Robotech, an 85-episode science-fiction television series about three successive invasions of Earth from space, was one of the first anime released in the United States to preserve the complexity and drama of its original Japanese source material. Dubbed into English and released by the Harmony Gold corporation, Robotech fused the story lines of three different mecha anime series (with some modifications). The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada. The reasoning for combining these unrelated series was that the American TV stations had a minimum number of episodes (65) for weekday syndication at the time, and none of the three series met that requirement alone.

This combination resulted in a storyline that spanned three generations. The characters in the Macross saga, their children in the Southern Cross saga, and their descendants in the New Generation saga as they in success must fight three destructive wars over a powerful energy source called protoculture. The result is a surprisingly coherent story that resolves plot threads left unresolved in the earlier series. In particular, Southern Cross was originally intended to be a massive, be-all-end-all space opera, but ran out of money before it could be completed. Its inclusion in Robotech actually increased fan respect for Southern Cross.

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