He had also previously done the amazing Thundercats opening, which was SO good that there was no way the show could ever live up to it. Character designs were, for the first time, handled not by Mikimoto, but by the single-named Masayuki, who later worked on Evangelion, directing (among other things) Death and Rebirth, and the first half of The End of Evangelion. The main studio involved in production was Triangle Staff, perhaps best known for the Venus Wars movie and Serial Experiments Lain, and they brought a highly-detailed style to the work. It was co-directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and had music composed by Yoko Kanno, all three of whom later worked extensively on Cowboy Bebop. It began life as movie, but it was decided to make an OVA first in order to build buzz for the eventual film. I’d love to read the whole thing, but with the screenwriter having passed away years ago, and his widow also being quite elderly, I have no clue how to contact her to see if I can track down a copy.Īnyway, we’re here to talk about Macross Plus.
That last one, of course, was the made-in-Hollywood live action movie that never got off the ground, although designs were made for it and a script was written (a brief shot of which can be seen in a documentary, with Minmay talking to “Richie Pirelli,” who is probably meant to be the Hikaru stand-in).
For the first and only time, there were plans for THREE different Macross installments, all due at the around the same time: Macross Plus, Macross Seven, and Macross: Final Outpost Earth. Before this, he had been dead-set against doing sequels, and I’m not sure entirely what changed his mind, although I’d imagine that the realization that Macross sequels were going to be made with or without him had to have been a factor.īut whatever the reason, Kawamori finally took to the idea of sequels, and embraced it to the fullest. Apparently, this was not originally a Macross story, but became one in order to secure funding. So soon after Macross II (which apparently was successful, but I think a lot of that success was due to overseas sales rather than the Japanese market) Kawamori came back with an idea he had about a variable fighter competition.
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