Weekly Anime Comic: Macross - page 39
Added 2023-12-22 14:25:00 +0000 UTCSo, I've pretty much always been in the "Minmay sucks" camp, but this most recent watch-through of Macross has really given me a new appreciation of just how much of that is the fault of the show's overall writing as opposed to the character herself. Like, Minmay trying to get Hikaru to quit the military comes across as really clueless and childish, it's obviously where this comic comes from. But at the same time, I don't think it'd rub me half as wrong as it does if the other characters were allowed to just respond like real people to her. But instead of saying the obvious answer ("Look, even if we stop fighting them, that won't make them stop fighting US."), we get this weird esoteric crap about why Minmay sings and whatever. Aside from just being really pretentious and not what any normal person would say in that situation, I think dialog like this actually hinders the development of Minmay's character. It kind of leaves her stranded in the stupid stuff she said, since now the only way the show provides for her to grow out of it is via some meaningless psychobabble. I dunno if there's a cultural thing going on, like maybe the writers were afraid of having the show come across as even more militaristic than it already is, I just know that Minmay ultimately got really shafted by the show.
BUT ANYWAY, with this page I officially get into the final episode of Macross... BUT WE'LL BE HERE FOR A WHILE. I've actually got not one but TWO more comics in the pipeline, though in fairness one of them is an idea I've had cooking pretty much since we started. Still, it's technically about episode 36, which will make that the single most comic'd episode of any show in standard Weekly Anime Comic history! (I have to say "standard" because there's also the extra comics I'm doing on the Gunbuster OVAs. Those are totally throwing off the average.)
