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Super Dimension Fortress Macross

Super Dimension Fortress Macross (or just Macross) is an anime television series. An English-dubbed version became the first part of Robotech.

Macross is widely regarded as a classic of the genre, combining the tropes of giant transforming robots, apocalyptic battles, wartime romance and victory through bubblegum pop music. It featured character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto.

The story concerns a city-sized alien spacecraft that crashes to Earth in the early 21st century. Humans rebuild the spacecraft just before a fleet of alien warships arrive (the Zentraedi), determined to recover the first ship. Meanwhile, a young pilot comes of age and struggles with a love triangle between a bubbly pop singer and a dedicated bridge officer.

A feature film, subtitled Oboete Ai Imasu Ka? (Do You Remember Love?), was released in 1984, with a condensed version of the storyline and cutting-edge animation. (A shortened, English-dubbed version of the feature was also released to video as Clash of the Bionoids.)

Several sequel series and one prequel have followed, following two different timelines - a "real" one and a fictional one within the main sequence. The main sequence consists of (in chronological order):

The Macross movie and Macross II[?] were declared an alternate universe, and in Macross 7[?] it is revealed that they were actually a movie and mini-series produced after Space War I (the original Earth-Zentraedi conflict).



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