Comments on: Macross Frontier 18 – Fold Fame

By: Sakura

Sakura — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:25:24 +0000

@Xephfyre, The mecha are pretty and shiny and D.J likes pretty, shiny, mechas!

Well, if they follow the original closely it will certainly be a Sheryl x Alto ending. If you consider that what Sheryl is going through right now parallels with the crappy time Misa was given.

If Kawamori wants to be a bit different this time round though, maybe he’ll have the green haired one win out ^-^

But yeah, getting to stay at the family home really is going to put Sheryl one up on Ranka-chan.

By: xephfyre

xephfyre — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:40:01 +0000

The Mecha, I came buckets.

And if I think the way this is going, as much as I want Ranka X Atlo, I think I’ll have to face Sheryl X Alto in the end.

By: Sakura

Sakura — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:47:12 +0000

@Yoo, It does seem very like Grace to do something like that, she’s callous enough. I don’t think she really gives a crap about anything except her grand plan.

I like your view of the opening, seeing her tied up in that red ribbon too gives you an impression of fate coming into play.

By: Yoo

Yoo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:58:23 +0000

My own theory is that Grace recruited a homeless child who would not be missed and deliberately infected her in order to study the V-type infection. It seems to be an unlikely coincidence that Sheryl’s health deteriorated to a life-threatening degree just after Grace found her.

@Hoshi & Sakura, the Sheryl sinking imagery in the new OP gave me a strong impression of being a symbolic representation of her sinking into despair. Given that she’s sinking into despair right now, maybe we’ll see a change in the OP soon with Alto and/or Ranka pulling her out.

By: Sakura

Sakura — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:08:19 +0000

@Yoo, no Grace didn’t explicitly say that Sheryl was infected with the virus, but just said she was sick when she found her. But she did say that she was never cured, so I thought she was implying that Sheryl had the virus before they met.

Of course knowing how underhand Grace is, it wouldn’t surprise me if Sheryl had some perfectly curable disease when Grace found her and it was Grace that infected Sheryl with the virus.

By: Sakura

Sakura — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:04:26 +0000

@hashihime thanks, I think we started the idea of Luca needing to change sex over at THAT in one of Crusaders reviews. We figure its the only way he’ll be able to get Nanase interested since she really seems to be all about Ranka!

I think the Mikhai x Klan pairing has a lot of fans, we all want him to wake up and see how cute she is! Not that I really think he’s being dense about it, in reality I think its his hang-up over his sisters death thats really stopping him from going for Klan.

@Hoshi, the ED is great too. I’ve pretty much enjoyed the music all around for this show and can’t wait til the second OST hits. That was Sheryl sinking into the water, but I really do think things are actually going to take a turn for the better in regards to her, here soon. If you’ve seen the original they were pretty crappu to Misa before things turned out the way they did.

And yeah Angsty Alto = yummylicious ^-^ or maybe he just needs to stand in the rain more…

@otou-san, I whole heartedly agree, its really starting to move forward with speed now. Which I guess makes sense, with the number of episodes remaining, its going to be all systems go. I feel death coming…

@blissmo, I bet I know a green haired trap who agrees with you ^-^ I actually enjoyed the Seikan Hikou OP too, I thought it was really cute. But I like getting to hear Ranka and Sheryl sing. It really seems to push the idea not only of the love Triangle, but that maybe this whole thing will rely on those two working together.

@Crusader, You know I never even thought of that and it would be totally adorable. Do you think they dressed him up as a little girl from a very early age? Can you imagine if the bridge bunnies got their hands on those photos? AWESOME!

By: Yoo

Yoo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:51:57 +0000

Are you sure that Sheryl already had the V-type infection when she was found by Grace? I had the distinct impression that Grace said something like “remember how sick you were soon after I found you?” instead of explicitly saying that Sheryl was already infected.

By: Crusader

Crusader — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:17:48 +0000

It is always darkest before dawn and dawn might come sooner than we think now that Sheryl has been safely secreted to the Saotome home. I hope they use this as an opportunity to give some more history on Alto-hime and have hime make up with his dad. Sheryl could use a freind right about now so maybe she can have abit of fun and start doing some recon in Alto-hime’s home turing up childhood photographs and the like. I wonder what Alto-hime’s mother looks like, it would be greatly amusing if she looks even more deculture than her son. XD

By: blissmo

blissmo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:12:29 +0000

I like the Ranka OP better

By: otou-san

otou-san — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:43:46 +0000

They’re about as subtle as an elephant with all the Triangles over the place

LOL I had the same thought. Lots of angst indeed, and I ask the Ranka fans — who’s moe now? Seriously though, both are great characters and Frontier finally seems like it’s taking off in the past few episodes to be worthy of the Macross Name.