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The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Tatsunoko
  • Topcraft
    • Distributed byToho
    Release date
    • July 21, 1984 (1984-07-21)
    Running time
    		115 minutes
    CountryJapan
    LanguageJapanese
    Budget¥400 million
    Box office¥1.8 billion

    The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか, Chōjikū Yōsai Makurosu: Ai Oboete Imasu ka), also known as Macross: Do You Remember Love? (commonly referred to by the acronym "DYRL?" among Western fans) or Super Spacefortress Macross, is a 1984

    Macross anime
    television series.

    The movie is a

    Lynn Minmay (voiced by Mari Iijima). In Macross Frontier, a later series in the Macross universe, the first few episodes use re-animated key scenes from this film and Flash Back 2012
    too gives viewers glimpses of past events.

    Plot

    The film begins

    Lynn Minmay
    , but are both trapped in a section of the fortress for days. After their rescue, they develop a close relationship.

    The Zentradi, meanwhile, discover the disruptive effect that human music has on them. Their supreme leader, Gorg

    Roy Föcker
    .

    Aboard a Zentradi ship, the humans are being interrogated about their culture when a squadron of Meltrandi, all-female giant aliens, invades the ship, giving them a chance to escape. Hikaru and Misa escape from the ship, but Föcker is killed while Minmay and Kaifun remain aboard.

    Hikaru and Misa arrive on a desolate world that turns out to be Earth, wiped out by a prior Zentradi attack. The two officers grow closer, and discover an ancient city of the

    Protoculture
    , where the mysterious origins of the alien giants is revealed. In the city, Misa discovers an artifact that contains lyrics to an ancient love song.

    Many days later, the Macross arrives on Earth. Just as Hikaru and Misa are debriefing their story to Captain

    Bruno J. Global
    , the fortress is attacked by the Meltrandi. Despite destroying part of the Macross, the Meltrandi are forced to retreat when the Zentradi arrive, using Minmay's singing voice as their weapon.

    Captain Global announces a truce and a military pact between the Macross and the Zentradi. Hikaru and Minmay reunite, but Minmay realizes he is now with Misa. Meanwhile, Misa finishes translating the song. When the Meltrandi return to attack, Boddole Zer breaks the truce and attacks the Macross.

    With the Macross in danger, Hikaru persuades Minmay to perform the translated song. As the Macross flies across the battlefield, Minmay's song unites the Zentradi and the Meltrandi against Boddole Zer. Boddole Zer is defeated by the combined forces.

    The film ends with a concert by Minmay in front of the rebuilt Macross.

    Cast

    Original Japanese voices

    English dub

    • John Culkin as Hikaru Ichijyo and Max Jenius (some scenes)
    • Barry Haigh as
      Roy Focker
    • Matthew Oram as Britai 7018, Golg Boddole Zer, Max Jenius (most scenes), Quamzin 03350
    • Simon Broad as Bruno J. Global, Hayao Kakizaki and Lynn Kaihun
    • Elizabeth Oram as Lynn Minmay and Shammy Milliome

    Production

    Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake and Haruhiko Mikimoto worked on the mecha and character designs for the film.[1] Narumi Kakinouchi, one of the creators of Vampire Princess Miyu, was the assistant animation director for this movie.

    During one of the action scenes towards the end of the movie, Hikaru fires a barrage of missiles on his way to Boddole Zer. As an inside joke among the animators, two of the missiles are drawn to look like cans of

    Budweiser
    and Tako Hai (a drink which literally translates as "Octopus Highball").

    The film was produced on a budget of ¥400 million,

    Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979).[3]

    Due to production issues, some scenes that were initially storyboarded for the film had to be cut for its 1984 theatrical release. Among these was an ending sequence featuring Minmay in concert. While the original release of the film's credits featured a simple black backdrop, this concert sequence was later animated for the 1987 OVA

    Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012, and was later incorporated into subsequent versions of Do You Remember Love?'s end credits. This updated release has since been marketed as "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? Complete Edition" (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか 完全版, Chōjikū Yōsai Makurosu: Ai Oboete Imasu ka Kanzenban). An additional scene featuring the marriage of Max and Milia was storyboarded, but not animated. This was later incorporated as a flashback in Macross 7
    .

    Music

    The film's soundtrack was composed by

    Kentaro Haneda, featuring new orchestral tracks and some music from the original TV series. The theme song "Ai Oboete Imasu ka" ("Do You Remember Love") was composed by Kazuhiko Katō
    and performed by Mari Iijima. The Complete Edition's ending theme, "Tenshi no Enogu" ("An Angel's Paints"), was composed and performed by Iijima.

    Release

    The film premiered in Japanese theaters on July 7, 1984. It received a huge marketing campaign that generated very long lines of fans; many of them camped outside cinemas the night prior to the film. These events were dramatized in the anime comedy

    Anime Grand Prix, the film was ranked second, behind Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.[4] The film's theme song was also ranked first.[4]

    Box office

    The film earned a distribution income (

    gross rentals) of ¥700 million in Japan.[5] This is equivalent to approximately ¥1.8 billion in total box office gross revenue.[6]

    Relation to the TV series

    Do You Remember Love? is a reinterpretation of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross in a feature film format. Almost all of the characters featured in the TV series appear in the film. Most of the voice actors from the TV series reprised their roles for the film. The love triangle and the various relationships are intact.

    Macross 7 describes a film called Do You Remember Love? within the fictional world of Macross. Series creator Shoji Kawamori also gave an explanation about the differences in the television and film depictions of Space War I: "The real Macross is out there, somewhere. If I tell the story in the length of a TV series, it looks one way, and if I tell it as a movie-length story, it's organized another way...".[7]

    Many ships, mecha, and characters were redesigned for the film.[1] These designs have been featured in later entries of the Macross franchise. The Zentradi were given a language of their own and most of the dialogue of Zentradi characters is in that language.

    International versions

    According to

    Cannon Films to produce a film version of Robotech, he mentioned he was interested in dubbing and localizing Do You Remember Love? with the voice cast from the series, but Harmony Gold USA was unable to license the film for "whatever political reasons" that he did not know. Megazone 23 Part 1 was used instead.[9]

    Originally, two versions of a

    Showtime 2
    in 2004.

    Kiseki Films
    in the UK on video in the 1990s, but was notably one of their few catalog titles not being released on DVD.

    Re-released in the 2000s on DVD,[12] a full 90-minute Swedish dub[12] was released in the 1980s by Wendros, based on the Toho Super Spacefortress Macross version.

    Although Big West, Studio Nue, and Harmony Gold reached an agreement to release various Macross sequels outside of Japan in 2021, the official Robotech account on Twitter has stated that Do You Remember Love? remains prohibited as of 2023.[13]

    A Japanese 4K resolution remaster version of the film was released as a two pack of an Ultra HD and standard Blu-ray in January of 2025. This release included a brand new English subtitle track.

    Video games

    References

    1. ^
      ISBN 4-89601-629-7
      .
    2. ^ Animage, 1983年12月号, 徳間書店, 1983年, 26頁
    3. ISBN 978-4-7980-5038-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link
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    4. ^ a b "第7回アニメグランプリ ［1985年6月号］". Tokuma Shoten. Archived from the original on October 19, 2010.
    5. ^ Kinema Junpo, 2月下旬決算特別号 No.904, キネマ旬報社, 1985年, 119頁
    6. ^ "Statistics of Film Industry in Japan". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
    7. ^ "Shoji Kawamori Interview". Animerica Vol. 3 No. 1. Viz, LLC.
    8. ^ "Translation & Cultural Notes". The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo. 2001-12-21. Archived from the original on 2008-12-30. Retrieved 2009-08-28. Episode 11 First Contact (November 2009) - The Zentradi video screens contain some of the first instances of written Zentradi -- though it was not an actual language at the time, but encoded Japanese or English words. Designer Miyatake Kazutaka developed the Zentradi 'script' to hide references in the alien text.
    9. ^ "ANNCast Classic: Macek Training". January 9, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
    10. ^ Peregrine Film Distribution Inc (1986-01-01), Dynamagic: A Galaxy of Animated Feature Films catalog, retrieved 2024-04-19
    11. ^ Riddick, David Keith; Napton, Robert; Park, Byunghun (1990). "Superdimensional Fortress Macross". Animag. No. 11. Pacific Rim Publishing. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
    12. ^ a b "Macross - långfilmen - DVD - Discshop.se". discshop.se (in Swedish). 2007-05-29. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
    13. ^ ROBOTECH [@RobotechNews] (July 20, 2023). "Certain #Macross sequels, such as Do You Remember Love, and any future sequel containing shared characters, mecha, and/or storyline, are currently prohibited" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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