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The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (超時空要塞マクロス Flash Back 2012 Chō Jikū Yōsai Makurosu Furasshu Bakku 2012), also known as Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012, is an OVA created by Studio Nue, released on June 21, 1987 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Macross franchise. It is approximately half an hour and made up of ten music videos composed of scenes from the Super Dimension Fortress Macross television series and The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie, with the exception being "Angel's Paints" which featured a new epilogue.

Overview

Production for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? initially planned to include an epilogue featuring Lynn Minmay singing the ending theme song "Angel's Paints" during her farewell concert tour.[1] Flashback 2012 was created to reproduce this scene, which would make it the final video work made based on the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and the last Macross-related work made during the Showa era.

Macross Flash Back 2012 is composed of ten music videos, taking scenes from the Super Dimension Fortress Macross television series, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? film and various live action footage.

Summary






    • A few scenes of Maximilian Jenius winning the arcade game against Milia are spliced throughout.


  • Love Drifts Away
    • Various scenes from the television series, mostly of Roy Focker and Hikaru engaging the Zentradi, leading to the former's death, and how Hikaru deals with it.
  • Cinderella
    • Scenes of the brutality of war throughout the series, with a few stock images superimposed on the animation. The mood is somber, with Minmay trying to win over Hikaru in the end.
  • Do You Remember Love?
    • Images of Minmay and her budding romance with Hikaru from the film and television series. Flashes of Misa and Hikaru stranded and fighting for their survival on Earth. Cuts to Minmay as she realizes the truth of her doomed romance and standing up and learning to move on and sing for herself.
  • Angel's Paints (Part 2)
    • Minmay sits among the thousands of seats in the empty stadium where her last concert was held. She walks up the stairs to the stage and plays Angel's Paints on the piano. As the music starts up again, she sees Hikaru in a pilot suit. He hands her a microphone, right after the costume she wore during the concert appears on her, she is greeted by Misa.
    • Years earlier, Minmay packed her bags for South Ataria Island. Before leaving she saw photos of her and her family on a touchscreen photo frame, and had a minor argument with her parents. After venturing through a busy street, Minmay put her bag down by a wall and saw a poster promoting the SDF-1, now in 2012 she stands with her suitcase in the same location, the poster has been replaced with one promoting the SDF-2 Megaroad-01. Misa has been promoted to the rank of Captain and given command of the SDF-2 while her Husband, Hikaru, pilots the newest variable fighter, the VF-4 Lightning III. Minmay waves goodbye to the crowd as the SDF-2 launches, and the visage of a younger Minmay seeing her current self off appears. The SDF-2 rises above the landscape of Macross City With the approval of Captain Misa Ichijō, Skull Leader Hikaru flies vertically in his VF-4. Many variable fighters and a Nupetiet-Vergnitzs-class Battleship fly together as part of the SDF-2 Megaroad-01's fleet past the moon.
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    • Makoto Fujiwara performs a duet with Mari Ijima.

Production

Preliminary designs were created for these story events in the production of the earlier works, but this OVA was the first time that these events were animated (the earlier preliminary designs were replaced with new designs by the original director/mechanical designer Shōji Kawamori, original character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and original mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake).

Characters

  1. Lynn Minmay
  2. Hikaru Ichijyo
  3. Vrlitwhai Kridanik
  4. Exsedol Folmo
  5. Lynn Kaifun
  6. Misa Hayase
  7. Roy Focker
  8. Yoshio
  9. Milia Fallyna
  10. Maximilian Jenius

Mechanic

  1. SDF-1 Macross
  2. VT-1 "Super Ostrich" Valkyrie
  3. Queadluun-Rau
  4. VF-1D Valkyrie
  5. VF-1A Valkyrie Hikaru Ichijyo Custom
  6. Regult
  7. VF-4 Lightning III
  8. SDF-2 Megaroad-01

Gallery

Release

  • The laserdisc and DVD release for DYRL had its ending replaced scenes from the first part of "Angel's Paints. In the series' commentary section on the Macross Frontier radio program "RADIO MACROSS", Megumi Nakajima, who played the role of Ranka Lee, was surprised by this information.
  • Flashback 2012's DVD was released on April 2000 and came with a bonus telephone card, which has become highly sought after online, partly due to its limited distribution. The film saw another DVD release on February 22, 2008 as part of the 25th anniversary of Macross franchise.
  • As a preorder bonus for the Macross 30th ANNIVERSARY BOX (30th Anniversary Box) Blu-ray Disc, a limited edition BD for Flashback 2012 was included on July 12, 2012.[3]
  • On April 22nd, 2021, the OVA was uploaded to Big West's Macross Channel on YouTube for non-Japanese audiences to stream legally and for free. It is the first work since Big West's new agreement with Harmony Gold to be released globally.

See Also

Series

Movies

Games

References

  1. Animage - "I really want to make an epilogue movie" Macross "directed by Shōji Kawamori", January 1984, page 88.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
  3. The master for Flashback 2012 is is currently missing, and only an up-conversion HD remastering is available.

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TV Series Super Dimension Fortress Macross | Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again | Macross 7 | Macross Frontier | Macross Δ
Events Unification Wars | Space War I | Sharon Apple Incident | Protodeviln War | Vajra War
Movies The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? | Macross Plus Movie Edition | Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: The Movie | Macross Frontier Movie: The False Songstress | Macross Frontier Movie: The Wings of Goodbye | Macross FB7 Galaxy Flow Soul: Listen to My Song! | Macross Δ Movie: Passionate Walküre | Macross Δ Movie: Absolute Live
OVA The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 | Macross Plus | Macross 7: Encore | Macross 7 the Movie: The Galaxy's Calling Me! | Macross Dynamite 7 | Macross Zero
Books Misa Hayase: White Reminiscences | My Fair Minmay | Macross Ace | Macross Dynamite 7: Mylene Beat | Shōji Kawamori Macross Design Works | Macross Chronicle | Macross 7: Trash | Macross Plus: TAC Name | Macross The Ride | Macross 7th Chord | Super Dimension Fortress Macross The First | Macross F ~Secret Visions~ | Macross Δ Manga | Macross Δ Gaiden: Macross E | Macross Δ: Kuroki Tsubasa no Shiro Kishi | Macross Δ: Ginga wo Michibiku Utahime | Variable Master File | Macross Δ: Girl of Al Shahal
Video Games Super Dimension Fortress Macross (Arcadia 2001)| Super Dimension Fortress Macross (Famicom) | Super Spacefortress Macross | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross 2036 | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Eternal Love Song | Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II (Arcade) | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Remember Me | Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Skull Leader | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Love Stories | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Skull Leader Complete Pack | Macross Plus (Arcade) | Macross Digital Mission VF-X | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Game) | Macross VF-X2 | Macross 7 -Shake the Heart of the Galaxy- | Macross Plus Game Edition | Macross M3 | The Super Dimension Macross: Aiuchi Typing Valkyrie | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross | Macross Ace Frontier | Macross Triangle Frontier | Macross Ultimate Frontier | CR Fever Super Dimension Fortress Macross | My Boyfriend is a Pilot 2012 | Macross 30: The Voice that Connects the Galaxy | Macross Card Fighter | Pachislot Macross Frontier | Macross Δ Scramble | Uta Macross Sma-Pho De-Culture | P Fever Macross Δ
ONA / Short Film All That VF - Macross 25th Anniversary Air Show | Macross 7 Plus | Macross Fufonfia | Delta Mini-Theater
Concerts Macross One Night Stand | Mylene Night | Macross 25th Anniversary Live: Minmay meets Fire Bomber | Macross Crossover Live A.D. 2009x45x49 | Macross Crossover Live 30 | Fire Bomber 2014 Basara Explosion | ANIME SYMPHONY JAPAN PREMIUM CONCERT MACROSS 35th × Macross F 10th Anniversary | Macross Crossover Live 2019
Drama / Character Album The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. III MISS D.J. | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. IV Distantly Fading Memories | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. V Rhapsody In Love | Macross 7 Docking Festival | Macross 7 CD Cinema 1: Mellow Heart Beat | Macross 7 CD Cinema 2: Melodious Illusion | Macross 7 CD Cinema 3: Galaxy Song Battle | Macross Generation | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Inside Story~Macross Classic | Macross Frontier Drama CD◎Nyan Dra Dra1 | Macross Frontier Drama CD◎Nyan Dra Dra2 | Macross Frontier Drama CD◎Nyan Dra Dra3 | Macross Frontier Drama CD◎Nyan Dra Dra4
Others Macross 15th Anniversary | Macross 30th Anniversary Project | Macross: The Museum | Macross The Musicalture | Macross: The Museum ver.2.Δ | Macross Modelers | Macross Blue Moon Show Case in Tokyo SkyTree | Macross: The Art 1982-2018 | Macross Bakuon Film Festival | Macross Boys | All Macross Big Voting | Macross Won’t Stop | Shoji Kawamori Expo
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