Robotech

Overview

Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan; the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.

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  The Macross Saga

  36 episodes · 1985

  Ten years after a mysterious alien ship lands on Earth and is rebuilt with its technology adapted, the alien warrior servants (the Zentraedi) of the ship's owners arrive to retrieve it.

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  The Masters Saga

  24 episodes · 1985

  The 'Robotech Masters' have come to the Earth to claim a mysterious substance known as Protoculture.

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  The New Generation

  25 episodes · 1985

  The Earth is invaded by a race of aliens calling themselves the Invid to cultivate Earth's vast supplies of Protoculture.