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The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012

1987 · 30 min

A wistful musical scrapbook of remembered battles and pop songs, drifting between nostalgia and a quiet, hopeful goodbye.

Genres
Animation, Science fiction, Music
Overview
Flash Back 2012 is Minmay's farewell concert. Featuring some of her best songs, the music is performed over various scenes and events taken from the first Macross television series as well as Macross: Do You Remember Love film. Also included is a newly animated closing sequence showing the launch of Misa's colony vessel, the Megaroad-01, into space.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • music
  • love
  • memory
  • identity
  • exploration
Places
  • space
Era
far-future
Audience
teen
Form
  • animated
  • anthology
  • musical
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour3
Realism2
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Macross Collection

  1. Macross: Do You Remember Love?Movie · 1984
  2. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012Short film · 1987 This title
  3. Macross 7: The Galaxy Is Calling Me!Short film · 1995
  4. Macross Plus: The MovieMovie · 1995

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Genres
animation, science fiction, music
Directed by
Fumihiko Takayama, Katsuhito Akiyama, Noboru Ishiguro, Yusaku Saotome
Written by
Shoji Kawamori
Starring
Mari Iijima, Arihiro Hase, Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Eiji Kanie, Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Cinematography
Kazunori Hashimoto
Runtime
30 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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