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[kanamesengoku]

DECADES IN ANIME: 1980s

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[mine-fujiko]

Lupin and co. are so popular that they pop up, sometimes unexpectedly, in different places. Sometimes it’s them (like in City Hunter) sometimes it’s just random characters that look like them as if they were actors playing different roles 😁

1972 Panda Kopanda ~ Lupin and Jigen (and Miyazaki)

1979 Gundam ~ Lupin and Jigen

And, from left to right: Jigen, Lupin, Goemon and Zenigata on the sax! Again from Gundam.

1982 Minky Momo ~ Lupin and Jigen (thanks @runawaycarouselhorse for the info)

1983 SDF Macross (thanks @mikailborg)

1985 Megazone 23 ~ Lupin and Jigen

1985 Urusei Yatsura ~ Lupin and Jigen

1992 Kinkyuu Hasshin Saver Kids ~ Lupin, Jigen, Goemon and Zenigata

2004 Keroro Gunsou (thanks @soulguibo)

2023 City Hunter Angel Dust ~ Lupin and Jigen

[squirrelstothenuts]

[alewave17]

SDF Macross - Wallpaper

[chirpymoth]

Ichijo Hikaru, reporting for duty!

One of the few time they actually remembered what scale the characters were to each other. Zentraedi are around 10m tall.

[michaelmac6072-art]

I'm back at the maclonized Misa shenanigans again, this time with Minmay and Hikaru laying back in her big loops of hair. Inspired by some talking I had done with my pal @daikikaijuboyo028tblr concerning how her hair loops look like very cozy places to be. ^u^

[auto-memory-doll]

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか)

Developer: Scarab with assistance from SEGA

Publisher: Bandai Visual

System: Sega Saturn

Release Date: June 6th, 1997

Genre: Shoot 'Em Up

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[shishka]

more minmay study

[ikuhara]

[daikikaicommart28]

Requested by Entropypone [link to their social media at the end of the post]

Bnnuy Cosplay Time!

BOI! Another anthropomorphic commission has touched down on my 2024 session XD

And this time is a dynamic duet of Bunnies [the Beeg one's named Phoebe and the smol one's named Eyva] bruising & cruising on a fan con, cosplaying as pilots from the SDF Macross universe of UN SPACY and Zentran sides respectively! I had fun making this chill piece :)

Fun fact: the color palette for Phoebe's Meltran/Queadluun-Rau flight suit are taken straight from--of all places, the Macross Pachinko game as it features a still-shot/snippet of Miria in her flight suit but the colors are not from the TV anime but completely new [part of a small series of changes to the outfits of the Zentradi fleet featured across the animation scenes of the Pachinko machine]--and I thought that it surprisingly fits really well for this Bunny Gal!

Honestly I'm not sure what else to say other than it's funny how this came together just a few days away from Easter X3 heheh

Link to Pone's social media, Glad I've met another Protocultural enjoyer and they're just wonderful buds to hangout with and do be chill ^u^

https://x.com/entropypone?t=rmF2X3yNRH8ndEMPLtFyJg&s=09

3/4 commissioned art

One more down...one more down...one more down!

[retrofuturisticrobot]

Some things I picked up at TFNATION it was a great weekend but I was so tired by the end with so much to see and do but I'm already looking forward to next year

gotta appreciate all the work for panels and Club con, the guests were engaging with panels and the script reading as well as much more than meets the eye were highlights.

[squirrelstothenuts]

[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]

[digiflohw]

Arttrober Day19: Lynn Minmei (Macross)

Old school anime just hits different.

Here's a link to the Arttrober2023 prompt for those interested: https://x.com/Artgerm/status/1703225777087717827?s=20

[sundanceritz]

further elaboration on the tragedy of super dimension fortress macross and lynn minmay

watching macross for the first time and basically knowing what everyone said the themes of the whole franchise were (music and love as an alternative to the violence of war) i was, honestly, baffled - because i wasn't sure how the story i was watching could possibly lead to such an optimistic conclusion

for the majority of its runtime i think the original macross series hits mostly as a tragedy. to the point that the ending isn't really a reversal of this, but just a moment where the show happens to end

a LOT of macross is borrowed from ideon, which famously is a tragedy. so many plot points are copied directly - the militaristic alien race which is actually identical to humans as both spawn from the same ancient technology, the orphaned space colonists whose ship is shockingly barred from returning to earth, the baby whose existence proves the potential for a union between the races (with the same hair color even), the mecha accidentally overloading and instantly wiping out a whole city. they do share a major scriptwriter; the word "IDEON" also appears on a screen at one point

the character arcs, too, felt like tragedies, people pushed in opposite directions by circumstance and resigning to their fates. minmay herself tells hikaru, who is very anti-military, to join the military; hikaru joins the military, sees kakizaki die, and hangs up on minmay when she calls him because he is simply completely unable to relate to her anymore, despite having done everything for her. he went this direction out of love for minmay, but has a dream that suggests that, due to the experiences MINMAY pushed him towards, he is resigned to only be comfortable with a military woman like misa now - to which i can only respond so that's bad, right? so that's bad, right? it's bad that that happened to hikaru, right...?

but when i looked into how fandom talked about this, and how the rest of the franchise went ... it became clear that this was just seen as a "love triangle", and in fact one in which hikaru "ending up with" misa is the "favorable conclusion" to fans (and the writers apparently), instead of a tragedy involving all three characters as protagonists

but, again... the show is written as a tragedy like that. and so we have to talk about lynn minmay... perhaps it's robotech's influence here, but the idea that people see her as "immature" and a flawed character who has to grow up is kind of absolutely bonkers. yes, she's immature, but also, she was made the commodified celebrity idol of an entire isolated community at a young age and also - and this is key - is literally being groomed by her older cousin on-screen without any abstraction or it being played as alright or whatever

it is surreal to me that the reason people hate kaifun is because he is whiny about the military or "is a jerk" or something. what happens on screen is completely unambiguous. he is insidious and realistic in his actions. frankly it's a clear prototype for utena (in the post-timeskip eps he has the autonomy of Having A Car).

and then, also in the post-timeskip eps, he just ... drops minmay and disappears into history (until he does more scuzzy stuff in the liner notes to fire bomber american and then disappears again). she has been totally broken down over the last few years and now has nothing. so she goes to hikaru, the person she was almost close with once

and after a few eps of back and forth love triangle nonsense hikaru and misa are like well we're together now and you have to go build a life entirely on your own starting from zero. and she's like oh ok! and leaves. does she even have a house at this point?? i dont think so??? and then the show ends????

its such a random place to end for me. the show could've ended a few eps earlier or gone on for another few. hikaru "choosing" misa is not a meaningful statement at that point because he's gone back and forth between misa and minmay for many episodes at this point. also hikaru and misa could break up later anyway, it doesnt really feel like an ending to me

it felt like minmay had the roughest life ever and the narrative wasn't sure how to frame that by the end, despite being actually VERY critical of the idol industry up to that point (this is NOT a pro-idol show tbh)

i think if hideaki anno did Shin Macross he would make a version of this story that is actually about her

perhaps this sounds critical of the show. not really, i think most of it was perfect - when they try and do a space war fight but both sides are taking action to defuse the very concept of a gundam space war scene and the generals have no choice but to go okay i guess we're just not doing this anymore!, that was completely genius. and then time skipping shortly after that to show all the political and interpersonal issues resulting from the decisions that could've been an ending, we're back into the feelings of tragedy...

it's just, from the beginning i thought, how could this end up as Macross, the franchise i've heard of? and it basically didn't! it just ends. not on an ending that emphasizes the tragedy that is the whole narrative, but not on a happy ending either. and i think its because shoji kawamori is more of a "normal person" compared to tomino et al

[crypticbirdnoises]

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