The BEST episodes written by Manabu Nakamura
#1 - Ishtar
Macross II - Season 1 - Episode 2
Lord Feff follows Hibiki and Ishtar back to Earth ad turns in the story. He doesn't tell anyone other than his friend Mash about Ishtar. As he's filming the sleeping Ishtar for his story, she wakes and is afraid, wondering where she is. After being fitted with a translator, she is able to understand Hibiki and he is able to clam her down enough to learn her name. She learns there are Zentran and Meltran (males and females) living together on the planet with the humans. While they are talking, the SDF-1 Macross emits another energy discharge, and Ishtar says that it's the light of the Alus. Hibiki then turns on the news and learns that the military is preventing SNN from broadcasting all of the footage and is glossing over the actual events of the battle.
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#2 - Marduk Disorder
Macross II - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Marduk torture Hibiki as they try to determine who the SNN is and what what he did to contaminate Ishtar. Ishtar is transported to another ship in order to be examined so they can determine what needs to be done to decontaminate her from her exposure to the alien culture. Sylvie rescues Hibiki just before he is to be brainwashed. As they are escaping, Hibiki keeps stopping to record parts of the ship and they discover the Marduk are using mind control to keep the Zentradi soldiers fighting for them.