Since the best-selling video games, microcomputers have continued to develop into the most cutting-edge products that teenagers aspire to, and the times have begun to slowly advance on the road of digitalization.
The groping of the Gundam mailbox
The new TV series "Fighter Mezzanine Safingal", supervised by YukiYuki Tomino (now Yuki Tomino), began airing in February, and this anime changes the hardcore style of the previous game "Legendary God Idian" and uses the western-style world as the background stage to comically unfold the story.
In July, "Legendary Giant God Idian" released two more theatrical versions of "Legendary Giant God Editing" and "Legend giant God Edith" and "Legend giant God Edithian Launch", which ushered in the real sense of the end. Both theatrical editions contain the total episode of the TV version and the last four episodes of the full version of the series.
It is quite common in the animation industry to gather a large number of popularity during the TV series, then finish the anime in order to be able to sell toys and other peripheral goods in a low-key manner, and finally see that the response is very good, and then launch a theatrical version.
In fact, many sponsors of robot animation are sponsored for the purpose of selling young toys, stationery, water pipes or bento boxes, etc., which is a departure from the thinking of teenagers who actually support the trend of animation, which can be said to be a real tragedy.
Since October, "Macross" has been broadcast since October, and although the broadcast time is quite unpopular every Sunday afternoon, the anime still has won great popularity. Realistic military depictions such as objects left over from previous wars against cosmic humans, deformed structures and usage forms of robots, quickly sparked heated discussion. In addition, the love triangle around the male protagonist not only attracted many male fans, but also attracted the attention of many female audiences. Moreover, this animation does not describe a hot-blooded and righteous youth, but a protagonist image of "sacrificing himself to fight for the people he likes", which can be said to be a male protagonist who can better reflect the characteristics of the new era.
The following year, in 1983 and the following 1984, two other works in the Chrono Series, Orguss and The Knights of Chrono Sophern, were also produced.
Macross and Southem Cross from the Chrono series, plus Mecha Genesis Mospeada, which was broadcast in 1983, were bundled together and exported to the United States and collectively known as Battlestar Galactica for broadcasting.
The beginning of the digital audio era
In October, Companies such as Sony, LO-D (Hitachi Studios), DENON (Columbia Productions, Japan) and other companies began to release the world's earliest optical disc (CD) player.
The player was promoted by virtue of its higher sound quality than previous analog records, damaged disks and no noise, but the price of the player that was just released reached a staggering 150,000 yen, and criticism of sound quality was heard from some audio fans, resulting in players like the CD Walkman not beginning to appear and become popular until 1984.
Microcomputer trend
In the year of the TV animation of the popular manga Game Center Storm, which emerged from the electronic trend, its author, Mitsuru Campani, published the manga Hello, Microcomputer, which was based on the NEC microcomputer PC-6001 (commonly known as "Pubcon"), which was released in 1982, and described the future world that the computer might bring, from the basic programming design to the future world that the computer might bring.
This easy-to-understand comic about the most popular microcomputers of the time is widely read by readers of all ages. Later, in 1983, the release of the movie "Wow, Game" depicting the problems of computer society caused a huge crisis for manufacturers of domestic home appliances such as NEC's PC series, Sharp's MZ series and X1 series, and Fujitsu's FM series.
By 1984, the audiovisual industry had developed into a unified use of ROM cards for software supply like red and white machines, so that the unified specification MSX began to be sold, and the microcomputer boom began to slowly expand. The microcomputer, which was popularized as a hobby, depicts many objects that children dream of in anime such as "Invincible Sanshiro" and "Laser Warrior".