Macross streaming on Disney+ (under the "Star" label; Star/Hulu of D+)

[Mog]

No, in the subtitles.

Those words don’t show up at all, even though I know I’m hearing them.

[Master Dex]

Well I have yet to watch Frontier on stream actually, I'm still finishing a 7 rewatch. If I remember I'll watch for that.

[kajnrig]

Broke down and got a Hulu sub to watch M7 for the first time. Two episodes in and... boy, it is 90s as HELLLL . All the hallmarks of 90s anime, and 90s pop rock. Phew. I honestly don't know if I'll be able to make it all the way through. Just for comparison, I threw on the first two episodes of Frontier and they hold up muuuch better. And there's 50 episodes left to go, AND the OVAs, AND the movies...

[Big s]

12 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Broke down and got a Hulu sub to watch M7 for the first time. Two episodes in and... boy, it is 90s as HELLLL . All the hallmarks of 90s anime, and 90s pop rock. Phew. I honestly don't know if I'll be able to make it all the way through. Just for comparison, I threw on the first two episodes of Frontier and they hold up muuuch better. And there's 50 episodes left to go, AND the OVAs, AND the movies...

90’s anime wasn’t too bad, but Macross 7 isn’t the easiest show to watch. 50ish episodes plus the ova’s and a whole lot of reused animation. I find it a bit tough myself, but I’ve never watched it with non bootleg subs.

[Chronocidal]

I always felt part of the struggle with 7 was actually that the early episodes really fall into that "monster of the week" formula you get with so many Japanese shows (sentai-especially), where you have a pile of nearly identical episodes that all start out with a minor plot point, and then resolve exactly the same way when the big bad gets driven off by the main characters using their designated super power.

I don't remember how many of those episodes there are, but I feel like it didn't really pick up until I got 10-20 episodes in, once they actually developed the setting a bit more.  The series could probably be easily condensed down into a 26 episode run with a little editing.

[GreenGuy42]

Last time I watched Macross 7 was sometime in the early 2000's with a bootleg using terrible English subtitles. I'm loving being able to watch it in an official way. 

I sold all my Macross toys back in college to cover bills. I've just purchased the new DX Chogokin YF-19 and Hi-Metal VF-4. I even got my wife, who generally hates anime, to watch Macross Plus! It's been a long time since I've been this excited about Macross. 

[Big s]

4 hours ago, GreenGuy42 said:

Last time I watched Macross 7 was sometime in the early 2000's with a bootleg using terrible English subtitles.

Same here

[jenius]

2 hours ago, Big s said:

Same here

Haha, I'm in that club also.

[Powered Convoy]

Same, but I gave up after a few episodes.

 

Looking to right that wrong. 

Edited yesterday at 12:57 AM by Powered Convoy

[Graham]

Macross 7 is awesome, I absolutely love it,

I just finished what must be my 5th or 6th re-watch over the decades, since first watching it on bootleg VHS tapes back in 1994.

BOMBA!

 

[kajnrig]

On 2/3/2025 at 1:52 AM, Chronocidal said:

I don't remember how many of those episodes there are, but I feel like it didn't really pick up until I got 10-20 episodes in, once they actually developed the setting a bit more.  The series could probably be easily condensed down into a 26 episode run with a little editing.

Yeah, I've heard this sentiment made a lot here, so I'm steeling my resolve to push through it.

I also had that same sense after those first few episodes, that it could be condensed fairly easily. I'm surprised there's no compilation movie, either.

9 hours ago, Graham said:

Macross 7 is awesome, I absolutely love it,

I just finished what must be my 5th or 6th re-watch over the decades, since first watching it on bootleg VHS tapes back in 1994.

BOMBA!

See, this is what I mean. Everyone who gets through the whole thing LOVES it, but everyone who gets through the whole thing also says that it takes a looong time to get going (and reuses a lot of animation, which boy were they not kidding. Not even GOOD reused animation, either... We really were spoiled by Zero/Frontier ).

Edited 16 hours ago by kajnrig

[Duke Togo]

33 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

See, this is what I mean. Everyone who gets through the whole thing LOVES it

I've watched the entire series twice in the past 20-something years and I definitely do not like it at all, lol.

[locidm]

My brother is getting back into Macross after 30 years thanks to the streaming on Hulu. I recommended him to start with zero, then plus, then go straight to Frontier. He asked about 7, I said it's really hard to watch unless you're a big Macross fan. While there are some charming moments, the plot just does not move forward much. Then he said, oh that sounds great, because he can watch it in the background and not worry about missing key moments. 

[kajnrig]

13 minutes ago, Duke Togo said:

I've watched the entire series twice in the past 20-something years and I definitely do not like it at all, lol.

Okay, everybody -1

[Seto Kaiba]

I've rewatched Macross 7 a few times over the years.  I remember I absolutely hated it when I first watched it, partly because of the awful subs and the first half endlessly recycling the same 2-3 songs, but mainly because Basara is a pillock.

Some 20 years later, I love Macross 7.  I still think Basara is a pillock, but I sympathize so much with Mylene, Gamlin, and even Gigile being absolutely confounded by his bullsh*t and visibly restraining their desire to throttle him at many points in the series.

Edited 15 hours ago by Seto Kaiba

[Big s]

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Some 20 years later, I love Macross 7.  I still think Basara is a pillock

I don’t really know what a “pillock” is, but he does come of as a special kinda douche most of the time

[JB0]

5 hours ago, kajnrig said:

I also had that same sense after those first few episodes, that it could be condensed fairly easily. I'm surprised there's no compilation movie, either.

They eventually made one, as a Frontier crossover. It is somehow even worse-paced.

[davidwhangchoi]

Macross 7 in Gundam terms was comparable to Double Zeta.

Starts out with ridicule like ZZ and a slow burn in character development.

The build up and payoff at the end is great, M7 series is one of the most rewatchable out of the Macross franchise. 

I can't say the same for Zero, I'll just fast forward to the battle scenes and stop after.

Edited 10 hours ago by davidwhangchoi

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, Big s said:

I don’t really know what a “pillock” is, but he does come of as a special kinda douche most of the time

It's a more flavorful way of calling someone a particularly annoying idiot.

Of course, given his hyperfixation on music and inability to pick up social cues, he's probably just high-functioning autistic rather than an idiot... not that that makes him any less obnoxious.  Either way, it's easier to treat him as a walking plot device rather than a character in his own right.

[Dynaman]

7 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Okay, everybody -1

Make that -2.  Mind you there is a decent story underneath the ddddrrrraaaawwwwnnnn (drawn) out run time.  The hanna Barrbara looking villains don't help matters either.

[camk4evr]

I admit, I only watched Macross 7 once (I can't remember where I put the bootleg dvds). I started rewatching Macross 7 last week and found that I still like it. I still think any episode can be improved by someone beating Basara about the head and shoulders with a 2x4 for a few minutes.