In Real Life

Full Scale Macross Fighter Is More Amazing Than You Can Imagine

How do you celebrate a 30th birthday? With some cake? Presents? If you are Macross, you do it with a 1/1 scale VF-25 Valkyrie.


March 13, 2012
PlayStation

Come For The Movie, Stay For The Awesome Free Game

Games have long been included as extras on Blu-rays/DVDs — though the quality of said games tends to rank somewhere between the worst Facebook game and shovelware flash titles. But when Macross Frontier The Movie: The False Songstress was released on Blu-ray in Japan back in 2010, Artdink and Bandai-Namco went a few steps further to create Macross Trial Frontier.


October 22, 2010
In Real Life

The Big-Head Mode Of Our Childhoods

Helm, an exhibition kicking off tonight in Melbourne, Australia, is all about one thing: sticking giant masks onto small kids. Who may or may not also have giant heads.


June 15, 2010
In Real Life

Macross F Figure With Ample Assets

Blue-haired Macross character Clan Clang is getting yet another figure for the pile.


May 3, 2010
In Real Life

The Future Of Video Games, As Imagined By An ’80s Cartoon

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Something happened in the mid-’80s that forever shaped the way I thought video games would be when I got older. And that something was this scene from the Japanese animated series Macross.


December 30, 2008
In Real Life

You Can Stop iDOLM@STER Adult Videos But Not Macross?

Rui Saotome, the actress who blogged about her difficulties dancing in the now cancelled iDOLM@STER porn parody, is back. She now blogging about yet another adult film parody. Dancing, too.


November 6, 2008
Uncategorized

Macross F English Teaches: ‘I Like Middle-Aged Man’

With solid Macross games like Macross Ace Frontier out, now seems like good a time as any for some quality non-sequitur English study! In hopes of getting Macross Frontier nerds interested in the English language, we have this all too brief English study guide.


October 30, 2008
Uncategorized

Macross, The Canned Bread

What’s better than Macross? Macross bread. What’s better than Macross bread? Macross canned bread. That’s right, bread in a can. Mmm mmm good! Going on sale this November in Akihabara’s Tokyo Anime Centre, this Macross Frontier canned bread is priced at ¥500 ($8) a pop. No doubt tastes great while playing the newly released Macross Ace Frontier for the PSP.


August 7, 2008
Uncategorized

Macross PSP Trailer

We’ve had our PSPs dusted off for a few weeks now in anticipation of this. Same for our emergency Japanese catchphrase guides, along with the URLs of our favourite Japanese importers. Because really, if you’re a Macross fan, how can this not already look like the best thing to happen to the PSP?

[via Matix @ NeoGAF]