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1995 · Japan

Macross Plus: The Movie

Tonight at a glance

Runtime: 115 min
Age rating: 12A
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Violence: Mild

Why tonight?

In Japanese — subtitles on.

The story

Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.

fighter pilot
fighter jet
anime
macross

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Kenji Utsumi — Col. Millard Johnson (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara — Lucy MacMillan (voice)
Banjo Ginga — Raymond Marley (voice)
Koichi Kitamura — General Gomez (voice)
Masaharu Sato — Bikens (voice)
Show Hayami — Marj Gueldoa (voice)
Urara Takano — Kate Masseau (voice)
Tomohiro Nishimura — Yang Newman (voice)

Directed: Shinichiro Watanabe, Shoji Kawamori, Yuji Moriyama
Written: Keiko Nobumoto

Production

Rating: 7.0 / 10 · 75 ratings
Studio: Studio Nue, Triangle Staff, Bandai Visual, Studio Boston

The Collection

The complete story, in order.

1984
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Where it starts.
Macross Plus: The Movie
1995 · You’re here

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