So, the big prize this year is...
Macross Frontier.
Okay, point one? It's OMFG squee pretty. The flight shots are so smooth and so detailed that they can't possibly be anything but CG, but the color and shading is so perfectly cel it coulda been done by hand. The future-world setting is rendered in a way I can only call 'lush', and the character designs are gorgeous - even Ranka the green-haired kid, whose 'publicity photo' was taken at a startlingly unflattering moment.
Point two? I like the characters. All of them, pretty much. Ranka's cute, Alto's a bit rasher than I like my company IRL but otherwise a very stand-up guy, and Sheryl is, though a bit of a cipher at the moment, definitely kakkoi.
Point three? Action sequences are fast-moving, very well arranged... four out of five stars only 'cause following flight maneuvers gives me a (figurative) headache.
Point four? Already there are sweet, sweet hints of long-term plots.
All in all, the best first episode I've seen in... um, ever?
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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Macross Frontier.
Okay, point one? It's OMFG squee pretty. The flight shots are so smooth and so detailed that they can't possibly be anything but CG, but the color and shading is so perfectly cel it coulda been done by hand. The future-world setting is rendered in a way I can only call 'lush', and the character designs are gorgeous - even Ranka the green-haired kid, whose 'publicity photo' was taken at a startlingly unflattering moment.
Point two? I like the characters. All of them, pretty much. Ranka's cute, Alto's a bit rasher than I like my company IRL but otherwise a very stand-up guy, and Sheryl is, though a bit of a cipher at the moment, definitely kakkoi.
Point three? Action sequences are fast-moving, very well arranged... four out of five stars only 'cause following flight maneuvers gives me a (figurative) headache.
Point four? Already there are sweet, sweet hints of long-term plots.
All in all, the best first episode I've seen in... um, ever?
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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."