Overview - Robotech

Overview

Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan; the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 7

  Date first aired:

• Name: The Macross Saga

  Episode: 36

  Ten years after a mysterious alien ship lands on Earth and is rebuilt with its technology adapted, the alien warrior servants (the Zentraedi) of the ship's owners arrive to retrieve it.

  Date first aired: 1985-03-04

• Name: The Masters Saga

  Episode: 24

  The 'Robotech Masters' have come to the Earth to claim a mysterious substance known as Protoculture.

  Date first aired: 1985-04-23

• Name: The New Generation

  Episode: 25

  The Earth is invaded by a race of aliens calling themselves the Invid to cultivate Earth's vast supplies of Protoculture.

  Date first aired: 1985-05-27