History of Animation and Robotech

I never thought that I would spend over $2,000 to sit in class and watch cartoons. I guess for that much money I would have to study them as well. As for chapter one in Maltin, I found it incredibly dull. I don't want to leave my thoughts on this chapter as being bad. I thought that a cartoon appearing to be able to go behind something to give it more depth was somewhat interesting. Why hadn't they thought to do that before but to just draw it in. Also I thought that it was unreal that audiences refused to believe that they were watching a truly moving picture, and not a trick with wires. How did they expect someone to manipulate wires to do such things?

Well, most seemed to write about their favorite cartoon. I might as well go ahead and put it out there since this is a class on the history of animation. And although this particular piece did not originate in America, it did sweep our nation in one of the first cartoon crazes ever. Robotech. I used to be a Robotech junkie. Anyone who is my age or older will remember this classic masterpiece. It wasn't known just for its innovations in coloring styles and and varied shades that was soon repeated up until today, it was mostly known for its moving story line. It is sort of the first cartoon soap opera. And it hit big in America. And I freaking love it. (I know I'm not supposed to say that but seriously, go check it out. You'll be sucked in from the first episode.)

As I said before, Robotech did not originate in America. I could actually say that is half true. Robotech is a series that came from Japan in the coolest time period to ever hit the earth- the early 1980's. But it didn't all come from one series, it was actually three. Macross, Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. These three animes from Japan had nothing to do with each other. But the producers at Harmony Gold decided that it would be a good ideas to take these three separate animes, and make them one cartoon with three generations called The Macross Saga, The Robotech Masters, and The New Generation. They also dubbed the show to make it so that they flowed into one another and had a common relative plot. Personally I like the "first generation" in which the ship called the Macross is centered. But I am going to leave it at that since this is a history of animation class. I'll leave it as a breif history of robotech without going into the plot. And yes, I was so much of a junkie that I bought the entire seven season collectors "masterpiece" set worth about $350. Maybe in a couple of years it will be worth more.