Opening A Day
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the opening of 1983’s Super Dimension Century Orguss TV series. The opening theme is “Hyouryuu Sky Hurricane,” performed Casey Rankin.
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Also Casey Rankin, R.I.P. Thanks to AWO for alerting me to that fact. I used to think those songs were done by a Japanese guy who had familiarity with American music styles of that time until I heard about Rankin.
I know someone might say “DUH!” in response to this, is this related to Robotech?
It looks very good, and I like the OP theme.
Sorry for the goof. It’s been corrected.
Yes, in a certain sense this is related to “Robotech.” Big West created, and Studio Nue animated the 1982 TV series Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, 1983’s Super Dimension Century Orguss, and 1984’s Super Dimension Calvary Southern Cross. There’s no narrative connection between the three shows, just carry-over staff and sci-fi robot anime concept. Macross and Southern Cross were turned into the first two thirds of Robotech while Orguss was brought to America separately.
Some of the model kits were marketed under the Revell Robotech line as well, including the titular mecha (as “Nebo”), the Emaan’s Drifand Dal support/repair unit (as “Trigon”), Athena’s Nikick (as “Decimax”) and the Chirum scout mecha Ishforn (as “Exaxes”).
Add to the fact that Kei’s character was basically a rejected idea for Hikaru Ichijo (of Macross) and that other characters of Macross had bizarre cameos (examples, flashback scenes of Kei’s past lovers; a screensaver image of a naked Misa Hayase, etc.).
The door was thematically open for Orguss to be included in Robotech but the rights were problematic, along with the human-on-human violence and the matter of Kei’s foul mouth. (The US Renditions dub kept Kei’s cursing intact, which probably caused problems when video rental outfits had it in their Children’s departments!)