I maintain that Macross 7 was an atrocity to the whole mecha genre. Despite redemption with Frontier, Shoji Kawamore deserves a stylus up the ass for it.
Faggoty clothes, faggoty characters, faggoty plotline, incredibly faggoty music, and the stupidest idea for mecha control ever...a fuckin' faggoty guitar to pilot a VF.
A friend of mine has made quite the eloquent argument about Mac7.
(from ReiRei0 @ the Aircraft Resource Center forums)
There's a reason Macross 7 never got picked up by a stateside anime company. It's bad. No, wait - that doesn't cover it. It's horrifyingly, mindrendingly, cosmically bad. And it wasn't even "so bad it's good". I'm an afficionado of "so bad it's good" - hell, I own a DVD box set of Pink Lady and Jeff. Macross 7 is "so bad it's... really ******* bad". I still list it as #1 on my list of worst anime of all time - beating Tenshi ni Narumon, an anime that makes me physically ill if I try to watch it. It's one thing to suck - it's quite another to suck in the name of a classic.
For the record, Macross 7 appeared in the mid-90s, and is a sequel set 15-20 years after the original. It centers around Max and Miriya's daughter (no, not Dana), who is such a bubblehead she makes Minmei look like Margaret Thatcher. All in all, it makes about as much sense as Wesley Willis trying to read Jabberwocky. It is the North Korea of anime. You'd have more fun watching educational filmstrips in Croatian.