Macross Plus Movie Edition

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Bowman, Guld Goa (Main) - Voice Actors: Ishizuka, Unshou
• Dyson, Isamu Alva (Main) - Voice Actors: Yamazaki, Takumi
• Fang Long, Myung (Main) - Voice Actors: Fukami, Rica
• Apple, Sharon (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hyoudou, Mako
• Gueldoa, Marj (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hayami, Show
• Johnson, Millard (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Utsumi, Kenji
• Marley, Reymond (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ginga, Banjou
• Masseau, Morgan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yara, Yuusaku
• Masseau, Kate (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takano, Urara
• McMillan, Lucy (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hayashibara, Megumi
• Neumann, Yang (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nishimura, Tomohiro

Staff:

• Takanashi, Minoru (Producer)
• Kawamori, Shouji (Director, Storyboard, Creator, Mechanical Design)
• Watanabe, Shinichirou (Director, Storyboard)
• Mima, Masafumi (Sound Director)
• Higuchi, Shinji (Storyboard)
• Arai, Akino (Theme Song Performance)
• Anno, Hideaki (Key Animation)
• Aoki, Mariko (Key Animation)
• Aono, Atsushi (Animation Director)
• Azuhata, Takashi (Director of Photography)
• Fukuyo, Takaaki (Key Animation)
• Gotou, Takahiro (Key Animation)
• Haryuu, Katsufumi (Art Director)
• Honda, Takeshi (Key Animation)
• Irie, Yasuhiro (Key Animation)
• Ishino, Satoshi (Key Animation)
• Itojima, Masahiko (Key Animation)
• Kanno, Yoko (Music)
• Katsura, Kenichirou (Key Animation)
• Kikuchi, Youko (Key Animation)
• Kishida, Takahiro (Art Director, Assistant Animation Director)
• Kizaki, Fuminori (Key Animation)
• Komori, Takahiro (Key Animation)
• Koujina, Hiroshi (Key Animation)
• Kurosawa, Mamoru (Key Animation)
• Masayuki (Character Design, Animation Director)
• Matsumoto, Norio (Key Animation)
• Miyatake, Kazutaka (Mechanical Design)
• Mizuhata, Kenji (Key Animation)
• Morimoto, Kouji (Key Animation, Art Director)
• Moriyama, Yuuji (Animation Director)
• Muraki, Yasushi (Key Animation)
• Muranaka, Hiromi (Key Animation)
• Nakajima, Toshihiro (Key Animation)
• Nakamura, Satoru (Key Animation)
• Nishi, Kayoko (Color Design)
• Nishida, Asako (Key Animation)
• Nobumoto, Keiko (Screenplay)
• Ogura, Nobutoshi (Assistant Animation Director)
• Okuno, Hiroyuki (Key Animation)
• Ooshima, Jouji (Key Animation)
• Osaka, Hiroshi (Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation)
• Sakakibara, Toyohiko (Special Effects)
• Sekino, Masahiro (Key Animation)
• Seo, Yasuhiro (Key Animation, Animation Director)
• Shimada, Toshihiko (Key Animation)
• Takanori, Youko (Key Animation)
• Takeda, Yuusuke (Background Art)
• Taniguchi, Akihiro (Key Animation)
• Tsurumaki, Kazuya (Assistant Animation Director)

Reviews:

• User CodeBlazeFate (Score: 9/10):
  Let's talk about 3 things: Dreams, friendships, and adult regrets. Most people have a dream of what they want to become in life. Usually it's a career, and then what kind of life they wish to lead with which kind of people. These people develop friendships to help give their current live meaning, and to potentially help each other achieve their dreams and lead a happy life with the people they care about. Unfortunately, life does not always match up with a dream, and friends will not always last. For one reason or another, people will do something damaging or face a terrible circumstance, bothof which can lead to resentment, and even regret. Suddenly, life isn't so pleasant, and you want nothing to do with some of the people you previously held so dear. nnMacross Plus showcases a fantastic take on this, with one of the best and most tragic love triangles anime has to offer. Accompanying this with fantastic visuals and a soundtrack that lives up to its franchise's standards, and we have a classic film that holds up decades later. nnIt is the year 2040 A.D. Two test pilots are testing out their machines for this big project. They, unfortunately, were once friends until an incident involving a girl they both love, tears them apart. One adventurous and brazen Isamu and one jaded and violent Guld reunite in competition, not just for this project, but for the girl they both love named Myung. She arrives in Eden, a manager of a robotic singing idol device named Sharon. All three end up meeting up, only to realize, things have changed since 7 years ago, since the time when they used to be friends. Myung has given up her dream, while the boys still latch on to theirs. The movie leaves dramatic bits and pieces which seem odd at first, until you get cleverly and masterfully fed exactly why that is. Sure, the antagonist is crazy about Ismaul for disturbingly odd reasons, and the characters' emotions guide their extreme actions, but they're presented in such a way that you can keep the suspense and drama going, and not just root for one person. This is very much an adult film, and despite a few minor missteps in the end which chances are, you will notice, this movie is directed so brilliantly, that such a plot can be used to its fullest potential. Sure, not everyone gets closure, and it feels like some characters were just shoved out of the story, but it's a beautiful story none the less. Plus, while the movie ends a bit tragically, the final moments of the movie are just wonderful.nnIsamu, Guld, and Myung are fascinating characters, written in a way that makes them come off as real people. They are presented realistically, and tragically, and that is one of the movie's strong points. These people are not just characters, stereotypes, or archetypes. These are people. They are full with regret, realistic emotions, and dialogue. You…
• User Shura-shurato (Score: 8/10):
  No crappy Minmay system is here , just an upgrade system called Sharon! wich sings in French, English and Japanese . MP; movie a simple complilation of the 4 ova´s put together, with some scene´s put out from the serie´s, but new scenes put in, and overall the ova´s were better, it still somewhat works out well. not too special The animation is just the same, mature more lifelike charac. unlike other macros serie´s , and some scene´s reveals more about the isamu, guld and myung chara. childhood wich i liked, but it was just slitsecond scenes too bad. For me its all aboutthe last 50 min. of the film thats shows the full potential of the 3-d uncut scene´s and when Sharon flys through the city is just soo well done for its time, together with some nice jetfight scene's between isamu and guld. And the jet design,s remain still some of the best i,ve seen in the whole macross universe!
• User JoeStraatmann (Score: 7/10):
  I think of Macross Plus as a bit of a mess with pristine work that turned people like Shinichiro Watanabe and Yoko Kanno into major names paired with a story that makes an atrocious choice that firebombs the entire work. I have a spoiler review of the OVA if you want me taking a bat to that particular hornet's nest. The movie, while paring down some of the more impressive mood sequences, also heavily cuts the tender scenes that are pretty gross in hindsight. Also, if you're like me, reducing the scenes showing Isamu as a reckless, loose cannon is a plus; even if they'retechnically impressive, they bog down the first two parts of the OVA when the idea is grasped fairly early on. nnIt's the best presentation of a flawed work. It still has the ending that is an explosion of rushed and confused emotions, and there's still THAT PLOT TWIST, but it doesn't linger on its drawbacks nearly as much to make me able to appreciate the marvelous things it does accomplish.nnFinally, Lucy MacMillan, you did nothing to deserve all of this, and none of them deserve you.
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