Robotech

One shot, he's down.

Imagine how short Robotech would have been if all the Valkyries were this fragile.

And then, yeah, the circular grave or whatever for the crystal.

And we're sitting right here.

Which is why the comic has it that way, too.

Right.

Yeah, originally you'd see that, and then they had to change them both because it was coming up with, I guess, Harmony Gold, because Robotech was coming out not long after this.

So...

Yes, Weyland-Yutani is acquiring the good guy toy company.

Honestly, there's some pretty advanced fucking Robotech going on.

We'll

get to the factory.

I was slightly close.

My uncle did give me a copy of Robotech.

on DVD I mean that's the best you

could do and my babysitter had copies of Sailor Moon Super S subtitled and I watched

Uh, and we all sat down at a table, and they're like, "Who h- who plays D&D?" And everybody raised their hands.

And they're like, "You, you, tattooed child." And I was like, "Moi?" And they're like, "Yeah, you didn't raise your hand." And I'm like, "Yeah, I've never played D&D." All I had played at that point, up to that point was Robotech, which is an old Palladium system.

Yeah.

Yes, Robotech.

And I had played that when I was very, very young.

I have a tendency not to include that as my first one, 'cause I was, like, seven, and the-

[laughs]

So I, my memories of that are very fragmented.

Okay, okay.

Um, actually, it's, it's Robotech, 'cause Robotech is a, is a manga and anime here in Japan.

Okay.

Okay.

because that stuff was advertised in comic books and i was a comic book kid my friends were all comic book kids and we had seen ads for palladium stuff and it looked way cooler than dnd to us at the time because it had like robots and stuff so we were like okay this looks badass like um So we got, we, we kind of wanted to, I can't remember what we were looking for.

We ended up getting Robotech.

Nice.

And playing Robotech.

And like, everybody's like, oh, Palladium is totally impenetrable.

Nobody understands it.

He- does he even get a line? Or if he does, it's like the thing's just over so quick, it's a little bit stunning.

Actually, you know, he does get a line, and it's one of those [laughs] lines that felt like David Lynch had been watching some, like, Robotech or some old anime or something.

Because it just suddenly cuts to Hawk.

For a second he goes, "Cooper!" [laughs] And it's like-

Directed by Noboru Ishiguro, this film is a high-end exquisitely animated theatrical retelling compressing the original 27-episode series.

And for context for our Western listeners, uh, the sources note that American audiences widely recognize the Macross saga as the foundational part of Robotech.

Right.

Robotech was huge in the US.

Robotech was a localized 85-episode pastiche that took three completely unrelated Japanese anime shows and stitched them together with new dialogue to meet US television syndication requirements.

A very common practice back then.

But the original Macross remains the most famous, most culturally impactful part of that amalgamation.