Alright, I know, I'm going back to the 80's again with today's post, but it's not totaly a product of me being nostalgic. Instead, it's the fact that some of this stuff has become availble on DVD over the last few years, and I'm have been rediscovering over the past couple years. First of all, Robotech is the American version of Macross, sorta. Robotech is the artifical stitching together of three mecha (big robots) cartoons together because the American producers wanted a series that would be run daily instead of weekly. So the producers strung Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Calvary Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada together and revoiced them in ways to make the story fit the animation, sorta. Actually, everything after the first series sorta blew, including all the sequels.
Macross started with the same Super Dimension Fortress Macross, but instead of trying to lace three unconnected series together, Macross is actually a good series with continuity and sequels that don't suck. Macross is the Japanese progression of SDF Macross, where Robotech is the American version. Macross is much better than Robotech.
Geek crisis aside, Macross is kinda one of those guilty pleasures. One of the things that I like about some early anime is the assumption that the Japanese know what kind of music seems futuristic. I don't know if Disco will be the ultimate form of music in the universe or not, but the production teams dealing with almost all 80's animes sure seem to believe it. There's also a version of techno-disco out there that is like nothing else I've ever heard. In the 90's they started getting away from this forward thinking and started coming up with some really good music, and the tradition continues today.
Back to Macross, the story is cool, and progresses into sequel series, OVA's and a movie or two. It is a good, if complicated series, and well worth watching.
Macross started with the same Super Dimension Fortress Macross, but instead of trying to lace three unconnected series together, Macross is actually a good series with continuity and sequels that don't suck. Macross is the Japanese progression of SDF Macross, where Robotech is the American version. Macross is much better than Robotech.
Geek crisis aside, Macross is kinda one of those guilty pleasures. One of the things that I like about some early anime is the assumption that the Japanese know what kind of music seems futuristic. I don't know if Disco will be the ultimate form of music in the universe or not, but the production teams dealing with almost all 80's animes sure seem to believe it. There's also a version of techno-disco out there that is like nothing else I've ever heard. In the 90's they started getting away from this forward thinking and started coming up with some really good music, and the tradition continues today.
Back to Macross, the story is cool, and progresses into sequel series, OVA's and a movie or two. It is a good, if complicated series, and well worth watching.
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