Even going from just all that, I tend to think of Frontier as the Gundam SEED of the Macross franchise (A pseudo remake to get the franchise better recognized with new peopple), and if you go by the whole Alto And Sheyrl = Hikaru and Misa thing, then Ranka is the Minmey without any of her good traits (Not just because Kawamori spoils her rotten) and Berera is Kaifun, but without the things that make Kaifun an unlikeable dick. So even from that standpoint, there was never a chance with Ranka, although like everyone else here, it would have been better to have solid comformation as opposed to us just putting the pieces together like we have been, because the flame wars on places like animesuki still don't stop :(.
Also like Stesh said, despite all the crap Alto gets from the anime community, he's a good lead and he has a lot of honor and pride (Basically, very traditionally japanese) and I highly doubt he'd change his mind and go with Ranka after all the stuff that went on with him and Sheyrl when she wasn't around and cause of the falling out they had (Coming to the realization that they don't understand each other at all). If he did however, then Kawamori just loses a lot of respect from the fan community and probably his own staff. |