The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
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Chou Jikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu Ka / 超時空要塞マクロス～愛・おぼえていますか
Also Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu Ka (愛・おぼえていますか）
Following the success of the original Macross television series, a movie was immediately produced and released to the public in the summer of 1984, a little over a year after the television series aired its finale.
Running at just under two hours, Do You Remember Love? (DYRL) released to major success in Japan, filling in a wide gap that Gundam had managed not to fill (there was no Gundam film release from 1982 to 1988). With the super-popular Gundam on hiatus, fans of the robot genre turned to Macross and witnessed Kawamori Shoji's crowning achievement of the time.
Although meticulously written during the television series' run, DYRL featured more modern character designs, drastically improved animation, sleeker mecha, and a story that fans of the series were ultimately familiar with. Instead of continuing the story of the SDF Macross, DYRL re-told it in such a way that it was able to capture the major moments of the series into a single two hour movie. However, enough of the original story elements remained to make the film instantly familiar, yet also refreshingly new.
Again, the focus of the film (like the series) was on how music affects the soul and how it relates to a galactic war. Staples like the love triangle between the three major characters (Ichijyo Hikaru, Hayase Misa, and Lynn Minmay), the transforming Valkyrie fighters, and the nefarious Zentradi were all present in the film, but new to the Macross universe were two songs performed by Iijima Mari, the voice actress for Minmay.
The two songs (translated as "Do You Remember Love" and "Angel's Paints") helped launch Iijima Mari's solo music career. "Do You Remember Love?" remains to this day her best selling track of all time, which is a testament to the power of theMacross fanbase.
The second song, "Angel's Paints" was penned by Iijima herself for a "farewell concert" which was to play during the credits of the movie. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to complete the sequence and the concert was omitted from the film's original run. It has since been restored to the film, but for a time, the only way a fan could see the concert was to purchase The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012.
Moreover, the alternate storyline originally brought the Macross canon into dispute with fans wondering which was the true war (called Space War I). While the differences between the film and the television series was minute in quantity for the most part, each one was a drastic change from the original (for example: the Meltlandi being their own seperate faction warring with the Zentradi). It also didn't help that Kawamori claimed that both versions of the story were true.
However, with the Macross universe stretching into Macross Plus and Macross 7, it has been somewhat clarified that DYRL exists not only as a movie in our world, but as a movie in the Macross world with a few minor changes to the fantasy version. That is to say, most of the characters that have come into play after Space War I have all seen their own version of Do You Remember Love.
As such, the writers of the Macross release footnotes have written that DYRL is a propaganda film released by the U.N. Spacy (in terms of what the characters have seen) to promote certain qualities in the war's heroes and villains while ignoring others. Still, it is anyone's guess as to what really happened in Space War I.
