Macross Frontier the Movie : Itsuwari no Utahime Differences and Changes
I'll try to state on as much as I can. There were some moments that I actually spent my focus on the visuals too much that I missed some of the conversations, so the list is at most 80 to 90% complete. At least with it you can wait patiently and confirm yourself when the DVD/Blu-Ray version of it comes out.
Last but not least. This contains SPOILERS, so please proceed at your own risk.
- The arrival of Grace and Sheryl and their conversation is heavily changed. Grace reminded Sheryl that the both of them are on a mission to look for that special something.
- Alto and Ranka, along with Luca, Clan and Micheal, are classmates and known each other prior before the events of the movie. Hence Ranka's first encounter with Alto from the TV series did not happen at all.
- Ranka's cell phone, as seen from the scans, changed from green to orange, and it's also multipurpose transformable cellphone. Ranka once had the cellphone changed into a signal light for Alto's flight practice.
- Ranka uses her mini scooter for delivery. Movie exclusive.
- Instead of Ozma sending Ranka tickets for Sheryl's concert, the movie instead changed it to Alto sending tickets to Ranka through Alto's cellphone.
- Nanase is not present in the movie.
- Sheryl's first live performance is totally new. Alto no longer being "playful" during the concert scene. Instead, that role is passed on to Sheryl. Sheryl pretended to drop down from the high stage (which will definitely cause her death), and Alto went to her rescue. "Welcome to My Fanclub's Night!" was played during that time. The first song inclding the quote "Watashi no uta wo kike!" is changed from Iteza to Universal Bunny.
- Leon's role in the movie is not quite fleshed out, so we are not exposed to his evil plans yet as of now. Nor we even know if Leon has his own secret agenda or not. At least throughout the movie, Leon and Grace never interact at all...yet, maybe.
- Just moments before the Vajra invasion, Alto and Sheryl were arguing on the very top part of the concert hall, which Sheryl said that even if Alto did not catch her at all during her fall, she wouldn't be hurt because she installed a bunch of portable jetpack at herself.
- When Vajra broke through the Frontier's defense line, Alto and Sheryl escaped to the roof of the concert hall. This did not happen in the TV series.
- Vajra's attack caused both Alto and Sheryl to get blown away from the roof, Alto tries to catch Sheryl but their distance and the wind impact was too great for Alto to save her, so Alto screams Sheryl to land herself using the jetpack she installed on herself (damn convinient...). Sheryl had a very hard impact land and injured herself.
- If you're asking : Yes Gillian still died. And here I was hoping that he would have gotten a better treatment...
- The first fighting scene for Alto during saving Ranka might be different from the TV series (for it's choreography), but what changed is that Ranka did not experience her escape from Frontier's stratosphere. So the fight took place entirely on ground.
- Ozma's rescue on Ranka during that time is totally new. That's how Ranka got to know that Ozma is working for SMS (or she might have already known it beforehand). For what seemed that Ozma managed to defeat the Vajra who was aiming at Ranka, a surprise attack from that half-dead Vajra caused Ozma to lose balance when he is trying to reach Ranka, and made him lose consciousness. Micheal dealt the final blow at the Vajra instead.
- Brera calls Sheryl "Sheryl-sama" (or was it Sheryl-ojousama? Not too sure, but honorifics are definitely attached), and it was Brera that took Sheryl out of the scene, saving her.
- There is also a Sheryl showering scene. That is not as "bad" and nothing beats Grace where she also has her own - Full fledged naked showing nipples even.
- From there onwards until Alto and Sheryl's first dating scene, the differences are minor so I didn't really take notice. Eh oh wait...
- Oh yeah, during Alto's reflection on what Micheal told him about running away (you can refer to the TV series), Alto had a moment with Ranka. Instead of singing Aimo at the stone tower, she sang from behind the tree instead.
- Sheryl appeared during the end of the scene and sang Aimo as well, which totally shocked Alto and Ranka. While Ranka doesn't know about the name of the song. Sheryl asked her "Why do you know about the song Aimo?"
- Sheryl have her own cellphone this time. A fish shaped cellphone in a form of Taiyaki. (Taiyaki is red bean paste wrapped by a soft layer cake on it's outside, commonly fish shaped. A Japanese snack)
- Alto and Sheryl's first dating scene was significantly changed. One major change is that Sheryl and Alto had a scooter chasing scene (if this scene is attached with vocal music I would have thought this is another bollywood scene repeated from Ep.15, thankfully it did not happen), Sheryl uses her cellphone to take pictures of Frontier nature. But thanks to that she did not look at the front during driving and tripped. Alto saved her again; After that both of them fell from the short cliff and Sheryl hurt herself again. "pink monsoon" was played during that chain of events.
- Alto Sheryl fans can feel the joy because there is a scene where Alto sucked the blood out from Sheryl's wounds and Alto treated her afterwards with a transparent plaster. (Transparent plaster!?)
- Sheryl boldly told Alto that Ranka actually has feelings from Alto, which made Alto embarassed and confused.
- Ranka's singing on What about my Star @ Formo triggered a captured Vajra's response. That scene was actually nothing new, but the drawing and the animation for this cut might have changed.
- It was also there that Sheryl reveals how she knows about Aimo. That song was actually created by Dr.Mao Nome, which that song is passed on to her mother, then to Sheryl. Ranshe might have known the song from Mao Nome and passed it on to Ranka as well.
- Ranka DID join the Miss Macross event. But her participation was never shown. Instead it was very briefly brought through (changed from the TV series). Ozma raged and Ranka ended up throwing her temper as well, as per seen from the TV series.
- Elmo does not have much appearance. But his role basically remains the same.
- Ranka did not sing "Ninjin Loves you yeah!". That song is replaced with 4 new gag songs and one existing song : Starlight Natto, Kaitaku jyuuki, Dynamu Chougoukin, Daruma Seminar, and Choujikku Hanten : Nyannyan, which is the nyan nyan song. Dynamu Chougakkin was especially funny because it took place in Frontier Akihabara (WHAT? AKIBA AND OTAKUS IN MY MACROSS FRONTIER!?)
- There was a new Alto Ranka moment where Ranka waited for Alto after the hectic training session (under the call by Micheal), A new song was played during that as well. "Family Mart Cosmos". For those who are not aware, Family Mart is a convinience store in Japan. So that song is a commercial song, just like Choujikku Hanten Nyannyan. During that scene. Ranka pretended to ignore Alto (due to her jealous of what happend during the Alto Sheryl date, especially the image of where Sheryl kissed Alto on the cheek) and Alto tried to get a response out of her but to no avail. Until they reached Family Mart, the clock conincidentally ticks on 12 and her new Family Mart song plays. Ranka starts to change the topic and thank him for being able to bring her this far that she is able to get her CM song published. They then went home together after. During the train ride Ranka asked why Alto chose to join SMS instead of continuing his acting career : Alto stated that he have always wanted to fly on the skies, and be honest to himself (find himself from the skies he fly on); He also realized that by acting, while he knew that he can bring happiness to the people who enjoys his acting, he will gradually ended up losing himself due to not being honest to himself and act "just for the sake of people, not for himself". The scene then ends after more conversation from the both. (This requires some confirmation as well)
- It is also shown that Brera have been tracking and following Ranka secretly all these while, and reports to Grace about her movements through telepathy communication. Implying that they might have found "the one".
- Ozma's conversation with Alto about Sheryl being a spy was new and exclusive to the movie. If I remember correctly, Sheryl was being labelled as a spy because her singing actually, after some deduction, attracted the Vajra to attack Frontier. While Alto tries to argue that it might have just been a coincidence, Ozma also pointed out many things that contradicts his arguement (something like the timing is too perfect). Along the way Ozma also pointed out that someone is actually way behind this whole plot of trying to gain something due to Sheryl and her co. came from some unknown side of Galaxy fleet, which he thinks that Ranka might have been targetted. And that concluded that Sheryl is working under that unknown person, hence the spy accusation.
-In the end, Ozma advices Alto not to get too close to Sheryl. This needs confirmation - if any I might need to watch the movie again for the second time to make sure.
- Alto tried to get some advice out from Micheal one on one. Micheal logically formed a conclusion that Sheryl isn't 100% believable as well. That scene is also new.
- Ranka found Ai-kun in front of her house. Completely different from the TV series. Ai-kun was especially naughty in this movie as well (running through Ranka's body everywhere? wow...)
- There is also a new scene where Ranka is practicing Seikan Hikou (she hums the song while practicing the dance). The real song itself is not played at all in the movie.
- Alto found Sheryl's lost earring at the Valkyrie hangar of SMS, which conincidentally Sheryl called him out for a meet. Alto purposely skipped the phone call and recieve a voice mail asking him to go meet her. This is also new.
- Sheryl waited for Alto, but Ranka shown up instead. Sheryl and Ranka had a one on one conversation. I forgot how the conversation went on again, but Sheryl starts to sing Aimo, and Ranka sang along as well (I'll rage if the duet version does not come out in the next OST as I love Aimo the most out of all Macross F songs). The song caused Ranka's stomach to glow, which is actually Ai-kun. Brera saw the whole thing, and Grace (from totally different place, but we all know how Grace sees through things anyway) as well. IIRC, Sheryl tried to talk to Ranka about her birthplace but Ranka told Sheryl that she is having an amnesia, which shocks Sheryl.
- Ranka tried to chase Ai-kun, and Sheryl chased along. Alto who came late (to return Sheryl her lost earring) saw Sheryl chasing Ranka and hence formed a misunderstanding. Alto pushed Sheryl away from Ranka and screamed at her. Along the lines of "I don't wanna believe that you are a spy, but you actually did it. If anything happens to Ranka I won't forgive you for hurting her". Ranka stops Alto and says that it's all a misunderstand because Sheryl is trying to help Ranka by retrieving Ai-kun, which caused Alto to get even more confused. Sheryl replied Alto's accusation with "I see, I was all wrong about you, Alto" or something similar. (見損なった = I was wrong to see you that way)
- Ozma ended up confining both Alto and Ranka (as both a superior and a brother), Both of them are not allowed to watch Sheryl's last live in Frontier.
- There was a scene where Alto wore Sheryl's earring and lets down his hair. He doesn't look like a male AT ALL in this scene. Plus he was wearing a singlet. For fangirls, their nose will bleed, badly.
- Because of the power of the Quartz fold (which it's power increased in the movie version), Alto experienced a short possessed moment where Alto managed to watch a fragment of Sheryl's past. "Do...not...leave...me alone" was the quote both Alto and young Sheryl said at that time.
- Sheryl's last live (2nd live) took place differently this time round, at a big, huge lake where the stage is located at the center of the lake, while the audience seat are surrounding it. The time was night.
- Before the live, Alto managed to sneak out and meet Sheryl up to return her the earring he managed to found, Grace showed up telling that the show is about to be over and tells Sheryl to hurry up and prepare for her live. While Ozma and Cathy both came in later and issued an arrest on Grace (instead of Sheryl). Grace tried to get away by saying that a few hours beforehand she recieved news that Galaxy fleet was under attack and Frontier DENIED the help request from Galaxy. Grace then proceed to question Ozma whether he should be continue servicing the government while they don't even bother trying to be helpful to the Galaxy fleet.
- Sheryl then issued a sort of gamble game : Ozma gambled with Sheryl that Macross Quarter will gladly accept the request to inspect and if possible, save the Macross Galaxy survivors if available. Sheryl thinks it is impossible so she passed on her credit card (lol VEGA) that if Ozma wins, he will be able to get the money that Sheryl possesses. Sheryl agrees to play along. Alto also joins the mission that SMS issued.
- The second live is essentially the TV series's first live animation sequence. Especially on Iteza. Just different location. So some of the scenes from the TV series are used.
- In the end, Ranka managed to actually attend the concert (sneaking out). The scene itself when Ranka ran through from her house to the concert place is redrawn entirely for the movie, IIRC.
- The second major battle between the MQ-SMS with the Vajra army is totally new. Techinically the battle takes place around episode 7 of the TV series. The battle took place at where Galaxy fleet was under attack. Hence MQ fleet had to defold beforehand to get there. And while during ep.7 IIRC, the battle took place around Macross Frontier area.
- Ozma announces Totsugeki Love Heart formation. Which is used during the last episode of the TV series. So in the movie he used it way earlier.
- In this battle they managed to actually evacuate most of the Galaxy refugees, except for the mothership which shot down 3 Galaxy refugee ships. Causing Alto to act on his own to stop the mothership from trying to hurt the other ships further.
- Both Ranka and Sheryl sang Diamond Crevesse. Which, unfortunately, the song reached through Alto with the posession of Sheryl's another earring. Hence Alto is the indirect cause for the Vajra army to stop attacking and defold themselves to Macross Frontier. Which shocked most of the people around. Alto actually was around the Vajra mothership during the de-fold, so he got involved in the process. Which makes Alto the first to reach back the Frontier fleet.
- Vajra's second invasion towards the Frontier main fleet is also new to the movie. Some of the audiences in the concert died as well as the result. Because the invasion was too sudden. Sheryl and Ranka had no idea why they came again. But the Vajra's ultimate reason of the invasion was to approach both Sheryl and Ranka.
- Just as the Vajra tries to get Sheryl, Alto came to the rescue and tries to take on the Vajra. Attempting to get Sheryl into the cockpit and escape, but to no avail because the Vajra kept coming in quantity. The amount of Vajra killed caused a resonance in Ranka's stomach, hurting her.
- During the process, Ranka had a blink flashback of her past involving Ranshe trying to ask Ranka to run away. young Brera was there as well. Ranka then realize that the Vajra is actually aiming for her. And attempts to drive away the Vajra by becoming the bait.
- Sheryl sees this and ask Alto to save Ranka and leave her be. But Alto couldn't do so because he is on full hands. In the end the Vajra managed to get Ranka and flies away. Soon later, Ozma came to the rescue after the MQ-SMS fleet and the others managed to defold back to Frontier fleet, which gives Alto the chance to chase the Vajra.
- Brera joins in the battle and cooperates with Alto by sweeping the rest of the Vajra that steps in Alto's way, so that Alto can give chase on the Vajra who kidnapped Ranka easier. A long cat and mouse chase begins.
- Sheryl who saw the flames around thinks that there sure is something that she can do throughout the whole thing. Obelisk was played during the whole thing. The broadcast for her live was initially cut off, but Grace asked the broadcaster to resume the broadcasting. Saying that the Frontier fleet needs to see Sheryl's determination on her singing, and that Sheryl's singing brings hope to the despair. The broadcaster agrees (this is SO NOT Grace...)
- Alto had a melee fight with the Vajra, after a long struggle, Alto managed to eject himself from the Valkyrie and managed to save Ranka along. Micheal came for the support. Since Micheal went too far from his position just to get a good place to snipe, he was way too open for the other Vajras to attack. He almost died from it. Clan raged when she saw that Micheal got into trouble.
- Sheryl and Ranka both sang Lion (Sheryl first, then Ranka sang after because she heard Sheryl's voice. The song starts right after Obelisk), which the song managed to delay the Vajra's mothership attack, and gave both Battle Frontier and Macross Quater to launch a full scale Macross Cannon to destroy the Vajra mothership. This whole scene is actually a reminiscene of the last episode of the TV series. The rest of the Vajra retreats after.
- It is also to note that it's a fanservice for Alto, Brera and Ozma to work together in one formation sweeping the enemies.
- In the end of the movie, Snow falls on Frontier, Sheryl asks Alto to hold on her earring. Alto praised Ranka for the job well done, Grace was commenting about the power of singing coming from both Ranka an Sheryl. The movie ends there shortly after the camera zooming out.
- I didn't manage to catch on the title of the second movie. But is has the word "Sayonara..." something. The Title for the second movie is confirmed to be "Sayonara No Tsubasa" (all in Katakana). In the preview, A new Valkyrie is shown. More Alto Sheryl scenes, and Ranka's kira pose.
That's all for the summary.
ENDING THEME
"Sou Da Yo"
words : Maaya Sakamoto / Gabriela Robin
music&arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"What 'bout my Star?"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Universal Bunny"
words : Shihori/PA-NON/Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
*I heard that Shihori is from Sound Horizon, can someone confirm this for me?
"Welcome to my Fan Club's Night!"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Aimo"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N, Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"pink monsoon"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Watashi no Kare Wa Pairotto"
words : Akane Asa
music& arrangement : Haneda Kentaro
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"What 'bout my Star? @ Formo"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Starlight Natto"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Kaitaku Jyuuki"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Dynamu Chougoukin"
words : Kurokawa Eiji
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Daruma Seminar"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Choujikku Hanten Nyannyan"
words : Hiroyuki Yoshino
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Family Mart Cosmos"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Iteza☆Gogo Kuji Don't Be Late!"
words : Dai Satō, hal, Maiku Sugiyama, Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Diamond Crevesse"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Yousei"
words : Anju Mana / Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Obelisk"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Lion"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N, Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
Entry done, enjoy ^^
P/S : I do not claim myself to be 100% accurate and correct from the summaries that I typed, so this entry will be corrected from time to time to maintain the accuracy. My head hurts from trying to think back on what happend. So I might need to watch the movie again for the second time, which is hopefully in two weeks time...
Last but not least. This contains SPOILERS, so please proceed at your own risk.
- The arrival of Grace and Sheryl and their conversation is heavily changed. Grace reminded Sheryl that the both of them are on a mission to look for that special something.
- Alto and Ranka, along with Luca, Clan and Micheal, are classmates and known each other prior before the events of the movie. Hence Ranka's first encounter with Alto from the TV series did not happen at all.
- Ranka's cell phone, as seen from the scans, changed from green to orange, and it's also multipurpose transformable cellphone. Ranka once had the cellphone changed into a signal light for Alto's flight practice.
- Ranka uses her mini scooter for delivery. Movie exclusive.
- Instead of Ozma sending Ranka tickets for Sheryl's concert, the movie instead changed it to Alto sending tickets to Ranka through Alto's cellphone.
- Nanase is not present in the movie.
- Sheryl's first live performance is totally new. Alto no longer being "playful" during the concert scene. Instead, that role is passed on to Sheryl. Sheryl pretended to drop down from the high stage (which will definitely cause her death), and Alto went to her rescue. "Welcome to My Fanclub's Night!" was played during that time. The first song inclding the quote "Watashi no uta wo kike!" is changed from Iteza to Universal Bunny.
- Leon's role in the movie is not quite fleshed out, so we are not exposed to his evil plans yet as of now. Nor we even know if Leon has his own secret agenda or not. At least throughout the movie, Leon and Grace never interact at all...yet, maybe.
- Just moments before the Vajra invasion, Alto and Sheryl were arguing on the very top part of the concert hall, which Sheryl said that even if Alto did not catch her at all during her fall, she wouldn't be hurt because she installed a bunch of portable jetpack at herself.
- When Vajra broke through the Frontier's defense line, Alto and Sheryl escaped to the roof of the concert hall. This did not happen in the TV series.
- Vajra's attack caused both Alto and Sheryl to get blown away from the roof, Alto tries to catch Sheryl but their distance and the wind impact was too great for Alto to save her, so Alto screams Sheryl to land herself using the jetpack she installed on herself (damn convinient...). Sheryl had a very hard impact land and injured herself.
- If you're asking : Yes Gillian still died. And here I was hoping that he would have gotten a better treatment...
- The first fighting scene for Alto during saving Ranka might be different from the TV series (for it's choreography), but what changed is that Ranka did not experience her escape from Frontier's stratosphere. So the fight took place entirely on ground.
- Ozma's rescue on Ranka during that time is totally new. That's how Ranka got to know that Ozma is working for SMS (or she might have already known it beforehand). For what seemed that Ozma managed to defeat the Vajra who was aiming at Ranka, a surprise attack from that half-dead Vajra caused Ozma to lose balance when he is trying to reach Ranka, and made him lose consciousness. Micheal dealt the final blow at the Vajra instead.
- Brera calls Sheryl "Sheryl-sama" (or was it Sheryl-ojousama? Not too sure, but honorifics are definitely attached), and it was Brera that took Sheryl out of the scene, saving her.
- There is also a Sheryl showering scene. That is not as "bad" and nothing beats Grace where she also has her own - Full fledged naked showing nipples even.
- From there onwards until Alto and Sheryl's first dating scene, the differences are minor so I didn't really take notice. Eh oh wait...
- Oh yeah, during Alto's reflection on what Micheal told him about running away (you can refer to the TV series), Alto had a moment with Ranka. Instead of singing Aimo at the stone tower, she sang from behind the tree instead.
- Sheryl appeared during the end of the scene and sang Aimo as well, which totally shocked Alto and Ranka. While Ranka doesn't know about the name of the song. Sheryl asked her "Why do you know about the song Aimo?"
- Sheryl have her own cellphone this time. A fish shaped cellphone in a form of Taiyaki. (Taiyaki is red bean paste wrapped by a soft layer cake on it's outside, commonly fish shaped. A Japanese snack)
- Alto and Sheryl's first dating scene was significantly changed. One major change is that Sheryl and Alto had a scooter chasing scene (if this scene is attached with vocal music I would have thought this is another bollywood scene repeated from Ep.15, thankfully it did not happen), Sheryl uses her cellphone to take pictures of Frontier nature. But thanks to that she did not look at the front during driving and tripped. Alto saved her again; After that both of them fell from the short cliff and Sheryl hurt herself again. "pink monsoon" was played during that chain of events.
- Alto Sheryl fans can feel the joy because there is a scene where Alto sucked the blood out from Sheryl's wounds and Alto treated her afterwards with a transparent plaster. (Transparent plaster!?)
- Sheryl boldly told Alto that Ranka actually has feelings from Alto, which made Alto embarassed and confused.
- Ranka's singing on What about my Star @ Formo triggered a captured Vajra's response. That scene was actually nothing new, but the drawing and the animation for this cut might have changed.
- It was also there that Sheryl reveals how she knows about Aimo. That song was actually created by Dr.Mao Nome, which that song is passed on to her mother, then to Sheryl. Ranshe might have known the song from Mao Nome and passed it on to Ranka as well.
- Ranka DID join the Miss Macross event. But her participation was never shown. Instead it was very briefly brought through (changed from the TV series). Ozma raged and Ranka ended up throwing her temper as well, as per seen from the TV series.
- Elmo does not have much appearance. But his role basically remains the same.
- Ranka did not sing "Ninjin Loves you yeah!". That song is replaced with 4 new gag songs and one existing song : Starlight Natto, Kaitaku jyuuki, Dynamu Chougoukin, Daruma Seminar, and Choujikku Hanten : Nyannyan, which is the nyan nyan song. Dynamu Chougakkin was especially funny because it took place in Frontier Akihabara (WHAT? AKIBA AND OTAKUS IN MY MACROSS FRONTIER!?)
- There was a new Alto Ranka moment where Ranka waited for Alto after the hectic training session (under the call by Micheal), A new song was played during that as well. "Family Mart Cosmos". For those who are not aware, Family Mart is a convinience store in Japan. So that song is a commercial song, just like Choujikku Hanten Nyannyan. During that scene. Ranka pretended to ignore Alto (due to her jealous of what happend during the Alto Sheryl date, especially the image of where Sheryl kissed Alto on the cheek) and Alto tried to get a response out of her but to no avail. Until they reached Family Mart, the clock conincidentally ticks on 12 and her new Family Mart song plays. Ranka starts to change the topic and thank him for being able to bring her this far that she is able to get her CM song published. They then went home together after. During the train ride Ranka asked why Alto chose to join SMS instead of continuing his acting career : Alto stated that he have always wanted to fly on the skies, and be honest to himself (find himself from the skies he fly on); He also realized that by acting, while he knew that he can bring happiness to the people who enjoys his acting, he will gradually ended up losing himself due to not being honest to himself and act "just for the sake of people, not for himself". The scene then ends after more conversation from the both. (This requires some confirmation as well)
- It is also shown that Brera have been tracking and following Ranka secretly all these while, and reports to Grace about her movements through telepathy communication. Implying that they might have found "the one".
- Ozma's conversation with Alto about Sheryl being a spy was new and exclusive to the movie. If I remember correctly, Sheryl was being labelled as a spy because her singing actually, after some deduction, attracted the Vajra to attack Frontier. While Alto tries to argue that it might have just been a coincidence, Ozma also pointed out many things that contradicts his arguement (something like the timing is too perfect). Along the way Ozma also pointed out that someone is actually way behind this whole plot of trying to gain something due to Sheryl and her co. came from some unknown side of Galaxy fleet, which he thinks that Ranka might have been targetted. And that concluded that Sheryl is working under that unknown person, hence the spy accusation.
-In the end, Ozma advices Alto not to get too close to Sheryl. This needs confirmation - if any I might need to watch the movie again for the second time to make sure.
- Alto tried to get some advice out from Micheal one on one. Micheal logically formed a conclusion that Sheryl isn't 100% believable as well. That scene is also new.
- Ranka found Ai-kun in front of her house. Completely different from the TV series. Ai-kun was especially naughty in this movie as well (running through Ranka's body everywhere? wow...)
- There is also a new scene where Ranka is practicing Seikan Hikou (she hums the song while practicing the dance). The real song itself is not played at all in the movie.
- Alto found Sheryl's lost earring at the Valkyrie hangar of SMS, which conincidentally Sheryl called him out for a meet. Alto purposely skipped the phone call and recieve a voice mail asking him to go meet her. This is also new.
- Sheryl waited for Alto, but Ranka shown up instead. Sheryl and Ranka had a one on one conversation. I forgot how the conversation went on again, but Sheryl starts to sing Aimo, and Ranka sang along as well (I'll rage if the duet version does not come out in the next OST as I love Aimo the most out of all Macross F songs). The song caused Ranka's stomach to glow, which is actually Ai-kun. Brera saw the whole thing, and Grace (from totally different place, but we all know how Grace sees through things anyway) as well. IIRC, Sheryl tried to talk to Ranka about her birthplace but Ranka told Sheryl that she is having an amnesia, which shocks Sheryl.
- Ranka tried to chase Ai-kun, and Sheryl chased along. Alto who came late (to return Sheryl her lost earring) saw Sheryl chasing Ranka and hence formed a misunderstanding. Alto pushed Sheryl away from Ranka and screamed at her. Along the lines of "I don't wanna believe that you are a spy, but you actually did it. If anything happens to Ranka I won't forgive you for hurting her". Ranka stops Alto and says that it's all a misunderstand because Sheryl is trying to help Ranka by retrieving Ai-kun, which caused Alto to get even more confused. Sheryl replied Alto's accusation with "I see, I was all wrong about you, Alto" or something similar. (見損なった = I was wrong to see you that way)
- Ozma ended up confining both Alto and Ranka (as both a superior and a brother), Both of them are not allowed to watch Sheryl's last live in Frontier.
- There was a scene where Alto wore Sheryl's earring and lets down his hair. He doesn't look like a male AT ALL in this scene. Plus he was wearing a singlet. For fangirls, their nose will bleed, badly.
- Because of the power of the Quartz fold (which it's power increased in the movie version), Alto experienced a short possessed moment where Alto managed to watch a fragment of Sheryl's past. "Do...not...leave...me alone" was the quote both Alto and young Sheryl said at that time.
- Sheryl's last live (2nd live) took place differently this time round, at a big, huge lake where the stage is located at the center of the lake, while the audience seat are surrounding it. The time was night.
- Before the live, Alto managed to sneak out and meet Sheryl up to return her the earring he managed to found, Grace showed up telling that the show is about to be over and tells Sheryl to hurry up and prepare for her live. While Ozma and Cathy both came in later and issued an arrest on Grace (instead of Sheryl). Grace tried to get away by saying that a few hours beforehand she recieved news that Galaxy fleet was under attack and Frontier DENIED the help request from Galaxy. Grace then proceed to question Ozma whether he should be continue servicing the government while they don't even bother trying to be helpful to the Galaxy fleet.
- Sheryl then issued a sort of gamble game : Ozma gambled with Sheryl that Macross Quarter will gladly accept the request to inspect and if possible, save the Macross Galaxy survivors if available. Sheryl thinks it is impossible so she passed on her credit card (lol VEGA) that if Ozma wins, he will be able to get the money that Sheryl possesses. Sheryl agrees to play along. Alto also joins the mission that SMS issued.
- The second live is essentially the TV series's first live animation sequence. Especially on Iteza. Just different location. So some of the scenes from the TV series are used.
- In the end, Ranka managed to actually attend the concert (sneaking out). The scene itself when Ranka ran through from her house to the concert place is redrawn entirely for the movie, IIRC.
- The second major battle between the MQ-SMS with the Vajra army is totally new. Techinically the battle takes place around episode 7 of the TV series. The battle took place at where Galaxy fleet was under attack. Hence MQ fleet had to defold beforehand to get there. And while during ep.7 IIRC, the battle took place around Macross Frontier area.
- Ozma announces Totsugeki Love Heart formation. Which is used during the last episode of the TV series. So in the movie he used it way earlier.
- In this battle they managed to actually evacuate most of the Galaxy refugees, except for the mothership which shot down 3 Galaxy refugee ships. Causing Alto to act on his own to stop the mothership from trying to hurt the other ships further.
- Both Ranka and Sheryl sang Diamond Crevesse. Which, unfortunately, the song reached through Alto with the posession of Sheryl's another earring. Hence Alto is the indirect cause for the Vajra army to stop attacking and defold themselves to Macross Frontier. Which shocked most of the people around. Alto actually was around the Vajra mothership during the de-fold, so he got involved in the process. Which makes Alto the first to reach back the Frontier fleet.
- Vajra's second invasion towards the Frontier main fleet is also new to the movie. Some of the audiences in the concert died as well as the result. Because the invasion was too sudden. Sheryl and Ranka had no idea why they came again. But the Vajra's ultimate reason of the invasion was to approach both Sheryl and Ranka.
- Just as the Vajra tries to get Sheryl, Alto came to the rescue and tries to take on the Vajra. Attempting to get Sheryl into the cockpit and escape, but to no avail because the Vajra kept coming in quantity. The amount of Vajra killed caused a resonance in Ranka's stomach, hurting her.
- During the process, Ranka had a blink flashback of her past involving Ranshe trying to ask Ranka to run away. young Brera was there as well. Ranka then realize that the Vajra is actually aiming for her. And attempts to drive away the Vajra by becoming the bait.
- Sheryl sees this and ask Alto to save Ranka and leave her be. But Alto couldn't do so because he is on full hands. In the end the Vajra managed to get Ranka and flies away. Soon later, Ozma came to the rescue after the MQ-SMS fleet and the others managed to defold back to Frontier fleet, which gives Alto the chance to chase the Vajra.
- Brera joins in the battle and cooperates with Alto by sweeping the rest of the Vajra that steps in Alto's way, so that Alto can give chase on the Vajra who kidnapped Ranka easier. A long cat and mouse chase begins.
- Sheryl who saw the flames around thinks that there sure is something that she can do throughout the whole thing. Obelisk was played during the whole thing. The broadcast for her live was initially cut off, but Grace asked the broadcaster to resume the broadcasting. Saying that the Frontier fleet needs to see Sheryl's determination on her singing, and that Sheryl's singing brings hope to the despair. The broadcaster agrees (this is SO NOT Grace...)
- Alto had a melee fight with the Vajra, after a long struggle, Alto managed to eject himself from the Valkyrie and managed to save Ranka along. Micheal came for the support. Since Micheal went too far from his position just to get a good place to snipe, he was way too open for the other Vajras to attack. He almost died from it. Clan raged when she saw that Micheal got into trouble.
- Sheryl and Ranka both sang Lion (Sheryl first, then Ranka sang after because she heard Sheryl's voice. The song starts right after Obelisk), which the song managed to delay the Vajra's mothership attack, and gave both Battle Frontier and Macross Quater to launch a full scale Macross Cannon to destroy the Vajra mothership. This whole scene is actually a reminiscene of the last episode of the TV series. The rest of the Vajra retreats after.
- It is also to note that it's a fanservice for Alto, Brera and Ozma to work together in one formation sweeping the enemies.
- In the end of the movie, Snow falls on Frontier, Sheryl asks Alto to hold on her earring. Alto praised Ranka for the job well done, Grace was commenting about the power of singing coming from both Ranka an Sheryl. The movie ends there shortly after the camera zooming out.
- I didn't manage to catch on the title of the second movie. But is has the word "Sayonara..." something. The Title for the second movie is confirmed to be "Sayonara No Tsubasa" (all in Katakana). In the preview, A new Valkyrie is shown. More Alto Sheryl scenes, and Ranka's kira pose.
That's all for the summary.
ENDING THEME
"Sou Da Yo"
words : Maaya Sakamoto / Gabriela Robin
music&arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"What 'bout my Star?"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Universal Bunny"
words : Shihori/PA-NON/Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
*I heard that Shihori is from Sound Horizon, can someone confirm this for me?
"Welcome to my Fan Club's Night!"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Aimo"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N, Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"pink monsoon"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Watashi no Kare Wa Pairotto"
words : Akane Asa
music& arrangement : Haneda Kentaro
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"What 'bout my Star? @ Formo"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Starlight Natto"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Kaitaku Jyuuki"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Dynamu Chougoukin"
words : Kurokawa Eiji
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Daruma Seminar"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Choujikku Hanten Nyannyan"
words : Hiroyuki Yoshino
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Family Mart Cosmos"
words : Ichikura Hiroshi
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
"Iteza☆Gogo Kuji Don't Be Late!"
words : Dai Satō, hal, Maiku Sugiyama, Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Diamond Crevesse"
words : hal
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Yousei"
words : Anju Mana / Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Obelisk"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N
"Lion"
words : Gabriela Robin
music& arrangement : Yoko Kanno
vocal : Sheryl Nome starring May'N, Ranka Lee = Nakajima Megumi
Entry done, enjoy ^^
P/S : I do not claim myself to be 100% accurate and correct from the summaries that I typed, so this entry will be corrected from time to time to maintain the accuracy. My head hurts from trying to think back on what happend. So I might need to watch the movie again for the second time, which is hopefully in two weeks time...