macross plus

One of the titles that led the way for anime’s breakthrough in the West during the 90s was the four-part OVA Macross Plus. If you remember renting this from a Blockbuster VHS shelf and watching it on a 13-inch Trinitron, there’s good news ahead: a much better, much clearer, much BIGGER version is coming. Macross Plus Movie Edition is a remastered re-edit of the four-part series into one massive movie, adding additional scenes that weren’t part of the original. The men who made the original OVA have now become legends in the industry: Shoji Kawamori designed the characters and mechs, Shinichiro Watanabe provided character direction, and Yoko Kanno (“Cowboy Bebop,” “Ghost in The Shell: SAC”) created the music score. All their contributions are intact in Macross Plus Movie Edition. In the year 2040, on the distant planet Eden, former childhood friends Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman find themselves pitted against each other as test pilots of rival teams in a competition to decide the next generation of variable mecha fighters.