Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012

Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012
	Japanese DVD cover
Genre	Drama, Mecha, Military Sci-Fi
Created by	Studio Nue
Original video animation
Directed by	Shoji Kawamori
Music by	Kentarō Haneda
Studio	Artland; Tatsunoko
Licensed by	Big West (licensing); Disney Platform Distribution (worldwide streaming license);
Released	21 June 1987
Runtime	30 minutes

Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (超時空要塞マクロス Flash Back 2012, Chō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu Furasshu Bakku 2012) is a 1987 collection of music videos from Super Dimension Fortress Macross animated television series (1982–1983) and the Macross: Do You Remember Love? theatrical film remake (1984). Released to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the series, it also contains several minutes of new footage that depicted story-events that were initially planned, but not animated for the endings of the television series (the launch of the Megaroad colonization ship captained by Misa Ichijyo), and the film (the final concert on Earth for Lynn Minmay).^[1] Preliminary designs were created for these story events in the production of the earlier works, but Flash Back 2012 was the first time that these events were animated (The earlier preliminary designs were replaced with new designs by the original director/mechanical designer Shoji Kawamori, original character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and original mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake).^[1]^[2] The premise of the collection is a farewell concert by Lynn Minmay, who is leaving the Earth on its first long-distance colony vessel, Megaroad-01.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Best Hit Series: Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 Graffiti. Shogakukan, Japan. Y910. 1987.
^ "Translation & Cultural Notes". The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo. 21 December 2001. Retrieved 11 July 2009. Originally, the creators wanted to end the series with the launch of the SDF-2 and the newlywed Ichijo Misa in her new captain's uniform. Mechanical designer Miyatake Kazutaka and character designer Mikimoto Haruhiko even drew new designs appropriate for the occasion. Unfortunately, the sequence was never animated. The creators finally got the chance to redesign and animate the SDF-2 Megaroad launch (along with the Minmay Sayonara Concert that was planned but canceled for the Do You Remember Love? movie ending) four years later. The conclusion of Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay's story appears in the 1987 music video The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012.

[Shogakukan-1] Best Hit Series: Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 Graffiti. Shogakukan, Japan. Y910. 1987.

[Flashback-2] "Translation & Cultural Notes". The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo. 21 December 2001. Retrieved 11 July 2009. Originally, the creators wanted to end the series with the launch of the SDF-2 and the newlywed Ichijo Misa in her new captain's uniform. Mechanical designer Miyatake Kazutaka and character designer Mikimoto Haruhiko even drew new designs appropriate for the occasion. Unfortunately, the sequence was never animated. The creators finally got the chance to redesign and animate the SDF-2 Megaroad launch (along with the Minmay Sayonara Concert that was planned but canceled for the Do You Remember Love? movie ending) four years later. The conclusion of Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay's story appears in the 1987 music video The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012.

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