Hey, I'm the one who called it ancient, and I feel the term is apt.
I watched Robotech when I was a kid, almost twenty years ago. Relatively speaking, it's ancient. It was one of the first, and it's still one of the best.
I've always considered Macross to be a proto-anime - it does define the medium, both here and in Japan. As for Robotech, it would be the seminal American work, Starblazers and Speed Racer aside, and the one that introduced most of us to Anime in the early eighties (alongside Voltron and Mazinger Z).
I guess my wish now is that kids today would associate something as grand in scope as Robotech or Starblazers with the anime medium, instead of the tripe they show today.
(Dragonball may have it's points, but it's no Macross; and as for Pokemon, we'll just close the curtain of charity in silence, ne?)
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Hey, I'm the one who called it ancient, and I feel the term is apt.
I watched Robotech when I was a kid, almost twenty years ago. Relatively speaking, it's ancient. It was one of the first, and it's still one of the best.
I've always considered Macross to be a proto-anime - it does define the medium, both here and in Japan. As for Robotech, it would be the seminal American work, Starblazers and Speed Racer aside, and the one that introduced most of us to Anime in the early eighties (alongside Voltron and Mazinger Z).
I guess my wish now is that kids today would associate something as grand in scope as Robotech or Starblazers with the anime medium, instead of the tripe they show today.
(Dragonball may have it's points, but it's no Macross; and as for Pokemon, we'll just close the curtain of charity in silence, ne?)