Choujikuu Yousai Macross Ii: Lovers Again
| Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again | |
 The VHS cover for Macross II original North American release. | |
| 超時空要塞マクロスII -LOVERS Again- | |
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| Created by |
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| Original video animation | |
| Directed past | Kenichi Yatagai |
| Written by | Sukehiro Tomita |
| Music past | Shirō Sagisu |
| Studio | AIC |
| Licensed past | NA U.Due south. Renditions |
| Released | May 21, 1992 – November 21, 1992 |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Sukehiro Tomita |
| Illustrated by | Tsuguo Okazaki |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English language publisher | NA Viz Media |
| Magazine | Shōnen Sunday Zōkan |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Published | 1993 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Anime pic | |
| Macross the Movie: Lovers Again (American flick accommodation) | |
| Directed by | Quint Lancaster |
| Written past | Raymond Garcia |
| Music by | Shiro Sagisu |
| Studio | U.S. Renditions |
| Released | June four, 1993 |
| Runtime | 150 minutes |
| Manga | |
| The Micron Conspiracy (Original English language Language manga) | |
| Written by | James D. Hudnall |
| Illustrated by | Schulhoff Tam |
| Published by | Viz Media |
| Published | 1994 |
Anime and manga portalSuper Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Once more ( 超時空要塞マクロスII -LOVERS Over again- ) is a six episode OVA in the Macross franchise. It was the commencement installment of Macross to feature a new cast of characters. Macross II was produced past Big West, with no interest from the original serial creators from Studio Nue or the original series animators from Tatsunoko Production.
Groundwork [edit]
After Flash Back 2012, Studio Nue no longer wanted to work on Macross as a series. Large West continued alone, building from Do Yous Remember Dear? with Macross Ii and three video games: Macross 2036 and Macross: Eien no Love Vocal for the PC Engine CD and Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie for the Super Famicom.
In light of this, Studio Nue decided to continue the story themselves, though they used the original television series as a base instead. This began with the 1994 Macross Plus and no further work is based on what is now considered a "Parallel World" timeline.[1] [2]
Plot [edit]
The story takes identify in 2092,[three] eighty years after the events depicted in Macross: Do You Recollect Love? [4] The SDF-1 Macross still exists, as does the U.N. Spacy Minmay Attack stratagem, which has been successfully employed to thwart the Zentradi threat ever since. Nonetheless, a new humanoid alien race called the Marduk (Mardook in the original Japanese version), arrives in the Solar Organization with enslaved Zentradi and Meltlandi warriors who are seemingly unaffected by the Minmay Attack. The Marduk employ their own female singers, called Emulators, who incite their giant warriors with songs.
The story focuses on reporter Hibiki Kanzaki, who is defenseless in the middle of the activeness when he rescues an Emulator, Ishtar, while covering a battle betwixt the U.Due north. Spacy and the Marduk. Hibiki gain to teach her virtually Earth'due south culture, which she then shares with the residue of the Marduk. However, the Marduk leader, Emperor Ingues, considers Earth's culture anathema. With the assist of ace fighter pilot Silvie Gena, Hibiki and Ishtar attempt to end the war.
Characters [edit]
- Hibiki Kanzaki ( 神崎 ヒビキ , Kanzaki Hibiki )
- Voiced by: Tsutomu Takayama (Japanese); Jonathan Fahn (English)
- The series' primary protagonist, Hibiki is an entertainment reporter for the tv set network Scramble News Network (SNN). Desiring to accelerate his career, he jumps at the chance to cover the first encounters with the Marduk. While covering one of the battles, he discovers Ishtar, an Emulator used to excite the Marduk forces' aggressive tendencies through her singing. Originally seeing the scoop of a lifetime, Hibiki harbors Ishtar on Earth and shows her World'southward culture but is eventually moved by Ishtar's conventionalities in bringing peace to her people by spreading Earth'south dear songs. Hibiki likewise finds himself having to deal with the U.N. Spacy, which is overzealous in not assuasive any possibility of public panics despite having the frontline pushed all the way back to Globe itself.
- Ishtar ( イシュタル , Ishutaru )
- Voiced by: Hiroko Kasahara (Japanese); Debra Rogers (English language)
- An Emulator within the Marduk race. Her singing enhances the aggressive tendencies of the Marduk's Zentraedi and Meltrandi warriors and allows the Marduk to control them. When Hibiki brings her to Earth, she is shocked by human civilisation and traditions. Because of her experiences, she changes her Emulator song to be i which encourages the Marduk to exist peaceful. She believes the SDF-1 Macross is the legendary send of the Alus, an entity prophesied in Marduk culture to bring peace to their civilization.
- Silvie Gena ( シルビー·ジーナ , Shirubī Jīna )
- Voiced by: Yumi Tōma (Japanese); Susan Byrkett (English)
- Sylvie is an ace Valkyrie II variable fighter pilot and commander of the Faerie Squadron. She has a Meltrandi grandmother, from whom she inherited her prowess at fighting (reportedly 2d just to Nexx Gilbert), and becomes very angry at the Marduk when she discovers that the aliens brainwash their Zentradi and Meltrandi soldiers. Hibiki'south pursuit of a scoop of her secret coming together with Supreme Commander Exxegran makes her dial the reporter in the olfactory organ. Her feelings for him alter over the rest of the series.
- Nexx Gilbert ( ネックス·ギルバート , Nekkusu Girubāto )
- Voiced by: Bin Shimada (Japanese); Steve Blum (English)
- One of the United nations Spacy's aristocracy pilots, Nexx appears to be a bit egotistic because of fighter pilots beingness highly popular in Earth society. Although he doesn't seem to go very far with Sylvie beyond a few dates, he is genuinely in honey with her. He pilots a combat-worthy prototype of the VA-1SS Metal Siren variable fighter during the U.North. Spacy's fleet engagement against Marduk nigh the Moon and takes command of i of the two Macross Cannons committed to resist the final Marduk assault on World.
- Wendy Ryder ( ウェンディー·ライダー , Wendī Raidā )
- Voiced past: Yukiyo Satō (Japanese); Trish Ledoux (English)
- An idol vocaliser who is used in the U.N. Spacy propaganda releases. She is known for singing Invitation with the Valkyrie ( バルキリーで誘って , Barukirī de Sasotte ) and Friends Now ( 今は友達 , Ima wa Tomodachi ) during the annual U.N. Spacy Moon Festival.
- Dennis Lone ( デニス·ローン , Denisu Rōn )
- Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo
- An SNN cameraman and war correspondent, Dennis believes in presenting both sides of a story even if information technology means getting it from deep behind enemy lines. He thinks Hibiki doesn't empathize what journalism is really all most but still sees potential in him. He dies during Hibiki's outset assignment with him inside a Marduk warship; his death has a pregnant bear on on how Hibiki looks at the world of journalism.
- Mash ( マッシュ , Masshu )
- Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao
- A transsexual possessor of a dazzler salon, Mash is one of Hibiki'due south shut friends. Their bail is good enough such that he is the one Hibiki turns to when the latter decides to harbor Ishtar after rescuing her on an assignment.
- Exxegran Giri ( エックセグラン・ジリ , Ekkuseguran Giri )
- Voiced by: Yoshisada Sakaguchi (Japanese); Hal Cleaveland (English)
- One of the U.N. Spacy'due south senior commanders, Exxegran has a noble spirit and is every bit aware of how complacent the organization has become. He appears quite personable as Sylvie and her Faerie teammates expect up to him as a father figure.
- Feff ( フェフ , Fefu )
- Voiced by: Tōru Furuya (Japanese); Steven Blum (English language)
- Feff is a commander in the Marduk forces. Despite his battleground prowess, he does non entirely believe in Ingues'due south extreme enforcement of cultural purity and eventually turns on him once he understands what Ishtar is trying to do. Feff later confesses that he harbors feelings for Ishtar.
- Lord Emperor Ingues ( イングス , Ingusu )
- Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese); Nib Kestin (English)
- The Marduk Empire's supreme ruler, Ingues is cruel, despotic, and obsessed with eliminating any foreign culture. He even purges troops within the fleet that have been exposed to other cultures.
- Commander Balser ( バルゼー , Baruzē )
- Voiced past: Takeshi Watabe
- Commander of the U.Northward. Spacy's 12th Armada, Balser leads from the armada flagship Gloria during a valiant only ultimately futile defense confronting the Marduk invasion about the Moon. The Gloria is destroyed when the sheer number of Marduk warships overwhelms the defenders.
The Faerie Squadron [edit]
The Faerie Squadron is a trio of Valkyrie pilots nether Silvie's command. In the final episode, all three of them subsequently join Nexx Gilbert in manning a Macross Cannon transport.
- Saori ( 沙織 )
- Voiced by: Aya Hara (Japanese); Lisa Gratton (English)
- She is interested in Nexx Gilbert and is e'er looking for a fashion to get closer to him.
- Amy
- Voiced by: Mariko Kōda (Japanese); Melissa Charles (English)
- Nastasha ( ナスターシャ , Nasutāsha )
- Voiced by: Yumi Hikita
Product [edit]
Macross 2 began production in 1991 and debuted simultaneously in the United States and Japan, during the second quarter of 1992, in society to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the original The Super Dimension Fortress Macross tv series.[5] [6] [7] Out of the original Macross staff, merely three of them returned for Macross II: Haruhiko Mikimoto (graphic symbol designer), Sukehiro Tomita (scripter) and Yasunori Honda (sound director).[8] Shoji Kawamori, the creator of the original Macross series, did not participate in this project because, at the time, he had no involvement in writing sequels.[9] Since co-creator Studio Nue was also absent from this project, studios AIC and ONIRO handled the product.
Macross Two was framed every bit six episodes because, at the time, it was felt that brusk OVA series were the current trend in anime.[10] Initially conceived as taking place 300 years in the future,[xi] that number was pared down to 80 years during production. Macross II too takes place in the same universe as the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² games Macross 2036 and Macross: Eternal Love Song.[12] The staff was not allowed to use whatsoever of the original Macross characters in this projection.[13] Furthermore, the staff decided to avoid the "idol" singer concept that was propounded in the original series. Their rationale was that Japan was experiencing an "idol smash" during the 1980s and Macross mirrored that. Haruhiko Mikimoto explained that he and director Kenichi Yatagai differed on what they envisioned Macross II to be; compromises had to exist made on both sides.[xiii] The mechanical designs for Macross Ii were created past Junichi Akutsu, Jun Okuda and Koichi Ohata (who previously worked on Gunbuster).
Media [edit]
Macross II is a six-episode OVA that was released in Japan from May 21, 1992 to November 21, 1992 on VHS volumes, on June 25, 2001 on DVD and on July 25, 2022 on Blu-ray. It was also circulate on TV Tokyo from July 26, 1993 to August 30, 1993.
North American releases [edit]
U.S. Renditions released Macross 2 in 1992 and 1993, dubbed into English, on three VHS cassettes each containing two episodes. L.A. Hero released the serial in 1993 equally a flick in a limited number of theaters across the Usa every bit a 150-infinitesimal film on 35 mm moving picture.[xiv]
Manga Entertainment consolidated the six episodes in 1995 into a unmarried VHS cassette called Macross II: The Motion-picture show. This compilation removed the opening and ending credits for episodes two through 5, every bit well as the episode previews. Information technology was released as two VHS cassette variations: the kickoff contained the English language dub and the 2d contained the original Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
In 2000, Macross Two: The Movie was released on DVD past Manga Entertainment. This DVD included both the English dub and the original Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Bonus materials included a music video (actually a creditless closing theme), iv character profiles and an image and mechanical designs gallery.
Macross Ii: The Movie was released every bit a downloadable video rental on the Xbox Alive Market for the Xbox 360 by Starz. This release merely included the English dub and information technology was in standard definition. Manga Entertainment released Macross Two in 2008 as a downloadable video buy on the iTunes Store in its original six-episode format with each episode available individually. The episodes just include the English dub and they are in standard definition.
On May 2, 2011 a new version of the English dub movie was uploaded past Manga Entertainment to their YouTube aqueduct. This version only contains episodes i through iv[15]
Episode listing [edit]
| EP# | Title | Original release engagement | English release engagement | |
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| 01 | "Contact" "Kontakuto" ( コンタクト ) | May 21, 1992 (1992-05-21) | October 28, 1992 | |
| Scramble News Network (SNN) entertainment reporter Hibiki Kanzaki exposes Sylvie Gena and Exxegran Giri at a secret meeting within a hotel, earning his breaking story huge ratings. He is reprimanded by veteran reporter and cameraman Dennis Solitary for only being interested in ratings, and his agency chief orders him to repent to the 2 or he'll lose his chore. Sylvie catches Hibiki as he's leaving the SNN building and wants to talk with him. As they are talking at the Culture Park, the SDF-1 Macross gives off a huge energy burst, and then Sylvie is recalled due to a large number of unidentified ships defolding near Jupiter. He is assigned to fly a civilian Valkyrie and bring the drunk Dennis to cover the story. They get to the battle area and begin filming the "Minmay Defense", a holographic projection of a singing idol star. The song causes the attacking alien ships to stop, but a mysterious song broadcast by the enemy causes them to set on again - and this time, they're gaining the upper hand. Hibiki is in disbelief that the U.Due north. Spacy could lose and that so many people are dying all around him. Solitary tells him to pull himself together and get inside i of the enemy capital ships. When they get within the Marduk send, they see a mysterious scantily clothed woman and Alone picks her upwards, only he's killed in the process. He tells Hibiki to get the story out before he dies. Hibiki takes the adult female and the footage back to Globe. | ||||
| 02 | "Ishtar" "Ishutaru" ( イシュタル ) | June 21, 1992 (1992-06-21) | Oct 28, 1992 | |
| Marduk officer Lord Feff follows Hibiki and the adult female dorsum to World. Hibiki doesn't tell anyone other than his friend Mash about the adult female. As he's filming the sleeping adult female for his story, she awakes and becomes afraid, wondering where she is. After being fitted with a translator, she is able to understand Hibiki, who calms her down enough to learn her name - Ishtar. She learns at that place are Zentran and Meltran (males and females) living together on the planet with the humans. While they are talking, the Macross emits another energy belch, and Ishtar says that it's the lite of something called the send of the Alus. Hibiki turns on the news to see that the military is glossing over the actual events of the battle. Having slipped out of Mash's apartment, Ishtar is overwhelmed by the variety of music and individuality on the Earth and walks effectually the city while trying to find the ship of the Alus. Hibiki finds her in a park. Meanwhile, Feff'south soldiers are besides looking for her, and some of them have been shot downward. The military leadership is discussing their options. Brew gives Ishtar a makeover, and Hibiki takes her to the Culture Park to teach her nigh Globe's cultures just as Feff's troops locate her. Sylvie and Saori, plus a flight of United nations Spacy atmospheric-utilize Valkyries, rescue them, merely Ishtar runs abroad and finally sees the ship of the Alus - which turns out to be the Macross. When Feff appears to demand that Ishtar come back to the fleet with him, she refuses and he leaves, confused about why she would abandon her position equally Emulator. | ||||
| 03 | "Festival" "Fesutibaru" ( フェスティバル ) | August 21, 1992 (1992-08-21) | December 9, 1992 | |
| The media continues to embrace up the Marduk threat and uses the opportunity to promote the annual Moon Festival, which piques Ishtar's interest. Hibiki asks her again who she is, and she says she needs to go to the SDF-ane before she can tell him. Sylvie follows them after finishing a engagement with Nexx Gilbert. They arrive at the SDF-i and go up to the bridge where Ishtar partially activates the ship just by touching some of the control panels. She confesses her real identity to Hibiki, and explains that they use the Zentradi to destroy any strange cultures, with the Emulators keeping them in line. Ishtar adds that the Macross is the legendary "ship of the Alus" which will bring peace to the Marduk. Upon overhearing everything, Sylvie arrives and wants to have Ishtar into custody as she'south the enemy, simply Hibiki convinces her otherwise. They all go to the Moon Festival, where the new Metal Siren Valkyrie is rolled out and pop vocaliser Wendy Ryder performs a love vocal that mesmerizes Ishtar. Silvie and Ryder fly off in the new fighter - and run into a Marduk ambush; the enemy is planning to capture the singer they recall is the "enemy Emulator". Hibiki and an insistent Ishtar launches in an SNN Valkyrie. Ishtar decides to give herself upwards to Lord Feff if he lets Silvie and Ryder go. Sylvie goes later on them and arrives at Feff's transport just earlier they bound. | ||||
| 04 | "Marduk Disorder" "Marudūku Disuōda" ( マルドゥーク·ディスオーダ ) | September 24, 1992 (1992-09-24) | December 9, 1992 | |
| The Marduk interrogate Hibiki about his job and Ishtar's strange beliefs. Sylvie rescues Hibiki just before he is brainwashed. As they are escaping, Hibiki keeps recording parts of the ship and discovers that the Marduk are using heed command to go along the Zentradi soldiers fighting for them. Meanwhile, Ishtar is sent to another ship for examination by senior Emulator Lady Elensh nearly the extent of her exposure to Earth's culture. She resists the handling, explaining almost the ship of the Alus and why they shouldn't destroy the people on Earth. She sings a new song that stops all the Zentradi troops in their tracks; Marduk Emperor Ingues fields a special transport to destroy the "contaminated" warship. Lord Feff arrives and takes Ishtar away just before the affected ship is destroyed, but not before chasing Sylvie and Hibiki, who have been trying to find Ishtar all along. A U.N. Spacy escort carrier later rescues Hibiki and Sylvie. | ||||
| 05 | "Station Break" "Sutēshon Bureiku" ( ステーション·ブレイク ) | Oct 22, 1992 (1992-10-22) | February 10, 1993 | |
| Commander Exxegran debriefs Silvie about the events of the previous episode. Hibiki, meanwhile, hijacks the emergency military aqueduct to broadcast information the military has been suppressing and is arrested. The supreme U.North. Spacy council questions Hibiki well-nigh the footage he shot inside the Marduk transport and as well orders Sylvie'southward arrest. Out in space, Ingues orders the entire Marduk fleet to begin the attack on Earth, and are successful in breaking the defenses with Zentradi forces leading the charge and the Emulators' songs encouraging them. However, Ishtar refuses to sing along with them. Ishtar brushes off Feff's appeals to follow Ingues' command; Feff sends her away to Earth. One of the Un Spacy's fleet commanders, Balser, is confident he tin can defeat them with iv Macross Cannons (special transformable heavy artillery warships patterned after the SDF-1) nether his charge. However, as he fires the Macross Cannons, another Marduk strike forcefulness broadsides the U.N. Spacy armada. Balser sends his command ship into the center of the activeness, shooting upwardly several Marduk ships before it is destroyed. The Zentradi/Meltrandi troops stride up their ferocity and begin kamikaze attacks on the U.N. Spacy ships when Ingues orders the Emulators to sing their special "death song." Some of the ships in Ishtar's group are afterwards destroyed on his orders for refusing to sing it as well - and he networks the Zentradi troops coming from Ishtar's strength with Emulators in other loyalist ships to keep up the assault. Sylvie tells Exxegran of her programme to launch a sneak on Ingues' mothership using the SDF-i Macross. Hibiki records a message explaining that he thinks humans aren't learning from previous mistakes. | ||||
| 06 | "Sing Along" "Shingu Arongu" ( シング·アロング ) | November 21, 1992 (1992-11-21) | Feb 10, 1993 | |
| With the Marduk fleet having blasted through the U.N. Spacy's orbital and space defenses, Macross City's civilian populace is shepherded into hush-hush shelters while the U.N. Spacy's basis forces mobilize for a last stand up. Sylvie springs Hibiki and takes him to the SDF-one Macross. Sylvie discovers that it is still operational and she launches information technology. They fire the Macross' legendary beam cannons on the Marduk mothership, but information technology has fiddling effect; a subsequent smash by the mothership destroys the Macross, but the bridge section separates in time. The Marduk set on destroys everything in their path. Hibiki and Sylvie finally realize their feelings for each other and kiss as Ishtar comes into the room. She tells them that this is the truthful power of the Alus. Sylvie doesn't believe there is anything else that tin can exist done, but Ishtar broadcasts to the Marduk an appeal to spare humanity. This causes the fighting to stop and leaves some Emulators unsure about Ingues' plan, causing him to start destroying those who question him. Ishtar sings a love vocal and the remaining Emulators join her besides, prompting the remaining Marduk warships to open fire against Ingues. Feff is incensed past Ingues' denials nearly the legendary Alus and joins the avalanche (forth with the U.N Spacy's last ii Macross Cannons), destroying both him and his transport. The Marduk and the humans sign an eternal peace treaty and Ishtar leaves with Feff to spread the new civilisation amidst the remaining Marduk. | ||||
Soundtracks [edit]
The music score was composed by Shiro Sagisu, who later on became famous for his works on Neon Genesis Evangelion. J-popular singer Mika Kaneko composed and performed the series opening and ending theme songs while Hiroko Kasahara performed Ishtar's songs and Yukiyo Satō did Wendy Ryder's songs. Some of these songs were reused as groundwork music in the 1995 series Macross seven.
The U.South. release of the soundtrack is every bit follows:
- JVC (1993) Macross Ii Original Soundtrack Book 1 is released in North America on CD. This meaty disc contained the background music and vocal songs from, approximately, the get-go one-half of the series.
- AnimeTrax (2001) Volume 1 is re-released equally the Macross 2 Original Soundtrack on CD. This version retains the cover art from its Japanese counterpart and does not include the liner notes found in the JVC release.
Volume 2 was but released in Nippon (forth with Volume 1) by JVC'south parent company, Victor Company of Japan, as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II Original Soundtrack Vol. 2 in 1992. This compact disc contained the background music and vocal songs from, approximately, the second half of the series.
Merchandising [edit]
Manga [edit]
Viz Comics published a x-effect monthly comic volume limited series called Super Dimensional Fortress Macross Ii that was circulated, monthly, from September 1992 through June 1993. This limited series was originally published as a manga in Shōnen Sunday Zōkan by Shogakukan in Nippon. While a traditional manga volition typically deviate from its anime counterpart, the Macross II manga was a direct adaption of the Macross 2 anime.[11] The manga series was scripted by Sukehiro Tomita and illustrated by Tsuguo Okazaki. The English version was translated by James D. Hudnall and Matt Thorn.
In 1994, Viz Comics reissued the x private issues in a unmarried trade paperback volume. Unlike the previous Viz series, which was released in the same size as Argent Historic period comic books, this compilation was published in the same size as conventional manga and was spiral-bound. In November 1994, Viz Comics published Macross II: The Micron Conspiracy equally a five-issue comic volume express series. Marketed as a "100% fabricated-in-America sequel", the story is set one year after the events of Macross II and follows Hibiki Kanzaki and Sylvie Gena equally they attempt to uncover the explanation behind a series of mysterious attacks against the Zentradi on Earth.[xvi] This series was written by James D. Hudnall with illustrations provided past Schulhoff Tam.
Posters [edit]
4 official Macross 2 posters were released by U.S. Renditions, L.A. Hero and Viz Comics. The first 2 posters featured the cover art from "Marduk Disorder" and "Sing Forth." These two posters each measured 25 10 39 inches (990 mm). The third poster released was the 27 x 41 ⅛ inches official theatrical poster for the Macross 2 35 mm film release, featuring the cover art from "Station Break." The fourth poster, released by Viz Comics, featured Ishtar and measured 28 ⅝ x 40 ½ inches.
Role-playing game [edit]
Cover of the role-playing game cadre rulebook, illustrated by Kevin Long
In 1993, Palladium Books released a role-playing game called Macross 2: The Office-Playing Game. This was followed that same year by Macross II: Sourcebook One—The U.N. Spacy, which was an extension of the kickoff game.[17] In 1994, Palladium joined forces with Canadian role-playing game company Dream Pod nine to produce a three-office Deck Plans supplement series, which featured technical schematics of U.N. Spacy and Marduk warships and new rules for ship-to-send gainsay.[eighteen]
Model kits [edit]
Bandai released a one/100 scale model kit of the VF-2SS Valkyrie II. The model was capable of transforming into Fighter, Gerwalk and Battroid modes, but required the swapping of hip joints for each fashion. The kit also included additional sprues for assembling the Super Armed Pack.[19] Several companies accept fabricated garage kits of the VF-2JA Icarus, too every bit additional parts to convert the Bandai Valkyrie II into an atmospheric way fighter without the Super Armed Pack. Evolution Toys announced the release of a 1/60 VF-2ss Silvie Gina version for Fall 2015.
Video games [edit]
Banpresto released an arcade game accommodation of Macross II in 1993. The game was a side-scrolling shooter, where the player controlled a VF-2SS Valkyrie 2 and battled Marduk units on the screen. Transformation was attained but by acquiring lettered icons (B for Battroid, G for Gerwalk, F for Fighter). Players were armed with lasers and a express number of smart bombs. They can only advance to the adjacent stage if they reach a certain number of points.[xx]
Characters, mecha and story elements from this OVA are featured in the Sony PlayStation Portable videogame Macross Ultimate Frontier, the sequel to Macross Ace Frontier (2008). Ultimate Borderland was released in Japan in October 2009.[21]
Reception [edit]
In 1992, Macross Ii was described as "the most eagerly anticipated anime sequel e'er."[22] Volumes 1 and two of Macross II went on to become the #i selling anime videos in the U.s. in September 1992 and January 1993 respectively.[23] [24] Despite its bestseller status, Macross Two failed to develop an analogousness with many fans of the original Macross serial.[25] Criticisms from Mecha Anime HQ concerned Macross II's decision to feature a journalist every bit the series protagonist instead of a military pilot, and that the storyline adhered also closely to its predecessor.[26] [27] Anime News Network described the plot every bit "unoriginal" and noted that it seemed every bit if too much fabric was squeezed into Macross Two.[28]
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- ^ "Episode 1: Contact",Mecha Anime HQ
- ^ "Episode half-dozen: Sing Along", Mecha Anime HQ
- ^ Jong, One thousand.: "Super Dimension Fortress Macross II The Movie", Anime News Network
External links [edit]
- Official Macross website (in Japanese)
- Macross Two: Lovers Once more at IMDb
- Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Once more (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Macross II at Macross Compendium
- Macross II at Mecha and Anime Headquarters
- Macross Ii at Macross Mecha Manual
- Macross 2: The Office Playing Game at RPG Geek Database
- Macross II: The Role Playing Game at RPGnet Game Alphabetize
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dimensional_Fortress_Macross_II:_Lovers_Again
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