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krpalmerWhen I organized my thoughts to the point of setting them down in a post about the decades-long logjam enveloping the international rights to Macross breaking up in a seeming instant, I did have to mention cautions seen announcements counted for little until Blu-Rays could be bought. I’d also noticed some dismissive comments the anime many wanted to see on those Blu-Rays might matter much less to the most powerful of those who’d worked through to the agreement than the long-rumoured “live-action Robotech movie.” As it turned out, not that long after that I saw a tidbit of news about the more recently rumoured and potentially closer to realization “live-action Gundam movie,” surely not in response to the earlier announcement but somehow amusing in juxtaposition. Although curious about how that movie might turn out in connection to a franchise already including a clutter of “alternative universes,” I’d be just fine turning back to the animation if necessary.
A while after that, though, there were announcements Big West, the company in Japan long held up by noisy English-language fans as “the party completely and absolutely in the right,” would be in charge of the global distribution of “Macross works made after 1987.” More than that, “Macross Flashback 2012,” the music video from 1987 that’s our final glimpse in animation of the characters in the very first love triangle of the franchise, was available to be viewed on YouTube. (Later instalments got to the point of saying those characters had “disappeared,” although that’s not quite the same to me as Robotech tossing in dialogue hooks for a continuation that’s only “concluded” in novels certain other people were ready to criticize even if other efforts, official and unofficial alike, keep winding up unfinished.) I noted the concern others were showing about Macross: Do You Remember Love? having been made in 1984 even as I remembered my ambiguities of reaction to that movie’s designs as compared to the designs of the original series, and more than that “Blu-Rays of everything else” are still a hypothetical subject that might be stuck with “deal with it; it’s cheaper than importing” premium pricing.
After saying all of that I did ponder how to wrap things up with a “but at least we’ve got this” comment, only to remember one more bit of news linking into “the stuff that helped anime get its hooks into me,” the obituary notices of World Events Productions founder Ted Koplar. An unfortunate part of me keeps dwelling on whatever accident of scheduling had “the other Voltron” stick in my mind about as well as the “five robot lions” that come to mind for everyone else, and whether it in particular had tried so hard to avoid gratuitous death through its dialogue I have a more dubious impression of the title than others, while having to acknowledge all the same World Events Productions never got into the tangled and controversial areas Carl Macek and Harmony Gold wound up in years later. So far as the “completely personal” goes, WEP had also turned the anime series Star Gunman Bismarck into “Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs,” which I saw a very few episodes of the year Robotech went off the air where I sometimes saw it, putting me in a sort of looking-back limbo for years while better-connected and braver fans were getting deeper into anime itself.
A while after that, though, there were announcements Big West, the company in Japan long held up by noisy English-language fans as “the party completely and absolutely in the right,” would be in charge of the global distribution of “Macross works made after 1987.” More than that, “Macross Flashback 2012,” the music video from 1987 that’s our final glimpse in animation of the characters in the very first love triangle of the franchise, was available to be viewed on YouTube. (Later instalments got to the point of saying those characters had “disappeared,” although that’s not quite the same to me as Robotech tossing in dialogue hooks for a continuation that’s only “concluded” in novels certain other people were ready to criticize even if other efforts, official and unofficial alike, keep winding up unfinished.) I noted the concern others were showing about Macross: Do You Remember Love? having been made in 1984 even as I remembered my ambiguities of reaction to that movie’s designs as compared to the designs of the original series, and more than that “Blu-Rays of everything else” are still a hypothetical subject that might be stuck with “deal with it; it’s cheaper than importing” premium pricing.
After saying all of that I did ponder how to wrap things up with a “but at least we’ve got this” comment, only to remember one more bit of news linking into “the stuff that helped anime get its hooks into me,” the obituary notices of World Events Productions founder Ted Koplar. An unfortunate part of me keeps dwelling on whatever accident of scheduling had “the other Voltron” stick in my mind about as well as the “five robot lions” that come to mind for everyone else, and whether it in particular had tried so hard to avoid gratuitous death through its dialogue I have a more dubious impression of the title than others, while having to acknowledge all the same World Events Productions never got into the tangled and controversial areas Carl Macek and Harmony Gold wound up in years later. So far as the “completely personal” goes, WEP had also turned the anime series Star Gunman Bismarck into “Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs,” which I saw a very few episodes of the year Robotech went off the air where I sometimes saw it, putting me in a sort of looking-back limbo for years while better-connected and braver fans were getting deeper into anime itself.