Comments on: Remember, Remember

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:48:18 +0000

Yes! I’d hesitate to nominate anything as the one piece of anime which might unite most anime fans, but my first choice would be DYRL?. Though no doubt there’re a few people out there who’ve watched it but hated it, and many more who’d never be interested in watching it.

By: sakura

sakura — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:17:08 +0000

Ahh good old Guy Fawkes

I liked Minmei more after watching DYRL. Because I hated her with a passion for most of the series.

It really is quite something spectacular and its a testament to its greatness, how, so many years on we can all sit down and still find it so utterly fantastic.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:19:07 +0000

Just to add another layer, 2005, the year of the Tube bombings, was the year of the 400th anniversary of the original Gunpowder Plot.

By: Owen S

Owen S — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:04:50 +0000

I’m not sure if referencing V for Vendetta in a manner relevant to the post’s interests can be considered “pompous”, but i-i-it’s ok if it’s y-y-you, etc.

I’m also slightly more than just a little horrified that no one spotted your nod-wink eight comments in. Good job, though!

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:39:13 +0000

My dear fellow, that horrible song you just mentioned is Robotech. Now I don't hate Robotech, with all its terrible and execrable faults. Before the series of tubes made anime distribution what it is today, Robotech was all the Macross I could get and we were friends for many years (I've also read all of the Jack McKinney novels many times over). But "To be in love" the song, commit it to the flames.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:03:15 +0000

“To be in love….” Gotta love the old school Macross!!

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:37:25 +0000

Inserting an element from DYRL? into your marathon of the original series is a fascinating thought. I shall keep that in mind when I get around to finishing SDF Macross.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:32:42 +0000

Hmm. Normally I don’t go in for podcasts, but I might make an exception this time. Thanks for the link!

It’s hard for me to judge the changes in anime and its fandom — as you can tell from the reference to Frontier I came to Macross in particular relatively recently.

But my uninformed guess would be that, if we really are living through some kind of ‘dark age of moe’, love will be back. It’s a persistent thing.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:25:57 +0000

Yeah. Actuall, this place’s eccentricities, and the general sense that it’s sealed off from the rest of the world, make odd educational institutions like the one in Marimite slightly more plausible.

By: The Animanachronism

The Animanachronism — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:22:04 +0000

Yes. I can't think of any other conveniently-sized package that's typical of Macross . . . the Plus movie might count, but I feel that part of Plus's nature is that it is rather different to a lot of the rest of the franchise.