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[laboitediabolique]

Print advertisement for the "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross Perfect Collection" laserdisc box set, Pioneer LDC, April 1991

[nakamorijuan]

第1話 「プリズナー」

[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.”

[holy-cucumber01]

Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross

Genre : adventure, fantasy, mecha, drama

Аnime series : 23 duration 25 min

[scope-dogg]

Could you explain the harmony gold situation in full? I only know it from the transformers angle with the original jetfire toy.

It’s not too long a story. As you may already know, Harmony Gold wanted to broadcast Macross in the US, but Macross is actually quite a short series and there weren’t enough episodes for it to get approved for broadcast on American TV. To resolve this issue, they took footage from Macross and two other series, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada, and frankensteined the footage together to create Robotech. They bought the rights for all three series from Tatsunoko, who sole them exclusive and perpetual international rights for all three series.

The thing is, technically they weren’t allowed to do that for Macross, because they’re not the sole owner of the IP. The other IP holder is a company called Big West, who produced all the Macross sequels by themselves. Big West were understandably pissed - I know Shoji Kawamori, Macross’ creator, has even referred to Robotech as a “pirate” version of Macross when he’s been asked about it, so they were probably very reluctant to deal with Harmony Gold to get their stuff published. Even if it was a patchwork hatchet job, Robotech went on to be extremely popular in the US, which enabled them to basically squat on the Macross IP in the US and internationally for many years even after the Robotech brand became increasingly irrelevant with the lack of new entries and Macross continued going on strong in Japan. Now, the full details and background behind this new deal are secret, so it’s not entirely clear who’s caved in or who’s getting the better of this deal, but like I say, this opens up a lot of avenues that should be good for the brand with official releases of 4 full length TV series and bunch of movies, OVAs and videogames now possible. In terms of popularity in Japan, Macross is way up there, behind only the likes of Gundam and EVA, and while I doubt they can achieve that level of success internationally now, this deal should still create a lot of profit for everyone involved, which can only be good for the future of the IP.

[randi2204]

I grew up in the 80s, so my first exposure to anime (by which my child-self means Cartoons That Are Not Like Other Cartoons) was through Voltron: Defender of the Universe (originally Beast King Go-Lion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV in Japan) and Robotech (originally Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada).  I loved these shows, and would watch them whenever I could.  Lucky for me, they were in syndication pretty much through the 80s and into the 90s.

My first exposure to anime when I was aware that it was made in Japan was not until I was a freshman in college in the 90s.  I got together with a bunch of freshman & upper class guys (the ratio at my school was averaging about 6 guys to 1 girl; it was a tech school) and watched an undubbed, unsubbed, almost certainly pirated video tape of Urotsukidoji (or, as my erstwhile boyfriend called it, Demons, Sex, & Basketball, because those were the only things we could recognize).  Thank you Space Station Studios for selling those nifty purple tapes.

After that lovely experience, my first “real” anime exposure was probably either Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo!, or the oavs for Vampire Princess Miyu at the AnimeFest that my school’s Science Fiction Society put on.  The first anime I recall buying for myself was probably The Vision of Escaflowne.  I loved that show SO MUCH; I would save up money to splurge on one of the VHS tapes when they were available at our local comic store, in satisfyingly heavy plastic cases - I eventually gave them away to an older lady at my work, because I had sucked her into reading manga and watching anime, but by then I had bought dvds.

Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten old and crotchety, but none of the new anime that’s coming out or available now seems as interesting to me as the old stuff. (Though the fact that brick and mortar stores don’t carry a lot of anime anymore is probably part of that.  I prefer to have the dvd in my hand and examine it rather than buying “sight unseen” from some online store.  See “old and crotchety” above.)  When I realized that Battle of the Planets was originally an anime, I bought up the dvds for Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman... and Gatchaman will be 50 years old this year.  While I was aware of Gundam Wing in the late 90s and 2000s when it was really popular, I never watched it.  I actually watched the original series Mobile Suit Gundam and Char’s Counterattack and that vintage long, long before I watched Gundam Wing.  The latest anime I own is probably Full Metal Alchemist... and while I like it a lot, I mainly got into it because of a friend.

Death Note who?

Everyone’s starter anime is death note.

I don’t count sailor moon or dbz cuz you watched those as a kid and assumed they were cartoons.

I mean when you got “into” anime fully aware of what it was and actually became immmmmmersed in this bizarre weeb culture.

It’s usually death note.

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Reseña Anime: Super Dimension Century Orguss

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// Genero: Acción, Ciencia Ficción, Aventura, Romance, Mecha

// Director: Noburo ishiguro // Estudios: Artland

// Nº Episodios: 35 // Año: 1983

// Sinopsis //

El año es 2065 y el mundo está en guerra. Dos superpotencias chocan en el ascensor espacial. Mucho más peligrosas que las armas atómicas, las armas biológicas, o las armas químicas son las armas dimensionales, como la bomba de oscilación del espacio-tiempo, mas a pesar del tremendo poder de esta arma, la misma tiene como inconveniente el que debe ser armada en el lugar por un equipo de ingenieros. Desesperados, los Freedom Space Corps lanzan una ofensiva para plantar una bomba de Oscilación Espacio-Tiempo para destruir el ascensor espacial. Durante este ataque, los ingenieros se ven obligados a abortar la misión y destruir la bomba antes de que pueda ser debidamente armada. Enfurecido por la decisión de abortar y la sensación de que sus compañeros han muerto en vano, el temerario piloto de combate, Kei Katsuragi, activa al azar la bomba con repercusiones graves. Una explosión dimensional transporta a Kei y su nave Bronco 2 a otro mundo. Este mundo es parecido a la Tierra que conoce Kei, pero está al borde de la destrucción debido a los cambios dimensionales, que han ocasionado un fuerte efecto invernadero que no permite pilotear más allá de las nubes. Kei es perseguido por razones desconocidas por la nación militar de Chilam, y ayudado por los Emaan, una raza de comerciantes poseedores de avanzada tecnología, y es que ambas partes tienen algún interés desconocido en Kei refiriéndose a él como el "Tokuiten" (Singularidad). Ahora Kei, intentando encontrar respuestas a su situación a la vez que se gana la vida, empieza a viajar con la caravana de los Emman trabajando para ellos como guardaespaldas y pilotando un Bronco 2 que ha sido reconstruido por los Emman en un mecha de combate transformable conocido ahora como Orguss.

// Impresiones //

Estrenada en 1983, “Super Dimension Century Orguss”, también conocida como “Choujikuu Seiki Orguss”, es una anime original de 35 episodios, producido por los estudios Artland bajo la dirección de Noboru Ishiguro (LOGH, Macross Uchuu Senkan Yamato, etc.), la cual forma parte de la llamada trilogía “Super dimencional”, creada por la compañía Big West, habiendo sido la misma precedida por la afamada “Super Dimension Fortress Macross”, y sucedida por “Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross”, con las que cabe aclarar no tiene ninguna relación argumental, compartiendo con estas simplemente algunos elementos estéticos (diseños de personajes, mechas, etc) y presentando alguna que otra referencia menos por aquí y por allá, y habiendo además contado la misma con una secuela lanzada en 1993 titulada como “Super Dimension Century Orguss 02”. Siendo una de las obras relacionada con la franquicia Macross, Orguss es un título que había llamado mi atención desde hace bastante, siendo un trabajo que ya había intentando ver por primera vez tiempo atrás, pero el cual en su momento no me termino de atrapar, habiendo dejado su visualizado en un hiatus indefinido hasta hace poco, cuando por fin me decidí a terminarla, encontrando en ella un título algo inconsistente que realmente no me ha convencido del todo.

La obra pues sería a lo que hoy en día nos referiríamos como un anime Isekai, Orguss, es un título de mechas, acción, ciencia ficción y romance, que ubicándonos en el futuro, nos relata la historia de un piloto mujeriego, medio patán y algo despreocupado llamado Kei katsuragi, quien tras verse involucrado en un incidente que involucraba una bomba de Oscilación Espacio-Temporal, se ve transportado repentinamente a un mundo extraño, un lugar nacido de retazos de diferentes dimensiones, altamente inestable, donde es imposible volar más allá de cierta altura debido a la presencia de una barrera dimensional en los cielos, y habitado por sociedades humanas de diferentes tierras paralelas, cada una poseedora de su propia tecnología y cultura. En este lugar Kei se verá rápidamente abordado por dos facciones, los militaristas Chilam, que buscaran atraparlo por cualquier medio, no dudando en usar la violencia y sus vehículos armados para conseguirlo, y una caravana comerciante de los Emaan, que aunque con sus propios  intereses personales para con el joven, le acojeran de mucha mejor manera, ayudándole en su momento de necesidad y dándole un techo y trabajo, lo que aunado a la presencia de hermosas chicas, convencerán al joven de aceptar aliarse con ellos, trabajando para los mismos como guardaespaldas, viéndose ahora nuestro héroe viajando por diferentes partes del planeta, mientras ve a sus aliados comerciar por diferentes locaciones, a la vez que hacen frente al constante ataque de los Chilam, y va conociendo mas sobre las peligrosas circunstancias de esta tierra que no es exactamente la suya.

Es así como partiendo de esta premisa que se muestra desde afuera bastante interesante, terminamos teniendo  una historia que sinceramente flojea de muchas maneras, no porque la trama en si sea mala, manejando de echo el anime varias ideas llamativas, sino por la ejecución de la misma, siendo esta una historia repleta de huecos argumentales y errores de continuidad, donde puede que en un episodio suceda algún evento puntual que para el siguiente capítulo será olvidado mágicamente por los personajes, que a su vez a momentos llegan sufrir cambios de actitud bastante bruscos de un momento a otro, así mismo también nos toparemos que en más de una ocasión el anime sin ningún descaro volverá sobre sus pasos para modificar alguna escena o momento, a veces culminando en episodio de una manera para al inicio del siguiente cambiar ese final de manera bastante notoria, y también teniendo el titulo la mala costumbre de no ser muy sutil a la hora de querer ocultar alguna información en concreto relacionada con la trama, dando paso con esto a situaciones algo extrañas o forzadas, como puede ser el caso de que el protagonista durante más de diez capítulos nunca se interese en preguntarle a nadie porque le llaman Tokuiten, pese a que sea por esto mismo que todo el mundo le persigue. A esto hay que sumarle el tema de los personajes que si bien no es que sean un horror, los mismos no es que terminen de ser del todo competentes, no siendo estos un elenco precisamente entrañable o memorable, entregándonos a un prota que puede llegar a caer algo pesado al inicio con su actitud de mujeriego patán, siendo además la relación del mismo con la chica principal algo forzada, básicamente porque no se termina de entender muy bien el por qué la muchacha cae ante los encantos de este, pese a que este último llega a tener, por lo menos durante los primeros compases de la serie, una actitud casi que de acoso hacia la chica, y que a su vez esta última se nos intente presentar como un personaje bastante centrado y con los pies sobre la tierra pese a su juventud.

Por su parte el resto del elenco destaca más bien poco, encontrándose el grupo del protagonista lleno de personajes sin mucho carisma o profundidad, habiendo a lo mucho un par de excepciones., topándonos además con unos antagonistas bastante desabridos y poco inspirados, que a su vez terminan resultando muy olvidables. Otro tema que debo decir que me molesto un poco fue todo lo referente a lo poco aprovechado del mundo de Orguss, al inicio del título se nos es esclarecido que el mundo al que llega el protagonista es realmente una mezcolanza de diferentes tierras provenientes de distintas dimensiones, realidades paralelas, y puntos en el tiempo, el cual está en constante cambio por la inestabilidad dimensional, esto en base parecería ser la excusa perfecta para poder crear un mundo tremendamente variado y pintoresco, tal vez pudiendo entregar locaciones muy dispares entre así a la par de sociedades y razas por demás diversas, pero extrañamente el anime no se aprovecha esto para nada, no solo siendo las locaciones visitadas muy mundanas y normales, dígase con esto: bosques, montañas, océanos o poblados genéricos, sino además tampoco echando mucha mano al tema d ellas civilizaciones, y es que fuera de los ya mencionados Chilam y Emaan, realmente no se nos muestra mucho de las otras  civilizaciones de este mundo, por allí llegamos a conocer una ciudad dominada por mujeres y lideradas por una versión alternativa de Juana de arco, unas planicies amenazadas por barbaros vikingos, y una nación de máquinas deseosas de acabar con la humanidad, pero realmente poco o nada llegamos a conocer de las mismas, y su tiempo en pantalla puede terminar siendo bastante limitado.

Pese a esto debo decir que la serie se las arregla para presentar un ritmo correcto, y es que después de un primer tercio algo lento y episódico, en el que realmente no sucede mucho, y tras una serie de revelaciones que por fin dan paso a lo que sería el conflicto principal de la historia, el anime logra agarrar la suficiente fuerza como para convertirse en un espectáculo llevadero que aunque sea no aburre, y que logra entregar una conclusión cuando mínimo curiosa, pese a que durante los capítulos finales se terminan amontonando y sacando de la manga varias mini tramas no particularmente inspiradas, que personalmente creo se hubieran podido ahorrar, o aunque sea las pudieron haber introducido con mayor antelación en la historia de modo de poder desarrollaras de mejor manera. Visualmente hablando debo decir que el anime me ha dejado bastante frio, y es que dejando de lado el echo de que estamos frente a un anime de inicios de los 80´s, y que por consiguiente es casi  imposible no esperar encontrarnos con un título de animación limitada, la obra realmente presenta un apartado visual muy inconsistente, siendo su edición algo tosca a momentos, y estando la misma repleta de errores visuales muy notorios, con cosas como personajes a los que de un momento a otro se le cambia el color del pelo por arte de magia, o que repentinamente apoyan en pisos y paredes invisibles. Así mismo el reciclaje de escenas puede llegar a ser algo abusivo, a veces repitiendo la misma animación múltiples veces en un muy corto periodo de tiempo, particularmente en las secuencias de combate. Por su parte, si bien los diseños de personajes me han gustado en general, no puedo decir lo mismo de sus diseños mecánicos, y es que aunque el Orguss sin ser impresionante no está nada mal, la apariencia del resto de máquinas de la obra deja un poco que desear, vamos que no son los robots más atractivos o imponentes que vallan a ver por allí. Con respecto a la música realmente no tengo ningún problema, entregando en título un soudtrack no especialmente notorio pero sí bastante competente, del que resaltan algunos temas como el titulado “In Search of Freedom” que sería el tema de combate de la obra. El anime cuenta con un tema de opening y uno de ending, titulados respectivamente "Hyouryuu: Sky Hurricane” y "Kokoro wa Gypsy”, ambos interpretados por Casey Rankin, y aunque no son ninguna maravilla ambos están bastante bien.

// Conclusión //

Orguss es definitivamente lo que yo llamaría una obra de potencial desperdiciado, es un título que a nivel de premisa y mundo maneja unas ideas y conceptos interesantes, pero que no sabe aprovecharlas en ningún sentido, lo que aunado a unos personajes olvidables, un desarrollo de su historia lleno de fallos y deslices, y un apartado artístico que no termina de cuajar, entre otras cosas más, nos termina dejando con un título bastante flojo, que cuando mínimo hace los suficientes méritos para no llegar a aburrir. Realmente al menos que seas un fan del género mecha que guste escarbar en títulos retro, Orguss no es un anime que podría recomendar.

// Calificación: 5/10 //

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[nomadicism]

Top 10 mecha anime?

Thank you for the ask!I’ve included links to series openings or good scenes when possible.

10. Chōdenji Machine Voltes V [超電磁マシーン ボルテスＶ] Voltes V is the stronger of the “Robot Romance” trilogy and several concepts and themes later made their way into Golion (and thus Voltron). It’s a straight-forward super robot/combining mecha show with sentai theming and obligatory 80s ruined earth setting that later punches you in the face with a tragic antagonist/protagonist backstory reveal. VLD Keith owes a lot to his Voltes V counterpart, Ken'ichi Gō, and I don’t even think it was intentional, it just spilled out by virtue of genre tropes.

9. Space Runaway Ideon [伝説巨神イデオン] (TV/Movies)Japanese OP here. Don’t let the upbeat opening song fool you. This is Yoshiyuki “Death Count” Tomino at his best. More mind fuckery than Evangelion (which was influenced by Ideon). I love the character designs, the Ideon combiner, the concept, and that’s all I’m going to say about it.

8.Adventure! Iczer 3 [冒険!イクサー3] from the Iczer OVA seriesJapanese OP here.Not the best mecha anime, the Iczer-verse OVAs are more of a cross-genre of body horror, mecha, magical girl (arguably), and yuri. The series (beginning with Fight! Iczer One) introduced tentacle horror ahead of Urotsukidōji and—even though I’m an Ace—I will never turn down mecha-piloting lesbian space elves. What can I say, the 80s were weird. The mecha designs were really cool and influenced later series like Evangelion and Dangaioh.

7. Aim for the Top! / Gunbuster [トップをねらえ!] OVAsJapanese OP here.Incredible character and mecha design. Ambitious mecha concepts. Soviets. OMG moments. Jupiter!? Break out the tissues because [spoiler spoiler] space physics [spoiler spoiler].

6. Aoki Ryūsei SPT Layzner  [蒼き流星SPTレイズナー]Japanese OP 1 here.I have a soft-spot for hybrid alien protagonists, Cold War settings, AI ethics, and Painfully Obvious Anti-War Themes. Layzner is a great “real robot” action series with touches of survival thriller pacing, that left its mark on later mecha shows like Evangelion and MS Gundam 00. See also obligatory 80s ruined Earth scenario + late series weirdness. Alas, Layzner is very much dated in the gender role department and it runs afoul of one of the worst (IMO) tropes in storytelling in the very first episode. Breaks my heart b/c so much of the series is fantastic. The Skull-Gunners are Aliens-level creepy.

5. Super Dimensional Fortress Macross [超時空要塞マクロス] / Robotech: Macross SagaJapanese OP here.I’ll use the Robotech names here, b/c that’s a little easier for me.

Macross is the one mecha anime that—while I think that the SDF-1 and the 3-way transforming Valkyries/Veritechs are hella cool—I love it for the ambitious inclusion of relationship storylines rather than the mecha. Which says a lot b/c I’m ship agnostic and usually prefer not to see romantic storylines outside of rom-coms or romance-specific genres. Macross gives storylines for 3 couples: one is the quintessential love triangle, the second is the first time I ever saw a biracial couple in animation (OTP: Claudia and Roy), and the third is the absurdly-rushed-yet-compelling battle couple Miriya and Max. Claudia is one of my favorite anime characters b/c Reasons.

What does this have to do with mecha? Absolutely nothing but somehow Macross made it work while launching a franchise known just as much for its moe idol singers as its mecha.

Additionally, Macross (and Robotech) influences can be seen in many series (Japanese or Western), and the Roy Fokker easter egg in the first episode of Voltron Legendary Defender was my clue that I was going to love VLD (I also suspect that Rick, Miriya, and Max were snuck in as well). LM name-dropping Robotech as having influenced the way they wrote the conflict in VLD continuing beyond Zarkon’s death confirmed my hunch that there are other Robotech influences in VLD as well.

4. Beast King Golion [百獣王ゴライオン] / Voltron: Defender of the Universe (franchise as a whole)Probably not fair to combine Golion with Voltron, but I will anyway. I love Golion and the Voltron franchise for different reasons, but overall the super sentai team concept is stronger in Golion/Voltron than in other super robot/combining mecha shows, which when combined with the lion design and space-fantasy theming makes them stand out.

3. Armored Fleet Dairugger XV [機甲艦隊ダイラガーXV]  / Vehicle VoltronCombining mecha meets Star Trek. Ambitious with its 15 member team—“I’m a foot!”—and political themes. The original has quite the body count, so the Voltron DotU version is hella sanitized with dialogue like: “Set your stun guns to maximum stun!” or “We’ll come back for him later!” LOL okay Dorma (Sirik).

It’s hard to get characterization with so many characters, but, unlike a lot of other shows, there are 4 regularly occurring female characters with speaking lines and I never felt like they were terribly slighted in the gender role department. No damsels in distress here.

2. Genesis Climber MOSPEADA [機甲創世記モスピーダ ] / Robotech: The New GenerationWhile definitely a feather-weight of the real robot mecha genre, the Cyclones are a fun take on transforming mecha/real robot battle armor. Once again, obligatory 80s ruined earth setting. Also, I’ll take all the androgynous gender bending that I can get b/c—this one’s personal—as a tomboy child in the 80s (we didn’t have access to words/concepts like gender fluid back then), Yellow Dancer was a huge deal for me and still is.Clip of Yellow Dancer spoiler scene but I don’t care.Bonus: “Look Up The Sky Is Falling” holds up surprisingly well for an 80s cartoon song about environmental destruction.

1. Mobile Suit Gundam [機動戦士ガンダム] franchise (Universal Century preferred).This is a cop-out, but I love all Gundam UC timeline series for different reasons and it’s impossible for me to pick which one is “the best”. There’s a reason the franchise is still going strong after all these years, and his name is Char Aznable, the Red Comet, Yoshiyuki Tomino (even when he’s not involved, his initial concept was so strong that it lives on without him).Clip of Char in Zaku II from MS Gundam Origins here.

Runners-up: Six God Combination Godmars, Shin Getter Robo, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, Super Dimension Century Orguss, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vision of Escaflowne, Aura Battler Dunbine, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, and Knights of Sidonia.

[healthycoffeeguy]

Robotech - Transformation (Vol. 2) This early anime series that helped introduce the genre to the United States in the mid-1980s is a curious hybrid. Harmony Gold bought the rights to the 36-episode Super Dimension Fortress: Macross, in which an alien invasion was held at bay by the voice of a girl pop star, but executives felt that American viewers wouldn't accept that plot. Producer-story editor Carl Macek intercut sequences from Macross with two similar-looking sci-fi series from Tatsunoko Studios, Genesis Climber Mospeada and Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, creating a sprawling 85-episode space opera with a completely new story line. This second collection of episodes from the Macross adventure continues the very tame romance between Rick and Minmei alongside the war waged by the human crew of the gargantuan space ship SDF-1 against the alien Zentraedi. Complications ensue when Minmei wins the title of "Miss Macross" and becomes a shipboard celebrity. Rick is promoted to lieutenant and put in charge of training corporals Ben and Max. All three pilots and Lisa Hayes are captured by the Zentraedi, who have somehow lost the secret of biological reproduction, but believe the knowledge is hidden within the SDF-1. For its legions of loyal fans, Robotech is a landmark in animation history with potent nostalgic ties. Younger fans seeing Robotech for the first time may be surprised at the leisurely pacing, tame action sequences, and sloppy execution--Rick's hair often changes color from scene to scene. Contains these episodes: 7. "Bye Bye Mars," 8. "Sweet Sixteen," 9. "Miss Macross," 10. "Blind Game," 11. "First Contact," 12. "The Big Escape." Unrated; "contains mild animated violence." Suitable for ages 8 and up: violence is restricted to spaceship and robot battles.  Tap the link to sign up and get up to $30 off. https://item.mercari.com/gl/m20267654687/ #wellnessjames #Entrepreneurs #Jamesthehealthycoffeeguy my Passion http://jameslockettrepairs.blogspot.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhl3HqDYpo/?igshid=116a29yn5f4wj

[shadow27]

Macross, Gundam, Zeorymer, Linebarells of Iron, Rahxephon, VOTOMS, Dancougar, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, Evangelion, Xabungle, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, Mospaeda, Megazone 23, Mazinger Z, Tetsujin 28, Zoids, Orguss, Brain Powered, Escaflowne, Astro Boy, Knights of Sidonia, Getter Robo, Brave Raideen, Voltron/Go Lion, Gasaraki, Dougram, Gurren Lagann, Gunduster, The Big O, Mighty Orbots, Eureka 7, Gen: Lock, Aldnoah.Zero, Code Geass, Aquarion, IGPX,

... and Megus XLR

[laboitediabolique]

Theatrical poster for the limited US release of Robotech the movie, July 1986. A much maligned film, but rarely seen by it's detractors, this film is a rather scrambled edit of Megazone 23 and coupled with edits of footage of various episodes of Southern Cross. Despite claims the film was a box office bomb, in it's test market run in Dallas, Texas, it did exceptionally well despite it's run being limited to daytime matinee screenings in most theatres. However, financial issues plagued it's distributor Cannon Films. Cannon also did not understand the core market of the franchise. When teens and young adults showed up to screenings rather than children (which they expected the film to appeal to and had already bought TV commercial airtime during children's TV shows to market to), they panicked and pulled the film from distribution. Due to internal issues, the film was never remarketed or retooled for wider distribution. It was eventually released on home video in English in the UK and Belgium (with Dutch subtitles) and on laserdisc in English in the Netherlands, again with Dutch subtitles.

[nakamorijuan]

第1話 「プリズナー」

[matt0044]

Robotech is like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in terms of rotating protagonists.

Of course, that’s natural with how it was three separate Anime brought together into a generational storyline but I like that Dana Sterling was written as the grown up version of Max and Miriya’s daughter from the Macross saga. Bowie was even made into Claudia’s nephew.

I feel like this could’ve carried on more into the New Generation and have Scott Bernard be written as Rick Hunter’s son like with Dana.

[tigerrs-comics]

30 Days of Fanart day 21 Jeanne Francaix from Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross

[retroldschooltv]

Robotech es una franquicia de juguetes, series de televisión, películas, libros e historietas de ciencia ficción. Uno de los rasgos distintivos de este universo es el uso de robots transformables en las batallas. El hilo argumental en que se basa la historia es la protocultura, que se traduce en avances científicos obtenidos por la humanidad a partir de los restos de una nave alienígena estrellada en el Pacífico Sur. Estos conocimientos traerán como consecuencia una serie de guerras contra diferentes razas extraterrestres. El universo ficticio de Robotech, creado por Carl Macek, en un comienzo estuvo compuesto por una sola serie de animación de 85 capítulos creada y adaptada a partir de tres series de animación japonesa sin ninguna relación argumental entre ellas: Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross y Genesis Climber Mospeada. Luego, con los años, fue expandido con películas, novelas, historietas y videojuegos. #robotech #videojuegos #anime #movie #retro #protocultura #retroact #macross #retroactBlue

[yusakujon3-blog]

Some fan art from the first issue of that fanzine in which my work got published.  As you can tell, the anime that bacame part of Robotech (Macross and Southern Cross) were what really spurred me into this, not even six years prior.