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Now and Then, Here and There episodes 03 and 04 – The Dogs of War

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: March 17, 2010
Shu awakes in his cell the next morning after being beaten and tries to talk with his cellmate, at first to little avail. Outside, we’re given an insight into the daily lives of Hamdo’s child soldiers as they train against each other for actual combat, overseen by a strict instructor who beats his charges for [...]
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Now and Then, Here and There episodes 01 and 02 – It Could Always Be Worse

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: March 10, 2010
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 [...]
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Why Is It (Almost) Always Three? Small Unit Organization in Gundam and Macross

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: March 9, 2010
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 [...]
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Macross Plus episode 04 – Reentry

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: March 3, 2010
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 [...]
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Macross Plus episode 03 – Artificial Life

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: February 24, 2010
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 [...]
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Macross Plus episode 02 – Competition

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: February 17, 2010
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, [...]
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Macross Plus episode 01 – The Right Stuff

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: February 10, 2010
“Dedicated to all pioneers” reads the opening line to this Macross sidestory, and you can tell just from those words that this is a work with feeling behind it. Five years before 7th Colonization Fleet came under attack from a new enemy, the U.N. has begun testing on the next generation of Valkyrie variable fighter [...]
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Macross Zero episode 05 – Tori no Hito

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: February 3, 2010
Macross Zero concludes with the excellent Valkyrie dogfights we would expect, along with a major contribution to the still limited knowledge of the Protoculture that humanity possesses. And on a more personal level the lives of figures who would make their mark later in life are further fleshed out. While Shin and Sarah and Aries [...]
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Macross Zero episode 04 – Couples in the Jungle

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: January 27, 2010
(Yes,that title is an 08th MS Team reference) This episode is all about the character development, with only a few scenes devoted to the continuing duel between Roy Focker and his old instructor, but given the short span of this series it was definitely a good choice to resolve/reveal these things now or else they [...]
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Macross Zero episode 03 – Clash of Civilizations

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: January 21, 2010
As the UN personnel begin to learn more about the alien artifact found near the island, the anti-UN forces plan to take it for themselves while increasingly strange things begin happening as the fighting comes to the island in earnest. Sara tells Shin that it’s his fault that this is happening, that the UN forces [...]
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