Macross Day

We have reached an anime history milestone.

Today, February 7, 2009, is supposed to be the day when the story of Macross, that great mecha and musical anime that started a lot of trends in modern and contemporary anime, truly begins.

Newtype Flash Article Encore No. 1: Anime Sa Ating Panahon

Anime Sa Ating Panahon
Evolution and History of Anime and Otaku Culture in the Modern Philippines.

Yesterday, as I logged into the HERO TV Forum for the afternoon, I nibbled on a stick of Pocky I bought from the neighborhood convenience store. Browsing the sub-forums, I picked up interesting tidbits with the latest stuff about the anime I follow – that Mobile Suit Gundam 00 would have a second season next October, and that Eureka 7 was now showing on everyone’s favorite Tagalog anime cable channel.

But my reverie was broken by the ringing of “Anna ni Issho Datta no ni” from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED from my mobile phone, and I picked it up from where it was nestled on the shelves, right beside where the gunpla of the RX-93v Nu Gundam stood lazily like a drunk man due to the weight of its backpack.

As I spoke to the person on the other line, I took good notice of my room, which I cleaned and vacuumed early that Sunday morning, and found, contrary to my intent all those years to stick to being “minimalist” in interior design and content, that it was now brimming with stuff on my shelves over my room’s study table. And the unique thing is that besides my law and history books, novels, work documents and folders, more than half my shelves were brimming with Japanese modern novelty items and collectibles.

That made me stop – in both wonder and thought.