Synopsis
Macross Plus: The Movie (1995) is a 115-minute theatrical cut of the original four-part OVA — watch online on iFILM. Co-directed by Shoji Kawamori and Shinichiro Watanabe, it is a sci-fi action anime produced by Triangle Staff in Japan.
The story takes place in 2040 on a colony planet called Eden, where the U.N. military is running a competition between two experimental variable fighters. Reckless pilot Isamu Dyson (Takumi Yamazaki) pushes the agile YF-19 past every safety limit; his old rival Guld Bowman (Unsho Ishizuka) flies the YF-21 through a neural interface — the aircraft reads his mind directly. When Myung Fang Lone, a woman from their shared past, reappears on the same base, the test program starts coming apart. On the same planet, a virtual AI idol named Sharon Apple is filling concert halls and drifting beyond her original programming.
This was Watanabe three years before Cowboy Bebop, and the sensibility is already recognizable — a weapons-race plot used to stage a story about people who cannot let go of the wrong things. Composer Yoko Kanno built much of her early reputation on this score. Stream Macross Plus (1995) online on iFILM.
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