Robotech
Robotech is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series. more...
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Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.
The original television series (1985)
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Robotech was one of the first anime released in the United States that largely managed to preserve the complexity and drama of its original Japanese source material. Produced by Harmony Gold USA, Inc. in association with Tatsunoko Prod. Co., Ltd., Robotech is a story adapted with edited content and revised dialogue from the animation of three different mecha anime series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. Harmony Gold's cited reasoning for combining these unrelated series was its decision to market Macross for American weekday syndication television, which required a minimum of 65 episodes at the time (thirteen weeks at five episodes per week). Macross and the two other series each had fewer episodes than required since they originally aired in Japan as weekly series.
This combination resulted in a storyline that spans three generations as mankind must fight three destructive Robotech Wars in succession over a powerful energy source called "Protoculture":
The First Robotech War (The Macross Saga) concerns humanity's battle against the Zentraedi, a race of giant warriors who are sent to earth to retrieve the flagship of the Robotech Master Zor. The ship contains the last known source of Protoculture in the universe.;
The Second Robotech War (The Masters Saga) begins when the creators of the Zentraedi, the Robotech Masters, attempt to take up where the Zentraedi left off and capture the protoculture held within the remains of the SDF-1.;
The Third Robotech War (The New Generation) occurs after the alien Invid have been alerted to the existence of Protoculture on Earth by events that transpired at the end of the Second Robotech War. The planet is conquered, then enslaved and it is up to the Robotech Expeditionary Force to retake their ancestral homeland.;
Home video
Following the original broadcast, the series enjoyed popularity on home video in VHS and DVD formats from the following distributors:
- For more information, see Robotech (TV series): Home Video Releases
Family Home Entertainment (VHS) (First 6-tape run of Macross Saga was heavily edited, with roughly 38 minutes of footage cut from each 6-episode tape.);
Palladium Books (VHS);
Streamline Pictures (VHS, Laserdisc);
ADV Films (DVD Region 1 - North America);
Manga Entertainment (DVD Region 2 - UK);
Madman Entertainment (DVD Region 4 - Australia);
FUNimation Entertainment (DVD Region 1 - USA) (Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles - Release date: 02/06/2007);
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