The Battle For Macross I

[@mrdriver2988]

The series that showed us the greatest Mecha designs in anime history.

[@floydjohnson7888]

Shoji Kawamori had a hell of a real-world design for inspiration

[@mrdriver2988]

@@floydjohnson7888 pretty sure all of his Variable Fighters he designed are based and got inspiration from real world Fighters. Only a few might be his own design trying not to use real world fighters which makes the designs more alien but cool.

[@rogerc6533]

Even all the non jet fighter mecha got adapted into the seminal designs of battletech!

[@leontiveros]

The soundtrack of this series was awesome.!

[@thetimberwolf100]

This needs more love, the old fight scenes and the groovy music. I love that stuff.

[@ATP2555ify]

Meanwhile Jack Archer is in Zone 209 clearing out Battle Pods coming from the west

[@alc4937]

1:43: Love when that theme starts up.

[@kummer45]

The concept of this battle was amazing. A long range bombardment, a siege followed by multiple incursions. The Zenteaedi went all out on the prototype carrier. This deserves a remake, updating all the mechs, update the Zentraedi up to a more menacing appearance and make them military tactical accurate. Humans are in a severe disadvantage. They must build up multiple of these carriers. Besides why these things transforms into anthropometric human type figures. Why not other configurations? Make sense of the jet plane transformation, those are made to fight giant trolls.

[@NekiLik]

For some reason I just adore the sequence at 8:07 when one of the veritechs in battloid mode is shot down and immediately after that the other one in the background transforms into guardian mode and starts running away. Robotech is the best cartoon I have ever watched. I hope they will make a live action film someday with original music :)

[@luigivampa9895]

I saw this as a kid in the 90s but I rewatched it in 2010 along with the new Iron Maiden final frontier album. What a great year! 🚀🛸

[@theHedgex1]

Showing my nephew this and gurren laggan as a way to explain genre difference of mecha. real robo and super robo.

[@chanimpresario4968]

5:03 Always loved this bit. A10 machine gun fire from earth! "If you hear it you ain't getting shot at." (Hmmmmmmmm)

[@hot2warm]

Regular Vulcan cannon. First heard that sound in the Final Countdown when the F-14 Tomcats shot down the Japanese Zero.

[@stillstonedd]

I fuckin love this epic story of action,deaths, good times, friendship,leadership..learning maturity.. oh shit even love.. I appreciate and admire the work that went into this marvelous cartoon and I use the term loosely .. it's more like a movie ..saga.. legend. Well ik there's macros .. but hey we live in the US not Japan.. and yes I know the whole background.. im old man. I watched this shit when I was like 8 yrs old. . Nobody watched it.. only older nerds kids or teens. Love this shit!

[@95thRiflesOCI]

10:30 one of the best part in the series.

[@zombee38]

Amazing cartoons ...so glad that I lived this era

[@stryker214]

Roy "Captain Kramer will take command" Capt. Gloval "I knew I picked the wrong day to quit smoking"

[@CategoricalImperative]

From being a fan of Robotech, to loving Top Gun.... the only thing stopping me from pursuing being a fighter pilot after college was the fact that i'm 6'3". Otherwise, I was fully indoctrinated, rofl.

[@kiteizenga6128]

I am color blind.... most I can ever get is a private pilot license. I have flown paragliders, Cessnas and a gyrocopter once.

[@CategoricalImperative]

@@kiteizenga6128 I had a drone/part 107 license, 🤣

[@Thoraxziod]

I was trying to find the very moment that I think has been cut out. Doesn't Rick go into shock the moment after 7:14. That scene has been stuck in my mind for years.

[@jamesevans1897]

Yeah, I cut that part out because it was also part of the episode recap

[@wanderer0013]

Hard to convey the feelings I had watching this as a kid. How desperate the battle seemed

[@moisesdanielalvarado5578]

This is the kind of animes I grew up with Robotech, and Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and Pokemon and Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon and then later I got into more series like Mobile Suit Gundam, Naruto Shippuden, and Bleach and One Piece oh also I forgot that I grew up with Fist Of The North Star those were the best animes ever oh and I also like Dragon Ball Super

[@johnturtle6649]

fuckin hikaru, only thing more disturbing is guyver ... or fuckme, iczer-1. or even beyond all that trash legend of the overfiend

[@nathanmerritt1581]

This is clearly from robotech. not macros.

[@onegemini420]

In Robotech, the city is called Macross. Thus it is the battle for the city. Thus the title "Battle for Macross"

[@berserkercookie2645]

dear god i had no idea how bad the translation in the dub version was......

[@blastermike_sd70ace80]

The aliens seem to use Russian tactics and also seem to have bought their equipment from them 🤣