The three series combined to form Robotech may not have been officialy related, but they were definatly ripping each other off.   See 5 other replies

Yeah, the budget and time restraints of the 1980s does rear it's ugly head from time to time. Even DYRL has it's color errors (Max's Valkyrie having a red stripe at one time), though those were fixed on the latest DVD. Most of the blame can be placedon an overseas studio given certain episodes called "Anime Friend". People called them "Anime Fiend", their work was so bad. "Virgin Road", the knife fight episode in question, was almost entirely done by them. You basically had your A Team, B team and so on. Action scenes were usually the A team, as were important episodes (27 is near flawless). Most of the character scenes were B team or outsourced sadly.And everyone always complains about the pacing, and I always have to wonder just how bad their attention spans are. Macross, while not the briskest show out there, was rather beautifully paced in my book, especially given the changes having to be made when the show was extended. There's no real filler outside of "Global's Report".   See 5 other replies

Uh, the three series weren't really intercut. They were put one after another with a few edits for content and stitched together pretty much just with script rewrites.And if you look at the original uncut Macross (released on DVD by both Animeigo and ADV/Section23), the animation is STILL inconsistent. Like I said, Miriya/Max knife fight. Not all of Macross's problems were Harmony Gold's fault, though the big example, the pacing, wasn't really the original creators' fault either.   See 5 other replies

They're not animation mistakes, they're editing mistakes.In order Harmony Gold to syndicate the series so it could be shown on American television, they took 3 different Japanese anime series so they could have enough episodes to meet the syndication requirements. This meant rewriting and re-editing these series which had nothing to do with each other originally, so that they would fit together and tell a single story. Now add to that the rather simple analog editing technology of 80's to shoehorn in a story the original animation wasn't intended to tell along with the differences in TV censorship rules between Japan and the U.S., and that pretty much accounts for all the "mistakes" in the animation.Also, of course DYRL is going to have better animation, it was a theatrical release, of course the plot of Macross is so compressed in it, the movie makes absolutely no sense if you haven't seen the series.   See 5 other replies

The animation quality for Macross varied wildly. Check out the Miriya/Max knife fight sometime. "Do You Remember Love?" had MUCH better animation.   See 5 other replies