The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?

I cannot forget this anime because this is where my romance for mecha started. If I could remember, I watched it when I was about three from our Betamax unsubbed! Well... I don't understand a word they have said but what I love were the "airplanes". The more I fell for it when my mom urged me to play Macross in our family computer and finish the levels. She said she liked the theme song. Shao Fai Long indeed is an incurable disease! I can still hum it until now. Even dad remembers this anime. Weird...



Now this anime will have its 25 anniversary so I thought about watching it all over. (Men wore bell-bottoms and so are the men in animes. haha Talking about revolving fashion.)


"The film revolves three chief characters, Hikaru Ichijyo (a hot-shot pilot), coquettish pop-star Lynn Minmay and the Fortress' first mate Misa Hayase. This story is framed by a war between humans and the alien Zentradi over possession of the space fortress Macross, which harbors tens of thousands of human civilians from Macross City. Crew and civilians know Earth was attacked but do not know the fate of the humans on Earth. However, it is revealed that the all-male Zentradi are fighting a war against their female counterparts: the Meltlandi; both genders, bred for war, are eventually stricken by their contact with Protoculture (human culture), particularly due to music and love.




Do You Remember love? begins in media res with the SDF-Macross trying to evade the Zentradi at the edge of the solar system. The Space Fortress houses an entire city with tens of thousands of civilians who are cut off from Earth. During the latest assault, Valkrie pilot Ichijo Hikaru rescues pop idol Lynn Minmei. This fateful meeting leads to a relationship between the singer and her #1 fan.



The Zentradi, meanwhile discover the debilitating and disruptive effect music has on the rank and file troops. Troubled by this, they capture Minmei, her cousin Kaifun, Roy Fokker, Hikaru and Hayase Misa. During an attack by the Meltrandi, Misa and Hikaru escape only to fold accidentally to a desolate world that turns out to be the Earth. As the two officers walk the blasted landscape of the now-desolate Earth they become closer. They also discover an ancient city of the Protoculture where the mysterious origins of the alien giants is revealed.





As the two galactic armies converge on the Macross, the conflict threatens to obliterate what's left of humanity whose only hope lies a song discovered by Misa and sung by Minmei." ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Remember_Love




Mecha and love story really goes perfectly together. So yes, I remember everything now, love. Happy Anniversary SDF Macross! *sings* "Shao fai long. Shao fai long. Yameru miyaku motomete kita otoko. EVIL SLAYERS, SLAYERS, SLAYERS!"