The leader of the creative team was director Shinichiro Watanabe, most notable at the time for directing the futuristic adventure anime OVA series Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam.

Nobumoto had scripted Macross Plus, Kawamoto had designed the characters for Gundam, and Kanno had composed the music for Macross Plus and The Vision of Escaflowne.

* The anime series Macross Plus, Masoukishin Cybuster, and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are all set in this year.

She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Sakamichi no Apollon, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori.

Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous soundtrack themes include " Kiseki no Umi " ( Lodoss War ), " Voices " ( Macross Plus ), " Tank!

Macross Plus was aired on Australia's government-owned broadcaster, ABC Television in 1995 and 1996, when the broadcasting of English-dubbed anime was prominent on the ABC and was one of many Manga Entertainment titles aired on the channel.

Yoko Kanno composed the score for Macross Plus.

Scriptwriter Keiko Nobumoto originally wrote Macross Plus as a feature-length work before the script evolved into a four-volume video series.

In 1999, Manga Entertainment released Macross Plus on DVD format, with two episodes per disc.

A subtitle-only version of Macross Plus: Movie Edition was released on VHS and DVD in the U. S. through Manga Entertainment.

During the release of the series, Shogakukan published the companion visual book This is Animation Special: Macross Plus, which covered the first two episodes.

Macross Plus toys were not available until 2000, when Yamato Toys released a 1 / 72 scale diecast replica of the YF-19.

Resin and garage kits of the Macross Plus variable fighters have been manufactured by several different companies in Japan.

A new manga adaptation of the anime is being serialized by comic publisher Kadokawa Comics A with the name Macross Plus: TAC Name.

This PlayStation game by Shoeisha Co. Ltd. features some members of the original cast and staff, and includes parts of the original soundtrack, as well as some cutscenes in the form of excerpts from the Movie Edition of Macross Plus.

This 3D home software is completely different from the vertical-scrolling Arcade shooter released in Japan by Banpresto back in 1997 as Macross Plus ( マクロスプラス ) which is loosely based on the franchise.

Macross Plus is one of the few Macross productions that has been made available in the United States in its original form.

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In the end, both parties signed into a co-licensing agreement and the Robotech name was adopted into the TV syndication of Macross combined with Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.

According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

( 1984 ) was originally intended as an alternative theatrical re-telling of the television series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 ), but was later " retconned " into the Macross canon as a popular movie within the television series Macross 7 ( 1994 ).

The Autobot Jetfire was repainted from a Macross toy, specifically the VF-1 Valkyrie, and the character was renamed Skyfire in the animated television series program for copyright reasons.

According to the " official " Macross chronology, the SDF-2 Megaroad-01 fleet vanished 4 years later while traveling near the center of the galaxy during the new expedition ( in July 2016 A. D .) and was never heard from again.

The original name for the Macross project was Battle City Megarodo ( or Battle City Megaroad, as the Japanese transliteration to either " L " or " R " gives the title a double meaning in reference to the story line: Megaload, referring to the spacecraft containing an entire city of people ; and Megaroad, referring to the long journey through space back to Earth ); however, one of the sponsors of the project, Big West Advertising, was a fan of Shakespeare and wanted the series and the spacecraft to be named.

He joined the animation studio Artland while attending school, and was character designer in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.

The character designer for this series was Haruhiko Mikimoto ( Macross franchise, Megazone 23, Gunbuster ).

It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline ( Macross II was quickly retconned by series creator Shoji Kawamori as a parallel world story in the Macross universe ).

* Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ) ( adapted outside Japan as the first part of Robotech ): The alien Zentradi arrive at Earth on February 7 ( February 9 in Robotech ), triggering the devastating Space War I or First Robotech War.

Macross also created one of the first anime idols Lynn Minmay, turning her voice actress Mari Iijima into an instant celebrity, and launching her musical career.

The cover to the Macross Memorial DVD Box Set which shows several characters from the first animated series of the franchise, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

The series title comes from the name of the main human spacecraft ( which is usually shortened from Super Dimension Fortress to SDF-1 Macross as it is the first ).

* At the Sharon Apple concert at Macross City, a new scene and song is inserted to replace what was the ending of Episode 3 (" After In The Dark ," the ending theme for the first 3 episodes of the OVA ), and the opening song of Episode 4 titled " Pulse.

However, new Macross productions like Macross Frontier have used elements from both the first T. V.

In Macross Frontier, the latest series in the Macross universe, the first few episodes use re-animated key scenes from this film and Flash Back 2012 to give viewers glimpses of past events.

The Macross houses an entire city with tens of thousands of civilians who are cut off from Earth, after it had executed a space fold on the first day of the Earth / Zentradi war-taking the city section of South Ataria Island with it.

Robert Woodhead, head of AnimEigo, has said publicly that he would like to release the film ( AnimEigo released the first pressings of the Macross series in the US ), but believes it will most likely never get a proper DVD release in the United States due to the legal disputes surrounding the film.

The first Macross series and its Minmay character was adapted as the first part of the Robotech television series.

In the film The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love ?, Minmay's portrayal was a bit different from the first Macross series.

Mobile Suit Gundam ( 1979 ) is largely considered the first series to introduce the real robot idea and, along with The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 ), would form the basis of what later people call real robot anime.

In the original Macross Japanese anime series ( Big West / Studio Nue, 1982 ) the Zentradi were created as a spacefaring race of giant humanoid proxy warriors by the first civilization in the galaxy, the Protoculture, 497, 500 years ago.

In the first Macross TV series it was revealed that Commander Type Zentradi are bigger, stronger and more intelligent than the rest, while some are even able to survive in the vacuum of space for limited amounts of time.

The Macross operators — Vanessa Laird, Kim Kabirov, and Shammy Milliome ( Vanessa Leeds, Kim Young, and Sammy Porter in Robotech ) — were three minor fictional characters in the first Macross series ( which was adapted as the first story arc of Robotech ).