Harmony Gold U.S.A. Inc. reported at its Anime Expo panel on Friday that it has renewed and extended its licensing agreements with Tatsunoko Production for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada anime series “well into the future.”
Tatsunoko licensed various rights to the first Macross series, Mospeada, and Southern Cross to Harmony Gold in 1984.
In a 1991 agreement, Tatsunoko granted Harmony Gold the exclusive right to exploit 36 episodes of Macross, 25 episodes of Mospeada, and 23 episodes of Southern Cross for 10 years.
As a result of these proceedings, Tatsunoko and Harmony Gold’s agreement in 1998 revoked Harmony Gold’s right to make sequels to the three shows in question, but the 2002 agreement restored them for Mospeada and Southern Cross only.