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Here's my first review in my first viewing of all of macross, i'll be reviewing all the serialized anime on here.

please note that this is scores based on the fact that "it's for a show of that time" which means that the art is really bad for todays standards but for that time it's on the level of scooby doo which was a hit at that time so it's really not that bad.

Summary:
anyway, the good parts of this anime was clearly the story, NOT the characters.
i mean they were alright, i liked them all up to like episode 20 or 25 but the drama got ... stale, the whole cast's decisions outside of battles got really questionable and MC just litterally turned from a good guy to an asshole, i mean he's dense but NOBODY is that dense!

Pros:
cool ass mecha with some really well made sounds for an 80'ies anime. i had a laugh many times throughout my viewing of the series, whenever the typical 80'ies scary music happens to come on, or the blast of an opening theme that really made the hairs on my neck rise when MC took off into battle.

The macross is badass, the worldbuilding is top quality, on par with the worldbuilding of One Piece! and that's quite good! what i mean is that you have a clear idea of where they are most of the time, you get a city name back on earth pretty much always right off the bat, when out in space we mostly know where in the solar system they are which really immersed the viewer imo.

so just to be clear, this anime ends pretty good, it brings plenty of continuity to the show, we get to know that we're sure to have a few other anime in this universe. well we did get more so i'm right there.

anyway, idol and mecha is a cool mix and i hope it's better executed in the later anime in the series


Cons:
well there is one place where this anime is dragged down from an overall 8 to an overall 6, you might know by now that the characters aren't that well made, their decisions aren't thought through etc. well not to spoil anything i'll just say that there is the usual triangle drama as we've seen before but it just ends up being confusing, we know who loves who, how it's gonna end but then! it just changes last minute and the series ends, leaving the viewer confused as to what just happened.

anyway, i've heard the other series should be quite a bit better in the characters department so i'll keep my hopes up.

So, here's my review, before writing this, i've watched Fate/Zero, i've played fate grand order(here i'm talking reading his servant profile and playing through Fate/accel zero order) so i know additional background story about MC and his relations to referenced characters so you know- i can give a pretty decent evaluation of the story.

Story: 6
i'm giving it a 6 because although Fate tends to be pretty well set with story and lore etc, this show seems to not show that much continuity yet, as a standalone episode it had a pretty nice plot and it's nice to see our boi Waver do his thing in ... the clock tower for once, but i fear it'll become repetitive later on.
Art: 7
it's alright, i wouldn't call it foolproof but i liked how gray looked a lot and Waver, well he looks like waver... the people doesn't look completely dead inside and specifically the shadow shown later in the episode looked believable enough. the cars looked acceptable.
Sound: 8
nothing wrong here tbh, i would rate it higher if there was anything completely outstanding in regards to the sound, in fact it was just what i expected and i'm completely fine with that.
Character: 9
the characters really require you to have watched at least enough of fate/zero to know who Lord El-Melloi or Waver is because most of their backstory comes from there. but if you have watched that and knows how great a character he is you will understand how much i love waver as a character. I personally was a little disappointed that we didn't see more of him than we did back then.
gray is cool as hell imo i really look forward to seeing her character pan out, and why she is there etc.
those two kids, i really hated them during the first half of the episode but later on, when i saw their determination i grew to look past that as well.
Enjoyment: 10
this is a little biased like the other ratings actually but then again as a fate fan i really always loves to get a laugh out of an anime, and i got a laugh every time i saw waver be his usual "trying to be good at his thing but still fails" self.
overall: 8
it's decent, i'll say this now, the story doesn't seem so compelling as of now which i fear might actually be this series downfall because as my animu knowledge goes this has the potential to end in a repetitive format towards the middle of the series. but i think just because of the characters i'll end up seeing past that and enjoying the characters instead.

It's the most confusing anime of all time that i have ever watched.
that would have been what i'd say if i hadn't watched the midseason episode, episode 12, damn that was an episode, here's a review of this outstanding anime of this season:
So basicly it's been one hell of a ride, first off at this point i'd be shocked if this masterpiece wouldn't be considered as the best anime of the year, additionally just the feeling of enjoyment from the very first second of the episode, the suptle feel of the first words of the opening at the very beginning to the last seconds of ... the episode with the preview of the next masterpiece of an episode.
With that said every damn episode is a piece of art itself, they all have their own charm to them and the characters are so likeable, so much in fact that i'd like to neglect the fact that there are slight hints of pedofelia in it but on that note it's also extremely far from the main storyline.
Basicly my saturday evening goes like this, i check crunchyroll if i remembered the time wrong, 30 minutes later i check again, and again, and again till the next episode is out. (that's an exaggeration of course)
But basicly what i'm saying is that i'm stuck between deeming Silky or Chise best girl.