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I have no idea what the movie is, but I can tell you that it wasn't an actual Robotech Movie. There are only 4 "movies" out there:
-The Shadow Chronicles OVA (not old enough, came out in 2006-7-ish)
-Robotech LLA (this past summer, not old enough)
-The Sentinels OVA (198x)
-Robotech The Movie/aka The Untold Story(198x, effectively it is disowned).

None of them have what you are describing. It might be something from Macross though as people seem to mix later Macross products together with RT and it is possible for them to have been subtitled.

Ah ok....THAt would be something from Macross 7 which isn't Robotech at all.

Robotech is made from 3 separate Japanese TV shows. SDF Macross, SDC Southern Cross and Mospeada.

SDC Southern Cross had no sequels and Mospeada had a single sequel called Live Love Alive (oddly enough harmony Gold just recently released that with some added footage as a Robotech release)

Macross however has gone on, in Japan, to be nearly as big as Gundam in it's own right. It has had many sequels, video games, art books and tech books, etc. We'll focus on what you are asking though.

After SDF Macross came out in Japan it went on to do many animated releases. Macross Do You Remember Love (movie retelling of the series more or less), Macross Flashback 2012 (mini sequel to the series/movie), Macross Plus (mini series set in 2040), Macross 7 (tv series involving music piloted mecha and spiritia and had a couple of sequels I beleive set in the late 2040s), Macross Zero (a prequel mini series), Macross Frontier (latest tv series set in the later 2050s), and Macross II (alternate future of the original TV series/movie set in 2090).

What you saw was something from Macross 7 and my guess is it was The Galaxy is Calling Me.

Just to be clear though....everything other than the original SDF Macross is very much not Robotech.

Now if you want other Robotech stuff to watch look for (other than the series), The Shadow Chronicles (meh since half of it is recap from the series to some degree), Live Love Alive (haven't seen it yet myself but hear it's mostly flashback with new elements dded and new footage added to tie it to Robotech), The Sentinels (so much potential wasted.....), and the harder to find (but not really that hard anymore) Robotech The Untold Story. (Not that good but gods I love me those Garlands/MODATs)


Edit -

If you are interested in the Macross stuff though here is my personal opinions on them.

Macross DYRL - Excellent movie if a bit dated now. Still considered one THE classics of Anime in quality.

Macross Flashback 2012 - Basically a recap/hilite video with a few minutes of new footage. Nice to see a VF-4 in Fighter mode flight though.

Macross Plus - Excellent and considered a high mark for Anime.

Macross 7 and it's - TV series was too long should have been cut shorter and I think it would have been better. Nothing like wanting to kill the hero yourself because he is a total ******. I am yet to watch the sequels so i cannot really comment on them.

Macross Zero - Excellent animation and very good. It does get a little weird in teh last episode though it ties into Macross Frontier rather well if watched all together.

Macross Frontier - Excellent all around. Mecha are cool. Animation is top notch. Story is very good in most respects. Combat is droolworthy. There have been two movies. Neither of which i have watched

Macross II - I wish it were longer to be more in depth (I think it should have been 12 episodes instead of 6). Mecha are cool. Story was good.

havoacc wrote:I had stumbled on a robotech movie about 10 years ago or maybe more that i cannot find anywhere.

Because it's not a Robotech movie.

The "movie" you saw is Macross 7: the Galaxy is Calling Me!, which is part of the Japanese Macross franchise. The Japanese Macross franchise, which started with the 36-episode Super Dimension Fortress Macross series that was later used to make Robotech's "Macross Saga", has had much more success than its American derivative and released a great many sequels over the years. (Depending on how you want to split it, 15-16 animated titles, five, potentially six canon video games, at least one canon manga, a bunch of short stories, plus a boatload of other stuff.) Thanks to the owners of Robotech trying to prevent the release of anything Macross in the US, there's no way to get your hands on this (or any other Macross title except the original series, II, and Plus) outside Japan without resorting to fansubs.


Macross 7: the Galaxy is Calling Me is a short movie produced as a side story (or a "long episode") of the Macross 7 television series. It was released in September 1995, and fits between the 42nd and 43rd episodes of the Macross 7 TV anime series.

The events of Macross 7: the Galaxy is Calling Me! feature the series protagonist Basara Nekki crash landing on the colonized planet Veil in his VF-19 Excalibur Custom, where he encounters Emilia Jenius (and later, her customized Queadluun-Quilqua battle suit), the fifth daughter (of eight*) of Max and Milia Jenius from the original series, who has taken to isolation to perfect her musical skills so she can become a professional. The monsters they have a skirmish with later are two of the seven Protodeviln, the principal antagonists from the Macross 7 television series.

To answer your other vague inquiries, the "huge room with sunflowers" is the 37th Large-Scale Colony Fleet's agricultural ship, which rather looks like a sunflower itself when seen from outside. The other people present in the scene there are other members of the same band (Fire Bomber). The mustachioed man is Ray Lovelock, a former fighter ace of the UN Spacy and Fire Bomber's drummer. The pink-haired girl is Mylene Flare Jenius, the seventh (and youngest) daughter of Max and Milia from the original series, the band's bassist. The huge green-haired girl is Veffidas Feaze, the band's Zentradi drummer. The soldier with the glasses is Dr. Gadget M. Chiba of the UN Spacy's medical service. With the exception of Dr. Chiba and the absence of ace pilot Cpt. Gamlin Kizaki, they're the main characters of the Macross 7 series.

Protoculture is not an energy source in Macross, it is the name of the ancient species who created humanity and the Zentradi and generally left the galaxy a great big mess by having a civil war and then dying out, leaving their huge cloned armies to duke it out for half a million years and counting. What they're measuring there is alternately called "song energy" or "spiritia", a type of faint fold-dimensional wave emitted by the minds of sentient beings, the strength and nature of which is strongly related to their emotional state. Properly amplified, it can be weaponized... and is, in the course of the Macross 7 series.


* Seven biological, one adopted... in order: Komilia (RT fans know her as Dana), Miracle, Muse & Therese (twins), Emilia, Miranda, and Mylene... with their adopted sister, the full-blood Zentradi ace Moaramia Jifon Jenius making eight.

jaymz wrote:After SDF Macross came out in Japan it went on to do many animated releases. Macross Do You Remember Love (movie retelling of the series more or less), Macross Flashback 2012 (mini sequel to the series/movie), Macross Plus (mini series set in 2040), Macross 7 (tv series involving music piloted mecha and spiritia and had a couple of sequels I beleive set in the late 2040s), Macross Zero (a prequel mini series), Macross Frontier (latest tv series set in the later 2050s), and Macross II (alternate future of the original TV series/movie set in 2090).

Shame on you, you should know this hanging around me so much.

The chronology leading up to the movie is:
Macross Zero (set in 2008)
Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1999, 2009-2012)
Macross: Flashback 2012 (2012)
Macross M3 (2014-2030)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (in-universe movie, 2031)
Macross Plus (2040)
Macross 7 (Episodes 1-42, 2045-2046)
Macross 7: the Galaxy is Calling Me! (2046 January)

That point is roughly concurrent with Macross 7 Trash, and followed by Macross 7's 43rd thru 49th episodes (in 2046), Macross 7 Encore, and:
Macross Dynamite 7 (2047)
Macross Digital Mission VF-X (2047)
Macross VF-X2 (2050-2051)
Macross Frontier (2059)
Macross 30: Voices Across the Galaxy (2060, maybe/probably... canonicity is not firmly established yet)

You'll notice i wasn't being chronologically specific AND I was only talking about animated items not video games etc

So

Seto I'm impressed with you macross knowledge. But I have to know, what is M3? Is this from the video games? Unfortunately I never got to play any of the macross games till M30. Which is a great game. I also played battlecry but let's leave that out of this.lol

When I read the OP I imidetaly knew it was M7. What I don't know is M7 trash. Is there a place I can go to read a fan translation? I know the Lisa and Minmay stories have been translated. I'm hoping someone has done the same for trash.

Wish I could afford the 1:1 replica of basara's guitar.

M3 is a video game.

I thought so. What era is it from? Is it the super famicon game?

Here - http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/macross.htm

Got it thanks

jaymz wrote:You'll notice i wasn't being chronologically specific AND I was only talking about animated items not video games etc

So

Y'got Macross II's date wrong too... officially it's 2091-2092.

Kryptt wrote:But I have to know, what is M3? Is this from the video games? Unfortunately I never got to play any of the macross games till M30. Which is a great game. I also played battlecry but let's leave that out of this.lol

Aye, Macross M3 is a Sega Dreamcast game from 2001 that tells a series of short stories about what Max and Milia did between the end of the original Macross series and the start of Macross 7. Most of it focuses on their careers in the elite special forces unit "Dancing Skulls", which they jointly led. It also offers some details on their contributions to new VF designs like the VF-9 and VF-11, and introduces their adopted daughter Moaramia Jifon, a Zentradi girl who they caught during battle with a Zentradi rebel group who'd developed a new Variable Fighter of their own (the Variable Glaug).

Kryptt wrote:When I read the OP I imidetaly knew it was M7. What I don't know is M7 trash. Is there a place I can go to read a fan translation?

MangaFox, I believe, still has a complete (though somewhat poor-quality) translation of Macross 7 Trash. By warned, it's NOT a mecha series. It's more like a conspiracy/action/slice-of-life story set aboard City-7.

Kryptt wrote:When I read the OP I imidetaly knew it was M7. What I don't know is M7 trash. Is there a place I can go to read a fan translation?

MangaFox, I believe, still has a complete (though somewhat poor-quality) translation of Macross 7 Trash. By warned, it's NOT a mecha series. It's more like a conspiracy/action/slice-of-life story set aboard City-7.[/quote]

I don't mind no mecha. I'm such a macross junkie I just want more macross where and when I can get it.

Do you know if kawamorri is planning another series frontier or past it? I haven't seen anything on macross world. But it's been a while since I've been there.

Kryptt wrote:Do you know if kawamorri is planning another series frontier or past it? I haven't seen anything on macross world. But it's been a while since I've been there.

Nothing has been announced yet, no... but that's hardly surprising, since Kawamori and co. have a history of only letting the world know they're developing a new series at the proverbial 11th hour.

Seto Kaiba wrote:

Kryptt wrote:Do you know if kawamorri is planning another series frontier or past it? I haven't seen anything on macross world. But it's been a while since I've been there.

Nothing has been announced yet, no... but that's hardly surprising, since Kawamori and co. have a history of only letting the world know they're developing a new series at the proverbial 11th hour.

Yeah like when they announce the release of the series is nigh....

jaymz wrote:Yeah like when they announce the release of the series is nigh....

Yeah, while it's pretty unusual for a series to be announced more than a year or so ahead of its release date, Macross's announcements tend to fall into two categories:

The Oh, by the way... we've got a new series and it's coming out in a few months approach, which they did with the majority of the OVAs and so on. Macross Frontier was one of these, with the first teasers coming just a few months in front of its December premiere after the series had been in development for something like three years.

...AND...

The Oh, you might remember we trotted an early concept for this story out about ten years back approach, which is what happened with Macross Plus ("debuted" as the Advanced Valkyrie non-Macross concept in 1985) and essentially what happened with Plus's lighter and softer sibling Macross 7 (developed from the 1990 Air Cavalry Chronicles series concept, which split in half with the mechanical designs evolving into Macross 7's designs and the story evolving into The Vision of Escaflowne).