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I'm honestly happy to learn about the Space Dandy inter-dimensional thing. Now I DO want to pick up the series!

Starways instead of Galaxy Express?

Yeha, interstellar trains are what I wanted to see. But I guess the list wanted more sciency stuff.

Love Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars so much. In my opinion they never get enough credit.

The entire world of the series is very well fleshed out and realised to make it feel very believable.

It's weird to me to see Macross' spacefolding being explained by using Cowboy Bebop's astral gates considering that the original Macross predates Cowboy Bebop by 16 years.

Sad not to see warp from Gunbuster not mentioned.

Utsuro no Hako wrote:

Starways instead of Galaxy Express?

this article passes up literal space trains, that's just disappointing.

B-but... where are the living trees and cute fuzzy things that serve as spaceships?

Yeah, that the ships from Gunbuster weren't mentioned is a travesty, especially since how they work was a major plot point, and the ships looked so damned cool by the end!

I wonder if Galaxy Angel would count, since the characters there spend much of their time traversing through space?

H. Guderian wrote:

Yeha, interstellar trains are what I wanted to see. But I guess the list wanted more sciency stuff.

Heroic Age certainly fits into the "slightly harder Sci-Fi" category. Video recordings take hours to transmit, Space flights can take days or weeks. It was good to see a show that understood the vastness of space and didn't have the same doom-and-gloom message about fighting and conflict that your standard Gundam has.

You left out time dilation from near-lightspeed. Spaceship goes out, accelerates to near lightspeed, time slows down to a crawl for those on the ship. They make great distances while experiencing little passage of time while the rest of the universe marches on, maybe for thousands or millions of years (a la Gunbuster and Diebuster; of course, this method is too energy-intensive for a mere fighting robot to be able to carry enough fuel, even if it has a total-conversion engine).

computerandy9 wrote:

Love Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars so much. In my opinion they never get enough credit.

The entire world of the series is very well fleshed out and realised to make it feel very believable.

Yep, pity the original novels are all but abandoned by the author now.

Although he did finally finish the eighth book two years ago. But that was after a 9 year gap with the seventh book. I doubt the story will ever be completed unfortunately.

I'd like to point out that folding was in the older Macross series, not just F. I don't recall it being much of a thing in SDF, but I do vividly remember it in M7. Great list, though! Awesome read as always!

Kiddy Grade went down a fairly generic "warp" solution, with the wrinkle like in other shows like Babylon 5 and Buck Rogers that for most ships a warp gate is required. There was a lot of thought put into the delivery mechanism however, involving space elevators (not unique even in anime, mind) to get ships into orbit and an orbital ring to accelerate/decelerate them to and from the gate.