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Original Macross voted most popular ‘idol anime.’

Niconico recently surveyed 500 of its users about popular ‘idol anime’ and the results (released on Jan. 11) might surprise you.

While currently popular shows such as ‘Love Live’ made it into the top five, as did the Shoji Kawamori co-directed series ‘AKB 0048′, the No. 1 spot went to SDF Macross, with almost an entire 8% between it and the No.2 spot, ‘Magic Angel Creamy Mami.’

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Flight of the Valkyries @ Anime Boston

Collection DX’s Veef did a panel on the origins of some of Macross’ most notable Valkyries at Anime Boston last weekend. His writeup of the convention can be found here.

The presentation was a revised version of the one from last year and included notable new additions regarding the YF-29 and VF-30.

A full video of the panel is available on Youtube, although it unfortunately includes no informa...

Macross Net Meeting – Listen To Us Talk!

The third Macross Net Meeting ‘Listen to us talk!’ was held on Niconico Douga on Wednesday April 10th. The special was hosted by Chiaki “Kyanchi’ Kyan and featured three main guests. Or should that be May’n guests? Yes, in attendance was the singing voice of Macross Frontier’s Sheryl Nome, May’n, as well as Shion Tsuchiya (Ash in Macross THE MUSICULTURE) and famed Valkyrie artist Hidetaka Tenjin.