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This in turn led to a major rise in popularity of anime that was oriented towards the original Japanese productions unedited by American producers—somewhat ironic, because '''''Robotech''''' is actually a [[Cut and Paste Translation]] of three different anime series, edited together by Carl Macek of [[Harmony Gold]], who wanted to bring the Japanese anime ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' to western television, but was unable to since it did not possess the sixty-five episodes needed for a syndication deal. Macek's solution was to tie ''Macross'' to two other unrelated series with similar elements and art styles,
''[[Choujiku Kidan Southern Cross|Super Dimension CalvaryCavalry Southern Cross]]'', and ''[[Genesis Climber Mospeada]]'', and to turn the whole thing into a multi-generational saga, using ''Macross'''s Protoculture—now retrofitted to be the fuel source behind the various technology used by the different races—as the uniting factor between each series.
 
The series was thus divided into three sagas, each based on its respective parent show and portraying a particular generation of characters. These are:
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