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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.

Dum ideas.

First the dumb: Even as the season’s shows draw near an end, at least those that are reliably subtitled, I’ve been fist-deep in some old bootlegs of Macross 7, not to mention Martin’s review prompted me to re-watch Zero, and that’s enough Macross to micronize your brain. So while in the throes of M7, my Charging Love Heart was touched by a brief bout of moe in the form of Sally S. Ford. And I realized that the true legacy of Macross is in this lesson: The only suitable staff for your ship is a trio of twentysomething hotties. Geass, Eureka 7, Gundam 00. They’re just a small part of the legacy. So I present to you my tribute, the official Yakk… Deculture! Bridge Bunny Trading Cards. Test audiences were predictably wowed especially by the original edition Shammie card, but even more predictably, Jesus159159159 coveted my Bobby Margot rookie card. -_-’

- Bridge Bunny Trading Cards
- twittershippers

Even lions lick… something, I dunno

So… hot on the heels of my survey to see what I should do with the domain yakkdeculture.com, I decided that rather than making it one thing, I’d turn it into a repository of all things Frontier (and probably Macross in general) that I or anyone else thinks of randomly. Except Ranka futanari, sorry, C.I.

The first project, Twittershippers, attempts to track the shipping trends in Frontier by searching Twitter for “alto + ranka” and “alto + sheryl.” I wanted to do a search just for Ranka and Sheryl, but unfortunately Sheryl is, you know, a regular name in English-speaking countries. So who’s winning? I dunno, but a quick examination of the content of these Twitter messages (”tweets,” as they’re officially and stupidly known) points to Sheryl. Who knew? But it’s proven to me that Ranka fandom is much stronger than Sheryl fandom (and Ranka fans’ hatred of Sheryl is just plain bonkers), as if you didn’t know that already.

In unrelated news, my 500th comment has quietly come and gone. That’s a pretty decent landmark for me, and I’m happy as a clam that anyone wants to come and talk about silly cartoon stuff on my silly blog. The honor belongs to Omisyth, for this miscellaneous comment on a miscellaneous post.