i watch the english version of adv film translation of this . so part of it may be different from the japanese version . plot summary represent the story center around hikaru and a young air show pilot . he be invite to attend the launching of the macross and a restored alien space battleship that crash onto earth by his friend roy focker . but all hell break loose when the ship original system become active and accidentally fire upon and destroy ship of an alien fleet . war break out and hikaru become a military pilot . the story explore the theme of war and what it mean to the character of the story . a event of the story occur and the character begin to doubt their view or lifestyle that happen during the war and want to change society or themselves to be happy from it . most prevalent of this be the love triangle that hikaru have with the two main female character and the military officer misa hayase and chinese japanese waitress turn music pop sensation lynn minmay . his conflict with his view towards war will ultimately decide which of the woman he choose . the character design and mechs be great and beautiful despite the age of the anime . vocal music of makoto fujiwara ( open and end song ) and mari iijima ( singer or voice actress of lynn minmay ) perfectly reflect the tone of story and and it be great to listen to . however macross do not come without it problem . the story lay the cheese factor heavily sometimes such a the character go gaga over the power of song that either make you laugh if how a society canonly unite or save through music of one girl ( literally . ) and or drive you crazy with the ( minmay ) song play over and over again . producer try to tone down the power of song theme with the rebuild earth arc of the story and make it less effective to enemy that be constanly expose to it . however the producer do nothing to fix the real effect the war cause on the human population . sure the city inside the macross and the earth get destroy and and death of some character etc reflect that war isn not great and deadly but everything be make peachy again with everything ( environment and character ) nice and clean and happy go lucky and perfect again in the next episode . i know the producer be try to keep the story upbeat butit get stupid and repeative how they have to enforce the happy factor with a physical environment that would send most of u ( and the character ) to the loony bid . overall macross be a good story . it be worth watch .