Live-Action Macross = Nerd Boner
I’m reasonably confident TR has a decent amount of Robotech fans, so I was going to link to this trailer for the new Japanese Macross series Frontier. But then I watched it, and it dawned on me that Macross kind of sucks. The original Japanese Macross anime? Pretty awesome. Macross Plus? Pretty good. Macross Zero? Good, I’m told. But the rest — Macross II, Macross 7, and this Macross Frontier nonsense — are or look like ass. Meanwhile, Robotech‘s Macross Saga — and this comes from a dude who was a professional anime nerd for seven years — is better than any and all of them.
Which is just a convoluted way of me telling you that Danny Choo posted some original Macross pachinko commercials which in effect are a live-action Macross, and I decided to post these instead because they are awesome and remind me of Robotech and thus make me engorged with nerd joy, while the Frontier trailer does not. If only the Japanese actress was washing Rick Hunter’s underwear while he chased an underage Chinese pop star, these commercials would be perfect.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.