Goodbye sister PSYCHE!
This week I’m bothered by Macross F’s constant fan-pandering. Again. And I’m a fan. Why am I so bothered? Let me put it in bullet points since I’ve been working on PowerPoint all day.
- The OP. I get it, Ranka’s fucking cute. I think so too. It must make Shin’s day (how many trackbacks have you gotten so far on this, Shin?), since it prominently features the ol’ (ﾉゝ∀･)~キラ☆, which looks a lot like a dolled-up version of Ronnie James Dio’s metal horns to me (or is it Spiderman?). I ain’t sold. I hear this is a temporary OP though. And I guess the dancing iSlug was pretty great.
- Pineapple cake. This was really heavy-handed. GET IT, GUYS? PINEAPPLES! So I was supposed to be surprised or whatever when Ozma didn’t bite it, despite his re-confession to Cathy, his noble deeds, constant flashbacks, and the overbearing presence of a pineapple-based dessert. But really I was just glad the whole nonsense was over. Gotta hand it to him though, motherfucker is about as bulletproof as Twenty Faces covered in kevlar.
- Fire Bomber. Macross 7 is fine for some people. To this day I have to confess I’ve still never finished it, despite claiming to be some huge Macross fan. I get a little further each time, but dear God why does Basara have to suck so much? And why does he have to keep getting invoked? I get a mental image of his John Lennon glasses in my head when that music plays and I want to smash.
I guess three bullets aren’t too bad, though. But let’s balance it out with what I liked.
- Ozma trying to fuck up Brera. That kid is fast becoming the Lynn Kaifun of the series, and makes me root for Ozma’s old-school manliness even more.
- The Grace and Leon plot thickens. What’s Luca gonna do? What are they planning with that fold quartz? And what will happen to Ozma and Cathy when they catch on?
- Ai-kun destroys Alto’s paper airplane. Genius. Such an ominous thing in a cute package.
There you have it. Lots of intrigue and goings-on, concealed under a thick wall of syrupy pineapple. I won’t bitch about the lack of Sheryl because that’s for a reason, and we have every indication that she’s going to bust this Grace thing wide open, even if inadvertently. Hopefully this thing is all coming to a head soon, and hopefully poor Klan gets her day too.
I counted 11 ;P Too bad they’re only using Seikan Hikou as a one shot OP sequence ala Neko Nikki, but I guess I should be thankful for every extra bit of Ranka that Kawamori decides to throw at us.
I’m not bothered at all, because a cake is always fine… and I don’t actually watch this show unless I’m up on Thursday night trying to finish my essays last minute.
I must admit I quite liked Fire Bomber. I haven’t seen Macross 7 (yet) though, so perhaps I didn’t bring any baggage (of the ‘why does Basara have to suck’ sort) to the table.
Shin - You know when I think about it in the grand scheme of the show and factor in Neko Nikki, I think it’s kind of fun and it probably wouldn’t be so bad to hear another couple one-offs. Really mixes things up and keeps it all fresh. Plus, Ranka, yes.
issa-sa - no, no, the cake is a lie. huurrrrrr mixing nerdities.
IKnight - Like I said, I have tried to finish 7, and someday I suppose I will, but I just can’t hang. Compared to Yoko Kanno’s version of Idol-pop with Sheryl and Ranka, Fire Bomber’s half-baked rock (or folk oldies, as Alto calls them…) doesn’t do it for me. Hopefully you enjoy it when you do, don’t let me and whoever else prejudice you.
I’m telling you, Grace and Elmo are going to make Grace wish she never got uploaded.
I thought the pineapple thing was super heavy-handed. Why shove it in our faces? Macross fans immediately got the symbolism and the rest of us were like “Huh?”
Elmo on a rampage is just about the greatest thing my brain can cook up right now.
And yeah — I can’t imagine not knowing what the pineapple dessert meant and trying to figure out why they were pushing it so hard.
Probably depends on the context.
Right before she realized he was soaked in a puddle of his own blood and Cathy invited him back.
I’m pretty sure if he’d have gone back to hers there wouldn’t have been a lot of pineapple cakey eating going on there.
So in Cathy’s case, is a codeword for lets get it on.