![]() ![]() We meet a young pilot named Rick Hunter as he first gets in the cockpit of a strange transforming jet fighter. Part one, “The Macross Saga,” concerns humanity’s discovery of a crashed alien ship and subsequent battle against a race of giant warriors called the Zentraedi. In order to tie all three together despite different characters and types of robotic mecha, the writers decided that each war would be for the powerful energy source “Protoculture.” Each saga takes place at a different time in Earth’s future history and concerns each of the three Robotech Wars. The decision then became, how would these three similar yet disparate shows become one? This necessitated splitting the story of Robotech into three different sagas. While Southern Cross was also in the Super Dimension metaseries (the third to Macross‘ first entry), MOSPEADA was not part of anything. The problem is, of course, these three series are effectively unrelated. With all of these together, plus some judicious reconfiguring, you get 85 episodes of Robotech. Those shows have 23 and 25 episodes, respectively. ![]() ![]() He would have to supplement it with two other series: 1984’s Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and 1983’s Genesis Climber MOSPEADA. Unfortunately for Macek, Macross only had 36 episodes, far fewer than the 65 minimum needed for syndication. His choice was the 1982 series Super Dimension Fortress Macross, a show featuring a love triangle set against humans fighting against alien invaders with the help of jet fighters that turn into halfway mechs. The company hired Carl Macek to adapt Japanese animated series. One of its original remits was to import foreign entertainment to the United States. Robotech is a franchise from Harmony Gold, a burgeoning TV and film production company. ![]()
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