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Macross Zero (OAV)

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Alternative title:
マクロスゼロ (Japanese) 
Genres: action , drama , science fiction 
Themes: mecha , military , music , real robot 
Objectionable content: Significant 
Plot Summary: Taking place one year before the Zentraedi arrive on Earth, Macross Zero chronicles the final days of the war between the U.N. Spacy and anti-U.N. factions. After being shot down by the anti-U.N.'s newest fighter plane, ace pilot Shin Kudo finds himself on the remote island of Mayan, where technology is almost non-existent. While Shin stays on the island to heal his wounds, the tranqulity of the island is shattered by a battle that involves the UN's newest fighter - the VF-0. 
User Ratings: 980 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 168 votes (sub:147, dub:8, raw:3, ?:2, others:8
5 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Excellent: 268 votes (sub:233, dub:15, raw:5, ?:2, others:13
9 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 German subtitled
)
 Very good: 242 votes (sub:210, dub:13, raw:4, others:15
6 Portuguese subtitled
3 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 French dubbed
)
 Good: 177 votes (sub:163, dub:6, raw:2, others:6
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Decent: 66 votes (sub:61, dub:2, raw:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 So-so: 29 votes (sub:26, dub:2, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 17 votes (sub:17)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1729 users, rank: #702 (of 10059)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.067 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.5464, rank: #528 (of 10234)
Weighted mean: 8.013 (Very good), rank: #553 (of 10234) (seen all: 8.05 / seen some: 7.76 / won't finish: 5.76)
Bayesian estimate: 8.006 (Very good), rank: #380 (of 7688)
Running time: 35 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 5 
Episode titles: We have 5
Vintage: 2002-12-21
Release dates: We have 5
Ending Theme:
#01: "Arkan" by Holy Raz (Eps 1,5) 
#02: "Life Song" by Yen Chang with Holy Raz (Ep 2) 
#03: "Yanyan" by Yuuka Nanri (Ep 3) 
#04: "Forest Song" by Kuniaki Haishima (Ep 4) 
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 5
Comment:
Released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Macross.
Also the first Macross title to feature animation by Satelight, which would work on further Macross titles with series co-creator Shoji Kawamori becoming Senior Managing Director. 
Review:
News: Show:
Macross Zero Trailer (Sep 26, 2002)
Macross Zero Website (Aug 14, 2002)
Macross Zero Delayed (Aug 8, 2002)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Macross Zero - [Limited Edition] [US/UK] (Blu-ray) 2025-02-10

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Shōji Kawamori 
Series Composition: Shōji Kawamori 
Script: Hiroshi Ōnogi 
Storyboard:
Shōji Kawamori  (eps 1, 5) 
Tomokazu Tokoro (ep 5) 
Music: Kuniaki Haishima 
Original creator: Shōji Kawamori 
Original Character Design:
Haruhiko Mikimoto (Roy Focker) 
Takahiro Kishida ("Earth Girl Arjuna") 
Character Design: Takuya Saitō 
Art Director: Masaru Ohta 
Animation Director:
Takuya Saitō  (eps 1, 5) 
Toshiya Washida (ep 5) 
Mechanical design:
Junya Ishigaki 
Shōji Kawamori 
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima 
Director of Photography: Masayuki Narai 
Producer:
Kaya Ohnishi (Big West) 
Minoru Takanashi 

2nd Key Animation:
Gi Nam Kim (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Hyun Park (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Il Bae Kim (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Min Ju Song (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Myung Seob Kim (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Seung Wook Woo (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Tae-Hyung Kim (Sung San Production; ep 2) 
Additional Music: Yōko Kanno ("Earth Girl Arjuna" Cameo) 
Art Setting Design: Arihiro Hirasawa 
Assistant Animation Director: Kenji Mizuhata (ep 1) 
Assistant Director: Tomokazu Tokoro 
Color Key: Shigenobu Kaihoko 
In-Between Animation:
Asuka Shimizu (ep 1) 
Chiyo Imamaki (ep 1) 
Daisuke Furuya (eps 1-2)  (Nakamura Production) 
Daisuke Kurose (ep 2)  (Nakamura Production) 
Hidekazu Hamano (ep 2)  (Nakamura Production) 
Hisashi Samejima (ep 1) 
Keisuke Abe (ep 2)  (Nakamura Production) 
Kumiko Ozawa (eps 1-2)  (Satelight) 
Minako Sasaki (eps 4-5)  (Satelight) 
Natsumi Tamura (ep 1) 
Noriko Onoda (ep 1) 
Noriko Tokue (eps 1, 4) 
Ryunosuke Wada (ep 1) 
Ryuuji Iwabuchi (eps 1-2)  (Nakamura Production) 
Sayaka Shimomaki (eps 1-5)  (Satelight) 
Sōichirō Sako (ep 1) 
Sumie Iwata (ep 2)  (Nakamura Production) 
Tomomi Nakamura (ep 4)  (Satelight) 
Yukihiro Miyaji (eps 1-2)  (Nakamura Production) 
In-Between Check:
Chiaki Fujioka (ep 5) 
Hirofumi Ohyama (ep 4) 
Hiroshi Shirakawa (eps 1-3) 
Hisashi Samejima (ep 2) 
Key Animation:
Atsushi Irie (eps 4-5) 
Boo Hee Lee (DAEJIN; ep 3) 
Byung Hee Choi (Tin House; ep 2) 
Chang Soo Kim (DAEJIN; ep 3) 
Cheol Woo An (Tin House; ep 2) 
Eun Young Kim (Tin House; ep 3) 
Gang I Shin (DAEJIN; ep 3) 
Genichi Murakami (ep 3) 
Gyeong Im Kim (Tin House; ep 3) 
Gyeong Pyo Hong (Tin House/JM Animation; eps 2, 4) 
Hak Jin Kim (Tin House; eps 2-3) 
Hidekazu Satō (ep 5) 
Hideki Sekiguchi (ep 1) 
Hideki Yamazaki (eps 4-5) 
Hiroshi Nakanishi (ep 1) 
Hiroshi Ōkubo (eps 4-5) 
Hiroyuki Nishimura (ep 2) 
Hitoshi Haga (eps 1, 3) 
Ichirō Itano (eps 1-3) 
Ippei Masui (ep 5) 
Jae Myeong Yu (Tin House/JM Animation; eps 2-4) 
Jirō Kanai (ep 5) 
Jong Hyun Lee (JM Animation; eps 4-5) 
Jong Yong Kim (JM Animation; ep 5) 
Junya Ishigaki (ep 5) 
Keiji Maeda (ep 5) 
Keiko Tanino (ep 2) 
Kenji Mizuhata (eps 1, 4-5) 
Kensuke Ishikawa (ep 3) 
Kentarou Kunisue (eps 1-5) 
Koji Haneda (ep 3) 
Kōji Ogawa (ep 5) 
Kouji Akitaka (ep 1) 
Kyōko Matsubara (ep 3) 
Makoto Furuta (ep 5) 
Mamoru Abiko (eps 3-5) 
Mari Nakatani (ep 1) 
Masahiko Komino (ep 5) 
Masahiro Sekiguchi (ep 2) 
Masaki Hinata (ep 4) 
Minoru Morita (ep 5) 
Minoru Yamazawa (ep 4) 
Naoto Takemoto (ep 1) 
Natsumi Tamura (ep 5) 
Noriko Ōzeki (ep 1) 
Norio Matsumoto (ep 1) 
Rie Nishiyama (eps 1, 4) 
Rika Mishima (ep 4) 
Satoru Utsunomiya (eps 2, 5) 
Seung Hyun Oh (Tin House/JM Animation; eps 2-4) 
Takaaki Fukuyo (ep 4) 
Takahiro Kishida (ep 3) 
Takao Abo (ep 5) 
Takehiro Hamatsu (ep 1) 
Takenori Tsukuma (ep 4) 
Takeshi Imai (ep 1) 
Takuya Saitō (eps 1, 4-5) 
Tomohiro Kawahara (ep 3) 
Tōru Yoshida (eps 3, 5) 
Toshiya Washida (eps 4-5) 
Tsutomu Kikuchi (ep 3) 
Yae Ōtsuka (ep 1) 
Yasushi Muraki (eps 1-2) 
Young Chan Kim (JM Animation; ep 5) 
Yukie Suzuki (ep 4) 
Yūko Matsuo (ep 2) 
Yuri Takasaki (ep 2) 
Yutaka Kamogawa (ep 2) 
Mechanical Art: Hidetaka Tenjin 
Mechanical Setting Consultant: Junya Ishigaki 
Music Performance: Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp) 
Planning: Shigeru Watanabe 
Production Setting Design: Kazutaka Miyatake 
Special Technical Director: Ichirō Itano 
Story Concept: Shōji Kawamori 
Theme Song Performance:
Holy Raz (ED 1-2) 
Yuuka Nanri (ED 3) 
Visual Technicals: Bun Sadaka 
Akira Kamiya as Roy Focker 
Kenichi Suzumura as Shin Kudō 
Sanae Kobayashi as Sara Nome 
Yuuka Nanri as Mao Nome 

Jōji Nakata as Tori no Hito ("Bird-Man") (ep 5) 
Kinryū Arimoto as Raizō Nakajima 
Minami Takayama as Nora Polyansky 
Nachi Nozawa as Professor Hasford 
Naomi Shindoh as Aries Turner 
Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as D.D. Ivanov 
Sōsuke Komori as Edgar La Salle 
Tamio Ōki as Nutouk 

Jōji Nakata as Ugai Nome (Sara's father) (ep 4) 
Kōji Totani as Hassan 
Maiko Toda as Woman A 
Mami Higashiyama as Arjuna (Cameo; ep 3) 
Romi Park as Katie (ep 2) 
Ryōko Numazawa as Operator A 
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation: Sung San Production 
3D Graphics:
EDP & WAO Unit 
Subaru Unit 
Animation: Satelight 
Backgrounds: Bihou, Inc. 
Broadcaster: Bandai Channel 
Key Animation:
Daejin  (ep 3) 
JM Animation  (eps 4-5) 
Tin House  (eps 2-3) 
Marketing: Big West 
Music Production: Victor Entertainment 
Original Creator:
Big West 
Studio Nue 
Presented By:
Bandai Visual 
Big West 
Recording Facility: Aoi Studios 
English staff
English cast
Artbook Translation: Tony Ko (Creative Sphere Inc.) 
Design: din 
Finance: Alex Graham 
Interview Translation Assistance: Renato Rivera Rusca 
Project Consultant:
Adrian Lozano (Creative Sphere Inc.) 
Gwyn Campbell (Creative Sphere Inc.) 
Mike Aguirre (Creative Sphere Inc.) 
Peter Kim (Creative Sphere Inc.) 
Project Manager: Andrew Partridge 
Proofreader: Chris Lozano 
(none)
English companies
Distributor: Anime Limited (United Kingdom, Ireland, United States and Canada) 
Internet Streaming:
Disney+ 
Hulu (USA) 
Licensed by: Big West 
Subtitles: Creative Sphere Inc. 
French staff
French companies
(none)
Distributor: @Anime 
Licensed by: Big West 
French cast
(none)

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