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NEWS: Disney+ to Stream Nearly All Macross Anime Worldwide in 2024

I really hope, that Disney+ or somebody else bring "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross" and the compilation Movie "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?" in his streaming-portfolio.

Kougeru wrote:

Overall fantastic news but.... where's the original?!? Amazon had it back in 2016 and I really enjoyed watching it but it's been gone for like 5 years now. I want to watch it again. And does Disney+ ever release physical versions? I REALLY want to buy the shows in this series in particular just in case it disappears from streaming in the future

1) As per the agreement between Big West and Harmony Gold, the original TV series and Do You Remember Love film are still under the control of HG outside of Japan. Anything involving those two entries is therefore separate from any agreements Big West makes.

2) Most of these titles have already been licensed for physical release by other companies, per announcements made back in 2022.

Macross 7, Frontier, and Delta are under Nozomi Entertainment, now part of Crunchyroll.

Macross Plus is under Anime Limited.

Macross II is under AnimEigo, who recently ran a successful kickstarter to fund their home video release.

DYRL is not a compilation movie. It has a fair bit of original plot to just the movie. In the Macross timeline it is treated as a movie about Space War 1. As in, the characters in Frontier treat DYRL as a movie they have seen, and they are cast in a reboot of it. Crazy stuff huh?

Otaku-sempai wrote:

Skunked again on the 1984 movie! But, yet, they can release Flash Back 2012?

The technicality is that Big West has full control over any legacy work outside of SDF Macross TV, even if it includes characters & plot from that series, but simply aren't allowed to release new works involving the SDF cast outside of Japan (see that new video game, where the SDF characters are Japan-only). Since Flashback 2012 was never released before by Harmony Gold, Big West has the right to do whatever it wants with that around the world, even though it's recaps the events of SDF Macross.

The movie is super weird, since neither Big West nor Harmony Gold handled its prior English releases (I believe those were licensed out by Toho), so it's not really clear who actually would handle international rights to it.

Disney has added a Hulu hub onto D+ here in the states -- a redundancy if you get the Hulu/D+/ESPN+ bundle like I do -- as what is almost certainly the first phase of folding Hulu entirely into D+ and while High School DxD wasn't ported over (it's almost as if Disney doesn't want Rias and Akeno to be mistaken for Disney princesses or something), a good portion of the anime on Hulu is also in the Hulu hub on D+. Given Macross's place in history as both a mega franchise in its own right in Japan and as the spine of Robotech in the rest of the world, I don't doubt that whenever it premieres in the US, it'll be on both Hulu and D+.

We can debate the whys all day, but the fact remains they refuse to sell and continue to be a pain in the ass to anyone interested in this franchise, which is why I continue to theorize the next Macross project is some sort of reboot with new characters specifically designed to emancipate the franchise from Robotech.

The original English-language dub (of DYRL) is pretty bad; laughably so. I do believe that a heavily edited version was once released by one of the fly-by-night anime companies of the 1980s.

The commemorative graphic suggests the ONE thing fans are most eagerly awaiting to be released Worldwide is the ONE thing that's not going to be released.

I mean according to some of the comments in this thread, wouldn't that be copyright infringement? The graphic is being used to promote something that belongs to a party that has nothing to do with this promotion.

Yeah yeah I know, the small print says that Minmay is from the Flashback 2012 OAV, which is owned by Bigwest. But still...

Such a letdown.