Back in the later 90’s I think it was I went to a con in Oklahoma City.
In the video room there was an anime movie(or part of a series?) that I saw. Before this time I had seen very little of the genre, and I came in after this one had started, so I don’t know how it began.
There was a spaceship that looked like a flying version of a twentieth century aircraft carrier. Why they built a ship like that I’m not sure. Also, at on point the ship, which has been in a fight, is disabled and the captain is seen, dead or dying on the bridge.
Also involved is what seemed to be a love triangle between two guys and a girl. One of the guys is mortally wounded, and as he lays dying he tells the other two to get married and have beautiful children.
Damn vague description I know, but Dopers always come through, don’t they?
I’m not sure of a command-type dying (I’m 99.99999% sure the captain of the Macross (a vaguely humanoid ship with two aircraft carriers for arms) doesn’t die - it’s Max Jenius, after all), but the rest matches my slightly distant memories. There’s a love triangle (between Guld Boa Bowman, Isamu Dyson and Myung Fang Lone), and Guld, one of the male arms of the triangle sacrifices himself at the end, and, IIRC gives Isamu and Myung his blessing.
BTW, if it IS Mac+ you’re thinking of, it is both a movie and a series - it was a 4 episode series to start, but also edited into a movie, which presented the events slightly differently.
Nah, the Yamato was a battleship, not an aircraft carrier. The detail of it being a carrier screams Macross (even if the carriers are only part of the Macross, not the whole thing).
Chances are it was something with an official American release, so continuing the assumption that it’s Macross, that leaves the original series (in the form of Robotech, in the 90s, I don’t think the original got released until circa 2001), or Plus. The original is out, because the love triangle in that is FMF, not MFM, and the third leg is alive at the end.
Thanks to those who have responded! Talk about fast.
Anyway, I’ve looked up the two stories mentioned and I think it’s not Macross, but Spaceship Yamato,(aka Starblazers). I called it an aircraft carrier but I was never in the Navy, and it looked like a big seagoing warship to me. And it was independent, not part of another creation.
Sounds like the story wasn’t half bad. Maybe I can find it even now.
Since this thread isn’t that old, I’ll go ahead and bump it to report that I saw the recently released Space Battleship Yamato movie and it was actually quite good.
Very faithful to the animated series. I got a major tingle when they fired the wave motion gun.
