I didn't think a single anime episode could reduce me to this state of melancholy...

I'm actually six episodes off the relevant one (episode 20 of Macross Frontier), but I've been watching several scenes over and over, wailing inside for Klan and Michel. This was the one couple I would have been happy to see at the end (partially due to several other irritating meanderings...) but the very moment they gave it to us, they ripped them apart. I was expecting someone to die around this part of the show, and the writers have definitely gone for the one with the most impact...I think Ozma might have been an option, but that would have ripped Ranka apart too much. Speaking of whom...I'm soooo blaming the pain on her, at least until I get over it.