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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
There isn't a weighty, preexisting lore that forced the existence of magical girls dancing on giant mechs in Macross.
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Except the fact that they are not magical. They use holograms, drones and fold waves to achieve what they do. All tech established in the previous Macross series.
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They could have written a story without them, but chose not to. That's all there is to it. And having chosen to write about techno magical girls sharing a battlefield with giant mechs, they came up with in-story reasons for them to "make sense". As is normal. But - again - they could have chosen otherwise, and, rather than needing reasons for the absence of magical girls, we'd never have questioned it.
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They could also have chosen not to have giant robots, not to have a teen lead, and many other things that makes a show fun. They could have chosen to have a technological stagnation, like in Star Wars.
They made wise choices.