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Macross: Do You Remember Love? Film Gets English-Subtitled 4K Remastered Blu-ray in Japan

Bandai Namco Filmworks announced on Thursday that it will offer a new 4K remastered Blu-ray Disc set of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? film on January 29, 2025. The 40th anniversary release will include English subtitles. The 4K remastered version will also start playing in 40 Japanese theaters on January 25, and a limited first edition of the Blu-ray set will go on advance sale in those same theaters on that same date.

The release will include both a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc version and a regular Blu-ray Disc version in one package. Each will be available in both the 1984 "Theatrical Release Edition" and the 2016 "Complete Edition," based on the 2016 Bandai Visual Blu-ray Disc release. Unlike the 2012 Hybrid Pack Blu-ray Disc release of the film, the 2016 Bandai Visual Blu-ray Disc release did not include changes to the main footage of the 1984 film version.

The special limited edition of the new 4K remastered Blu-ray Disc release will also include exclusive box art by the film's character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, as well as a 24-page booklet. Pre-orders will be available on November 3. The limited first edition sold by the A-on Store, Premium Bandai, and Cho Jikū Fan Club Tamashii services (and theaters showing the 4K remaster) will include a recording script "signed" by the character Lynn Minmay, a replica of the "Macross * 84 - Summer" campaign badge, and Mikimoto's illustration from the film's earlier laser disc release on an acrylic board.

Sources: Comic Natalie, V-Storage

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