Robotech Remembrances: Macross

Since starting to rewatch an anime series (at a somewhat higher tempo than I watch them the first time around) every few months, still worrying, perhaps, about how I buy the stuff much faster than I can watch it, but not letting that shape my viewing habits altogether, I don't seem to have lacked for ideas of series to view again. (That seems kind of encouraging in its own way.) It seems, though, that I managed to map out my return viewings for this whole year well in advance through a simple idea: since the calendar shows 2009, and that year was established once upon a time through a time-lapse sequence of iconic significance in my memory as the year the action really started in Robotech, I would rewatch the anime series (released a few years ago with their original Japanese language track subtitled and a strong component of nostalgia associated with them) that were combined to make it. After a little bit of toying with unorthodox ways to approach this, I decided at last to just start with Macross, the series first considered to be brought to North America and the series that started Robotech off. In contemplating how I might say something about that to help keep this journal going, though, I recalled how the last time I rewatched Macross, I was able to post about it here, for all that this time I was going to listen to the original Japanese language track...
( A difference between Macross and Robotech )

In any case, I was working my way through the show, handling well enough its wild swings in animation quality as different studios were brought in for different episodes, and secure in what's either a "middle of the road" or a just plain "wishy-washy" belief that, now that I have Macross, I'm more likely to watch it than Robotech but I see no particular reason to get upset over the mere existence of a show from the 1980s (although I suppose I do wonder at times if some seem to apply a "double standards" to "adapted anime" of that time other than Macross)... and then, on what might have been a whim, I started to revisit another part of the "Robotech experience" by starting into its novelizations.
( Meditations on novelizations )