Big things are happening in the UN and Zentradi forces, changes that will fundamentally alter the nature of the rest of this conflict and the future of the two peoples. Millia tracks down Max to settle her duel, only to have the two of them fall for each other and proceed all ahead full into marriage not long afterwards. Max seeks Hikaru’s advice and blessing, and then the ceremony takes place, the first between a human and a Zentradi. This is broadcast onboard the Macross, to UN HQ, and is intercepted by the Zentradi fleet, further spreading human culture to their current enemy. With the effects of ‘culture’ being felt more strongly, Britai decides to send a peace envoy rather than have his fleet tear itself apart, further encouraged to do so by the distinct possibility that Bodolzza will annihilate his contaminated fleet along with the Macross and Earth.
Millia puts on her Chiri face for the fight, throwing Max a knife and challenging him to fight.
Love counter!
YES!
Max and Millia will kick reason to the curb and make the impossible possible! MAX WO OMAE DARE DA TO OMOTE YAGARU?!
The wedding proceeds quickly thereafter, with most of the characters in attendance and Max and Millia making a grand entrance via Valkyrie. The ship and its fighters create a brilliant display for this flight outside as Max’s VF-1J approaches the ship. After their arrival and vows Captain Global gives a speech that initially touches on the conflict and reasons for mistrust between the humans and Zentradi, but then continues into his main point about how this moment is the first step forward towards ending the fighting and living together in peace. The happy couple is presented with the coolest wedding cake ever and the guests erupt in cheers at their joining.
So that’s the real reason Max got upgraded to a VF-1J: so he could have a backseat.
The Macross spared no expense in celebrating this most worthy union.
They’re so cute. But badass. But cute. But badass. But cute.
The inspiring sight even gives hope to the Genshiken nerds. Bridge bunnies like otaku I guess?
By far the sweetest wedding cake in the history of mankind.
Their offspring will be invincible!
Not everyone is so happy about this. But who could possibly stand against the power of both mecha and love?
At the ceremony Minmay also sings for everyone there and watching at home, and in a sign of her improving skills as a singer her song once again touches those who hear it. Even Misa, far away at UN HQ, hears it and thinks of Hikaru fondly. Though increasingly she’s feeling isolated from him and the rest of her friends as the Alaska Base continues preparations to use the Grand Cannon. Captain Britai was also watching the broadcast, and reluctantly determines that he must follow his orders and destroy the Macross. The order to launch and attack is given. Fighting breaks out between the fighters and Millia advises Max of a weakpoint in the Regults that allows them to be disabled with one shot. Despite siding with the humans, she doesn’t wish to see more of her fellow Zentradi destroyed. Hikaru notices Max’s attacks and does the same, disabling most of the Regults that they encounter. Onboard Zentradi ships followers of the Cult of Minmay threaten violence if the attack is not called off, a large portion of the fleet now under the sway of human culture. Britai then calls off the attack and both sides consider their next moves.
Minmay’s songs brings forth many memories and emotions.
They probably wanted a Klingon wedding ceremony but couldn’t find any Batleths.
The Valkyries scramble to intercept the attack as Global wonders about the future of the conflict.
Britai is now disobeying the orders of his superiors.
At home after the fight indulges in some ‘can’t cook’ moe.
While next door Hikaru just misses Misa more after seeing the happy couple.
Some time after a Zentradi capital ship approaches the Macross, broadcasting a message that it wishes to send an envoy aboard to negotiate a cease fire. Kamjin tries again to disrupt any attempt at peace, to which Britai forcefully responds by shooting down several of Kamjin’s fighters. Onboard a Regult, Archivist Exedol is brought to the Macross in Miclone form to conduct the negotiation. Captain Global, his senior officers, Max, Millia, and Hikaru are all assembled for the meeting. Exedol also requests the presence of Minmay and the superhuman he saw in the martial arts movie, having mistaken Kaifun’s special effects for actual abilities. There he informs them of the threat to both Earth and the Britai fleet now that the main force under Bodolzza has been mobilized. After some further negotiation, it is decided that the forces under Britai’s command will join with the Macross against the main Zentradi forces. This is fortuitous timing for Laplamiz has just informed Bodolzza of recent events and the fleet is preparing to fold in as soon as it can. While Kaifun surrenders to despair, everyone else is ready for the fight, and with Exedol’s information on the main fleet’s command structure they may well stand a chance. Britai speaks with his other commanders, and Laplamiz joins with him while Kamjin decides to make a break for it. Though I suspect we haven’t seen the last of him. I’m betting he’ll return to the stage at an opportune moment later in the story.
Britai has had quite enough of your antics Kamjin.
…
LOL.
Back on Earth, Misa tries unsuccessfully to convince her father to approve her transfer back to the Macross to join her comrades in the coming battle. Somehow I think she’ll make it back soon, orders or no orders.
I suppose she was just following orders, but given her later decision to join Britai you’d think she might have waited before deciding to inform Bodolzza.
We now need Max to sing his Minmay cover/remake, ”Ore no waifu mo piloto.”
An historic moment.
Minmay does one last song before the fight to ready the troops.
Well they are pretty sweet planes.
If the Bodolzza’s ships block out the sun then the Macross shall fight in the shade!
Final Thoughts: – The Millia/Max wedding was very sudden, but they make such a both sweet and awesome couple that I don’t care. They just better not get any of that dying together that they keep talking about!
- Some of the Zentradi joining with the humans has seemed like a strong possibility for a while now. Now with a common enemy and still many episodes left to go, I wonder where this conflict will end. There seems to be far too much time remaining for the issue to be resolved in the space around Earth where most of the fighting has taken place. The UN HQ’s response to all this could also throw things into disarray unless they coordinate with the Macross-Britai fleet.
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I was waiting for that response on Exedol’s “Kyun~ Kyun~”
Epic! whoosh whoosh whoosh ! i remember watching this series was good stuff.
I hope you are having fun, t’was a most glorious wedding, not until Patrick and Katie’s wedding did I feel so close to tears.
Yeah, the wedding WAS sudden, wasn’t it? I remember watching Robotech as a little and being ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that Millia (or “Miriya”) was going to betray them all later.
In the middle of a battle, Yot-chan forgot to put his faith in Max’s amourous capabilities…
And…not spoiling anything here, think of it more as an agonizing teaser, but Misa WON’T get back to space anytime soon…
Seriously, you’re in for a few big shocks next time. Brace yourself.
First wedding I’ve seen in anime I think, and it was awesome. “Max, what’s marry?” is one of the best lines ever. Also battloid honor guard ftw. These two… what an awesome anime couple and definitely one of my very favorites especially in Macross 7 when they’re in their improbably young-looking 50s.
Price of interspecies wedding with full military honors:
$25 million
Seeing the Second in Command of an alien species embarrasing himself while singing Min May:
Priceless
Yeah, Max really knew how to woo a woman.
As for the next episodes, you’ll be surprised, I can tell you that.
Truly Max’s mojo knows no bounds. From nemesis to waifu in less than 1 episode! The swift transition to marriage feels terribly quaint and old-fashioned; I can’t see a plot twist being played that way in a modern series unless it was a comedy in which Milia proclaimed herself Max’s wife and moved in with him much to his consternation (and that of the four other girls chasing him). No endless harem antics in SDF Macross!
Next episode is heavy-duty mood whiplash: when I watched the Robotech version I was amazed they got away with showing it on American TV.
Next episode is one that is made of a win that is epic.
For anyone wondering why the Max x Millia romance seemed rush. This is because this plot thread suffered when Macross was initially cut back to 27 eps. (but later extended). Off course, back in the day, we just attributed the swiftness to Max simply being THAT AWESOME and being able to SMASH the defenses of Millia’s heart INTO ATOMS.
As for Exsedols, he takes a little to well to culture (he becomes a bit of a secret connoisseur of girls in bikinis by the time of Macross 7).
@ Black87 and Foshizzel
It was a wonderful moment of ‘WTF’ in between all the serious exposition.
@ Crusader
It was on the same level of glorious, though I was more ear to ear smiling for the duration myself.
@ Yot-chan
Oh I look forward to the shocks! And with all my current papers and projects now turned in, I’ll have the time next week to properly savor the moment.
@ ghostlightning
They are indeed an epic couple, ranking up there with Mayama/Rika and Katie/Patrick.
Though just for future reference try not to tell me about characters’ longer term futures. Knowing that they’ll be around in the time of Macross 7 kind of takes away the fear that they could die.
@ Gunmetal_GM
Now he just needs to release an album of Lynn Minmay covers!
@ Magnus
Looking forward to it greatly!
@ Keith
LOL. I’d almost like to see that made as some sort of weird alternate reality side story!
Man, all these hints are really upping my anticipation for the next episodes.
@ d3v
Ah, that would help explain things. Too bad, I’d like to have seen more courtship between the two prior to marriage. I wonder if Yot-chan has a book of extra Max/Millia stories and scripts hidden away in his magical stash of Macross stuff…
Though I have to humbly ask you, as I did Ghostlightning, to not give away information about longer run character futures since it can take away some of the uncertainty for me.
@ ExecutiveOtaku:
No, unfortunately there are no Max-and-Millia-centric stories or booksin the Macross literary world. (There was one mentioned in the infamous Frontier liner notes, but that, like pretty much everything else in said liner notes, turned out to be a fabrication).
The second Frontier novel, however, opens with a flashback featuring them, but it’ll be a long while before I get around to translating that one.
Right now, I’m working on “Misa Hayase – White Reminiscences” (about her time with Lt. Riber), the three-volume novelization of the TV show (which isn’t very good, I’m afraid), and the “drama albums” (the first of these, “Miss DJ,” is an episode of Minmay’s radio show, set soon after “Shao Pai Long” opens, and it’s mostly comedic. The second is about Misa dealing with trying to open up emotionally after Riber’s death, the third is a Christmas album, and the fourth…well, I’ll tell you about that later).
There are a couple of short stories in the book “Macross Perfect Memory,” too. And that’s about it for extra material.