Anyone know if Macross is available on any (legal) streaming site? The only I've found are the Macross Plus and Macross 2 miniseries on Hulu, but I prefer to watch things in sequence. I haven't watched any of the "classic" shows (the few animes I've watched are from 2010 and later), and giant mechs saving mankind through the power of J-Pop seems like a decent starting point (specifically I saw this clip from Macross Frontier and was intrigued).
What I've actually watched recently is Barakamon and KanColle, since I had nothing else to do through easter. Barakamon was a great, fun watch with some sad undertones about the depopulation of the Japanese countryside. KanColle struck me as being pretty much Upotte without the shock value (no furiously masturbating finnish girl elf kalashnikov) and with a silly game premise. Somehow not a bad show though.
If you liked Barakamon, I'd recommend
Gekken Shoujo-Nozaki-kun and
Gugure Kokkuri-san (it's the dude from Bakaramon basically doing 100% the same character...<_<). Yeah, and definitely
Gin no Saji for another great fish-out-of-water country life anime.
KanColle was a lot like Strike Witches, but less of the fan-service.
As for Macross, there's a huge long-standing international copyright kerfuffle stopping it getting released like a normal show. You can buy it in some places but it's probably not going to be legally streamed on major services. Not for decades probably, now that major movie studios are paying money for the rights to make a movie series out of the bastardized American spin-off that's the source of the copyright issues.
Basically the situation for Macross is as if a Chinese company got the legal rights to make a Chinese dub and re-edit the 1977 Star Wars, then tried to demand that the agreement meant that the Chinese version is the only legal version in the world, and tied up Lucasfilms in the courts with ridiculous lawsuits to stop them selling
any Star Wars movies worldwide. And then try and sell you Chinese-made low-budget "sequels". This is how Macross is basically faring, with all the American-made "Robotech" sequels being unadulterated filth.
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