Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Macross: Do You Remember Love? Preview Book


This book was a preview book for the Macross: Do You Remember Love? Movie. At the front of the book was a 3-panel single sided foldout a Meltran ships and several suits. The first thirty-four pages of the book were color images from Macross the Movie. It included images of characters from both sides, mecha, and the concert Minmay performed at the beginning of the film. The next section beginning on page 41 was line art of mostly the mecha from the movie. This section was done blue and white. The next few sections were in color. On page 57 began the section of photos of a young Mari Iijima, the seiyuu of Lynn Minmay. The first three pages had five photos of her in a light green and white striped dress. The next two pages had her in roller skates. Following them were four more pictures of Mari dressed in white outfit outside in the city during the night. Finally, on page sixty-four, it has a few more pictures of her and her albums avalable at the time. A few of them listed three numbers, which werefor the LP, cassette, and the CD. The final part of the color section, starting on page 65, showed various models related from the movie. Between pages 74-76, it featured more B/W line art of the various mecha used during the movie. Pages 78-81 had some more text info on Mari and the song sheet for "Ai, Ohoeteimasu ka" (Do You Remeber Love?) and "Tenshi no enogu" (Angel's Colors). Pages 82-83 list the various audio and video items released for Macross up to that time. There were eight small images of LP covers and two image covers of VHS box. In addition, there is another image for an LP that seemed to have been a Mari Iijima album. The remaining pages covered interviews, credits, and staff information.



Product number was ISBN4-09-101563-8. It was released in 1984. There was no UPC Bar Code. It was priced at Y800. The book was 104 pages in total length.