I've also heard it called Roboteching, from the samish reference:

Warning info hazard tvtropes :p

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Roboteching

It seems like "roboteching" refers more to the sudden synchronised turning of the missiles towards the target, and "Itano Circus" / "Macross Missile Massacre" is the general term for near-simultaneous missile spam. Definitely very aesthetically pleasing. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacrossMissileMa...

Itano Circus is about the entire choreography of the entire fighting sequence, more than the missiles but combined with unrealistically agile robot actions and dynamic camera placing/movement.

And here's 20 minutes of Itano Circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzXfVgYCxWI

Cheers. Now I have to think of a way to model that kind of thing shooting out of a Stormsurge:

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/KV128_Stormsurge?file=K...

To be fair, some of the "circus" aspect could be explained by noise in the tracker, rather than noise in the launch direction or trajectory tracking (as TFA proposes). Mostly I say this because the directions tend to diverge more as they get closer to a highly dynamic target.

These are sometimes worth frame advancing for easter eggs. DYRL in particular had a sequence where mid-circus (IIRC) a Kirin beer can goes one way, and a Budweiser can goes in the opposite direction.

[Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24

  4:54 anime girl as missile nose art
  5:40 not kirin, but "ハタイコ" (hataiko?)
  5:41 defo budweiser (also from the Valkyrie?)

I was wrong, but not badly mistaken. There may be more; I'm stopping here.]

I have to believe Itano Circus was inspired by Saturn rocket fireworks, at least that what I though as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS_7nY19kXw

I think I should be watching more Macross

A well-animated Circus is always a treat.

Itano circus is not an in-universe term, it’s named after an artist Ichiro Itano who is associated with it.

TIL it’s called eponym[1]. Diesel engines, pasteurized milk, Petri dish, even mentors, … I can tell you it’s much less common in ideographic languages, as the definition can be encoded into spelling by choice of ideographs, if that is what you would appreciate :)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym

Just because you see something in "weeb culture" doesn't mean it's unique to "weeb culture". Naming things after people happens everywhere, even in programming, booleans, bezier curves, Turing machines, etc.

These terms come from Sakuga scene where artist attribution and appreciation are a big part of it. See also "Yutapon Cubes", for example.

Also we absolutely do identify art styles after their creators if the style is distinct enough, but doesn't necessarily establish a new branch, e.g. Escher, Warhol, Wes Anderson.

    There is something about the weeb culture 
    that's very corrosive about culture in general

    That's very concerning for this generation of 
    technicians

I'd love to hear more of these thoughts.