started watching Super Dimension Fortress Macross and holy shit

omg their spaceships suck ass this rules

I did not at all expect Super Dimension Fortress Macross to be slapstick comedy with mecha but this is amazing

......ｃｕｔｅ............

every time the villains are about to appear onscreen it plays this DEAFENINGLY loud fanfare of Evil Trumpets that just obliterates whatever scene you were just watching

I WANT YOU !

FOR
THE SPACY

can't post it because there's no way to spoiler-tag images but let it be known that this show just pulled one of the funniest sight gags I've seen in ages

MACROSS NALD'S

This aired in 1983 and is set in 2009 and their idea of a rad future boombox is like IT PLAYS COMPACT DISCS

this appears to be part of the camera/multiplane hardware reflected in the image?

this show started REALLY strong and then has just been steadily draining momentum for like ten straight episodes. Extremely did not need a "protagonist is in A Funk due to Being Bad At Emotions" arc lol

still got 15 episodes left so hopefully it picks back up eventually

Animation was kinda meh for a while but this episode is suddenly full of ridiculously high-effort perspective flexes

lmao I no longer care about the main plot I am only here for this side arc about this pilot dude instantly developing a giant crush on the alien fighter ace who is trying to murder him in single combat

Macross Frontier led me to believe "deculture" was some kind of zentradi catchphrase or expletive or something but I'm like 3/4ths done with the original show and they've never said it once

Shoji Kawamori: Okay the next shot is 25 seconds of the Macross smashing its way through several kilometers of alien armor

Sound designer: I have one "giant spaceship hitting metal" noise and it's 300ms long

Shoji Kawamori: This episode is going to be broadcast in three days

I had hoped things would pick up but the pacing of this show is just asymptotically approaching zero as I get into the last few episodes lol

infuriating love triangle plot sustained by every character making the most incomprehensibly awful decision at every conceivable juncture

instead of a personality the protagonist's brain consists of a large toggle switch that randomly flips between "debilitating pining" and "be a gigantic asshole for no discernable reason"

uhh merry christmas I guess everybody go to Space Church

I've seen enough anime to expect the whole "Japanese Christmas is a minor couples' holiday about flirting" thing and now I'm losing my mind as this episode STARTS there but then pulls a complete 180 into "CHRISTMAS IS AN EXPLICITLY CATHOLIC DAY OF HOLINESS"

so I finished Super Dimension Fortress Macross

the plot ended around episode 27 and then they just did nine straight episodes of the protagonist just being a complete shithead to his friends for literally no reason and then he decides to be a space cop the end

this first tweet got a lot of Likes so it's worth noting the show doesn't actually have any particularly coherent thoughts about War Stuff

its final opinion is just kind of a shrug like "War is Bad but also somebody needs to be the space cops" lol

I dunno man it started INCREDIBLY strong and then just... got worse and never really recovered :(

tons of really cool ideas and super stylish art direction, bogged down by disastrous pacing and character drama mostly driven by people being jerks and then feeling bad

okay yeah this... makes sense lol

Honestly feels like it'd be a really good 6-episode OVA instead of 36 TV episodes

or.... a movie, which they did actually do later lol

is Do You Remember Love good? I suspect if you want to watch 80s Macross a movie would be a much more pleasant way to go about it

anyway I think my review of Super Dimension Fortress Macross is that you should watch Macross Frontier

I watched Frontier like a month ago and it ruled so insanely hard that I have to go watch the other 40 years of this franchise now