Macross: Do You Remember Love?
- kinetic
- intense
Neutral, breathless, measured mecha / science fiction, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island.
Our read · Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive mecha · science fiction · musical entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Macross
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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