Macross II
| Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again | |
The VHS cover for Macross II's original North American release.
|
|
| 超時空要塞マクロスII -LOVERS AGAIN- | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Adventure, Drama, Mecha |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Kenichi Yatagai |
| Written by | Sukehiro Tomita |
| Music by | Shirō Sagisu |
| Studio | AIC |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | May 21, 1992 – November 21, 1992 |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Sukehiro Tomita |
| Illustrated by | Tsuguo Okazaki |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic |
| Original run | 1992 – 1993 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Anime film | |
| Macross II the Movie (American movie adaptation) |
|
| Directed by | Quint Lancaster |
| Written by | Raymond Garcia |
| Music by | Les Claypool III |
| Studio | U.S. Renditions |
| Released | June 4, 1993 |
| Runtime | 150 minutes |
| Manga | |
| The Micron Conspiracy (Original English Language manga) |
|
| Written by | James D. Hudnall |
| Illustrated by | Schulhoff Tam |
| Published by | Viz Media |
| Published | 1994 |
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again (超時空要塞マクロスII -LOVERS AGAIN-?) was the first instalment in the Macross franchise to feature a new cast of characters. Macross II was produced by Big West, with no involvement from the original series creators Studio Nue.
After Flash Back 2012, Studio Nue no longer wanted to work on Macross as a series. Big West continued alone, building from Do You Remember Love? with Macross II and three video games: Macross 2036 and Macross: Eien no Love Song for the PC Engine CD and Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie for the Super Famicom.
In light of this, Studio Nue decided to continue the story themselves, though they used the original television series as a base instead. This began with the 1994 Macross Plus and no further work is based on what is now considered a "Parallel World" timeline.
The story takes place in 2092, 80 years after the events depicted in Macross: Do You Remember Love? The SDF-1 Macross still exists, as does the U.N. Spacy Minmay Attack stratagem, which has been successfully employed to thwart the Zentradi threat ever since. However, a new humanoid alien race called the Marduk (Mardook in the original Japanese version), arrives in the Solar System with enslaved Zentradi and Meltlandi warriors who are seemingly unaffected by the Minmay Attack. The Marduk employ their own female singers, called Emulators, who incite their giant warriors with songs.
...
Wikipedia