The Blue Fox Alley

The wait has been long but all that seems like a fading past for Macross Frontier is now shifting into overdrive gear, pumping the drama in huge dosage for us viewers.

Like the episode name suggested and has proven, Sheryl claims centre stage as she appears to have recovered from her recent fall. But there is more to just celebrating Sheryl’s recovery, this episode is about wounds. Generally it has all been relatively ‘peaceful’ to us viewers as our main characters are not directly affected by the Vajra crisis, in terms of death, as it is usually those poor NUN soldiers who are killed. With the attack of the Main Island, we the viewers are suddenly bumped by the disturbing possibility that anything can happen and we begin to worry for the characters whom we have come to adore after all those fun loving moments.

Not only is there the issue of dying, characters like Alto, Ranka and Sheryl are forced to take a step closer to a resolve of the ambiguous love triangle though a conclusion is still far from sight. And speaking of the two girls, I express regrets to see Ranka struggling to cope with the events due to her naivety. Totally understandable it is for me as she is, after all, just fifteen of age. Ranka is a girl who is still in the process of finding her place in the world, so naturally such a journey would involve disappointments and blunders. One example was when she sank into self-denial after seeing Alto and Sheryl being in an intimate situation and briefly refused to sing to pacify the Vajras so that she could claim some attention from Alto but thankfully Sheryl helped the girl to snap out of it. Sheryl’s maturity is also a suprise to me, since she is rather young as well. She is just seventeen, mind you.

The actions of the two ladies in the next few episodes will be crucial in determining the ending of the story, assuming there will be a couple at the end of it all. The challenge is presented before them, the people of Frontier are drowning in despair and hatred for the disaster that has been imposed onto them. The approaches of the two singers in healing the broken hearts of the masses will somehow decide on Alto’s decision in chosen the one he loves as he is after all, one of the those in despair. And at this time of need, Alto is probably going to develop a desire to confide and seek out a sanctuary for his tired mind. So the one who can really be Alto’s pillar of mental support is probably the one Alto will fall in love with.

Episode 20 is testimonial to my stand that this is probably one of the best shows of recent, playing high on the notion of romance (not in terms of romance between man and woman) with the vastness of the whole picture and is a drama cleverly manipulating our emotions in a most subtle way. It is now thick with the putridity of conspiracy, anger, sadness and despair. So we now pray that the lions will lick their wounds, recover and survive this tribulation.

Macross Frontier is romantic, as I have said. I felt it that way when the Deculture episode explained about the history of humanity spreading its existence across the universe until current times in Frontier.

P.S. Now I really wish Michel will come back as a cyborg. I cannot stand a crying Klan.