Robotech Origins - This Underrated Masterpiece Saturday Morning Cartoon Opened America For Anime

[@LordEradicus]

I can actually say Robotech changed my life as a kid. I had no idea that a "cartoon" could have deep characters, epic storylines, romance, tragedy, AND cool transforming mecha.

[@StCreed]

I made very sure to be home every time it aired. No matter what.

[@jonathanshelton2137]

Same.

[@danielderamus9573]

Same

[@jttasb]

same

[@chloetiu5813]

You can tell macross is better than robotech 😏

[@LouieThe8th]

Love this show. Between this, Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers and Voltron...I had the best childhood. 😀

[@carlosnievas1220]

I agree! So did I! 👍

[@priest0701]

Star Blazers is just a bit better than Macross, and I think the cyclone was my favorite mech.

[@lphilliplittle6777]

I concur with the above comment.

[@jimdigitalvideo]

Don't forget Transformers and He-Man. Being a kid in the 80's was awesome!

[@QS-si3cq]

@@jimdigitalvideo He-Man was, and always will be, 2nd rate garbage. The kids that liked him were always the abused ones from broken families.

[@rodneymckay8860]

Robotech is the gold standard of anime. Max Sterling’s dogfight with Miriya is still epic.

[@Sebastianmorgan76]

Miriya was my first Anime crush back in 85 when I was 9. Lol

[@bigdurk4115]

Hell yeah ,high point of the series.

[@valmiller3483]

Absolutely

[@tombworld9012]

I love that Khyron was actually talking about Rick Hunter when he told Miriya about the 'unbeatable Micronian pilot' but Miriya found Max instead.

[@rachelbrinkley3240]

@@Sebastianmorgan76 I was 10 when this came out and loved it 😃

[@jamesgarrett7092]

I own Robotech and I'm 41 years old and I still can't get enough of it because it actually had heart where most of the cartoons of today have lost exactly that they have no real substance in them lately sing about Robotech is it's not just about the planes the fighting it's about trying to get people to understand there's other ways that you took with life

[@Ligma-Balls-69]

47 now and this rocked in the mid eighties. So many fond memories!

[@joeyrigsby38]

I am the same have all the episodes and they are still great to watch

[@jamesgarrett7092]

Take a look at Molson new ones they keep copying the same time you take a look at Gundam they keep saying that they want to stop Wars and yet they keep coming up with new weapons Robotech was different it was talking more about love and how to protect it and wishing the world would stop trying to stop Mankind from making the same mistakes as the past that's the difference between Robotech in the cartoons of today the anime of today really has lost what anime was about back then if you take a look at 90% of the cartoons and Anime and that they're all talk about the same thing as they were five years ago and no wonder everybody's trying to say that anime is the problems with the Youth of today I'm starting to think that the way they've turn the anime around in the Last 5 Years from what it was back in the day of Robotech is completely and utterly different

[@TheOldest]

I'm 40 years old and my uncle recorded the entire series on VHS and gave it to me when I was seven. Been watching the series religiously ever since.

[@rockmanx6857]

I'm 42 and this series had a major impact on me way back in the day. I managed to get the whole collection of the original series...Macross. Released back in 1982 in Japan. If you've never seen it,you really do need to.

[@mael6834]

I loved still love Robotech, I'm 54 yrs old. It was awesome

[@snooze1974]

I purchased the vr-052 and Roy's jet. It is macross but not robotech

[@GeorgiZhukov33]

Loved Robotech as a kid and still do. It was the first animated series I ever saw that depicted combat fatalities, which made the story so much more believable. And, as you point out, it had a ton of heart. Masterpiece.

[@thebrownbaldy]

YES YES YES AND YES AGAIN. This show was my introduction to animated space operas with relatable characters, and that opening score still rocks till this day!!!

[@alexkoronec4326]

This was supposed to happen in original form. However the American censorship cut almost 45 seconds to almost 2 minutes from episode

[@davidmorse2310]

I'm 55 years old and I still can't get enough of it because it actually had heart where most of the cartoons of today

[@dontsupportrats4089]

Mine is Starblazers

[@vryusvin3905]

God, I woke up at 4:30 or 5 AM as a kid to catch just one episode in the morning before going to school (I eventually VCR'd it). I read the books too! I will always remember the first time RIck Hunter realized that there were giant, living, breathing humanoids inside those battlepods and what it meant to him. Also, come on, Beetai and Exedor... what an amazing experience.

[@Ljordan093]

G-Force,Star Blazers,Force Five and Robotech. Anime back in the day!

[@ericgaskins571]

It was the first cartoon that was released that didnt talk down to us. It was an epic war drama where people died and stayed dead. This was unheard of in American cartoons at the time. It gained our respect because of it. It wasnt like gi joe where everyone makes it to the ejection seat. The animation was great and thw story was real. Not everybody made, main characters and friends. No one was safe. Great time to be alive back then. This was the quality that we wanted in all future stories but very seldom got. God i miss good television

[@sandro_j]

Great memories coming home from school to watch. In a way, Robotech's continuous storyline was like a soap opera for kids.

[@floydjohnson7888]

Heh...as I was fourteen when the adaptation aired, I asserted that "The Macross Saga" was a few IQ points ahead of the live-action soaps of the day

[@drewstar412]

@sandro_j...On, you are spot on, with the soap opera for kids. And I think, that is the main reason, why, most fellow kids around me, didn't like Robotech. I LUV Robotech. Even til this day, when I talk anime with most anime fans, when I say "Robotech", (especially the ones that say they were teens during the 80s) they either say "Who?" or "that's not anime because it wasn't made in Japan." Which is hogwash. Yet, all those same fans, luved the cringe version of Lion Voltron, that always came off as sissified to me. If anything, the Vehicle Voltron, reminded me of Robotech, since it was story based first, action second. Long Live Robotech!

[@Lighthawk_Demon]

I'm 52 now. Robotech didn't just open the door to anime here in America. It blew them wide open ....Especially for me in my youth!!

[@paulelder9488]

Yes, i watched it when it was first aired in the states. First of its kind and no other matched it for story and characters.. this video said that any one who saw this in the 80s will remember it fondly. No truer statment has ever been uttered.. thank you for making this video and treating its contents with reverence.

[@bryantsmith2061]

wow same for me first it was Star Blazers than Battle of the Planet but Robotech to me was starblazer on steroids.....I later found out the original titles and got deep into anime in the 90's with stuff like Akira Macross Plus/Ninja Scroll etc Gundam series....might be old but still look at an anime series here and there....I always hoped scific channel or netflix would adopt the entire series into a live series. The foundation is there..just need to change a few things for modern times

[@jasomkovac9115]

@@bryantsmith2061 , just wish sci-fi would stop making hokey movies.

[@michaeldrainville2425]

i am 52 years old and i still love it harmony gold struck gold and has been trying to beat the horse to death ever since just give us a cleaned up restored with no changes to music or content and focus on good toys that is all we want stop trying to remake the gold of the past

[@mikev.7361]

Bruh, I was there! I remember when Robotech came out, GI Joe was a smash hit and all the other cartoons like Thundercat's, MASK, ETC. They got ROFLstomped when Robotech came out. I stopped watching GI Joe and started watching this because people would actually die when shot at. I remember running home from 3rd or 4th grade school as fast as my little legs could take me so that I wouldn't miss the intro and the next episode in chronological order... It was an amazing time to be alive! Sadly, the second and 3rd season didn't do so well, but I still watched them and bought the DVD collection of all 3 series.

[@drewstar412]

Idk if Season 3, didn't do well. It had the next greatest storyline next to Season 1. Season 2, was so so. And I can deal with more story based anime. It's why I am a HUGE fan of Vehicle Voltron (and how it started out), as opposed to the Lions Voltron (which was too sissified for this fan).

[@ozzy7763]

I’m 44 years old, I remember watching this a kid. Freaking love Robotech !!! Never been a better cartoon on tv made .

[@2REAL4MOST]

I grew up off Robotech pure nostalgia long live the 80s!

[@timothymorgan1175]

I watched Robotech when it came out in 1985. I didn't become an anime and manga fan untill a year later when Robotech Art Vol.1 came out. Chapter 5 talked about how the show was made and the anime and manga industry in Japan. Reading that chapter is got me in to Anime and Manga. Still a fan now.

[@crazymasina8524]

I remember watching this in the mid 80's when my family was stationed in Sigonella, Sicily. I could not get enough of it.

[@nfmusicpianocovers2013]

I'm only 16 but when my father introduced me to robotech, I've been a huge fan. I really enjoy all of robotech and macross. I really REALLY hope we get a remake or a robotech movie

[@SuperEndiku]

I used to watch Robotech right before school in the morning during the 80s. It was the GREATEST TIME TO EVER LIVE. I feel sad for the kids who live today and the terrible "content" they must endure.

[@thisithis]

The original Macross is now coming to the US, and the Japanese company was forced to sue production company Harmony Gold which owns Robotech. Both companies made a deal that both Macross and Robotech can now exist as their own separate entities and one cannot interfere with the other, meaning Macross is now heading to the US after years of lawsuits.

[@markus5862]

Really? Do you know if it’ll be available for purchase or streaming only?

[@UToobUsername01]

Dude have you heard of the macrossworld boards? These guys were so heavy in hating robotech and its good to see the robotech nerds can finally get the original unmolested version of Macross without all the weird "protoculture is just an energy source dude" lore tampering that HG did. It was kinda a cool idea to merge all three stories into one big epic story however by doing this it destroyed the original Macross and people to this day are confused between real Macross and Robotech. It is my wish that Robotech keeps going on (as a western science fiction story where Hikaru never disappeared and lives on) and MAcross keeps going on as an anime about the pop stars influencing foreign people to stop killing each other using culture to pacify them. I believe this message is universal and is what makes macross a great story without all the editing that HG did. In the same way we have multiple Transformers universes, we should be able to have multiple universe for the robotech/macross. This way Robotech can be one universe and Macross another one.

[@bacd-nn2lg]

@@markus5862 One of the shows that I didn't wanted to get on streaming services.

[@markus5862]

@@bacd-nn2lg yeah, same. I’d prefer to own it to go along with my robotech Blu-ray’s. Never seen either but I’ve heard such good things about robotech that I figured id give it a shot.I’m an 80s child as well, I just had never seen it

[@Windrave]

The original Macross was released in the United States in the early 2000s by Animeigo and before that the Robotech Perfect Collection on VHS which had two episodes of Robotech and two episodes of the original corresponding Japanese episodes in the mid 90s. I know as I owned both. Unfortunately the Perfect Collection only made it to 10 tapes per each saga before Streamline video went under. The recent agreement opens more of the sequels that had difficulties getting across though it wasn't always hampered by HG such as Macross 7. Animeigo had an interest in bringing it over but the price was split between video and music (Victor Entertainment) tracks and it was too expensive causing many anime companies of the time to pass over it.

[@ricosuave6898]

As an 11 year old when Robotech hit TV, I loved it because it treated its viewers with a little more respect than the rest of the cartoons of that era. Characters could actually die, which gave the show suspense and weight.

[@drewstar412]

Oh yeah, I cried when Roy Fokker died. I cried when Scott Benard's fiance, Marlene Rush died. I was mad too. lol. And of the fans that I know who really got into Robotech, they were moved too. Epic...Legendary...Iconic...moments in TV history.

[@CrazyNikel]

Such a classic anime. Remember being SUPER excited to watch it.

[@TheTrmetzgar]

I loved this show. I used to draw so many detailed reproductions of the mech and did my best to clean them up the best I could because in my youth all I wanted to be was an inker. Well that never happened but I have so many fond memories of this show. I too had a love triangle at that age so Rich's situations were like reflection of my love life. That was what made this show so great, The relatability of the characters.

[@neospock5034]

Robotech had heart, in a way that few shows do. Nothing showed this kind of character development seen here until Avatar: The Last Airbender, two decades later.

[@bujin5455]

Interesting comparison. I love both series, but had never considered comparing them.

[@whitenuttergoku7310]

The simpsons

[@brad506th]

It was a awesome series. The art of storytelling has fallen.

[@madmacvengeance6131]

My childhood days isnt complete without that masterpiece,like votoms and gundams so nostalgic to remember those hidden gems i was hoping they got a remake

[@davinci451]

Death, war, romance? Not being constantly talked down to, or shielded from reality? In a world where most cartoons were completely sterilized and baby-proofed, younger me was blown away by this series.

[@orthex13]

"Hired Gun" was my first episode. I was 12 maybe. I remember sitting there waiting for Dusty Airs to get back up. He never did. I kept watching and was hooked. Then came the other cartoons where no one ever died. After "Farwell, Big Brother" gi joe and them could not cut it. And the Team that brought these 3 Japanese shows together and turned them into an epic tale of emotion did an excellent job.

[@Ultramagnus32]

Robotech was my gateway drug into a much deeper world. As a kid growing up in New Orleans Louisiana I used to run home from school to watch this show on local TV many of its themes I could not understand at that time all I knew was transformable mech and fighting and space. I was hooked from day 1 I remember asking for the toys and getting a Veritech. It was different from everything that was on TV at the time I can remember it was the first time a animated show made me cry and it wasn't the last time either (see transformers the movie). Love this show own this show they don't make em like this anymore

[@healthguy79]

I'm 44 now and still remember I was 8 years old as a kid when I watched this. It made me more intelligent and made me ask critical questions at school.

[@kratoscraken5614]

The 80's was a time to live and if anyone finds Robotech action figures will be wealthy 👍💰👍

[@Sean2002FU]

Great video about my all time favorite cartoon!!! Just one thing..... Dude, AIRCRAFTS IS NOT A WORD!!!.........1 AIRCRAFT, OR 50 AIRCRAFT.......🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@jlsmvideocontest]

I was 12 in 1987. It was aired in Malaysia every Saturday morning at 10am - 10.30am. The space battle was great.. It made me interested in Japanese Amination like Bleach, One Punchman and etc. This video does bring back memories.. Thank you

[@schizoidboy]

This was the first cartoon I saw that actually had real characters and plots rather than just rely on their vehicles and episodes. It was different from the other things we watched in my time. It focused on the characters and their situations, they were flawed but sympathetic, they all changed over time, and it hooked you in. If I ever become a professional writer I will claim this to be an influence, and I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't more - many more - who'd claim the same thing.

[@flip97gt]

I grew up watching this as a teenager. I was born in 1973, if that tells you something. Back in the 80's, I found out the series was back on when I got home from school. I couldn't wait to get home from school to rewatch the series over and over again.

[@maycontainviolence5587]

This, Mobile Suit Gundam and Starblazers were the only thing that came close to a little space opera named Star Wars at the time. Though we had other anime localized like Battle of the Planets and Force Five, it was these three specifically that kept it's drama in the forefront as well as it's amazing action sequences. We saw death (though sometimes ret-conned due to censorship, you can since find restored versions), and the consequences of war that nothing in traditional western animation market ever came near to with children's cartoons. Great video. Though I would have liked a spotlight on characters from all three wars. I love Dana, Bowie, Scott, Rand, Rook and Lancer as much as Rick, Lisa, and Roy. I really hope somehow, someway, Robotech 2: The Sentinels are completed. The novelizations of this story were nail-bitingly good.

[@seanadams4920]

as a kid in the 80s watching this cartoon i cant even begin to explain how it awed me to the extent that it did, it was the absolute best thing ever.

[@SovereignKnight74]

This is, indeed one of the best animations to date. There was nothing like the 1980's. There won't be another time like it. I was fortunate to be a kid in the 1980's.

[@markustiren7310]

Am grow upp with the robotech series.Am was werry happy too see this when Am was a kid a long time ago.Am have all episodes on dvd 📀.

[@jcbvortex22]

Yes! Voltron and Robotech my favorite childhood toys and cartoons!!

[@bambino100011]

One of the best Space Opera shows. I was glued to the screen watching this as a kid. I still collect the Macross Saga figures.

[@Menageryl]

I have THE ORIGINAL DVD-release and remaster that was initially / originally a limited-run by-preorder-only. Quite a few years later I ran across a new DVD printing that was supposedly also a remaster and was more mass-market focused and I picked that up too (primarily so I could preserve my original disks by not using them much). And I eventually got myself the first ever DVD release (again, limited-run by-preorder-only) of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. And I did all of that from deep, dark (South) Africa during a time when we couldn't just order things from overseas or the like - any imports from elsewhere were treated as full-on IMPORTS with all the difficulties etc. one might expect of that. All of that because I caught Robotech on television as a kid. And it was / is literally the most memorable and impactful show of my childhood.

[@fairusfedder7206]

How cool was that? The Americans combined 3 unrelated anime from Japan and fused them together to created a unique storyline that streamlined all 3 together. Great stuff to the Agramas and Macek. You guys made my childhood days. Thanks!

[@darktoylord]

Yeah I was there when this first aired back in the 80's :)

[@ultra80sretrokid70]

Robotech bring to tears and at the end of this show really bring me into tears one of the best 80s shows 😎

[@martinouellette9672]

I had the chance to watch it from the very first episode on it's first run. Although the story was great, as a modeler, it was the mecha that really got me. That first Cyclone transformation changed my life... I later became main writer and editor for both PROTOCULTURE ADDICTS and MECHA PRESS magazines. I lived and breathed anime for nearly 20 years. That was a long time ago... But I still remember that saturday morning when I first saw the Cyclone. Sorry, I'm getting misty eyed thinking about the good ol' days! Cheers from an old hand.

[@kl0wnkiller912]

In 1985 I had just returned from being stationed in Germany in the Army. I had a friend in the barracks who introduced me to the Robotech comic books so I started watching the show. This was literally my introduction to anime and I was hooked. After I got out of the service in 1986 I walked into a comic book store and they had a leatherbound copy of the 'Art 1' book in the case. these were limited to 1200 editions and are signed inside the cover by the authors. I bought #921 for $40. My dad thought I was crazy to "waste $40 on that thing". I still have it, in mint condition, still in its sleeve. I have used it as a reference for my hobby (model building) and still like to look through it. I also have several of the comics including the #1 edition of the 3D version of the comic. Robotech was and still is a great influence on me.

[@Menageryl]

Maaaaaan those books are INCREDIBLY rare and hard to find!!! In all these years I've only managed to get my hands on #3. And that was just a truly lucky find in a garage-sale type of thing!!!

[@oooocurtis8644]

Robotech made me the good person I am today at age 46. I felt like my family never understood me. But the crew of SDF-1 had my back and heart!

[@Ami-ip2fk]

My dad used to put this on while making me breakfast and I’d watch until I was time for me to go to school. I thank this show for getting me into anime

[@michaelbrantley.8628]

Oh yes that's my generation when I was a child i was ten yrs old at that time robotex my favourite animated cartoon then and now a all time long live the eighties retro a classic cartoon.

[@markob572]

Guilty as charged....I'm part of the statistic that luv and was deeply moved by this story arch animated masterpiece...BLESS

[@79pixiefuryMonkeyKing83]

Man! I would watch this show all the time and that intro, the music, anyone that watched this show would recognize it immediately 😀, definitely brings back good memories of my childhood. There's good anime nowadays, but the ones we grew up watching are forever treasures of our childhood

[@504WildMagnolia]

The intro gave goosebumps

[@79pixiefuryMonkeyKing83]

@@504WildMagnolia it got me all excited anticipating what was coming 😁😁😁

[@retroryu]

I remember seeing this as a kid. Along with Voltron, these cartoons would change my life. I had no clue about "anime", I was far too young. But anime would go on to be such a huge part of my life. Now at 41, anime is STILL a MAJOR part of my life and I am very thankful for that.

[@erichelvie8524]

Robotech was a major factor for the Anime explosion in the 80's. But my first experiences with Anime were Speed Racer, but more importantly StarBlazers. It was StarBlazers that set me up for Robotech and beyond.

[@Deltaflot1701]

No doubt Robotech was only possible because of Speed Racer and StarBazers!

[@darryl211]

I agree with you on that. I grew up on speed racer, battle of the planets and start blazers great programs

[@jasomkovac9115]

Everyone talks Speed Racer. Not seen anything bout Astro Boy. Granted, artwork not as good. But a good start to anima when you're a little kid. Always thought transformers was sloppy work. Was in my 30's when Robotech came out, was blown away. Taped all of it.

[@rcschmidt668]

Robotech, BOTP, and Star Blazers were awesome shows. Nobody in that day thought they were underrated.

[@xxx-fv8jt]

Facts!!!!!!

[@malcolmar]

Agreed! This show was EPIC on so many levels from the animation, mech designs, voice acting, sound effects, and music, and how the story continued from The Macross Series to The Robotech Masters to The New Generation. This was not just a good animated show, it was good sci-fi! It really helped to broaden my imagination as a kid. I feel sorry for those audiences today who are exposed to what passes as animated series and sci-fi now. At least we still have classics like this and those who love great storytelling would do wise to watch and support this series. Thanks!

[@mpo48]

Audiences today watch anime so i think we are doing pretty good XD

[@turbopokey]

“…opened America to anime.” Star Blazers; “AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?”

[@hjgh1973]

Simply put.... one of my all time favorites...... 1980s some of the best years of my life 💯

[@xxxlonewolf49]

I'm 44 now, 20+ years of military service & this is still my fav anime of all time

[@THESocialJusticeWarrior]

I am one of those that watched the show back in the 80s. It was one of the shows that introduced me to anime but not the only one. There was also a similar anime that came before it: Starblazers. Also, there was Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets.

[@mikemikemikemikemike169]

The Zentraedi were actually a workforce for the Robotech master who were later repurposed for war once they realized the invid weren't as harmless as they thought...sorry old fanboy here, back in the day. I got to watch this when I was in daycare...

[@jeffreyt9656]

Wow, great video. This was the best and my childhood

[@BushidoPhoto]

Robotech Macross was my favorite anime of all time!

[@Coach_BigMac]

My favorite show growing up!

[@jeriflorez]

For about 14 years the only thing Robotech I could/had to watch was Ep 2&3. I still have those VHS tapes to this day. This series will always hold the most special place in my heart.

[@uncletoy774]

this show is epic. As soon as that final bell at school rang I jumped on my bike and hauled ass home just in time to watch it. I bought the entire set when it was released on DVD and still have it today the last time I watched it was a couple of years ago. I watched it all the way through.

[@damianstarks3338]

Long live the 80s.

[@kingsouther]

Why no one has made the link between higher birth rates and creativity has me still baffled. More people growing to maturity meant much more creativity amongst all this music, media, films, cultural development, when the generation with high birthrates came to maturity 20 years later, eg ppl born in 60s coming to adulthood in the 80s (ofc the boomers aha, but im a millenial) but it still needs to be said, that less people means less creativity, as we can see today

[@jonm4324]

Robotech, Akira, and Ranma 1/2 got me into anime. Still watching anime to this day!

[@insaneconqueror5421]

I saw this at 10 years old which led me to my love of anime and Gundam gunpla. I had the transformer jetfire and realized that he was a direct design steal from Macross. So many good memories of watching this show after school.

[@UToobUsername01]

In the 1990s that Jetfire toy went for huge amounts of money on ebay if you owned one due to the drought of any new toys from robotech. If you owned a jetfire you were royalty in toy collector circles for a time. Then a company called Yamato(renamed Arcadia later) made VF-1 macross toys and everyone went insane buying multiple of the toy to compensate for the lack of anything new for decades. And finally Bandai basically muscled in on this market and gave us the Chogokin of today. (this is about when I stopped collecting because it was getting crazy expensive for me) My dream? Get all those Bandai toys to a wider market after the live action movie is made (which I hope isn't bad and doesn't flop) so we can get them at affordable prices!!

[@insaneconqueror5421]

@@UToobUsername01 Yes....and yes! My brother bought one of the macross transformable toys and sadly a young niece got ahold of it and it disappeared. I wish I had my old toys still. And I do hope they do the anime justice with the movie.

[@UToobUsername01]

@@insaneconqueror5421 You can still buy the Bandai Chogokin VF-1 today online but it is quite pricey. At least you can buy them. Just not cheaply. If the movie does well and Bandai start to release old school MAcross toys on the retail shelves in mass prodcution then YES you would be able to get the classic VF-1 from Macross at non-ebay-scalper costs. I am a collector so I have the arcadia toys however still don't own a Bandai Chogokin VF-1 yet. (they are like Arcadia's one but have slight better method of transformation for the arms)

[@insaneconqueror5421]

@@UToobUsername01 Sweet! I will be keeping my eyes open for sure.

[@bawalmagisip1]

@@insaneconqueror5421 we all have that one cousin.

[@dragdragon23]

I was shocked at what I saw, It was so adult in many ways and I was hooked!

[@BaronFeydRautha]

I remember watching this as a kid. I was born in'85 so I caught reruns. I vividly remembering main characters dying and actually being concerned for these people. I love this show so much. I'm lucky enough to still have my Protoculture DVD Boxed Set. Also have the U.N. Spacy Logo tattooed on my right forearm.

[@popixel]

There really was something special about Robotech. The cartoon was worlds beyond what cartoons of today are even capable of.

[@lorddemonoss3945]

One of the all time favorites of my youth 😍 Still haven't finished watching the rest of the side stories and continuing story after the original series.

[@missssophisicated6742]

First show I ever saw an interracial couple in..this show was so ahead of its time..I loved it..

[@alexflores7652]

I still love and always will love this anime. It really kicked my love of anime into full throttle. I would run home from school to watch it when I live in Southern California back in 1985. I would love to get the full DVD set of all three wars into my collection.

[@Thanatos9029]

I just got into the Macross series earlier this year, starting with the OG SDF Macross of course. I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish and really hope this will allow people of today to get a good chance to experience this all time classic. I still catch myself humming the opening score of this show all the time.

[@riptide1ful]

The first anime that got me into anime, sci-fi and mecha.

[@albertvermeule5844]

Well, i now have all three shows in the original form i will forever be grateful to Carl Macek and the rest of the team for bringing them to the West in there Robtech format. Had a great time in the Netherlands watching supertime on the Superchannel. Still got a little crush on Lisa Hayes. :-)

[@ihnew786]

Yup, remember waiting for it and watching it relentlessly in the 80s. Thanks for the memories 👍❤️🇵🇰

[@rookless4121]

Man, I loved watching this show as a kid. Even with all the licensing issues it was still an interesting project and there isn't really another show like it.

[@Duomaxwell02M]

Unless you consider Mobile Suit Gundam and its related series. Not exactly a show like Macross/Robotech, but the basic premise of using robots as tools of warfare amidst a character-driven space opera is very similar.

[@codysteel8245]

Robotech was one of the first cartoons that attempted to treat kids with a little bit of respect and Intelligence. Where life is not all candy canes and gumdrops. That bad things happen in the world. People die and there is not always a happy ending. That kids are not so naive to the world. The way most shows treated them up to this point. It was a show way ahead of it's time! Without Robotech you never would of had the Transformers and so on.

[@kevintillmon5069]

I😍the anime series Robotech,an interesting Sci-fi drama adventure series back in the 1980s,it came on every weekdays morning before I head to high school,I always will be a special fan of Robotech,I even had three Robotech Visual Archive books📚I give it ten thumbs up👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍a very classic series😃💗💗💗💗📺

[@Menageryl]

Dude. Are you talking about the books bound in red with their own little folder they fit into??? If so: Do you have ANY idea how rare they are and how hard they are to find!?!??? That you have all 3 is insane and I'm SUPER jelly!!! In all these years I've managed to only get my hands on number 3.

[@superultraboy]

Great video! Anime, old and mostly new, is made for adult audiences, not for children like American cartoons. Hence, the destruction and onscreen character deaths, which we never saw in American cartoons. Another aspect why 80’s cartoons were the best is because most didn’t have children characters, the main characters were adults which was appealing to us 80’s kids, unlike many animated series today.

[@NikeMS11]

Loved this show! Freakin' awesome cartoon I still talk about when thinking back to my youth.

[@Steffenator]

Thanks for making this video. My favorite cartoon episode of all time will always be “Battlecry.” I remember seeing it when it was originally aired, and it still gives me chills. I hope the new remaster is of the broadcast release, and not the “Robotech Remastered” release, because they changed a bunch of the background music, and all of the combat/mecha sound effects, and not for the better. In fact, the clips you showed in this video are from the old remastered version.

[@SummerlinRealtor]

Robotech got me into Japanese animation as a kid…Akira and Appleseed are just two of my favs. Robotech was the first time I ever saw a tv character die on tv as a kid watching this in the 80’s. I was lucky to meet Carl Macek as well as the voice actors for Roy and Rick. I still have fond memories of this show and I actively collect Robotech toys to this day! Robotech made my childhood enjoyable and is quality entertainment. It still holds up to time too!

[@beveon]

So blinking wicked! Thank you for this! Amazing that even now in Akihabara they are still selling models and toys under the Robotech brand! Most of my Veritechs I got from there!

[@davidshoemaker4437]

Starblazers came first and is awesome in the original and remake Space battleship Yamato 2199, Admiral Otika best space captain ever. I watched Robeteck while serving in the Air Force and I loved it as a young adult I found it relatable as many of the main characters were also in military service and I understood things like duty and comradery, as well as the isolation of serving far from home. It may have been sold as a kid's show but it was well beyond that. I even read all the books that came out after the series was on tv. Good memories of a great show and a younger time in my life.

[@philliplarose8570]

I loved this show; and own all the DVD's. Just one thing we forget when remember how awesome this show was... Minmay episodes.

[@Menageryl]

Facts. Gawd that woman drove me insane - even as young as I was.

[@garageboy2012]

I love the series as a child I was so Happy to come home from school watch Robotech ! this brings back so much good memories I was So Happy having Robotech Toys for Christmas! man time has gone by so fast ! cartoons

[@jonathanshelton2137]

As a kid I started with the third season my older brother got it from Blockbuster when he was working there. I don't know if that made me biased but the third season is my favorite! but I love all of it. now I've got the Protoculture collection. Still my favorite show ever. Awesome video man. 😎👍

[@claudeprince6724]

I've rewatched the entire series 5 times. I think it's time for number 6 lol

[@OscillatorCollective]

One of my all time favorites. My mom used to take me to Chinatown where I would by ROBOTECH toys…such cool engineering…still one of my favorites.

[@Darksagan]

This is what I grew up on way before the rise of anime in the US. I still have my RObotech toys and comic books from the 80's-90s. This show was ahead of its time and even had a 'perceived gay character (Lancer). Its still one of my favorite cartoons.

[@UToobUsername01]

I think he was a cross dresser. But the story in the original japanese one was that he had to disguise himself as a girl to avoid war or something like that. So he became a female popsinger. He wasn't gay or trans just a man who had to look efiminate. Sort of like the character in Turn A Gundam. (there is an episode where he agrees to be a femboy for a time lol Ah japan and its weird sex fetishes...)

[@chaseragnar5365]

I never got to see the shows. I saw the add’s when I’d visit family in the city. I had the novels and a bunch RPG book’s that my friends and I played.

[@jasomkovac9115]

Damn, had forgotten about Lancer.

[@pplr1]

Cool. I still have the books from Robotech the Role Playing Game. May even be able to find some of the paperback novels the series was put into.

[@14bis42]

57 years old Brazilian here , I watched MACROSS the movie in VHS in the 80's. Thanks to the biggest japanese colony outside Japan . So thats how I started watching and liking MACROSS... When I saw this robotech thing , its was very weird for us here ...

[@mprojekt72]

It was very weird for us in the USA too. It was uncommon that a Japanese (or part-Japanese) American of TV-viewing age in the 70's or 80's did not know that Harmony Gold had duct-taped three different anime together, only two of which had a story-commonality as being alternate, highly-dissimilar universes from one another.

[@pershop4950]

People like to rag on it and on Carl Macek, but the amount of effort and production that went into this show was pretty amazing for its time. A lot of anime that was translated just use the same music from the original show but Harmony gold made almost entirely original soundtrack for the show. The voice actors and actresses were really good too

[@LP-fy8wr]

Gotta love the SDF-1 and crew. This anime was so far ahead of its time

[@stevenhenry5267]

The novelizations are even better.

[@misterRDF]

100% correct.

[@Nyghtreaver]

loved this as a kid, the fact that characters died showed the real consequence of war really made it stick with me even after all these years

[@hrgwea]

Except it wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon. It was a Monday-to-Friday afternoon cartoon. This is the whole reason why they had to merge 3 different shows to increase the total number of episodes. Five episodes per week means that you need 65 episodes in order to fill the minimum duration of 3 months.

[@wtk6069]

In my area, it was a Saturday morning show that aired at 6:30 am.

[@Lwydius]

Yep, 1985-6 Australia, once a week on Saturday morning.

[@Raiderhater-m7k]

Ours was 3:30 in the afternoon in the summertime we would literally stop playing basketball or football and say hey it's 3:30 we got to go watch robotech see you in a half hour it was awesome being a kid in the '80s.

[@NorthAveBeachBum]

In Chicago, it was Monday-Friday on Channel 44 at sometime between 6am and 7am.

[@xredman002]

You all are lucky! it came on at 730 in the morning for me. Luckily I lived a block and a half from school. If I booked it and jumped the back fence I would make it to class on time. Barely..... I missed out on morning recess but OOOHH WELL

[@warlockjmn]

Yes! Finally someone who gets this. I watched this on AFN Europe. It was the best cartoon of many great ones.