Robotech is one of the most - beloved cartoon of the ’ 80 and a pillar of American anime fandom , yet it can scarce make a sequel to save its life . It ’s not for a lack of trying ; proprietor Harmony Gold has seek to produce fresh Robotech TV series and movie for decades with almost no achiever .
1 ) Robotech II : The lookout
The first intended sequel to the originalRobotech series was a 65 - instalment series titled The Sentinels , which began to be produced in 1986 . But only three episodes , dish as a sort of feature film - length pilot , even got quicken . The show was go to compound Robotech ’s three saga — Macross , Southern Cross and Next Generation ( each originally culled from a unlike anime serial and edited together to make Robotech ) — although the serial would take place more or less at the same timeframe as Next Generation . In the show , Rick Hunter , Lasa Hayes and other Macross characters would be joined by Dana Sterling and Bowie Grant from Southern Cross , take a unexampled Super - Dimensional Fortress into blank to battle both the Robotech Masters and the Invid . According to Robotech conceiver Carl Macek , when the dollar sign / hankering exchange rate plummeted in the mid-’80s , the task became too expensive for Robotech toy producer Matchbox , and the project was canceled .
2 ) Robotech III : The Odyssey
This secondRobotech subsequence never made it past the marriage offer stage , and thus existed entirely in Macek ’s judgment . It was completely insane , even by the loose standards of ’ fourscore anime . This new series would have taken place after picket — the non - existent Sentinels — and featured the Macross / Southern Cross characters on the SDF-3 start back in clock time , becoming the Robotech Masters , and eventually make the original Super - Dimensional Fortress that would doss - demesne on Earth in the very first Robotech episode , which of course of instruction kicked off the entire series . moreover , Minmei ( best hump as the minor Taiwanese pop star who mercilessly toys with Rick Hunter ’s affection in Macross ) would give birth to Zor , the Master who created the Protoculture that fueled all Robotechnology , and who sent the SDF-1 to Earth just before his death . Madness .
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3 ) Robotech 3000
In 2000 , Macek tried again , planning a new cartoon that would employ the CG that seemed to be so popular with the tiddler . The show was set in 2999 with an all - new work party , ship , and whatever the perdition was mutate and controlling corrupted mecha . Robotech fans just hated it , mostly because it was CG and not the definitive anime style of the original , but it did n’t matter because the CG production company Nutter Digital go belly-up not long after the above demo footage was create , and the task was scrapped . Macek and Harmony Gold then work on a Robotech verbatim - to - DVD movie titled Shadow Chronicles , directed by Tommy Yune , which actually did manage to get to the full made and released , albeit seven year later .
4 ) Robotech : Shadow rise up
Of course , sinceShadow Chronicles did get let go of , Harmony Gold plan to follow it up with another direct - to - DVD movie . It was announced by Yune at the 2007 San Diego Comic - Con , and other than its claim and the fact it was originally reckon to hail out in 2009 , virtually nothing is recognize about it . Supposedly it ’s been postpone because of the omnipresent threat of a live - action Robotech movie , but who knows . However , at the 2013 Comic - Con , Yune suggested that Shadow Rising may still come out in 2015 . I would n’t hold your breath .
5 ) Robotech Academy
Announced on July 5th at this class ’s Anime Expo , the aim seriesRobotech Academy is currently only a Kickstarter project and one that has earned only $ 166,000 of its $ 500,000 end , with just 16 more days to go . So Robotech Academy has n’t officially failed yet , but it ’s not looking good . If somehow fans do get their shit ( and their checkbooks ) together , the series would be set at the same time as the ( still altogether non - actual ) Sentinels series , and would feature a fresh generation of young characters in a combination train academy / Robotechnology inquiry center , which is attacked by the Children of Zor , a cult of aliens who require the protoculture stored in say Academy . But then the Academy is unintentionally transported across the beetleweed , much like in the original Macross saga . Even if the Kickstarter ’s finish is reached , this would only fund a pilot — so turning that into a full - fledged Academy serial would be another battle entirely , not to mention a much more difficult one .
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