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| By AARON SKETCHLEY (aaronsketch@HOTdelete_thisMAIL.com) | Ver 1.0 2013.06.18 |
| Episode: Zero 03A: Macross Zero Chapter 3 "The Pale Struggle To The Death" |
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Story
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Commentary
The series also rushes into its middle stage, and the story faces a major turning point. Especially this episode's intense difference in the heat of the story's first half and latter half; a lot of beautiful nature on the island in a Southern country and Mao's healthy romance are calmly depicted in the first half. However, contrastively in the latter half, the terrible spectacle of Mayan Island, which has been reduced to a gruesome battlefield, and Sara's feelings of hatred, who was caught up in anger, are vividly depicted. The development that's like a surge into the confusion of that quietness, feels like the story was forced after this to go out to meet the climax.
Also, the intense fleet battle is also one of the highlights, due to the Asuka Fleet and Ivanov's unit being developed with CG. Even more than the highlight of mowing down the missiles by the Reactive Armour equipped VF-0S, one could say that the greatest charm of the episode are the activities of the experimental Destroid Cheyenne and Octos that are seen to one's heart's content.
Staff
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Cast
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Song
"Arkan" Sara Nome (Holy Raz)
"Yanyan" (Nanri Yuuka)
Characters and Mechanic that appear
Note: items that appear are in colour with a yellow background; (y) in the following. Items that don't appear are black and white.
Character
(y) Kudo Shin / (y) Sera Nome / (y) Mao Nome / (y) Roy Fokker / (y) Aries Turner
(y) Edgar Lasalle / Katy / Captain Robert / Nakashima Raizo / (y) Nutuku / (y) Nora Polanski
(y) D.D. Ivanov / (y) Dr. Hasford / Hassan
(y) Scholars / (y) Operator / (y) Maintenance Soldiers / (y) Close-Attack Soldier / (y) Mayan Islanders
Mechanic
(y) VF-0D / (y,N/A) VF-0S / VF-0A (Shin's craft) / (y) VF-0A (general craft) / F-14A+
(y) Cheyenne / Monster / (y) Asuka II / (y) SV-51 (Nora's craft) / (y) SV-51 (Ivonov's craft) / (y) SV-51 (general craft)
MiG-29 / (y) Octos / Auerstedt / (y) Bird Man
(y) QF-2200D-A / (y) Guided-missile Destroyer / (y) Military Aircraft / (y) Unified Forces Aircraft
N: Normal, G: Special-Attack Assault Specification, A: Reactive Armour Equipped Model
Topics: The Good Time That's Put Into The TV Screen
The character that was projected from the TV, which the islanders stared at, is Ariyoshi Juna, the heroine of "Earth Maiden Arjuna", an anime broadcast in 2001, which Kawamori Shouji served as the director of. Also, the text on the screen displayed by the commercial in the same scene says in Thai: "It's the orange juice that sells the most now. It's delicious! We send you good health".
Topics: Nora's Assault
In the battle with the Asuka Fleet, Nora's missiles directly hit the SPY-1 Radar, which is the eyes of the the Aegis ship. The nakedness of the base of the radar is the weak point of the Aegis ships, and the scene showed a certainty in Nora's skills, which sank the ship by aiming at that weak point. The Aegis ship's interception system was also an inferior opponent for the Valkyries, which made a high speed approached with complex trajectories.
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