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NEWS: Right Stuf, Nozomi Ent. to Release Macross 7 on Home Video in N. America for 1st Time

The problem with Macross 7 is that it's the de-facto worst trash in the Macross franchise. Really-it's total shit, Frontier leaves 7 so far behind it isn't even funny. I'd rate 7 at 2 and Frontier 9 on a 1-10 scale.

JoelBurger wrote:

But the industry experts inhabiting forums told me the music rights cost 5 billion dollars and so could never be licensed (source: some random guy at a convention 15 years ago)

Maybe now years later the artists are willing to take 'anything' rather than 'nothing'

In addition, almost every anime company has said that the Macross 7 music rights are very expensive.

Likewise, one of the reasons Macross 7 - the "comedy" Macross series about a maverick rock band - will probably never be licensed is because the show's numerous rock songs are owned by so many different companies that the music rights would make the show's licensing cost go through the roof.

There were only two series produced in between Macross Plus and Macross Frontier - the first being Macross 7, which was never licensed chiefly because of the music licensing rights being a labyrinth of legal horrors

To begin with, it's a very, very expensive show to license. Mainly because of the excess of catchy J-Pop tunes that are littered throughout each episode. The rights to license the music alone would be more expensive than your average, run-of-the-mill moe-fest anime series. Not to mention that the last Macross series that achieved any sort of success in the US was, what Macross Plus? And that was over a decade ago. ADV apparently didn't do so well with their big re-mastered, re-dub of the original series. Basically, there are a ton of reasons why we're unlikely to see Macross Frontier in the US any time soon. Or Macross 7. Or Macross Zero. Or even the terrific Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie. The fans want all this Macross stuff, but it's exorbitantly expensive and dealing with Harmony Gold is a bitch and the sales at the end of the day are rather mediocre.

zrdb wrote:

The problem with Macross 7 is that it's the de-facto worst trash in the Macross franchise. Really-it's total shit, Frontier leaves 7 so far behind it isn't even funny. I'd rate 7 at 2 and Frontier 9 on a 1-10 scale.

I know quite a few people that would disagree with and think that Delta is the worst of the franchise. I, personally, would consider Macross II to be the worst, which is a shame because I thought it started out good.

Exactly, just because something isn't true now, it doesn't mean it wasn't true in the past. Like with Kodocha, the rights for the 1st OP were unaffordable when Funi licensed the show, but were manageable for Discotek, IIRC because the founder of Johnny's had died in the interim, and he was the main obstacle.

It also wasn't just people making statements -- there's plenty of Japanese media that was only ever partially localized due to the costs of licensing music. The Gundam stuff comes to mind most readily for me: all of the PS2 and PS3 games that were localized had the anime music removed; when Zeta Gunda, was localized they had to redo the OP using an unrelated instrumental track.

Joel: Keith from Manga brought up the music rights issue. So it was probably true, because he had skin in the Macross game at one point. As for Zeta, it's probably as expensive as Fly Me to the Moon.

Exactly, just because something isn't true now, it doesn't mean it wasn't true in the past. Like with Kodocha, the rights for the 1st OP were unaffordable when Funi licensed the show, but were manageable for Discotek, IIRC because the founder of Johnny's had died in the interim, and he was the main obstacle.

I know ANN has a horse in the race of spreading misinformation based on hearsay, but no, there's absolutely no basis for thinking this.

Whereas this tells us plain as day that the boogeyman of music rights was nonsense (and that the obvious hindrance of Harmony Gold with the franchise as a whole was it

Not that it needed more confirmation, since people who would actually know further squashed the rumor like 4 days ago in an interview.