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Sep 5, 2008 3:41 PM
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This ep was hilarious
how do you make love rofl
I thought that the aliens are smarter than humans in this show however after watching this ep was like >.>
Feb 11, 2009 5:41 PM
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I found the whole, sneak round the ship bit funny, because it was a robot doing it.
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Oct 3, 2009 1:24 PM
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That was a hilarious interrogation.

"You two dudes. Kiss!"

Haha. It was like everyone at the table suddenly got erections when they saw kissing.
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Oct 4, 2009 8:42 AM
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When men and women are together...disaster happens LOL

This episode was crazy and hilarious, but it got me looking forward the background of these giants. I never thought Macross would be this "silly" but it's interesting and entertaining for sure.
Dec 28, 2009 10:01 PM
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omfg this episode was just freakin hilaroius, from the fight with the captain in the beginning, to the interrogation, to Minmay-tan singing. Makurosu is such a B sci fi series.
Feb 6, 2010 10:40 PM
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A disguise mecha lol. Another hilarious episode. Are those aliens related to Piccolo.
Apr 30, 2010 1:36 PM
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WTF did I just watch.
May 7, 2010 10:36 PM
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I think it's the most weird episode I have ever seen in an anime :))




Sep 20, 2010 10:53 AM
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This was freaking hilarious xD especially when Misa and Hikaru kissed and the giants was shocked... I've never seen this coming xD
Minmay's song was nice~
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Minmay singing, worth it!
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May 3, 2011 12:51 AM

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Oh come on...it's obvious this episode was a commentary on how different the two civilizations are and how someone along the way must have lied or brainwashed the Zentrandi into believing love is evil and all that jazz. It's obvious where this is going in the grand scheme of things I think.
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May 15, 2011 12:13 PM

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Wow that was a weird, shocking and funny first contact in a normal human sense eh? LOL Despite the societal difference and the obvious culture shock, at the very least they can understand the same language thanks to the very convenient translator.

I laughed at Max's disguise and how effective it was, wait did he just went into an alien toilet first? XD Anyway Minmay' s actually missing Hikaru which I found nice for a change.
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Jun 21, 2011 9:09 PM

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This may be on the funniest things ever!
Jul 9, 2011 1:59 PM

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They shoul've just had sex right there on the table.The giants would totally freak out,lol.
starseeker said:
I found the whole, sneak round the ship bit funny, because it was a robot doing it.

Yeah,and especially when Max disguised himself(the robot) as a giant...I lol-ed. It's just too funny.
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Jun 13, 2012 3:43 AM
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Is it me or was some of the animation kind of bad this episode. Really choppy in places. Or do I just have a bad encode.
Jun 15, 2012 8:14 PM

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No, I had some choppy moments too. I think they must be saving up for the battle scenes, which is fine by me.

Anyways, the robot on the toilet was superb. Just imagine being the alien, and opening the bathroom door. Yeah!
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Aug 6, 2012 10:43 AM
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I'm gonna guess most of the animation budget for this episode went into Minmay for the entire maybe minute or two she was on screen. An important episode for the plot, we now have an idea of how they'll win against the Zentradi.
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OMG, I know all these comment are old, but are so funny lol
First of all, being asexual has nothing to do with being smarter... besides believe me there's weirder animes, thought I accept I laugh at the way Zentradis react every time
Oct 29, 2012 6:11 AM
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Max's changing into a Zentraedi outfit whilst confined in a toilet remains one of the greatest piloting achievements of all time.
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May 21, 2013 2:26 AM

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Yeah :D I loled at his disguised mecha, but it worked somehow.
Hikaru is fortunate for saving Misa earlier or he would have to kiss a guy. The woman has a deathwish, I'm sure of it... Of course, he wouldn't be in this mess if not for Misa in the first place. Fortunately, a kiss was enough for the big guys and they didn't have to show how to make love :3
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No, she's the superior officer so she's taken charge of the situation and is pushing the points to gather information from the Zentraedi without giving them anything in return. She's also still responsible for protecting the lives of her subordinates (slacker and horndog though they may be). While a first kiss with Hikaru may not have been on her agenda, it did yield extremely valuable information. Now they just have to get back to Earth with it.

We've also found out that there is a way for the Zentraedi to be shrunk down to human size, and a hint that the reverse may have happened back when that race was engineered. And we've also confirmed that most Zentraedi aren't the sharpest tools in the woodshed, since Misa was able to seize control of the situation from the leaders of the two battle-fleets and the archivist/scientist.
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I never thought I'd get to see stealth mecha creed action in an anime.

Anyways, it looks like the aliens are now on a quest to find out "what is love".
Aug 18, 2015 3:46 AM

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It was just so surreal seeing these giants freak out over a kiss lol.

The trenchcoat disguise as a mecha was hilarious too.
Sep 13, 2015 7:45 PM

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this episode was hilarious xD just what i needed lol
Oct 18, 2015 11:04 PM

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Now that was funny!

The poor giant just wanted to use the bathroom =(
Nov 5, 2015 2:46 AM

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Hahaha this was weird xD
Nov 20, 2015 7:02 PM

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Loved that kiss even tho it wasnt cheating i just loved seeing it Minamy is a tease and i love her but this was a big satisfying not ntrish as i thought
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nep-nep said:
I never thought I'd get to see stealth mecha creed action in an anime.

Anyways, it looks like the aliens are now on a quest to find out "what is love".


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PS: Absolutely hilarious episode.

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Aug 6, 2016 6:12 AM

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Did they ran out of money or something or did a group of interns handle this episode. Looked really bad at times.
Oct 15, 2016 8:24 AM
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Posibly, the best episode of the series.... first contact....Appear the word "protoculture"!!!

The love is the arm to dominate the world!!!


The song of Minmay, "my love is a pilot", is number 1 in the list of sells in Macross xD
Oct 27, 2016 1:38 AM

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Hahahaha holy shit I lost it when they did that choppy zoom in on the main bad guy after the kiss.

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The close-up on faces of the characters were far prettier than what had been shown up to this episode (if we except the "Minmei watching the sunset" still) but the animation was super choppy at several instances, from the opening action scene to a lot of common scenes. Was this a way to spare drawings or was this the Itano style I saw in some Gundam scenes?

Sad to see the young and innocent Hikaru being robbed from his first kiss (idem for Minmei xD) by the obasan.

"My boyfriend is a pilot" is a decent wartime song to motivate the troops, I guess.

Why is there no full version (by Ijima/Minmei) to hear on YouTube? -_-

5/5 Another great episode, making the scifi aspect exciting (and a bit mysterious).


@CodeBlazeFate It is absurd how many people on this thread laughed at the encounter (of the third type) that was the high peak of the episode. Is the point of the episode (titled "Encounter") so easy to miss?
Also, are those three guys who intercepted the broadcast then came to the meeting the ones who will be "micronized" later ? (that's very far away so I can't remember well)


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@St0rmblade Thanks ! I guess it was just some animation neglect.
By the way, "pin-pon", you guessed it !
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This is not how I would have imagined the first contact lmao,but I'm definitely interested to know more of the origin of the Zentradi.

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Nov 22, 2017 9:12 AM

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This was like something out of a Star Trek episode. That interrogation was actually quite fascinating. Didn't think the show would have some actual interesting sci-fi, after all the b-movie goofiness we have seen until now.
May 26, 2018 7:36 PM

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Finally a really good episode.
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Sep 3, 2019 4:02 PM

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Ah, the episode where Max dresses up his Valkyrie as a Zentradi lol

And the rest of the captives must explain the birds and bees to the Zentradi.

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"My boyfriend is a pilot"
"Private concert"
Can't be more obvious, Hikaru you dense mofo. I don't blame him, I was dense too at his age.
Minmay's debut was good, cute song.

Anyway, this is probably my favorite episode so far. Lot's of interesting and hilarious things happened. Lot of insight, foreshadowing and mystery when it comes to Zentradi. Can't wait to learn more about them and their origin. I guess them encountering "Protoculture" probably awakes their long hidden and suppressed instincts, like love, lust and other emotions, thus making them unable to fight like they have been for whole of their lives.
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Hayase was surprised to know that Zentradi know human language, even though she was listening to their message in the previous episode. Also the camera in her chest (lol) was not always drawn but who cares. I'm nitpicking :p

Destroying the planet looked like something inspired by Star Wars. Such a shame Zentradi don't have a giant space gun :D

PROTOCULTURE! xD The interrogation scene was hilarious and interesting. The thing about love and birth gives me some Yamato flashbacks. Anyway, I wonder where do Zentradi come from. Are they an artificially engineered species?

Minmay is a nice singer and dancer! It's a shame she had to perform knowing that Hikaru was absent.

Rei_III said:
Was this a way to spare drawings or was this the Itano style I saw in some Gundam scenes?

ANN says that Itano didn't do anything in this particular episode
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=355

P.S. The way episode names are pronounced by the narrator during previews is pretty funny and has an echo effect
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I really don't like Minmay. She's the type of girl that'll ruin a man's life. Do you like him or not? Stop playing these stupid games and hurting his feelings every single time and acting like you're all high and mighty. Altough I can't defend Hikaru much... he just takes it without saying anything.
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Jet- said:
Hahahaha holy shit I lost it when they did that choppy zoom in on the main bad guy after the kiss.


It was too soon for its time. If it had been released 20 years late the meme potential would be infinite.

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I really don't like Minmay. She's the type of girl that'll ruin a man's life. Do you like him or not? Stop playing these stupid games and hurting his feelings every single time and acting like you're all high and mighty. Altough I can't defend Hikaru much... he just takes it without saying anything.

Yeah, Minmay was like "he doesn't return" in one frame and smiling in the other. Brutal.

tofei said:
Wow that was a weird, shocking and funny first contact in a normal human sense eh? LOL Despite the societal difference and the obvious culture shock, at the very least they can understand the same language thanks to the very convenient translator.

I laughed at Max's disguise and how effective it was, wait did he just went into an alien toilet first? XD Anyway Minmay' s actually missing Hikaru which I found nice for a change.

tbh if you were a giant guy and a giant guy walked past you, you wouldn't think it's a battlebot in a trench coat, would you?

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That was a hilarious interrogation.

"You two dudes.  Kiss!"

Haha.  It was like everyone at the table suddenly got erections when they saw kissing.

The aliens were actually fujoshi all along!

Veethorn said:
When men and women are together...disaster happens LOL

This episode was crazy and hilarious, but it got me looking forward the background of these giants. I never thought Macross would be this "silly" but it's interesting and entertaining for sure.
I love the fact that that guy has all this universal knowledge and this is a fact important enough for him to remember xD
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Damn, finally, after 11 episodes it is starting to get a little interesting and we get an idea of where the aliens are coming from and where the love stories will go... It was long

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