T5W#521-Top 5 Best Moments from Macross 7.5 (and a half)

So now that Macross 7 is finally, FINALLY done with here at the Anime Corner (for now…ominous I know but lets table that), normally is when I talk about how much I well and truly hated virtually all but a couple of aspects of this terrible Macross sequel.  But, I wanted to do something different for today’s Top 5 Wednesday.  Back at Otakon 2011, my first true exposure to Macross 7 was a Fan Parody by Trigger Mortis called Macross 7.5 (and a half).  It remains today one of the funniest Fan Parodies I’ve ever seen and, as you can imagine, I’ve been revisiting it quite a bit since I’ve been watching the source material.  I realize now that Macross 7.5 (and a half) wasn’t just satire, it’s a freaking warning, not jokes, facts, the truest explanation in a nutshell of how crazy Macross 7 is and how it pales in every way compared to its legendary father series.  So rather than harp on Macross 7 more than I have already, today on Top 5 Wednesday I’m doing a shoutout to the Fan Parody that surpasses it in every way (I think I’ve earned that after a month in the trenches with this disappointment).  These are the Top 5 Best Moments from Macross 7.5 (and a half). 

 
BTW if you need some context or wanna watch the video yourself, you can check it out below via Trigger Finger Studios YouTube page. 

#5-Mylene’s Mimnei Dream

Poor Mylene gets treated so poorly in Macross 7.  Sure she’s young and impulsive but she’s also the voice of reason in a show full of morons and idiots.  Her little shroom influenced Minmei Dream in 7.5 does her a much better service cause it kind of exemplifies how great of a singer Mylene actually is in Macross 7 and why she should be held in higher regard than Basara.  Also “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlise totally sounds like a song Minmei herself would sing back during the old Macross days, doesn’t it? (no wonder they cut between Mylene and scenes of Minmei singing from the Do You Remember Love movie).  And speaking of kicking tunes.
 

#4-The OST (that’s better than Fire Bombers music)

Obviously this applies to the video as a whole but the soundtrack to Macross 7.5 (and a half) freaking slaps.  If you’ve seen Trigger Mortis’ other parodies of Combattler V and IdeOn/Off, you know he’s got a very James Gunn/Edgar Wright style of choosing great tracks for his features and Macross 7.5 is no different.  There’s a lot of great classic 80s music like the aforementioned “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mr. Roboto” mixed with some classic 90s artists like Ace of Base and the Spice Girls (we’ll come back to them in a minute).  I’m not gonna say everything produced by Fire Bomber was bad (just Planet Dance really), but the music in this video trumps most of the music in that entire Anime.
 

#3-The Macross 7.5 (and a half) Pitch

Played like a big pitch video, the opening intro for Macross 7.5 offers a very clear and concise picture of what to expect from the highly anticipated sequel to Macross (or er Robotech in the States).  Of course you show off the Mecha and returning favorites like Max and Millia.  But the way the narrarator’s voice just becomes more and more confused, mystified and eventually just plain pissed off is hilarious.  It gets to the point where he happens to pause the video right on the image of later Protodevlin adversaries just to voice his opinion on how bad it all looks.  Yet he still must sell it…but yeah you’d be hard pressed to believe anything in this series is worth selling outside of the music.
 

#2-Basara’s Deadly Music

In Macross 7, Basara is practically a Deity to the people of Macross thanks to the ever evolving power of his song.  I can make anyone love him despite his stupidity and it can even excavate ruins.  It’s rare Fire Bombers music doesn’t solve a problem.  So it’s very gratifying to see the scene where their music awakens a brainwashed Zentradi pilot instead causes him to freakout so badly that he basically causes him to just keel over and supposedly die.  It’s a perfect crescendo to all the other examples prior where everyone wants to run the hell away from Basara the second he decides to sing and yet, just like in the real show, it never dawns on him why that is.
 

#1-The Truth Behind the Blonde Girl With Flowers

I don’t think I ever talked about this individual in any of my reviews but there’s a random blonde girl who shows up in every episode looking for Basara to give him a bouqet of flowers.  Nothing ever comes from this, honestly I don’t even remember if he ever got them in the end.  What is the point of this girl?  Well if Macross 7.5 (and a half) is to be belived, she’s so messed up in her mind that her obsession is only a pretext to more…twisted and nefarious means.  What starts as a simple monologue only gets crazier to the point where you cant stop laughing at the horrific things she wants to do to Basara.  Years later after seeing this Fan Parody for the first time and this still gets me cracking up every single time.