A friend lend a bluray copy to me, this is probably the one of the best anime I ever saw.I wonder how come Macross isn't way more popular world wide, the same way gundam is?Is this all the anime tourist fault that only watch what is new and forget about the older good stuff?
>>23971646doesn't help that SDF is awful and only salvageable by DYRLso that's two entries you need to watch to simply get it
>>23971646>I wonder how come Macross isn't way more popular world wideThat's a blessing, otherwise you bump into idiots like >>23971655
>>23971646Macross until a couple of years ago was tied down by a legal issue involving Robotech, which originally licensed and localized the original Macross, but somehow ended up with international rights for the entire franchise.Only recently they've managed to tear that down and now they only control the original Macross and DYRL.
>>23971646There were attempts. But between bad marketing savvy and a host of decades long legal troubles have rendered the original and DYRL very difficult to release outside of Japan.
>>23971646Do your research on Harmony Gold
>>23971662God-tier.
>>23971655>doesn't help that SDF is awful and only salvageable by DYRLSDF is good. Without the context of the show, DYRL is just a disconnected movie of segments. But as a collection of the best moments of the show in gloriois animation, it's wonderful. Yes, the last third is admittedly pretty bad, but the rest is just as good if not better than DYRL in terms of narrative.
>>23971646OP is yet to experience Macross Quality
>>23971662before it was Bionoids there were efforts to much more accurately release DYRL, iirc the uncut tape got out as like Super Space Fortress Macross from Best Video same as Vengeance Of The Space Pirate got the uncut release from them as... I forget if it was My Youth In Arcadia or Arcadia Of My Youth, whichever wasn't the AnimEigo title
>>23971997Are there words here? It's hard to see whatever the fuck it is.
>>23971733I watched DYRL first on VHS and wasn't lost at all.
>>23971659>>23971662So is it just some boomer executive at Harmony Gold that keeps causing issues?
>>23971659>which originally licensed and butchered the original MacrossFTFY
>>23971673>tfw literal slum lords randomly have the rights to the greatest anime franchiseIn 50 years Battlecry is the only thing of worth we've gotten out of that mess
The Jpop extravaganza is a hard cultural barrier to cross, which is hilarious because Kpop managed to do it.
>>23971646Harmony gold being borderline criminal >>23971655DYRL has inferior pacing to the original showEven after all these years the OG macross feels the least derivative in its use of tropes and the characters balance being goofy, serious, and passionate really wellNot a single wasted character and it's not afraid to have poignant but unsatisfying ends that balance with equally sappy but very satisfying conclusions>Unlikely romances (there's like 5 of them)>Fun tech>A non hamfistrd path to peace>Show actually takes the time to conclude post conflict rather than at the climax of the conflict in order explore the postwar and it's repercussions and social conflictsLiterally it's only weakness is that as with macross F and dynamite explosions the main run of the show's music variety sucks compared to the OVA/movies
>>23971733>he last third is admittedly pretty badHow is it bad?
>>23971646>I wonder how come Macross isn't way more popular world wide, the same way gundam is?Robotech has more cultural impact than Gundam in the west
>>23977283It isn't, but it filters zoomers that want to check off another show on MAL.
>>23977330I think of the trendy new Chinese robot action figures that come out and all of are is designs that have zero Weigjt and importance attached to themThey just try to look coolAnd I think people who don't like SDF are just the kind of people those toys appeal toDull people who only care about appearances and superficial shitBasically normies
>>23971646 a bit offtopic does anyone have the christina vee cover of ai oboete imasu ka it was on youtube a while back but it got striked and the only version i can find now is some heavily remixed version on soundcloud
>>23977235Yeah and I'm really surprised more people don't know about this. Got this video for you guys in the thread to check out if you didn't hear the whole awful story. https://youtu.be/qpH0-vl1j9c?is=aTflDDvmuBtI7KdePic very much related.
>>23977283Hikaru acting like a complete retardThere are some cool bits like Zentradi's incorporating into earth culture, but it's otherwise pretty pointless. The show had already wrapped it's plot by then. >>23977330Rent free, nigger
>>23971646>I wonder how come Macross isn't way more popular world wide, the same way gundam is?Harmony gold.
The hard truth is even if HG never existed Macross would still remain a footnote outside of Asia.
>>23981906I don't think so because Japan loved idols at the time, so it would gain so much traction someone would bring it over. US Manga as they did Plus (poorly) anyways.
>>23971646I watched the OG Macross show and liked the drama, story, love triangle, the aliens trying to understand humans, etc.. It felt so original and unique.. But then thus movie came to remake the show into a boring Idol music shit and cut everything interesting from the show.
>>23982435DYRL is best viewed as a companion piece to the show rather than a full story in its own right.
>>23981906If HG didn't exist Frontier would likely have ended up on a similar level in the west to Code Geass and Gundam Seed.
>>23982563I forget did frontier get a North American release at time of release you know like simulcast stuff? I always torrented stuff from Japan so I don't know.
>>23972802There aren't words. It's a mockup for the layout of the back of a VHS box
>>23977214You've never watched Robotech
>>23983387Ahh thanks for clearing that up.
>>23983301So far, no Macross series has ever been simulcast. If you were torrenting Frontier, at time of broadcast, those were fansubs.
>>23983389Of course, he’s not laughing
>>23977293>in the west>posts latinx magazine
>>23977293Only to millennials and boomers. Zoomers are Gundam fans.
>>23971662>‘Just For Kids’
>>23983944>Zoomers are Gundam fans.all Gbitch troons btw
>>23983958Yep gqucks and bitchHg
>>23981673 at least tell me to kill myself...
>>23986037They are so happy. Winning ike Shinn.
>>23986037>>23986156Did they just fuck?
>>23971655DYRL has good animation and nothing else, the writing and characterization is a fucking mess and only smoothbrained retards dazzled by the animation think it's good
>>23981906low IQ post>>23982563This, Frontier blew up hard even just as fansubs and HG literally killed any possibility of Macross becoming huge in the west by stifling that one biggest opportunity
>>23986487>>23982563It's mostly forgotten now because it was a FOTM but newfags don't realize that frontier was a fucking huge FOTM It wasn't a popular mecha show it was a popular show period, it was more popular than fucking konosuba at its peak and the konosuba movie got screenings in the US with Roger fucking Avary talking about itand no robotech had nothing to do with that, nobody fucking knows or cares about fucking robotech except deranged senile retards, and certainly not the western anime crowd in 2008-2012
>>23986492Real crazy how the middling Frontier was so big back when. I don't see Macross getting to that level again.
>>23986517 people really wanted to fuck ranka for some reason
>>23986524Always seemed like the wrong choice when there's three ladies with Queadlunns right there.
>>23986492>it was a FOTMGod just shut up.>>23986524>for some reasonYeah the vulnerable little sister green dog genki girl that sings like an angel? Who the fuck would want to have sex with that?
>>23986550low IQ post
I'm on /m/ rightThis is the mecha board... right?
>>23986892 you're on the tokusatsu board, mecha is split into gundam threads on /a/ and battletech threads on /k/
>>23986893thanks bro, i'll see myself out
>>23986580It's a Macross thread.
>>23986580Gay post.
>>23986550>ranka>stomach and possible vaginal parasites>ponderable aroma
>>23986524You mean Sheryl. She's still the number 1 diva to this day.
>>23987946people listen to sheryl and jack off to ranka
>>23988788I jack off to Sheryl tho
>>23992652Man face and all?
>>23992776>see this>immediately think of a manHuh?
>>23977235Never even heard of it.
