Category Archives: Retroblogging

SDF Macross Episodes 21 and 22 – Don’t You Want Somebody to Love?

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: October 28, 2009

Ah, this is really a great stretch of episodes lately. Just last week there was the Omni-Directional Barrier overload explosion, Kakizaki’s death to make it feel real, and the Macross being forced to leave Earth. Now much progress is made on the romantic front in the Misa/Hikaru/Minmay/Kaifun conflict and the Zentradi get smart with the [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 19 and 20 – Now I am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds.

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: October 21, 2009

Several members of the crew are still dealing with the death of Roy as the Macross descends to low altitude in an attempt to force the UN HQ to allow the civilians off the ship. While the UN’s intentions aren’t clear, they will not permit the civilians to be offloaded and Global hopes that an [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 17 and 18 – It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: October 15, 2009

Forgive the delay, I had to spend the last day and a half immersed in an ethnic conflict paper before I could move on to intergalactic conflict. But this week’s episodes were worth the wait. First up we have another recap, but this time done more interestingly and with an actual impact on the larger [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 15 and 16 – Orders

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: October 7, 2009

Much better than the past two episodes, this week the Global and Misa head to the UN Alaska HQ to make their report and receive the ship’s new orders. The civilian residents of the ship begin celebrating their return to Earth with a carnival celebration while the crew, temporarily under the command of Colonel Maistroff, [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 13 and 14 – You Can’t Win ‘Em All

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: September 30, 2009

Well, I guess these episodes prove even a series as good as Macross stumbles sometimes. Not much content in episode 13, and episode 14 was a recap, but not one of those cool reinventions of the recap that gives you new information or a different character’s perspective. When I finished watching them I noticed I [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 11 and 12 – Metal Gear Max

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: September 23, 2009

When we last left the Macross’s recon team they were fighting hand to hand inside a Zentradi ship in an attempt to rescue Misa. Overpowered by Commander Britai’s hand to hand fighting ability, the team puts up a good fight but eventually Hikaru, Kakizaki, and Misa are captured and Max sucked out a hull breach [...]

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SDF Macross Episodes 09 and 10 – The Society for the Study of Modern Miclone Visual Culture

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: September 16, 2009

Now that the Macross is out of immediate physical danger, the crew and refugees’ attention turns to other things. The ship’s engineers have managed to project a fake sky on the ceiling of the town area to provide a sense of normalcy and a Macross Broadcast System is established to provide a venue for entertainment [...]

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