(Macross has always dealt with music in some direct fasion)Īnimation: There's not much to say about the animation. However, it takes an interesting twist in focusing on the band that the series' music revolves around. This story is fairly typical of the Macross line, being set in the near future with big, transforming mecha. Reactions, however have been mixed from my friends, as it tends to be a love it/hate it show.
Exedore my time to be a star series#
One of my favorite anime series of all time, I really reccomend this to all. It's a childish anime, meant for small kids that would eat up all those repeated animations and songs a la "Power Rangers", flat and artificial characters and the fairy tale story.
So, to put it simply, STAY AWAY FROM MACROSS 7 (and its descendants, I assume). The characters that do change, undergo such drastic and artificial changes that it only makes the anime look even more rediculous than if they didn't. You would expect a real person's point of view at least to waver in some of the occasions, but not with these single-minded freaks. Most of them never change, not even when facing abnormal conditions. The characters are simple, flat, boring, single minded and unbelievable. I think the creators of the anime thought that by creating "good music" (and repeatedly playing it in every episode) they would have a sure winner.
Where in SDF-M, the music and singing were some nice additions to the anime, and at most they could cause a temporary "cultural shock" to the enemy or somewhat encourage the "good guys" during a battle, in M7 it becomes the center of the anime, forgoing action, sanity and character development. Where SDF-M was trying to remain "sain" and "believable", M7 just drops the reins of reality and becomes a "fairy tale" with monsters and some semi-magical "music energy" (forgetting that there is no air in space and thus no sound can pass through it). The plot is simply childish, unbelievable and downright silly. To my horror, in some of the last episodes I even saw animation sequences from the first episodes, for crying out loud!Ģ. In the latter episode, different sequences are over-reused. Don't get me wrong, the songs are quite good, but hearing them so many times. As if the anime were trying to brain-wash the viewer. The same sequences of the "good guys", fighting and singing - which leads to another problem: the same songs are sang over and over again, in every single episode, usually twice and even three times an episode. The same sequences of "baddies" appearing, attacking, being counter attacked and retreating. In the first 20 or so episodes, you will see the same battle sequences repeated again and again and again. The animation sequences are ultra-reused. So I'll summarize them in a list of "major flaws":ġ.
If I start counting all the flaws of M7, I fear I might miss one or two (or more.). It took me some time to decide to keep watching it after that. "Probably after this it gets better", I thought. It's a rather long anime, after all." Then, I watched untill episode 10. I thought, "Well, maybe it gets better around episode 10 or so. When I read zerohazard's review, I got a bit more optimistic, assuming that, as a true Macross fan, I would still find M7 to be at least "nice".įirst, I watched episodes 1-5 and wasn't impressed. Having read on the net that M7 is but a pale shadow of the original SDF Macross, I approached it with some apprehension. Although I gave this anime all the chances that I could, and somehow managed to watch it through, it was a complete disappointment.
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