I get it about the singing. While the sequels get a little weird about that, on the first one, it’s actually pretty straightforward. The Macross ship gets far away from Earth using faster than light alien technology, but then they need to go back to Earth at regular slower than light speed while also avoiding attacks from the same aliens trying to conquer Earth. A lot of the episodes are about how the crew is struggling to endure the trip and losing hope of finding a safe planet back home, so a culture outside the military duties is formed, with restaurants, services and entertainment. The main singer is just part of that entertainment and becomes the favorite idol aboard the ship. The concept of music doesn’t exist for the aliens so in a couple of occasions her songs are used as psychological warfare. That’s it. I also get having a never ending list of things to watch, anime and other things. But if you ever get the chance, at least the first series is totally worth it.

I think I only saw the Blame movie. How different is from the manga? I don’t mean the story development of course, it’s a 10 volume manga adapted into a 2 hours movie. What I mean if it really follows the same plot and (part of) the story of the manga or it’s more like a one-shot story in the same universe? I don’t know what about the movie made me think it may be the latter. Anyways, it was interesting enough to give the manga a chance but I always forgot. Thanks for the reminder.

Also, I’m a little surprised, given your list, not to see Macross. It’s an absolute classic for a reason and I haven’t seen all the sequels but they’re not bad at all and most of them have good reviews.