r/macross

Here are more photos of the Carrier Launch Section with Jet Blast Deflectors.

Yes, every single Macross anime is an in-universe TV-series or movie, not just DYRL. I can't believe that over 40 years later people still talk about the TV series being "more true" or the other way around.

Where was DYRL depicted as an in-universe movie? Macross 7. What does Kawamori have to say about Macross 7? Well, here is a quote from an interview from the 90s:

Interviewer: "So Macross 7 is also a TV series broadcast within the Macross timeline?"

Kawamori: "Thats right, thats the interpretation. Its not just the movie, they are ALL works of fiction."

I get that one may want to ignore the "word of god", and people that never read any interviews could potentially get that idea from watching Macross 7, but at this point I though it was common knowledge at least across places where Macross fans discuss Macross as to not silently upvote "TV is more true than DYRL"-comments, spreading this misinformation further.

Same applies to Frontier and Delta TV vs movies as well. They punched that message home when in episode 19 of Macross Delta they did the weird franchise recap and featured SDF and DYRL music, as well as Frontier TV and Frontier movie designs right next to each other.

Edit: I don't even know why this whole topic would even be important. Like the differences between TV series and movies aren't that major that it would change anything in the long run, each entry is so far removed from the previous one spacially, and time wise, that those little differences don't matter anyway. It would only become relevant if they were going to make entries that are supposed to link previously existing entries, which I hope that they never do, because that's the space that should be reserved for fanfiction and not official fanfiction. I just read multiple upvoted comments that went "everyone agrees that SDF is what really happened while DYRL's visuals are canon" and I just went "???". Like is it a thing people actually believe, or are people like just going with that take to not confuse new fans or something? I don't get it. I get why people care about canon and maybe don't like the idea of "in-universe fiction". But even then is it so problematic to accept that there are two equally "canon" versions of an event, if we ignore the whole "in-universe fiction"-part of it? I don't get why one has to be "more canon" than the other.

Large statues at the macross booth

It was spectacular.

Based on the DYRL video game, when they take off from Prometheus.

Also made a 1:72 version by request, but displayed with an Arcadia 1:60.

So, my general understanding is that when it comes to the first Macross and which version is canon, it's somewhat fuzzy... Story-wise, it is the television series that is canon, but aesthetically, DYRL is closer to canon. (For example, Exadol in Macross 7 certainly looks more like he did in DYRL then he did in the original television series.)

For most things, this is fine. I can easily reconcile this in my brain. But there is one thing that always sticks out in my head: the SDF-1. Specifically, her arms.

In the television series the arms are the Daedalus and Prometheus. In DYRL, however, the arms are two ARMD cruisers. Okay, cool, whatever. DYRL isn't canon, or is at best an in-universe historical drama...

So why, when we next see the SDF-1 in canon, in Macross Plus, are her arms a pair of ARMD cruisers?

The only possible explanation I can think of is in Kamjin's final attack, the Daedalus and Prometheus were too badly damaged and needed to be replaced. It would make sense... But has there ever been an official explanation for this discrepancy?

My latest cel of Sivil. This one is from episode 19
In the final scene of the episode.

It’s a multilayered cel with the mouth, head/neck, and hair are on separate cel layers. It came with two different hair frames and the mouth doesn’t line up with those and is from a different frame. So technically these frames don’t appear in the scene together but they do appear in it.

This is my seventh cel of Sivil that I own! Also the fourth cel from this episode!

Credit: https://x.com/i/status/2072774444834291765

Macross II: Aiming for a Summer release.

Macross Plus: New line of merch announced, as well as Funko Pops...

Macross Frontier and Delta: Blu-Rays from Anime LTD are still coming with a release around December.

They also mentioned the Macross Frontier / Top Gun Collab DX figure and the 10th anniversary Kairos DX figure, but that's old news.

I am still hoping, one day that Shoji Kawamori - Kazutaka Miyatake - Haruhiko Mikimoto will get bcck together with Big West to produce perhaps an animated project adaptation of the retelling Macross The First manga as a limited OVA/ONA series OR animated duology / trilogy anime movies much like how Sunrise adapted MS Gundam: The Origin manga into OVA animation & later TV series.

I know this is wishful thinking, but the overall success of Yamato 2199 / 2202 / 2205 / Rebel 3199 reboot series, Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These reboot series, the excellent NG Evangelion Rebuild movies, recent Patlabor EZY .... most classic mecha / sci-fi anime franchises are re-emulating their predecessor's successes.

Perhaps one day, we could see this becomes a reality ... atleast within my lifetime.

Lynn Minmay × Macross Attack
*Not AI*
I'm also creating works that composite plastic models with photos of cosplayers.

Minmay/uduki_yu

Portrait/khanda0010

Zentradi ships/Marco Cioffi

REGULT/kuririn_shikoku

VF-1,CG/zichi3150

Hopefully, we get something related to the new Macross project.

Puttied and sanded again ready for the undercoat to be touched up, then onto main colors.

I get it, decals are definitely superior. But stickers are free and with some patience they'll look good

What started with just a **cool** find in a Tokyo hobby shop has developed into a bit of an obsession ❤️

I just think these are so freaking awesome. Now the question of whether or not to open them?? I'm thinking I will, but I'll probably limit displaying to one or two at a time on my shelf and desk. Placing them all over my office... that just seems a bit much :) More to come, too