Macross: Do you remember love? (movie)

a retelling of the events in the TV series. although made in 1984, i gotta say, this still holds up in terms of visual quality and still looks very pretty. anyway...

the story picks up with the macross flung off to the far edge of the solar system. they fight their way back home and upon reaching earth, discover that their enemies had already razed earth, technically making them the only survivors. they also discover the alien race which created their enemies and also gave their ancestors an evolutionary helping hand. eventually, it's still the power of Minmay's song (and lyrics from an alien data disk they found on an alien colony ship/starship sunk on earth's ocean which resurfaced after the attack on earth) that saves the day.

Macross Flashback 2012 (short movie)

this follows the events after the 1st space war as told in the movie. a collection of music videos, it shows sdf-2 megaroad leaving earth with majority of the main characters, in search of new places to inhabit. this has got the best macross song of them all, IMO, "tenshi no enogude" or "colors of an angel". this is also the last time they'll be seen again.

Macross Plus (OAV and movie version)

3 childhood friends separated by a tragic incident inadvertedly cross paths again on new eden, a colony far from earth. one of them is a hothead and newly-assigned test pilot for a prototype variable fighter vying for the military's funding. he was apparently too much even for soldier duty, thus the reassignment. one of them is also a test pilot for another prototype variable fighter. and the other one who once aspired to be a singer, is now happy and content to be a manager of a virtual idol. while their paths meet again, trouble is brewing from both within the military and even from the virtual idol's camp, thus entangling everyone and even forcing a showdown between the idol-controlled (more like hijacked) SDF-1 macross and the hothead's prototype fighter. of course, it's the manager's old song which tips the scales in the protagonist's favor.

Macross 7 (tv series)

a story about one colonization fleet named macross 7 and their encounters with an alien race near the center of the galaxy. a more humorous look at macross, it introduces using song energy/spiritia as a weapon to fight those aliens after normal weapons prove ineffective. this is also the series where they create a squad using only song energy as the rallying point of the whole series.

Macross 7: The galaxy is calling me! (short movie)

set a bit after the series, this shows the misadventures of fire bomber's lead singer as he investigates a strong source of sound energy/spiritia, leading him to an icy planet with a meltrandi who loves singing.

Macross 7: Dynamite (OAV)

again, another story about fire bomber's lead singer, he this time encounters space poachers and "space whales". i haven't finished this one yet so i can't comment fully. hehehe.

Macross II: Lovers again (OAV and movie version)

an alternate universe to the macross series, this showss an even more powerful enemy who proves immune to human song as they have their own song, only this time their enemy's songs are songs for war. eventually the humans still win, because one enemy emulator was influenced by the power of love.

i hate this series personally as the SDF-1 gets blown up.

Macross Zero (OAV)

this is set a year before the events in the TV series. the presence of an alien object split into 2 parts is detected near the Mayan islands and both the UN and anti-UN forces investigate, believing that whoever controls both objects will control their conflict. eventually, they discover that this alien object is more than just the one seen in multiple paintings found all over the Mayan people's art, and when reunited, it shows the bird human and its purpose.

this has got the best mecha designs so far and CG works, as everything is in CG except for the characters. some of the best fight scenes as well, like shinn and nora's duel in the 5th OAV.