#Super Dimension Fortress MACROSS

[grayrazor]

It makes sense because of when they came out and the chain of inspiration--Macross and VOTOMS took from Gundam and Battletech took from Macross--but it's still kind of funny that Gundam has much more "Super Robot" design sensibilities than Macross, VOTOMS, and Battletech despite being much harder sci-fi.

Gundam has mecha that look like high fantasy warriors and attack each other with melee weapons, spaceship designss that look straight out of Space Battleship Yamato, but it has no FTL, no artificial gravity, even travelling from the Earth to the Moon can take days, and travelling to the outer planets will take years.

There's often a percieved dissonance between aesthetics and levels of realism in visual media sci-fi. Like, Star Wars looks more “grounded” than Star Trek, but commonplace tech in Wars is the domain of lost ancient civilizations in Trek.

In its own way, Gundam is more realistic than The Expanse. There’s nothing in the Universal Century anywhere close to the raw power of the Epstein Drive.

[squirrelstothenuts]

[indeedgoodman]

[princess-viola]

[roseillith]

[nakamorijuan]

Versión "Económica, Creativa y Reciclable" 😂 del Opening de Macross

[auto-memory-doll]

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか)

Developer: Scarab with assistance from SEGA

Publisher: Bandai Visual

System: Sega Saturn

Release Date: June 6th, 1997

Genre: Shoot 'Em Up

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[punchy-mchurtyfist]

Mecha anime sure did make the right play when they decided to put cutesy pop music juxtaposed against colossal war machines ripping huge swathes through hoardes of enemies too innumerable to count

It's about the hope, about humanity's desperate fight to stay alive despite overwhelming odds, it's screaming at the top of our lungs THIS MIGHT BE OUR LAST DAY SO PLAY THAT SHIT AND LETS DO OUR BEST!!

[michaelmac6072-art]

I'm back at the maclonized Misa shenanigans again, this time with Minmay and Hikaru laying back in her big loops of hair. Inspired by some talking I had done with my pal @daikikaijuboyo028tblr concerning how her hair loops look like very cozy places to be. ^u^

[arcadebroke]

[caterpie]

Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

[squirrelstothenuts]

[azure--gunslinger]

"You can't just mix top gun, transformers, star trek and Jpop idols together!"

The creators of Macross: The fuck we can't!

[princess-viola]

reblog this chewin minmay immediately

[roseillith]

[sailor-arashi]

Thoughts on how technology is depicted in anime?

Technology!? How quaint! I'm sorry, in the far flung future of 2009 we're using Overtechnology!

Suck super-dimension energy, alien!