Chôjikû Yôsai Macross II Lovers, Again

ok, here we go. you have an alien singer, a miltiary stricken female hot shot pilot, and a tv news reporter who's shy. can you say, robotech? this movie is the macross series from robotech with a new conflict. i thought the battle scenes were cool, but that's about it. and the dubbed singing?? ugh!!! SUBTITLED FOR LIFE!!!

A new splinter race of the Zentraedi show up: the Marduk. While the Zentraedi were defeated by Lynn Minmay's music, the Marduk have their own singers (emulators), spur their soldiers into battle. A reporter name Hibiki Kanzaki captures a Marduk emulator, Ishtar, while reporting on a battle, and proceeds to teach her of the happy-happy fun-fun nature of peace & love, which she shares with the rest of her people.

While I do like the Macross franchise I did find this OVA to be very boring. And I feel the story does seem to drag on for longer then it supposed to be.

Compared to some of the other Macross protagonists such as Osamu, Shogo, Hikaru and Eiji. Hibaki was just very uninteresting as a protagonist.

Ishtar while she was hot I do feel that she was just plain fan server for the series and her development was just a complete waste.

I do think the art style/animation, music, voice acting and visuals were also good. I did also like the fact we got to see Lynn Minmay in this but only for a brief scene.

Overall it's okay to watch on a lazy Sunday but I wouldn't recommend it if your just get into the Macross series.

Ugh. I can't believe I actually watched the entire movie. Where my friends turned it off, I came home and sat through the whole thing. A very bad experience that is made worse by the horrid dubbing. The plot is a cheasy recreation of the Macross idea, but manages to clutter it up with pointless songs and some lame attempts at bringing across it's very trite message of peace and love. The battle scenes are made dull due to the fact that you really don't care whether any of the characters live or die, the time in between battle scenes that try to shed light on the characters is even more tedious.

The movie isn't even officially part of the Macross continuity, which means that it really shouldn't interest anyone who isn't a hardcore Macross fan (and most of them hate it as well). Too bad this is one of those anime that you can find at your local BlockBuster. Go get Macross Plus instead, and if you really must watch Lovers Again, try your best to find a subbed version.

This movie really touched my heart with all of the singing and animation, it reminds me somehow of Megazone 23 which was a really good movie that i loved watching over and over again. Macross II Lovers Again is the same kind of movie that you could watch many times and never get bored of it so i'll give it 9/10.

The story of this movie is based on an alternate universe of Macross it has nothing to do with the original ones.

Only thing that they could have done better with the English version of the movie was the voice acting, if you hate bad voice acting then i would suggest that you would turn the subtitles on and watch the Japanese version. It's a great movie that i would suggest watching and its totally worth it

Trying to be a follow-up to the original Macross series, this instalment was basically an expanded copy of the 1984 "Macross: Ai, Oboete Imasu Ka?" movie, with a few gimmicks thrown in. It was done without Shoji Kawamori's collaboration.

The mecha style isn't too bad, but lacks some of Shoji Kawamori's finesse (expectable). The plot is sub-par and doesn't rise to the challenge. The animation, on many occasions, is disappointing. The English dub is BAD. The Japanese voice acting is ok, but still, Macross II can't quite hold a candle to the original Macross.

It eventually became an "alternative universe" story and is rightly looked down upon by Macross fans everywhere.