Carl Macek: Robotech's pioneer
Bad news…..
Received this difficult news feed about one of the pioneer founders of Robotech stories, Carl Macek, was found dead due to a heart attack he suffered at home.
Carl Macek was responsible in redubbing Macross series, along the other two giant robot anime shows that gave us one of the longer running anime franchise series of today known as Robotech (see picture below) in the early 80s. Besides this project, he’s also responsible for dubbing other anime project as well such as Captain Haylock and the Queen of Thousand Years, and the more recent Bleach and Naruto. He also does other types of art direction works that are non-anime related as well such as the Heavy Metal series.
Even though, up to this point of my life, I never favour Robotech series a lot as I used to during my teenage years – this goes the same for others in anime forums. However, because of what he’s done so much to create such a successful American-brand anime franchise, a lot of anime fans in many parts of the world would not have existed. And perhaps their exposure to anime wouldn’t be as big as it is now.
Robotech Series by Carl Macek
So without further ado, here’s Youtube video footage, paying great tribute to Carl Mazek.
R.I.P Carl.
Source: Animenewsnetwork.com, Animenation.net
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