Not at all. Most people agree, I imagine.

I liked it better, too. The transitions between seasons are a tad clumsy, but in the end it really feels like this huge multi generational scifi story and that's pretty damn cool.

Seriously. You've got Macross, which is Gundam rip off made specifically to pander hideously to the Otaku crowd with a fairly decent budget and two series that were regarded as at best mediocre.

Sometimes the original series isn't better.

Well you seeee... God I've been fagging this up more than Freddie Mercury/Liberace duet in a San Francisco bath-house, but still-

Macross was pretty innovative in it's own right. But it was more of an evolution than anything else. If anything, it gave Shoji Kawamori permission to go through with stuff like Cowboy Bebop and Vision of Escaflowne.

Besides, Macross Plus pretty much makes for any wrong this franchise has ever caused.

I don't disagree that it was innovative.

My issue was that the innovation it brought to the table was Minmai.

I got to this party late: MetalGazebo already said what I think.

Yeah I don't know what the fuck Macrame or whatever the fuck is. I do know what I'm doin' next time there's an anime convention in town!

I remember prior to the advent of DVD when there were huge groups who argued over subtitled or dubbed VHS being the proper format, and those laserdisc parties when some sad fuck shelled out hundreds of dollars to import LD collections of Ranma, with a japanese exchange student on hand to translate on the fly. I remember when a friend and I got into a long standing argument about whether Aa Megami-sama was appropriately known as "Oh My Goddess" or "Ah My Goddess".

Essentially what I'm trying to say is "Fuck them. They're stupid fucking kids. Eventually, I hope they will grow the fuck up."

... looking at my friends from back in the day now, I realize the escape rate for otaku is depressingly small.

That's a pretty angry story.

She and the rest of the bridge crew survive in Macross. Oh well!

Yeah, and Macross' official sequel was Max and Miriya having seven kids who save the universe by having those awesome transforming F-14s shoot laser beams by rocking out.

Think about that, MOTHERFUCKER.

Oh and I forgot to rate this.

Actually, only one of their kids is involved in the rocking-out-galaxy-saving hijinx of Macross 7. And so far, Macross Frontier has been making up very nicely for that faggotry.

Robotech's surprisingly adult themes blew my ****ing mind as a child.