digitalclouds: Worst Moments of Anime 2011 #1: Macross Frontier The aniblogger community on the whole seems like it wouldn’t stop short of getting down on their knees and orally servicing anyone and everyone involved in the production of Macross Frontier. I know Frontier didn’t air in 2011, but it was in 2011 that I watched it. The extent to which I hate Frontier can barely be expressed in words. The plot was full of shitty melodrama - more so than that melodramatic classic of our time, Ano Hana - and a love triangle in which I had no interest. The action sequences looked pretty at first glance, but beyond twisting vapour trails from missiles (note to everyone: missiles do not fly like that - Guilty Crown suffers from the same affliction) they had not a hint of substance. The idol parts of the story were laughable, and the whole weaponised J-Pop thing? It’s fucking stupid. The traditional animation ranged from bad to average, and the CGI felt clunky and out of place. The songs themselves were okay, except for the one song that Frontier repeats the most, the Vajra love song ‘Aimo’. I’m pretty sure there was one episode where it was sung four times, which would be bad enough even if the song was good. I was taken in by a half-decent first episode, and I was a fool. You are all fools for liking this shambles of a show. I have no desire to go into the merits or non-merits of Frontier. I am pretty sure that you can enjoy it if you’re not a blatant Kawamori apologist who sort of runs a dumb Macross fansite and watches Macross Plus more times a year than you change your underwear. But I can’t say for sure, because that person is not me, and I’m fully aware that as a Macross fan I was shamelessly pandered to by Frontier, which was lopsided, badly paced, often badly animated, and ended with a travesty that pretty much wrecked the entire canon. The movies sorta fixed these. But did you just question the Itano Circus? From one of the two best things ever in Schoolgirl Milky Crisis (the other one also involved Itano) So anyway, I lit the fireworks, but they all kind of went off at once. There was this sudden, explosive cloud of smoke, and then there were rockets and firecrackers in my face, looping past me, around me… and it was really weird, sometimes they seemed to hang in space for a moment, as if they weren’t going anywhere. It was because I was still moving, along with them. Relative velocities, you see! Some were moving faster, others slower. And the smoke trails behind them billowed out in yet another direction, carried off by the wind, which was blowing in its own direction, nothing to do with the direction my bike was going. Or not going. Because I fell off. And I think my clothes were on fire by this point.

digitalclouds:

Worst Moments of Anime 2011

#1: Macross Frontier

The aniblogger community on the whole seems like it wouldn’t stop short of getting down on their knees and orally servicing anyone and everyone involved in the production of Macross Frontier. I know Frontier didn’t air in 2011, but it was in 2011 that I watched it. The extent to which I hate Frontier can barely be expressed in words. The plot was full of shitty melodrama - more so than that melodramatic classic of our time, Ano Hana - and a love triangle in which I had no interest. The action sequences looked pretty at first glance, but beyond twisting vapour trails from missiles (note to everyone: missiles do not fly like that - Guilty Crown suffers from the same affliction) they had not a hint of substance. The idol parts of the story were laughable, and the whole weaponised J-Pop thing? It’s fucking stupid. The traditional animation ranged from bad to average, and the CGI felt clunky and out of place. The songs themselves were okay, except for the one song that Frontier repeats the most, the Vajra love song ‘Aimo’. I’m pretty sure there was one episode where it was sung four times, which would be bad enough even if the song was good. I was taken in by a half-decent first episode, and I was a fool. You are all fools for liking this shambles of a show.

I have no desire to go into the merits or non-merits of Frontier. I am pretty sure that you can enjoy it if you’re not a blatant Kawamori apologist who sort of runs a dumb Macross fansite and watches Macross Plus more times a year than you change your underwear. But I can’t say for sure, because that person is not me, and I’m fully aware that as a Macross fan I was shamelessly pandered to by Frontier, which was lopsided, badly paced, often badly animated, and ended with a travesty that pretty much wrecked the entire canon. The movies sorta fixed these.

But did you just question the Itano Circus?

From one of the two best things ever in Schoolgirl Milky Crisis (the other one also involved Itano)

So anyway, I lit the fireworks, but they all kind of went off at once. There was this sudden, explosive cloud of smoke, and then there were rockets and firecrackers in my face, looping past me, around me… and it was really weird, sometimes they seemed to hang in space for a moment, as if they weren’t going anywhere. It was because I was still moving, along with them. Relative velocities, you see! Some were moving faster, others slower. And the smoke trails behind them billowed out in yet another direction, carried off by the wind, which was blowing in its own direction, nothing to do with the direction my bike was going. Or not going. Because I fell off. And I think my clothes were on fire by this point.