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They're Really Just Form Five Schoolkids

Posted by Hisham
Monday 25 August 2008 at 7:27 pm.
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For a single glorious moment in time, the song Diamond Crevasse, as sung by May Nakabayashi the singing voice of Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier, became the most heartbreaking song in the whole universe. Thrice I've seen the ending of episode 20 and thrice I teared up... though it might just be the damn conjunctivitis.

The galactic fairy

There's so many bait-and-switches in this story, you just can't predict who lives and who dies. You kind of know someone will buy it, and you sort of figure out which ones would, but you think, "No, maybe it's another bait-and-switch."

Then wham! When it happens, it happens right in the middle of that song which had stood for something else when you heard it in previous episodes, and was sung in this episode for a totally different reason. But the melody and the timing of it just interposes with each other perfectly, and despair and sadness hits you squarely in the guts.

The kabuki hero

One of the best shows on TV right now, I'm thinking.

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