Okay, Peggy and I just finished watching Offsides' boxed set of Macross a few days ago. Several thoughts:
Goddamn, could the animation have been any worse? Minmay never looks the same two shots in a row (and her open mouth is often a pink blotch, no teeth or anything indicating an "inside"), items strobe through two different colors for no apparent reason, eyes change color or turn into black blobs.
I now understand the genesis of the term "bridge bunny". And the crew complement on the bridge became such a joke to Peg and me that the one time there was a male besides the captain stationed there, Peg and I turned to each other and did the Lena Hyena "A maaayaan! It's a maaaayaaaan!" bit.
Minmay's seiyuu does indeed have a nice voice, and the songs are quite lovely (though Peg and I got thoroughly sick of "My Boyfriend's A Pilot"). But I find I must agree with the seventeeth law of anime physics (The Law of Transient Romantic Unreliability): Minmei is a bimbo. Then again, she's not even quite 18 when the series ends, so you can excuse a lot based on her being a confused teenager.
I have some problems with the plotting; the last 8 or so episodes (after the Zentradi fleet is wiped out) seem very anticlimactic to me. I mean, I think I know what the creators were doing, storywise, but it just seemed like a long, drawn-out denoument that really didn't work well.
If Minmei is a bimbo, so is Hikaru. I mean, his superior officer comes to his house and cleans it for him, and he has no clue how she feels about him? I felt like grabbing him by his collar and pimpslapping him for an hour or two. Yeah, I can understand his focus on Minmay, but there's dense and then there's dense. Hikaru was competing with neutronium there for a while.
I was amused by the Zentradi named "Utena". I envisioned a Sword of Dios the size of a flagpole for a while there...
Milia and Max: "Behold the power of a baby!" I joked to Peggy that the Zentradi ran because Komilia needed changing and they didn't want to be stuck with the job.
Anyway, despite what this might sound like, I did in fact enjoy it. Now I'm curious about the various sequels...
Later, it's time for work.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Goddamn, could the animation have been any worse? Minmay never looks the same two shots in a row (and her open mouth is often a pink blotch, no teeth or anything indicating an "inside"), items strobe through two different colors for no apparent reason, eyes change color or turn into black blobs.
I now understand the genesis of the term "bridge bunny". And the crew complement on the bridge became such a joke to Peg and me that the one time there was a male besides the captain stationed there, Peg and I turned to each other and did the Lena Hyena "A maaayaan! It's a maaaayaaaan!" bit.
Minmay's seiyuu does indeed have a nice voice, and the songs are quite lovely (though Peg and I got thoroughly sick of "My Boyfriend's A Pilot"). But I find I must agree with the seventeeth law of anime physics (The Law of Transient Romantic Unreliability): Minmei is a bimbo. Then again, she's not even quite 18 when the series ends, so you can excuse a lot based on her being a confused teenager.
I have some problems with the plotting; the last 8 or so episodes (after the Zentradi fleet is wiped out) seem very anticlimactic to me. I mean, I think I know what the creators were doing, storywise, but it just seemed like a long, drawn-out denoument that really didn't work well.
If Minmei is a bimbo, so is Hikaru. I mean, his superior officer comes to his house and cleans it for him, and he has no clue how she feels about him? I felt like grabbing him by his collar and pimpslapping him for an hour or two. Yeah, I can understand his focus on Minmay, but there's dense and then there's dense. Hikaru was competing with neutronium there for a while.
I was amused by the Zentradi named "Utena". I envisioned a Sword of Dios the size of a flagpole for a while there...
Milia and Max: "Behold the power of a baby!" I joked to Peggy that the Zentradi ran because Komilia needed changing and they didn't want to be stuck with the job.
Anyway, despite what this might sound like, I did in fact enjoy it. Now I'm curious about the various sequels...
Later, it's time for work.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.