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Dreamstryder
September 15th, 2009, 08:18 PM
This may describe half of every late 80s mech animé, but I'm hoping someone out there helps me. The style as I recall was pretty 80s: when eyes were generally smaller & hair was more poofy than spiky (tho' if it were Voltes it would be 70s).

In 1993-5, I recall watching on TV (morning on FOX, I think) an English dub of some mecha show about aliens from Jupiter that inhabited large, green, pupa-looking spaceships, their leader a large, dark shadow with red eyes with a large red cloud/planet filling the background. They were at war with Earth, the main character being some young man with tussled black hair.

The episode I remember best: There was a little (girl?) with big eyes and glasses (& a helmet?) who worked a computer in the opening sequence. Spikey Blackhair walks into the mecha hallway, complements long-blue hair female character on her perfume. He noticed, she thinks. Later Spiky Blondhair challenges Spiky Blackhair's fitness to pilot a mecha, so they get into a mecha duel, and Spiky Black started sweating and having a traumatic attack or something of the sort while Bluehair watches concerned. I think it was "to be continued" at that point. While inside the mecha, the pilots' faces were visible, not covered by a mask. The ending credits were just a still-screen of a sunset and the lyric-less music, which I remember but can't hum to you (dadaDAAAAAAA, dadaDAAAAAAAA, dadada DAdaaaaaa dadaDAAAAAAA).

I'm guessing Robotech (blue hair and mechas turning into jets seems familiar) or Voltes (helmet & name look familiar), but I haven't found that little girl at the computer or the music in either series.

The Million Dollar Prons
September 15th, 2009, 08:39 PM
Voltes V was never shown in America as far as I know. It could be voltron, do you remember lions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWlcZRuiVI This is the theme song to Robotech, if this rings any bells to you.

Dreamstryder
September 15th, 2009, 11:42 PM
Thanks. The theme I remember is different; mostly minor key, but the last part of the theme sounds almost similar to it.

The opening's kid was either Annie (http://www.robotech.com/gallery/galimage/viewgalimage.php?id=28) or the kid from Voltron, but I'm not sure I was watching the same anime any more as Voltron played at a similar time and Annie wasn't in the Robotech series at the same time as those who fit the other character descriptions: Rick Hunter, Lynn Minmay, and Roy Fokker (albeit Rick's mentor, not rival), who are together in the episode 1-18 range of the Macross Saga arc. That might fit the green larva ships I saw, too.

I still haven't found the an OP or ED that matches, and I wonder if the station made its own ED for their showing of it (like Fox's splicing of Escaflowne).

Dreamstryder
September 18th, 2009, 07:54 PM
Apparently, the series (http://www.youtube.com/show?p=6VWyXFZ6aFI&pl=2BF924DAD8584FB0) is officially shown on Youtube, so I can see.