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You can (and should) watch it through, uhhhhhh, other methods, but this is the world we could have without Harmony Gold. Cute art for the TV shows, though!
I would like it to come to an uninvented mass-produced single laserdisc-size blu-ray format called TrueRay
It would be like 200GB of data per side, single layer. Sold in a vinyl-like sleeve with an additional caddy surrounding the disc (like CEDs). They would cost like $75 per disc to manufacture. Everyone would hate them and I'd call them poseurs as I pick them up from yard sales for basically free.
They would cost like $75 per disc to manufacture
That's for the standard version. The only ones they actually produce will be picture discs and cost like $200 each.
Naturally, they'll be marked up to like ¥200,000 each and only be produced for 10 months in Japan and sold at some franchise novelty cafe pop-up.
Only Ghostbusters Afterlife and the Star Wars Sequels will be released on it.
I was always a Gundam head and only very briefly dipped my toes into Macross with Macross Plus I had a few episodes on VHS back in the day. Fuck copyright bullshit.
Funny enough, I got into Macross through a SD-DVD box set of the Macross part of Robotech and Robotech: Battlecry for the PS2 back in the early 2000s. I think it was the only full series I ever owned back then.
I watched it a few years ago in the original Japanese and it's a totally different experience - the pop music is totally vital to Macross and the Robotech songs were absolute booty.
Good news everyone! Every Macross show except the OG series and DYRL is getting an international release under Disney+, so more people can now be exposed to the unhinged greatness that is Macross 7. (Frontier & the first half of Delta are also really watchable imo)
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-18/disney-to-stream-nearly-all-macross-anime-worldwide-in-2024/.208882
I totally missed that the non-Harmony Gold licensed bits are getting wider releases.
All the sequel material feels so tied up in nostalgia for the original show and movie that I wonder how legible the series would be without them.
so more people can now be exposed to the unhinged greatness that is Macross 7
Just imagining trying to explain that show: "yeah, she's an energy vampire alien and the corny rock music makes her feel, uhhh, feelings."
Frontier is pretty standalone, I'd say that entry is fine for newcomers. (Altho you'd probably have to watch Macross Zero which wasn't legible even if you did watch the original anyway so
)"So Space John Lennon gets into his jet fighter that can transform in to a robot, but get this, he's a pacifist so all the missiles are actually speaker pods, so he blasts the baddies with his missiles, which then blast rock music out of them that he's playing. While flying. The joystick is shaped like a guitar."
"No it doesn't make sense, just shut up and LISTEN TO HIS SONG!"
i'm of the opinion that macross is patient zero for most of the things plaguing modern anime, but it still fucking sucks that harmony gold can't come to some kind of arrangement. they already did! there was a dub and everything! they're losing money by not trying to make some distribution deal where they get a cu!
I can't speak with any authority, but I feel like Macross was one of the first big anime made specifically by anime fans.
The previous generations of anime creators seemed to have a wider breadth of dork-ass interests. That, and a lot of the greats from those previous generations were involved in the Japanese university protests of the late 60s - people familiar with the Immortal Science are generally better at writing compelling narratives
I can't speak with any authority, but I feel like Macross was one of the first big anime made specifically by anime fans.
yeah this is what i was talking about lmao. to me macross comes from the exact same impulse as every generic isekai on narou, just made with more craft
After the revolution, generic isekai creators will be sent to the "watch/read something that isn't anime" gulag. It's just a nice library with a dorm.
