Comments on: Know your roots! Volume 1 http://www.shamefulotakusecret.com/2008/04/17/know-your-roots-volume-1/ You're only as old as you feel. damn... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike (otou-san) http://www.shamefulotakusecret.com/2008/04/17/know-your-roots-volume-1/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Mike (otou-san) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:56:15 +0000 http://www.shamefulotakusecret.com/?p=242#comment-269 <p>Yeah that's something I should have mentioned — there are two currently available sets of Macross. One is by ADV, starring usual suspects like Vic Mignogna and Monia Rial, but interestingly enough, Minmei is voiced by the same Japanese actress (Mari Ijima).</p> <p>I have not seen that, and can't vouch for the dub. Been meaning to rent it. I have the AnimEigo remastered sub, which came out in '01 or '02 and is the first ever officially licensed subtitle of the original series. "Remastered" is loose here, considering the original quality isn't great.</p> <p>But I personally wouldn't go for Robotech, it's a combination of hacked up pieces of <em>SDF Macross</em>, <em>The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross</em>, and something else. It was a sacrifice made to continuity and development in order to fit the show into US syndication requirements for number of episodes (and sell models and toys).</p> Yeah that’s something I should have mentioned — there are two currently available sets of Macross. One is by ADV, starring usual suspects like Vic Mignogna and Monia Rial, but interestingly enough, Minmei is voiced by the same Japanese actress (Mari Ijima).

I have not seen that, and can’t vouch for the dub. Been meaning to rent it. I have the AnimEigo remastered sub, which came out in ’01 or ’02 and is the first ever officially licensed subtitle of the original series. “Remastered” is loose here, considering the original quality isn’t great.

But I personally wouldn’t go for Robotech, it’s a combination of hacked up pieces of SDF Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and something else. It was a sacrifice made to continuity and development in order to fit the show into US syndication requirements for number of episodes (and sell models and toys).

]]> By: Jason http://www.shamefulotakusecret.com/2008/04/17/know-your-roots-volume-1/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Jason Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:39:50 +0000 http://www.shamefulotakusecret.com/?p=242#comment-268 It's interesting that you should post this. A couple days ago I was searching the web for good anime retailers (good meaning "affordable") and spotted the Protoculture box set on a few occasions. I don't remember much of Robotech, so I resisted the temptation to buy it, being too afraid I would waste money on something I ended up not liking. Thoughts? Advice? It’s interesting that you should post this. A couple days ago I was searching the web for good anime retailers (good meaning “affordable”) and spotted the Protoculture box set on a few occasions. I don’t remember much of Robotech, so I resisted the temptation to buy it, being too afraid I would waste money on something I ended up not liking. Thoughts? Advice?

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