Macross Delta was the latest Macross to have been published, airing in 2016 and the first one I got to watch live. There wasn’t a legal release of course, due to the whole Harmony Gold claiming the rights to Macross outside of Japan. Anyway, in Japan it did get a bluray/DVD release and as an extra a series of five minute specials was included: Macross Δ: Delta Shougekijou. Nine episodes in total, with each episode having several short sketches in them, riffing on what was happening in the actual epoisodes on the disc. Most of it is barely animated and none of it is understandable if you haven’t watched the series. Just a little bonus for the fans, something that you see more on Japanese anime blurays. They were pretty funny, especially the recurring Mirage’s diary segments. Mirage being the pilote love interest rival to the idol love interest of the protagonist, a somewhat dense, earnest girl who got made fun of because of that in these bits.
Choboraunyopomi Gekijou Ai Mai Mii is also a short, five minute anime, but one that actually aired. An adaptation of a gag manga about Ai, Mai and Mii, three aspiring manga artists in a high school manga club, this is one of those series where the animators just went as zany as possible each week, with no real coherence between episodes. A bit like Teekyuu, but with less punning. A series that you can watch in half an hour and retain no knowledge of beyond it sure being zany. Somehow this still got at least two sequels.
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