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Region：Japan
Type：OVA
English name：Macross Zero
Official name：マクロスゼロ
Chinese name：超时空要塞 ZERO
Premiered：December 21, 2002
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Science fiction / Robot war / Music / R(L) / Source original
Original author：河森正治 / スタジオぬえ
Director：河森正治 / ところともかず
Scenario：大野木寛
Storyboard：河森正治 / ところともかず
Co-director：西山明樹彦 / 工藤進 / ところともかず / 田中孝行
Studios：サテライト
Family：Macross
Official website：http://www.macross.co.jp/zero/
Rating：12+

Macross Zero

In the year 1999 a huge extraterrestrial battleship crash-landed on Earth, bringing the human race in contact with very advanced technology.

Human short-sightedness and the greed to be the only one to possess this technology led to the war between the UN and the Anti-UN Eight years have passed since then, killing so many veteran pilots that even boys in their teens had to be recruited to fight the war.

Kudou Shin, a young UN F-14 pilot is shot down by an unknown enemy fighter plane during a sortie and crash-lands on a solitary island.

Coincidentally, an unusual energy surge is detected on this island.

Both sides of the conflict suspect the surge originated from remnants of the Proto-culture's advanced technology, left behind by extraterrestrial beings in ancient times.

As it turns out this technological legacy is very similar to the recovered fallen extraterrestrial battleship that crashed eight years ago.

Now, both the UN and the Anti-UN struggle to be the first to recover the technology of extraterrestrial origin by invading the island... bringing death and destruction to the peaceful islanders.

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Dec 21, 2002

EP1 - The Ocean, The Wind, And...

Having come off second-best in his first battle with an Anti Alliance transforming fighter, Shin awakes to find himself stranded on an island, Mayan. Stuck with them while his wounds heal & while he tries to find a way to signal his base, he strikes up a friendship with island girl Mao, and an understanding of sorts with Mao's older sister, Sara.
May 23, 2003

EP2 - The Stars on the Earth

The Alliance have developed their own transforming fighter, the VF-0 (or 'Zero'). It first sees action in the skies above Mayan, placing the lives of Mao & the other islanders at risk but giving Shin his opportunity to return.
Nov 28, 2003

EP3 - Blue and Desperate Battle

Shin discovers that Sara and Mao have strange abilities connected to the island. Tension between Sara and Aries intensifies when Sara's mentor was the same professor that drew blood from her at a younger age. Meanwhile, Mao brings Shin into the ocean to show him the island's secret treasure - a large fragment of the ancient relic known as AFOS. There, Shin learns more about adapting to different environments by observing a school of flying fish and a flock of birds that also swim. But Mayan and the ocean surrounding it once again become a war zone when anti-U.N. forces attack the Asuka II fleet and the island in hopes of taking away the heavily-guarded AFOS. Shin and Edgar - aboard their VF-0D - must protect the AFOS fragment discovered by Mao from the invading forces.
May 28, 2004

EP4 - Jungle

After crash-landing, Shin finds a priestess in the Mayan jungle. Although they both are captured and tortured, they manage to escape but they are relentlessly chased by their enemies.
Oct 22, 2004

EP5 - Birdman

In the South Pacific, two military forces prepare to fight a nuclear war. In desperation, Shin and Sara decide to sacrifice themselves . . . in order to protect the Mayan people.