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Old 07-11-2010, 11:27 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Robotech is an especially funny example, because all of the Robotech sagas used stolen (well, purchased) animation from unrelated series. Like when Minmei in Robotech says her line in English, you can be sure that there exists no Japanese version of that line, because the footage was re-edited from some completely different show, where that animated character had a different name and a different plot line. The guy who bought the rights to the footage wrote the new storyline and managed all the audio recordings for his "new" American show.

Doesn't change the fact that the original Macross (which is the name of the show that Robotech: Macross Saga took all its animation pieces from) had only one Asian-featured face in it. I just had to share my meaningless cross-cultural trivia.
I understand that it is a combination of three previously unrelated mecha series, but as you say, that doen't change the fact that 99% of the characters are clearly not Asian. Those racist-ass Japanese animators clearly have got something against Asians.
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