after macros rhino went back to working on arusayatsura where he acted as an animation director on episode NUMBER_TOKEN but luckily for him this was an episode storyboarded by oshie meanwhile hirano's college friends hurricane ryu and seno knife had begun publishing manga in the hentai magazine lemon people and it was announced in early NUMBER_TOKEN that hirano and ichiro itano would be adapting one of hurricane reuse manga for television the manga was gekisatsu uchuken or space punch and almost as quickly as it was announced the project was cancelled with itano and hirano moving their focus on production of the macross theatrical film macros theatrical edition later titled macross do you remember love entered production shortly following the finale of the macross tv series in NUMBER_TOKEN and many on the staff saw the film as an opportunity to make amends to fans for the quality issues seen on the tv version hirano was in charge of all of the animation involving the zentradi aliens and working on the film helped him recover from his dissatisfaction with the macross tv series do you remember love was a massive box office success and following its premiere hirano was offered a job on the production of an original anime tv series omega city NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN omega cdNUMBER_TOKEN was proposed by design studio art mech with noburo ishiguro contracted to direct and his studio art land to handle animation with assistance from aic hirano was offered the role of character designer with artland's connections to the macross series being heavily marketed to attract sponsors unfortunately the project failed to obtain a toy sponsor and didn't receive a television time slot as a result the planned series was reduced to a single straight to video anime film according to hirano the production was a mess with the film essentially being hobbled together as they were told to make changes both due to time and budget constraints as well as to appease their investors this may also be why the film has a notorious amount of product placement
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