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Originally Posted by HirouKeimou

Um, to be fair,

Spoiler for The short film & Sheryl:

Meanwhile, I don't really know what anyone expected of this short film...?
Everyone continued asking for "more of Frontier" once the show ended and now that it's got a short film which ruins their vision of the ending of the movies, it's problematic? Especially since, in interviews, Kawamori kind of hinted at this viewpoint when he called Sheryl's waking up and Alto's return as "eventual." Meaning, there was no set time even during the epilogue.

I didn't expect much from it and like I said more Macross Frontier will always be a good thing, but to be fair

Spoiler for Short Film Talk:

They already gave the fans hints about Sheryl's recovery and Alto's return, twice actually with the original end of the movie and the new end credits from the blu-ray to make it clearer. Then they announce a new short film hyping it as the first new Frontier content in 10 years just for it to be well... more hints about the thing you already gave us hints about.

In the end it's not like I dislike what I'm reading about the short, I'm just a bit underwhelmed that apparently it doesn't add anything substantial, that's it.

Edit:

Originally Posted by magnuskn

Kawamori milking the drama. Ah, well. We'll see if there's a follow-up.

I think this sums up my reaction, we end up in the same exact place we were before the short was made.

Originally Posted by HirouKeimou

Because I did kind of hear a couple of really weird, confusing, and conflicting spoilers so heed the tag here carefully, don't take it as God's word:

Spoiler for The conflicting reviews/reports on Freyja's fate...:

First, the confirmed stuff: Freyja dies by sacrificing herself to save everyone via singing, supposedly has a new song. Think of Ranka's "Afterschool Overflow" song from Sayonara no Tsubasa, because Japanese Twitter calls it "her love confession" song...

Next up is unconfirmed. However, it's hard to read Japanese when a poster is using the equivalent of "broken English" in their posts. So all of this is based on various tweets on Twitter plus maybe two reviews I found online: Freyja maybe leaves Hayate a child? So they're likely... already a couple(?). It's unclear if the child is hers or not. However, a bunch of fans of the ship online have been extremely happy despite... you know, the depressing conclusion of Freyja herself. So... maybe it's valid. However, I have yet to run across any confirmation of how this comes about so I guess it's extremely spoiler heavy and deeply hidden if it's true or something got lost in translation. Regardless, if it's like someone on Macross World forums said and it's due to her runes... oh boy, Jesus Ranka strikes again. Kawamori really loves that. For now though, it's unconfirmed!

I really hope the unconfirmed bit is either a troll or something lost in translation. Because otherwise it raises more questions than it answers...

I think we should discuss this in the Delta movie thread but if you really want to know about the unconfirmed stuff...

Spoiler for Big Spoilers for Delta Movie 2:

It's not that Freyja leaves a child, what happens is that the Bad guys have the technology to create new Star Singers so they make one that eventually evolves into Yami-Q-ray (the evil versions of Walkure) and in the final battle they start this process again but this time Freyja sings until she dies and her song had an influence in the process so the newly born/created baby star singer develops a rune like Freyja's, and in the end Hayate decides to raise this new star singer in Windermere, so it's not really a biological child of Freyja or Hayate but it seems that the kid takes a resemblance to Freyja because of the influence of her song.