You Should Become A Soldier

お前軍人になれっぞ (くうちゅうのきゅうしゅつげき Kūchū no kyūshutsu geki Eng: You Should Become A Soldier) is a 5☆ episode plate depicting Roy in the cockpit of his VF-1S.

=Plate Info=

=Context= After the initial battle in episode 1 of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, the U.N. Spacey forces manage to hold their ground against the unknown alien attackers. The sorted Valkyries begin to make their return to the SDF-1 Macross to repair and assess the situation, but Roy, remembering that Hikaru was shot down during the battle, separates from the formation to search for him. He eventually finds the crashed Valkyrie Hikaru was piloting and helps him with repairs and navigating with the Valkyrie's different modes. Hikaru asks Roy why Valkyries have transforming functions and whether he stumbled onto classified military secrets. Roy, as a joke, uses his question to nonchalantly ask him to join the military. Hikaru quickly denied him. The art for the episode plate comes from prior to that scene where Focker is being featured close-up in a conversation with the Macross bridge crew and his descent down onto the town where Hikaru crashed his Valkyrie. The art for this 5☆ plate, like other older Macross series 5☆ plates, have been enhanced with higher resolution art.

=Critique= A decent 5☆ starter plate thanks to its Total Up center skill. However, it's weak values compared to other 5☆ Total Up plates and other skills that are more oriented for survival and practice rather than score will unfortunately cause this plate to be quickly set aside for more powerful ones.