So I just finished the original american bastardization of Macross. I had no idea I was 3 different anime mixed into one. Like the shows were, ok, but the continuity made fuck all sense.
What did I miss in the original japanese versions of those three anime, like in terms of censoring?
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>>15020281
it was complete shit, I just started watching southern cross, It is way better than robotech.
>>15020172
This is literally the only way to watch SDF Macross dubbed on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu. And it's really annoying.
Did anyone ever rip the ADV special edition dub?
In terms of what was missed:
SDF Macross has a happy ending and humanity goes out into the stars.
Lot more Zentraedi wondering about the miclone's culture and not so much about how they can't do shit or are slaves to the Robotech Masters.
No mention of the Robotech Masters.
No sequel hooks.
Things are constantly getting better, not worse.
Did you finish all 3 or just Macross Saga.
>>15020286
Southern Cross is my favorite except for how it ends.
>>15020172
>What did I miss in the original japanese versions of those three anime, like in terms of censoring?
Literally everything
>>15020371
I finished all 3 in the robotech era. Now I started watching macross 7, then I got confused. So I went back and reread and I discovered that 2/3 of rotech doesn't matter for macross.
>>15020373
any good tits I miss?
>>15020381
Oh, okay.
You missed Minmay showering, among other things.
>>15020385
Well, I was already confused going to the second season, Wondering why max's kid had a blond afro.
>>15020396
That's because Max and Mileina have kids with weird Zentradi hair colors. Even in Macross you have pink, purple, and green-haired Jeniuses throughout a bunch of series.
>>15020381
>any good tits I miss?
only Minmay's butt in the tv, but the movie shows some titties
>>15020423
Well, I understood that, but Their kid had green hair in the First robotech season, then going into the second one, hers was blond. No continuity.
I understand now, that they were two separate anime.
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>>15020172
Have you watched The Sentinels or The Shadow Chronicles
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Invid Inorganics
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Invid transport
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Invid gunship
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Invid speeder
This s the Invid Regent and his underlings.
Invid Brain computer
TBP-Z1 Battlepod
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Robotech Repair Factory Satellite
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SDF-3 Pioneer
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AHR-15 Phantom Reconnaissance Shuttle
>>15020371
>Did anyone ever rip the ADV special edition dub?
https://bakabt.me/torrent/148859/choujikuu-yousai-macross-super-dimension-fortress-macross-w-b
>>15021160
I rented The Sentenels on VHS a long time ago. Was blah. I heard The Shadow Chronicles was ass though.
>>15020172
I've never seen Souther Cross or MOSPEADA, but it follows most the Macross leg pretty closely. It doesn't start diverging from the SDF storyline until the last arc afterBoddole is defeated and the Zents start assimilating with the miclones. They start transitioning into the other shows and that's when the narrative starts to become a hot mess.
In terms of censorship like violence and that sort of thing, there's surprisingly very little changed for an 80s adaptation. Mostly just some of the bloodier shots and Minmay's ass. Where Robotech really screwed the pooch was the story, specifically starting near the end of Macross where it stops being a psuedo dub of SDF and starts trying to tie unrelated shows together. Like Carl Macek might have been a pretty decent dub director for the time, but fuck was he a terrible writer.
Really though the main reason /m/ hates Robotech so much is less the show itself and more the company that owns it being a piece of shit.
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>>15021160
I have. They were both absolutely terrible. Feels like everyone had autism. Voice acting is terrible, massive amounts of expositional dialogue, zero fights involving the SDF characters, character designs are ass, music is hilariously bad, it's just really boring.
How about, watch actual Macross, and not Robotech.
>>15022792
Not just expositional dialogue, but just shitty dialogue in general. Everyone is written to be a sarcastic asshole in every scene.
"You are an expert at the obvious, Baker."
"What do I look like, the man's shrink?"
"Without proper support, I can't defend the Earth from a flock of pigeons!"
"Look at me, I'm Ricker Hunter; everyone's doormat!"
Every fucking time. Can we get some characters that act and talk like normal people PLEASE?
>>15021160
I actually found a videocassette tape of The Sentinels in a local comic book store for rent. I watched it and I thought it was kind of weird.
>>15021236
Thanks, that's great!
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>>15020429
Funny thing, even as I was watching Robotech for the first time with an open mind and running head-long into mountains of plotholes and continuity issues, one thing that I kept thinking about on Dana's blond hair color was the "Well, in Macross their kids had different hair colors, so maybe-" notion until I realized Dana had green hair as a baby. I tried to rationalize that maybe she could've dyed it, but she showers with that hair all the time. Her sister is even depicted with blue hair in her freaky magical protoculture vision, and then she's depicted with purple hair in Shadow Chronicles. There's just no fucks given here.
Its about as sad as that Love Live Alive 'movie' that managed to out-retcon Shadow Chronicle's retcon of how New Generation ended. At first they try to reboot the series with SC claiming that only Scott and Ariel were present during the conclusion of the fighting and then they tried to re-edit the Love Live Alive OVA as canon which essentially contradicts Shadow Chronicles, especially having one of the omitted characters (Belmont) as the main character and narrator.
For a handful of people who fight tooth and nail to make this franchise their craft, they seem to care fuck all about continuity and quality control. Goddamn.
Haydonite from Shadow Chronicles.
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Haydonite Wraith
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Haydonite Infiltrator that detaches from the bottom of the Wraith.
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Haydonite Dreadnought and Haydonite Cruiser.
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LAUGHING
>>15024067
The Haydonite Awareness.
Required posting for a Robotech thread.
VFA-6X and VFA-6ZX Shadow Fighters
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These look fucking awful, why are you posting them.
Super Shadow Fighters
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VR-057 Super Cyclone
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MBR-12 MK-II Condor
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MAC III Destroid
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>>15026248
DR Movie (the studio that animated this film) really isn't bad as an assistant animation studio and they have tons of shows on their resume from American productions to Macross....So what happened, exactly? How much money did they get paid to be commissioned with this and come away with unfinished and shitty animation and design? I mean, we could argue that they have done few, if not outright any full length movie of their own (and haven't since Shadow Chronicles) but all they had to do was design and animate and they have the facilities and the manpower to at least make shit look good.
>>15026332
Probably didn't have a budget because Harmony Gold is piss-poor.
>>15026337
I can't find a single shred of information on the budget. All I keep running into are old articles with the HG staff harping on about how much of a "financial success" the movie was and not a thing about how much money went into the whole thing. With all that "success" I would figure they could've began production on the sequel they supposedly wanted to make so much. Or perhaps could've been backed up by all those broken Toynami toys they also claim to be marketing achievements. I mean, its at least confirmed that fans paid some $80-$100 a pop for all that 'Masterpiece' shit.
>>15026347
Look, the fact that Harmony Gold had to go to Kickstarter for their next project and how their comics are just rehashes of the Macross Saga should tell you something about their monetary situation. They probably have nothing other than some bucks from licensing keeping Macross afloat.
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actually they sell real estate
Why won't Harmony Gold die? Why do terrorists shoot up gay bars instead of those fags?
>>15026654
They are a real estate company. Not to mention Frank Agrama is a crook known for fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion. He payed kickbacks to Silvio Berlusconi as well. Trademark squatting is the least of its criminal acts.
>>15021213
>SDF-3 Pioneer
Man whoever designed this shit was smoking real heavy. It fucking looks like a double penis with testicles. No wonder fucking Harmony Gold can't design their way out of SDF. The artists they have draw shit. And their writers are just as bad.
Robotech is dead, dead and burried. Dead as in six feet under. It's never coming back. As for the live action film lol. Another pie in the sky project that will never ever be delivered.
>>15020381
>any good tits I miss?
>>15020385
>You missed Minmay showering, among other things.
Proof that the "Muh censorship!" crowd never actually watched Robotech. That stuff was not cut.
They even dub in some ridiculous "Oh, I better check and see if she's okay!" stuff to excuse Hikaru/Rick peeping in Minmay in Macross and Rand/Ray peeping on the girls in Mospeada.
How would you even adapt Southern Cross if you cut all the shower scenes? There'd be like five minutes left.
>>15027026
They ultimately abandoned any designs that resembled the SDF-1 to avoid getting sued. They had the pioneer destroyed in a comic and they rebuilt it into a knockoff of White Base.
>>15027050
>That stuff was not cut.
I don't recall minmay's bare ass on screen in robotech
>>15027187
>They ultimately abandoned any designs that resembled the SDF-1 to avoid getting sued. They had the pioneer destroyed in a comic and they rebuilt it into a knockoff of White Base.
Actually that new cruiser looks like a double size version of an Ikazuchi from Genesis Climber Mospeada. See it shows that even when they own the damn rights they still can't design for shit. How fucking hard is it to come up with NEW designs that don't ape something old ?
>>15027197
>I don't recall minmay's bare ass on screen in robotech
Yeah, the really salacious bits were cut out of The Macross Saga. Not that there were many to begin with in SDF Macross but american puritanial tv rules...
>>15027050
>Proof that the "Muh censorship!" crowd never actually watched Robotech.
This, really. When I rewatched Robotech a couple of years ago, I was amazed at the stuff they got away with showing. And I'm not talking about characters dying or the onscreen genocide, I'm talking about the obvious sexual innuendo in every other conversation between Claudia and Roy and characters openly drinking alcohol. That's the sort of that shit that would never get past the Soccer Mom Morality Squad today.
>>15027279
>I'm talking about the obvious sexual innuendo in every other conversation between Claudia and Roy
Robotech actually sexed up their dialog from SDFM
Tokugawa class
SDF-4 Liberator
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Garfish class with Synchro cannon function.
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Shimakaze class Icarus with Garfish class science vessel variant Deucalion.
SDF-3 Pioneer (Refit)
Shadow Dimensional Fortress Colony Ark Angel
>>15027327
My mistake that is the Ikazuchi class.
This one behind them is unknown what class. Tokugawa or Tristar class.
>>15027388
Horizon-V class dropship at the background.
Deep Space Station Liberty
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>>15027187
Is that the design they stuck the bridge tower behind some engines? Because i remember seeing that and laughing my ass off.
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Moonbase Aluce
>>15027404
>cronicas de las sombras
Brian Adams and Bryan Clark team with Andrade "Cien" Almas
>>15020172
The sad thing is that Shadow Chronicles was ok and it gets away from the Macross wars that Harmony Gold clings to. Nobody really cares about Mospedea which is pretty much all that Shadow Chronicles needs. So, they could easily spin that off into a real series without all the baggage but they don't seem interested in that. It's like they're focused on dicking people as much as possible.
>>15027520
I dunno the designs are just terrible.
>>15027532
Eh, somewhat. The robotic enemies are certainly lead by the worst computer ever since it can't predict anything and prediction is what it's supposed to do.
>>15027520
The problem is that nobody really likes Robotech these days. Fansubbing literally killed Robotech because people can just watch Japanese Macross for free.
>>15027958
>The problem is that nobody really likes Robotech these days
Tell that to the legions of neckbeards that are still around.
I remember watching Robotech on Toonami as a kid. I didn't mind it, but the narrator always stating the obvious was annoying as fuck. I can respect it for what it was in 1985, but not today.
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>Tell that to the legions of neckbeards that are still around.
You mean these?
>>15028355
>Tell that to the legions of neckbeards that are still around.
You mean the people who go to cons and can't even fill up half a ballroom?
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>>15028447
There's far more Robotech fans than meets the eye. They're much older now and aren't as active as they used to be in the 90's and 00's, but they're still clinging to it.
Hopefully by mid-century, there won't be any left because the original fans are senior citizens and any new fans don't give a fuck anymore after decades of false promises and dickery from HG.
>>15027388
That's a Tokugawa class. some Southern Cross design were given a Mospeada-style makeover for the tie-in comics to Shadow Chronicles. One of the Bioroid designs got one too.
>>15027534
Funny they done this in both The Sentinels and Shadow Chronicles.
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Invid Brain
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Awareness
>>15028537 (You)
And here's the redesigned Bioroid (called a Bioroid Interceptor). Not gonna lie, I kind of wish that they made Mospeada-style redesigns for the Spartas and Auroran.
>>15028537
It's funny how all these ships were carriers in the original but Amerifats turned them into big gun battleships.
>>15028817
They also slap the word "Dimensional" on everything in the series.
>>15020172
I honestly like the way the McKinley books did it
>>15031098
They were the best thing to come from the franchise. So of course Yune had to de-canonize them.
>>15026177
So that the world may know and hopefully learn from these mistakes.
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>>15032809
You missed the parts during Sentinels and End of the Circle where things went batshit.
>>15027958
>The problem is that nobody really likes Robotech these days. Fansubbing literally killed Robotech because people can just watch Japanese Macross for free.
The problem is two-fold.
One : the only original creative piece to come out of the Robotech franchise is the novelization by McKinney. You can love it or hate it, but the original 16 or so volumes really gave an epic feal to Robotech. Nothing the tv series ever managed to do. Of course after Yune basically retconned out of continuity the novels this part went to shit.
Two : what few Robotech fans are left, cling to the Macross Saga part of Robotech. They don't give a rat's ass about Southern Cross and/or Mospeada. They want more adventures of Rick, Lisa and Minmei. Literally the only thing the fuck-tards at HG can't deliver (we all know the reasons).
So the Robotech fans have nowhere to turn to, except buy for the n-th time a dvd compilation of the tv show. I mean at this point in time it's not even funny to pity them anymore. They're just a dying species. Let them pass in peace.
>>15027520
>Nobody cares about MOSPEADA
But I do ;_;. Seriously, I don't even like Robotech but I watched the Sentinels and Shadow Chronicles because I'm that desperate for some more Legioss action.
>>15036725
There are dozens of us! Maybe. I actually don't know. It's true as long as there's 24 of us, right? Are there 24 of us?
Shadow Chronicles was terrible, but it's as close as we're likely to ever get to any more Mospeada content.
>>15036725
>But I do ;_;. Seriously, I don't even like Robotech but I watched the Sentinels and Shadow Chronicles because I'm that desperate for some more Legioss action.
Shadow Chronicles is the living proof HG doesn't care one bit about Mospeada. HG wants the only thing they cannot have and are willing to take what few fans are left for a ride. Well it's a winning proposition as long as those fans fork out the greenies for some subpar merchandise or the same old dvd tv show. But the truth is there is never going to be a decent Mospeada era sequel to Robotech. Seriously HG does not have the talent nor the will to invest the necessary funds to make it happen. The only ones oblivious to this are the few fans left.
>>15035674
>the only original creative piece to come out of the Robotech franchise is the novelization by McKinney
Actually, THE most original thing to come out of Robotech was Robotech 3000 way back in 1999. It was set 3000 years in the future, far away from any copyrighted material that HG couldn't use. It was all new characters, the alien races that Carl Macek and the Japanese cooked up, and mecha that was VERY loosely based off of Mospeada ships. Macek even produced and wrote it.
However, when Harmony Gold showcased it at a con, the entire Robotech fanbase just went into viral raging neckbeard mode because none of their beloved Macross characters and vehicles were in it, it was CGI, and nothing really happens in the teaser at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky4gscgCbio&t=5s
Seriously, your franchise runs on transforming machines and space battles and your intro to a new installment is 3 minutes of chit-chat with an unarmed investigation team fighting with construction equipment?
This thing failed with people so hard that not only are fans shitting all over it despite Carl Macek being on it, Harmony Gold themselves only ever bring it up to make cmments like "Well, things are taking forever with our movie/tv show, BUT REMEMBER everyone, there was once Robotech 300! Yeah, we definately don't want to do that again." For a man that the Robotech community adores so much as a visionary, they sure love tossing him and his stuff in the gutter.
>>15020371
I thought Hulu did have the SDF dub? That's where I watched it. Did they get rid of it?
>>15037633
The trailer didn't show giant robots but this.
>>15040081
Their mecha gets mutated to this.
>>15040081
What the fuck is that. It is blurrier than Swirlguy and Bigfoot combined.
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