What's with those snowball earphones
Basara wears one time in the series?
Originally I thought that the round ones might’ve been an animation mistake, but that couldn’t be the case because they are drawn several times from multiple angles, meaning that they were definitely supposed to look like that.
So.... those headphones are definitely a thing that Basara owns. But they only appeared once. After this episode he wears the different set that’s clearly much more complex to draw, so why not just draw him with snowballs on his ears? |
I want to talk about these headphones.
I really love this picture a lot, it’s from episode 12 and it’s one of my favourite pictures of Basara. So, because I look at it a lot, I noticed that these specific headphones don’t really appear in the show before or after this episode. Instead, Basara is usually seen with this set, again, both before and after this episode; Here’s my explanation.
The episode with snowball earphones is right after the Minmay video recording, which they were obviously paid for, most likely a pretty decent sum. As you can see from this back view, these headphones don’t have a headband, they appear to just hold onto your ears. So, they are small but probably still good quality if a band is using them. Minimalist, easy to carry around, sounds like advanced/modern tech akin to Apple products in our world. I’d say these are brand new fancy earphones, and a more expensive brand. Basara probably wasn’t the one to buy them because he’s Basara. I’d say it’s possible that Ray wanted to upgrade band equipment but Basara didn’t like them (again, because he’s Basara) so he went back to using his old ones. And that is my super awesome Macross 7 theory. |