jokeyrhyme<p>After dimly recalling some transforming robots from a cartoon in my childhood, I tracked them down to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Robotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robotech</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoon</span></a> series ( <a href="https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/2192-robotech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">themoviedb.org/tv/2192-robotech</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> )</p><p>I've been watching it on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CrunchyRoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrunchyRoll</span></a></p><p>It hasn't aged too poorly considering it first aired in the 1980s: no obvious sexism or racism, and there's even a cross-dressing man in the later episodes</p><p>I didn't remember any of the story, so I was surprised to find that it's just slightly more complex than I expected, albeit delivered with pacing that feels quite slow/awkward by today's standards</p>