Macross Frontier
| Anime television series | |
|---|---|
| title | Macross Frontier |
| Original title | マ ク ロ ス |
| transcription | Makurosu Furontia |
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| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Year (s) | 2007-2008 |
| Studio | Satelight |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Episodes | 25th |
| genre | Space opera , mecha , music |
| Director | Shōji Kawamori |
| idea | Shōji Kawamori, Studio Nue |
| production | Hiro Maruyama, Hisanori Kunisaki, Shinichi Hirai, Tsutomu Kasai, Yoji Morotomi, Kazumi Kawashiro (executing), Michiaki Sato (executing), Seiji Takeda (executing) |
| music | Yōko Kanno |
| First broadcast | December 24, 2007 (first episode / pilot) April 4, 2008 (series premiere) on TBS (pilot), MBS (series) |
Macross Frontier ( Japanese マ ク ロ ス
action
prehistory
In the fictional future of the year 2047 AD, humanity spreads across the galaxy together with the Zentradi, the former enemies, with large fleets. The fleets repeatedly come under heavy attacks by the Vajra, an extraterrestrial race that resembles an insect state and forms a eusocial collective . Although this species is scattered over large parts of the galaxy, the individuals can communicate via so-called fold waves, which allow an exchange of information that is faster than light .
At this time, Ranshe Mei was working with Grace O'Connor as an assistant for Mao Nome, who was already known from Macross Zero . While examining the vajra on the 117th Research Fleet, Ranshe contracted a virus called "V-Type" during her pregnancy. Her daughter Ranka Mei is infected with the deadly disease at a very young age. Since Ranka is a quarter of Zentradi, she can overcome the dangerous effects of the virus before birth, which she has since been immunized against it. Ranka, unconsciously carrying the virus, can communicate with the vajra while singing via the fold waves released by the virus.
It is unclear whether it is Ranka's singing or an experiment by Grace O'Connor that draws the vajra to the 117th Research Fleet. In the fight against the attackers, hopelessly inferior, the fleet is completely destroyed. Only some people can escape this hell. They include Ranka, her older brother Brera Sterne, and Grace O'Connor. Separated from her brother, losing her mother and suffering from amnesia as a result of the events, Ranka Mei is rescued and adopted by fighter pilot Ozma Lee. Since then she has been called Ranka Lee . While Ranka is growing up on the Macross Frontier convoy , Sheryl Nome, Mao Nome's orphaned granddaughter, is taken in by the cyborg Grace O'Connor and abused for further experiments. During these attempts, Sheryl is also infected with the virus. Brera also falls into Grace's hands and is brought under her control by implants.
First raids on the Frontier convoy
In 2059 AD, the two convoys Macross Frontier and Macross Galaxy are traveling near the Galactic Core in search of a colonizable world. In the meantime, Sheryl has risen to become a famous singer and intergalactic idol thanks to the not selfless support of Grace. Having grown up on the Macross Galaxy, she is expected to make several guest appearances on the Macross Frontier. During the preparations, the aerobatic pilot Alto Saotome, who was hired for effect flights with some of his fellow students from the Mihoshi flight academy, meets with Ranka. Ranka has now developed into a typical teenager . She is a big fan of Sheryl and was also on her way to the concert when she tried to take a shortcut and got lost. He helps her to get to her seat in good time for the beginning of the concert and begins the performance with his flight companions. Driven by youthful recklessness, he flies too risky a maneuver and pushes Sheryl off the stage in such a way that she involuntarily ends up in his arms and is forced to end her performance in this pose. But before the performance ends, the alarm condition is called when a group of Vajra enter the dome of the mother ship. In this dispute within one of the inhabited cities, Alto takes control of a VF-25 , the pilot of which died before his eyes, and saves Ranka, frozen in shock, from the attackers. Ozma Lee - the leader of the squadron of the private military service provider SMS and adoptive father of Ranka - becomes aware of Alto. After an entrance exam, Alto joined the service provider SMS as a recruit and was given the nickname Skull 4 .
Ranka's career
Meanwhile, Ranka, unable to remember her rescue because of her recurring amnesia, is encouraged by Sheryl to pursue her dream of a singing career. After a few appearances as an advertising character, Ranka got a small guest role in a film adaptation of the historical events from Macross Zero for the people of the Macross universe . While SMS provides the variable fighter for the filming , Mao Nome's actress has an accident, so that Ranka takes her place. The film is celebrated as a success by the audience at the premiere and Ranka is enthusiastically received by the audience. As a result of her positive reception, Ranka is often pressed for time and is preparing for her first live performance in the concert hall, where she once admired Sheryl. She plans to give Alto a birthday present. Sheryl gets ahead of her and he flies with her to Gallia 4 , a planet with a real atmosphere, which he dreamed of all his life under the dome of the Macross Frontier.
The remains of the 117th research fleet
When the Sheryl, no longer cared for by Grace, collapses on her mission to appease the center of the planet, exhausted on arrival, a splinter unit of the squadron there serves as a reason to trigger a revolt. Informed of the situation, Ranka travels to the planet together with Michael, a good friend and member of the SMS . There she manages to calm the angry Zentradi, while Alto can eliminate the leader of the revolt.
When Alto wants to travel home with Ranka, the technology of the variable fighter fails and they crash near the missing Macross of the 117th research fleet. Under the mother ship is a nest of the vajra, into which Ranka is kidnapped. The Vajra controlled by Grace finally launch into orbit with Ranka on board when the planet is destroyed by an ignited folding weapon and the Zentradi squadron also kills. Michael, Sheryl and Alto can barely escape. In the ensuing battle, Ranka is freed from the spaceship by Brera Sterne and Alto, and they return to the Macross Frontier .
Ranka's relationship with the vajra
Soon the unusual effect of Ranka's singing on the vajra is observed and attempts are made to use her and her voice as a distraction for attacking vajra, which gives her a fame similar to that of the idol Lynn Minmay . Meanwhile, Sheryl's health continues to deteriorate and she also gets psychological problems when she realizes that she currently has little to oppose her rival, both in the music business and in her love for Alto.
After another devastating attack on the main ship of the convoy, in which Ranka's friend Nanase is badly wounded and Michael is killed, Ranka decides not to sing anymore. When she realizes that her pet Ai-kun, with whom she had become friends, is also a vajra in an early stage of development, she leaves the ship with Brera and sets off for the home planet of the vajra in order to meet Ai-kun with his conspecifics bring. In doing so, she falls into Grace's trap, who uses her ability to control the vajra.
Leon's betrayal and Grace's plans
Meanwhile, Ozma Lee and his former lover, Cathy Glass, find out that the leadership of the Macross Frontier has been overthrown. The government adviser Leon Mishima killed Howard Glass, the incumbent head of government and father of Cathy. He also tried to have his accomplice Grace eliminated, but he did not succeed. So they inform their closest friends of the events and leave the network with the now renegade battle cruiser Macross Quarter , the main ship of the SMS . Alto and Luca stay behind on the mother ship Macross Frontier . The renegades search the remains of Gallia 4 for further clues and find parts of Grace's plans, but are late to return to the main fleet, which is already preparing to attack the home planet of the Vajra.
Final argument
Sheryl, who has meanwhile been tracked down by the new government, is now to take on the role of Ranka, as she also carries the "V-Type" virus and can influence the vajra. Its effect is much weaker, but it is enhanced by its special earring. Shortly after the battle breaks out, the broken Ranka, now in the overwhelmed Battle Galaxy , the flagship of the Macross Galaxy convoy , begins to unite the Vajra with her song against the attacking Macross Frontier convoy, ironically with the Song Ai, Oboete Imasu ka from the Macross film of the same name The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? with which humanity repelled an invasion on its part. Meanwhile, her brother ensures that none of her friends can get to Ranka. He even shoots down to the horror of Sheryl, Klan and Luca Alto's machine, but is himself hit and wounded by the Macross Quarter, who appears at the moment . Some of his implants are destroyed and Brera is no longer under Grace's control.
The arrived Macross Quarter now supports the convoy and has Leon arrested with the evidence found. Shortly before it was shot down, Alto managed to free himself from his Variable Fighter and he survived under the protection of wreckage floating around. Equipped with a new fighter, he asks Sheryl to sing even more intensely to wake Ranka out of her condition. They succeed in doing this, but Grace has meanwhile connected directly with the crush queen of the collective. All attacks against these are ineffective because of a fold-wave protective screen. However, Ranka manages to settle her argument with Sheryl in a telepathic connection made possible by Sheryl's earrings. Alto can then free Ranka from inside the Battle Galaxy . The vajra recognize from Ranka's and Sheryl's different chanting that what they perceived as chaos in humanity is individuality, they sacrifice themselves to protect the convoy and help the people advance to the queen. In their vicinity, Alto can kill the Grace associated with her.
The vajra withdraw peacefully and the damaged ships of the fleet touch down on the planet to establish a new colony. Alto can finally enjoy his desired heaven and also Klan, who lost her great love with Michael, finds new courage. Sheryl and Ranka understand each other now and agree on a fair fight for Alto's love.
Characters
main characters
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Alto Saotome ( 早 乙 女 ア ル ト , Saotome Aruto ) Age: 17 |
A student in the pilot training program at Mihoshi High School (
美 星 学園 高校 Mihoshi gakuen kōkō ), who comes from a family of actors known for their kabuki performances. Because of his long hair and the feminine facial features, which brought him the eponymous onnagata role as princess in the kabuki play Sakura-hime Azuma Bunshō ( 桜 姫 東 文章 ) by Tsuruya Namboku , his classmates often nicknamed him the princess ( 姫 , hime ).
Despite his rather distant character, he is actually a normal teenager who, due to his pursuit of pilot training, fell out with his father, the well-known kabuki actor Ranzo Saotome , who even denied him in front of others as his son, even when he became seriously ill. |
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Ranka Lee ( ラ ン カ ・ リ ー , Ranka Rī ) Age: 15, then 16 |
The green-haired and happy girl is the adopted daughter of Ozma Lee , but both refer to themselves as brother and sister. Since she is a neighborhood of Zentradi , her hair moves in its own way according to her emotions. It also has a higher resistance to the vacuum in space. While attending a girls' high school, she works as a waitress in the Chinese restaurant Nyan-Nyan , and has dreamed of becoming a singer since childhood. Sheryl is her great role model, who above all gives her courage with a few tips in fulfilling her dream. With the start of her singing career, her talent caused a sensation even before her first live concert in Frontier , when she ensured that both rebellious Zentradi and Vajra cease fighting through her singing.
Since an attack by the vajra on her original home, the 117th large research convoy, Ranka has suffered from psychological amnesia . She has no memories from her childhood, not even that she is the daughter of Ranshe Mei. Only one song called Aimo is left to her. |
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Sheryl Nome ( シ ェ リ ル ・ ノ ー ム , Sheriru Nōmu ) Age: 17 |
A well-known singer from the Macross convoy "Galaxy", who can be found regularly at the top of the charts in the Macross universe and as an allusion to her origins and her enormous popularity also called "The Galactic Fairy" ( 銀河 の 妖精 , gengi no yōsei ) becomes. Beauty and talent are reflected in great self-confidence and sometimes arrogance.
Her pain is all the greater when she has to realize that her manager had planned her success for a long time, and that even because of a serious illness she is no longer able to keep up with Ranka as a new rising star. |
Conception
Similarities to previous series, films, and OVAs
Macross Frontier shares some similarities and references to previous series and OVAs in the franchise. Ranka, for example, like Minmay Lynn from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, works in a Chinese restaurant and wears clothes that look similar. She also sang the song Watashi no Kare wa Pilot during her appearance at the Miss Macross competition and her rescue by Alto in the second episode of the series is similar to the rescue of Minmay by Hikaru Ichijo. In the same episode, a song by the band Fire Bomber from Macross 7 can be heard in Ozma Lee's car.
Relationship triangle
As in previous films, Macross Frontier relies on a triangular relationship between the main characters and some supporting roles. In many places the "triangle" is deliberately alluded to. Triangular lens flares are used in scenes in which all three main characters can be seen. The naming of the first single as Triangler also supports this concept, as does the "picture frames" designed as a triangle in the opening credits of the series.
After the use of CGI had already been partially relied on in OVA Macross Zero , the use of such elements in Macross Frontier was expanded.
Publications
Television broadcast
On December 24, 2007 shortly after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ), the first episode was broadcast on the Japanese television station TBS and five days later on MBS in a special version , which is referred to as the Deculture Edition .
The actual start of series production took place from April 4 to September 26, 2008 shortly after midnight on MBS. CBC followed with an offset of one hour and with an offset of up to one week were followed by TBS, TBC , SBS , RCC , RKK , HBC , RSK and RKB Mainichi Hōsō . From May 7, 2008, the series was also broadcast nationwide on the Japanese television station Animax via satellite.
DVD / Blu-Ray
The first episode was released on commercial media in Japan on July 25, 2008, and was released on both DVD and Blu-ray . This release includes the first episode in both the TV version and the Deculture Edition , and a new cut version called the Yack Deculture Edition .
The first purchase media reached number 3 in the Oricon DVD sales charts for anime publications and number 1 in the Oricon Blu-ray sales charts in the same category, with significantly more Blu-ray media (22,000 copies sold). were sold as DVDs (18,000 copies sold). This makes Macross Frontier the first anime series that sold more Blu-ray than DVD media at launch. In addition, the first part is so successful that they are also listed in the regular DVD sales charts with the two first-placed and fourth-placed publications.
Voice actor
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Alto Saotome | Yūichi Nakamura |
| Ranka Lee | Megumi Nakajima |
| Sheryl Nome | Aya Endō (dialogues), May'n (vocals) |
For Seiyū Megumi Nakajima, the lead role Ranka Lee , which also includes vocals, marks her debut. She was selected from more than 5000 applicants at an audition for Victor Entertainment .
music
The following table shows the pieces used and their respective ascribed interpreters, Ranka corresponds to "Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi" ( ラ ン カ ・ リ ー = 中 島 愛 ) and Sheryl corresponds to "Sheryl Nome starring May'n" ( シ ェ リ ル ・ ノ ー ム starring May'n ). In the first episode, the pieces used for the opening and closing credits differ between Deculture Edition (D), regular TV version (TV) and Yack Deculture Edition (YD).
All pieces were composed by Yōko Kanno , except for those from previous Macross parts such as Ai, Oboete Imasu ka (composer: Kazuhiko Katō ), Watashi no Kare wa Pilot (composer: Kentarō Haneda ) and the pieces by Fire Bomber .
| episode | Opening credits | Credits | During the act |
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| 1 (D) | - | Ai, Oboete Imasu ka - Deculture Edition Size (Ranka) |
Chōjikū Hanten: Nyanyan (Ranka), Iteza Gogo Kuji: Don't be late (Sheryl), What 'bout my star? (Sheryl) |
| 1 (TV) | Triangler (Sakamoto) | Diamond Crevasse (Sheryl) | |
| 1 (YD) | Aimo (Ranka) | ||
| 2 | Diamond Crevasse (Sheryl) | Totsugeki Love Heart (Fire Bomber), Diamond Crevasse - Tembō Kōen nite (Ranka, Sheryl) | |
| 3 | Aimo (Ranka) | ||
| 4th | SMS Shōtai no Uta - Ano Musume wa Alien (SMS no Mina-san), Watashi no Kare wa Pilot - Miss Macross 2059 (Ranka) | ||
| 5 | What 'bout my star? (Sheryl), Uchū Kyōdai Fune (Kiichirō Tokugawa), What 'bout my star? @Formo (Ranka, Sheryl) | ||
| 6th | Diamond Crevasse (ED) (Sheryl) | ||
| 7th | Aimo (Ranka) | Iteza Gogo Kuji: Don't be late (Sheryl), Infinity (Sheryl) | |
| 8th | Diamond Crevasse (Sheryl) | Ninjīn loves you yeah! (Ranka), Aimo (Ranka) | |
| 9 | Neko Nikki (Ranka) | ||
| 10 | Aimo - Tori no Hito (Ranka) | Aimo - Tori no Hito (ED) (Ranka) | |
| 11 | Neko Nikki (Ranka) | Chōjikū Hanten: Nyanyan (Ranka) | |
| 12 | Ai, Oboete Imasu ka - Deculture Edition Size (Ranka) |
Seikan Hikō (Ranka), Aimo (Ranka), Neko Nikki (Ranka) | |
| 13 | Diamond Crevasse (Sheryl) | - | |
| 14th | Haha to Ko-Ranka no Aimo (Ranka, Sakamoto) | ||
| 15th | Diamond Crevasse 50/50 (Ranka, Sheryl) | Welcome To My Fanclub's Night! (Sheryl), What 'bout my star? (Sheryl), Infinity # 7 (Ranka, Sheryl), Chōjikū Hanten: Nyanyan (Ranka), Seikan Hikō (Ranka) | |
| 16 | Northern Cross (Sheryl) | Aimo OC (Ranka) | |
| 17th | Seikan Hikō (Ranka) | My Soul for You (Fire Bomber), Try Again (Fire Bomber), Seikan Hikō (Ranka) | |
| 18th | Lion (May'n, Nakajima) | Seikan Hikō (Ranka), Ai, Oboete Imasu ka - Deculture Edition Size (Ranka), Aimo OC (Ranka) | |
| 19th | Triangler (Sakamoto) | What 'bout my star? @Formo (Ranka, Sheryl), Seikan Hikō (Ranka), Anata no Oto (Ranka) | |
| 20th | Shinku no Diamond Crevasse (Sheryl) | Anata no Oto (Ranka), Aimo OC (Ranka), Shinkū no Diamond Crevasse (ED) (Sheryl) | |
| 21st | Ao no Ether (Ranka) | Aimo (Ranka) | |
| 22nd | Northern Cross (Sheryl) | Yōsei (Sheryl), Northern Cross (ED) (Sheryl) | |
| 23 | Brera to Ko-Ranka no Aimo (Ranka) | ||
| 24 | Brera to Ko-Ranka no Aimo (Ranka), Iteza Gogo Kuji: Don't be late (Sheryl), Ai, Oboete Imasu ka - bless the little queen (Ranka) | ||
| 25th | - | Triangler (fight on stage) (Ranka, Sheryl) | Northern Cross (Sheryl), Ai, Oboete Imasu ka - bless the little queen (Ranka), Nyannyan Service Medley (Ranka, Sheryl, Sakamoto) |
Adaptations
Mangas
A manga adaptation of the same name by Hayato Aoki ( 青木 ハ ヤ ト ) was published from the 02/2008 issue (December 26, 2007) to the 01/2010 issue (November 26, 2009) in Shōnen Ace magazine . The chapters were summarized in five anthologies ( Tankōbon ) and published between April 26, 2008 and November 26, 2009 at Imprint Kadokawa Comics A.
Between the issues 04/2008 (February 26, 2008) and 07/2008 (May 26, 2008) the Macross F: Chōjikū Utahime Ranka ( マ ク ロ ス F 超次 空 歌 巫女 ラ ン カ ) by Yoshihiro Kuroiwa ( 黒 岩 よ し ひ ろ ) was published in the magazine Comp -Ace . This was followed by the issues of 09/2008 (July 26, 2008) to 04/2009 (February 26, 2009) Macross Frontier: Dakishimete, Ginga no Hate made. ( マ ク ロ ス F 抱 き し め て 、 銀河 の 果 て ま で。 ) by Sorahiko Mizushima ( 水 島 空 彦 ), compiled on February 26, 2009 as an anthology. In the last two editions, three chapters by guest authors were also printed: in 03/2009 one by Yūki Tanaka ( た な か 友 基 ) and in 04/2009 You're My Only Shining Star by Hina Shirogane ( シ ロ ガ ネ ヒ ナ ) and Triangler F! ( ト ラ イ ア ン グ ラ ー Ｆ！ ) from 紀 和 保 地 .
Motion picture
At the end of the last episode, a Macross Frontier movie was announced. Under the title Gekijōban Macross Frontier - Itsuwari no Utahime ( 劇場版 マ ク ロ ス
The second film Gekijōban Macross Frontier - Sayonara no Tsubasa ( 劇場版 マ ク ロ ス
Soundtrack
The episodes are musically underlined by a soundtrack composed by Yōko Kanno . Through previous topics such as Watashi no Kare wa Pilot ( 私 の 彼 は パ イ ロ ッ ト , dt. "My friend is a pilot") and Ai, Oboete Imasu ka ( 愛 ・ お ぼ え て い ま す d, dt. "Love, you remember it ? ") Are reinterpreted by her.
Soundtrack sampler
The first soundtrack sampler called Macross Frontier OST 1 Nyan Flow. ( マ ク ロ ス
The first sampler is the first anime soundtrack in 11 years to hit the top 10 of the Japanese charts. A second sampler Macross Frontier Original Soundtrack 2: Nyan Tora ( マ ク ロ ス
The third sampler Macross Frontier Vocal Collection Album: Nyan Tama ( マ ク ロ ス
Single releases
The first opening credits, also arranged by Yōko Kanno and written by Gabriela Robin, entitled Triangler ( ト ラ イ ア ン グ ラ ー , Toraiangurā ) are sung by Maaya Sakamoto and reached number 2 in the Japanese singles charts after publication and remained in the top ten a week later . The second opening credits are voiced by Megumi Nakajima and May'n together and are titled Lion . The maxi single was released in August 2008 and sold 56,000 times in the first week after it was released, making the single number 3 on the Oricon charts.
The credits, which can be heard mainly, are published by May'n Healthy, but under the name of the main character Sheryl Nome and are titled Diamond Crevasse . Two days before it was released, the single reached number 2 in Oricon's daily single charts. Due to the success of the CDs released in the Japanese charts, the Mainichi Shimbun speaks in its web edition of a new boom in terms of sales of accompanying songs to anime.
Alternative closing themes are the Ai sung by Ranka Lee and her Seiyū Megumi Nakajima , oboete Imasu ka , the title Aimo ( ア イ モ ) written by Gabriela Robin , and for episode 11 the title Neko Nikki ( ね こ 日記 ). With episode 16, the title Northern Cross ( ノ ー ザ ン ク ロ ス , Nōzan Kurosu ) is used as the main closing theme . The title Neko Nikki appeared together with the title song used for episode 17 Seikan Hikō ( 星 間 飛行 ) also on maxi CD and reached number 5 in the Oricon charts.
On October 21, 2009, the single Pink Monsoon was released by Sheryl Nome starring May'n.
Others
Pizza Hut advertises the series on pizza boxes . A new creation has also been introduced, consisting of seafood, fried chicken and tartar sauce.
Based on the ambiguous appearance of the logo, Macross Fufonfia is a web anime that is produced parallel to the television series and is regularly published on the website for the Macross Frontier series. In the approximately two-minute webisodes, all the main characters of the mother series appear in SD drawing style, but are brought into the vicinity of an office building of a Japanese software company called Frontier Software . The individual webisodes are unsynchronized, which means that the entire dialogue is implemented by overlaying text.
Furthermore, a radio program called Radio Macross was broadcast as an Internet stream on the radio stations MBS Radio and Bunka Hōsō , which went on air on January 3, 2008. The show is moderated by the seiyū of the characters Ranka Lee and Bobby Margot, Megumi Nakajima and Kenta Miyake .
Awards
The production staff of the television series was awarded in 2008 by the Digital Content Association of Japan , which was co-founded by the Japanese Ministry of Economic Affairs . In 2009 the series received the Seiun Prize in the media product category.
The theme song Triangler , voiced by Maaya Sakamoto , won the Theme Song Award at the 13th Animation Kobe Awards 2008.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ A Gabriela Robin Site >> Macross Frontier DVD / Blu-ray Releases. Archived from the original on September 7, 2011 ; accessed on June 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Macross Frontier, Code Geass R2 Gets DVD, Blu-ray. Retrieved July 5, 2008 .
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- ↑ コ ン プ エ ー ス 2008 年 9 月 号 . (No longer available online.) In: コ ン プ エ ー ス 公式 サ イ ト . Archived from the original on September 9, 2012 ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b コ ン プ エ ー ス 2009 年 4 月 号 . (No longer available online.) In: コ ン プ エ ー ス 公式 サ イ ト . Archived from the original on August 7, 2012 ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ a b c d 'Lion' is 4th Macross Frontier CD Single in Top 5 - Anime News Network. Retrieved September 8, 2008 .
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- ↑ 3rd Macross Frontier Album Sells 86,450 to Rank # 2 - Anime News Network. Retrieved December 12, 2008 .
- ↑ a b Macross Frontier's Opening Single Stays in Top 10 - Anime News Network. Retrieved May 31, 2008 .
- ↑ マクロスF:新オープニング「ライオン」もオリコン3位全CDトップ5以内で新たなアニソンブームに(まんたんウェブ) -毎日jp (毎日新聞) . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 8, 2008 ; Retrieved September 8, 2008 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fade- ins during the opening and closing credits.
- ↑ Gigazine.net: Review of the Tarutaruchikin pizza. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 17, 2008 ; Retrieved May 30, 2008 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Macross Frontier, Pizza Hut Join Forces in New Campaign, Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2008 .
- ↑ Macross Fufonfia. Retrieved September 18, 2008 .
- ↑ Radio Macross Show Begins Broadcasting, Web Streaming - Anime News Network. Retrieved September 18, 2008 .
- ↑ 【マ ク ロ ス Ｆ】 ラ ジ オ 番 組 「ＲＡＤＩＯ ＭＡＣＲＯＳＳ」 放送 中！ (サ テ ラ イ ト 日本語 サ イ ト). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 15, 2008 ; Retrieved September 18, 2008 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 第 ２３ 回 デ ジ タ ル コ ン テ ン ツ グ ラ ン プ リ 、 デ ジ タ ル ク リ エ エ イ タ ー ズ コ ン ペ テ ィ シ ョ ン ２００８ 、 、 会 園 発 式 受 上映 の 製品 発 受 受 上映 の 製品 製品 受 上映 の 製品 製品 受 上映 製品 製品 上映 の 製品 Retrieved February 9, 2009 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b Sky Crawlers, Macross Frontier Win Digital Media Awards - Anime News Network. October 28, 2008, accessed February 9, 2009 .
- ↑ 星雲 賞 リ ス ト . 日本 SF フ ァ ン グ ル ー プ 連 合 会議 , accessed January 15, 2012 (Japanese).
Web links
- Series website (Japanese)
- Movie website (Japanese)
- Macross Frontier on the Anime News Network