Robotech

Robotech is a sci-fi mecha anime series that produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Harmony Gold in 1985. It was later aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block from January 12, 1998 to December 26, 1999.Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. [2]  With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or  mecha (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive  extraterrestrial invasions. Robotech was one of the first  anime televised in the  United States that attempted to include most of the complexity and drama of its original  Japanese source material. [4]  Produced by Harmony Gold USA, Inc. in association with  Tatsunoko Productions Co. Ltd.,  Robotech is a story adapted with edited content and revised dialogue from the animation of three different mecha anime series:  The Super Dimension Fortress Macross from 1982,  Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> from 1984, and  Genesis Climber Mospeada<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> from 1983. Harmony Gold's cited reasoning for combining these unrelated series was its decision to market  Macross<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> for American weekday syndication television, which required a minimum of 65 episodes at the time (thirteen weeks at five episodes per week). Macross<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"> and the two other series each had fewer episodes than required since they originally aired in Japan as a weekly series.