In the annals of mecha anime history, Macross has stood tall as one of the genre's biggest brands ever since the franchise's 1980s debut. While Macross might be second to the Mobile Suit Gundam ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

This retro mecha masterpiece reaches across time and space with a prescient, hopeful message as timeless as its vision of the future. Reading time 4 minutes Macross Plus is as much a cultural ...

Gundam has always used its ongoing mecha premise to communicate its themes about the military hierarchy, government corruption, and empathy. In contrast, Macross‘ military conflict feels more ...

The classic mecha anime movie Macross: Do You Remember Love? will be getting a 4K remastered release next year in Japan, and it will include English subtitles. The latter is a fun point, because ...

Mecha anime was at one point one of the most popular and prolific genres in anime. These days, however, the popularity of mecha in the West tends to be concentrated on a select few franchises. Some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Gundam and its ilk worked because its mecha design sat across the ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While incorporating new blood in the way of workers always helps rejuvenate a long-lasting franchise, adding new ...

The upcoming free-to-play online shooter Mecha Break really does well to evoke the exciting, breakneck sense of action from classic Japanese anime like Gundam Wing or Macross Plus. Focusing on the ...

As a standout entry in a foundational modern sci-fi anime franchise, 1994’s Macross Plus was not only an exciting return to the series for franchise creator and famed mechanical designer Shōji ...