Macross Digital Trip - Liner Notes from Osamu Shoji

These are the translated liner notes from the SDF Macross Digital Trip - Synthesizer Fantasy album, written by the arranger Osamu Shoji. The obi strip is also translated.

Many of the Digital Trip albums have liner notes from the arrangers describing the process behind certain songs and explain some of the technical aspects more directly. This has lots of interesting details, especially with how Shoji used the Fairlight CMI sampler to make many distinct sounds for the album.

Apologies that I don't have proper scans. I hope to figure out a way to scan some of my LPs in the short and long term soon enough. If you're interested in the Digital Trip albums more generally, I wrote a longer overview post on the series.

As before, the English translation is by Windii (Twitter, Ko-fi). Thanks for her help with this, and consider commissioning her for JPN-ENG translations.

All the punctuation is in the original text.

Newtype August 2023: Ippei Gyoubu Interview on G-Witch’s Costume Designs

This is an interview of Ippei Gyoubu (Twitter) from Newtype's August 2023 issue, which was released close to the conclusion of the Witch from Mercury. The magazine did a feature of "composition" going into some of the main creative aspects of the show. 

While Gyoubu was most prominent as a mechanical designer for the show, mostly with the Jeturk House mobile suits, this interview goes into the costume and some other tech design he did. There's some interesting tidbits in how the team wanted to reflect the characters' personalities, as well as some choice comments regarding Guel.

Like last time, the English translation is by Windii (Twitter, Ko-fi). Thanks for her help with this, and consider commissioning her for JPN-ENG translations.

Animedia February 2023: Mogmog Interview on G-Witch’s Character Designs

The February 2023 issue for Animedia features some illustrations and coverage for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. One of the pages features comments and an interview with Mogumo (Twitter, Pixiv), the original character designer for the show. 

The English translation is by Windii (Twitter, Ko-fi). Thanks for her help with this, and consider commissioning her for JPN-ENG translations.

Also, I've been gathering the character "Expression Test" sheets shared by the main G-Witch Twitter account and the post-episode sketches done by Mogumo on Twitter in a folder here.