#macross 2012

[arcadebroke]

[daidoods]

Coming to your nearest comic book shop.....never

What could've been--the untold odyssey of the Megaroad-01 across the great milky way!

Ever since the original broadcast of Super Dimension Fortress Macross and the release of the music video Flashback 2012, many fans have always wondered what happened to the original cast before the.....how should I put it....."arbitrary narrative decision" [and their rather "questionable" participation via the last piece of Macross Delta content] and since I got on a rather Protocultural mood I decided to make this little Fanart! a mock-up comic cover inspired by The Comico Comic Company's adaptation of Macross through it's Robotech counterpart [specifically: issue 35 ].

[Sidenote: to be honest--its one of the few covers I liked from their work] Basically what I did was: setting it up in the Macross universe and stripping away it's Robotech robes, changing the context of the original [and to quote one of my friends, make it less "Instinctively patriotic" feeling in comparison to the Comico ver.] with "the Eve of the Space Emigration Initiative" as the background/new context.

To be frank with you fellas: Originally I was going to just leave the drawing alone like that--but the idea of making a "mock-up comic cover variant" won me over and honestly it makes me want to practice my skills on creating cover art not just for Macross related content [or any franchise really] but also for my original projects in the near future as well.

Before I end the post with the variants of this Fanart I have some special mentions/credit to give:

Mechaban

I recommend y'all give him a watch or check out his work, as he not only does Macross but also work based on Mospeada and Southern Cross [especially in their Robotech counterparts + the Robotech EU among other cool stuff], and he's the same cool dude who provided us Protoculture Fans a mock-up of what Hikaru's dress uniform might look like which I used for this Fanart.

∆And the Wonder Three∆

@michaelmac6072

@saffrox7650

TG_Remix7

For helping me with extra details such as the name of the comic company among other suggestions!

•Wrap-around/Comic Mock-up ver.

•Illustration Ver. [unedited]

[princess-viola]

[shadow27]

Macross II, 7, Plus, Frontier, Delta, & Flasback 2012 (released in 1987) will stream on D+.

Macross, the series, and Do You Remember Love will NOT be streaming in America (but will in Japan.)

[nakamorijuan]

藤原誠 & 飯島真理 - ランナー ―デュエット・バージョン― Makoto Fujiwara & Mari Iijima - RUNNER -Duet Version- MACROSS FLASHBACK 2012 - Ending Theme

[laboitediabolique]

Promotional poster for the video release of Macross Flash Back 2012, 1987

[vashchest]

Lynn Minmay - Super Dimension Fortress Macross.

Diseño del PJ @Haruhiko Mikimoto

[animenostalgia]

News - The official Macross website has announced that the Disney+ streaming service will be the home of nearly all of the Macross anime franchise streaming worldwide "by the end of 2024". This excludes the original TV series and Do You Remember Love? film, which are both listed as only having "limited distribution inside Japan".

The following titles are listed for distribution outside Japan:

Macross: Flash Back 2012 music video

Macross II: Lovers, Again (6 episodes)

Macross Plus (4 episodes total)

Macross Plus Movie Edition

Macross 7 (49 television episodes, plus three OVA episodes)

Macross 7 the Movie: The Galaxy's Calling Me!

Macross Dynamite 7 (4 episodes)

Macross Zero (5 episodes)

Macross Frontier (25 episodes)

Macross Frontier: The False Songstress

Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell

Macross Frontier Toki no Meikyū

Macross FB7: Ore no Uta o Kike!

Macross Delta (26 episodes)

Macross Delta the Movie: Passionate Walkūre

Macross Delta the Movie: Absolute Live!!!!!!

No exact date or specific countries/territories have been listed yet, but I'll be sure to update with more information as it becomes available.

[false-songstress]

Macross titles will be available on Disney+!! (Remember the international agreement includes Flashback 2012 but not any other SDF titles, hence Minmay's outfit in the promo image)

[xbuster]

What's the best watch order for macross for someone who's always meant to check it out out but never has, but now wants to but doesn't know where to start?

If by “best order” you mean you want to know how to watch each series so that you can go into each one understanding the connections to the other parts of the franchise, then it would absolutely be chronological order.

This would be SDF Macross > Macross Plus > Macross 7 > Macross Zero > Macross Frontier > Macross Delta.

When watching SDF, you’ll want to watch the movie Do You Remember Love? right after and the short OVA Flashback 2012 sometime before Delta.

Macross Plus has two versions, the OVA and the movie versions. You can watch either to experience the story. The OVA has more content while the movie is a shortened edit of the OVA, but has some original footage not seen in the OVA.

Macross 7 is long and while you’re watching it, you might want to watch the OVAs Macross 7 Plus and Macross 7 Encore. These take place during the series. Plus is a bunch of really small shorts while Encore is basically just three more episodes. And there’s the movie and Dynamite 7 OVA, which are also not super important so you can watch them whenever, but you might want to at least watch Dynamite 7 before Frontier.

Macross Zero is just an OVA series, but you’ll probably want to watch it before Frontier.

Frontier has two movies that you’ll want to watch because they seem to supersede the canon of the TV anime (still watch the anime too though since it has a lot of context for the movies). Labyrinth of Time is a short film that was recently released for Frontier over a decade after the last movie and you’ll definitely want to watch it sometime after movie 2 since it provides some closure. There’s also the FB 7 OVA which is really just a summary of Macross 7 told to the Frontier cast, but it has a new song and new footage of the characters.

Delta has two movies, one that tries to supersede the canon of the anime like the Frontier movies that reuses a lot of footage from the anime (but again, still watch the anime) and an original movie that definitively ends Delta. There are also some unimportant comedy OVAs.

There’s also Macross II, but it’s not canon so if you want to watch it, you can anytime after finishing SDF.

[futa69]

You're already a fan of the ancient astronaut theory.

Here's a list of books, movies, TV shows, and video games featuring ancient astronauts. (revised)

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

▪︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎Man of Steel (2013)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

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Dysphoria

A video representation of my experience with dysphoria. Made in 2020.

Video:Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari, Vision of Escaflowne, Escaflowne (movie), Revolutionary Girl Utena (movie), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Devil May Cry (anime), Fullmetal Alchemist, Noragami, Steins;Gate, Blue Exorcist, Guilty Crown, K (TV), Death Note, Death Parade, Akira (movie), Demon Slayer, KARAS, Children of the Sea, Dorohedoro, Psycho Pass, Nisemonogatari, Your Name, Paprika, Perfect Blue, Le Portrait de Petit Cossette, Weathering With You, 5 Centimeters per Second, Charlotte, Attack on Titan, Black Clover, Bleach, Erased, Darwin's Game, Deadman Wonderland, Drifters, Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works, Free!, Sunday Without God, Blood Blockade Battlefront, My Hero Academia, Owari no Seraph, Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Re: Zero, Rozen Maiden, Strike The Blood Third, Sword Art Online, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Macross Frontier Audio:JT Bruce – Hypnic Jerk Premiere Date:2020 Status:Downloadable, Streamable Genre(s):Horror, LGBT+, Other, Artistic Cons/Awards: Anime Weekend Atlanta 2020 PRO Contest: won “Best Technical”, finalist in “Artistic” Agamacon 2021 – Honorable mention “Endless Nightmare” YoumaCon 2021 – “Now in Technicolor!” Award Outside Links:.org

Dysphoria AKA Skeptic’s Hypothesis AKA Multicultural Panic Attack

Started: 12 dec 2019 Finished: 11 aug 2020 Work time: 47hr 58min in premiere 26hr 16min After Effects

General Comments I started out wanting to make a weird/creepy glitch video. But as I started making it it became something way more personal.

The part where I over-explain everything

I joined AWA PRO in 2019 with a video that was completely forgettable (Exposure). I came away from that feeling very weirdly defensive of my editing skills so I set out to make something to prove I could edit. That was the AMV Esoterra, which was largely a shallow, showy piece. Aside from the technicals, it’s also just a type of video I don’t generally make because nostalgia/vibe things don’t interest me much.

While that video was coming along I got the urge to do something edgy, and I have always wanted to do text and glitch effects in a video. I’ve had a love affair with JT Bruce’s “Hypnic Jerk” for several years so worked on cutting it down to something usable (the track is ~10 minutes long). Once that was done I set it aside to make after Esoterra was done, to make sure I finished it before the pro deadline. I didn’t intend to finish Dysphoria for PRO, but I figured if I finished it in time (a big IF) I would submit it in addition to Esoterra.

Once I started on Dysphoria, the time went by so quick. I wanted something that would separate the viewer from reality and just focusing on the song would have been enough. But I got this idea to attach it to something real. And eventually decided to roll with it. It’s weird, because when you look at these 2 videos (Esoterra and Dysphoria) You’d probably think Dysphoria was the gimmicky one, but it’s much closer to my brain than Esoterra is.

I’m not super open about it, but I’m transgender. I also have clinical/major Depression. I wanted Dysphoria to be about the fight you have in your head with yourself on whether or not you want to change, or if what you’re dreaming is really something you want.

During my time in the Navy (2009 – 2012) I was constantly fighting with myself on what I wanted more– transition or to stay in the navy? DADT was repealed shortly after I enlisted, but trans people were still largely unknown and had to be closeted. This video helped me work through some of that, I think. I had a pretty good idea I was trans when I joined, but I wasn’t sure until after boot camp. And once I went on my first deployment things sort of snowballed, and I was constantly weighing the pros and cons of staying in or getting out to transition (Obama’s trans inclusion thing didn’t happen to shortly after I was discharged).

I wanted this video to be relatable to anyone imagining what a mental crisis was like. It was very important to me that it was still “gender dysphoria” but it didn’t beat you over the head with it. I wanted it to be subtle. Something that maybe trans people would get but cis people could still appreciate without feeling like the vid has a specific message. Gender dysphoria can be fairly insiduous. I don’t think many people realize how much it can affect things. It is also easily attributable to other factors, so can be very hard to identify as an issue if you aren’t already 100% sure you’re trans. I guess this video is just relaying feelings, and the general steps/phases/stages you try to work through during a mental crisis or psychological break.

For the text, I watched a lot of AMVs with text in them and I learned that text seemed to work better when you weren’t concerned with reading it. So I made the text hard to read and I used it more as an artistic framing device. Any time the character was feeling the text, I tried to put the text on the character, especially over their face. There are two “worlds” in this vid, one being reality (which is almost always starring a female character), and one being the dream/fantasy. Reality is dim, has washed out colors and hard to read text. Fantasy has easier to read text but it’s usually in another language. It’s also way more raw and emotional, and not the lyrics of the song/track.

And, as especially the case for the first minute, I started out the text being fairly legible but then got more screwed up and harder to read as time progressed. Because in the beginning you think you’ve got things figured out, but the more you think about stuff, the harder it becomes to decide, and the more frustrated you get. Especially true for ~0:28 – 0:34ish, screwing with the text in such a way to be artistic but also to purposefully frustrate you that you cannot read it.

Which introduced an ongoing problem into my video: How do you make things specifically frustrating (especially the later glitches) without it being so frustrating that the video is no longer “good”? That was an ongoing conversation I had with at least 3 different beta testers. Much more about the glitches than the text, because I had very specific visions for the text. In the end, I think I figured it out okay so there is a good balance between “messy” and “not done well”. But that took several tries to get right.

People suffering with mental crises generally feel alone. So I wanted the characters in reality to be relatable but have a barrier between them and the viewer. That being the text, blurs, VHS overlays, etc. I especially tried to pick scenes where the real characters were not looking right at you.

Dream world is brighter, vibrant, hopeful. The characters you see yourself as (the boys) are looking at you, and they’re for the most part cool, badass characters.

The glitches were predominantly hand-made using the very scenes they’re on top of. I did have some presets, but I’d say 80% – 90% of glitches were made from scratch. The presets mostly got used during the elevator scene around 2:13 – 2:17and 2:31 – 2:35. The only other help I had making this were VHS overlays which got peppered in throughout the video.

Despite Esoterra taking more time, I’d consider Dysphoria to be much more technical and difficult to edit. In Esoterra I was playing with, and learning about, flow, composition, and overlays. The time it took to effectively learn and apply those things was immediately used in Dysphoria which surprisingly has a lot of the same core concepts, just utilized differently. Despite them being nearly ideological opposites, I don’t think I would’ve been able to make Dysphoria as good as it is without having the experience of making Esoterra first.

Scene selection was incredibly intentional for every single part, and caused a lot of headache at times due to not finding what I wanted. Because my specific theme was gender dysphoria (and even more specifically, female to male) girls only show up at specific times: – the real world – the very first time the character goes into the dream world “at first it is a plunge into hyper reality” – when the character is actively fighting with themself (the yes / no sections) – after an implied suicide attempt at 1:32, when dream/fantasy start become one.

In the “Yes / no” parts of the video, the boy is always yes, and the girl is always no. That is specific to gender dysphoria, and to FTMs. When you visualize yourself? Is it as a girl or a boy? It was always a boy. But some trans people (myself included) will go through phases where they dream as their real-world (non-transitioned) self. For me, I went through a long period of denial, so would try to force being ok with myself, even though it brought me pain.

So all the scenes with girls in them are painful. The scenes of boys start out cool and confident, but then become trapped and locked away. They get angry and kill the girl around 1:20, which then results in the mental breakdown that follows. The suicide attempt, the male self saving the female self, the overall anger and confusion, and the “crisis” part of the video. The crisis is: Now you know you have to do something. Will you finally accept this part of yourself? Will you finally transition? The overlays at 1:53 signify the decision. Glass breaking, hands parting, and scissors cutting an umbilical cord.

The next section is “Help”. The character finally recognizes that they need help, because they are finally accepting that there is a problem. But just because you recognize there’s a problem doesn’t mean you’re any good at solving it. Therein goes the brief period of survival in the dream with the super clear picture of the man saving the woman. It works in two ways, one at surface gender dysphoria level because it’s a dude being cool, the secondary being that the masculine side is saving the feminine side. “Hey. You don’t have to die. You’re still a part of me. You might be transitioning to male but that doesn’t mean my feminine side disappears.”

The elevator section of the video was one of the first sections I edited, and so it is predominantly just a glitch fest as a way to transition from living in escapism to getting back to reality. It ends at the scene of the girl in bed. For me this symbolizes depression more than anything else. You know you need help, you are constantly thinking about how to get it, but sometimes you just can’t fucking do anything. So we have that scene and then shinji (the boy) appears as a reflection beneath. The video ends with shinji waking up in the hospital and the question “Are you awake?” It’s a throwback to the original video’s premise of a skeptic’s hypothesis… Can never know if you’re dreaming or not. But also a sort of ambiguous ending of never knowing if the character got the help they needed or not. Are they still living in their dream of being a boy? Or did they actually transition and this is reality now?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

So anyway that’s my over-explanation of this video. I put it off for so long, partly because I don’t like revealing this part of myself, and partly because I don’t think it’s right to force my interpretation/message on anyone. But overall decided the pros in putting this essay out there outweighed the cons.

Since I finished this video in August 2019, released it publicly in December, and only now just wrote this explanation at the end of February the following year, I forgot a lot of things maybe I wanted to touch on in between that time. But this is long enough as it is. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up I guess. Contact info in my profile.

Some things I want to point out just because As mentioned previously, all scene selection was super intentional. But a lot of it goes by so fast and seems kind of random so here’s some things I want to bring attention to lol.

0:02 – there’s an overlay here of more rain (dropping on the camera) and also some faint glowing eyes. I wanted to bring some paranoia into this video but this is the only part that panned out.

Beginning to 0:21 – Your Name was amazing to work with because it had the perfect amount of scenes of girls looking at boys and being sad about it. This establishes the character’s life up to this point as being unhappy with who she is. The scene of her staring in the mirror at the boy and then crying really sets up the whole gender dysphoria framing device without being obvious about it.

0:24 – anthy is a fragmented, bare, vulnerable individual with a trapped and tortured boy prince inside :)

1:20 – metaphor for self injury. Also foreshadowing of some other chest-based scenes. 1:23 – the result of the previous scene. This was the best anime representation I could find for ftm chest surgery. Obviously the scar is all wrong but it was the only chest scar scene I could find that looked kind of believable for what I was going for.

1:24 – 1:32 I synced the tracking dot to the beat lol. Also the text on the bed moves when she lays down on it.

1:57 – 1:59 is all scenes with barriers because the characters are all trapped. The last scene is a first person shot of looking down at boobs, which in context of all the suffering scenes leaning up to it are meant to imply that boobs are bad. Character has massive chest-related dysphoria. It’s a quick callback to the other 2 chest scenes.

2:01 – 2:05 is dilandau!! From Vision of Escaflowne. I won’t explain the scene because it’s a huge spoiler but if you know the anime/character you’ll know why I used it here. :)

Note: the (uncredited) live action footage is a recording of myself.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to my beta testers and our discussions about the intricacies of glitches: Ash, Dr. Derpface, TheLazyDaze

Thank you to Synaethesia for helping me with the VHS overlays.

Thank you to Kriegher for the help with including Hindi as a language.

I also must mention ProstrateConstantly/ZaneWins, whose DESTRUCT vid and making of vid heavily inspired me to make my own glitch vid. And to CrackTheSky’s blog for mentioning DESTRUCT, as I otherwise never would’ve seen it. D E S T R U C T: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=878jSaMBtxw Making of DESTRUCT: CTS’s blog: https://crakthesky.wordpress.com/

Original track of JT Bruce – Hypnic Jerk: https://www.jamendo.com/track/24044/hypnic-jerk?language=en https://open.spotify.com/track/0e3aRWcOl7XqYNWP1ss5AO

I did a large amount of work to the song to make it work- here’s a screencap of my Premiere timeline for the song:

In (approximately) September 2021, JT Bruce commented on the youtube video!

[dirt-clod]

long distance pal @pleasuresuck tagged me in this ~10 shuffled songs~ thing a while ago so let’s goooo

1: Crucified Upside Down-Gillian Carter

2: Vexation-The Garden

3: When I Grow Up- Fever Ray

4: Come Over- Matt Watson lmao

5: This Must Be The Place(Naive Melody)-Talking Heads (one of the greatest songs ever created)

6: Tried and True- Ween

7: The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit- La Dispute (been kicking my ass since 2016 and still will not let me rest. goes so fucking hard. was our touch half as sacred as I made it seem? OOOF)

8: Deep Pocket- Glocca Morra (hi candy)

9: Horsey- Macross 82-99

10: Notice Me- SZA (I DONT WANNA BE YOUR GIIIRLFRIEND IM JUST TRYNA BE YOUR PERRRSON)

my basic lil songs weehee. i always just listen to my likes on shuffle tbh…I love hearing songs I know and can sing along to, whatever lol

@frostmirriam @chamacafeahorrible @activityenjoyer @wartooth420 this is just like 2012 tumblr :3

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[matt0044]

How I think Robotech should cap off?

Personally, the finale should be a sort of homage to Phantasm with the SDF-3 caught in a mind bending sort of black hole. It could be that the Protoculture left on the SDF-3 was affected by the cosmic event and put the crew into this dream state taking on a life of its own.

As shown with Dana, even the Flower of Life can induce a sort of hallucination.

In fact... I'd be more on brand with Robotech by adapting "SDF Macross: Do You Remember Love?" as the dream sequence for the Macross character , pissing off very protective Macross fans one last time.

Mind you, I'd have a proper release and dub for DYRL put out first.

Scott's group would try to help enter the dream world while the Haydonites are fended off, finding themselves on the SDF-1 they've heard stories about in original scenes interacting with Do You Remember Love? While the digital animation interacting with the old school cell animation would be jarring, this would add to the not-too-stable state of the dream and how the characters from Southern Cross as well as Mospeada aren’t really mean to be there.

The dream becomes destabilized when Roy dies, reminding Rick and others what really happened. Soon Ben dies, Max falls for Miriya and Lisa remembers her love for Rick. Additionally, certain voice actors who either died or retired are recasted (with some VAs from the ADV dub of Macross like Monica Rial playing Lisa Hayes).

Minmei would secretly be the stronger mind trying to give everybody what she thinks they want but what she really wants: an escape from reality. It would be an extension of her downer ending of a story arc from the Macross Saga. The Protoculture feeds off her desires for better days before the Zentraedi Holocaust or what she went through in “Prelude To The Shadow Chronicles.”

However, everyone finds each other and realizes the ruse. Dana and survivors of the Southern Cross were exposed to the Flower of Life’s spores, giving them some chance of navigating the dream space.

This leads to Minmei’s space concert where she rallies everyone against the dream's defenses, represented by the Zentraedi and the Meltaedi. The song? An English localization of “Do You Remember Love?” as a tribute to the original Macross.

Minmei, at the center of it all, has to learn to sing and let everybody trapped fight their way out. I'd be a good way of her truly moving forward after The Sentinals pilot showed that her feelings for Rick hadn't truly gone away.

Meta wise: it could be how the main storyline has been long overdue for some closure. Even one about nostalgia and how denying the here and now only feeds into higher powers who wish to oppress you.

It would end on the concert she performs in Macross Flashback 2012, this time with shots of surviving characters from each saga. Maybe have Bowie on piano with Lancer on base.

Right... feel free to tear me apart for suggesting such an affront to a classic Anime movie.

...

It’d be better than “Love, Live, Alive.”