The classic mecha anime movie Macross: Do You Remember Love? will be getting a 4K remastered release next year in Japan, and it will include English subtitles.
Macross: Do You Remember Love? was originally released back in 1984 and was a re-telling of the original Macross TV series. In fact, in terms of the Macross saga canon, the movie is actually a documentary of the events of Space War One released within the Macross timeline circa 2031.
The latter is a fun point, because multiple characters in the Macross saga reference the movie as something that influenced their lives later on in the saga’s timeline.
That aside, Macross: Do You Remember Love? is arguably one of the finest anime movies of the 80s. Co-directed by Shoji Kawamori, who also did the movie’s mecha design along with Kazutaka Miyatake, Macross: Do You Remember Love? is rightly regarded as being an anime classic.
Dealing with an invasion of giant aliens, humanity is all but wiped out save for some very talented variable fighter pilots and the power of music. The original Macross has a fascinating cultural premise and Macross: Do You Remember Love? handles it very deftly.
What makes this release different, apart from the 4K remaster, is that it will also include English subtitles.
The new remastered trailer (shown below) lists that there will be a 4K Blu-ray and regular Blu-ray release on January 29, with cinematic showings in Japan a few days earlier on January 25.
This is also a Japan only release at present, but Japanese Blu-rays share the same region as the US, so you will be able to import this 4K remaster just fine.
To date, apart from VHS and DVD releases, this is the third Blu-ray release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? as we had one back in 2012 and another in 2016. The 2012 version also featured a small video game for the PlayStation 3 developed by Artdink.
Artdink have done a bunch of Macross games over the years, with a few on the PlayStation Portable, Vita and the much larger Macross 30 on the PlayStation 3. These days, Artdink worked on the excellent Triangle Strategy and SD Gundam Battle Alliance.
As this is one of my all-time favorite anime movies, I will be definitely checking out Macross: Do You Remember Love? when it hits Japanese theaters early next year.
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