Humans •
Hikaru Ichijyo (
Arihiro Hase and
Kenji Nojima/
Vic Mignogna) •
Lynn Minmay (
Mari Iijima in both Japanese and English versions) •
Misa Hayase (
Mika Doi/
Monica Rial)
Roy Focker is a fictional character from the
Japanese
anime science fiction series
Macross (which was loosely adapted as the first story arc of
Robotech) and the
prequel OVA Macross Zero. He is voiced by
Akira Kamiya in the original Japanese anime television series and by
Brett Weaver in the 2006
ADV Films English dub.
Fictional character biography Roy Focker is
American. During his college days he had interest in prehistoric civilizations and archeology studies, and was in a relationship with his senior Aries Turner. Some time later he decided to join the
U.N. Spacy after most of his friends died in the U.N. Wars. Focker was selected later as one of the first test pilots for the development of the
variable fighters by the U.N. Forces. In 2008 he is deployed as a squadron commander with the Skull Team aboard the stealth carrier CVN-99
Asuka II on a secret mission in the South Pacific and flies the VF-0 Phoenix in battle against the SV-51s of the Anti-U.N. Forces. The work done on the VF-0 helps the coinciding development of the
VF-1 Valkyrie. Despite his long absence during the U.N. Wars and the death of Hikaru's father, Hikaru still remained a close friend to Roy and considered him his
senpai. Roy dies in episode 18 ("Pineapple Salad"), from wounds sustained while defending
Macross from
Milia Fallyna's force of
Queadluun-Rau battle suits. To Hikaru's chagrin given his then shaken self-confidence in his flying skill in war, he is promoted as the new leader of Roy's squadron, using his mecha as well. In the 1984
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? film adaptation of the original TV series, Roy Focker dies aboard an alien
Zentradi ship while fighting
Quamzin Kravshera. In the movie Roy sacrifices himself to let both Hikaru Ichijyo and
Misa Hayase escape. In flashback sequences, Roy flies a reproduction Fokker D.VII, and gives Hikaru a model of one as a "get well" gift. Furthermore, although several possible scenarios regarding his death abound, the
Red Baron (for which the Fokker Dr.I was most famous) was possibly shot down in combat by a Canadian pilot called
Roy Brown, the origin of Roy Focker's first name. The colors on Roy's VF-1S Valkyrie are similar to those of the
VF-84 Jolly Rogers unit that flew the
F-14 Tomcat, a plane that inspired the basic design of the VF-1 Valkyrie.
In other media In any rendition of the famous RPG crossover of
Super Robot Wars involving Macross, Roy Focker constituted a major character in the overall story, and did not die as per the scenario of Macross. In these games, Focker was fighting alongside many other robot anime icons, especially those voiced by his voice actor Akira Kamiya (e.g. Ryoma Nagare of Getter Robo, Akira Hibiki of Reideen, Kazuya Ryuzaki of Daimos, and Sanshiro Tsuwabuki of Gaiking). In the sequel series
Macross Frontier, the leader of the
Frontier fleet's S.M.S. Skull Platoon is Ozma Lee. Like Roy, he shows elements of the same personality and becomes a mentor figure to series protagonist, Alto. In addition, food involving pineapples (in this case, pineapple cake) appears to have nearly lethal effects – Ozma is badly wounded on the day he promised to prepare pineapple cake for Ranka with Cathy's recipe, and the evidence of his injury produces a similar shock with SMS groundcrew as that produced after Roy Focker's final flight. Breaking the
fourth wall, Michel notes that if Ozma
had died, it would have been "The most moving scene ever!".
Bruno J. Global is the fictional captain of the
SDF-1 Macross in the
anime series
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross. In the
Macross TV Japanese series Captain Global is an Italian submarine skipper and UN Spacy officer who was involved in the refit of the crashed Alien Star Ship 1 (ASS-1) into the SDF-1
Macross during the U.N. Wars. He is the SDF-1 ship's
plankowner and sees her through many adventures and hardships battling the
Zentradi aliens during the original series. He regularly pulls out and lights up his smoking pipe when he feels nervous.
Macross According to the fictional continuity of the
Macross series, Bruno Global is of
Italian ethnicity. Before commanding the
Macross, Global's commanding officer during the
U.N. Wars was
Misa Hayase's father Takashi. He was the captain of the U.N. Navy submarine
Marco Polo and the
UN Spacy Oberth class space destroyer
Goddard, which engaged and destroyed her hijacked sister ship
Tsiolkovsky in the first ever use of
reaction weaponry in real ship-vs-ship space combat during the U.N. Wars. Bruno J. Global rose through the ranks of the United Nations Forces thanks to his exploits during the Unification Wars until he was assigned as Captain of the flagship of the infant Spacy, the SDF-1
Macross fortress.
Legacy • As a tribute to the series, the character design for
Nemo in
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, looks almost exactly like Global. In the
AD Vision English dub of the series, it is taken a step further as the voice of Nemo (supplied by Ev Lunning Jr.) resembles
Gloval from
Robotech. • The Battlecruiser Captain of
StarCraft and
StarCraft: Brood War bears some minor resemblance to Global, and speaks in a manner and tone similar to his
Robotech counterpart. • In episode 13 of the
Macross Frontier animated TV series the ruins of what appears to be a production version of the
SDF-1 Macross are found. This new ship is named the
Global. Also, the Captain of S.M.S
Macross Quarter, Jeffrey Wilder, physically resembles Bruno J. Global. • The Captain of the Alliance submarine
Pincer X2 located in Vash'jir in the game
World of Warcraft is named Captain Glovaal and speaks in a manner and tone similar to his
Robotech counterpart.
Hayao Kakizaki is a fictional character in the
science fiction television series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, voiced by
Katsumi Suzuki. In the
ADV Films dub of Macross, he is voiced by
Jason Douglas. Among the pilots of the Vermillion Squadron, Kakizaki is the least serious and skilled. His characterization adds to an already heavy laden humorous anime even more comic relief. He is portrayed also as being a laid back character, which often at times would endanger him while out battling the
Zentradi. Compared to his teammates, Kakizaki is also the least experienced pilot, and from time-to-time, Hikaru and Max had to save him from being killed. In November 2009, when Gunsight One's radar system was damaged, Kakizaki, along with Max and his superior,
Hikaru Ichijyo accompanied
Misa Hayase to scout the surrounding of the
SDF-1 Macross. During this mission, he and the others were captured by the Zentradi. This marks the first contact between the races. In episode 19: Burst Point, Kakizaki was killed in action when the
Macross's barrier system overloads and Kakizaki's Valkyrie was caught in the blast field. In the Macross chronology, he was
KIA just after the episode of
Roy Focker's death. However, in
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie, he was killed in battle by missiles fired by a group of
Queadluun-Raus led by
Milia Fallyna while joking with Max and Hikaru (Ironically underestimating their enemy's strength due to them being female). In the Robotech western adaptation his ethnicity was changed to American and his name became Ben Dixon. Hayao Kakizaki also appears in
videogames such as
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross for the
PlayStation 2 and
Macross Ace Frontier for the
PlayStation Portable. She debuts in the first episode of the first series,
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross. She also appears in
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie and in archival footage and flashbacks in
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 music video collection. Her voice actress was Noriko Ohara in the original Japanese TV version, in
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie adaptation, and in
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 OVA. In the English dub of the original Japanese series that was released by
ADV Films in January 2006 the character was voiced by
Christine Auten. She is known as
Claudia Grant in
Robotech. Claudia LaSalle does not die at the end of
Macross, although her
Robotech counterpart does die. It is possible Claudia is a relative of
Edgar LaSalle from
Macross Zero, who was
Shin Kudo's
RIO.
Max Jenius ''''
is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Macross'', voiced by
Shō Hayami. In the new English adaptation by
ADV Films, he is voiced by
Chris Patton. Although Jenius is not above an occasional egotistical musing when he is off duty, he is also well known for his affable and courteous personality and his comrades hold him in high favor on top of his impressive skill. He is also an incurable romantic in his youth which shows when he meets his future wife. That occurred when the top
Zentradi ace pilot,
Milia Fallyna, hears about a formidable pilot aboard the humans'
SDF-1 Macross space fortress and seeks to challenge him personally in battle. Max manages to defeat Milia not once, but thrice. The first in their respective mechas, the second in simulated combat (a video game) and finally in a
knife fight to the death. It is this final fight where the two rivals fall in love. Immediately after the knife-fight in the park Max proposes to Milia who accepts. Afterward, Milia is allowed to join the mainline fighting forces of the SDF-1 Macross and becomes Max's
wingmate on duty, piloting a distinctive red Valkyrie alongside Max's blue one. After the Zentradi Fleet that nearly destroys the
Earth is vanquished, Max and Milia settle down in the new city built around the SDF-1 Macross and begin a new life together. In March 2011, they give birth to a daughter (the first of seven) named Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius. The name Komilia (which means "Little Milia") is chosen because with her green hair and green eyes, she looks so much like her mother (although it has also been suggested that the "ko" simply refers to the Japanese kanji character "child" that is often used on the end of Japanese female personal names – a suggestion which is supported by the title of episode 30:
Viva Maria, as opposed to
Viva Komilia). Komilia proves how related the Humans and Zentradi are. The "first stellar interracial child" is very unabashed baby, and proves resilient to Milia's sometimes rough and inexperienced handling. Max, despite his relatively young age, proves to be a happy and successful father, although he clearly has a strong dislike of Komilia's playfulness with his hair. In the original Macross series, Max and Milia have seven natural daughters and adopt a Zentradi girl over a period of twenty years from 2011 to 2031. Max and Milia, in addition to being legally separated from each other, are also separated from most of their children – all but their youngest daughter,
Mylene Flare Jenius, have moved away from the Macross 7 fleet. Max often checks up on Mylene, whom he feels very protective of. As the series progresses, Max becomes responsible for the establishment of "Sound Force", a trio of Valkyries piloted by the members of
Fire Bomber which includes Mylene. Initially, he forbids Mylene from joining Sound Force, for fear of putting her life in danger, but is persuaded to allow her to join after witnessing her skill as a pilot and musician. Max often clashes with Milia about Mylene, but the two are able to remain civil (usually) around each other for the sake of their daughter, who unsuccessfully tries to bring them together again. Late in the series, Max and Milia are able to overcome their troubled past and resume flying together in their distinctive blue and red VF-22 Sturmvogels in order to save the fleet from threat posed by the
Protodeviln. In the final battle, Max, Milia and Mylene fight side-by-side against Lord Geperunitch.
Role in Macross: Do You Remember Love film In
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?, an animated film adaptation of the original series, Max and Milia met in a completely different way. After the
Macross returns to Earth, the
Meltrandi, under the command of Lap Lamiz, launched their own campaign against the Macross. The Meltrandi fleet sends in their highly trained Queadluun-Rau power armor fighters, led by their ace pilot,
Milia Fallyna, to retrieve a
Protoculture tablet containing an ancient song they believed could help them defeat their Zentradi enemies. In the ensuing battle with the Macross and subsequent death of
Hayao Kakizaki, Max and Milia fight against each other. In the last phase of the battle, Max and Milia enter the Lap Lamiz's ship and there, Max manages to down his opponent. Upon breaching the armor, Max is enamored by Milia as she is with him, and expresses his awe at the Meltran pilot. In the final battle between
Boddole Zer and the Macross fleet, a macronized Max is seen with Milia battling together in their respective specialized blue and red Queadluun-Raus. This scene is one of the few scenes showing Max without his glasses. Another difference in the movie is that after Roy Focker's death, Max is promoted to leader of the Skull Squadron, thus having Hikaru Ichijyo and Hayao Kakizaki briefly as his subordinates.
References in other media In
Macross Frontier, the character
Michael Blanc resembles Max in being a star pilot that wears glasses. He has a romantic interest in
Klan Klang of the Meltrandi, who resembles Milia.
Other characters , who also narrates) •
Maximillian "Max" Jenius (
Sho Hayami/
Chris Patton) •
Bruno J. Global (
Michio Hazama/
John Swasey) --> •
Hayao Kakizaki (
Katsumi Suzuki/
Jason Douglas) • Kim Kabirov (
Hiromi Tsuru/
Kira Vincent Davis) •
Exsedol Folmo (
Ryūsuke Ōbayashi/
Andy McAvin) •
Milia Fallyna (Eri Takeda/
Luci Christian) • Warera Nantes (
Katsumi Suzuki/
Mark X. Laskowski) • Loli Dosel (Tsutomu Fujii/
Greg Ayres) • Conda Bromco (Kōsuke Meguro/Xero Reynolds) • Zeril (Kōsuke Meguro) He is also known as Bodolzaa in
AnimEigo's English subtitled
Macross release. After both the Zentradi and the Meltlandi become "cultured" by an ancient
Protoculture song and join the surviving humans, Boddole Zer and his fortress are attacked by the combined forces of both fleets and the SDF-1
Macross. Boddole Zer himself is destroyed by
Hikaru Ichijyo flying a
VF-1 Valkyrie variable fighter at the end of the film. He is a
Zem First Class "Archivist" Official in the Britai Fleet and his memory capacity is said to surpass any electronic device that ever existed, as he keeps details of every combat in the entire 500,000-year-old Zentradi history for instant recall. Much later, when the Britai fleet had decided to defect to the humans side, he was micloned and sent to the
Macross as a peace envoy. When the war ended and
UN Spacy was re-established he joined up as an advisor. A human and Zentradi mall seen in episode 5 of
Macross Frontier was also dubbed
Folmo.
Character notes The original in-story explanation for the character's new appearance was that Exsedol had been physically modified between series, presumably from his original design. This was found in the liner notes for the
Macross 7 DVDs: “Although he was Micloned at one time, he purportedly returned to his former Zentradi size and realtered his body makeup for fear of losing his cerebral capacity and memories”. Many flashbacks to the original series in later Macross productions featured the new design for Exsedol. Kawamori described the relation between the different depictions of Space War I: "The real Macross is out there, somewhere. If I tell the story in the length of a TV series, it looks one way, and if I tell it as a movie-length story, it's organized another way." According to him, the changes in the appearance of Exsedol Folmo in the different Macross series is due to them being all equally fictional and open to changes in the style and design of their plot and characters.
Milia Fallyna Jenius is a fictional character in the
Macross Japanese animated science fiction series, voiced by Eri Takeda. After the Zentradi Fleet that nearly destroys the
Earth is vanquished, Max and Milia settle down in the new city built around the SDF-1 Macross. In March 2011, Milia gives birth to a daughter (the first of seven) who is named Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius. The name Komilia (which means "Little Milia") is chosen because, with her green hair and green eyes, she looks so much like her mother (although it has also been suggested that the "ko" simply refers to the Japanese kanji character "child" that is often used on the end of Japanese female personal names – a suggestion which is supported by the title of the episode 30:
Viva Maria, as opposed to
Viva Komilia) Komilia proves how related the Humans and Zentradi are as she is the "first stellar interracial child". She proves to be an unabashed baby who is tough enough to handle Milia's often inexperienced handling. Komilia is also very playful with Max's long hair, and pulls on it while giggling. The birth of her first child was another profoundly moving event for Milia when the artificially gestated woman realized that she created life inside her own body. It takes time for Milia to learn about motherhood – when
Misa Hayase asks if she could hold Komilia, Milia initially refuses and tells Misa
"If you want to hold a baby, why not make one of your own? I made this one." When Milia does agree, she throws Komilia to Misa, who barely manages to catch the baby in time. Komilia proves adorable to
Misa Hayase and
Claudia LaSalle, who are amazed that she doesn't appear to be shy at all, and envy Milia for having such a beautiful little girl. Misa is overjoyed when she gets the opportunity to hold Komilia while she and Claudia admire her, argue who should hold her, and make her laugh. Later, Komilia can be seen peacefully asleep in her mother's arms. Milia, despite her past as a ruthless Zentradi warrior, embraces her role as a mother and feels as much love for Komilia as any human mother could feel towards her child. Komilia, along with her parents, plays an important role in the U.N.' capture of a factory satellite in November 2011. After blasting into the enemy command ship in their fighters, Max and Milia face the hostile Zentradi and Milia reaches into her fighter and lifts baby Komilia (in a tiny pink and white spacesuit) into view, causing the enemy Zentradi who have never seen a baby before to recoil in shock and fear. Komilia coos as she brings her hands to the faceshield of her helmet in an effort to rub her eyes, promoting the Zentradi to shout
"It moves!" Milia, smiling, states ''"This is called a baby. Her name is Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius. She'll gradually grow bigger until she's the same size as us. She was created by the two of us,"'' as she motions towards Max. Milia then raises Komilia high over her head, proudly proclaiming her birth to be a symbol of protoculture. The hostile Zentradi now filled with terror, abandon their posts, which causes disorder and allows the U.N. forces and the allied Zentradi to destroy the enemy fleet and seize the factory. However, their relationship is a rocky one, and made difficult as Klan's adult body would convert to a childlike physical appearance upon micronization. • Klan's red
Queadluun-Rea is a reference to Milia's red
Queadluun-Rau, which appeared in
Macross: Do You Remember Love? • Milia's granddaughter Mirage from
Macross Delta shares many similarities with her. Aside from being a pilot, Mirage also has an antagonistic relationship with a possible love interest, Hayate Immelman, who himself also flies a blue fighter jet. • In one episode of
Delta, Mirage and Hayate fly red and blue
VF-1EXs similar to those of Milia and Max.
Quamzin Kravshera Voice actor Kōsuke Meguro performed
Quamzin Kravshera in the original Japanese TV version and in
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie adaptation. In the English dub of the original Japanese series released by
ADV Films in January 2006 he was voiced by Illich Guardiola. Known as "The Ally Killer" for his aggressive tactics that usually involve destroying both the enemies and his own men. He supposedly died with Moruk Lap Lamiz in 2012, in one last suicidal attempt to destroy the
SDF-1 Macross. He entered Space War I when the commander of the Adoclas fleet,
Britai Kridanik, ordered his battalion to join up with Britai's fleet to aid in the capture of the Macross. The choice of Quamzin was a particularly unsettling one for Britai's archivist
Exsedol Folmo who believed Quamzin to be irrational, selfish, violent and as dangerous to his own side as to the enemy. This perception was reinforced when, while recklessly coming out of spacefold right into the main fleet, Quamzin's ships collided with some of Britai's force — and that Quamzin and his men had placed bets on how many ships they'd hit. He was immediately dispatched to
Mars in a plot to disable the Macross while she was landed and taking supplies from an abandoned
U.N. Spacy base on the planet. The plan failed. Finally, Quamzin undertook a daring, almost suicidal plan—he used the Macross' devastating "Daedalus Attack" against the ship by forcing his troops up the Daedalus' boarding ramp. In the end, Quamzin's troops were able to do massive damage to Macross City before the assault fell apart. Some of the Zentradi who had taken part in the assault were actually defectors smitten by the ship's culture and the ship's resident singer,
Lynn Minmay. As Quamzin got wind of the idea, he began to turn on all of his troops, and finally succeeded in inadvertently chasing them all off the ship. Soon after, Boddole Zer, the commander of the Zentradi fleet, arrived to finally put an end to what he saw as the corrosive effects of culture. Quamzin, unwilling to take part in a Zentradi civil war (Britai and his fleet had recently decided to take up the defense of the Earth alongside
Macross) departed for parts unknown, and disappeared from the historical record for two years. Those two years had been spent building a base for a Zentradi militarist revival. He recruited Zentradi who had either been not fully "cultured" or who had grown disenchanted with their new, peaceful lives and wanted to return to a time of constant warfare. In the jungles of South America, his small but loyal cadre worked to restore a Zentradi ship that had crash-landed intact during the battle with Boddole Zer and, in furtherance of this goal, assaulted a number of newly established cities across the globe. Among the most damaging of the assaults was the last one, the battle of Onogi City on Christmas Eve, 2011. Quamzin, as he and his forces left with the reactor that was their target, left a nasty surprise behind: Detonator-controlled bombs that levelled great swathes of the city. With the reactor, the restoration of the ship was complete. Quamzin, with a fully operational Zentradi ship under his feet again, was ready to do the thing Britai never did: Incapacitate or destroy the Macross. In January 2012, Quamzin's ship, with his new love, Moruk Lap Lamiz (the two had made this one concession to a culture they otherwise despised) on board, made their run for Macross City in
Alaska. The run ended with Quamzin ramming his vessel into the Macross, causing massive damage to both ships. With that, he was presumed dead, although the Zentradi militarist resistance he helped foster would still be active as late as the 2050s. ==
Macross II ==