Macross 7 (1994)

Original title

マクロス7

Genre

mecha, adventure anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 49 episodes

Rated

M18

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young pilot joins a military space fleet and forms a rock band that becomes crucial in fighting alien invaders. The series follows his journey mixing music and combat in a long ongoing war.

energeticnostalgicsillymusicalmelodramaticaction-packedcampyepisodicromantic

What happens

Macross 7 (マクロス7, Makurosu Sebun) is an anime television series. It is a sequel to the show The Super Dimension Fortress Macross that takes place many years after the events of the first series following a cast of mostly new characters. The show ran from October 16, 1994, to September 24, 1995, at 11:00 a.m., and 49 episodes were aired. Although it has been distributed in the other parts of the world, it remained unlicensed in North America until July 2022 when Right Stuf along with Nozomi Entertainment announced that they would be releasing the series on home video. Macross 7 is best known for its music, and since the show began airing over a dozen albums have been released by the fictional band Fire Bomber that stars in the show. Macross 7 exists in the official Studio Nue chronology and canon, with story concept by Shoji Kawamori, who also handled mechanical designs along with Kazutaka Miyatake. A theatrical episode, Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling Me!, was released in 1995. Several OVAs were also released, including Macross 7: Encore and later, Macross Dynamite 7. In 2012, a crossover movie retelling the Macross 7 events by Macross Frontier characters, Macross Fb7 Listen to My Song!, was released. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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