Fathom Events has released a new teaser to promote the upcoming Macross series revival in the United States.
On December 14, Fathom will return the iconic Macross Plus anime to select cinemas for a single night. Shinichiro Watanabe, who continues to create famous anime series, including Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop, made his directorial debut with this film. Watanabe’s first work with composer Yoko Kanno. He wrote the legendary jazz theme for Cowboy Bebop and later returned to the Macross series to provide the sequel Macross Frontier in 2008. This is the first time the film has been officially shown in cinemas in the United States and the first time a Macross anime has shown in the country for decades. Pre-sale tickets for the show are for sale.
The film is a condensed version of a four-part OVA (original animated video) first shown in Japan in 1994. Macross Plus is the first official sequel to the legendary and widely acclaimed animated Super Dimension Fortress Macross. His set lasts many years after the end of the main series. Mankind and Zentradi’s new collaborators have healed from the first exposure of a massive catastrophe and are now creating new planetary colonies around the world. Isamu Dyson is an arrogant test pilot selected to test the army’s newest fighter / giant remodeling anthropomorphic aircraft, the YF-19. When Isamu is re-introduced to an old opponent, Guld Goa Bowman, who is throwing a competing robot creation, his mission becomes even more deadly. This becomes more dangerous because of his childhood friend Myung Fang Lone, producer of Sharon Apple, a virtual mystery pop singer.
The re-release of the film symbolizes the return of the Macross series to North America. In North America, Manga Entertainment released the film on VHS and DVD, although it had not been released since the early 2000s. Macross content outside of Japan. This legal battle was finally completed earlier this year, with all parties involved agreeing to work together for the global distribution of Macross and Robotech content. There is no news about a scheduled re-release in North America of Macross’ main anime or sequel, such as Macross 7, Macross Frontier, or the latest addition to the genre, Macross Delta, as of now.
What has happened to the Macross Plus Anime series so far?
In January 2040, thirty years after the devastating War between the Humans and the Zendrandi, the United Nations Administration is conducting experiments on the colonial planet Eden to discover new technology using its transformer fighter jets. Guld Goa Bowman and Isamu Alva Dyson were selected to test fighter jets. Although they had some personal grudges, all the disagreements between them ended up interfering with the trials and wreaking havoc on the program.
When a common acquaintance, Myung Fang Lone, comes there, their hostility escalates. Both pilots knew Myung from childhood, but the three of them had a collision and quickly drove away. This is alluded to throughout the novel and there is evidence of Myung’s troubled relationship with one of the two men, as well as their dislike for each other. When they reunite, they learn that Myung is the producer of Sharon Apple, the galaxy’s hottest entertainment, an AI projection.
Gould and Isamu eventually come face to face during a test phase and a full-blown quarrel ensues as each tries to fool the other. Although they are in the center of a test area, they quickly burst into tears in their battle to consolidate each other’s dominance. Both pilots fight using the test aircraft in a series of breathtaking maneuvers before transforming into Battroid and completing the battle on the ground, having turned off their communication equipment. Isamu is injured as a result of an “accidental” gunfight and is transported to the hospital, where he wakes up to find Myung guarding him. Gould is being questioned by a military tribunal after returning to duty in connection with their battle in the test area, but the project admiral finally makes the decision.
Meanwhile, AI Sharon Apple has developed a malevolent consciousness and, during its appearance at Earth’s Macross City’s Atlantis Dome, takes control of both the SDF-1 Macross Fortress and the X-9 Ghost, hypnotizing both its listeners as well as the Macross Group.
When Isamu and Guld learn that Myung’s life is in danger, they travel to Earth and put their differences aside to overcome the tragedies of their childhood that dissolved them and made them hate each other. Guld battles the X-9 and eventually destroys it by eliminating the gravity safety restrictions on his aircraft and reflecting on the X-9’s speed until he gains a target lock and fires the X-9 while Isamu goes for Sharon. who has taken control of the SDF-1 Macross.
However, by eliminating the limiters, Guld can achieve accelerations beyond human limits (even Zentradi-Human), resulting in his death — even when he crashes the YF-21 into the X-9 by demolishing it.
Isamu is carried away by Sharon’s voice while fighting the SDF-1 Macross and is allowed to collapse to his death. Myung’s voice hits him at the last possible moment, bringing him back to consciousness. Isamu is able to smash the core of the computer by avoiding Macross firing, thus destroying Sharon.
The narrative closes with Myung gesturing to Isamu, who has escaped the destruction of Sharon’s computer as the sun rises over Macross Castle.
Macross Plus movie release schedule
According cbr.com, will be released in theaters on December 14, his tickets are reserved on the site Fathom Events for reservation.
