It could be argued that this is the
entire point of
Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its sequels, featuring
Idol Singers and/or
The Power of Rock as a major force in the universe:
- Departure
, especially at the end of episode "Big Escape".
- From the movie Do You Remember Love we have Ai, Oboete Imasu Ka?, sung by Lynn Minmay in the final battle (in the original series, she ironically sang Ai wa Nagareru, an anti-war song).
- Just about anything from the band Fire Bomber, but especially Totsugeki Love Heart which at several times serves as Basara's Theme Music Powerup. (Now with extra May'n goodness!)
- Macross Frontier takes this trope to its logical conclusion, where awesome music is not just used as the backdrop for awesome things happening, but the awesomeness is actually choreographed to fit the music, reaching whole new levels of awesome. This reaches its extreme in the finale, where almost every major song is featured in a sequence which redefines awesomeness itself.
- Made even more awesome at Budokan.
- If you don't do the hand motion every time Ranka does the 'Kirah~!' sound in "Seikan Hikou", you're just missing out.
- Transformation. Played in the final episode when the Big Bad reveals her true form, to epic effect.
- Diamond Crevasse is awesome enough to deserve its own mention. Despite all of the awesome music of Macross Frontier, each by themselves good enough to qualify as a crowning music of awesome, this song is most widely considered to be the best song of the entire series, if not the best song of ALL ANIME THAT YEAR (perhaps even one of the best songs of all anime ever). It's basically this generation's Do You Remember Love?. There's so much feeling in it that you don't even need to know the words to understand what it's about. It's that good. But then, Yoko Kanno (also May'n).
- Plus and Zero also have some awesome music to offer. Information High and Dog Fight in Plus kick major ass, especially during the scenes that they play in. In Zero, we have Arkan, which is pretty much the theme for the mini-series.
- Three epic and surreal pieces from Plus: A Sai Ên from when the Macross is lifting off, Santi-U which switches into an awesome sequence at 3:59 in good Yoko Kanno fashion and the third is Voices, the hauntingly beautiful theme song of the series.
- Some Zero goodness:
- Ditto with Macross II: Despite the OVA series being So Okay, It's Average, Yakusoku is a classic ED.
