Robotech

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Robotech


caption =
genre = Mecha, Space OperaInfobox animanga/Anime
title = ""
director = Robert V. Barron
studio = Harmony Gold USA, Tatsunoko
(uncredited: Anime Friend, Artmic, Artland, Studio Nue)
network = flagicon|USA syndicated
flagicon|Philippines ABS-CBN
flagicon|France La Cinq
flagicon|Argentina Retro
flagicon|Canada Space
flagicon|Hong Kong STAR World
flagicon|Europe Super Channel
flagicon|Mexico XHGC-TV
flagicon|Italy Rete 4, Italia 7
flagicon|UK The Childrens Channel
first = March 4, 1985
last = July 1985 (USA)
episodes = 85 x 25 minutes ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088595/ IMDb] )Infobox animanga/Movie
title =
director = Robert V. Barron
producer = Ahmed Agrama, Carl Macek
music = Ulpio Minucci
studio = Harmony Gold USA, Tatsunoko
released = March 1985
runtime = 73 minutes ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1035437/ IMDb] )Infobox animanga/Movie
title =
(aka. The Untold Story)
director = Carl Macek, Noboru Ishiguro
producer = Ahmed Agrama, Toru Miura
music = Three Dog Night
studio = Harmony Gold USA, Tatsunoko, IDOL Co.
released = July 25, 1986 (Texas, limited)
runtime = 82 minutes ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091862/ IMDb] )Infobox animanga/OVA
title = ""
director = Carl Macek
studio = Harmony Gold USA, Tatsunoko
episodes = 1 (remainder of series cancelled)
released = 1987 (VHS)
2001 (DVD)
runtime = 75 minutes ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197828/ IMDb] )Infobox animanga/Anime
title = "Robotech 3000"
director = Carl Macek
studio = Harmony Gold USA, Netter Digital
network = (never aired)
first = 2000 (proposed)
last = (cancelled)
episodes = 3 minutes ( [http://www.robotech.com/gallery/mmitem.php?filetype=MOV&id=259 trailer only] )Infobox animanga/Movie
title =
director = Tommy Yune, Dong-Wook Lee
producer = Jason Netter
music = Scott Glasgow
studio = Harmony Gold USA, Tatsunoko, DR Movie
released = August 25, 2006 (festival)
January 5, 2007 (USA)
February 6, 2007 (DVD)
March 14, 2007 (Australia)
July 23, 2007 (UK)
runtime = 88 minutes ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443771/ IMDb] )

"Robotech" is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series. Within the combined and edited story, "Robotechnology" refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive invasions.

The original television series (1985)

"Robotech" was one of the first series released in the United States which attempted to include most of the complexity and drama of its original Japanese source material. Produced by Harmony Gold USA, Inc. in association with Tatsunoko Prod. Co., Ltd., "Robotech" is a story adapted with edited content and revised dialogue from the animation of three different mecha anime series: "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross", "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross", and "Genesis Climber Mospeada". Harmony Gold's cited reasoning for combining these unrelated series was its decision to market "Macross" for American weekday syndication television, which required a minimum of 65 episodes at the time (thirteen weeks at five episodes per week). "Macross" and the two other series each had fewer episodes than required, since they originally aired in Japan as weekly series.

This combination resulted in a storyline that spans three generations, as mankind must fight three destructive Robotech Wars in succession over a powerful energy source and "lifeblood" of two different races called "Protoculture":

*The First Robotech War ("The Macross Saga") concerns humanity's battle against the Zentraedi, a race of giant warriors who are sent to earth to retrieve the flagship of the Robotech Master Zor. The ship contains the last known source of Protoculture in the universe.

* The Second Robotech War ("The Masters") begins when the creators of the Zentraedi, the Robotech Masters, attempt to take up where the Zentraedi left off, and capture the protoculture held within the remains of the SDF-1.

* The Third Robotech War ("The New Generation") occurs after the alien Invid have been alerted to the existence of Protoculture on Earth by events that transpired at the end of the Second Robotech War. The planet is conquered, then enslaved, and it is up to the Robotech Expeditionary Force (and the Earth rebels) to retake their ancestral homeland.

On some television stations, the syndicated run was preceded by the broadcast premiere of "", a feature-length pilot.

Home video

Following the original broadcast, the series enjoyed popularity on home video in VHS and DVD formats from the following distributors::"For more information, see "
* Family Home Entertainment (VHS, Laserdisc) (First six-tape run of "The Macross Saga" was heavily edited, with roughly 38 minutes of footage cut from each six-episode tape.)
* Palladium Books (VHS)
* Streamline Pictures (VHS, Laserdisc)
* ADV Films (DVD Region 1 — North America)
* Manga Entertainment (DVD Region 2 — UK)
* Madman Entertainment (DVD Region 4 — Australia)
* FUNimation Entertainment (DVD Region 1 — USA) ("Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" — Release date: 02/06/2007)
* Guangdong Qianhe Audio & Video (DVD Region 6 — China) ("Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" — Release date: 08/20, 2007)

Animated sequels and spinoffs

Harmony Gold has attempted to produce several follow ups to the original series over the years, but with mixed success to this date.

"Robotech: The Movie" (1986)

Also called "Robotech: The Untold Story", this theatrical film was the first new Robotech adventure created after the premiere of the original series. It used footage from the "Megazone 23 Part 1" OVA (Original Video Animation, or made-for-video animated feature) spliced with "Southern Cross", and had only a tenuous link to the television series. The movie disappeared from the United States after a failed test run in Texas. Harmony Gold relinquished their license to "Megazone 23" after director Carl Macek washed his hands of the project.

"Robotech II: The Sentinels" (1987, cancelled)

This aborted American-produced series would have followed the continuing adventures of Rick and Lisa Hunter and the Robotech Expedition during the events of "The Robotech Masters" and "The New Generation". The feature-length pilot is comprised of the first three (and only) episodes that were produced. Being a sequel/spinoff to the combined series, "The Sentinels" featured characters from all three Robotech sagas and introduced the SDF-3 along with an overview of their new mission.

According to director Carl Macek in "Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels," the proposed 65-episode series was canceled after the crash of the dollar/yen exchange rate and lack of support by toy partner Matchbox. Efforts to petition the completion of this series have gone nowhere, but the pilot was released on VHS by Palladium Books and on DVD by ADV Films.

"Robotech III: The Odyssey" (proposed)

Producer Carl Macek revealed ideas for another proposed series, "Robotech III: The Odyssey", which would have created a circular storyline that would end where the original "Robotech" began in a giant 260-episode cycle to fill up all the weekdays in a year. According to Macek, The Odyssey would have revealed Lynn Minmei to be the mother of Zor, making Minmei the focal point of Robotech. [cite web| url = http://www.nabiki.com/sstalker/macekinterview.asp | title = Interview with Carl Macek | accessdate = 2007-07-05 |date= 1995-10-05 | work = http://www.nabiki.com/sstalker/] After the failure of "Sentinels", "Odyssey" never went into development, though its ideas were worked into the Jack McKinney novel "The End of the Circle".

"Robotech IV and V" (planned)

Fan publication "Macross Life" interviewed Harmony Gold executive Richard Firth in 1986, where he revealed that "Robotech" creator Carl Macek had "plans through ROBOTECH 5, which would give us an episode for each day of the year for a year and a half." He also said that these two installments would have brought the series to 285 episodes. Regarding the plot, Firth mentioned a "retired Commodore Hunter, whom ever that may be, could very well be speaking at the graduation of the later day cadets or whatever, and they ask him to tell them the story all over again: it comes back [to the first episode of the series] ."

It should be noted that Carl Macek himself has never mentioned "Robotech IV" or "V" in any interviews or writings.

"Robotech 3000" (2000, cancelled)

Carl Macek attempted another sequel with the development of "Robotech 3000". This all-CGI series would have been set a millennium in the future of the Robotech universe and feature none of the old series' characters. In the three-minute trailer, an expedition is sent to check on a non-responsive mining outpost and is attacked by "infected" Veritech mecha. Again, the idea was abandoned midway into production after negative reception within the company, negative fan reactions at the FanimeCon anime convention in 2000, and financial difficulties within Netter Digital who was animating the show. It now exists only in trailer form on the official "Robotech" website.

"Robotech UN Public Service Announcement" (2005)

A [http://www.theshadowchronicles.com/info.php?id=un sixty-second public service announcement] for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, featuring Scott Bernard and Ariel, was animated during the production of "The Shadow Chronicles". Although it did not use the original voice actors and the dialogue was somewhat out-of-character, it nonetheless marked the first fully-completed "Robotech" footage in many years.

"Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" (2006)

In 2002, Tommy Yune announced development of a new sequel movie, which was not named until 2004 as "Robotech: Shadow Force". The storyline overlaps with and continues from the unresolved ending of the original series. The title of the story-arc was soon changed to "". The first trailers with finished animation were shown at Anime Expo and Comic-Con International in 2005. It was not until February 2006, when Kevin McKeever, operations coordinator at Harmony Gold, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8344 was able to confirm] that the pilot movie had been completed. After a series of delays, FUNimation Entertainment was finally announced as the home video, broadcast, and theatrical distributor at the 2006 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Harmony Gold premiered the movie at various film festivals in 2006, and it was first seen by a public audience at MechaCon in August of 2006, where it was showcased as a charity screening to help raise funds for the ongoing Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita recovery effort. A limited theatrical run followed in January 2007, and the film was released the DVD on February 6, 2007. [cite web| url = http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=1656430&forumid=31 | title = The Shadow Chronicles DVD in stores from Funimation on Feb. 6, 2007 | accessdate = 2007-02-17 |date= 2006-11-20 | work = Robotech.com Forum] A 2-disc collector's edition was released in November 2007. [cite web| url = http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2007/anime-expo/funimation | title = Anime Expo 2007: Funimation Entertainment | accessdate = 2007-07-06 |date= 2007-07-01 | work = Anime News Network]

"Robotech: Shadow Rising" (2009)

On July 27, 2007, at their Comic-Con International panel, Harmony Gold and Robotech director Tommy Yune unveiled the second entry of the "Shadow Chronicles" production, titled "Robotech: Shadow Rising". Pre-production has begun, and a projected release date of sometime in 2009 is currently expected. [cite web| url = http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-07-27/harmony-gold-starts-shadow-chronicles-sequel | title = Comic-Con International 2007: Harmony Gold/Tommy Yune Panel | accessdate = 2007-07-27 |date= 2007-07-27 | work = Anime News Network]

Unofficial and Parody Productions

In the 1990s, Seishun Shitemasu, an anime fandubbing group, produced the parodies "Robotech III: Not Necessarily the Sentinels" and "Robotech IV: Khyron's Counterattack," using footage from, respectively, "Gunbuster/Aim For The Top!" and "", continuing the tradition of the original Robotech's adaptation of unrelated anime series into a single continuity.

Live-action film (proposed)

On 7 September 2007, the Hollywood Reporter stated that Warner Bros. had acquired the film rights to Robotech and would be producing a live-action film with an as-yet-unknown release date.cite web| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1f2de64a1d24bd55d67832dedc4bd442 | title = Maguire, WB attack the big screen with 'Robotech' | accessdate = 2007-09-12 |date= 2007-09-07 | work = The Hollywood Reporter] Tobey Maguire is producing the film through his Maguire Entertainment banner and may be playing the lead role in what the studio plans on being a tentpole sci-fi franchise.

Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Productions Company. Craig Zahler ("The Brigands of Rattleborge") has been tapped to write the screenplay.

In an interview, [cite web |url=http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-5988/TS-43975.mp3 |title=Live-Action Movie Talk with Kevin McKeever|date=2007-09-09 |last=Meadows |first=Chris |accessdate=2007-09-12 |format=mp3 |work= [http://terrania.us/liberty Space Station Liberty] ] Harmony Gold representative Kevin McKeever said that Warner Brothers had approached Harmony Gold about the project, that Harmony Gold would have "a say" in its creative direction, and that it was not expected to affect the production schedule for "." He was unable to confirm any details of budget, casting, expected release date, or storyline, explaining that it was too early in the life of the project for these things to have been decided.

In June 2008, it was reported that Lawrence Kasdan had been hired to write the film, with Charles Roven and Akiva Goldsman joining Drew Crevello and Tobey Maguire as producers. [ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ia3b683089f36e7ebb3a620eb11dacda3 Lawrence Kasdan to pen 'Robotech' ] ]

During the Robotech Panel at Anime Expo 2008, the involvement of Tobey Maguire and Lawrence Kasdan was confirmed, with Kasdan writing the script for the live action movie. It was also revealed that the movie is planned as a re-imagining of the original "Robotech" universe (with new updated mecha and character designs) and will take place several years in the future, departing from the original cartoon's 2009 setting. [cite web| url = http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2008/anime-expo/robotech | title = Anime Expo 2008: Robotech |date= 2008-07-05 | work = Anime News Network]

"Robotech" (Harmony Gold) chronology

The "Robotech" chronology, according to Harmony Gold, is illustrated below::"For a more detailed timeline, see Robotech Wars"

Year	Generation / Saga (release date)
1999 - 2014	(1)	"Robotech: The Macross Saga" (1985)
2025		"Robotech II: The Sentinels"* (1987)
2027		"Robotech: The Movie"* (1986)
2029 - 2030	(2)	"Robotech Masters" (1985)
2042 - 2044	(3)	"Robotech: The New Generation" (1985)
2044 -		"Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" (2006)

Note: Asterisked works are now considered "secondary continuity" — that is, that their events exist in the continuity of "Robotech", but "don't count" when conflicts arise with the "main continuity" that are the three-part "Robotech" TV series (four, with the addition of 2006's "").

In 2002, with the publication of the Wildstorm (DC) comics, Harmony Gold officially decided to retcon the "Robotech" Universe. The following "Robotech" material is now relegated to the status of secondary continuity:

* "" in all its incarnations.
* "" (which, in the strictest sense, never was canon)
* "Robotech" comics published by Comico, Eternity, Academy, and Antarctic Press.
* "Robotech" RPGs published by Palladium Books.
* "Robotech" novels written by Jack McKinney, most notably "The End of the Circle".

While these materials are not precisely "retired" or "removed" from the continuity, their events are subject to critical review, and are strictly subordinate to the "official" events of the 85-episode animated series. Although certain events in the new feature film ("i.e.", the final showdown at Reflex Point) proceed in a slightly different fashion from the original "Robotech" series, such disparities were intentionally introduced by the Harmony Gold producers, but are still considered canonical.

The "Robotech" franchise

At the time of its broadcast, Harmony Gold also launched "Robotech" through a popular line of comics to be followed by novels, role-playing games, toys, and other consumer products. With the cancellation of "Robotech II: The Sentinels", many of these licensed products were discontinued, and led to a drought of "Robotech" product through much of the 1990s, except for publishers who continued the "The Sentinels" storyline in print.

"Robotech" art books

In 1986, Starblaze Graphics published "Robotech Art 1", a reference book containing artwork, Japanese production designs, and episode guides from the original television series. This was followed by "Robotech Art 2", which was largely a collection of art by various American artists and fans. In 1988, Carl Macek collected much of the unused designs from "Robotech II: The Sentinels" into "Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels", which also included his story outline for the rest of the unfinished series, with an explanation behind its cancellation. In 2007, Stone Bridge Press published "The Art of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles".

"Robotech" comics

"Robotech" comics were first published in 1984 with DC Comics' short-lived "Robotech Defenders" and Comico's adaptation of the first episode of the Japanese version of "Macross". However, the first adaptation of the "Robotech" television series did not arrive until 1985 with Comico's "Robotech: The Macross Saga" #2, which continued from the first "Macross" issue.

The various comic publishers include:

* Comico (1984-1989)
* Eternity Comics (1988-1994)
* Academy Comics (1994-1996)
* Antarctic Press (1997-1998)
* Wildstorm (DC) (2002-present)

"Robotech" collectible card game

The first "Robotech" collectible card game was released in 2006 by Hero Factory, which had previously produced "Robotech" trading cards.

"Robotech" music and soundtracks

Various "Robotech" soundtracks have been released on records, cassettes, and compact discs since 1988.

* (1988)
* (1988)
* (1996)
* (2002)
* (2004)
* (2005)
* (2007)

"Robotech" novelizations

Since 1987, "Robotech" was adapted into novel form by "Jack McKinney," a pseudonym for the team of James Luceno and the late Brian Daley, a pair of writers who had been working with Macek since they had collaborated on the animated series "Galaxy Rangers". Using fictitious epigraphs in the style of "Dune", McKinney's novels fleshed out the chronology (including adapting the incomplete "Sentinels" source material) in far greater detail than the original animation. Many "Robotech" fans consider the McKinney series to be an unofficial canon of its own, despite notable divergences in the writing from Harmony Gold's current official animation-based canon. Despite no longer being considered core-continuity by Harmony Gold, the novels have been recently re-issued by Del Rey Books as Omnibus compilations.

"Robotech" role-playing games

In 1986, Palladium Books published a role-playing game based on the "Robotech" series. The successful run also included RPG books covering "The Sentinels". Contractual issues in the wake of Harmony Gold's aborted "Robotech 3000" project, as well as a general refocusing of the company on production of its flagship "Rifts" line, caused Palladium to eventually forgo renewing the "Robotech" license. The "Robotech" RPG line went out of print as of June 30, 2001. In 2007, Harmony Gold and Palladium Books worked out a new agreement to produce a Robotech RPG supplement to "The Shadow Chronicles". A [http://www.palladiumbooks.com/press/press2007-09.html press release] from Palladium Books addresses their recently (Sept 2007) renewed contract. Robotech The Shadow Chronicles RPG was released March 21st 2008.

"Robotech" toys

3 3/4 inch action figures of the 3 Robotech generations were initially released in 1985 by Matchbox toy company, but then reissued in 1992 by Harmony Gold (Lunk and Corg were only released by Matchbox and Lynn Minmei was only released by Harmony Gold).

6" figures were released in 1985 also by Matchbox. All of these figures were from the first generation and were of Zentraedi characters only. These figures were supposed to represent the size difference between the Humans and the giant Zentraedi forces, but to be correct these figures would had to have been made about 20 inches tall. None of the figures came with weapons but the Armoured Zentraedi came with a removable helmet.

Also many toys depicting the vehicles and mecha from the series were released in 1985 by Matchbox , in 1992 by Harmony Gold and in 1994 by Playmates (under the Exosquad line). There were major differences in packaging, toy stickers and colors between the different releases. The vehicles were designed to be used only with the 3 3/4" figures. The SDF-1 Playset was only released under the Matchbox line in the 80s and could be used with both the 3 3/4" and 6" figures.

"Robotech" video games

"Robotech" spawned five video game licenses, of which the most recent three were released:

* "" for the Nintendo 64 game system. This was aborted when its publisher, Gametek, went under in 1998. The game would have taken place during the period between the SDF-1's destruction and the launch of the SDF-3. The game had a Zentraedi invasion during what was scripted in the series as a period of peace.

* "" (2002) for the Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation 2, and Nintendo GameCube. The gameplay takes place in the Macross era, and features a storyline running exactly concurrent with that era's historical events. Multiplayer support is limited to one-on-one. Several of the voice actors from the original series, including Tony Oliver, Melanie MacQueen, Dan Woren, and Cam Clarke, reprised their original roles, or voiced new characters in this game. The game was a relative success, even though many fans complained of the over-cartoonified look of the game.

* ' (2002) for the Game Boy Advance, a side-scrolling shooter that resembles the Japanese Super Famicom game '.

* "" (2004) for the Microsoft Xbox and the Sony PlayStation 2. First/third person shooter. The gameplay covers the "New Generation" part of the story, with support for single player missions and multiplayer online matches. Features Cyclones, transformable body armor/motorcycles. As with "Battlecry", several of the original voice actors reprised their roles.

* ' (2007) for mobile phones. A top-down scrolling shooter that covers the "New Generation" part of the story, leading up to the '. The player can play as one of three characters (Scott, Rook and Rand), each with their own special weapons. The player also has the ability to change into "Battloid Mode" through the collection of Protoculture. "Robotech: The New Generation" features famous music from the TV series, as well as the most evil of all the villains.

Effect

While anime shows were brought to the US as early as the 1960s, such as "Astro Boy", "Speed Racer", and "Kimba the White Lion", most were heavily bowdlerized for American audiences, with violence, deaths of major characters, sexual references, "et cetera", completely edited out for what was assumed to be an audience of young children. "Robotech", along with the earlier "Star Blazers" (1974), broke with this tradition by leaving in some of those elements, and they are frequently credited as the series that helped spur a greater American interest in Japanese animation, leading to the current anime industry in North America. "Robotech" is frequently among the top-ten anime lists of American anime magazines such as "Anime Insider", "Animerica", "Newtype USA", and others. Cascadia Con gave Harmony Gold an award for "Robotech"'s contribution to the science-fiction genre.

"Robotech" had a similar effect in other places of the world, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Serbia and the Philippines. In China, during the summer of 2004, it was awarded "Best Robot-themed Anime of all time" by the Cartoon Channel of China Education Television. It is highly likely that someone growing up in any of those countries during the 1980s watched at least some of its episodes (However, "Robotech" did not start its broadcast in China until 1991). As in the US, it helped continue a slow but continuous rise in the consumption of anime.

That said, "Robotech" is often an extremely polarizing subject amongst anime fans. Some critics consider the show to be an abomination that runs roughshod over its original sources by Westernizing character names, making some censor-appeasing edits, and changing the stories of three wholly-unrelated series (some compare it to Woody Allen's camp Japanese movie re-dub "What's Up, Tiger Lily?") to pass them off as a cohesive whole. Series writer/actor Greg Snegoff did say in an interview on the now-defunct "Shadow Chronicles News" fansite that, "afterwards, we received compliments from the Japanese who thought our dialogue and stories were better than the original" and "Protoculture Addicts" magazine reports in a "Robotech" fifth-anniversary article that those compliments came from the production company Tatsunoko. However, "Animag" magazine (issue 11) and "Animerica" magazine (issue 9, volume 4) reports that the original "Macross" creators at Studio Nue and Artland, such as story creator Shoji Kawamori and chief director Noboru Ishiguro, expressed their concern over the "Robotech" adaptation, and surprise on its differences. [cite web| url = http://animeworldorder.blogspot.com/2008/05/bonus-interview-with-noboru-ishiguro.html | title = Interview with Noboru Ishiguro | accessdate = 2008-10-10 |date= 2008-05-14 | work = http://www.animeworldorder.com/]

In an effort to combine the storylines of three different Japanese series, certain characters underwent drastic role changes, with little explicit character development or plot exposition. Notably, Rick Hunter (one of the main characters of the "Macross" segment) was changed — by a line of dialogue — from an ordinary-yet-pivotal fighter-unit commander into an unseen admiral, who is said to have ordered the destruction of Earth under the controversial rationale of saving it from the enemy. The line by General Reinhardt (unnamed in the original television series) in command aboard the SDF-4 in the episode "Dark Finale" was, "I've been ordered by Admiral Hunter himself to obliterate the planet completely."

In addition, the 65-episode minimum guideline cited as the reason to combine the episodes applied specifically to weekday syndication. Contemporary series such as "Star Blazers" and "Transformers" were initially syndicated weekly before reaching the 65-episode mark. The guideline also did not necessarily require a combined storyline; adaptations like "Voltron" coupled two unrelated Japanese series without directly combining the storylines. (A year later, 20 additional "Voltron" episodes and a crossover special were created for American audiences by Toei Animation, after the first daily run of 104 episodes.)

Shortly after completing "Robotech", Carl Macek would make the less-well-known "Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years" in a similar fashion by combining two Leiji Matsumoto series, "Captain Harlock" and "Queen Millennia", together and altering the storyline significantly. In this case, however, the two anime series were spliced together in a manner where the stories of the characters occurred simultaneously, not one after the other.

"Robotech" has been the subject of two parodies by the fandub group Seishun Shitemasu: "Robotech 3: Not Necessarily the Sentinels", and "Robotech 4: Khyron's Counterattack" (using footage from, respectively, "Gunbuster" and "").

References

External links

* [http://www.robotech.com/ ROBOTECH.COM] - Harmony Gold's official Robotech website.
* [http://www.robotechx.com ROBOTECHX.COM] (BY THE FANS FOR THE FANS)
* [http://www.robotechespanol.com/ "Robotech" Español]
* [http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/bibliography/ ROBOTECH Bibliography] - Comprehensive listings of books in and out of print.
* [http://preludeto.theshadowchronicles.com/ ROBOTECH: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles] - Official site of the new comic series.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103173/ ROBOTECH (2010)] - Robotech Live Action Movie entry at the Internet Movie Database.
* [http://www.advfilms.com/ ADV Films] - The current distributor of Robotech DVDs.
* [http://www.robotec.com.ar ROBOTECH] es icon
*fr [http://www.dixenet.com/mangas/Macross/ Robotech] , site francophone sur Robotech/Macross.
* [http://www.robotechparaguay.com ROBOTECH/Macross Fans Comunity] (Spanish)