Related anime:
Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles (U.S. manga) (prequel)
Robotech: Shadow Rising (U.S. movie) (sequel)

Genres: action, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military
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Objectionable content: Mild

Plot Summary: The war between the Robotech Expeditionary Force and the Invid comes to an unexpected end when the Regess and her Invid spawn retreat from Earth, leaving behind her daughter Ariel, who had developed a love for the planet and mankind. However, all is not well when Ariel receives a premonition of a new threat to Earth. Meanwhile, upon arriving at Admiral Hunter and the SDF-3's last known location, Vince Grant and his crew encounter an unknown enemy and are forced to fold back to home base without the SDF-3. As the mystery unfolds, our heroes discover that the Invid's sudden retreat and the REF's alliance with the Haydonites all relate to a mysterious race known only as the "Children of the Shadow."

LINK - Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (U.S. OAV) - Anime News Network



Related anime:
Robotech (U.S. manga) (adaptation)
Robotech: Invasion (U.S. manga) (sequel)
Robotech (live-action movie) (remake)
Robotech II: The Sentinels (U.S. movie) (sequel)
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (U.S. OAV) (sequel)
Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles (U.S. manga) (prequel)
Robotech: Shadow Rising (U.S. movie) (sequel)
Robotech: The Untold Story (U.S. movie) (spinoff)

Genres: action, adventure, mystery, romance, science fiction
Themes: aliens, mecha, military, power suits, real robot, space, war
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Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Made in America from three unrelated anime. The first part tells of humanity's first contact that ends in a war. Rick Hunter is a pilot who gets dragged along with the SDF-1 and joins with them to stop the invaders. Lyn Minmei is a singer who Rick rescues and falls for. Together they try to save the Earth and end the war without fighting, but with love. The second part deals with children of the first, the rebuilding complete; we send the SDF-3 to attack the masters. While it travels out in hyperspace to their worlds, the masters crawl into our solar system. The Earth must fight a devesting second war for a secret prize. Someone else wants the prize, the Invid. The third part gives us a world controlled by the Invid. The SDF-3 sends a probing force that is destroyed upon exiting hyperspace. A single survivor remains, a man taught to fight, with the will to free Earth. He forms a resistance with the goal of destroying the Invid hive at Reflux Point, aka New York.

LINK - Robotech (U.S. TV) - Anime News Network