Macross Delta

[Ryllharu]

There's a reason shinta is lonely in here. Macross Delta sucks. But I'm still watching anyway because:

1) The OP is awesome. The best of the season and one of the best Macross OPs overall.

2) Frejya. She's everything Ranka was, but 10x better and not whiny. Her stupid heart-rune is forgivable because of her "creepy laugh" and the VA is doing great. Her VA is an awesome vocalist, when the story lets her sing properly.

3) Mirage.

4) It's Macross. I love Macross. I'm drawn to it even though it sucks.

But this series is garbage. Here's a sampling why:

1) Like...a billion races introduced. Macross, until now, has had only 3. Humans, Zentradi/Meltrandi, and Protodevlin (which were also kind of silly and stupid).

2) Windermereans (Frejya and the bad guys) only live a max of 30 years. For arbitrary reasons. It doesn't even make sense. Had they picked 50, it would have made sense. There's literally no reason why that would make evolutionary sense for the Protoculture to develop so short a life span. Even if they were pretending they were attuned to whatever because of the runes (which are also stupid), there still wouldn't be a point. The Protoculture never even made it to discover the Vajra, the only species to actually communicate across the fold according to Frontier. That was kind of the point of the entire conflict. To obtain and abuse that ability. That the Windermereans have it spits in the face of the lore developed for Frontier. And in cliché form, they're the "last" culture the Protoculture developed. Except for the fact that because of the Zentradi, the Protoculture didn't need to keep experimenting.

3) In short, as detailed above, there are a number of other instances where Delta contradicts all of the other Macross titles in terms of lore. They've rewritten a lot just to provide a framework and justification for these bad concepts.

4) Mikumo sucks. They're trying to make her super mysterious, and while Koshimizu Ami and JUNNA are both good in the portrayal, Mikumo has zero of the charisma that Sheryl had, none of the dignity that Myung and Sara Nome had, or willfulness of Mylene. Unless Mikumo turns out to be Sharon 2.0, I'm gonna be disappointed. I haven't had a general apathy toward a Macross songstress since Minmay, and even her whiny bitchiness had more personality than mysterious-for-mysterious-sake Mikumo. They clearly designed her appearance to pick up on what made Sheryl super popular, but in terms of persona she is just completely flat.

5) The other girls in Walküre are not much better. Touyama Nao playing the green hair girl has been completely wasted, pink big tits is a stereotype twice over (because she's actually a big tittied mechanic! Stereotype of not being a ditz while acting like one), and the only one of any value is the redhead, and she gets no screentime.

6) The aerial combat has been uninspired, or simply poor. I'm not knocking it because of the CG, I'm knocking it because it hasn't once had a decent Itano Circus and we're on episode 7. The asteroid fight scene was basically just a bad early-2000s music video, not something entertaining from a VF Combat perspective. Even the fight from episode 3 was the reference of the pilots and not a fixed point in space. It's like the studio doesn't even understand what they're doing.

7) The big innovation this season is delta-shaped fighters for the bad guys and swept wing VFs for the leads? They don't really look or function any different from Frontier's. The delta-shaped VFs work exactly like the group from Frontier, even having a drone-carrying unit and a more heavily armed one. There's nothing unique about the VF-31 Siegfrieds our leads are using, except for the gundam-style bit units that protect...

8) Our frontline fighting heroines, jumping around in battles with VFs and battlepods using rocket skirts. No. Just no. If Sheryl, Ranka, and Minmay can dominate the battlefield from a flight deck, so can these girls. It's stupid, doesn't make sense, and as shinta mentioned, they're risking their greatest military asset doing ground missions where they can't actually do any good unless they give themselves away.

9) While we're on this topic, where is my Super Dimensional Fortress action? Frontier had it by episode 6. SDF-1 Macross had it in full by episode 6 (and multiple times before that). Macross 7 created the idea of a Battle and City split unit.

I can keep going and going, but I've made my point.