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Originally Posted by Dash_Hunter
But yeah it really didn't add much new and just maintained the Status Quo instead of advancing the story even if a little bit, personally I still prefer the new end credits to the Blu-ray box version where it heavily implies that the end credits concert is after Sheryl woke up and that the blue shooting star is Alto coming back.
In the end more Frontier is always welcomed but come on just let Alto and Sheryl reunite already!
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Um, to be fair,
Spoiler for The short film & Sheryl:
that epilogue you're talking about also didn't set a time or space; it also didn't clarify if it's real or not. So, you banked a lot on an additional concert on a special second release set as proof she woke up within 8 or more years. Comas don't work like that. In fact, it only proves that with all the technology developments in the Macross universe, they still have yet to uncover if there's a solution to waking someone from a comatose state.
Also, on Japanese Twitter, a spoiler said Ranka had still (I repeat, still) been singing to Sheryl to try and wake her up despite the timeskip. Talk about being dedicated to your friends.
Meanwhile, I don't really know what anyone expected of this short film...?
Everyone continued asking for "more of Frontier" once the show ended and now that it's got a short film which ruins their vision of the ending of the movies, it's problematic? Especially since, in interviews, Kawamori kind of hinted at this viewpoint when he called Sheryl's waking up and Alto's return as "eventual." Meaning, there was no set time even during the epilogue.
Regardless, neither TV series nor movies are more canon than the other since both count. So if one version doesn't stick, there's always the TV series ending even if there's no canonical romantic conclusion.
All that being said, most of the judgment from either short film or the Delta film has come from Western fans who have yet to really see either outside of summaries and maybe the first 5 minutes released online you could watch via VPN early yesterday afternoon. Overall, on Japanese Twitter, people are pleased and emotional about both presentations so... I guess it's good? Personally, I hope it is.
Because I did kind of hear a couple of really weird, confusing, and conflicting spoilers so heed the tag here carefully, don't take it as God's word:
Spoiler for The conflicting reviews/reports on Freyja's fate...:
First, the confirmed stuff: Freyja dies by sacrificing herself to save everyone via singing, supposedly has a new song. Think of Ranka's "Afterschool Overflow" song from Sayonara no Tsubasa, because Japanese Twitter calls it "her love confession" song...
Next up is unconfirmed. However, it's hard to read Japanese when a poster is using the equivalent of "broken English" in their posts. So all of this is based on various tweets on Twitter plus maybe two reviews I found online: Freyja maybe leaves Hayate a child? So they're likely... already a couple(?). It's unclear if the child is hers or not. However, a bunch of fans of the ship online have been extremely happy despite... you know, the depressing conclusion of Freyja herself. So... maybe it's valid. However, I have yet to run across any confirmation of how this comes about so I guess it's extremely spoiler heavy and deeply hidden if it's true or something got lost in translation. Regardless, if it's like someone on Macross World forums said and it's due to her runes... oh boy, Jesus Ranka strikes again. Kawamori really loves that. For now though, it's unconfirmed!
I really hope the unconfirmed bit is either a troll or something lost in translation. Because otherwise it raises more questions than it answers...
