They both manipulated fold waves to quell Vajra. Delta weaponises and directs people with this ability, it makes some sense.

It won’t change much, if at all. It’s been a while, but I remember the De Culture edition of Frontier 01 being identical to Frontier 01.

To be fair, Shouji Kawamori has a habit of building Valkyries out of lego after designing them to make them ‘practical’, so you know thought has been put into it.

If anything, it makes it more tangible to show how they are directing their fold abilities towards specific enemies, rather than just singing and letting fold waves carry it across. More similar to Macross 7 than Frontier or SDF.

Anyone who’s been following Shoji Kawamori’s recent work with AKB0048 and Aquarion, combined with the boom in idol groups over recent years (not like they weren’t popular enough anyway) should not be surprised by this at all. It’s still very much Macross.