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Honestly, if he had let her do her own thing fighting off the Vajra, he probably could’ve snuck in past her and destroyed the nest handily.

Weirdly, he seems primarily intent on either disabling or killing Klan. Skull and Pixie Teams go out to capture a Vajra nest, and Brera is ordered (obviously by Grace, although we don’t actually see her) to destroy the nest to keep Frontier from getting any Vajra samples. One of the people Ranka hands a tissue package to will turn out to be very important next episode, but for right now (that sleight-of-hand scriptwriting again), the problem is that she’s seeing Brera everywhere, and sometimes it’s unclear if it’s just her imagination or not (which, like Episode 4, makes me think of “My Fair Minmay” (have you read it? if not, you should!)).Īnd that brings us, sorta, back to the bit from the beginning.

And now they’re way more famous than they were then (seriously. One rainy night, I met the idol group Denpagumi Inc. Ranka is doing the time-honored tradition of promoting her debut single by standing on a street corner in Shibuya, handing out tissue packages. And he’s totally right: her special about “picking up a gun to save Macross Galaxy!” does look pretty lame.Ĩ. Sheryl and Alto seem to have progressed in their relationship, since she’s actually calling him now. He’s also really damn mean to Klan when he makes fun of her miclone form. Maybe the EX-Gear covers movements like that, but if so, it’s not anything we see anywhere else in the show. I dunno… I see what the staff was going for, and it’s a funny idea, but I’m not sure it really “works,” given what we know about battroids. I just imagine him inside the cockpit, frantically moving the control stick and pressing pedals, all while trying to carry on a fairly serious conversation. What’s, er, not as effective (and REALLY DAMN WEIRD) is the way Michel’s battroid moves like a human when he’s talking to Macro-Klan outside the ship. I like how the flashbacks here are excessively grainy with lots of lines on them, making them look like an old film. Alto also brings up Michel’s sister, which is a step too far (admittedly, Michel DID almost kill Alto, but still…), and Michel kicks his ass pretty thoroughly.ĥ. Everything’s mostly confirmed by that point).Ĥ. And yes, we get our first real confirmation that Grace isn’t JUST Sheryl’s manager, since she’s spying on the meeting with President Glass (next episode, she’ll meet with Leon, and she’s disguised as a man. I don’t understand what he’s talking about there).ģ. His third is that, in the original series, Minmay became a “human failure,” but in Frontier, “the main character” (Alto?) does. (Itano’s second big criticism is that the show is trying to appeal to women, which doesn’t bother me. According to Itano, since Michel tends to anchor his Valk to nearby asteroids, he’s effectively cutting off half of his field of vision. Okay, I mentioned before that Ichiro Itano had some harsh words for Frontier, and Michel’s sniper technique was one of the things he singled out. Oh, man… if you only knew… If she had taken him up on his offer, THAT might’ve killed him outright…Īlthough she’s pretty good at killing his ardor by bringing up his dead sister (incidentally, how does Grace know about her? Was she furiously searching for info on him while he was coming on to her, trying to find ANYTHING she could that would get him off her case? Or did she actually know about (and have some involvement?)in Jessica’s death?).Ģ. For a while.Īnd right after the opening, Michel makes a pass at Grace. The staff apparently ended up liking him too much for that, though, so he was spared.

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Yes, this is the Michel-centric episode, done relatively early in the series because as Kawamori said in the episode commentary section of the book “2059 Memories,” the original plan was to kill him off during the first “cour” of the series. It also reveals Alto’s first use of “Michel” instead of “Mikhail,” which gets explained here. Ah, the tried-and-true method of starting an episode near the climax and then backtracking to show what led up to it.

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