Genesis Climber Mospeada (DVD)

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During the early- to mid-1980s, Japanese audiences found "Super Dimension Fortress Macross", "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross", and "Genesis Climber Mospeada" playing on television. Each animated series had nothing to do with one another, but longtime anime fan Carl Macek decided to combine the three shows and bring them to American audiences as one big series, "Robotech." In order to satisfy American broadcast requirements for an animated series (sixty-five episodes to run over a period of thirteen weeks), Mr. Macek created a new storyline for the three shows, making them a multi-generational saga about humans, aliens, and robot technology. "Super Dimension Fortress Macross" became "The Macross Saga", "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross" became "The Robotech Masters", and "Genesis Climber Mospeada" became "The New Generation", all under the "Robotech" umbrella.

Now, after years of clamoring from the hardest of the hardcore anime fans, ADV Films was able to obtain the Region 1 distribution rights for "Genesis Climber Mospeada". ADV was able to re-master digitally the show´s video and audio elements, and each episode is presented as it appeared on Japanese television (without any of the edits introduced by Carl Macek for his "Robotech" project). The entire twenty-five-episode run of "Mospeada" is being sold in one five-disc DVD box set.

Disc 1--"Prelude to the Attack", "March of a Girl With a Broken Heart", "Midday Duel Concert", "Feeling Like a Survival Song", "Live-In Robbery Operation".

Disc 2--"Pretend Tough Girl Blues", "Ragtime for a Brave Dead Man", "Jonathan´s Elegy", "Lost World Fugue", "Battlefield Requiem".

Disc 3--"Lullaby of Far Away Hope", "Break Through the Fort Boogie", "Sand Storm Playback", "Mint´s Wedding March", "Breaking Up Ballad".

Disc 4--"Trap Reggae", "White Night Serenade", "Old Soldiers´ Polka", "Ice City Forte", "Birthday Song in the Night Sky".

Disc 5--"Arpeggio of a Killer", "NY Bebop", "Brunet´s Partita", "Darkness´s Finale", "Symphony of the Light".

Before the actual start of the series, an alien race known as the Inbit conquered Earth in order to use the planet´s resources. Therefore, military forces from the Mars Terran Colony are seen attempting a re-taking invasion in Episode 1. One among this force is Stig Bernard (the main hero of the story). Like everyone his age from Mars, Stig was not born on Earth and has never even seen up close, much less been to, his ancestral homeland. The Inbit outfight the humans, and Stig is the lone survivor from his outfit. Armed with a Cyclone (the coolest, most bad-ass motorcycles you´ll ever see) and a locket given to him by his now-dead girlfriend Marlene, Stig sets out to complete his mission--destroy the Reflex Point, the Inbit´s central base.

Along the way, Stig teams up with various individuals. Ray is a happy-go-lucky country boy who finds a Cyclone of his own inside a crashed ship. Houquet Erose, a tough blonde hottie, races around on her own red Cyclone. There´s Yellow Belmont, a freedom fighter (with his own dark blue Cyclone) who disguises himself as the hottest female singing sensation on Earth. Jim Austin, a big chunk of an engineer, joins the team, as does Mint Rubble, a little girl who has a crush on every boy she meets. Together, this little group will save mankind from death, destruction, and despair.

After the incredibly busy first few episodes, "Mospeada" settles down into more predictable narrative patterns. Mostly, our little band of resistance fighters encounters more Inbit warriors. Jim Austin unearths a couple of Alpha and Beta fighters, so Ray, Houquet Erose, and Yellow Belmont can now join Stig in the air during intense battles. Meanwhile, the Inbit genetically engineer one of their own into human form. They deposit this "simulagent", Aisha, into the midst of the freedom fighters in order to spy on them.

The Inbit create more powerful fighter models in order to fight the determined human freedom fighters. Stig and Company find that the alien invaders have created huge hive facilities in order to conduct genetics experiments. The Inbit are mostly bundles of consciousness enclosed in energy cels. The aliens hope to engineer an evolutionarily advanced life form in order to house their "selves". Meanwhile, Aisha seems to be regaining her memories, and she´s beginning to interact with the rest of the group, even if she doesn´t say much. Stig becomes more and more attached to her every day since she resembles Marlene, his now-dead girlfriend.