12 days of Animushmas, day three
Hey, I remember love!
Part of a 12-day Christmasclusterfuck of love curated by CCY.
The one thing that Macross Frontier did stupid well was make Macross fans go “Hey, look at that! I’m an important snowflake because I caught that reference.” My important snowflake moment came at the “next episode” preview at the end of episode three when, without sound, I could tell instantly that Ranka would be singing “Watashi No Kare Wa Pilot” in episode 4. Was that moment all I hoped it’d be? Fuck yes. Megumi Nakajima’s voice, Yoko Kanno’s minimal updating to the song, the wave of nostalgia — it was the stuff that Macross F was made of.
Sadly, that turned out to be almost all it was made of, and the nostalgia trip got really old for me really fast. But that moment (and the later one, as Alto and Ranka fly over the planet and you realize the tune playing behind is actually “Ai Oboete Imasuka”) made me feel like the biggest, happiest fanboy in the world. Turns out, I wasn’t — that was actually ghostlightning, but still. I’ll take Sheryl and Ranka over Santa any day.
[...] Otou-san: Macross Frontier 3 [...]
There is always a fanboy more prideful than you are.
Omisyth called it. As we exchange these points there’s probably someone sending personal emails to Kawamori thanking him for every moment of ’service’ he rendered to us fans.
NO NO NO, and FINALLY NO. I’m not talking about me.
Your moment is a real win! I gotta post something in this series now before other bloggers pick Macross F moments. Otou-san I have no problems with. In terms of fanboying, he’s the Max to my Breetai (I’ll overpower him with my size, even while he pilots his VF-1J; but I’ll always be amazed how he got his battloid to wear a Zentraedi uniform).
[...] Maybe Frontier didn’t turn out as good as some had hoped, but without it I might have missed Plus and Do You Remember Love?, which were great fun, and Zero, which had amazing robots. I’m stalled exactly halfway through the original SDF Macross, because I’m still mourning for a certain character. [...]