Presence

The cool thing about Robotech: Harmony Gold wanted to do a mecha/anime show for the US market, but didn't have enough episodes from any single Japanese series to fill up a whole season. So instead they took three seperate series, created a completely new story using the existing moving images as a basis, and retrofit their story on top of the existing footage. The end result is a unique, single continuous and coherent narrative, totally different in meaning than the original component narratives.

And it comes off pretty good. Granted, it's a bit hard to follow at times (OK, so the bad guys are these giant aliens...no wait, they really work for these mind control guys who travel in groups of three...who were really the good guys fighting a race of killer robot alien botantists...), but, to a kid, it makes figuring it all out all the more interesting.

Reminds me of something...can't quite put my finger on it. Oh yeah! What's Up, Tiger Lily! Phew, that was a close one.