Not to be too snarky, but how can ruin a franchise that smashed together 3 different animes into a single series?
Pretty much this. My first exposure was an few years old (at the time) OVA series Macross Plus.
there is no Robotech if you go by the source material.
Macross was a seperate series from Southern Cross or Genesis Climber: Mospeada (invid installment)
timeline is roughly
Macross Zero (takes place during the Unification Wars in which the U.N. is the good guy... Hence the U.N. Spacey Logo that you can see on the gunpods of the Earth Mecha.)
Macross the one that became part of Robotech
Macross Plus
Macross 7 (very close to Macross Plus such that they may overlap a bit)
Macross Frontier (very much fan service to the original Macross as during the course of this series there are situations that are callbacks to events from Macross)
There are also movies most notable is
Macross: Do You Remember Love which due to time constraints picks up with the SDF-1 on it's way back to earth instead of starting where the series started. A bit of trivia it is also one of the earliest examples where they took care to make sure the animation was actually lip-synced to the words.
Macross: DYRL - One Vision AMV
^an example of an anime music video (videos where fans set anime scenes to music by rather well known music artists some are actually very excellent). Has spoilers if you're not familiar with the series... but if you know the series you know the basic plot of the movie.
Due to disagreements over the U.S. rights to the above with Harmony Gold and other parties you'd be hard pressed to obtain legal copies unless you have a multi-region player and buy imported Blue Rays or DVDs
See my post earlier. At start of season Rick was 19, Minmei 15, Lisa 24, Roy 34 maybe. Those cast would be horrible choices.
According to the Americanized version those were the ages...
So many people died during the Unification Wars in the Japanese version that young males in their teens were recruited as soldiers toward the end....
So in the Japanese version at the start of the series
Hikaru Ichijo (Rick) was 16
Misa Hayase (Lisa) was 19
Lynn Minmay wasn't much younger than Hikaru
Roy Fokker was about 30
Max Jenius was actually about 14 or 15 at the time of his first appearance.
Hopefully if the movie is made they stay closer to the original source material... although they probably will adjust the ages.
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