Here I am, still full from my incredible Japanese birthday dinner. Damn, now that I mentioned it, I want more tempura. (sigh) And plum wine. Damn. I’ll stop talking now, and you guys can just start reading the column.

From Busch:

First, a couple of corrections. In regards to Macross Plus, there are curently two 45-minute episodes on each disc. This series is only 4 eps long, and I don’t know that they would want to put the entire series on one disc. The other thing is that Voltron is a totally separate series from the original Macross. Robotech is the Americanized version of Macross and two other anime series. Basically, it’s three series heavily edited together with a slight attempt to make sense of the whole thing.

Now, about starting with Macross Plus. I think that’s a good choice. I just finished watching it myself, and I really enjoyed it. Other than catching part of a Robotech episode here and there when I was younger, I didn’t really watch the series, and I didn’t have any sort of trouble following the series. The Wanderer, however, was having Robotech flashbacks the entire time, so you might want to be careful of that.

Well, let me answer the easy part first. As far as I (and Chris) know, there are no discs that are so bad that you should wait for them, or not even bother. Pretty much all the discs that had problems were fixed as soon as the problems were detected. There are a few discs that have what you might consider to be minor problems. For example, the second disc of Macross Plus has some slight audio problems with the dub track. In certain scenes, the background music is louder than the dialogue because there is problem with the center channel if you are watching in 5.1. There are also a couple of discs, such as A-ko that have timing problems with the subs. Now, depending on your own personality, these things might or might not be reasons to avoid certain discs. Macross for example didn’t bother me too much. I just switched to 3.0, and it was fine. Subs are a different thing altogether, though, because it is rather annoying to read someone’s lines while someone else is talking. Like I said, though, it’s all individual, and depends on your preferences and tolerances.

If you’ve had a horrible experience with a DVD that hasn’t had a recall or some other form of fixing, please let me know, and I’ll put it in an upcoming column. I’ve had pretty good luck so far with all my discs, so I’m afraid I can’t contribute any firsthand horrible experience.

Well, the only one that I’ve been able to find is on this site:

The only glitch is that all the mod does is basically wipe out the memory that a particular disc was played, allowing you to watch it as many times as you want. Now, seeing as you can’t get Divx discs anymore, unless you have a whole stash of never-been-watched discs, this mod seems pretty useless. If anyone out there knows of any other mods for Divx players, let me know, and I’ll forward the info on.

Ah, I’m sure you asked this question for countless numbers of anime fans. J There was at one time a poll on the AIC site, which has since been taken down. They were looking for input from fans as to IF there was another Tenchi production, which continuity would everyone like to see. Apparently, the general consensus was that the OAV continuity was the one everyone wanted. Now that they have everyone’s opinion, there hasn’t really been too much more said about it. At least, I haven’t seen anything posted anywhere, and I’m sure that if there was another Tenchi OAV coming, it would at least be posted somewhere.

In other words, I don’t know.

Well, I hope everyone had a good new year, that no one’s computer exploded, and that no one went out and bought tons of survival gear and now you don’t know what to do with it. Hope you enjoyed the column and I’ll see ya next time! J

LadyCat =^-^=