>>16190076The fun stuff about Macross purists hating Robotech and demanding Macross outside Japan is that they hate Macross too.
From my observations:
.- The original series is old, therefore it's shit.
.- Macross II wasn't made by Kawamori, therefore it's shit.
.- Macross 7 was made by Kawamori, therefore it's shit.
.- Macross Frontier and Delta are new, therefore they're shit (add lots of crying over "moeshit" in Delta's case).
Turns out Macross is the Star Wars of mecha anime, in the sense that its own fans think it's an unreedemable abomination that only got popular at first because of sheer dumb luck. The only Macross stuff they have decreed acceptable to like is DYRL and Plus (the Empire Strikes Back of Macross; Kawamori is its George Lucas, 7 is its Phantom Menace, and II is its Holiday Special). Nobody seems to care about Zero.
If Macross made it out of Japan, its own supremacists wouldn't know what to do with it.