MACROSS (マクロス, MA-KU-RO-SU) is a long-running and popular series of japanese military science_fictionMecha/Real Robot anime, created by Kawamori_Shouji of Studio Nue in 1982.
The franchise features a fictional alternate history of Earth and humanity after the year 1999. It is sponsored by "Big West Advertising":en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_West_Frontier .
ROBOTECH - Controversial (but popular in the West during its first release) American adaptation/westernification of the first series made in the 1980s_(style).