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| rdfs:comment | - Macross II(超時空要塞マクロスII Lovers AgainChō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu II: Rabāzu Agein), also known as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again or Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II, is the first animated sequel to The Super Dimension Fortress Macross to feature a new cast of characters. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again was produced by Big West.
- Macross II, a 1992 OVA, was the first animated sequel to Super Dimension Fortress Macross to feature an all-new storyline and cast of characters. It was also the only entry in the Macross franchise which didn't have any input from original creator Shoji Kawamori or the original production studio, Studio Nue. (It did contain work from Haruhiko Mikimoto, the original character designer, and was produced by Big West, which produced or co-produced everything else in the Macross franchise.) Either because it wasn't as well-received as expected, or because Kawamori and Studio Nue weren't involved (probably both), other entries in the Macross franchise have ignored the events of Macross II. Studio Nue has declared it a "Parallel World".
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| RomajiTitle | - Fesutibaru
- Ishutaru
- Marudūku Disuōda
- Shingu Arongu
- Sutēshon Bureiku
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| Name | - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again
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| Caption | - The VHS cover for Macross II's original North American release''.
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| Author | - Sukehiro Tomita
- James D. Hudnall
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| Title | - Macross II the Movie
- Macross II: Lovers Again
- The Micron Conspiracy
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| Ja romaji | - Chō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu II: Rabāzu Agein
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| OriginalAirDate | - 1992-06-21
- 1992-08-21
- 1992-09-24
- 1992-10-22
- 1992-11-21
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| FirstEngAirDate | - January 1993
- September 1992
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| Illustrator | - Schulhoff Tam
- Tsuguo Okazaki
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| ShortSummary | - The media continues to cover up the threat of the invading Marduk, assuring the populace that U.N. Spacy, and during the report, Ishtar sees an advertisement for the annual U.N. Spacy Moon Festival and asks to go. Hibiki asks her again who she is, and she says she needs to go to the ship before she can tell him. After finishing a date with Nexx Gilbert, Sylvie sees Hibiki and Ishtar riding down the street on his motorcycle and decides to follow them.
They arrive at the SDF-1 Macross and go up to the bridge where Ishtar partially activates the ship simply by touching some of the control panels. She tells Hibiki that she's an Emulator of the Marduk, and they use the Zentradi to destroy any culture they find. The Marduk use the Emulator's songs to control the Zentradi. She tells him that she believes the Macross is the legendary "ship of the Alus" which will bring peace to the Marduk. Sylvie arrives and tells them she's taking Ishtar into custody as she's the enemy, but Hibiki convinces her otherwise.
They then go to the Moon Festival where they see a demonstration of the new Metal Siren Valkyrie. After Ishtar is touched by the love song performed by Wendy Ryder, Ryder is flown off in the Metal Siren by Sylvie where they are promptly attacked by the Marduk who are under orders to capture her as the "enemy Emulator". Hibiki goes after them in an SNN Valkyrie with Ishtar, who insisted on going with them. In order to have them let Sylvie and Wendy go, Ishtar tells Lord Feff she will return if he lets them go. Sylvie goes after them and arrives at the ship just before they jump.
- Lord Emperor Ingues orders all of his ships to begin the attack on Earth. Sylvie explains to Commander Exxegran what happened and why they were out with the Marduk ships. Hibiki, meanwhile, hijacks the emergency military channel and broadcasts information the military has been suppressing, and is arrested.
The Marduk press the attack and appear to be unstoppable. The Zentradi warriors overpower the U.N. Spacy defenses with ease. The supreme U.N. Spacy council questions Hibiki and has Sylvie arrested. Commander Balser leads a fleet against the invading Marduk and their Zentradi warriors. He is confident he can defeat them with the four macross Cannons he has under his command. However, as he fires the Macross Cannons, thousands more Marduk units appear above them and begin attacking.
The Marduk begin using their Emulators to drive the Zentradi into a fighting frenzy, but Ishtar still refuses to sing the songs of war. Hibiki continues to be questioned about where he got the footage of the inside of one of the Marduk ships. Ingues orders the Emulators to begin singing the death song, which causes the Zentradi to go berserk and begin suicidal attacks on the U.N. Spacy forces. He also punishes the units in Ishtar's group for refusing to sing the death song. Lord Feff pleads with Ishtar to do as ordered by the Emperor, but she refuses, telling him she can't destroy the world of the Alus. He orders his Zentradi to be linked to the songs of the other Emulators, and the unrelenting attack on the U.N. Spacy forces continues.
Balser leads his ship into the middle of the enemy Marduk fleet and is destroyed while taking out several of their vessels. Lord Feff sends Ishtar away, telling her that he is loyal to Lord Emperor Ingues and she must leave. Sylvie tells Exxegran of her plan to launch a sneak on Ingues' mothership using the SDF-1 Macross. Hibiki records a message explaining that he thinks humans aren't learning from previous mistakes.
- The Marduk have broken through every defense launched by U.N. Spacy, and civilians are evacuated to underground bunkers for safety. Sylvie begins executing her secret plan by jail-breaking Hibiki and taking him to the SDF-1 Macross. Ishtar makes it to the Macross and begins looking for the center of the ship. Sylvie discovers that it is still operational and she launches it. They launch an attack on the Marduk mothership, but it has little effect. Ingues counterattacks and the Macross itself is destroyed, except for the bridge section. The Marduk attack destroys everything in their path.
Hibiki and Sylvie finally realize their feelings for each other and kiss as Ishtar comes into the room. She tells them that this is the true power of the Alus. Sylvie doesn't believe there is anything else that can be done, but Ishtar begins broadcasting to the Marduk and tells them they must not destroy the culture of the Earth. This causes the fighting to cease and makes some of the Emulators unsure about Ingues' plan, causing him to start destroying those who question him. Ishtar then begins singing a love song which causes the remaining Emulators to join with her, turning the remaining Marduk against Ingues. Feff is incensed that Ingues refuses to accept that this may be the legendary Alus, and leads an attack by the remaining Marduk against Ingues, destroying both him and his ship.
The Marduk and the people of Earth sign an eternal peace treaty and Ishtar leaves with Feff to spread the new culture among the remaining Marduk.
- The Marduk torture Hibiki as they try to determine who the SNN is and what what he did to contaminate Ishtar. Ishtar is transported to another ship in order to be examined so they can determine what needs to be done to decontaminate her from her exposure to the alien culture. Sylvie rescues Hibiki just before he is to be brainwashed. As they are escaping, Hibiki keeps stopping to record parts of the ship and they discover the Marduk are using mind control to keep the Zentradi soldiers fighting for them.
Ishtar is taken before Elensh in order to be treated for her contamination, but she resists the treatment, explaining about the ship of the Alus and why they shouldn't destroy the people on Earth. She resists every attempt to remove the new songs from her mind, telling Elensh that they are now part of her soul. Sylvie and Hibiki try to find Ishtar in order to rescue her, and Sylvie reveals that her grandmother was Meltrandi. Ishtar begins singing a new song, causing all the Zentradi to stop fighting, so Lord Emperor Ingues orders the ship destroyed due to the contamination from Ishtar's exposure to the culture of Earth. Just as they find her, the unit sent by Ingues to destroy the contaminated ship arrives and begins firing at them. Lord Feff arrives and takes Ishtar away just before the ship is destroyed, and Sylvie and Hibiki barely escape the ship in time as Feff chases them, trying to destroy them. Sylvie and Hibiki are picked up by a U.N. Spacy ship sent to retrieve them.
- Marduk leader Lord Feff follows Hibiki and Ishtar back to Earth. Hibiki doesn't tell anyone other than his friend Mash about Ishtar. As he's filming the sleeping Ishtar for his story, she awakes and becomes afraid, wondering where she is. After being fitted with a translator, she is able to understand Hibiki who is able to calm her down enough to learn her name. She learns there are Zentran and Meltran living together on the planet with the humans. While they are talking, the SDF-1 Macross emits another energy discharge, and Ishtar says that it's the light of the Alus. Hibiki then turns on the news and learns that the military is preventing SNN from broadcasting all of the footage and is glossing over the actual events of the battle.
Ishtar leaves without Hibiki noticing, so he goes to search for her. Ishtar is overwhelmed by the variety of music and individuality on the Earth and runs into the city aimlessly while trying to find the ship of the Alus. Hibiki finds her in a park. Meanwhile, Lord Feff's soldiers have begin trying to locate Ishtar, and some of them have been shot down. The military leadership is discussing their options. Mash gives Ishtar a makeover, and Hibiki takes her to the Culture Park to teach her about Earth's cultures. Sylvie and Saori follow them to the park and rescue them from being hurt or killed by the attacking Marduk. They are saved from the attackers by U.N. Spacy Valkyries, but Ishtar runs away and finally sees the SDF-1 Macross, the ship of the Alus right before Lord Feff arrives to take her back. She refuses to go back and Lord Feff leaves, confused about why Ishtar would abandon her position as Emulator.
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| EnglishTitle | - Ishtar
- Festival
- Sing Along
- Marduk Disorder
- Station Break
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| KanjiTitle | - イシュタル
- シング·アロング
- ステーション·ブレイク
- フェスティバル
- マルドゥーク·ディスオーダ
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| Writer | - Sukehiro Tomita
- Raymond Garcia
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| Director | - Kenichi Yatagai
- Quint Lancaster
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| abstract | - Macross II(超時空要塞マクロスII Lovers AgainChō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu II: Rabāzu Agein), also known as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again or Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II, is the first animated sequel to The Super Dimension Fortress Macross to feature a new cast of characters. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again was produced by Big West.
- Macross II, a 1992 OVA, was the first animated sequel to Super Dimension Fortress Macross to feature an all-new storyline and cast of characters. It was also the only entry in the Macross franchise which didn't have any input from original creator Shoji Kawamori or the original production studio, Studio Nue. (It did contain work from Haruhiko Mikimoto, the original character designer, and was produced by Big West, which produced or co-produced everything else in the Macross franchise.) Either because it wasn't as well-received as expected, or because Kawamori and Studio Nue weren't involved (probably both), other entries in the Macross franchise have ignored the events of Macross II. Studio Nue has declared it a "Parallel World". The story takes place in 2092, eighty years after the end of the original Macross series. Humans and Zentradi have made peace and rebuilt Earth's society. Earth's prosperity is interrupted only by the occasional rogue Zentradi fleet, which is easily defeated through a combination of Valkryie-type transformable fighter jets and idol singer music. When the solar system is invaded by the fleet of a new alien civilization, the Marduk, Earth's usual strategies are ineffective, since the Mardook have singers of their own -- Emulators, whose songs are used to control the Mardook's enslaved Zentradi warriors. During the first battle, Intrepid Reporter Hibiki Kanzaki rescues one of these Emulators, a beautiful woman named Ishtar. He takes her back to Earth, and introduces her to culture. Feff, one of the Mardook commanders, heads to Earth to try and retrieve Ishtar. Meanwhile, Ace Pilot Sylvie Gena and the rest of Earth's military try to fight off the invaders.
* Ace Pilot: Sylvie Gena and her commanding officer, Nexx Gilbert. Unlike almost every other Macross series, the male lead (Hibiki Kanzaki) isn't an ace combat pilot, and never becomes one, though he is fairly skilled flying an unarmed civilian Valkyrie.
* Alphabet News Network: Hibiki works for SNN (Scramble News Network.)
* Alternate Continuity: Studio Nue has placed Macross II in a "parallel world." All other Macross storylines, starting with Macross Plus, have ignored Macross II -- except Macross 7, which reused some of the songs (in a Discontinuity Nod).
* Amazon Brigade: Faerie Squadron
* Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Hibiki and Sylvie.
* Bridge Bunnies: Saori, Amy, and Nastasha make up the rest of Sylvie's flight team, Faerie Squadron. Though they're usually fighting in Valkyries as opposed to running the bridge on a capital ship, their personalities and their positions in the storyline are similar to those of Kim, Shammie, and Vanessa in the original Macross.
* Cool Plane: The Valkyrie variable fighters, especially the all-new prototype Metal Siren.
* Exty Years From Now: Produced in 1992, takes place in 2092.
* Flanderization: Of the defeat of the Zentradi -- actually a plot point. The UN Spacy has turned their discovery of culture into the "Minmei Attack", or just broadcasting a no-name Idol Singer at the enemy until they collapse in disarray. The Mardook counteract that with their own singing, but Hibiki introducing Ishtar to human culture the old-fashioned way is what saves the day.
* Half Human Hybrids: Sylvie is one quarter Meltran (female Zentradi.) She attributes her reckless streak to her grandmother.
* Hand in the Hole: Hibiki sticks his hand in the mouth of a face carving claimed to bite if someone tells a lie with their hand in its mouth, and tricks Ishtar into thinking it bit his hand off. Possibly a Shout-Out to a similar scene in the film Roman Holiday.
* Heel Face Turn: Ishtar wants to make peace with the humans almost immediately. Feff takes a bit longer.
* Human Aliens: Both the Zentradi (when micronized) and the Mardook are basically indistinguishable from humans.
* Humongous Mecha: The SDF-1 makes a reappearance, staying in humanoid mode throughout. Earth's fleet (the UN Spacy) also includes several Macross Cannon ships, which transform into a similar humanoid form.
* Idol Singer: Wendy Ryder is the only one who appears in person, but Earth uses music like hers in the "Minmay Attack" to confuse invading Zentradi fleets.
* Intrepid Reporter: Hibiki is one (though when introduced, he and his camera operator seem to be merely Paparazzi.)
* I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Ishtar steps out of the way so Hibiki and Sylvie can be together at the end.
* Love Triangle: Hibiki, Sylvie and Ishtar form the main one. Adding Nexx (who goes on a date with Sylvie) makes a second, and Feff (who has feelings for Ishtar) makes three.
* Macross Missile Massacre: Obviously.
* The Obi-Wan: Dennis Lone, a veteran reporter, is briefly a mentor to Hibiki. He even dies in the first episode helping him rescue a space princess!
* Omnicidal Maniac: Marduk Emperor Ingues wants to destroy every non-Mardook in existence no matter how many Marduk he has to kill along the way.
* The Power of Rock: Unfortunately for Earth, countered by the Mardook's Power of Creepy War Hymns. Ishtar has to add The Power of Love before it kicks in.
* Scary Black Man: The Zentradi.
* Shout-Out: Several plot parallels to Super Dimension Fortress Macross, including references to Minmay and the appearance of the SDF-1.
* Hibiki's relationship with Ishtar is a Shout-Out to Roman Holiday, complete with the Hand in the Hole scene from that film.
* Stripperiffic: The standard costume of the Marduk (Mardook) Emulators is a skin-tight outfit with a golden Chainmail Bikini and black fishnet for the rest of the body.
* This Is Reality: Dennis tells Hibiki off for only wanting the "good parts" of the battle reported on, stating that "they're not making some series to get ratings." Which is all well and good, since Macross II had disappointing sales.
* Transforming Mecha : Ubiquitous, since it's a Macross story. Earth has several types of Valkryie variable fighters, including the unarmed civilian model Hibiki pilots, plus the original Macross and the Macross Cannon ships. The Mardook's Zentradi also have a type of transformable power armor.
* Wave Motion Gun: The original Macross, which has been left on Earth as a museum ship, discharges its main gun into the air at random intervals. Its successors, the Macross Cannon ships, and several Mardook vessels, have main weapons of similar power.
* The Macross Cannon ships brought the trope to the logical extreme: ships with FOUR WMG. Ouch...
* You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Mash comments on Ishtar's unusual hair color.
* Zeerust: It's 2092, and Sylvie still uses what seem to be 5 1/4" floppy discs to start up the SDF-1 Macross -- which would be anachronistic even for the last time it flew in 2012.
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