Anime Movie Rewind: Megazone 23

As my “watch an anime movie from each decade on the calendar, working backwards” project entered the 1980s it would seem to have plenty of films available, even with a constraint I’d settled on of taking the shrinkwrap off another Blu-Ray disc (not all of which, I’ll admit, were “recently acquired”) every time. For this decade, though, I avoided even a non-foolish consistency and opened up a long OVA recycling plans for an unfinished TV series, Megazone 23. There was the self-justification that this project is a last-minute lead-into a still more grandiose project starting next year to “watch an episode of anime from each year since it became established on TV,” but with that long-planned schedule tossing in half-hour OVAs every so often for years I had a hard time thinking of TV series that really held my attention. There was also the amused thought that parts of Megazone 23 had got on at least a few movie screens shuffled into “Robotech: The Movie,” leaving people ever afterwards to pick out various dubious parts of its production depending on how antagonistic they are to Carl Macek.
( Perspectives on Megazone )