Underplayed Gems

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (1987)

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 poster
Original title
超時空要塞マクロス Flash Back 2012
Directed by
Shōji Kawamori
Genre
mecha, drama anime and manga
Country
Japan
Runtime
30 min
Rated
15
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a collection of music videos from the Super Dimension Fortress Macross anime series and its film remake. It also includes new animated footage of events originally planned but not made for the show's ending, like the launch of a colony ship and a final concert on Earth.

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What happens

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (超時空要塞マクロス Flash Back 2012, Chō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu Furasshu Bakku 2012) is a 1987 collection of music videos from Super Dimension Fortress Macross animated television series (1982–1983) and the Macross: Do You Remember Love? theatrical film remake (1984). Released to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the series, it also contains several minutes of new footage that depicted story-events that were initially planned, but not animated for the endings of the television series (the launch of the Megaroad colonization ship captained by Misa Ichijyo), and the film (the final concert on Earth for Lynn Minmay). Preliminary designs were created for these story events in the production of the earlier works, but Flash Back 2012 was the first time that these events were animated (The earlier preliminary designs were replaced with new designs by the original director/mechanical designer Shoji Kawamori, original character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and original mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake). The premise of the collection is a farewell concert by Lynn Minmay, who is leaving the Earth on its first long-distance colony vessel, Megaroad-01. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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