Unused in the anime.Īn anchor fired from Gaine's chest. As detailed in the Brave Series Memorial Book, a small grenade launcher can be attached to the pistol's muzzle.Ī pair of cannons mounted on Gaine's legs. Gaine takes control of Might Gaine alongside Maito during the first half of the show but then switched to controlling Might Gaine all by himself after Maito becomes Might Kaiser's designated pilot.Ī pistol stored in a compartment in the left armpit section on Gaine's body. He normally deploys alongside with Maito Senpuuji piloting the Might Wing. He is the first robot to be equipped with a Super-AI, which allows him to have human emotions along with excellent combat skills. A shame most of the rest of the franchise is trapped in litigation over its ownership and distribution.Gaine's alternate form is a Nozomi Service 300 Series Shinkansen bullet train. Macross also deserves mention for being the source material for Robotech, the 80s English-language show that introduced a great many audiences to anime.Īmong the best of the Macross follow-ups is Macross Plus, an OVA with all the elements that made Macross great, a love triangle, spectacular aerial and spatial combat, and some speculations about life in the future, at full boil.

The first installment in the franchise, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, premiered in 1982, a few years after the first Gundam came on the air, and despite the superficial similarities between franchises, giant robot warfare, armies in space, etc., Macross sported a flavor of its own that was a touch more personal and emotional, rather than the large-scale politics that drove the Gundam shows. If Mobile Suit Gundam was the Father of mecha anime and Evangelion the Son, Macross is at the very least the Holy Ghost.

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