[Spoilers][Rewatch] Super Dimensional Fortress MACROSS Episode 22 Discussion Thread

Early thread WHAAAAAA...?!

Well all right then.


That's not good for a negotiating position.

They want this. EVERYBODY WANTS THIS.

"There's your problem. This doll's set to 'EVIL'."

I was wondering if Warera, Roli, and Konda had been spending all their time showing other people their culture relics, but word is spreading beyond them. Maybe a little too far beyond them.

It's not like Kravshera hasn't been trying all along.

Here we go again. Boldolzaa needs this researched.

"It's... happening?" Some of the subsequent events are retconned/explained in Macross 7. In my opinion, doing that diminished the thematic impact of it happening here, for the first time.

Not like you've been that successful so far.

There goes the neighborhood. This plan is clearly well-thought-out. The miclone factor is just going to make it really, really weird.

The Zentradi aren't the only ones having doubts.

Just think of everyone as Minmay.

Please enjoy the song with the really depressing title.

Kaifun really looks like a girl here.

Yack! Off-model!

"Hey, don't forget that Claudia's boyfriend died."

"Great, both of our senior officers are lonely." The song really does have really fucking depressing lyrics.

This plan is actually fairly brilliant.

And to think that this is before they gave Exsedol a gigantic head for DYRL and afterward.

One punch at a time?

So begins the tradition of singing NO MATTER WHAT.

He's holding either a fried chicken leg or an ice cream cone.

Wow, those Defenders look horrible. Fuck you, Harmony Gold.

"That's a problem."

Misa, you're thinking about Kaifun?!?!?!?!

On the bright side, Hikaru didn't shoot them while they were having their cultural moment.

Milia is also lurking around.

Hey, it's a cliffhanger.


Human culture is beginning to spread through the Zentradi fleet. Zentradi are thinking of surrendering or defecting, which is quite a shift of mind from how they've been acting up to now.

Boldolzaa, even without hearing about the unrest in Britai's fleet, is very concerned about the new information he's gotten so far. The problem is that he's getting his intelligence from a kung fu movie.

So in the end there are Zentradi trying to get aboard the SDF-1 to stay and Zentradi trying to get aboard the SDF-1 to take some humans back with them. That'll be interesting.

Kaifun really wants to beat the war by making the concert happen, and persuades Minmay to keep going right up to the point where it's insanely dangerous. It's a nice stand in the "love conquers all" situation, but he's still a jerk for risking everyone's life in the process.

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