MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 36: Farewell To Tenderness

Iconic Scene: Minmay bids farewell to Hikaru and Misa and the love triangle is resolved... somehow.

Quotable Quotes: "When I find my reason for singing again, I'd like to come with you on your ship."

Best Character: Global for already being on the bridge, like a boss.

Best Death: Laplamiz and Kamujin. If ya gotta go, go with the one you love.

And so Super Dimension Fortress Macross ends. This last third of the series was much more mixed than the previous thirds. The setup and world-building of the Reconstruction Arc is good but the characters, specifically Hikaru, Misa and Minmay leave much to be desired.

For a more comprehensive review of the series (sort of, I wrote it back in 2011) see these previous posts--

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 35: Romanesque

Iconic Scene: Bad Santa indeed.

Quotable Quotes: "It's time to give them their Christmas presents."

Best Character: Kamujin, for getting to win again and actually coming up with a fairly elaborate plan.

Best Death: Poor old Santa Claus here. At least I assume he died.

The penultimate episode. Kamujin has a Reaction Engine and devastates a city. Hikaru seems to have chosen Minmay and Misa has lost all her self-respect. Time for for all threads to be pulled tight.

MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 34: Private Time

Iconic Scene: I'm pretty sure this is the only time in all of the Macross franchise we see a named character pilot a Destroid.

Quotable Quotes: "You gave this to the wrong person."

Best Character: Nobody because every character comes off badly in this episode

Best Death: Misa and Hikaru's relationship... at least for now.

Hoo boy, this episode... Honestly, I feel that in reality, there's probably not a lot of chance that Hikaru and Misa's relationship could possibly recover from this debacle. Oh and this the one where Kaifun finally leaves but that's really not what should have happened.

Also, this episode is where Minmay gets a lot of hate for trying to break up Misa and Hikaru... except that never happens at all. It's Hikaru who blows off his date with Misa to be with Minmay. And seriously, if I was on a date and my date's douchebag manager showed up and threw a glass of water in her face and basically treated her like a slave, he'd be slammed up against the wall faster than you can say "Hollywood Hulk Hogan."

Also, check out this post and this post for a much more detailed analysis of this episode.

Hikaru you are a stupid... stupid... STUPID... a word has yet to be invented to describe how much of stupid... you are.

THIS. IS. NOT. HOW. IT. SHOULD. HAVE. ENDED.

THIS is how it should have ended:

MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 33: A Rainy Night

Iconic Scene: Roy and Claudia with the VF-X test models

Quotable Quotes: "Every time I go out there, I'm a little afraid."

Best Character: Roy, for baring his soul to Claudia.

Best Death: The Karyovin pilot that Roy shot down.

Probably the absolute best episode of the Reconstruction Arc... which is kinda weird since it's mostly flashback

This is also the only episode where we see these Unification Wars-era non-transforming fighters, the Unified Forces F-203 Dragon II and the Anti-UN Alliance MiM-31 Karyovin. You can read more about them at the Macross Mecha Manual

MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 32: Broken Heart

Iconic Scene: HI-HO MONSTER! AWAY!

Quotable Quotes: "Aw, just when the culture was getting good..."

Best Character: Laplamiz, for turning Kaifun into a marrionette.

Best Death: Again, none worth noting


An interesting point is made here by Kamujin but I think it's more just that you can't expect a race like the Zentradi to wholly change and especially not in just two years. Plus if you follow expanded material this won't be the last Zentradi uprising and will even be something of a plot point in Macross Frontier.

Again, pity this didn't kill him... or at least cripple him permanently.

MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 31: Satan's Dolls

Iconic Scene: Aw gee, looks like that miclone chamber got stolen anyway. Where's your Kaifun to make a fancy speech now, ya mooks?

Quotable Quotes: WARISBADMILITARYISBADGOAWAYWENOLIKEYOU. (et cetera, ad nauseum, more Kaifun babbling)

Best Character: Hikaru for being the bigger man, one of the few smart things he does in this arc.

Best Death: Hopefully all the poor stupid fools who listened to Kaifun and Kamujin squashed on his way in.

The one where Kaifun and Kamujin are allowed to win. And everyone else loses.

Also: Karma sucks, don't it?  (yes I'm intentionally using bad grammar)