Only 3 episodes were produced before the project was canned due to budget issues. In 1987 Harmony Gold commissioned an original companion series, which explored what happened to the original Macross characters (who had embarked on a new mission into space) during the events of the two later series. Macek and Harmony Gold promised a resolution.Īttempts to expand the Robotech franchise proved of limited success.
However, despite this success the show’s ending, which sees the human survivors score a major victory over alien invaders whilst waiting for the Macross characters to return to Earth, but does not resolve any of the major storylines, was heavily criticised for a lack of closure.
ROBOTECH II EXEDORE SERIES
The generational shifts between the constituent Japanese series were both praised (for continuing to shake up the show) and criticised (particularly the Southern Cross segment, which was never rated as highly as the others). Shortly after this Earth is laid waste by the alien Zentraedi, resulting in a dramatic shift to a post-apocalyptic setting. The show then becomes a space opera until they return to Earth. The first few episodes are a war story, until the main cast of characters are accidentally transported into deep space. The series was also praised for being “gritty” compared to American cartoons, most notably in its willingness to kill off a large number of the main characters (by the end of the series only a few major characters are left standing) and radically shake up the setting every few episodes. This is sometimes held to be similar to the “Marvel effect” of the 1960s, which presented superhero stories as action-adventure stories but with significant time spent on the characters’ love lives and family backdrops. The series was notable for attracting both adult and younger fans, who enjoyed the mixture of action and soap opera. It is credited, with varying degrees of plausibility, with helping to instigate the original anime craze in the United States. Robotech was a massive success on its original airing in the USA in 1985, attracting a strong following thanks to its iconic mecha (human-piloted war machines, some capable of transforming into other forms, most notably the Veritech fighter), strong characterisation and its often ruthless, sprawling storyline. Given that Southern Cross took place on an alien planet and the three series had completely different characters and enemies, this was some feat but he just about managed to pull it off (to the understandable disdain of anime purists ever since). He then wrote new dialogue and voice-over narration claiming the three stories were taking place in the same universe across three different generations of characters. To overcome the problem, he bought three completely unrelated shows – Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada – whose combined runtime came to 85 episodes.
Harmony Gold wanted to air a Japanese anime show running to around 100 episodes, but Macek couldn’t find a suitable show that lasted that long. The relationship between the American and Japanese versions of the franchise (and, to some respect, their fans) has been highly contentious. Robotech is a multi-generational science fiction franchise created in 1985 by Carl Macek and Harmony Gold, an American animation company, based heavily on the earlier 1982 Japanese animated series Macross, created by Shōji Kawamori for Studio Nue. Originally an animated television series, it has also produced comic books, novels, video games, wargames and a tabletop roleplaying game. He hopes to recover the stolen protoculture supply there, or at least exact genocidal revenge on his enemy.Robotech is a science fiction franchise that combines elements of space opera and post-apocalyptic fiction. With their absence, the Invid, lead by the male leader of that enemy race to the Masters, the Regent, is attacking that weakened planet. Unknown to them however, the Robotech Masters are already enroute to Earth in a long voyage to reclaim the desperately needed protoculture energy supply that was hidden in SDF-1 and won't arrive for years. This immense task is further complicated by preparations for their wedding which they agreed would be on the new ship just before it launches. Now, General Rick Hunter and Admiral Lisa Hayes are making the final preparations for a crucial intersteller expedition to the Robotech Masters' world of Tirol using the newly built SDF-3.
ROBOTECH II EXEDORE MOVIE
In this movie consisting of the first three episodes of the abortive TV sequel series, we rejoin the characters of the first Macross portion of the series a couple of years after the destruction of Superdimensional Fortesses 1 and 2.
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