Shameful Otaku Secret!

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.

Cover song mix tapes

Been a while since we had a decultural update, so I’m happy to be posting one. And I’m even happier this particular time because Yakk… Deculture! now has a collaborator! This is exciting stuff. In a move no one should find inappropriate, I’ve teamed with ghostlightning of We Remember Love to bring the deculture in all kinds of new ways. He and mechafetish are the biggest Macross fans I know so it was a natural fit. Hopefully with our powers combined we can bring dumb Macross fandom items to the internets faster than I ever could myself.

This one is an ongoing project, the Macross cover song mix tapes. You can hear versions of classic Macross hits as sung by all the major divas. I think it’s a great way to put the Macross music and timeline into perspective. In most cases, the list looks like this:

1. Lynn Minmay (SDF Macross in all cases except “Ai Oboeteimasu ka,” which only appeared in Do You Remember Love?)
2. Mylene Jenius (co-singer/bassist of Fire Bomber in Macross 7, some songs from the Mylene sings Minmay album)
3. Ranka Lee (of Macross Frontier; Sheryl didn’t really get much for Minmay song opportunities, which is a shame, I’d love to hear it)
4. Mari Ijima (these are recent re-recordings by the Minmay seiyuu/songwriter)

Go check them out! It requires Flash. And if anyone has any other ideas (did anyone cover Makoto Fujiwara’s awesome theme song?), hit me or ghostlightning up.

Cooking with Otou-san

I love to cook. Oh, boy, do I. Not much of a baker though. I can get the job done, but if you want your treats made with love then look elsewhere, sweetness, because mine are made with wall-punching and fuckwords.

However! In honor of Ranka’s inaugural attempt at baking, here’s my recipe for Moe Sugar cookies. Pardon me, my friends outside the U.S. and rural U.K., these are in English units.

Side note: Is it just me, or was Sheryl’s weekly hoe-bag outfit just a tauntingly slutty version of the overall-and-halter getup that you Ranka fans have probably been loving the past few weeks? She doesn’t play nice, that Sheryl.

Side note 2: I’m sure Lucky Star probably answered this question and I forgot, but is it more moe to cook or to fail at cooking? I’m gonna vote “fail at cooking.” But cooking doesn’t make me think of Moe, it makes me think of this: