Archive for Macross Frontier
「Lion」 live version
Found a recording of the full version of Lion being sung live by May’n and Megumi on Youtube. The quality is kinda terrible, but you’ve gotta live with what you can get I guess.
The live version is actually quite interesting because Megumi uses a lower voice to sing, not her Ranka one. I guess it’s hard to keep up the Ranka voice and perform live.
I still can’t stop looping Lion myself, I think I’ve already rewatched the whole OP sequence at least 20 times since yesterday. I gotta love the lyrics, they give off a strong feeling of “I will survive” for me.
“Fold Fame”
Lion. fucking. rocks. Period.
This song is god damn epic, and the first official duet song by Sheryl and Ranka doesn’t disappoint. The OP sequence that follows it really ups the “epic”ness in to a whole new dimension, and I love how they’re still keeping the “triangle” theme for it too. I seriously hope the show will live up to this new OP.
Damn, the single is only out on the 20th!
“Lost Peace”
Wow, they’ve regained my confidence back with this episode. Hell, a shit load of information was revealed, despite being largely a flashback episode, but it seems they’ve cleared things up quite a bit. Actually, I need subs for this episode to digest the information… hurry up Lunar!
But still, they did advance the love triangle a bit, and Sheryl got back some deserved screentime, with the recaps of her concerts, however using the “Welcome the Fanclub’s Night” song and the live version of “What ’bout my Star”. I really liked that little part where she checked her hair before allowing Alto in to her hospital room as well too, hehe.
Not forgetting as well, the song battle between Sheryl and Ranka is probably something to die for. That part was just so awesome, with both of them doing a duet of “What ’bout my Star?”, and it even seems there will be a track for it, probably in the next OST too! Oh boy, Alto you PIMP!
That aside, I’m really worried for Sheryl now, since it’s been revealed she’s been Grace’s chess piece from the start, and as they put it this episode, she’s outlived her usefulness. It sure sounded like they were gonna get rid of her soon, and particularly now that they’ve laid their hands on Ranka… Sheryl’s fate is really worrisome :3.
And speaking of Grace, oh dear, it was quite a shocker to know that she’s actually not only just one individual, but an amalgamation of a few others as well, which all seem to be housed somewhere, either in her body or in that big ship in the final moments of the episode. There also seems to be some kind of big plan being executed by them, but ahhh well, I need the subs to get it all, damn jargon.
The ending song this time was Ranka’s version of “Diamond Crevasse”, and admittedly the opening verse was really a bit too high for my ears. I kinda jittered a bit when it came on. Overall though, it doesn’t really live up to Sheryl’s version for me. I liked the commentary by Grace and Co. though, when they mentioned that some people (Alto, in this case), really have good (or bad) luck of the times, with him being embroiled in all of this.
Finally, the “See you next deculture” shot this episode is epic, XD.
“Mother’s Lullaby”
Uh, no screencaps or whatever this time round because I’m crazily busy in real life this few days. In fact, I had to steal some time out to watch this episode.
Anyways, this episode was pretty much the mecha fighting episode to make sure it remains a Macross series, and oh boy, there was quite some homage going on around here. I think I spotted a Diamond Force in the MacF fleet and Alto went all crazy on the missile spammage, made even more epic with the nuke warheads. Alto also got seriously powered up, mostly due to worrying about Ranka, and he sports some slick moves in the fights this week.
That said, there was almost no plot development at all this episode, and frankly, I feel like they’re getting lost about it as well. They’re still introducing a lot of questions concerning the background of Macross F world, whatnot with the Vajra, the sudden revelation of the “SDF-class ships” (that look exactly like the original, although they never did say anything about the existence of this class before) and also the connections back to Zero. Even the secret of Aimo is still up in the air, even though wiki said it was gonna be revealed this week. Then there’s also Brera and Grace….
At the least, Sheryl had some limited screentime, and thankfully, her character is now more endearing to me since they’ve chosen to not make her dwell so much about her budding crush on Alto being ruined by jealousy. I especially liked it when she took control of the VF-25 when Michel got knocked out, preferring to make a dash for it than becoming sitting ducks. Thankfully, Alto made a nice appearance, saving her, although I wonder did Michel got rescued as well?
Anyways, next week seems to be a more lighter episode, and I am very glad for that, because that’s one thing I believe that MacF is still good at. I think at this point, we all would seriously love some new songs from the show and Sheryl, and the announced 2nd OP and ED are already quite overdue for a 2-cour show, don’tcha think? Maa~ I’m gonna cross my fingers and hope for the best.
“Fastest Delivery”
“Kyun~ kyun~, kyun~ kyun~, watashi no kare wa… PIROTTO!!”
Aw crap. Sorry, but I kinda laughed when Ranka burst in singing “Seikan Hikou”.
