History Anime / SuperDimensionFortressMacross

* FanService: The 2009 manga upped the level of sexuality to a PG-13 status. There's more focus to breasts and legs then there was in the 80s anime. Minmay is hit the worst, prompting a cry of "Haruhiko, you do know she's only ''15'', right?" (Although that would at least not constitute an obstacle to an relationship with Hikaru, since he's only about 11 months older than her)

* FanService: The 2009 manga upped the level of sexuality to a PG-13 status. There's more focus to breasts and legs then there was in the 80s anime. Minmay is hit the worst, prompting a cry of "Haruhiko, you do know she's only ''15'', right?"

* RammingAlwaysWorks: The Daedalus Maneuver; ARMD ("[[IncrediblyLamePun Armed]]") Attack in TheMovie.
** Only works because they discover how to use the DeflectorShields to reinforce the arm when they use the attack, otherwise the bow of the ship would crumple just as much as the enemy.

The first installment of the ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise, the seminal series known as ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'' originally started as a ''parody'' of ''SpaceBattleshipYamato'' & HumongousMecha series (notably ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''). It later evolved into a "serious" series of its own. The name was originally to have been ''Super Dimension City Megaroad''; [[ExecutiveMeddling one producer]], a Shakespeare fan, wanted to name the fortress ''Macbeth''. ''Macross'' was the compromise.

** The main ship has a [[SpaceBattleshipYamato massive, ship-mounted Wave Motion Gun]].

* RoleReprisal: A very unusual variation: ADV somehow got Mari Iijima to play Minmay in their English dub of the series--more than 20 years after she originally voiced the character in Japanese!

*** In the same episode, one of the decorative flags strung up around town has PacMan on it.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bottom to top: [[AcePilot Hikaru]], [[SugarAndIcePersonality Misa]], [[IdolSinger Minmay]], and the [[TransformingMecha VF-1S "Strike" Valkyrie]].]]

* OffModel: Due to outsourcing for budgetary reasons[[note]]and is likely up there with ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' with the amount of errors per episode[[/note]], some episodes are wildly, wildly off model and look absolutely terrible. Most infamous is the knife fight between Max and Millia, which should have been [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] but ended up being embarrassing.

** The toy of the VF-1 Valkyrie was re-purposed as [[TransformersGenerationOne Jet/Skyfire]].

* KissingCousins: Kaifun and Minmay. Though she seems less okay with it.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bottom to top: [[TheHero Hikaru]], [[SugarAndIcePersonality Misa]], [[IdolSinger Minmay]], and the [[TransformingMecha VF-1S "Strike" Valkyrie]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Bottom to top: [[TheHero Hikaru]], Misa, [[IdolSinger Minmay]], and the [[TransformingMecha VF-1S "Strike" Valkyrie]].]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class1]] For the same reason mentioned above, Earth is devastated, [[spoiler:and humankind faced the edge of extinction. They managed to recover though, through effort using the alien technology.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: The show was originally intended as a parody of Space Battleship Yamato & ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', a plan which was abandoned early in production. Still, the show was radically different from the typical militaristic children's anime of the time and showed a conflict that is largely settled with ''[[ThePowerOfLove culture]]'': proving to the enemy that you're NotSoDifferent and that both sides deserve to live is what really leads to proper conflict resolution as opposed to the total annihilation of the enemy that was so prevalent in the show's day. The message resonated deeply with the Japanese public and the industry and the show's effects are felt to this very day.
** For that matter, the show deconstructs ''itself'' in its final arc, showing that despite one's best intentions you still can't solve all problems between two warring peoples just by saying they're NotSoDifferent.

In North America, it was prevented from being released properly for a very long time because the series was dubbed in the 80s by Harmony Gold as the [[CutAndPasteTranslation first season of]] ''{{Anime/Robotech}}''. For some time, Harmony Gold continued to block efforts to bring anything ''Macross''-related to North America and was happy to file lawsuits against anything that even looked like it such as ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', directly contradicting decisions made in Japanese legal courts. However Creator/StreamlinePictures and Creator/AnimEigo were able to release subtitled editions of the series to VHS and DVD in North America, as well as Madman in Australia, and Creator/ADVFilms produced an uncut English dub in the early 2000s. These releases are now out-of-print though. In 2014, Harmony Gold themselves (alongside partners A&E and Lionsgate) released Vol. 1 of a new DVD series featuring unedited Macross episodes (in Japanese and English) alongside the ''Robotech'' versions. However, this was a manufacture-on-demand release and Vol. 2 has yet to be solicited. In 2016, the series, in subbed form, was released on Amazon Video.

In North America, it was prevented from being released properly for a very long time because the series was dubbed in the 80s by Harmony Gold as the [[CutAndPasteTranslation first season of]] ''{{Anime/Robotech}}''. For some time, Harmony Gold continued to block efforts to bring anything ''Macross''-related to North America and was happy to file lawsuits against anything that even looked like it such as ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', directly contradicting decisions made in Japanese legal courts. However Creator/StreamlinePictures and Creator/AnimEigo were able to release subtitled editions of the series to VHS and DVD in North America, as well as Madman in Australia, and Creator/ADVFilms produced an uncut English dub in the early 2000s. These releases are now out-of-print though. In 2014, Harmony Gold themselves (alongside partners A&E and Lionsgate) released Vol. 1 of a new DVD series featuring unedited Macross episodes (in Japanese and English) alongside the ''Robotech'' versions. However, this was a manufacture-on-demand release and Vol. 2 has yet to be solicited.

* ApocalypseDayPlanner: This 1982 series had shown much of Earth's surface being destroyed sometime in early 2010.

* BilingualBonus: The three Zentradi spies are named Warera, Loli, and Conda, which put together reads as, "We have a [[{{Lolicon}} Lolita Complex]]" in Japanese... whether or not they actually ''do'' is never said, though they DO wind up being avid fans of Lynn Minmay.

* CaptainCrash: Hikaru gets his Valkyrie trashed a lot.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bottom to top: [[TheHero Hikaru]], Misa, [[IdolSinger Minmay]], and the [[TransformingMecha VF-1D Valkyrie]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Bottom to top: Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay]]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/macross.jpg]]

* BitterWeddingSpeech: Averted by Captain Global.

* FourStarBadass: Breetai

* GeneralRipper: the whole damn security council! First, they blindly refuse to accept accurate reports at how overwhelmingly powerful the Zentradi are, and then the Generals actually delude themselves to think they can intimidate that alien threat with their Grand Cannon.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Or better said, Green ''Haired'' Space Babe.

* HandsomeLech: To a degree, Roy. He ''did'' become very loyal to Claudia once they hooked up, though.

* HumanAliens: Completely Justified. Humans and Zentradi are products of the Protoculture.

* TheAbridgedSeries: ''WebVideo/MacrossAbridged''.