Love, Music, War and Mechas!!!

Some time ago, I wrote about one of my favorites Animes: Berserk (1997), but today I’m going to write about other; The Super Dimension Fortress Macross or just Macross (the original saga) of 1982.

I saw Macross when I was 15 years, but the first time really, I don’t see Macross, I see the North American counterpart, better known as Robotech: The Macross Saga. What is the difference between them?

For me, the mostly of the history and the argument was an important point of change, as you will well know, USA wants everything in their own way and Macross wasn’t the exception.

Harmony Gold bought the rights of Macross to distributed them in Occident, but in the process their censored, changed and make his own TV show called Robotech, mixed three animes had little to do between them (Only the draws and mechas): SDF: Macross + SDC: Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada.

The principal change and fatal error for me was the sense of history, in Robotech, the history was definitive more focused in the Mechas, the action and the marked view of the bad group (Zentraedis) and the good group (Humans) and the explication of ‘’Protoculture’’ like a tangible object who can be recollected like mineral in the Earth. OK OK BUT IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT MACROSS

Ah, Macross, I saw it in the fully moment of my teenage life and marked me forever, the history revolves around after a accident of a alien warship who crash with the Earth in 1999 at the island of south pacific, ten years later in 2009 the alien technology help to the humanity to made important advances in the spacial sense, the new military planes  are called ‘’Valkyries’’ and they can transform in 3 combat modes; Guardian, Plane and Robot, at the same time the warship was remodeled and baptized with the name ‘’SDF-1 Macross’’, in the day of his inauguration, the alien race Zentradi localized their lost warship, but the new SDF-1 shootdown their space fleet.

The Zentradis come to attack the Earth and in a desperate act the SDF-1 try to defend them, but the things goes wrong and the spaceship Macross, the tripulants (Tourists and Military from all places of the Earth) and the Island are teleported to the orbit of Pluto, in the long journey to comeback to the Eart, the protagonists will try to live their life’s, Hikaru like a pilot fighter, Minmay like a star singer and Misa like a new command of the SDF-1, the problems become when a love triangle bornof this at same time of constantly war with Zentradi race menace the spaceship Macross and his return to home.

The anime touch topics like teenage love, dreams, personal realization, culture shock, war, genders, music and obviously robots.

I recommend so much but if you don’t like old animes, you can see the movie who resume the original saga called SDF Macross: Do You Remember Love? in youtube!

For a time, I thought be a pilot but these day gone away now hahaha, Bye Bloggers and don't underestimate the power of music!!!