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Now if only he and his friends can survive his discoveries...
Released March 1985, '''''Megazone 23''''' (pronounced "Megazone Two Three") is historically significant for being one of the very first [[OVA]]s and also was one of the first anime to extensively interweave music with the plot. The story itself was a mindbender at the time, and is a forerunner of such later American works as ''[[The Matrix]]'' and ''[[Dark City]]''. Since then, the plot twists and the character types have become standard in anime, almost cliche in some instances, but as a certified classic it is still worth seeing.
The original American distributions of ''Megazone 23'' were anything but impressive. It was briefly released in North America by Harmony Gold as ''[[Robotech]] the Movie''. Carl Macek crudely spliced in footage from ''[[Robotech]]'' to force a linkage between the two shows, and of course the [[Macekre|usual Macek dub script]] was conjured up out of nothing to replace the original dialogue. <s>Macek</s>Harmony Gold also produced a dub of ''Part 2'', which was only released in Japan as an aid for teaching English. (The release also included the alternate ending for ''Part 1'' that was produced for the Robotech movie as an extra). Later, a different production house released a dub of an unbutchered version, but the result, reportedly, was still horrendous.
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