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Macross 7
1994
7
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35 years have passed since Lynn Minmay had brought peace between the Zentradi and the humans. Nekki Basara is a guitarist and a singer of the band Fire Bomber. Living in the flying colony City 7 , he composes and sings songs in the belief that music holds a greater power. However, an unknown alien race appeared and started laying siege upon City 7.
Countries:
JP
Languages:
Japanese, Spanish, French
Runtime:
30min
Status:
Ended
First air date:
1994-10-16
I tried to like Macross 7, for the sake of the Macross franchise. But it's just awful. I've watched a lot of cheesy shows in my time, but this one just does nothing for me. It feels like someone looked at the original series and said, "hey, they used music to overcome fighting, we should do that too" but forgot to include any reasoning behind it. And then decided "super musician-pilot-bike rider-street fighter with no social skills" and "spoiled teenage girl being marketed to older men by her mother" made for good central characters.
I got through the first 10 episodes or so, then gave up. Went and read the summary on Wikipedia instead, so I'd know what happened for the sake of any tie-ins with the other Macross series.
I suppose the music might be considered a redeeming quality, if you like the mid-80s pop rock style. It was all right, but suffers from the same issue as most music in TV series...horribly repetitive. The same 2-3 songs over and over get old extremely fast, no matter how good they might be. Maybe there was additional music later in the series, but it wasn't worth suffering the awful characters long enough to find out.