Macross DYRL (it will go faster) directed by Shoji Kawamori (also mecha designer) and Noboru Ishiguro is a particular case in the vast genre that is the mecha and in this case the real robot, since where a Gundam to quote its competitor of the time bet on strong politics
Macross relies on a romance under the background of an alien-mecha war that ravaged the earth, forcing humans to live in a giant fortress in space and idol songs although the politics of the universe is still present.
This romance between the mecha pilot Hikaru and the idol Lynn during the first part of the movie and I find extremely touching, their meeting by chance in the middle of a fight is not the most original but it's the treatment that touched me, the movie takes its time to develop their relationship, we see them talking to each other, embracing each other, spending time together in the city of the fortress accompanied by the superb composition of Kentarō Haneda it's just beautiful, and when it will develop into a love triangle with the officer Misa, it is not forced because again the film takes its time, they are alone on earth only between them, their sequence is as long as with Lynn so we do not have this impression of forced triangle to add you false drama, Hikaru hesitates and when his choice is made we understand him, and it's done without any hassle, the characters talk to each other (and then people dare to say that the mecha is just boom boom without any characters except for the code geass).
Since I'm talking about Boom Boom, the animation and even the realization in general is absolutely great, the same year as Miyazaki's Nausicaa and Tezuka's Bagi, the film has like his 2 films not taken a wrinkle and I would even dare to say that if it came out today we would see nothing but fire, the mecha design is ultra detailed and realistic (normal it's real robot), The action scenes move all the time and are of an irreproachable legibility, we feel that they are heavy and powerful machines, although there are space scenes the film manages to impose us a gigantism has several scales when the Zentradi arrives in the colony we see them trampled the cars as if it was simple toy, When Hikaru and Misa are on earth we see the SDF-1 Macross from the sky and despite its distance it takes the whole length of the frame, the scenery is full of details (special mention to the bar named Pierro the madman), the characters have a good 80's chara-design with their bushy hair typed Go Nagai-Shotaro Ishinomori and the chara-acting (animation term for the design of the acting in an animation) is also very lively and moves well, It's also incredibly gory and raw in its violence as well when the aliens are killed as when the civilians eat in their face the collateral damage, after having seen a Godzilla vs Kong empty in gigantism and human view this film is good.
The scenario as for him let follow and is fluid, we follow in the end very little what happens in the war itself, we just know that the aliens are separated between male (zentradi) and female (mantradi) and that they made flee the humans in space as I said to focus on the romance, but the film ends on a climax absolutely splendid under a song of the seiyuu Mari Iijima which accompanies a sequence of space battle with one of the most beautiful Itano Circus (https://www. sakugabooru.com/post/show/26295) that I could see in a movie ex-aequo with the itano circus of the movie Cowboy Bebop.
As for the Macross series, this movie had its westernized version Robotech Le Film, which could be similar to a club dorothée version of the movie, there are many useless jokes, the names are changed, the dialogue is modified to completely contradict the VO, so the VO is necessary for this movie which is for me a success on all the line.