Macross #1 AnimEigo 100 minutes English/Japanese English Subtitles 03/20/2002

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Like the theohistorical Peter of old three times Dave was asked to watch Macross and three times he denied it. But, like the forbidden fruits of his older sister's panties Macross called to Jerry. He hearkened back to the days of yore, his carefree romps through the cane fields of the Philippines. Coming home at the end of the day, there was only one thing that Jerry desired most out of his life. He wanted to watch his Robotech. Now, the memories all come back to him in a flood. The VeriTech, the Macross, Petite Cola. All these things brought up a well of emotions that not even the recently cooked tuna casserole and high quality Top Pop brand soda could hold back. In the dark of the room I watched his face, illuminated by the wondrous designs of Shouji Kawamori, as the tears he so stoically tried to keep inside betrayed his true feelings. With each utterance of that singular word, "Makurosu! Makurosu!" Jerry's cathartic experience continued. Until, finally, there were no more tears to shed.

And just as Jerry's life is a tale of triumph so is that of Macross. But all triumphs start out with hardships. In the year 1999 AD an alien spaceship decided it was time to just up and crash and fuck things up royally on Earth. The Earth UN Government is formed and the decision is made to restore the ship. Unfortunately, during the next ten years small wars start up all over. Still, the work on repairing the alien vessel continues unabashed. Now, ten years later, it is finally ready to launch. The event is seen with much fanfare, over the ten years the shanty town around the Macross has turned into a full blown city. A full blown city with very real inhabitants. Inhabitants such as Lynn Minmay and her nephew Ton-chan. But like I said, the town is in an uproar. Roy Fokker**, member of the ultra skilled Skull Squad, is there to conduct the stunts, impress the crowds, and make some time with the ladies. Roy Fokker is the star pilot and heartbreaker of the Macross world. Too bad a gear in his plans show up in the the lovable and overambitious former student. Ichijiro Hikaru, the young stunt pilot, is that boy.

Disaster breaks, there are aliens in the sky, the Macross discharges its cannon for no reason that the crew can tell and all of a sudden the aliens are raining down like candies from heaven. Deadly robot candies that is. Unfairly and accidentally, Ichijiro is thrust into the fight. The best part is he's absolute shit. He doesn't do anything but crash, barely surviving the ordeal. It was only through the helpful advice of 1st Lieutenant of the Macross that he manages to save his ass. Seems these planes can turn into robots. It was just your ordinary and everyday big military secret. The people of the town seem very unpreturbed about the fact that he's destroyed quite a few of their houses and businesses. But hey, when you live next to a giant space ship maybe that's just how it goes. The nice truck drivers even try and help him right his giant fighting robot. Doesn't really work out though, the robot just ends up falling over again. Give those hardworking gents a break though, they're blue collar not physicists.

More happens than I could ever encapsulate in such a small space though. The robot on robot battles in the city go in the favor of the humans, but the war in space could not be more contrary. After a failed start the Macross is able to get itself into the sky and it attempts to "fold"*** and hide itself on the dark side of the mood. What they didn't plan on is the fact that they'd be bringing the whole damn island the Macross was on with them. Meaning buildings, townsfolk, and giant tuna galore. We're talking about big fucking fish here people, with big fucking fish heads. Ahhhh, I love it. If you want to be like Jerry Garcia, and I can't see you not wanting to, then I suggest you go out and buy Macross on DVD right now. The only problem is you CAN'T, seeing as how AnimEigo releases its DVDs from their preorder box sets individually at a rate of "not ever" never to "fuck you in the ass" never. Look at it this way. They just finished up released the individual discs from the first Urusei Yatsura box which came out two years ago. It's kinda like how I do my reviews it a strange, coincidental way.

**His real name.

***For those of you who don't know folding is like a hyperspace jump, or whatever else you want to call it. It's when you teleport, or go really really fast or something.