Sunrise Produces New 'Macross' Anime Project

ZXEAN said:
Is Macross an idol anime ?

KurokamiPhantom said:
It'll be interesting to see what Sunrise can do with Macross. Their approach to creating mecha is so different to what Satelight has been doing with frontier and delta. Hopefully we start seeing who all is attached to the project soon.

ZXEAN said:
Is Macross an idol anime ?

nevergain said:

From what I've seen they always have idol/singer characters, so music is often one of the themes but is not the central focus.

If you think Oshi no Ko is an idol anime, then this series is too.

Even Love Live! is just half of what you would find from actual idol anime. As it's mostly school slice-of-life, cute girls doing music things.

RobertBobert said:
Can I joke about the female protagonist and copying Utena already? However, entrusting this to Ichiro again would be too fat even for me. Announcing this show as a 40th anniversary project is a little hopeful, but I'm talking about a studio that thoughtlessly turned a new era Gundam into a set of 20 year old anime elements. Not to mention that, unlike G-Witch, this is the main official chronology.

Jokes are jokes, but judging by the poster (?), it will most likely resemble Symphogear on airplanes, which already gives me vague feelings.

KurokamiPhantom said:
That is not a poster for the new Macross. That's a poster for the previous Macross entry Zettai Live! which came out in 2021. They haven't shown any sort of artwork for this new entry. And despite being pretty similar to Symphogears Macross Delta still has plenty of the classic Macross Valkyrie action.

BatoKusanagi said:
Sunrise mecha monopoly. Single-handedly keeping mecha alive.

Kumiveneella said:
Sunrise did always seem like they were 1 step away from making Macross. I hope that his will be more like 7 or Frontier, rather than anything like Plus or Zero. Though Macross as a franchise is nearly collectively afraid of going against what the first series was like. Here's me crossing my fingers for no male protagonist and two girls love triangle. I also hope that Hikaru Ichijou won't show up in this.

Not that there's anything wrong with love triangles, they might as well have 2 male idols and a female fighter pilot, or even three male characters in a love triangle. Although none of these things are going to happen because that would upset the target demographic.

RobertBobert said:
They've already created G-Witch with a mixed reception of the formula change and Bandai explicitly assigned Sunrise after G-Witch so anything is possible. For some reason it seems to me that this is in danger of becoming the second Symhogear, although this does not make sense. It would seem that copying Utena and Victory also did not make much sense, since they positioned the Witch as a Gundam of a new era, but okay.

Kumiveneella said:
The AU's are always "Gundam's of the new era", and they always have mixed reception from the fans of the UC content, just look at G Gundam, Wing, After War X, Seed, 00, Age and Ibo. I'd hardly say that the same group that dislikes G Witch didn't dislike those. In 44 years Gundam's had about 6 new era's already. I would be curious on your point about G Witch copying Victory, because I personally don't see it. Most of the mixed reception has only really been from the vocal minority to my experience, and the series seems to be selling quite well.

Sunrise also makes a lot of other Gundam content in addition to just G Witch so what's your point? You act as if there's some grant controversy, when I for one have not seen any. Who do you think the UC content is for? Who is Hathaway's flash for, who are the upcoming Gundam Seed and 00 movies for? Do you honestly think that AU and UC content are made with the same demographic in mind, what about SD Gundam; who is that for?

My point was mainly a joke about neither of those situations featuring female signers. And what's wrong with Symphogear? I'd say Macross Delta is already pretty Symphogear esque.

RobertBobert said:
Once again you are making a pointless argument out of a fairly simple answer. I don't think you misunderstood what I meant by talking about G-Witch as a new age Gundam. It's literally one of the show's promotion points. I just don't understand why you start big argument every time if a person's opinion differs from yours, but he doesn't try to prove something to you.


Nothing. Obviously what I was saying was that they might try to make it a copy of an already existing show, not that the show itself is bad.

Kumiveneella said:
It's not an argument it's just a long text, I just had many thoughts about your point, and it is a new age it's been 8 years since the last Au entry. What's wrong with new ages? Science fictions all about new ages isn't it? It's the homosexuality isn't it? But how would that automatically make it a new age when the series had 5 canonically homosexual characters before the show. The main character even crossdresses frequently in Turn A Gundam, it's an important plot point. 

Forgive me for the point about Symphogear, I was just being a bit mean with all of those leading questions. Though I guess I'm doing the aforementioned here as well. I'm sorry if this seemed aggressive I would just have liked for you to talk about your point in detail.

Hoppy said:
Macross needs to commit to the bit and just have the main pilots all be idols, a good idea is 1 male idol and 2 female idols for a team of three and a moderate amount of fanservice.