Macross Frontier! [WARNING: LONG RANGE SENSORS HAVE DETECTED MASSIVE SCREENSHOTS]

[Yoorah]

Don't mind the title. x)

Is anyone else here following this amazing series?

Macross Frontier, like the previous Macross series/movies, is a mecha anime with a strong musical performance theme. So whether you love concerts, fighter jets, OR BOTH, this is something that you MUST watch. The music in this series is great, as is the visual design for how they tie in performances with the main plot. The 3D CG mecha battle animations are simply amazing, and will make any other mecha series look like crap by comparison. The artwork is superb, and you will find a lot of creative styling in pretty much every object that you'll see. When you compare the attention to detail in this series, as well as overall production quality, Macross Frontier blows away even awesome mecha series like Gundam 00.

The only weak point this series has is that it wasn't mastered in High Definition. Some of you may not see what the big deal there is, but after you watch the first episode, you will most likely be wishing that there was a real HD version of it.

Oh, and even if you don't generally like mecha anime, you should still give this a try. Unlike the recent Gundam series, or some lame mecha animes out there, Macross Frontier isn't all "big robots fighting each other all the time" and has a well written plot, with an exciting story. Or at least, that is my impression of it so far. :)

You can download up to episode 14 at this time, by torrent, from the Lunar group.
http://a.scarywater.net/lunar/

DON'T WATCH THE EPISODES THROUGH YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING INSTEAD, YOU'LL BE MISSING OUT.

Here's some screenshots, even though they don't do the show any justice. :redface:

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[Dyxanije]

Hm, I was thinking of watching this but never got around to starting it, I guess I should check it out. Although I have never watched any of the Macross series before, so will I be missing out on anything from the past series if I start watching this?

[Retalion]

I just watch this on veoh cause I cant find a good subber/format that I can download.

As a musician I like some of the tracks but others are just a bit meh to me (though they kinda grow on me the more I listen to them).

Thing is, the fighting scenes and all the other scenes are animated by different companies so I find the fight scenes amazing looking but everything else a bit mediocre but that's just me =X

Overall, I like the anime though and watch it every week whenever I have time. In my books, its a tier under R2

Edit: @ person above me: You wont be missing out on anything. I never watched the original and I understand this series just fine.

[acev]

I've considered watching this as well, but I'm not a big fan of robots or fighter jets. Maybe I'll download the first episode later and watch it, since it looks and sounds okay, and you've convinced me.

[Dyxanije]

I just got around to watching it and I have to say, it was really good. Although I'll need to watch more of it to see if it beats out Gundam 00 like you said, part of hopes it will :P.

[Yoorah]

Glad to see some people picking it up. :p And yeah, you don't NEED to watch the older Macross series to appreciate this. The main background info is given to you bit by bit, before the opening song in some episodes. One series that I should have recommended to watch before is Macross Zero. Episode 10 of Frontier referrences it heavily. Zero is only a 5 episode OVA series, so it's not like it'd take up a whole lot of your time. ;o Other than Zero, you don't really need to see anything else, although you certainly can, if you enjoy old animation. :P

[Dyxanije]

Ok, I guess I'm going to watch Zero before I watch any more Frontier =/.

By the way, thanks for recommending it, other wise I never would of got around to watching it xD.