As a boy growing up, I found myself immersed in fantasy and mystery. I grew up with The Magician’s Nephew, the Hardy Boys and the other children’s classics expected of a cultured English boy but it was not until about the age of 9 did I find out that fantasy could indeed go further. I discovered Science Fiction through the Animorphs series by KA Applegate and theratically through Star Wars.

What I discovered was a whole different method to bring me into a whole new world. Instead of the classical fantasy of a different world delved in an unbelievable system of magic or the like, a split of what our world may have been with just a little bit of ‘magic’, in Science Fiction, I found myself in a world that we could reach someday - something I could really start identifying in.

It was such an amazing feeling, to be able to imagine well that the future could be fantastic as I had read - in fact, I believe it is a inspiration for my choice in pursuing a route into aeronautical engineering instead of an humanities subject that many expect that I am actually in. Weird that, considering how much more I loved the Sciences and Math, loving to solve and puzzle and advance in a non-abstract manner. 

Science Fiction has since remained my favourite genre although I have since broadened much from there. My love has always laid in seeing what could develop with what we already have. Space travel, advanced technology, biotechnology and the like interest me greatly and more so when portrayed well in other media. I felt so inspired and impressed by the computer and peripheral technology in the ‘Minority Report’ and I was once again blown away by a fantastic world. I found this feeling in much anime as well in the multitude of Mecha anime and some others - I remember Gundam especially from my childhood. Macross Frontier has managed to impress me all the more than any of these though. 

It is just a little level of subtlety that I couldn’t capture with screenshots. The floating screens, the hologram suit, the flight suits, the space technology - I was in awe from the moment I started watching Macross Frontier. Sheryl Nome is a proformer, an artist backed by such a glorious canvas. Even for such a normal thing as a concert to be like this was amazing to me. Perhaps I really just love the idea of a life of more convenience. I long for a future where such that the amazing things I see in Science Fiction was commonplace. Maybe that is why I am salivate at the new gadgets and computers coming out. I so badly want to reach the point where Science Fiction meets reality. 

As with most audio/visual mediums, Macross Frontier delivers stunning animation (to which I even thought the CGi was done well and didn’t look ugly at all). The subtle touches and the brilliant designs throughout stapled together trimly with music from the magnificent Kanno Yoko and great voicing from a large pool of very good Seiyu, 

So that’s a little on why I like Macross Frontier so much. Another part to do with it may be just Sheryl and Ranka really. I love stories with good characters and these two take the cake. Alto (hime) and Ozma are pretty cool guys but pail in comparison to the likes of Sheryl. 

Of course, Ranka tries to keep up with buns of her own… 

This is really a definite keeper on the to-watch-list. I want to try out some older Macross series too. I hear that Frontier is the successor carrying on somehow from Macross 7 or such so I may as well start there.