Macross #2 AnimEigo 100 minutes English/Japanese English Subtitles 03/20/2002

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It must be AnimEigo week here or something because that's all I've been watching recently. Though, to be honest... I haven't really been watching anything in the past few days while I work towards getting my college degree once again. And, like all good students, I know the key to a good degree is in Panzer Dragoonology. So while I entertained myself with the mystical adventures of a young girl and her escape from giant electric jellyfish that may or may not be her mother, you had to sit here wasting by the side of the road until I was ready to pick you up like a favored toy, discarded on Christmas morning. But you're lucky loyal reader, because I've finished with Panzer Dragoon Orta and I'm back to shower you with love again. And I've finally managed to watch the second volume of this show, too. This thing has been sitting in my CD wallet for literally months and the only reason I popped it in at all was because I was on a trip to Florida and no matter what one may think, a DVD composed entirely of videos of Bubblegum Crisis songs isn't always the best watching material. Lucky for me, Macross never fails to disappoint. I only wish I'd realized that sooner.

And I must have been under the influence of drugs since sometime late April last year, because I can't believe I put this show off as long as I did. It's got most of the things I like, and very little that I can't stand. While Minmay is always grating on the senses we're luckily thrust into some sort of perilous situation almost every episode, and therefore I'm more than willing to sit through a little dumbass girlishness from time to time. Seriously, this show makes me wonder if whoever came up with the girl has ever seen a member of the female sex or if they just piece them together from what they've seen on TV, because Minmay acts like she belongs in a sitcom where they have problems like the daughters getting their ears pierced. It's a joke, really. And while I suppose the other woman are a little less charactiure-esque, that might be just because they get such little screen time. Not necessarily a bad thing when we've got giant robot battles that could be waged. Not to sound chauvinist or anything, because I'd rather not see guys get much screen time either unless their ship is being impacted by a whole bunch of missiles and they're screaming in agony.

But there's a bit too much of the talky at points and you'll know well by now that those kind of things don't sit well with me. Especially when I have to sit down and really concentrate on watching a subtitled show because Animeigo is too small or too tightassed or there's some legal restriction to care about making a dub for this show... whatever reason it is I really don't care, the fact of the matter is that I'm missing one Macross dub and I'd like it returned to me as soon as possible. Let's all try and forget about that for now, as I know most of you don't much like dubs anyway.** Things are rough for the crew of the Macross, what with the being stranded in space and all. It doesn't help that their knowledge of Astronomy is limited at best... unless someone made Saturn the fifth planet in the solar system without informing me of it. Things do seem to be getting along rather well though, and Lynn Minmay is quite happy about the, in her words : "First patrons of their Chinese restaurant in space" I'm not kidding, that's what it says. I wouldn't have believed such ridiculous things could actually happen if I hadn't seen them myself. It's fortunate that not much time is spent dwelling on this...

And that's because we're quickly moved into the part where the giant people fly equally giant ships and the really big spaceship turns into a really big robot and then uses its power punch attack to save the world. However, I feel a bit saddened by the fact that nobody started screaming the names of special attacks when this was going on. I mean, seriously, where's the "MISA HAYASE ULTIMATE FIIIIIIIIIIISSSTOOOO!"? I find myself feeling that I should question the validity of this show as a super giant robot anime. That's when I remember that it's Macross and if I can't count this as some serious robotic shit than I better just hang my stuff up and call it a night. This show's been around almost as long as I have and I must say it's done a lot more with it's nearly twenty years than I have with mine. It's embarrassing to be beaten out by a cartoon on so many levels, but I call a mulligan based on the fact that I was probably still crapping my diapers when this show first debuted, and as such it kind of had a head start on me now. Therefore I propose a new contest with the up and coming Macross Zero. We'll see who's doing better over the next twenty years. Have fun with your crippled Japanese economy, bastards.

**Probably because so many of you are bonesmugglers who steal their anime by downloading it from the internet. Just because it's called "File sharing" doesn't make it legal, asses.