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Vanity: Space Battleship Yamato Series Reboot (aka: "Starblazers")
Anime Network ^ | 12/19/2012 | Kolath

Posted on 12/19/2012 5:23:47 PM PST by Kolath

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The new series is a remake of the original Space Battleship Yamato TV series from 1974, with some changes in the main story, new characters, several female characters and more modern designs and animation inspired by those of the first series. The original intro music theme from the first series composed by Hiroshi Miyagawa with vocals by Isao Sasaki has also been re-scored for this new production by Hiroshi's son Akira.[2]

Yutaka Izubuchi serves as supervising director, with character designs by Nobuteru Yuki, and Junichiro Tamamori and Makoto Kobayashi in charge of mecha and conceptual designs. The series is a joint project of Enagio, Xebec and AIC. Famous anime director and creator Hideaki Anno designed the new series' opening sequence, which is a homage to the one that appeared in the first TV series.[3] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Recent Reviewer:

Space Battleship Yamato has been around for nearly forty years. There's a fine line to walk when you're reintroducing the original storyline to new and old fans alike. The production team working on Yamato 2199 deserve all the praise they've been getting. They've done a wonderful job by keeping the original sound effects, the musical score should be familiar if you've seen the tv show, the updates to the mechanical (ship) designs are eye candy (it's very detailed), and the character designs have been updated with a military flair but still retain that Leiji Matsumoto flair.

Please keep in mind that this first volume only has the first two episodes. Future volumes should have four episodes per BD/DVD disc. Oh, it also comes with English subtitles. I can't help but recommend this series to fans of classic anime. You won't be disappointed.

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You Tube Trailers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BGu9HESMuI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5RJBhgdhCI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx09knIFlmY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyzjrTamBjg

1 posted on 12/19/2012 5:23:56 PM PST by Kolath
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To: Kolath

YES!! I grew up watching Star Blazers as a kid. I loved it. Thanks for the posting.


2 posted on 12/19/2012 5:27:18 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Kolath

I used to watch the original daily.

There was something cool about it.


3 posted on 12/19/2012 5:28:04 PM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Kolath; All

By the way, here’s the live action movie Space Battleship Yamato....it’s not at all bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iissssJnq4M


4 posted on 12/19/2012 5:32:43 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

I liked the live-action movie for the most part but it was just too much stuff crammed into one movie with lots of changes to the storyline (what they did to Desslok and the Gamelons made me cringe a bit). They could of made a franchise out of this. I’m not sure if the box office in Japan was too spectacular....perhaps not as well as they hoped.

If I heard right on the grapevine, the anime “reboot” was an effort to jump start the series with a new generation of fans (like Star Trek).

I hope they can find a US distributor (sci-fi) because I think it will find a very receptive audience here.


5 posted on 12/19/2012 5:42:52 PM PST by Kolath
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
we don't talk about that one!


6 posted on 12/19/2012 5:43:05 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

LOL! The ending threw me, certainly. As did the Gamilons.


7 posted on 12/19/2012 5:52:12 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: KC_Lion

I understand the post KC :)


8 posted on 12/19/2012 5:52:47 PM PST by Kolath
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
Sorry but never could get in to the premised of raising a sunk Japanese ww2 battleship and making it a spaceship
9 posted on 12/19/2012 5:54:05 PM PST by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad; Kolath

BETRYAL!!!


10 posted on 12/19/2012 6:00:57 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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Sorry but never could get in to the premised of raising a sunk Japanese ww2 battleship and making it a spaceship

1. It’s science fiction

2. “Yamato 2199” explains this

3. It’s a cultural thing

4. In the late 1990’s, Disney bought the movies rights to “Space Battleship Yamato” with a storyline of the USS Arizona (either parts of it or a replica) being resurrected as a rally cry for humanity. However, when Michael Eisner left Disney in 2005, the project was shelved and the movie rights expired. Toho picked it up in 2006.


11 posted on 12/19/2012 6:14:08 PM PST by Kolath
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

It was daily watching for me.


12 posted on 12/19/2012 6:16:10 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Kolath

The Japanese were foolish to send that ship out on a useless mission. We sent her to the bottom in short order, and she took her brave crew with her.


14 posted on 12/19/2012 6:22:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Kolath; Admin Moderator

Sorry, I didn’t check the pic size before posting. I’ll ask the mod to nuke it.


15 posted on 12/19/2012 6:29:35 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Kolath

I loved the movie that came out some months ago Yamato Revival, looked amazing in 1080p, so will be looking forward to this series, maybe its fansubbed already, will have to check ;)


16 posted on 12/19/2012 7:31:52 PM PST by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: Kolath

“3. It’s a cultural thing”

Yes. Best way to describe it is, IJN Yamato has (in its own way) become almost as symbolic to the Japanese as USS Arizona has to us.

“4. In the late 1990’s, Disney bought the movies rights to “Space Battleship Yamato” with a storyline of the USS Arizona (either parts of it or a replica) being resurrected as a rally cry for humanity. However, when Michael Eisner left Disney in 2005, the project was shelved and the movie rights expired. Toho picked it up in 2006.”

Personally I’m glad that didn’t happen...the idea of using USS Arizona like that made me cringe. In my book, if Hollywood wants to “use” Arizona outside of Pearl Harbor, then they should make a blockbuster about the Battle of Leyte Gulf and cite Arizona in conjunction with the revenge its fellow battlewagons wrought on the Japanese at Surigao Strait.


17 posted on 12/19/2012 7:37:47 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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18 posted on 12/19/2012 7:53:31 PM PST by Kolath
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To: wally_bert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oniErmeuE

Me too.....


19 posted on 12/19/2012 8:05:20 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Kolath

Due to the official anti-military culture of Japan, when military themes emerge in popular culture, they do so in odd ways — such as pretending that it would make sense to raise the hulk of an iconic battleship sunk by the Americans in WW II and then launch it into space.


20 posted on 12/19/2012 8:13:29 PM PST by Rockingham
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