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Volume two of Kadokawa Shoten's Macross Ace magazine shipped in Japan on Friday. Included in the second volume there is a new manga series based on the Macross science-fiction franchise. The First story in the Macross Frontier drama CDs has been adapted by artist Megane Kikuya (.hack//XXX) into Nyan-Dra: Alto Meets Sky.

Alto Saotome is a pilot of a transforming space fighter and is also the main character in last year's Macross Frontier television series. Macross Frontier has inspired at least five earlier manga series.

The magazine is also continuing the serialization of the Super Dimension Fortress Macross the First, the manga retelling of the first Macross television series and movie by original character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto.
The character designer and animation director of Macross Frontier, Yuichi Takahashi, is also drawing a four-panel manga called Vajranpo. Macross A Shuccho-go. There are also interviews with Lynn Minmay voice actress and singer Mari Lijima, acclaimed mechanical animation designer Ichiro Itano, Full Metal Panic! creator Shoji Gatoh and Macross mechanical illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin to be found within this second volume of the magazine.

The next volume of Macross Ace is scheduled to ship in the middle of November — the same month