Trivia / Macross 7

• The plot and characters for Macross 7 appeared in the game Super Robot Wars Destiny, then in Alpha 3, and again in Z2: Saisei-hen, with Dynamite 7 debuting in the same game.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Takehito Koyasu, besides being a voice actor, is also a talented singer. His character Gamlin Kizaki, on the other hand, cannot sing a note to save his life.
• Late Export for You: Ignoring the usual licensing issues surrounding Macross, no anime translation company was able to afford the music for Macross 7, which is held under a separate license from the series that is more expensive than the series itself. Apparently, the only companies able to sort out the music deals were Bigwest themselves, who assisted Nozomi Entertainment in doing so, with Nozomi/RightStuf announcing a Blu-ray release for the series in July 2022 - 28 years after the Japanese premiere.
  • The exorbitant music licensing fees are also a problem domestically: they are the reason why Super Robot Wars wasn't able to get full-voiced versions of Fire Bomber's songs in Alpha 3, even though the director really wanted to.
  • Back when ADV Films was still around (and thus the anime dubbing industry was still at the top of its game), one of their reps was asked at a Fan Convention how much it would cost to license Macross 7. The rep took a minute to think and, to paraphrase him, "Maybe if every licensing group in the US pooled their money together, we'd be about a third of the way to bring over M7 with all of its songs intact."
• Non-Singing Voice: As mentioned in the main section, Fire Bomber's songs were performed by the real-life J-Rock band, Humming Bird. A great choice at the time, but it later turned M7 into a general licensing nightmare.
• The Other Darrin: Tomo Sakurai briefly retired from voice acting and singing again in 2016 but later came back in 2019, so in the interim, Aya Hirano voiced Mylene in the defunct Uta Macross as well as the 2024 game, Macross Shooting Insight.
• Real-Life Relative: Max's voice actor, Show Hayami, is married to Zomd's voice actress, Rei Igarashi.
• What Could Have Been: As unlikely as it sounds (see above), at some time in the past there was an effort to get a Western release for M7; Steve Perry of Journey was even approached to play Basara.

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