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Aeko
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« on: October 28, 2004, 11:27:46 AM »
When the Earth defense fighters leave the station to attack the alien cruiser, I swear the inside of one looks like the inside of an X-wing!
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« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2004, 12:52:49 PM »
The entire sequence was a parody of the battle of Yavin IV. And a damn good one at that. Gotta love the pepsi missles in the trench run.
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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2004, 10:41:11 PM »
Since it is officially a Star Wars parody, now I know why the cruiser's laser weapon seemed so reminiscent of the Death Star's planet killer.
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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2004, 09:31:45 AM »
Funny. I always thought that that scene was largely inspired by Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross, including the big main gun. Of course, it's easy to believe that Macross itself (and any number of other space-opera anime) was inspired by Star Wars.
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2004, 03:47:05 PM »
Wasn't Macross AFTER A-ko?

 And then there is the whole trench scene and the long drawn out shot to see how big the Egota Class cruiser is.

 It reeks of "A New Hope."
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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2004, 08:00:03 PM »
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Wasn't Macross AFTER A-ko?

Nope. Macross came out in 1982. Plenty of time for it to influence A-ko, but also easily long enough after Star Wars to be influenced by it in turn.
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