Macross F Is the First Macross TV Series Kawamori Has Directed. 7 Was Directed B Y Amino Tetsuro and Even Macross Plus Was a Co-Director Position
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Macross F is the first Macross TV series Kawamori has directed. 7 was directed b y Amino Tetsuro and even Macross Plus was a co-director position. His tastes cha nge and are reflected in each Macross series. Kawamori never wants to do the same thing. It took ten years from the movie to d o Macross 7 and Plus because enough time had passed and he could do something di fferent. Even with Zero he could add a mythology aspect to it. Zero is not the first time CG was used in a Macross series. CG was used for 7 an d Plus, but in an experimental phase. He felt animators had reached a limit on a nimating mecha action, which is why he wanted to explore CG. During Zero, he fel t that the technology could be used for a TV series, although in Zero CG was use d mainly for flight scenes, and a few test battle scenes with the battroids. It wasnt enough for doing many scenes at the time, but he cleared the initial hurdle . The next test came with Aquarion and if CG could produce enough good action sc enes. Once this was accomplished, Kawamori felt hand animation could be concentr ated on the characters and song sequences and he could finally make the Macross TV series he wanted. Mecha action, songs, and love are the themes of Macross. The idea of combining s ongs and war are strange, but Kawamori remembers seeing the Vietnam war on TV an d then flipped the channel to a singing show and feeling that the singing show f elt more real. The three points of Macross are a real constraint and in the begi nning Kawamori was thinking of what the singer would do, how the hero and heroin e would meet, and different love triangles (two males and one female, three fema les, etc.) . The most difficult part was tying songs to the enemy. He keeps chan ging ideas that the staff finally told him not to change it anymore. If he made a Macross just for the existing fans it would be easy, but wouldnt be a challenge . Its been 25 years since the original series and there are so many things that did nt exist back then, that the tempo is different and adding those things are inter esting enough that non-mecha fans can enjoy the show. Regarding Yoko Kanno, originally he only asked her to do a few songs, but after she read the planning notes she wanted to do them all, so he feels very lucky. He leaves the song details to Kanno, but has ideas on differences between Ranka and Sheryls songs. And because the show is set in 2059, words like fold and gravi ty pop-up once in awhile. Hes glad that Mayn and Megumi Nakajima sound different, because their voices leave different impressions. The Seikan Hikou sequence was animated from video of Megumi dancing. Songs are not used just as background music , but as a more integral part of the story linking to the battle sequences. Kawa mori wants to make something that touches both the heart and stomach of the view er (not just the eyes and ears). The private army was devised for a number of reasons, mostly because Kawamori de cided the lead would be a student and pilot. If he was in a real military, he co uldnt be a student at the same time (nor have long hair). He did research on priv ate armies and how they work as well. Regarding teenagers, he wanted them to feel a connection to Macross F by startin g with a normal person (someone like them) and what it would be like to fight (l ike how wars are actually happening in the world). Frontier looks like a vinyl b alloon house, and he feels like Japan lives in their own little greenhouse, and what would happen if some kind of culture shock happened. Hiroyuki Yoshino is the one who adds all the homages into the series, like Alto rescuing Ranka in his Valkyrie. Kawamori has drawn this type of sequence three t imes (first TV series, movie, Macross F). Even with Episode 10s reference to Macr oss Zero, he tries to change things a little bit to give different meaning. Howe ver, he doesnt want to alienate viewers who dont know Macross, so he warns the sta ff to be careful with the references. About 3/5 through Macross F will surpass all Macross's and enter an adventurous storyline. Regarding the three versions of episode 1, Kawamori really wanted to have someth ing broadcast last year for the 25th anniversary, thus the De Culture edition. T he De Culture edition is like a movie, while the TV version focuses on the chara cters and feels more like a TV episode. Bandai Visual asked for a complete longe r episode, so music, BGM, etc. will be different on the extended version and Kaw amori hopes the impression is different. Regarding the DVD and Blu-ray release, Kawamori hopes that those with HD capabil ities will enjoy seeing the details in space fights and the galaxy sequences, an d even hear some lines that werent so clear in the broadcast version. For those teenagers who are watching the show and will be alive in 2059, he hope s they watch this show and asks to continue everyones support..