Comments
T.H.A.T. Spring 2010 Anime Preview
Welcome to THAT’s spring 2010 season preview! All information comes from ANN, MAL, and/or Wikipedia synopsis, images from the same in most cases. Sequel series have been omitted since what could be a better season preview that one or more entire previous seasons? (with the except of K-ON season 2 since I know at least [...]
Posted in Assorted Anime Reviews 44 Comments
Macross Plus episode 04 – Reentry
The final episode of Macross Plus is all about returning. Returning to Earth and the original SDF Macross capital ship. Returning to the truth of old memories. Returning to feelings thought long gone. Even returning, in a less explicit way, to the manned fighter with the duel between the Project Supernova prototypes and the unmanned [...]
Posted in Macross Plus, Retroblogging 40 Comments
Kimi ni Todoke episode 20 – Blunt Trauma
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE REPORT – RESTRICTED DISSEMINATION
SUBJECT: 1. REPEATED EXCHANGES BETWEEN CHIZU AND RYU OVER THE RECENT TOORU-HARUKA INCIDENT HAVE LED TO CONFUSION AND TEMPORARILY STRAINED RELATIONS.
……………2. ALLIANCE CONFERENCE ON FALLOUT FROM THE TOORU-HARUKA INCIDENT.
DATE: LATE FEBRUARY 2010
1. CHIZU’S RETURN TO THE SANADA RESIDENCE WITH THE GOAL OF GIVING RYU HIS GIFT WAS MET BY RYU [...]
Posted in Kimi ni Todoke 9 Comments
Macross Plus episode 03 – Artificial Life
Apparently what put Isamu and Guld’s fight out on the test range to such an abrupt end was the presence of live rounds in Isamu’s gunpod that went off when the YF-19 was hit by its own weapon. Isamu survives and wakes up two days later in a vat of some sort of medical liquid [...]
Posted in Macross Plus, Retroblogging 17 Comments
Kimi ni Todoke episode 19 – Katayama Haruka no Himitsu
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE REPORT – RESTRICTED DISSEMINATION
SUBJECT: 1. ARRIVAL OF SANADA TOORU AND KATAYAMA HARUKA, PUBLIC DECLARATION OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT.
DATE: LATE FEBRUARY 2010
1. AS WAS SUSPECTED BY C/O, TOORU HAS ARRIVED HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH A SIGNIFICANT OTHER, THOUGH NOT JUST A GIRLFRIEND BUT A FIANCÉ. ARRIVING UNEXPECTEDLY EARLY WHEN ALL PRIMARY ALLIED MEMBERS WERE PRESENT [...]
Posted in Kimi ni Todoke 3 Comments
Macross Plus episode 02 – Competition
There are some unsettling things afoot this episode as the characters’ proximity to each other bring out their old feelings. What’s more, we start to get a glimpse of the AI singer known as Sharon Apple and ‘her’ existence and connection to Myung. The VF-X competitions continue onwards with Isamu’s first flight in the YF-19, [...]
Posted in Macross Plus, Retroblogging 40 Comments
Kimi ni Todoke episode 22 – Tis the Season