Also, Mikhail Despair Mode in cruise control.

The characters are surprisingly cognizant of the role of advertising as well; Sheryl makes no secret of the fact that success in her line of business depends on how she ’sells’ herself, when talking to Alto on their date. Ranka too, in this episode, shows that she understands the importance of advertising herself in her promotions campaign this episode. So much of the subliminal effect of advertisement is missing, as far as the viewer is concerned.

Sheryl’s home is under attack, and with it, one of the only ties she has to the parents she never knew. She’s not a pilot like Alto, so she can’t fight in person. But that doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t do what she can, both by singing and campaigning her support. The fact that the ad itself was presented as goofy demonstrates how limited the approach is; it’s unlikely that people will blindly listen. But it’s nice to see that Sheryl is still trying her best to help in spite of the limitations that she faces.

Macross is NOT Gundam – they don’t tend to switch mecha when they encounter a superior one, and at most just add features to existing mecha (such as the Super pack of the first Macross) unless a new mecha’s been shown in the OP. This means SMS is unlikely to get a ‘new Strike Freedom VF’ to counter Brera, but that they find some other way of dealing with him.

I only feel alittle bad for Michael becuase of his past. But I too hated how cliched it was. I don’t like how his sister sort of abandoned him for suicide over one dramatic ordeal. I feel bad for him because if it were real life he might have some anger to his sister for that…..since this is anime he doesn’t appear to have that.

Actually it really annoys me that his past has -1 creativity points in it.
Come on writers….

“I’d love to see Mikhail get over her loli form and hit it anyway.”
Me too. That’s what i meant to say…..man I gotta stop going half-way in my comments.

lol @ the unintentional double entendre.

As for Ranka, she is indeed quite popular, she even has a baby Vajra following her around!

@ Randor: I also have the entire series sitting on my HDD, but I have neither the time nor motivation to get started on it ;_;

@ blissmo: Beach episode! Perhaps…

@ Haesslich: Holy crap that sounds awesome, okay, so now I only have a lack of time stopping me from watching the rest of the Macross franchise.

@ jacobian: As a celebrity of her caliber, she must have accepted the fact that normalcy will be absent from her life. But I guess that’s why she finds herself so attracted to Alto, since he provides her with a small glimmer of normal in her otherwise grandiose life.

And yes, all advertising IS media manipulation o_o that was intrinsic to my point.

@ Lala: That would be a good explanation, but a little too predictable for my tastes.

The animation this episode was pretty good. I fail to see how you found episode eight’s animation to be the best, it was really bad, Ranka’s facial expressions were retarded and Sheryl had a manface thing going on half the time ;_;

@ Crusader: > Have you forgotten how rabu rabu Shin Kudo got with both Nome sisters? You know Alto-hime is going to get drafted as Shin. As for who gets to play Sara and Mao, well that will be the interesting part.

*whoosh*

I haven’t watched any of the previous Macross series, haha.

> Now if Mikhail was Japanese there would be no problems with Chibi-Klein-sama.

Excellent point.

@ Kabitzin: Yea, pretty much, his promotions are lame. Though the website thing totally isn’t his fault, h4x and etc.

Mikhail is lying to himself, he totally wants to hit loli Klein, she’s probably wild in bed.

@ Avisch: I’d love to see Mikhail get over her loli form and hit it anyway. I can’t say I feel bad for him on account of his past though, given how cliche it was, it didn’t really hit that hard.

Brera’s valkyrie is pretty broken, but that just means the SMS will get a nice upgrade down the road.

He still seems a bit dubious though, at least with his contacts (or lack of) as well as being of a little-known, possibly one-man, operation.

Yeah lots of MichaelxKlan vibes. I agree they do make a good couple. I imagine that her micronized form may be healed in the finale-epilogue. Or maybe Michael won’t really care. Either way. It’s good we have more romance to seriously focus on.

I feel bad for Michael now that his past has been revealed. I think Alto did the right thing (ie. yelling at him) because otherwise Michael would have kept his feelings bottled up….and that’s never good.

I want to know if Mikhail really thinks he’ll get in trouble for sleeping with loli-Klan Klein. Can’t he just blame it on deculture?

They making a film for Macross Zero so Ranka might get her kissu from Alto-hime…

So take heart it isn’t necessarily filler if Ranka steps up and claims her role and the giver of her first kiss…Have you forgotten how rabu rabu Shin Kudo got with both Nome sisters? You know Alto-hime is going to get drafted as Shin. As for who gets to play Sara and Mao, well that will be the interesting part. XD

Now if Mikhail was Japanese there would be no problems with Chibi-Klein-sama.