Back to Southern Cross

In the first three months of this year, I returned to Macross, then went straight on to also watch again two more mecha anime series from the early 1980s I could link in different ways to that first, foundational show. Even as I summed up those months in a “quarterly review,” the grand plans I’d formed by the start of the year pointed me on to one more series that could be linked to Macross both ways: Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross had shared a brand name in Japan and been stapled into the “long enough for American syndication” animated series I’d watched in all innocence in my formative years. Having just happened to somehow wind up pretty much on the wrong foot with Orguss, though (even if Mospeada, like Macross itself, had stayed more satisfying), I was at least aware of the hard time “Robotech: Masters,” and Southern Cross itself, has had with broad swathes of fan opinion, all the way back to certain comments in the letter pages of the Robotech comics and able to bring up how the anime was said to have been cut short to an abrupt wrap-up (right around when production was beginning on Robotech).
( How my own thoughts wound up )