25 minSeason 1 • Episode 36
LatestGlobal informs Misa that the SDF-2, the successor to the Macross, is nearly ready to begin colonizing the galaxy - with her as the captain of the mission. Now that the reaction engine is built into his craft, Quazmin, Laplamiz, and their henchmen attack Macross City with missiles and waves of mecha. Hikaru, Misa and Minmay's love triangle reaches its climax, as Hikaru must decide whether he will go with the pop idol who brushed him aside and now desperately needs him, or the military commander who loves him deeply, but may leave him forever by the line of duty.
After a mysterious spaceship crashes on Earth a fleet of spaceships belonging to a race of aliens known as the Zentradi descend upon Earth sparking an intergalactic war.
Score
Minmay's songs are actual plot devices, not filler
Direction
Shōji Kawamori invented the transforming mecha genre here
Writing
The Zentradi are scared of kissing. No, really.
Arihiro Hase
Hikaru Ichijyo (voice)
Mari Iijima
Lynn Minmay (voice)
Mika Doi
Misa Hayase (voice)
Akira Kamiya
Roy Focker (voice)
Eri Takeda
Milia Fallyna Jenius (voice)
Hiromi Tsuru
Kim Kabirov (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Lynn Kaifun / Riber Fruhling (voice)
Michio Hazama
Bruno J. Global (voice)
Sanae Miyuki
Shammy Milliome (voice)
Noriko Ohara
Claudia LaSalle (voice)
Run Sasaki
Vanessa Laird (voice)
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Exsedol Folmo (voice)
Show Hayami
Maximilian Jenius (voice)
Kohsuke Meguro
Quamzin Kravshera (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mari Iijima, Minmay's voice actress, performed the character's songs live and became an actual idol in Japan.
Macross created the 'real robot' subgenre and the 'idol singer in mecha anime' trope that Evangelion and countless others would later模仿.
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