Line #7 Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross


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3	A 1984 anime produced by Creator/TatsunokoProduction, ''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross'' is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff perhaps best recognized these days as]] the second part of the ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' trilogy.
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5	In the year 2120, humans have colonized other planets after Earth has been left ruined after too many wars. On one such colony planet, Glorie, the Southern Cross army has been established to keep the peace with its TransformingMecha. Their vigilance is put to use when the planet's former inhabitants, the Zor, come to reclaim their former world by force. It falls to the 15th Alpha Tactics Armored Corps, led by brash newcomer [[TheSquadette Jeanne Francaix]], to lead the charge against the invaders.
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7	In addition to its fame as part of ''Robotech'', the series also marked the voice-acting debut of one Creator/NorikoHidaka (as Musica), primarily known as an idol singer at that point. Jeanne was also an early role for Creator/MichieTomizawa, nearly a decade before she became best known as [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Mars]] and [[VideoGame/SakuraWars Sumire Kanzaki]].
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10	!!This show features examples of:
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12	* AbsentAliens (Liner notes for the [=DVDs=] reveal that the Zor are descended from temporally-displaced human colonists. Though the Protozor flower may qualify as an alien species.)
13	* AdjectiveNounFred
14	* AmazonChaser: [[spoiler: Charles de Etouard]]
15	* TheBigGuy: Andrzej Sławski
16	* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Jeanne disarms Seifreit twice in this manner.
17	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Seifreit, though he fights against it.
18	* EarthThatWas: Thanks to numerous wars, many of which involved nuclear arms, Earth has experienced mass migration towards planets outside the solar system.
19	* EnsignNewbie: Jeanne Francaix
20	* {{Fainting}}: The Emotional Faint variety. Musica is overwhelmed by her feelings for Bowie and faints away when her superiors tell her she must deny them. She later nearly faints again when she realizes how deeply she must have hurt Musiere and Muselle.
21	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The planet of Glorie is based on French culture, especially with the characters' name (Jeanne, Claude, and Charles).
22	* GainaxEnding: This series ending sequence is in the league of ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}'' in terms of being incomprehensible and explaining little, though it appears that [[spoiler:Jeanne and the rest of the denizens of Gloire may become Zor themselves due to the Protozor spores]]. The MindScrew properties of the ending are probably due to the production staff having to wrap up the series at warp speed to beat the clock on the show's cancellation.
23	* GeneralRipper: [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Supreme Commander]] Claude Leon
24	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: General Rolf Emerson acts as a human shield for Bowie when a Zor soldier is about to shoot him from behind.]]
25	* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: After finding out about Musica, Charles gives Bowie a lecture about how pointless it is to fall in love, because it will only lead to heart break. In the very next scene, Charles visits the hospital to check on an injured Mary Angel, whom he's fallen madly in love with.]]
26	* InterserviceRivalry: Shown in the first episode, when Jeanne and Angel's squads get into a brawl for seemingly no reason than being in close proximity to each other.
27	* JeanneDArchetype: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Jeanne.]] Reportedly this would have been even more blatant in the original series plan.
28	* {{Macekre}}: Frankensteined together with ''Macross'' and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' to produce ''Robotech'', becoming its second season.
29	* NippleAndDimed: Jeanne's knockers in a shower scene at the end of the first episode.
30	* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Because of the sudden cancellation, viewers never found out what really happened in the end. In Robotech, The New Generation starts the next episode with all new protagonists, villains, etc.]]
31	* OfficialCouple: Bowie and Musica. They are shown holding hands and flying in the opening of each episode.
32	* PinkMeansFeminine: Jeanne's suit is pink.
33	* RedBaron: Mary Angel, AKA "Cosmo Amazon."
34	* SettlingTheFrontier: In contrast to Robotech's dub version, Southern Cross is set on a planet called Glorie, which is located in the distant parts from explored sectors.
35	* TheStoic: Lana Isavia.
36	* ShellShockedVeteran: Seifreit Weisse.
37	* ShowerScene: Early on, almost OnceAnEpisode for Jeanne.
38	* ShutUpKiss: Seifreit quiets Jeanne with one [[spoiler: in the final episode, intending to distract her long enough that he might throw her in an escape pod.]]
39	* StupidSacrifice: Seifreit could've easily survived the series if he hadn't killed the ONE MAN who could land the ship while he was ESCAPING.
40	* TransformingMecha
41	* UnresolvedSexualTension: Mostly one way from Jeanne Fránçaix to Seifriet Weiße.
42	* WeaponOfPeace: With some backing from the military's R&D, Louis adapts a revolutionary video game tracking system of his own design, intending it for use for battle simulators. [[WideEyedIdealist He is devastated]] when he realizes that they went behind his back to Leon, who immediately authorized it to be used for upgrading all fighting craft.
43	* WomenPreferStrongMen: Jeanne Fránçaix seemed to have fallen for Seifriet Weiße after he proves to be a better pilot than her, Mary Angel, and the rest of the earth forces.

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