Macross Plus
| Macross Plus | |
DVD cover of the original Macross Plus: Movie Edition
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マクロスプラス (Makurosu Purasu) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Military science fiction |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by |
Shōji Kawamori Shinichirō Watanabe (co-director) |
| Written by | Keiko Nobumoto |
| Music by | Yoko Kanno |
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Studio Nue (production) Triangle Staff (animation) |
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| Released | August 25, 1994 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Shoji Kawamori Shinichiro Watanabe (co-director) |
| Written by | Keiko Nobumoto |
| Music by | Yoko Kanno |
| Studio | Studio Nue (production) Triangle Staff (animation) |
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| Released | August 27, 1995 |
| Runtime | 115 minutes |
Macross Plus (マクロスプラス Makurosu Purasu?) is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline (Macross II was quickly retconned by series creator Shoji Kawamori as a parallel world story in the Macross universe). Plus was a groundbreaking combination of traditional cel and computer-generated animation at the time of its release, paving the way for the incorporation of more computer-generated imagery in Japanese animation.
Both the OVA series and movie were released in Japan by Bandai Visual and in North America and Europe by Manga Entertainment. The Australian VHS version was released by Manga Entertainment and the DVD version by Madman Entertainment under sub-license from Manga Entertainment. It features several new mecha designs inspired by the original series.
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, in January 2040, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.
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