Otakuism

Macross Frontier adds another mystery to its ever growing list with the appearance of the supposedly original SDF-1 Macross on Gallia IV. However, this can’t be possible as the original Macross is supposed to be on Earth, or at least that’s what I’ve been told. My only information on the original Macross comes from Do You Remember Love? and that wasn’t even canon. Kawamori couldn’t make it easy for us and just put Megaroad-1 in there, he has to confuse us even more. It’s not like the Macross Zero references, mysterious alien that looks like AFOS, vajra, Brera, and all the “everything is going according to plan” lines aren’t confusing enough.

My personal theory for this newest mystery is that the Macross featured here is actually some massive replica used in the filming of the DYRL movie, which is why DYRL was the ED song for this episode. Ranka’s version is just as beautiful as Minmei’s, though a little too techno popish, if that makes sense at all. Now this flimsy theory will be completely blown apart if there’s any official material saying that DYRL was nothing more than an in-universe CG extravaganza, but if there’s one thing Macross Frontier fans have to be used to it’s theories proving wrong (except for my theory stating that Brera and Ranka are siblings, cause that just has to be true).