It’s been years since I’ve been able to do a BW Video Review. Between illness and other life issues there wasn’t time. As it is this one was supposed to come out before I started the first Robotech adaptation comic. At this point I’m just happy it was done before we got to The Sentinels.
Macross in Clash Of The Bionoids is a re-edit of The Superfortress Macross by Celebrity’s “Just For Kids” line. Superfortress Macross is the international dub from the 1980s of Do You Remember Love, a theatrical retelling of the events of the anime series Superdimensional Fortress Macross, or as us 80s kids know it, the first Robotech war, aka The Macross Saga. I hope you followed all that. Macross has become a franchise in Japan, with numerous series and movies to its credit. It also has fans in the West, who hate Harmony Gold from keeping the “pure” version away from them in order to hold on to the original series to keep Robotech alive. They even re-released all three Robotech wars as separate series, re-inserting the blood and nudity of the originals but using the old Robotech audio, which makes ME unhappy. I guess it was their attempt to please the Macross fans, although why they don’t just release the first Macross in its original form–you know, the logical answer–and still have their Robotech versions is beyond me.
There is also hate for Clash Of The Bionoids because it is in English (anime purists insist not that subtitled is the only version they prefer, which is fine, but should be the ONLY version PERIOD) and because of the heavy editing for the same target audience as Robotech. When anime is altered for the mainstream they get antsy. In this review I do bring up why mainstreamed anime is what led to the current state of anime release while going over the movie in the form I was first introduced to it as. Is this dub really all that bad, and can I determine anything about the original version from this? That’s what this review tries to uncover.
