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Kodachi Ukyou, author of the Macross Frontier light novels, from the afterword of volume 4, p.293. Published 1 March 2009.

Some of you are probably interested in this issue, so I'll say something about it here. All Macross series can be thought of in the following way: as real life events that have been adapted into dramas, short stories and other such works. And just as the depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu in stories about the Battle of Sekigahara have elements that are the same and others that are different, so it is with the (Frontier) TV series and novels. I would be grateful if you would read the novels with this in mind.

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Disclaimer from Variable Fighter Master File: VF-25 Messiah, published 10 May 2011.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File VF-25 Messiah, the new saviour" is not 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published on Macross Olympia in 2065, about the history and engineering of the VF-25 Messiah that appears in works in the Macross series.

Note also that the credits page of this book, on which this disclaimer appears, is written in both Japanese and what I assume is the Zentradi script. (The disclaimer is in the small box on the bottom right.) The first name in the 2nd column is Kawamori himself - he is credited for supervising the book.

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The other Variable Fighter Master Files say similar things in their disclaimers:

Variable Fighter Master File VF-1 Valkyrie, published 14 July 2009.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File VF-1 Valkyrie" is not 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published in Macross City in 2020, about the history and engineering of the VF-1 Valkyrie that appears in works in the Macross series.

Variable Fighter Master File VF-19 Excalibur, published 2 June 2010.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File VF-19 Excalibur" is not an 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published in Macross City in 2050, about the history and engineering of the VF-19 Excalibur that appears in works in the Macross series.

Variable Fighter Master File VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.2, Space Wings, published 24 December 2010.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File VF-1 Valkyrie, Space Wings" is not 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published in Macross City in 2030, about the history and engineering of the VF-1 Valkyrie that appears in works in the Macross series.

Variable Fighter Master File VF-0 Phoenix, published 25 September 2012.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File VF-0 Phoenix" is not 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published in Macross City in 2040, about the history and engineering of the VF-0 Phoenix that appears in works in the Macross series.

Variable Fighter Master File SDF Macross-1 VF-1 Squadrons, published 4 April 2013.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File SDF Macross-1 VF-1 Squadrons" is not 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published in Macross City in 2047, about the history and engineering of the SDF-1 Macross and the VF-1 Valkyrie that appear in works in the Macross series.

Variable Fighter Master File VF-22 Sturmvogel II, published 19 September 2014.

This book, "Variable Fighter Master File VF-22 Sturmvogel II" is not 'official settings material'. Rather, it has been written as an encyclopedia, published on the Planet Eden in 2063, about the history and engineering of the YF-21 and VF-22 that appear in works in the Macross series.

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