Macross Frontier

[David75]

I found this without really searching for it:
[Kei] Macross Frontier - 14 (h264 1280x720) [E08751C2] mkv 320Mb @mininova

I don't know that group, hope it has enough quality

Edit:
Really, this show is incredible visually. Regarding the plot, I can't tell.
The only let down would be character design, but only slightly.
I really enjoy watching it, and it's one of the few shows I always find to be too short when the ep is usual length...

regarding the girl that died, it was really obvious from the way she was introduced...

Manager repaired? Geez!

Subs where average and Quality Check very poor, but at least it was still possible to follow the flow and understand what had to be understood... I guess.

[NeoBear]

i guess i don't catch QC stuff very much so if sub quality is important to you see above post but the video quality was great and of course yes once again they melt my face with outstanding visuals during the battle scenes.

[Yukimura]

Macross Frontier - 14 - [gg]

So gg seems to have decided that 409 MB is the appropriate size for this episode and thus the file is 409 MB....

[Buffalobiian]

That was.....409MB of Gold.

Battle aside, we finally see the link between Ranka and the Vajra - the microbes present in her abdomen that glows when she sings. What significance that plays is yet to be shown, but if she extends her calming powers, it could potentially make her the Vajra Queen (Little Queen).

The identity of Brera is turns out to be a Major from Galaxy. Why he's taking orders from Sheryl's manager is beyond me.

This episode is worth watching twice. The audio in this show is just....ownage!!

[David75]

And does Sheryl start to loose against Ranka?

[Ryllharu]

I don't know about her loosing anything (other than a song), but Sheryl has certainly been losing ground. However, I don't think that Sheryl will take it sitting down. Sheryl can see pretty plainly that Alto's attentions have been on Ranka the past two or three episodes. Actually, pretty much since Ranka took over the role in the movie.

Sheryl used to be able to push Alto around all the time, and he would always get pissed off at her and chase after. Maybe she has begun to realize that she really does love Alto, and if she doesn't stop playing around and getting serious, she stands to lose him to Ranka, our new Little Queen. The scene where she floated in telling him to come back showed this clearly, and she was a little taken aback that her genuine concern and interest were brushed off so easily with "I'll come back with Ranka."

I think this would be an even bigger shocker to Sheryl than the fact that Alto never viewed her from a fan's perspective. Now Sheryl gets to experience being ignored. It's a lot like what happened with Misa right after the time jump, and Minmay towards the end.


As for the Vajra, is it just me, or does it seem like the Vajra are supposed to be "humanlike" in the same way the Zentradi are? Are they some offshoot/derivative of humankind (or the Supervision Army like humans and Zentradi both are) that was created by the Research Fleet? I assume the big floating image that was projected to Ranka from the Vajra Queen was her own mother, and while I don't think that her mother had somehow mutated into the Vajra Queen (this isn't that kind of series...I hope), did it somehow gather that connection. I don't know where I'm really going with this, but the viruses in Ranka could be that significant.

It also looks like we'll finally found out what that mophead asshole truly wants out of all this. Here's hoping Cathy comes to her senses faster after the operators discussion and gets back with Ozma.

[David75]

The [gg] 409 Mb version was worth every byte as the image was a lot clearer, which is a major improvement for an episode where so many tiny details are in each picture. It's really, really incredible at times.
Should they make a 90 minutes ep, improve character design a bit, and it would be a very nice movie because as Buff pointed it, even the music is pwnage.

And yeah, loose and lose are different and I think I make the mistake a little too much
But I had the exact same reaction when Sheryl got ignored in such a way.

Regarding the Vajra Swarm Queen, it's creepy a lot, and its connection to Ranka's eggshell was quite the thing. Regarding the connection to her mother, seems like her mother was rather a host, like Ranka is, for some kind of living things the Vajra share too.
A sort of biological symbiosis, where even communication is possible. So I guess that the remaning entity of her mother was still in that "biological symbiosis" thus able to communicate with Ranka.

[KrayZ33]

it felt really good to see some normal military pilots owning and killing.... no canon fodder here.
I love things like that, especially because the militay planes look twice as cool as Alto's or any of the skull sq.

but the battlefield was filled with too many rockets.... its always funny to see alto shooting like 200-300 rockets just because he can.
thats the only point I hate about this show... they limit the rockets to like ~8-10 on each plane :/

edit: oops I actually meant "they *should* limit the rockets to like ~8-10 on each plane"

[Ryllharu]

Planes only have so many hardpoints to attach weapons to. That's why Ozma or Alto need the heavy weapons pods to shoot off a ton more missles.

Nor do you need that many missles when you are using the Reaction (aka Nuclear) weapons. Those things are like 50-100 Megatons. (50 Megatons is a 4.6 km diameter fireball).

I wonder why Mophead Asshole wanted to get approval for Reaction Weapons so bad. You could see the mental hard-on he was getting when the president approved of it. Smug bastard.

[Everon]

I think its clear that Mop-head is the puppeteer in this war with the Varja. He probably wants to escalate this war to larger proportions and take power from the President. Or some other stupid reason.

[NeoBear]

episode 15

http://ggkthx.org/Torrents/%5Bgg%5D_...5D.mkv.torrent

make sure you watch the credits too fellas =)

[Ryllharu]

For an episode that had a lot of recap, that was very interesting.

Grace is just part of a large network of Ghosts (to use Ghost in the Shell terminology) whose goals are still unknown. But for some reason killing Sheryl is part of their plan? Other than inciting anger, I'm not really sure what that would really accomplish. Then with Ranka is revealed to be the 'Queen,' they wouldn't need Sheryl anymore, but they are still going to kill her anyway? WTF. It does make you wonder how much Leon is truly a part of this, and how much he is just as much of a pawn as everyone else.

Though it would probably be impossible, the protagonists had better hope to find the indentities of these insurgents before it's too late. I recognized a few voices, but that is probably just double-dipping into the VA pool.

The sing off was really funny though. Alto should be worried.

Other notables:

- Klan doting on Mikael in the hospital.
- Cathy and Ozma know something is fucked up.
- Brera is still a douchebag.
- How nearby is the Galaxy, and is the Network intentionally keeping it hidden and disabled?

[Yukimura]

Lol the sing off was awesome, poor Alto. Sheryl and Ranka really should do a duet concert...except that I think Sheryl has either been poisoned, or needs something from Grace to stay alive which she's not going to be receiving anymore. I'm getting a powerful feeling that Sheryl's going to die and I'm quite upset about it.

[David75]

Lol the sing off was awesome, poor Alto. Sheryl and Ranka really should do a duet concert...except that I think Sheryl has either been poisoned, or needs something from Grace to stay alive which she's not going to be receiving anymore. I'm getting a powerful feeling that Sheryl's going to die and I'm quite upset about it.

She could die popularity wise... but I do not see her dying as she's a very strong figure.
I don't know if the franchise did use that kind of development before. In any case, killing a nice and positive figure you have brought to light for so many eps, that is in every ep, and also sells actual songs IRL... that would be quite a strong and incredible move.

For some reason, Sheryl was there to either serve as beacon for the Vajra. She becomes useless as Ranka is something of high importance whose use cover those of Sheryl and much more. Also, we do not know Ranka's hidden powers yet, but I'm sure she's one of those able to cure many things, like what is poisoning Sheryl.
That's very important as it could be a classical story of two girls fighting for the same guy, that have to help each other.

Regarding how grace wants to dispose of Sheryl, I guess it's only normal to them. After all they use so much power in all they do, that they really want to wipe any traces they may leave.

[xtallography]

I guess the Galla 4 rebel commander was right... there really isn't room in the universe for the two species. It will be interesting to see how they flesh out the motives for the various zentradi factions behind all of this.

[Buffalobiian]

Singing was top stuff again, as expected from Macross.

As for Sheryl dying, I can't help but feel it could very well happen, which is indeed saddening. It would be in Grace's favour to do it though, since it would give her a clean cut reason to jump from being Sheryl's manager to Ranka's. Anything else would seem rather suspicious, since she and Sheryl go way back to Galaxy. Swapping blood samples obviously showed us there's something wrong with Sheryl that Grace wants to cover, but whether it's a poison or a life-support need is yet to be seen. I think that Sheryl would have a chance of living though. Why? Firstly, Alto being so worried that he'll notice something's wrong with her. Secondly, but more importantly, Michael picked up, and from what we saw, recognised the pills Sheryl was taking when they were on Galla 4. When Alto brings news of Sheryl's illness, they put the two together and see the true picture.

Whether that'll simply help in uncovering Galaxy's plot, or save Sheryl's life too, I can only hope the latter.

[Ryllharu]

I'm pretty sure the blood swapping is to cover up one of two things:
a) That someone has been poisoning Sheryl
b) That genetic/physical modifications have been done to Sheryl (something she was proud of not having), which would explain why she's the "failed" version that will be replaced by the true Queen in their plan.

I don't really expect her to die from any sort of disease. Outside of malicious poisoning by her own manager (who has repeatedly said they were going to kill her, and though the plan has changed they'll do it anyway), Sheryl is pretty healthy. Mikael knows she was being fed pills for her fever that were certainly not medicine.

[KrayZ33]

This episode was really good ...
felt a bit like a AMV at first, which was really cool, nice "editing" n stuff

and the later part with ranka + sheryl "fighting" over Alto was really enjoyable too.
all in all one of the best episodes so far.

I remain hoping that nothing will happen to sheryl and I'm still rooting for Alto + Sheryl, even though I don't think it will end that way
I've a bad feeling about this... (please don't die Sheryl!)

[shinta|hikari]

The AltoxSheryl pairing seems to have become impossible now. It would just seem too awkward if Alto suddenly switches over to Sheryl unless Ranka dies or something.

[Ryllharu]

Stranger things have happened in the Macross universe concerning love.

I don't think Sheryl is going to die, and I still think Sheryl will win in the end. Ranka is going to turn pacifist soon enough.