Macross anime and Japan’s oldest kabuki theater collaborate for special art exhibit

The collaboration will take the form of a special Macross art exhibition held within the theater, which will feature new illustrations of the cast of Macross Frontier and Macross Delta dressed in kabuki costumes, drawn by character designers Risa Ebata and Majiro.

For most of the franchise’s history, including its most recent incarnation, Macross Delta, that’s meant idol music, but now Macross is partnering with a much more old-school form of entertainment, with the announcement of an art collaboration with Kyoto’s Minami-za kabuki theater.

Minami-za was Japan’s first kabuki theater, originally founded circa 1600.