Yet behind that confidence is the faint vulnerability of someone who longs for a close relationship and sees that possibility in Alto. Sheryl never comes off as truly helpless in fact, she is entirely the opposite. Sheryl's singing voice, May "May'n" Nakabayashi, is as good as you'd expect from the franchise. Aya Endo (Miyuki from Lucky Star) does a great job of playing her as someone willing to do just about anything to keep her destiny in her hands, but still gracious enough to take the time to see others reach their own destinies. Sheryl Nome is a superstar, poised and confident to the cusp of arrogance.
#WARP FRONTIER REVIEW SERIES#
This series has two, and if the title and lyrics of the opening song don't make it obvious to someone reading that this is going to be a love triangle (duh, Triangular?!?), then that person must be denser than a black hole. Of course, the real stars of Macross have always been the girls.
Considering this role has a good chance of making or breaking Yuichi Nakamura's career, he does a rather good job as the aloof, standoffish, but very manly hero. At the same time, he is surprisingly not all that effeminate - when the going gets tough, the boy shows serious cojones. It's like hearing the creators saying, "You want a pretty boy? We'll give you one!" Yes, he is a pretty, pretty princess, and hearing him get called that never ever gets tiring, somehow.
Now, not everyone will agree on the decision to have a pretty-boy pilot (not that Rick Hunter / Hikaru Ichijo's hair made sense in a helmet either), but Alto Saotome's character is a neat twist on a common anime trope. Despair no longer - Macross Frontier is damn cool. Yet its sequel, the utterly regrettable Macross 7, was a badly animated, unmitigated disaster, with some lame Protodeviln-of-the-week being driven off by Nekki Basara in his Valkyrie piloted by what would prophetically be revealed years later to be a Guitar Hero controller. It is important to remember that the original Macross was a bonafide space opera, which twists and turns that bordered on the theatrical and ridiculous, yet somehow managed to keep us hooked, week after week, until a thrilling and exhausting finale.
#WARP FRONTIER REVIEW FULL#
As much as there is the constant eye-candy of mecha combat with transforming Valkyries, the real point of the main franchise has always been that "pop music will save us all." And, also, that Lynn Minmay is a bimbo.īut what if she wasn't? This is but one of the things explored in the series Macross Frontier, the first full television series worthy of the name since, well, the original. You have to admit that the entire concept of Macross is silly. Between them lies the destiny of the Frontier, and possibly, of all mankind. As the military is rendered powerless to react by bureaucracy and reliance on obsolete weaponry, the defense of the Frontier is entrusted to the private security contractor SMS.Īmong those caught in the crossfire are the aspiring young ex-kabuki actor pilot Alto Saotome, galactic superstar singer Sheryl Nome, and the young, cheerful quarter-Zentradi schoolgirl Ranka Lee. In the year 2059, the unified forces of mankind and Zentradi have continued their march through the stars, using warp fold technology to colonize an ever-increasing number of planets.Īs the Macross Frontier fleet approaches the center of the universe, a new threat emerges in the form of the insectoid Vajra. This review was written prior to Aiden's, but since his is the first complete review we have, it supplants this one as the 1st OP. Notes: This is set in the same universe as Macross, Macross 7, Macross Plus, and Macross Zero, chronologically after all of them.
#WARP FRONTIER REVIEW PLUS#
Related Series: Macross, Macross 7, Macross Dynamite 7, Macross Plus, Macross ZeroĪlso Recommended: Crest of the Stars, Macross, Macross Plus Length: Television series, 25 episodes, 23 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by Right Stuf International within their Nozomi imprint.Ĭontent Rating: 13+ (fan service, violence) Don't Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro Second Attack
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