Harmony Gold Starts Work on Shadow Chronicles Sequel

[Roy Mustang]

Reported on ANN.

At their San Diego Comic Con panel, Harmony Gold's Tommy Yune officially unveilved the second original Robotech sequel. Pre-production work on Robotech: Shadow Rising has just commenced, and the film should be released about two years from now.

Col. Roy Mustang

[creed4]

Cool, I've been waiting for this since I saw the first one. Do you think they will finish the arc or draw it out a while

[Mi-Ru-Me]

awsome

[primetech]

Is Robotech, especially the new Shadow Chronicles, really an anime? I don't just mean that it is no longer being produced by an all-Japanese team; it's simply riding a different wave than regular anime.

Fred Patten said it best himself: The original Robotech was a sci-fi cult phenomenon more than an anime success. And now the lines are drawn even more strongly. Robotech caters to its original fans, most of whom were never interested in anime to begin with.

Is the new Shadow Chronicles series bad? No... but I probably fall into the category of "fanatic anime purist," so I don't really see it as an anime at all.

(Shadow Chronicles fans please do not have your enthusiasm dampened by my pessimism.)

[termyt]

Fred Patten said it best himself: The original Robotech was a sci-fi cult phenomenon more than an anime success. And now the lines are drawn even more strongly. Robotech caters to its original fans, most of whom were never interested in anime to begin with.

That's kind of a "duh" statement (I'm not saying it's a stupid thing to say, just very obvious). Of course most fans of Robotech when it was originally released here weren't anime fans. The term "anime" wasn't even in our lexicon at the time.

For the vast majority of American households, Robotech was only the fourth anime they had even an opportunity to see following Speed Racer, Star Blazers, and some form of Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets and/or G-Force).

Other anime had made it across as well, but they were all limited to different area markets.

It’s kind of like saying Star Trek doesn’t count as sci-fi since most of the original fans of the fist Star Trek show weren’t sci-fi fans to begin with.