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Macross: Shooting Insight Game Confirms Simultaneous Global Launch
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The debuted on Thursday, although the subtitled version is not yet available online.
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The also announced that Macross II Blu-ray Disc release will launch this summer. AnimEigo will provide more details during its own Otakon on Saturday at 3:45 p.m. EDT.
In addition to original soundtrack albums, the Original Soundtrack Plus ~For Fans Only~ album, and the Sharon Apple- The Cream P.U.F. mini-album.
Bandai confirmed that it will release a YF-21 figure from the Macross Plus anime in its DX Chogokin line. Macross Shōji Kawamori is supervising the design, and Macross visual artist Hidetake Tenjin is working on the packaging art. Along with the other Tamashii Nations Stores, Tamashii Nations Store New York will sell an exclusive metallic color edition of the Tiny Session VF-25F Messiah Valkyrie (Alto Saotome version) figure with Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee figures "maybe" this winter. (The figure set is slated for Japan in November.)
Earlier in the , Kawamori noted that he and Tenjin had just visited the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio this week for research on a new mecha work. However, he did not say that the work is part of the Macross franchise. (He first visited the museum four decades ago after production ended on the first Macross series. The museum's XB-70 Valkyrie bomber is the namesake for the VF-1 Valkyrie fighter in Macross.)
Update: Bigwest confirmed with ANN after the that the Macross Plus Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Disc is coming to North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in late 2023 or early 2024.
Update 2: Anime Limited founder Macross Plus Movie Edition. Thanks, Lord Geo.
Bushiroad Games described the game as a "new type of scrolling shoot 'em up." Bushiroad Games is Bushiroad's new game Frontwing, in March 2021.
The six-episode anime debuted in 1992. The story is set eight decades after Space War I, and follows a civilian news reporter who meet a mysterious singer from a previously unknown alien race.
Tatsunoko Production as production partners.
The franchise spawned three more television series (ran from April to September of 2016, after a preview of the first episode in 2015.
Sunrise is launching a new Macross animation project.
Bigwest, Studio Nue, and Robotech projects.
Source: Macross/Bigwest Otakon (Egan Loo)
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