oh well...I was really saddened by it. I waited for 30 some years to finish this movie since I was a kid. I never got to watch this movie up until last week and all I end up finding is an open ending.
Seriously though guys, i'm sorry to tell you this but I really got hooked up with the love story, because Japanese women tend to show their love in a subtle way and I love that about them, unlike the way here in North America, its like let's screw now, forget the love, and lets have fun, but Japanese women really get serious about those feelings and they don't joke around about it, and I admired Hikaru's confidence and self-control not screwing Minmay or Hayase, that shows manly to me and gentleman character to me, and I respect that a lot.
I don't know now how the Japanese culture has changed, but to me, back then that's how they are, cause I use to hang out with a Japanese girl.
Regarding the movie, I don't think I have a bootleg, I have 4 kinds of Macross here with me they are as ff:
Macross Zero
SDF Macross Series
DYRL
Macross II Lovers Again
Where is ADV? What is ADV? I know the Macross II wasn't really something approved by the author so the characters are totally different....
My Jaw dropped when I watched Zero the 5 episodes was freakin!!! I wish all the Macross Series will be re-worked to incorporate CGI, damn, the VF-0 really made me repeat the scene over and over and over...and I was really hooked up, but I didn't like the storyline cause it was more of a fairy tale story than Military/War story...
But seriously though, the reason why I watched Macross, and waited for it for so many years, was not only the Valks, when I was a kid yeah, only the Valks I use to focus on, the love story I wasn't paying attention then cause I was only 7-8 years, but now that i'm in my 30's things change you know, you think of the story and approach it differently. So right now i'm still hurting and quite angry, and it gave me bad dreams after watching that movie, my feelings got so absorbed by the love story...and I don't want to watch it for awhile....cause of the sad ending. I don't know why Kawamori chose to end it that way, i'm sort of angry at him, he got me so hooked on the love story only to find out they died....I wish he would re-visit the story and gave it a good ending for both...like them retiring and being able to live happily and their children taking over the saga cause they were the characters that made macross, Macross.
ahh well, I guess it won't happen so i'll just stop from here on...
Snooze