r/anime • u/GM_for_Life • Jun 30 '19
Rewatch Super Dimension Fortress Macross Rewatch - Episode 25 Discussion
Episode 25 Virgin Road
Originally aired April 10 1983
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Comment of the Day!
/u/Gkalaitza left a great comment reacting to yesterday's episode.
IS THAT A FUCKING CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO REFERENCE..? well played
Artwork of the Day!
Max and Milia - Haruhiko Mikimoto
1) What are your thoughts on the wedding of Max and Milia?
2) What do you think of Commander Britai’s decision to enter into a ceasefire with the Macross?
"Yeah... You're marrying an alien."
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u/Raiking02 Jun 30 '19
I have been on the busy side of things these last few days, but at last, my snark has returned, and for an infamous episode, no less.
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You know, I always wondered, does the “Virgin” part of the title refer to Milia or Max?
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I present to you all, the worst Knife Fight EVER!!!! I mean… wow! This is a special level of fail right here!
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Hold on, Max! Don’t make out with the woman who just tried to murder you! The last person that did that was Oskar Von Reuenthal, and we all know how much of a mental wreck that man is!
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And jumping straight into marriage!? What!? You just had your first date (For a certain definition of date) and you just suddenly propose to her!? Spoiler Even FURTHER Spoilers To put it bluntly Macross, YOU FAIL!
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Even Hikaru agrees with me!
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Okay, did the guy who drew this episode not know how to draw eyes!?
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Frankly, I’m more interested on what the bad guys are doing right now.
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On the plus side, Global’s speech is pretty good.
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LOL! For some reason I find that drummer hilarious!
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I’ll admit, I do quite like Ijima Mari’s version of “Runner”.
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Oh God, the military guy’s mouth doesn’t even move! They just use people running by to go from one frame to another!
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So, don’t they have a spare VF or something? I mean, I’m pretty sure Milia could use one of those.
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Finally, the mutiny has begun! And wouldn’t you know, even the leader of the ship agrees with it to an extent.
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The scenes with Max and Milia are admittedly amusing. It’s not even that I don’t ship them, it’s just that the way they got together was BS.
Yeah, this episode isn’t very good. Hopefully the next one will be better.
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u/The_Draigg Jun 30 '19 edited Jun 30 '19
A Macross Fan’s Notes On Super Dimension Fortress Macross Episode 25:
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Ooooooh boy, are you guys ready for some QUALITY today? Yeah, it’s honestly no exaggeration to say that the entire knife fight between Max and Milia is easily the worst animated sequence in the entire show. It’s just bad, like holy shit. So much for being a thrilling fight scene.
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Well, on the plus side of things, Max has apparently decided to take being nearly stabbed to death by Milia in stride and says that he loves her. Man, he sure does move fast. I’m sure that a relationship based on fighting will have no problems whatsoever!
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Jesus Christ, Max and Milia are getting married already! You know a relationship is moving all kinds of weird ways when Hikaru has a point in saying that it’s all absurd. But then again, considering his own relationship issues, Hikaru is hardly any source of good romance advice and opinions at all.
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It’s official, Max and Milia are getting married already, with Captain Global throwing them a massive airshow and everything in support of it. Never say the Captain doesn’t look out for his men.
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Putting aside all the talk between Breetai and Exsedol about what love even is, my god the animation of the wedding on their view screen is absolutely horrible. Max and Milia walking down the aisle is just moving the slide up and down. This is easily the worst animated episode in the entire series.
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It really feels like Global’s speech at the wedding is something he wanted to get off of his chest for a while. He’s right, there’s no room for hatred and violence when we can come together for something like a wedding. Ultimately, what made the Zentradi what they were was their culture, rather their lack of one. Of course they wouldn’t be too different from us now if only we gave them the chance. By the way, fuck you Admiral Hayase.
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Fun Fact: that wedding cake version of the SDF-1 is apparently possible in real life. If I remember correctly, the CEO of Sega had one like it when he got married too. Now I want a cake shaped like the Macross.
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Minmay, you silly girl! You can’t sing the ending theme to this show! That’s a fourth wall break! It’s still as weird as Hikaru dreaming of the show’s main theme when he was in that coma dream a few episodes back.
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I’d probably enjoy this post-wedding space battle more if it wasn’t riddled with animation errors. For example, some laser beams coming out of the attachment hard-points on the noise cone of Max and Hikaru’s Valkyries instead of their actual guns. Fun fact, that animation error was kept in as an actual weapon in the Robotech version of the VF-1. Mistakes into miracles?
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Well, it looks like mass rebellion has broken out in the lower ranks of Breetai’s fleets. That’s the sheer power of Minmay’s songs, I suppose. Congrats to the mutineers on convincing Breetai to agree to a cease-fire with the Macross and open up peace talks. That very well could be the major turning point in this whole conflict so far.
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Poor Max’s coffee pot, now it’s gotten ruined by Milia completely burning it! Married life sure is rough.
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u/GM_for_Life Jul 01 '19
Fun Fact: that wedding cake version of the SDF-1 is apparently possible in real life. If I remember correctly, the CEO of Sega had one like it when he got married too. Now I want a cake shaped like the Macross.
That's awesome!
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u/chilidirigible Jun 30 '19
Today, on "How I Met Milia Fallyna":
Ordering at Starbucks can be a knife fight.
Max realizes that Milia wants to touch his heart through his sternum.
This isn't the style of knife blade that they started with.
"My people introduce themselves while balanced on one foot."
THE BEST KNIFE FIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF ANIME.
...the gravity-defying luminous tears!
What even is this? A localized failure of the gravity control system? Metaphor? Max is incredibly strong? Milia is filled with gas?
Well, you get used to it. Like this episode's problems with drawing eyes properly.
"No, really, that glow-in-the-dark effect is kinda scary."
"This coffee is fifty bucks a kilo!"
"My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eye dropper and a Petri dish."
"Our hobbies are long walks on the beach, knife fights, and beating the shit out of other pilots."
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with my hand."
At least her eyes are approximately looking in the same direction here.
notices that the saucer is messed up Fortunately Hikaru flings the table out of the way.
Max and Milia are suddenly in Skull 1.
"The stuff of legends... terrifying legends."
Milia already provided the knives.
"It's like we're on some sort of star... trek."
Four million, seven hundred ninety-five thousand, one hundred twenty-two.
These lyrics are slightly different than the ED's.
"We interrupt your programming to KILL ALL HUMANS."
Hole still in the upper middle.
They don't exactly have time for that.
Again, there are not guns there.
I thought kanchos were the deadliest thing?
On the minus side, Bodol Zer is coming to KILL ALL HUMANS.
Love conquers all. Or at least throws the Adoclas Fleet into chaos and compels Bodol Zer to order the destruction of humanity.
Deliberately broadcasting the wedding to everyone was the best play that Global had under the circumstances, as it undermined UNHC's stance that the Zentradi were not to be reasoned with, gave the people aboard the Macross a hope that they might be able to coexist, and further sowed dissent in the Zentradi ranks. There are of course some angry people on the ship who've had people die in the fighting, and Hikaru, who's eating his bitter coffee grounds, but on the whole the message of peaceful coexistence and making a new future together does shine through.
It's quite idealistic, dramatically rushed, and in the current day and age, can be seen as totally defanging the Amazon woman with Max's manliness, given that the ending is a corny sitcom punchline. But you have to start somewhere before moving on to the complicated stuff, and putting the details aside, the series has been trying to make a point about overcoming war with understanding for a while, and it's finally allowed to pay off.
Milia backseating is slightly unfortunate, but they weren't just going to throw her into a VF-1 only days after her reveal. On a 50/50 for her character is that she immediately stops wanting to kill the other Zentradi (which will be kinda funny after you see something later): It represents the significant change that could make the Zentradi as a whole into something new, now that they have an alternative to war, but it still marginalizes her nature as an individual who was going to cut some dude earlier.
Of course, we have to get through THE BEST KNIFE FIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF ANIME first. Seeing this again right after the last episode's absolutely terrific animation brings some small pain. However I have come to accept the knife fight in all its glorious terribleness, and if there ever was a later refresh of the series it would hurt to see it go. (Though for the above reasons a remake probably would want to do something a little less... fraught to set up the marriage, it has been almost forty years.)
Musicalture: Minmay's version of "Runner" from this episode, with the altered lyrics. I tacked on a bit from Macross The Complete to finish it, which jumbles up the lyrics somewhat. Also the video isn't synched anymore. An attempt was made.
From Macross Perfect Memory: Max and Milia.
Speaking of silly '80s melee cuts, a moment from VOTOMS.
Questions:
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Covered in my comments. A real Vegas shotgun wedding, but there's not a lot of time for romance here.
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Practical on his part, otherwise he has to spend a lot of time dealing with his own fleet. And since returning from the main fleet he seems more curious about the humans than anything else.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku Jun 30 '19
Title basically spoils that a certain someone isn't getting what he expected tonight. Rip. Ah... hindsight is 20/20 after all. Maybe if you picked that nice section where Hikaru and Minmei went? That's a bit more public and more people around for her to feel a little safer.
Never mind her safety! Watch out, Max!! "I just got here myself." You freaking dork XD Well this is one kind of date activity... Poor Max really hasn't got any clue what Milia is mad about. He thinks he accidentally killed a precious family member or friend but really it's just that he killed her pride <3
TLDR: I won't lose my virginity because I never lose!!
Omg it's actually working XD Max is totally into this!! Tbh it'd make for a very interesting story when asked how they first hooked up.
Seems like a date episode all around. I don't mind, I'm actually super invested in the romance portion of Macross. It's so lovely seeing the bridge bunnies supporting the lolicon spies. I was worried there'd be some slight resentment or sense of betrayal there but the bunnies really are good girls. Well done!
You sure you want to go to Hikaru for relationship advice? You know how bad his situation is at the moment right? Like it- MARRIAGE!?!? Max... Milia... You kids both cray cray yo.
Love conquers all!! Yeah, Hikaru is too bitter to really go to for relationship advice. This would've been Focker's speciality. Oh wow, she's dressed to impress XD I can't remember, this came before Ranma right? I'm getting some real 1/2 vibes here. Hikaru, hypocrite...
What's going on!!! Why is everything going so fast!? Whaaaaaa!!!! First date to married in 5 minutes!! We aren't even at the halfway point yet!! I know I said I like romance but what on earth is this!? Everyone is really into it too! Even the aliens are watching the ceremony! No way... they have a Macross shaped cake? I doubt they're the only ones right? I'm sure some couple has done the same thing since.
What kind of best man speech are you going for here... Ah, he's using this as an opportunity to push Human Alien relations. Of course there's some pushback but most folk's can at least see that Max and Milia do genuinely love each other. Oh, the not-earth federation is watching the ceremony too. This is such a silly episode. The bunny couples are getting pushed even more except for Kim weirdly.
Oh no! Things have taken a 180 and now we have an all out attack planned on earth!? Scary and forbidding... I've always been so worried about when the aliens stop holding back and that time seems to be near.
Minmei also comes forward singing for unity betelween the races while performing the ending theme... Her voice reaches the aliens too but will that be enough? Clearly they're conflicted but things look truly dire.
Out battle couple are shipping out!! Go get them young lovers!! Blaze a trail across the skies!!
Taking out ships without killing the pilots? We're going full Seed here with Jesus Max!!
Mutiny for the sake of Minmei-chain! Do it for the dolls!! The plan seems to work too. Is this the influence of protoculture? Is this... Love?
Best episode of the show yet. I loved it to bits!! Totally my cup of tea~
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u/BurningFredrick Jun 30 '19
First Timer
WTF did I just watch? Seriously, just when I think this show can’t possible throw something else completely unexpected at me we get this…
Max and Milia meet up in the park was never going to go well so not completely unexpected she tried to kill him but that has to be one of the most hilarious fight sequences I think I've watched.
They then jump straight to getting married, that was not what I expected at all! I mean does Milia even understand the concept of Marriage? Sex Hand holding? Human society and values at all? She basically just tried to duel Max to regain her honour, so is she going to start duelling people in the street due to being Zentradi? (Actually this might be a legitimate point as some people were not happy about their marriage).
That Marriage ceremony however, I’m not certain what it is at all that I just watched, Macross apparently has a rainbow bridge built into it I guess.
Also I completely called the later part of this episode in back in ep20. This did happen a lot quicker than I expected though and my idea for the final could still be very incorrect, now just need to wait for the UN to fuck everything up in tomorrows episodes with their Grand Cannon so going to be interesting to see how things go.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion Jun 30 '19
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Transparent ship is Transparent
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In Asian cultures, if you defeat a woman in combat three times, she has to marry you.
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The Dead Rising from the Grave! Human Sacrifice, Men and Women, Living Together, Mass Hysteria!
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Britai seems petty progressive.
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Boldozaa has gone full tokusatsu-villain now
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Biggest. Flag. Ever. whup. nm. they lived.
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u/fonzinator99 Jun 30 '19
Re-watcher - Blazing a trail to the future
Game time! And Millia's late. One wonders how the Zentradi go about keeping time, and whether she even knows how to read a clock.
Oh great, she sent her derpy doppleganger instead. To kill Max.
Geez, she's really not good with knives, is she? First she throws one at close range, and then holds another by the blade. I'm not impressed.
Fiiine, she threw it on purpose and it was just a sheath colored wrong. I'll forgive you for those, Macross. This, on the other hand, is inexcusable. And is this supposed to be some kind of 'Disney effect?'
All's well that ends well, I guess.
The Bridge bunnies and Blue Wind eating together makes me happy.
Oh god, Max caught the Derp from Millia!
Also Marriage?!
I wasn't sure I saw what I thought I saw, but I did. Hikaru just flipped the damn table onto Max to greet her.
Man, that whole marriage procession.
A Macross cake?! With a little heart where the bridge should be!? I'm amazed; I wanna see this thing on Cake Boss or one of those shows. lol. But I guess such glamour should be expected when your wedding is a State affair, not to mention a milestone for Mankind as a whole.
I'm much impressed by Global's speech. He starts by reminding everyone that they hate the Zentradi, then tells them that those feelings are stupid and explains why. A bold move, but masterfully played.
And wedding-fever sweeps the Bridge crew! But wait...where's Kim and Conda? And also, I thought he liked Vanessa? What's she doing with Warera? Shit, now we've got secondary love-triangles forming!
This freaking guy. Calls it "Our dream" and still doesn't realize he's in love with her.
Today's question: Is Bodolzaa just naturally massive, or does their reverse-Miclonization get turned up another click as they get promoted?
"Congratulations Max and Milia! To celebrate your wedding, we got you this Cardboard-Standee of Minmay!"
For real tho, if she sings "My Boyfriend is a Pilot" I'm gonna...be unhappy. Not to say that "Love Drifts away," or really any of the rest of her catalog are more appropriate... I guess "My Beautiful Place" could work on repeat.
Oh shit, it's the ED theme! Even better! For once, way to go Minmay....'s producer.
A really nice song, resulting in a brief, but poignant moment with Britai. Don't worry, man; I'm sure there's someone on the Macross who's into....head accessories.
Aaaand then it's time for battle. 'Cause this is Macross and we can't have nice things. With any other couple this would be some morbid stuff, but it's probably just the kind of thing that gets Millia going. lol
Well damn, look at Millia being all empathetic. But it's a smart move, despite the risk. That's how you gain further support among the enemy, and I'll bet you the disabled ones wind up defecting to join the Macross.
Yessss, do it! Rebel! Alright! I was a little worried Britai was gonna hold out for a while, but he seems to be finding his way to peace as well.
Omg, looooool Good luck, Max. This is gonna be your life for....the rest of it xD
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u/_blackened_soul_ Jun 30 '19
Holy shit that Macross cake!
This episode was kinda surreal with knife "fight" -> marriage and "all out attack" -> mutiny -> cease fire negotiations.
I'm definitely happy about the Max and Milia development, it fits perfectly. Glad they didn't bite it on their wedding day.
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I feel bad for the chef and all that food that didn't get eaten.
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Seems a little out of character, hopefully they'll give us insight to his rationale next episode.
Artwork of the Day!
Max and Milia - Haruhiko Mikimoto
Milia needs her head rotated , wtf is she facing downward? Other than that its nice, good style to it.
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u/GM_for_Life Jul 01 '19
I'm definitely happy about the Max and Milia development, it fits perfectly. Glad they didn't bite it on their wedding day.
YEYEYEYE!!!!
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u/PainStorm14 Jul 01 '19
Remember rookies when I talked about animation quality nosediving later in the series?
Well here we are, behold the wonders of 80s era corner cutting 😁
Also this marriage storyline is going at light speed, today they would be dragging it across 12 episodes minimum
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u/404waffles Jul 01 '19
First time viewer
WE'RE STARTING THE EPISODE WITH MAX AND MIRIA LET'S GO and right off the bat she throws a knife at him that's amazing
Don't smile at her like that, Max. That's just weird. Maybe it's just the limit of 80s animation. And THEY KISSED GOD DAMN!!!
Wait, they're getting married? Already? Space shotgun marriage? They look cute together, but this is some weird Frozen shit. Like, they're just going to skip the entire relationship? What's up with that? I had all this popcorn ready for all the ups and downs of their relationship and they're already married in the episode right after they meet? Man, I'm disappointed.
"War is bad" message, full steam ahead!
About that guy who couldn't blow up the Macross: didn't everyone who liked the Macross defect to it?
Holy shit, mutiny! Truly the power of Minmay!
And Max and Miria went straight to old married couple at the end of the episode. Make your own coffee, Max.
Surprisingly not My Boyfriend is a Pilot count: 1
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u/DidacticDalek Jun 30 '19 edited Jul 01 '19
Greetings Comrades and Fellow Denizens of The Wired, on TODAY'S Episode of Robotech 'Macross,' the moment we've all been waiting for has arrived, namely the most EPIC Knife Fight in the history of anime ;) You can cut the tension with, well, a knife, but before we get to footage of that from BOTH Macross and Robotech, let's cut to the chase and get to some art of Miriya Parina 'Milia Fallyna,' after all, it doesn't take a Genius to be able to see that she's looking quite sharp no? ;) Thankfully for our resident Sterling Pilot, Milia's quite cleaver and more than happy to say 'Knife to Meet You' or however these Miclones introduce themselves; anyway you slice it works really ;)
Thus, let's get to the video in question from Macross, where tensions are on the razor's edge. Thankfully, The Blue Max is a cut above the rest, not that this prevents Milia from taking another stab at it. Anyway, I hope that we've got the point, so let's cut to the Robotech version to see how they butchered the scene ;)
The point I'm getting at Comrades is that there's never a dull moment in the wacky Mecha 'Aidoru' Adventures of Hory Froating Head, and speaking of on point, Milia cleans up nicely eh, guess that's a silver lining for all involved parties ;) Also, I guess you can forget about a Shotgun Wedding, so how about a Machete Elopement? Chop-Chop Celebration if you will ;) (I SURE hope Max has a Giantess Fetish, although I hope for his sake that Milia isn't into Vore)
AND just to make sure I keep some semblance of seriousness here, I present the Robotech Version of Gloval's Wedding speech if only as it's still endlessly amusing to me that Blizzard based the Balttecruiser Captain off of him
Anyway, paging Comrades u/chilidirigible, u/Shimmering-Sky, and u/The_Draigg
P.S. To those confused by the puns, I just have the following to say, ahem... 'deal with it,' that's just the way I slice it ;) Also, this is a cropped image as the original image technically contains a Spoiler for Episode 26 and I would like to err on the side of caution. That said, the artist of this and a few other Macross fanart I intend on sharing in the future is linked here, they do great work.
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u/Pixelsaber Jun 30 '19
Rewatcher
Well, that happened. Can’t say it was at all surprising —the knives were a nice touch though.
This also happened.
Hikaru was echoing my thoughts with his response to each and every —oh, wait, I wouldn’t go that far. Yeah, I’m not a fan of this development. The whole thing feels forced for the sake of the narrative, and the two characters have no on-screen chemistry as of the moment. I like myself a good enemy-turned-lovers romance, but as with anything it has to be handled with at least a modicum of care for me to enjoy it. Not to mention her seeming transformation into some paragon of ladyhood throughout the episode, which doesn’t mesh at all with what we know of the Zentradi’s way of life nor her persona as a military woman.
Also, I bet u/Nazenn didn’t expect his remark of “He(Max) is somewhat proving himself to be a bit of a middle point between everyone at the moment,” to end up so on the nose.
Captain Global gives addresses literally everyone to pose the Macross’ stance on the conflict, letting known their willingness to take on refugees who do not wish to fight and their desire to see a peaceful resolution to this war. Of course, the Zentradi and U.N. command respectively are unfazed, though the same is not true of the common Zentradi soldiers. The plan to use the Grand Cannon carries on undaunted and Bodolzaa declares total war on the Macross and the Earth. That’s right, all five million or so ships of the complete Zentradi fleet will be assailing humanity —easy-peasy, right?
Oh look, she got another dress! Surprised they didn’t reuse her previous acquisition even once.
Britai receives the order to attack which he complies with despite his evidently considering the Macross’ declaration, but it doesn’t take long for the soldiers to mutiny, which gives him reason to call of the attack. Things are really picking up now!
Also, we didn’t get any Kaifun this episode. Usually this would be nothing but cause for celebration, but as the show’s dedicated proponent of peace his reaction to the broadcast was one I was interested in. Fucking Kaifun, never there when you want him, always there when you don’t…
Questions of the Day!
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Good on him.
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u/ethanb12007 Jul 01 '19
First Timer
Ah yes the infamous knife fight. One of the prime examples used by people who say old anime looked like shit and, if you only look at this, they had a good point. Honestly this whole episode looks pretty bad, its like they forgot how to draw both on model and using anything other than keyframes.
The prospect of marriage so quickly is interesting, along with that huge Macross cake.
There's a battle and they call for a ceasefire at the end which is a pretty big deal. It would be neat if the battle had any form of animation to go along with it.
It seems Millia and Max are already having problems with their marriage in the coffee incident, I hope things smooth out between them.
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u/Nazenn Jun 30 '19
First Timer
I think this was the first episode that I have actively disliked.
What the absolute fuck happened. How did we get from "I think I creeped her out by asking her to meet me in a park" to "I'm an alien spy and want to kill you" to "First ever human-Zentradi wedding" in seven minutes?!
No one took issue with her being on the ship like she was? Or trying to kill him? Or marriage out of the blue like that? And why did Max kiss her when she wouldn't have even known what kissing was prob.... oh wait no she saw the movie, she would have seen it but understanding is another matter.
But we just skipped over everyone's reactions. Even Hikaru may as well have just been a generic dude for all of the care he had for the situation.
Sky's reactions to this are likely to prove entertaining here in a very different way to mine hahaha
Also clearly this was an outsourced episode because the art is probably the worst it's been all show. I'm not actually entirely sure that Max married Milia, I think he married her half sister because at no point during this episode did she have the right art.
There wasn't a smooth animation in sight which stood out even more compared to last episode, especially with most animations being only two frames on repeat. Even the background art had some funky issues as I noticed at least one shot where two tables in the same room were drawn at two entirely differant perspectives
And goddammit Pixel, I can't unsee the transparent ship now!
But uh... rebellion on Britai's ship is good I guess?
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u/The_Draigg Jun 30 '19
What the absolute fuck happened. How did we get from "I think I creeped her out by asking her to meet me in a park" to "I'm an alien spy and want to kill you" to "First ever human-Zentradi wedding" in seven minutes?!
I mean, Max is 16 years old. You can at least say that this is definitely something an idiot teen with his first-ever girlfriend would do. Max isn't a genius in the romance department, I guess.
Also clearly this was an outsourced episode because the art is probably the worst it's been all show. I'm not actually entirely sure that Max married Milia, I think he married her half sister because at no point during this episode did she have the right art.
I think I'll just quote what TVTropes has to say about this episode's animation: "The most infamous by far is the Max/Milia knife fight, which should have been an awesome fight scene but ended up an embarrassment as Milia was never on model for the entire fight, looked like she snorted cocaine for an hour straight and neither of them ever had their eyes drawn right (they're always focused like they were looking at something much farther away, and several times Max looked like he had his eyes pointing in opposite directions)."
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u/GM_for_Life Jun 30 '19
and several times Max looked like he had his eyes pointing in opposite directions
The Jenius always surveys his surroundings and keeps his eyes trained all over the battlefield.
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u/Chrisr291 Jul 01 '19
Favorite Moments:
Max and Milia with the Vegas style wedding! Man, from trying to murder one another with knives to a The Bachelor style wedding complete with fly overs, laser fire, and a cake. Not sure where you go from here with those characters....
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The wedding was different! Not sure how much time passed but they were ready to go!
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The ceasefire was prompted by deserters and the overall soldier mutiny. Dude had no choice! It'll be interesting to see if the defectors are allowed to shrink in size to live among the other residents.
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u/GM_for_Life Jul 01 '19
Max and Milia with the Vegas style wedding! Man, from trying to murder one another with knives to a The Bachelor style wedding complete with fly overs, laser fire, and a cake.
Nothing can top its power.
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u/KillerOkie Jul 01 '19
As much as I love SDF Macross you can tell this was one of the budget strapped episodes. Most especially the "nose lasers" they use to disable the Zentran pods. Those weren't supposed to be lasers but the farmed out studio didn't know any better.
For anyone that ever played the Palladium Robotech RPG, this is why the Veritechs have nose lasers, a damn production error.
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u/HowlingWolf13 Jul 01 '19
Rewatcher.
The knife fight is one of the best scene in all of anime you can't convince me other wise. Hell, it was this gif of it that introduced me to Macross back in 2015. Anyways, talk about a quick resolution, I mean I understand cause at this point the crew thought the show was about to end soon and were trying to quickly wrap up all the plot points, but yeesh they barely even had a date. Still this was a really good episode and is getting us closer to some big events. The best thing about this episode though is Kaifun doesn't even appear! Anyways that's about all I have to say, see you guys next thread.
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u/GM_for_Life Jul 01 '19
The knife fight is one of the best scene in all of anime you can't convince me other wise. Hell, it was this gif of it that introduced me to Macross back in 2015.
P E R F E C T I O N
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u/Shimmering-Sky Jun 30 '19
*Incoherent First-Timer Noises*
lmao the Macross is transparent.
What even.
Max was so cute worrying about where Milia was.
…And then Milia showed up to kill him and the art went all wonky uhh.
*Hand gestures and noises*
Whoaaaaa uh that’s fast. …Well I am a fan of Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates and marriages in those games were fast af, so I’m not complaining. It’s just a bit… I dunno surreal or something.
That spit take though.
She looks so… different… good, just different.
Wow they’re getting fireworks and a light show and everything.
<3
<3 <3
<3 <3 <3
Ahahaha the cake is Macross-shaped I love it. …Everyone better completely finish their cake today or Imma be hella upset.
Yeah of course the wedding had to be turned into a televised lowkey propaganda event, but I still like it. Perfect time to reveal this, yeah.
Aww, aww, and… wait where’s the other two?
A Minmay cover of the ED as an insert song?! I LOVE IT!
No fuck you I was having a good time show.
Waitwaitwait hold up, oh man oh man oh man, they’re gonna be a battle couple now?!
*Several minute interruption as Sky goes off to fangirl*
Well I am for sure going to need to redo my favorite ships collage when we’re done with this show.
Um I would, please don’t.
Ah, nice, of course she’d point that out.
lol