Category Archives: SDF Macross

Newbie’s First Valkyrie – VF-1S with FAST Pack model kit

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: January 11, 2010

There’s something inherent in being a fan that compels one to want to experience the shows you love in various forms. Watching anime is the start, but the community abounds with different ways that people delve deeper into the experience of anime and the community surrounding it. Blogging, making AMVs, cosplaying, and drawing are just [...]

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SDF Macross: Do You Remember Love (plus promised Macross Meal culinary tribute)

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: December 30, 2009

I hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas holiday, and after my week off (and the site undergoing work), it’s time for the Macross movie, Do You Remember Love. In it the series has been altered (in ways that change the story and aren’t canon) and shortened into movie format. The familiar characters and mecha have gotten [...]

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SDF Macross episodes 34 to 36 – The Long, Long Goodbye

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: December 17, 2009

Parting is such sweet sorrow, and I’m going to miss this series that I’ve enjoyed and come to love over the past four months or so. There was so much to enjoy in the 36 episodes, from the aerial combat to the love triangle, to the memories of those lost and the little technical touches [...]

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SDF Macross episodes 32 and 33 – I, Claudia

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: December 9, 2009

Kamjin’s insurgency makes its first coordinated attack, choosing to take hostages at a Minmay concert, and while this is significant, for most of these episodes the conflict shifts to the relationship battlefield. Hikaru and Minmay being reunited brings out some intense jealousy in Misa, but even when things appear bleak Claudia’s intervention and wise counsel [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 30 and 31 – Children of the Protoculture

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: December 3, 2009

There continue to be reasons for both hope and pessimism for the future of the Terran Zentradi with integration and alienation both continuing in their separate ways. The mission to capture the Zentradi weapons factory satellite is launched, another joint operation between humans and Terran Zentradi under the New United Nations government. But while this [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 28 and 29 – Two Years After

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: November 25, 2009

About two years have passed since the end of the UN-Zentradi conflict and the survivors of its final battle have been rebuilding on Earth as best as they can. A few cities have been rebuilt, the survivors settled, and life goes on for the remnants of humanity and the Zentradi fleets. However not all is [...]

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SDF Macross Episode 27 – It’s the End of the World as We Know It

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: November 18, 2009

Given the grand scale of the events of episode 27, I felt it would be best to just do a one episode post this week. Preparations began among the Macross-Britai fleet last time as the main Zentradi force began to defold into Sol system, and now the battle begins. All the various resources of the [...]

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