ZENTRADI: Cultural Index

Cultural Index special, the The Zentradi Legion from SDF Macross. This species on first appearance looks to be the antithesis of the cultural index, opposing it in all its forms, but in reality the Zentradi possess their own society therefore their own culture.

This is the Cultural Index a series aimed at exploring various Science-Fiction species.
For outsiders to a series to get to know the basics and maybe even hardened Sci-fi nuts might discover something new.
Thanks for watching!

How to VOTE on what happens next:
Down below in the comments are two choices of topics left by me.
Whichever gets more likes is the species that will get the next video!

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SDF, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Zentradi and assetts including Zentradi Logo are published in Macross Ace from 2009. SDF Macross was Produced by Studio Nue, Tatsunoko and Artland, licensed by Harmony Gold USA, ADV films and Lionsgate.

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[CSGraves]

The precariousness of the Zentradi way of life when confronted by protoculture reminds me a lot of something John Langhorne wrote about the ancient Spartans. The basic gist was that the harsh laws set down by Lycurgus made the Spartans too rigid in their martial discipline. They could fight, sure, but the abstemiousness of their culture did not protect them from exposure to luxury from other nations... He contrasts this with the Athenians under Solon, who were portrayed as a more well-rounded culture.

[omganotherun]

Macross was my first taste of hard sci fi as a child. I still fondly remember how the human's experimental anti grav lift drives tore through the deck of the SDF1 and flew away by themselves. Then the experimental space fold drive malfunctioned, taking them to Pluto instead of earth orbit and THEN the drive... kept jumping. Without the ship. Just a literal empty place where their FTL system was supposed to be. As Captain Gloval put it, "It's going to be a long trip back home." The idea of catastrophic hardware failure as a matter of poor engineering rather than damage was unheard of in anything I'd ever seen on TV.

[househendoe]

The effects of Pop Music on the Zentradi was epic and Robotechs full militarization of it was even better. Giants attack the Sol System, deploy The Spice Girls and Manned Transformers then sit back.

[barrybend]

Yay finally. Also there's more fleets than the ones that attacked earth in SDF Macross. But you have to be Welsh in order to say they're names.

[SwiftGundam]

I think you are the first YouTuber to submit to his request.

Now you will have to do the Protoculture, Protodeviln, Zolan, Vajra, Windermerean, Ragnan, and Voldorian. Better start watching.😁

[Overdoseplus]

The 'Do You Remember Love?' version are even more interesting. My favorite aliens ever!

[forged]

I remember watching this ages ago. Good sci-fi.

[XX-sptt]

You should consider now doing a Cultural Index of the Tirolians from Robotech.

[TymersRealm]

This was a rather good overview.
Well done!

[AlexSDU]

I remember when Macross crashed on Earth in 1999. I've just finished high school at that time.

[kairon]

YAY! a Zentradi episode.
I wana say thanks to the person/viewer who requested it.

[zenvis]

You need to do one where you show the difference between Macross and Robotech Zentradi.

[NuyoRican-vmkx]

This was one of my favorite anime growing up. Kinda still is. I find episodes here and there like on Netflix and I watch it.

[sawjhtheian]

Since no one has said it yet

'Yack deculture'

[pattyjay]

I watched Macross back in the day years ago 1985 to be exact your video has brought it into perspective thank you.

[billyholland]

In macross, the Robotech Zent fleet of millions of ships was just ONE grand fleet...amongst 1000-2000 such fleets spread out across the galaxy.

[arialautumn]

Thanks for finally doing this one. A lot of the scifi channels seem to be discriminatory towards anime though there is so much amazing content that fits.

[odiemyers]

I grew up with Robotech and never even heard of Macross until several years later. I got a vhs copy of the moive version so it was a condensed version that was very different from Robotech. Always liked the way it merged the three series together, hope you can dwell more into Robotech as well.

[TroaBarton]

This was far more interesting than I anticipated.

[ButWhyWasTaken]

You should do a Cultural Index on The Culture.