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'''Robotech''', [[Japon]]lar tarafından [[anime]] (çizgi film) olarak bilinen ve yine japon yapımı olan çizgi filmdir. Filmde savaş uçağından robot savaşçılara dönüşen kahramanlar anlatılmaktadır.
Uzaydan Macros AdasinaAdasına düsen ileri teknoloji harikasi bir gemi düstügü yerde dünya federasyonunca incelenerek SDF-1 olarak yeniden insa edilir. Amac hem teknolojik sirlari ele gecirmek, hem de böyle muhtesem bir gemiyi yaratanlarin dünyada birakmayacak olmasi gercegidir. Modernizasyonun bittigi geminin acilisinin yapilacagi günlerde beklenen olur. Üstün Zentraedi kuvvetleri dünyaya saldirir ve savunma kuvvetlerini adeta ezer. Bu gücü dünyadan uzak tutmak amaciyla onlari dünyaya getiren arzu nesnesinin dünyadan uzaklastirilmasi düsünülür. Gemi kaptanina ki Henry Gloval'a her ne olursa olsun dünyadan uzaklasma talimati verilir, ki kaptan daha deneme ucusu bile yapmamis gemiyle uzaya acilma fikrini kabul etmese de baskilara boyun eger ve hatta yabanci teknoloji ürünü daha cok isinlama diye tabir edebilecegimiz KATLAMA olayini kullanarak kacmaya calisir. Fakat Katlamanin Macrosun cok yakininda yapilmasiyla beraber Macros Adasinin yarisida gemiyle beraber uzaya kayar. Ancak bir iyiligi olur, düsman dünyayi yakip yikmayi birakarak gemiyi aramaya koyulur. İnsanlari ekran basina baglayan serinin ilk bölümü diyebilecegimiz bu olaylardan diger bölümler SDF-1'in pesindeki milyonlarca gemilik düsman donanmasiyla savasa savasa dünyaya dönmeye calismasi seklinde gecer...
==Dış bağlantılar==
* [http://www.robotech.com/ ROBOTECH.COM] Resmi Robotech sitesi.
* [http://www.advfilms.com/ ADV Films]
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|image=RobotechTitle1985.jpg
|size=256px
|genre=[[Mecha]], [[Science Fiction]], [[Space Opera]]
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Anime|
title=''[[Robotech (TV series)|Robotech: The Macross Saga,<br>The Masters, The New Generation]]''
|director=[[Robert V. Barron]]
|studio=[[Harmony Gold USA]], [[Tatsunoko]]<br>(uncredited: [[Anime Friend]], [[Artmic]], [[Artland (anime studio)|Artland]], [[Studio Nue]])
|network={{flagicon|USA}} [[Television syndication|syndicated]]<br>{{flagicon|France}} [[La Cinq]]<br>{{flagicon|Philippines}} [[GMA-7]]<br>[[Image:Flag of Mexico.svg|25px]] [[XHGC-TV]]
|first_aired=[[March 4]], [[1985]]
|last_aired=July 1985 (USA)
|num_episodes=85 x 25 minutes ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088595/ '''IMDb'''])
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Movie|
title=[[Robotech: The Movie]]<br>(aka. The Untold Story)
|director=[[Carl Macek]] & [[Noboru Ishiguro]]
|producer=[[Ahmed Agrama]] & [[Toru Miura]]
|music=[[Three Dog Night]]
|studio=[[Harmony Gold USA]], [[Tatsunoko]], IDOL Co.
|release_date=[[July 25]], [[1986]] (Texas, limited)
|runtime=82 minutes ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091862/ '''IMDb'''])
}}
{{Infobox animanga/OVA|
title=''[[Robotech II: The Sentinels]]''
|director=Carl Macek
|studio=[[Harmony Gold USA]], [[Tatsunoko]]
|num_episodes=1 (remainder of series cancelled)
|release_dates=1987 (VHS)<br>2001 (DVD)
|runtime=85 minutes ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197828/ '''IMDb'''])
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Anime|
title=''[[Robotech 3000]]''
|director=Carl Macek
|studio=[[Harmony Gold USA]], [[Netter Digital]]
|network=(never aired)
|first_aired=2000 (proposed)
|last_aired=(cancelled)
|num_episodes=3 minutes ([http://www.robotech.com/gallery/mmitem.php?filetype=MOV&id=259 trailer only])
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Movie|
title=[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]
|director=[[Tommy Yune]] & [[Dong-Wook Lee]]
|producer=[[Jason Netter]]
|music=[[Scott Glasgow]]
|studio=[[Harmony Gold USA]], [[Tatsunoko]], [[DR Movie]]
|release_date=[[August 25]], [[2006]] (festival)<br>[[January 5]], [[2007]] (USA)<br>[[February 6]], [[2007]] (DVD)<br>[[March 14]], [[2007]] (Australia)<br>[[July 23]], [[2007]] (UK)
|runtime=88 minutes ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443771/ '''IMDb'''])
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}
'''''Robotech''''' is a [[science fiction]] franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different [[anime]] [[television series]]. Within the combined and edited story, ''Robotechnology'' refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or [[mecha]] (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive [[wiktionary:extraterrestrial|extraterrestrial]] invasions.
==The original television series (1985)==
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''Robotech'' was one of the first [[anime]] series released in the [[United States]] which largely managed to preserve the complexity and drama of its original [[Japan]]ese source material. Produced by [[Harmony Gold USA]], Inc. in association with [[Tatsunoko]] Prod. Co., Ltd., ''Robotech'' is a story adapted with edited content and revised dialogue from the animation of three different [[mecha]] anime series: ''[[The Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', ''[[Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross]]'', and ''[[Genesis Climber Mospeada]]''. Harmony Gold's cited reasoning for combining these unrelated series was its decision to market ''Macross'' for American weekday syndication television, which required a minimum of 65 episodes at the time (thirteen weeks at five episodes per week). ''Macross'' and the two other series each had fewer episodes than required, since they originally aired in Japan as weekly series.
This combination resulted in a storyline that spans three generations, as mankind must fight three destructive [[Robotech Wars]] in succession over a powerful energy source and "lifeblood" of two different races called "[[Protoculture (anime)#Robotech definition|Protoculture]]":
*The [[First Robotech War]] (''The Macross Saga'') concerns humanity's battle against the Zentraedi, a race of giant warriors who are sent to earth to retrieve the flagship of the Robotech Master Zor. The ship contains the last known source of Protoculture in the universe.
* The [[Second Robotech War]] (''The Masters'') begins when the creators of the Zentraedi, the Robotech Masters, attempt to take up where the Zentraedi left off, and capture the protoculture held within the remains of the SDF-1.
* The [[Third Robotech War]] (''The New Generation'') occurs after the alien Invid have been alerted to the existence of Protoculture on Earth by events that transpired at the end of the Second Robotech War. The planet is conquered, then enslaved, and it is up to the Robotech Expeditionary Force (& the Earth rebels) to retake their ancestral homeland.
====Home video====
Following the original broadcast, the series enjoyed popularity on home video in [[VHS]] and [[DVD]] formats from the following distributors:
:''For more information, see [[Robotech (TV series)#Home Video Releases|Robotech (TV series): Home Video Releases]]''
* '''[[Family Home Entertainment]]''' (VHS) (First six-tape run of ''The Macross Saga'' was heavily edited, with roughly 38 minutes of footage cut from each six-episode tape.)
* '''[[Palladium Books]]''' (VHS)
* '''[[Streamline Pictures]]''' (VHS, Laserdisc)
* '''[[ADV Films]]''' (DVD Region 1 — North America)
* '''[[Manga Entertainment]]''' (DVD Region 2 — UK)
* '''[[Madman Entertainment]]''' (DVD Region 4 — Australia)
* '''[[FUNimation Entertainment]]''' (DVD Region 1 — USA) (''Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles'' — Release date: 02/06/2007)
==Live action film (proposed) ==
On September 7th, 2007, the Hollywood Reporter stated that [[Warner Brothers]] had acquired the film rights to Robotech, and would be producing a live-action film with an as-yet-unknown release date. [[Tobey Maguire]] is producing the film through his Maguire Entertainment banner and is eyeing the lead role in what the studio plans on being a tentpole sci-fi franchise. "We are very excited to bring 'Robotech' to the big screen," Maguire said. "There is a rich mythology that will be a great foundation for a sophisticated, smart and entertaining film...".<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1f2de64a1d24bd55d67832dedc4bd442 | title = Maguire, WB attack the big screen with 'Robotech' | accessdate = 2007-09-12 |date= [[2007-09-07]] | work = The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Productions Company.
Craig Zahler ("The Brigands of Rattleborge") has been tapped to write the screenplay.
In an interview,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-5988/TS-43975.mp3 |title=Live-Action Movie Talk with Kevin McKeever|date=2007-09-09 |last=Meadows |first=Chris |accessdate=2007-09-12 |format=mp3 |work=[http://terrania.us/liberty Space Station Liberty]}}</ref> Harmony Gold representative Kevin McKeever said that Warner Brothers had approached Harmony Gold about the project, that Harmony Gold would have "a say" in its creative direction, and that it was not expected to affect the production schedule for ''Shadow Rising.'' He was unable to confirm any details of budget, casting, expected release date, or storyline, explaining that it was too early in the life of the project for these things to have been decided.
==Animated sequels and spinoffs==
[[Image:RobotechTheMovie.jpg|right|thumb|120px|[[Robotech: The Movie]]]]
Harmony Gold has attempted to produce several follow ups to the original series over the years, but with mixed success to this date.
====''Robotech: The Movie'' (1986)====
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Also called ''Robotech: The Untold Story'', this theatrical film was the first new Robotech adventure created after the premiere of the original series. It used footage from the ''[[Megazone 23|Megazone 23 Part 1]]'' OVA ([[Original Video Animation]], or made-for-video animated feature) spliced with ''Southern Cross'', and had only a tenuous link to the television series. The movie disappeared from the United States after a failed test run in [[Texas]]. Harmony Gold relinquished their license to ''[[Megazone 23]]'' after director [[Carl Macek]] washed his hands of the project.
[[Image:RobotechTheSentinels.jpg|right|thumb|120px|[[Robotech II: The Sentinels]]]]
====''Robotech II: The Sentinels'' (1987, cancelled)====
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This aborted American-produced series would have followed the continuing adventures of Rick and Lisa Hunter and the Robotech Expedition during the events of ''The Robotech Masters'' and ''The New Generation''. The feature-length pilot is comprised of the first three (and only) episodes that were produced. Being a sequel/spinoff to the combined series, ''The Sentinels'' featured characters from all three Robotech sagas and introduced the [[SDF-3 Pioneer|SDF-3]] along with an overview of their new mission.
According to director [[Carl Macek]] in ''Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels,'' the proposed 65-episode series was canceled after the crash of the dollar/yen [[exchange rate]] and lack of support by toy partner [[Matchbox (toy company)|Matchbox]]. Efforts to petition the completion of this series have gone nowhere, but the pilot was released on VHS by [[Palladium Books]] and on DVD by [[ADV Films]].
====''Robotech III: The Odyssey'' (proposed)====
Producer [[Carl Macek]] revealed ideas for another proposed series, ''Robotech III: The Odyssey'', which would have created a circular storyline that would end where the original ''Robotech'' began in a giant 260-episode cycle to fill up all the weekdays in a year. According to Macek, The Odyssey would have revealed Lynn Minmei to be the mother of Zor, making Minmei the focal point of Robotech.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.nabiki.com/sstalker/macekinterview.asp | title = Interview with Carl Macek | accessdate = 2007-07-05 |date= [[1995-10-05]] | work = http://www.nabiki.com/sstalker/}}</ref> After the failure of ''Sentinels'', ''Odyssey'' never went into development, though its ideas were worked into the [[Robotech (novels)|Jack McKinney novel]] ''The End of the Circle''.
====''Robotech IV and V'' (planned)====
Fan publication ''Macross Life'' interviewed Harmony Gold executive Richard Firth in 1986, where he revealed that ''Robotech'' creator [[Carl Macek]] had "plans through ROBOTECH 5, which would give us an episode for each day of the year for a year and a half." He also said that these two installments would have brought the series to 285 episodes. Regarding the plot, Firth mentioned a "retired Commodore Hunter, whom ever that may be, could very well be speaking at the graduation of the later day cadets or whatever, and they ask him to tell them the story all over again: it comes back [to the first episode of the series]."
It should be noted that [[Carl Macek]] himself has never mentioned ''Robotech IV'' or ''V'' in any interviews or writings.
[[Image:Robotech3000.jpg|right|thumb|120px|[[Robotech 3000]]]]
====''Robotech 3000'' (2000, cancelled)====
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[[Carl Macek]] attempted another sequel with the development of ''[[Robotech 3000]]''. This all-CGI series would have been set a millennium in the future of the Robotech universe and feature none of the old series' characters. In the three-minute trailer, an expedition is sent to check on a non-responsive mining outpost and is attacked by "infected" Veritech mecha. Again, the idea was abandoned midway into production after negative reception within the company, negative fan reactions at the [[FanimeCon]] anime convention in 2000, and financial difficulties within [[Netter Digital]] who was animating the show. It now exists only in trailer form on the official ''Robotech'' website.
====''Robotech UN Public Service Announcement'' (2005)====
A [http://www.theshadowchronicles.com/info.php?id=un sixty-second public service announcement] for the 60th anniversary of the [[United Nations]], featuring Scott Bernard and Ariel, was animated during the production of ''The Shadow Chronicles''. Although it did not use the original voice actors and the dialogue was somewhat out-of-character, it nonetheless marked the first fully-completed ''Robotech'' footage in many years.
[[Image:Shadow Chronicles Teaser Poster.jpg|right|thumb|120px|[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]]]
====''Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles'' (2006)====
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In 2002, [[Tommy Yune]] announced development of a new sequel movie, which was not named until 2004 as ''Robotech: Shadow Force''. The storyline overlaps with and continues from the unresolved ending of the original series. The title of the story-arc was soon changed to ''[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]''. The first trailers with finished animation were shown at [[Anime Expo]] and [[Comic-Con International]] in 2005. It was not until February 2006, when Kevin McKeever, operations coordinator at Harmony Gold, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8344 was able to confirm] that the pilot movie had been completed. After a series of delays, [[FUNimation Entertainment]] was finally announced as the home video, broadcast, and theatrical distributor at the 2006 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Harmony Gold has premiered the movie at various film festivals in 2006, with a limited theatrical run in January 2007, and released the DVD on [[February 6]], [[2007]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=1656430&forumid=31 | title = The Shadow Chronicles DVD in stores from Funimation on Feb. 6, 2007 | accessdate = 2007-02-17 |date= [[2006-11-20]] | work = Robotech.com Forum}}</ref> A 2-disc collector's edition is being released in November 2007.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2007/anime-expo/funimation | title = Anime Expo 2007: Funimation Entertainment | accessdate = 2007-07-06 |date= [[2007-07-01]] | work = Anime News Network}}</ref>
====''Robotech: Shadow Rising'' (2009)====
On July 27, 2007, at their Comic-Con International panel, Harmony Gold and Robotech director Tommy Yune unveiled the second entry of the ''Shadow Chronicles'' production, titled ''Robotech: Shadow Rising''. Pre-production has begun, and a projected release date of sometime in 2009 is currently expected.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-07-27/harmony-gold-starts-shadow-chronicles-sequel | title = Comic-Con International 2007: Harmony Gold/Tommy Yune Panel | accessdate = 2007-07-27 |date= [[2007-07-27]] | work = Anime News Network}}</ref>
==''Robotech'' (Harmony Gold) chronology==
The ''Robotech'' chronology, according to Harmony Gold, is illustrated below:
:''For a more detailed timeline, see [[Robotech Wars]]''
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<tr bgcolor="#D0D0D0"><th>Year</th>
<th colspan="2">Generation / Saga (release date)</th>
</tr>
<tr><td>1999 - 2014 </td><td>(1)</td>
<td>''Robotech: The Macross Saga'' (1985)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>2022</td><td></td>
<td>''Robotech II: The Sentinels''* (1987)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>2027</td><td></td>
<td>''Robotech: The Movie''* (1986)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>2029 - 2030</td><td>(2)</td>
<td>''Robotech Masters'' (1985)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>2042 - 2044</td><td>(3)</td>
<td>''Robotech: The New Generation'' (1985)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>2044 - </td><td></td>
<td>''Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles'' (2006)</td>
</tr>
</table>
Note: Asterisked works are now considered "[[Expanded Universe|secondary continuity]]" — that is, that their events exist in the continuity of ''Robotech'', but "don't count" when conflicts arise with the "main continuity" that are the three-part ''Robotech'' TV series (four, with the addition of 2006's ''[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]'').
In 2002, with the publication of the Wildstorm (DC) comics, Harmony Gold officially decided to [[retcon]] the ''Robotech'' Universe. The following ''Robotech'' material is now relegated to the status of [[Expanded Universe|secondary continuity]]:
* ''[[Robotech II: The Sentinels|The Sentinels]]'' in all its incarnations.
* ''[[Robotech: The Movie]]'' (which, in the strictest sense, never was [[canon (fiction)|canon]])
* [[Robotech (comics)|''Robotech'' comics]] published by [[Comico Comics|Comico]], Eternity, Academy, and [[Antarctic Press]].
* [[Robotech (role-playing games)|''Robotech'' RPGs]] published by [[Palladium Books]].
* [[Robotech (novels)|''Robotech'' novels]] written by [[Jack McKinney]], most notably ''The End of the Circle''.
While these materials are not precisely "retired" or "removed" from the continuity, their events are subject to critical review, and are strictly subordinate to the "official" events of the 85-episode animated series. Although certain events in the new feature film (''i.e.'', the final showdown at Reflex Point) proceed in a slightly different fashion from the original ''Robotech'' series, such disparities were intentionally introduced by the Harmony Gold producers, but are still considered canonical.
==The ''Robotech'' franchise==
At the time of its broadcast, Harmony Gold also launched ''Robotech'' through a popular line of comics to be followed by novels, role-playing games, toys, and other consumer products. With the cancellation of ''Robotech II: The Sentinels'', many of these licensed products were discontinued, and led to a drought of ''Robotech'' product through much of the 1990s, except for publishers who continued the ''The Sentinels'' storyline in print.
====Robotech toys====
3 3/4 inch action figures of the 3 Robotech generations were initially released in 1985 by [[Matchbox (toy)|Matchbox]] toy company, but then reissued in 1992 by [[Harmony Gold USA |Harmony Gold]] (Lunk and Corg were only released by Matchbox and Lynn Minmei was only released by Harmony Gold).
6" figures were released in 1985 also by Matchbox. All of these figures were from the first generation and were of [[Zentraedi]] characters only. These figures were supposed to represent the size difference between the Humans and the giant Zentraedi forces, but to be correct these figures would had to have been made about three feet tall. None of the figures came with weapons but the Armoured Zentraedi came with a removable helmet.
Also many toys depicting the vehicles & robots ([[mecha]]) from the series were released in 1985 by [[Matchbox (toy)|Matchbox]] , in 1992 by Harmony Gold and in 1994 by [[Playmates (Toy Company)|Playmates]], under the Exo-Squad line. There were major differences in packaging, toy stickers and colors between the different releases. The vehicles were designed to be used only with the 3 3/4" figures. The [[SDF-1 Macross |SDF-1 Playset]] was only released under the Matchbox line in the 80s & could be used with both the 3 3/4" & 6" figures.
Today most of the Robotech toys released in the 80s & 90s have become collector items & are very hard to come by, usually reaching some of the highest prices on Ebay.
[[Image:RobotechGraphicNovel.jpg|right|thumb|120px|Robotech: The Graphic Novel]]
====Robotech comics====
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''Robotech'' comics were first published in 1984 with DC Comics' short-lived ''Robotech Defenders'' and Comico's adaptation of the first episode of the Japanese version of ''Macross''. However, the first adaptation of the ''Robotech'' television series did not arrive until 1985 with Comico's ''Robotech: The Macross Saga'' #2, which continued from the first ''Macross'' issue.
The various comic publishers include:
* '''[[Comico Comics|Comico]]''' (1984-1989)
* '''Eternity''' (1988-1994)
* '''Academy''' (1994-1996)
* '''[[Antarctic Press]]''' (1997-1998)
* '''[[Wildstorm]]''' (DC) (2002-present)
====''Robotech'' collectible card game====
{{main|Robotech Collectible Card Game}}
The first ''Robotech'' [[collectible card game]] was released in 2006 by [[Hero Factory]], which had previously produced ''Robotech'' trading cards.
====''Robotech'' music and soundtracks====
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Various ''Robotech'' soundtracks have been released on [[gramophone record|record]]s, [[cassettes]], and [[compact disc]]s since 1988.
* '''[[Robotech music#Robotech: BGM Collection, Vol.1|''Robotech'': BGM Collection, Vol.1]]''' (1988)
* '''[[Robotech music#Robotech: Perfect Collection|''Robotech'': Perfect Collection]]''' (1988)
* '''[[Robotech music#Robotech: Perfect Soundtrack Album|''Robotech'': Perfect Soundtrack Album]]''' (1996)
* '''[[Robotech music#Robotech: Battlecry Soundtrack|''Robotech'': Battlecry Soundtrack]]''' (2002)
* '''[[Robotech music#Robotech: Invasion Soundtrack|''Robotech'': Invasion Soundtrack]]''' (2004)
* '''[[Robotech music#Robotech: The Original Soundtrack|''Robotech'': The Original Soundtrack]]''' (2005)
[[Image:RobotechTheMacrossSagaBattlecry.jpg|right|thumb|120px|Omnibus edition]]
====''Robotech'' novelizations====
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Since 1987, ''Robotech'' was adapted into novel form by "Jack McKinney," a pseudonym for the team of [[James Luceno]] and the late [[Brian Daley]], a pair of writers who had been working with Macek since they had collaborated on the animated series ''[[Galaxy Rangers]]''. Using fictitious [[epigraph (literature)|epigraph]]s in the style of ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'', McKinney's novels fleshed out the chronology (including adapting the incomplete ''Sentinels'' source material) in far greater detail than the original animation. Many ''Robotech'' fans consider the McKinney series to be an unofficial canon of its own, despite notable divergences in the writing from Harmony Gold's current official animation-based canon. Despite no longer being considered core-continuity by Harmony Gold, the novels have been recently re-issued by [[Del Rey Books]] as Omnibus compilations.
====''Robotech'' art books====
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In 1986, [[Starblaze Graphics]] published ''Robotech Art 1'', a reference book containing artwork, Japanese production designs, and episode guides from the original television series. This was followed by ''Robotech Art 2'', which was largely a collection of art by various American artists and fans. In 1988, Carl Macek collected much of the unused designs from ''Robotech II: The Sentinels'' into ''Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels'', which also included his story outline for the rest of the unfinished series, with an explanation behind its cancellation. In 2007, Stone Bridge Press published ''The Art of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles''.
====''Robotech'' role-playing games====
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In 1986, [[Palladium Books]] published a [[role-playing game]] based on the ''Robotech'' series. The successful run also included RPG books covering ''The Sentinels''. Contractual issues in the wake of Harmony Gold's aborted ''Robotech 3000'' project, as well as a general refocusing of the company on production of its flagship ''[[Rifts (role-playing game)|Rifts]]'' line, caused Palladium to eventually forgo renewing the ''Robotech'' license. The ''Robotech'' RPG line went out of print as of [[June 30]], [[2001]]. According to [http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=1467166&forumid=16 a report] from the February New York Comic-Con, a new ''Robotech'' RPG license deal is in the works. A [http://www.palladiumbooks.com/press/press2007-09.html press release] from [[Palladium Books]] addresses their recently (Sept 2007) renewed contract with further details to come soon.
[[Image:Rbbox.jpg|right|thumb|120px|''[[Robotech: Battlecry]]'' for [[PlayStation 2|PS2]]]]
====''Robotech'' video games====
''Robotech'' spawned five video game licenses, of which the most recent three were released:
* '''''[[Robotech: Crystal Dreams]]''''' for the [[Nintendo 64]] game system. This was aborted when its publisher, [[Gametek]], went under in 1998. The game would have taken place during the period between the [[SDF-1 Macross|SDF-1]]'s destruction and the launch of the SDF-3. A continuity nightmare, the game had a Zentraedi invasion during what was scripted in the series as a period of peace.
* '''''[[Robotech: Battlecry]]''''' (2002) for the Microsoft [[Xbox]], Sony [[PlayStation 2]], and Nintendo [[GameCube]]. The gameplay takes place in the Macross era, and features a storyline running exactly concurrent with that era's historical events. Multiplayer support is limited to one-on-one. Several of the voice actors from the original series, including Tony Oliver, Melanie MacQueen, Dan Woren, and Cam Clarke, reprised their original roles, or voiced new characters in this game. The game was a relative success, even though many fans complained of the over-cartoonified look of the game.
* '''''[[Robotech: The Macross Saga]]''''' (2002) for the [[Game Boy Advance]], a side-[[scrolling shooter]] that resembles the Japanese [[Super Famicom]] game ''[[The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie|Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie]]''.
* '''''[[Robotech: Invasion]]''''' (2004) for the Microsoft [[Xbox]] and the Sony [[PlayStation 2]]. First/third person shooter. The gameplay covers the ''[[Third Robotech War|New Generation]]'' part of the story, with support for single player missions and multiplayer online matches. Features Cyclones, transformable body armor/motorcycles. As with ''Battlecry'', several of the original voice actors reprised their roles.
* '''''[[Robotech: The New Generation]]''''' (2007) for [[cellphone|mobile phone]]s. A top-down [[scrolling shooter]] that covers the ''New Generation'' part of the story, leading up to the ''[[Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles|Shadow Chronicles]]''. The player can play as one of three characters (Scott, Rook and Rand), each with their own special weapons. The player also has the ability to change into "Battloid Mode" through the collection of Protoculture. ''Robotech: The New Generation'' features famous music from the TV series, as well as the most evil of all the villains.
==Effect==
While anime shows were brought to the US as early as the 1960s, such as ''[[Astro Boy (1960s)|Astro Boy]]'', ''[[Speed Racer]]'', and ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'', most were heavily [[Thomas Bowdler|bowdlerized]] for American audiences, with violence, deaths of major characters, sexual references, ''et cetera'', completely edited out for what was assumed to be an audience of young children. ''Robotech'', along with the earlier ''[[Space Battleship Yamato|Star Blazers]]'' (1974), broke with this tradition by leaving in some of those elements, and they are frequently credited as the series that helped spur a greater American interest in Japanese animation, leading to the current anime industry in North America. ''Robotech'' is frequently among the top-ten anime lists of American anime magazines such as ''[[Anime Insider]]'', ''[[Animerica]]'', ''[[Newtype USA]]'', and others. [[Cascadia Con]] gave Harmony Gold an award for ''Robotech'''s contribution to the science-fiction genre.
''Robotech'' had a similar effect in other places of the world, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Serbia and the Philippines. In China, during the summer of 2004, it was awarded "Best Robot-themed Anime of all time" by the Cartoon Channel of China Education Television. It is highly likely that someone growing up in any of those countries during the 1980s watched at least some of its episodes (However, ''Robotech'' did not start its broadcast in China until 1991). As in the US, it helped continue a slow but continuous rise in the consumption of anime.
That said, ''Robotech'' is often an extremely polarizing subject amongst anime fans. Some critics consider the show to be an abomination that runs roughshod over its original sources by Westernizing character names, making some censor-appeasing edits, and changing the stories of three wholly-unrelated series (some compare it to [[Woody Allen]]'s camp Japanese movie re-dub ''[[What's Up, Tiger Lily?]]'') to pass them off as a cohesive whole. Series writer/actor Greg Snegoff did say in an interview on the now-defunct ''Shadow Chronicles News'' fansite that, "afterwards, we received compliments from the Japanese who thought our dialogue and stories were better than the original" and ''[[Protoculture Addicts]]'' magazine reports in a ''Robotech'' fifth-anniversary article that those compliments came from the production company Tatsunoko. However, ''[[Animag]]'' magazine (issue 11) and ''[[Animerica]]'' magazine (issue 9, volume 4) reports that the original ''Macross'' creators at Studio Nue and Artland, such as story creator [[Shoji Kawamori]] and chief director [[Noboru Ishiguro]], expressed their concern over the ''Robotech'' adaptation, and surprise on its differences.
In an effort to combine the storylines of three different Japanese series, certain characters underwent drastic role changes, with little explicit character development or plot exposition. Notably, [[Rick Hunter]] (one of the main characters of the ''Macross'' segment) was changed — by a line of dialogue — from an ordinary-yet-pivotal fighter-unit commander into an unseen admiral, who is said to have ordered the destruction of Earth under the controversial rationale of saving it from the enemy. The line by an unnamed commander on the [[SDF-4 Izumo|SDF-4]] in the episode "Dark Finale" was, "''I've been ordered by Admiral Hunter himself to obliterate the planet completely.''"
In addition, the 65-episode minimum guideline cited as the reason to combine the episodes applied specifically to '''weekday''' syndication. Contemporary series such as ''Star Blazers'' and ''[[Transformers series|Transformers]]'' were initially syndicated weekly before reaching the 65-episode mark. The guideline also did not necessarily require a combined storyline; adaptations like ''[[Voltron]]'' coupled two unrelated Japanese series without directly combining the storylines. (A year later, 20 additional ''Voltron'' episodes and a crossover special were created for American audiences by [[Toei Animation]], after the first daily run of 104 episodes.)
Shortly after completing ''Robotech'', Carl Macek would make the less-well-known ''[[Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years]]'' in a similar fashion by combining two [[Leiji Matsumoto]] series, ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' and ''Queen Millennia'', together and altering the storyline significantly. In this case, however, the two anime series were spliced together in a manner where the stories of the characters occurred simultaneously, not one after the other.
''Robotech'' has been the subject of two parodies by the fandub group [[J-List|Seishun Shitemasu]]: ''Robotech 3: Not Necessarily the Sentinels'', and ''Robotech 4: Khyron's Counterattack'' (using footage from, respectively, ''[[Gunbuster]]'' and ''[[Char's Counterattack|Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack]]'').
==References==
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==External links==
'''Official Sites:'''
* [http://www.robotech.com/ ROBOTECH.COM] - Harmony Gold's official Robotech website.
* [http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/bibliography/ ROBOTECH Bibliography] - Comprehensive listings of books in and out of print.
* [http://preludeto.theshadowchronicles.com/ ROBOTECH: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles] - Official site of the new comic series.
* [http://www.advfilms.com/ ADV Films] - The current distributor of Robotech DVDs.
* [http://www.herofactorygames.com/ Hero Factory Games] - Maker of the upcoming Robotech collectible card game (CCG).
* [http://www.manga.co.uk/robotech/index.html Manga Entertainment UKs Robotech section]
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