Hidetaka Tenjin also noted that unlike other Valkyries its cockpit is not transparent. While describing the Sv-262, Kawamori mentioned that this is the first time that a Valkyrie with this unique delta wing design variant has appeared in Macross. The new variable fighter design was inspired by the real-life Saab 35 Draken. The Sv-262 is used by the Aerial Knights Valkyrie Aerial Knights of the Windermere Kingdom. However, unlike the YF-30 the VF-31 design has built-in gunpods in its arms and forward-swept wings.
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Kawamori confirmed that the VF-31 is an update of the YF-30 Chronos that appeared in the PlayStation 3 video game Macross 30: Voices across the Galaxy. The VF-31 is flown by the Walküre group's escorts, the "Delta Flight". The staff also presented the official designs by Shōji Kawamori for the two main variable fighters: the VF-31 Siegfried and the Sv-262 Draken III.
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While video productions such as Macross Plus and Macross Zero prominently featured variable fighters against each other, Kawamori admitted that it has not been the focus in a Macross television series in a long time. Kawamori added that this new series will emphasize "Valkyrie versus Valkyrie" duels as opposed to previous television series. He also noted that he has been deliberately avoiding more direct design inspirations from current real world fighters, since stealth technology has made modern combat aircraft look too similar and harder to distinguish from each other. Shoji Kawamori explained that the two fighters have exhausts in different colors because they were developed by different companies. By contrast, the background variable fighter will feature a relatively new transformation scheme that bears little similarity to those of previous Valkyries. He also acknowledged that the blue and white Valkyrie in the foreground shares a design lineage with previous variable fighters in the Macross series and therefore was less of a challenge to design. Kawamori added that he has been a fan of the Draken jet since he was a child. Kawamori confirmed that both fighters in the visual are "Valkyries" (transforming variable fighters), and he specifically cited the old Swedish jet fighter Saab 35 Draken as an inspiration for the darker Valkyrie in the background of the image. Promotional media Ī promotional visual created by artist Hidetaka Tenjin an depicting 2 fictional dogfighting aircraft was posted in the franchise's official website on Friday the 25th September 2015.
Kawamori appeared at the event to reveal the main staff, the winner of the audition for the new singer in the anime, and the new anime's characters. Macross Delta held a "'Chō Jikū' Seisaku Happyōkai" ( "The Super Dimension" Production Unveiling), a live-streamed event that revealed more details on the project on October 29 at 12:00 p.m. The finalists went through interviews with the judges, and demonstrated their singing and voice performing skills. The final selection round was held in Tokyo in late April 2015. On February 7, 2015, it was reported that over 8,000 people auditioned to star in the new series. As with the previous Macross series, the Macross Delta staff have scouted new talent for the anime. The new series is being sponsored by Big West Advertising and Bandai Visual. A team of talented idols, the Walküre, uses the power of their songs to calm down the infected by the Vár Syndrome, assisted by the Delta Flight, a team of experienced Valkyrie pilots, while facing the interference from the Aerial Knights of the Windermere Kingdom, which found a way to exploit the infection in their favor as part of their plan to resume war against the New United Government ( 新統合政府, Shin Tōgō-seifu) for control of the Cluster.
Macross Delta is set in the year 2067, eight years after the events of Macross Frontier in a remote part of the Milky Way Galaxy called the Brísingr Globular Cluster ( ブリージンガル球状星団, Burījingaru Kyūjō Seidan), which is plagued by the Vár Syndrome ( ヴァールシンドローム, Vāru Shindorōmu), a mysterious phenomenon which turns people berserk without any apparent cause. See also: List of Macross Delta characters