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My selfless quest for fandom nirvana

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and sort of like Macross 7 I have tried multiple times to watch Macross 7 in recent years — most recently at the onset of Frontier. I just couldn’t manage to get past the first few episodes. The dated-sounding music, the ceaseless dunderheadedness of protagonist Nekki Basara, the [...]

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Macross Frontier 22

What ’bout my peg leg Well, well. When Ozma and Cathy finally bring Captain Global whatever his name is news of Leon’s assassination of the president, and that same Leon somehow cons Bilrer into folding SMS into NUNS, it’s munity on Macross Quarter, complete with jolly pirate lingo. But our favorite cabin boy won’t be [...]

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Macross Frontier Episode 3

Alto’s Last Stand Alto stared into the dressing room mirror, but he wasn’t seeing anything anymore. His tired vision looked past the graying circles under his eyes, and his luxurious hair pulled out in clumps as he aimlessly brushed it. To an objective, outside observer, he was as beautiful as ever. But the stress of [...]

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Macross Frontier Episode 2

Hard Chase I don’t know why this episode title sounds dirty to me. Must be all the Kanokon I’ve been watching. But when a new Macross comes out, I’m reminded why the hell I’m watching a bunch of cartoons from a country I’ve never been to in the first place. But, like Geass, I find [...]

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Macross Frontier (Preview)

MACROSS. MAAA-KUUU-ROOSS! New Macross. The words alone brought chills to me. However, I didn’t see the last Macross. I heard it sucked. It looked like it sucked. So I didn’t watch. But the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross is not just a classic because someone said so — it’s classic because it’s awesome. In spite [...]

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