Line #20 Trivia/MacrossFrontier


1	!!General
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3	* As noted on the front page there were quite a [[GodNeverSaidThat few interviews that were actually fake]]. Some of the information from the interviews include:
4	** Hiroshi Ohnogi has nothing to do with ''Macross Frontier''. Any ''Macross Frontier'' Interview which includes Hiroshi Ohnogi is fake.
5	** The belief that Ranka was created before Sheryl is not true. Sheryl's character was created before Ranka's.
6	*** Similarly the belief that the love triangle was originally planned to be Ranka being fought over by Brera and Alto is also not true. While the original love triangle was two guys and one girl this was still in the planning stages before they decided on the characters.
7	** Kawamori never once gave the ShrugOfGod in regards to any of the characters or their relationships to one another. Those were a part of the fake interviews.
8	** [[spoiler: Kawamori never said the ending was a MarryThemAll ending. Kawamori never even implied that, in fact he jossed many of the dialogues that could have been taken as meaning that Alto loved both girls.]]
9	* The claim that Kawamori had very little to do with the last episode of the TV series is unsupported. In his fanbook interview, script writer Hiroyuki Yoshino observed that everyone involved in planning the last few episodes had started feeling the same way: that it didn't need to end with [[spoiler:Alto choosing one girl or the other. In fact, some of them even started to joke that, "If Alto were to behave naturally, he'd like the sky more than either girl anyway."]]
10	** Furthermore, unlike commonly believed, Yoshino did not specify out right who Alto favored either (although this may have changed since the second film was released).
11	** Note that, according to Kawamori in his ''Wings of Farewell Complete Book'' interview, the ending of the films was the one closest to the ending he had originally thought up. However, he has not specified exactly how close it is to that 'original' ending.
12	* Even though the movies are supposedly {{NonSerialMovie}}s, Kawamori does endorse the movies, especially the second one [[spoiler:which resolves the love triangle]] as the end of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier''.
13	* Ever since it made its debut in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' with ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsL'', it has been in ''every'' ''SRW'' game with the exception of ''NEO'' until it was retired in the [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV International Era]], mostly due to the then-problematic licensing of the ''Macross'' brand internationally. (''Delta'' was also very new at the time, but the BB Studio staff couldn't get assets for it ready in time for ''V'' in any event, and then politics came into play.)
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15	!!Specific
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17	* ActingForTwo: Houko Kuwashima voices Canaria Berstein and Nanase Matsuura.
18	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
19	** Klan Klan has been pretty consistently popular in the ''Macross'' fandom and the mecha fandom in general, mostly because she's very funny, has a pretty heartwarming romance with Michael ''and'' also manages to be a total badass when the story calls for it.
20	** Bobby Margot, the resident CampGay ship controller of the ''Macross Quarter'' is also very popular for his HotBlooded bouts in some of the battles and the ridiculous piloting skills he has. He quickly got the '''GAR''' badge of honor on [[Website/FourChan /m/]].
21	* LateExportForYou: The two ''Frontier'' movies released in Japan in 2009 and 2011, while North American screenings weren't scheduled until [[https://twitter.com/WTK/status/1517470310366433280 June 2022]], 13 and 11 years after their respective releases in their home country. Then, in July 2022, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-07-01/macross-frontier-macross-delta-anime-offered-on-home-video-outside-japan/.187277 the TV anime itself]] was announced to be offered on home video outside Japan, 14 years after its Japanese broadcast.
22	* NoExportForYou: Holy moly.
23	** Despite how incredible the show ended up being, the show ended up falling victim to the infamous legal snarls surrounding the ''Macross'' franchise; nobody ever said a word about even considering bringing it over, even after the show [=DVDs=], soundtracks, and related paraphernalia matched or shattered decade-old sales records in Japan (and this is for "anime" goods in ''general'', not just ''Macross'' stuff). There was hope for some time that intense industry-wide pressure from everyone else (looking to strengthen the overall market with another prominent release) would make the various combatants in the ''Macross'' legal snarl play nice, but as time ground on it began to look impossible. '''''Until...'''''
24	** ...Until the [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-08-17/jmanga-manga-site-launches-with-100-new-titles the manga version came to the US]]. Which wasn't much, licensing-wise, but still.
25	** ...Until the Japanese Blurays for the ''Frontier'' movies rather pointedly had English subtitles — ones that were clearly handled by native-English professional translators (and who arrived on the project [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2022-06-08/make-it-like-a-hollywood-movie-the-story-of-macross-frontier-films-official-english-subtitles/.186303 via a nigh-madcap journey]]).
26	** ...''Until'', following the [[https://gizmodo.com/the-companies-behind-macross-and-robotech-have-finally-1846651315 landmark Bigwest-Harmony Gold deal of March 2021]], everything was finally sorted out, and in June of 2022, the ''Frontier'' movies [[https://www.comingsoon.net/anime/news/1222824-macross-frontier-movies-u-s-screenings were shown in theaters]] in special one-night engagements. They became the first ''Macross'' media to be officially exported outside of Japan, and specifically to the United States, in more than ''twenty years''.
27	** ...and ''then'' [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-07-01/macross-frontier-macross-delta-anime-offered-on-home-video-outside-japan/.187277 the TV anime itself was finally announced to get a release outside of Japan]], specifically North America.
28	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/KikukoInoue playing...Grace!
29	* ShrugOfGod: Subverted if you have the [[UpdatedRerelease Blu-ray version]] of ''Macross Frontier''; in the commentaries, Kawamori actually gives you plenty of hints on how the love triangle will end.

Context Trivia / MacrossFrontier