Macross (The Original)

Series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Media Type: Anime
Creator: Shōji Kawamori, Noboru Ishiguro (Director)
Length: 36 Epsiodes
Genre(s): Action, Love Polygon, Mecha, Military, Romance, SciFi

Introduction:
MA-CROSS! Ok so Macross going all old school here, if you have never seen Macross see it, it's full of old school anime goodness. Now for those of you in America Robotech is a summary type thing of the Macross series. Like Gundam Macross is one of those shows that we get indirect sequels/prequels of about once a year, with the newest one being Macross Frontier, but we'll discuss that later, this talk is about the original Macross.

Quick Summary:
Ok quick summary, first what is Macros? Simply put a giant alien spaceship that crashed on earth and has been reversed engineered, and repaired. You see currently the world is at war with aliens, and the spaceship Macross is to be the trump card. So here we start at the launch of the Macross, so huge celebration, and of course aliens attack, but the Macross is having some issues flying. So we use the untested space transport device, thus getting away from the aliens, but taking part of the town and surrounding things with it into deep space. Now due to this many innocent people were broguth along, any many were saved including our three main characters Lynn Minmay, Hikaru Ichijyo, and Roy Focker. Roy is already part of the military, Ichijyo is a pilot, though later joins the military, and Minmay is really no one important initially, later though she becomes Miss. Macross. So anyway we save everyone we can and repair the Macross, while building a town inside for everyone to live in. And so we go on a journey back to Earth, which is currently quite far away. Onto our battle with the aliens known as the Zentraedi, who are giants, but otherwise mostly human. Throughout the story we learn that the Zentraedi are a war bases society, who have no culture besides war. So what would happen if we exposed them to "culture" specifically song and music? Watch to find out how the Macross fairs vs. these giants, and too see if the Macross will make it back to earth in one piece...

Closing Comments:
So yea Macross is hard to sum up I've just learned, but those are the basics, there is a lot more too it including romance, betrayal, tragedy, etc... It's one of those that any true anime fan should at least see, since it is such a classic. Macross has become a huge show, with many sequels, some really good, some odd, and some plan strange (Macross 7), all have a similar theme with there own takes and quarks. Eventually I will probably talk about both Macross Frontier and Macross 7, but that's for another time...

~dinoman411