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Originally Posted by magnuskn
If you read the two interviews from Kawamori in the OP, his statements are actually contradictory.
Statement 1: All series are just in-universe fictional depictions of events which happened therein.
Statement 2: The different interpretations of the series are parallel worlds.
Statement two negates statement one. You cannot say that those different interpretations are just fictional in the "real" Macross universe, if you grant them the status of "real" parallel worlds.
IMO, Kawamori is just making it up as he goes. There is no overachieving goal he is trying to push. As such, he is casually indifferent to what "real" canon is and will just take the stuff he likes for the next project he's involved with. We will probably never get a resolution to many of our current questions about Macross Frontier, just as with the older series.
Sorry if this is kind of a downer opening post, but I just don't see Kawamori being all that concerned about the canonicity of events.
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Not if you think Macross is metafictional. Shoji KKawamori is essentially runs on the
Broad Strokes trope.
Broad strokes is a concept regarding canon where the writers pick and choose what elements of an older story they want to accept into a more recent story. It could be that the overall story is intact but the specific details are changed, or that the story is ignored but the details introduced within are still being worked with. This is most often used when parts of the official canon or even basic continuity cannot be reconciled as they stand.