Just thought I'd point out that I'm officially watching Macross Plus—one of my favorite Japanese-animated movies ever made—at AMC theater a week from today! Macross Plus is one of many spin-offs of the Macross series that formed the core of the Robotech cartoon that aired on U.S. television back in the 1980s.
I originally watched Macross Plus in 1995 (when I was a sophomore in high school)...first as a 4-part American-dub miniseries that premiered in 1994 (even though I didn't see the fourth and final episode, whose dialogue wasn't voiced by U.S. actors yet, till late 1999), and then the feature film—which will be shown on the big screen next week courtesy of Fathom Events.
I can't wait to relive the awesome aerial battle between the YF-19 (piloted by Isamu Dyson, who was voiced by none other than Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston in the miniseries) and YF-21 (flown by Guld Goa Bowman) on planet Eden and above Earth's Macross City—as well as awesome beats by the computer-generated diva Sharon Apple; one of these beats being the song Information High...featured in the video below.
I can go on and on about my geekiness over Macross Plus, especially about how it inspired me to draw storyboards in 10th grade depicting what I envisioned the yet-to-be-released Episode 4 would be like (and subsequently fueling my desire to study filmmaking in college), but I'll end it here.
It would be awesome to have a live-action version of Macross Plus, but we've yet to see a live-action version of Robotech itself (which was supposed to have been produced by Spider-Man's Tobey Maguire over a decade ago) make it to cinemas! Oh well.
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