The Super Dimension Fortress Macross / Cho Jiku Yosai Macross
Genres: action, drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: aliens, giants, love triangle, mecha, military, real robot, space, space battles, space navy, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In 1999, an alien spaceship crashes on South Ataria Island and makes the human race aware of other life in space. Ten years later, the ship is reconstructed and christened as the SDF-1 Macross. However, on the day of its maiden voyage, an alien race called the Zentradi make their appearance on Earthâthus beginning Space War I, a UN Spacy/Zentradi war that would change the history of both races forever.
Number of episodes: 36
Vintage: 1982-10-03 to 1983-06-26
Robotech: The Macross Saga
Genres: action, adventure, mystery, romance, science fiction
Themes: aliens, mecha, military, power suits, real robot, space, war
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Made in America from three unrelated anime. The first part tells of humanityâs first contact that ends in a war. Rick Hunter is a pilot who gets dragged along with the SDF-1 and joins with them to stop the invaders. Lyn Minmei is a singer who Rick rescues and falls for. Together they try to save the Earth and end the war without fighting, but with love. The second part deals with children of the first, the rebuilding complete; we send the SDF-3 to attack the masters. While it travels out in hyperspace to their worlds, the masters crawl into our solar system. The Earth must fight a devastating second war for a secret prize. Someone else wants the prize, the Invid. The third part gives us a world controlled by the Invid. The SDF-3 sends a probing force that is destroyed upon exiting hyperspace. A single survivor remains, a man taught to fight, with the will to free Earth. He forms a resistance with the goal of destroying the Invid hive at Reflux Point, aka New York.
Number of episodes: 85
Vintage: 1985 to 1986
Macross 7
Genres: action, comedy, romance, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, musical, real robot
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: 35 years have passed since Lynn Minmay had brought peace between the Zentradi and the humans in the events of Macross. Nekki Basara is a guitarist and a singer of the band Fire Bomber. Living in a less-developed part of the flying colony City 7 which is looking for a habitable planet, he composes and sings songs in the belief that music holds a greater power. During its flight, an unknown alien race appeared and started laying siege upon City 7. However, its attacks are not conventional â instead of trying to destroy them, they steal what is known as âspiritiaâ, rendering victims unresponsive and zombie-like. During these battles, Basara always goes out into the middle of the warzone, singing his songs and expecting friend and foe to listen and be moved by his music.
Number of episodes: 49
Vintage: 1994-10-16 to 1995-09-24
Macross Frontier
Genres: action, drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: aliens, idols, love triangle, mecha, military, music, space
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Macross Frontier marks the 25th anniversary of the Macross anime franchise. It is a direct sequel to the first Macross series and Macross 7 and follows the lives of Alto Saotome, Ranka Lee and a pop idol named Sheryl Nome on board the Macross Frontier colonization fleet. After the war against the Zentradi aliens, Humankind has spread across the universe in order to ensure its survival. The Macross Frontier fleet is part of a effort to spread and maintain the culture of humanity.
Number of episodes: 25
Vintage: 2007-12-23 to 2008-09-25
Macross Delta / Macross Î
Genres: action, science fiction
Themes: aliens, love triangle, mecha, music, space
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Macross Delta is set in the year 2067, 8 years after the events of the latest Macross TV series, Macross Frontier. The story focuses on WalkĂźre, a team of talented idols and the Delta Squadron, a team of experienced Valkyrie pilots as they battle against the Var Syndrome, a mysterious phenomena that is consuming the galaxy and there is also the mysterious Aerial Knights Valkyrie fighter team of the Kingdom of Wind.
Vintage: 2015-12-31
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (movie) Vintage: 1984-07-07
Robotech: The Untold Story (U.S. movie) Vintage: 1986
Robotech II: The Sentinels (U.S. movie) Vintage: 1986
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (OAV) Vintage: 1987-06-21
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: The Movie (OAV) Vintage: 1992-05-21 to 1992-11-21
Macross Plus (OAV) Vintage: 1994-08-25
Macross 7 Plus (OAV) Vintage: 1995-01-21 to 1996-01-25
Macross Plus Movie Edition Vintage: 1995-08-27
Macross 7 the Movie: The Galaxyâs Calling Me! Vintage: 1995-09-30
Macross 7 Encore (OAV) Vintage: 1995-12-18
Macross Dynamite 7 (OAV) Vintage: 1997-12-18 to 1998-08-25
Macross XX (OAV Promo) Vintage: 2002-08-25
Macross Zero (OAV) Vintage: 2002-12-21
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (U.S. OAV) Vintage: 2005-10-23
Macross Fufonfia (ONA) Vintage: 2008-05-27 to 2008-10-08
Robotech: Shadow Rising (U.S. movie) Vintage: 2009
Macross Frontier: Itsuwari no Utahime (movie) Vintage: 2009-11-21
Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa (movie) Vintage: 2011-02-26
Macross FB7: Ore no Uta o Kike! (movie) Vintage: 2012-10-20