Fuck it.
>>8 is right. Everyone needs to watch SDF Macross.
It's amazing. It's stupid. It's cool. It's dramatic. It's melodramatic. It's exciting. It's baffling. It will make you feel the full spectrum of human emotion, because it is basically a goddamn soap opera in space with fighter jet robots and giants.
It's a fantastic show, even if the troubled production means that a: there are like 3 episodes that are comically ugly (there is one episode that seems to not have had any tweening frames drawn for most of it), and b: there is an episode before the actual end that 100% feels like it was supposed to be the last episode and then the had to keep going. You will recognize it, especially because the budget goes through the roof, it looks way better than the rest of the show.
Also, watch the movie, but after the show - it is flat out GORGEOUS, but also it kinda sorta isn't what canonically happened and doesn't tell the whole story, even if flashbacks later in the franchise use footage from it because it's way better looking than the show ever was.