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the character from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

Fictional character in The Macross franchise
The original animation and the distributors Bandai Visual and Victor Entertainment romanizes his name as Hikaru Ichijyo, while AnimEigo and ADV Films also use Hikaru Ichijo and Hikaro Ichijo.

According to the fictional continuity of Macross, Hikaru Ichijyo is Japanese. Hikaru grew up with his father as a talented aerobatic flier, having won seven amateur flying contests by the age of 16 in 2009. After he returned to Earth (Episodes 29 to 36), the love triangle of Misa Hikaru Minmay underwent many turns due to Hikaru's inability to be frank with his own feelings. As a result, Misa was deeply hurt by Hikaru's lingering feeling for Lynn Minmay. However, Hikaru eventually realized that he could not live without Misa after the heartbroken Misa confessed her love for him while bidding farewell to him. The two got married on October 10, 2011 and their first daughter Ichijo Miku was born a year later. In 2012, Misa and Hikaru were appointed as the Commander of the new SDF 2 Megaroad 01 ship and the Capitan of the ship's escorting Valkyrie group, inaugurating the space colonization chapter in the Macross history. In 2016, Megaroad 01 lost contact with Earth and Misa, Hikaru, Miku and the ship's crew and citizens (including Lynn Minmay, who remained as their friend and also boarded the ship) were declared missing.

When The Super Dimension Fortress Macross series was adapted into the first third of the 1985 American animated series Robotech, Ichijyo was renamed "Rick Hunter" and went through numerous changes to fit into the Robotech canon. While the original Japanese series featured a Japanese Ichijyo, Hunter was instead an American who grew up in California. Roy Fokker, a childhood friend of Ichijyo in the original series, has since been retconned into Hunter's literal brother – adopted by Hunter's father after the death of Fokker's real father. Hunter and Ichijyo both have separate canon about their lives after the end of their initial series. By possible coincidence, these are slightly similar. In the spin off film Flash Back 2012, Ichijo is seen departing with his wife on an interstellar expedition on the SDF 2 Megaroad 01. Hunter and his wife, Lisa Hayes, make a similar trip in Robotech II: The Sentinels, wherein they depart the Earth in search for the home world of the Robotech Masters on board the SDF 3. While Robotech II was released one year after Flash Back 2012, The Sentinels had been in production for years before the music video collection. While the official Macross canon has the crew of the Megaroad disappearing four years into their mission,

Hikaru Ichijyo's legacy within the ongoing future history of the Macross series has been a palpable presence. Both the Macross 7 and the Macross Frontier anime television series contains numerous references to Ichijyo's career on the SDF 1. In Macross 7, the Macross 7 fleet enact a play entitled "Do You Remember love? ", which retells the events of Macross: Do You Remember Love? (which is revealed to be a film within the Macross universe retelling the events of the First Space War). Basara Nekki, the main character of the Macross 7 TV series, plays the role of Hikaru Ichijyo in the film. In Macross Frontier, the Mihoshi Academy on board the Macross Frontier has a VF 1S fighter atop the roof. It is revealed at one point to be Ichijyo's first fighter as leader of the Vermilion Squad of Skull Squadron. In Macross Frontier, Alto Saotome, as most junior pilot of S. M. S.'s Skull Platoon (a similar position to Ichijyo's), has his VF 25 Messiah fighter decorated in the same colors as Hikaru's VF 1A (and later S) from Macross: Do You Remember Love.