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NEWS: Macross: Shooting Insight Game Confirms Simultaneous Global Launch

Any word on Macross Plus the anime? If 2 is the only Macross confirmed, there are gonna be a lot of disappointed fans.

^It got kind of mixed up in the article, but the Big West twitter account confirmed that a blu-ray of Plus Movie Edition is coming in 2024

The Macross Plus: Movie Edition Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Disc is coming to North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zeland in late 2023 or early 2024.

For extra clarification, the head of Anime Limited later added via a tweet that the Ultimate Edition will contain both the movie & OVA versions of Macross Plus, but said to wait for more details "in due course". This is seemingly the first time Anime Limited has confirmed that they also have the rights to the OVA, since they've only ever specifically stated the movie before.

Now the question is: what will the dub audio end up being for episode 4 of Macross Plus?

Will it be the Manga Entertainment dub audio, which keeps cast continuity with the other 3 episodes, but replaces all the music with cues from the first 3 episodes (with the exception of Sharon's songs) and replaces all of the SFX with generic stock SFX, because the dodgy nature of the license meant they were not able to use a proper clean M&E track to mix the dub for episode 4?

Will it be the Bandai Visual and Big West dub audio, which they produced on their own in order to have some kind of English audio for all 4 episodes, and has a completely different cast (featuring David Hayter!) while using the real music and SFX?

Or, even though this may be impractical if not straight up impossible, for technical reasons (i.e. lack of master tapes, audio stems, etc., so they'd have to strip the vocals out of an existing, low-quality source) somehow they are able to produce a new dub mix that includes the Manga vocals and the real M&E?

I suppose the best case we can hope for is that both episode 4 dubs are included as-is. My fear is that Big West might require the use of their episode 4 dub while specifically denying the inclusion of the Manga dub.

That issue aside, I hope Anime Limited gets to produce their own subtitles for the movie edition, since Manga's were fine but not amazing, and Bandai Visual's/Big West's were hot garbage.

As much as I liked a few performances in the dub (mostly Epcar as Guld), others not so much (Myung's VA was... rough). I wouldn't mind if they just went ahead and redubbed Macross Plus altogether (though would still like past dubs available on the same set).