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Part 1
megazone23Tokyo the present: Shogo Yahagi works in a burger bar and is just a normal bike-mad, girl-mad teenager until he finds an unusual motorbike called the Garland and stumbles on a massive government conspiracy. Suddenly his friends are getting killed and he and the Garland are the targets of a huge manhunt. How is the idol singer Eve Tokimatsuri involved? And what will happen to his girlfriend Yui and her two flatmates? In terrible danger, Shogo struggles to uncover the truth of the MegaZone 23, gradually realizing that nothing in his entire life has ever been exactly as it seemed.
Part 2
Charged with a murder he didn't commit, Shogo Yahagi is once again on the run from the military and the police. But this time he's not flying solo - guided by the artificial intelligence EVE and surrounded by a gang of renegade bikers - it's choppers versus mechas to the end!
Part 3
Game master Eiji Takanaka is the hottest player on the virtual circuit, but trouble finds him when he begins working for E=X Corp. Like Shogo before him, Eiji is caught in a deadly war that once again leads to the artificial intelligence known as EVE. But is this the same EVE? Discover the secrets that lie buried beneath Eden City and in the wreckage of the old Megazone.
Details
The Streamline version is five minutes shorter than the AD Vision version.
Re-edited and partly re-written, with some extra footage specially shot in Japan, as Robotech: The Movie, festival screening and one-week US theatrical release in 1987 by Cannon. Original story by Noboru Ishiguro was inspired by the novel Universe by Robert A. Heinlein. First of three parts. The title can be rendered MegaZone 23 or Megazone 23; the preliminary logo design showed a "working title" of Omegazone 23.
Anime Movie Guide by Helen McCarthy (page 35). ISBN# 0-87951-781-6
Commentary
This is one of the last legacies of Streamline. It's the story of a guy, his bike, and the girl he loves. I wasn't very impressed with the story or the quality of the animation. I used to have the dubbed and edited VHS version. All three parts have since been released on DVD in a presumably unedited form, but, I wasn't too happy with what I had already seen and I don't think that I'll be repurchasing these on DVD.