Mine came in from the mail from Amazon today. I splurged for the deluxe version becuase I wanted the art book.
Space Battleship Yamato 2202
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Mine came in from the mail from Amazon today. I splurged for the deluxe version becuase I wanted the art book.
Interestingly enough that it looks like the box occupying the space where part two goes when it releases has character picture cards. Huh, the description didn’t mention that, or I might have missed that.
Well, given it's Thursday and no new episode is up - it looks like Funimation is stopping half way through SBY:2202 (IE episode 13 of 26), and probably won't start stream releasing the rest until all 26 episodes have released/been televised in Japan. 
(But yeah, it's better to know they will eventually release the rest of it then wondering if it would get either an English sub/dub version at all.)
(But yeah, it's better to know they will eventually release the rest of it then wondering if it would get either an English sub/dub version at all.)
So anyone know when the second half of 2199 is released on Blu Ray?
Probably will depend on how sales are.
Y'know, I've been watching 2202 on Funimation and I'm just not liking it as much as 2199. They have a lot of filler in there, which I'm sure is an attempt at fleshing out some backstory and other secondary characters. The episode focusing almost exclusively on the High Priestess comes most recently to mind. I get that the Gatlanteans clone their people and that the concept of "love" as it applies to biological reproduction is an alien concept to them. It's an interesting take on world-building - took me a while to wrap my head around some of what they were saying (maybe something lacking in translation), but I get it.
Focusing an entire episode on her seemed a bit excessive, and having her be the single-point-of-failure of control over the Comet Empire's master systems seems an extremely ill-conceived concept to me. Someone assassinating her, her clones and all her clone reproduction code would effectively cripple the whole operation! I understand they want to make things interesting, but I don't think they thought this through.
The next episode with the father/son interaction was touching, particularly at the end when they finally hugged (with the obvious significance of two Gatlantean clones showing LOVE for one another!) but leading up to that, it seemed to be the fifth or sixth time we heard yet another lecture about the Gatlantean manifesto against love, the first being Zordar in episode 1. I honestly wish they'd get to the point - we're halfway through the season and we still haven't even landed on Telezart yet! I love all things Yamato and, of course, I'm definitely going to be getting the Blu-Ray's once they're all available, but it is dragging on a bit, IMO. YMMV.
Cool trailer, though. The new Captain of the Musashi (or whatever the Yamato sister ship is called) seems to be a bit...hard core.
Focusing an entire episode on her seemed a bit excessive, and having her be the single-point-of-failure of control over the Comet Empire's master systems seems an extremely ill-conceived concept to me. Someone assassinating her, her clones and all her clone reproduction code would effectively cripple the whole operation! I understand they want to make things interesting, but I don't think they thought this through.
The next episode with the father/son interaction was touching, particularly at the end when they finally hugged (with the obvious significance of two Gatlantean clones showing LOVE for one another!) but leading up to that, it seemed to be the fifth or sixth time we heard yet another lecture about the Gatlantean manifesto against love, the first being Zordar in episode 1. I honestly wish they'd get to the point - we're halfway through the season and we still haven't even landed on Telezart yet! I love all things Yamato and, of course, I'm definitely going to be getting the Blu-Ray's once they're all available, but it is dragging on a bit, IMO. YMMV.
Cool trailer, though. The new Captain of the Musashi (or whatever the Yamato sister ship is called) seems to be a bit...hard core.
So sticking pretty close to the pacing of the original Comet Empire arc which was slow as fuck for a lot of it. Hopefully that means things kick into gear here as well when they get done with Telezart.
I hope so. I don't recall the original version having such pacing problems though. Then again, it's been over 10 years since I watched it, so maybe so.
Cool trailer, though. The new Captain of the Musashi (or whatever the Yamato sister ship is called) seems to be a bit...hard core.
Ginga. BBY-03 Translates to "Galaxy" Since she is the third ship, it means that BBY-02, Musashi, is out there someplace, while BBY-01, Yamato, is the hero ship.
Galaxy and Musashi have similar designs, while Yamato is different.
Ah! That makes sense. Didn't realize there was a third one in the class, although I would have hoped that they be more historically correct by making her a super-carrier and calling her Shinano! 
I wonder if it's a tip of the hat to Matsumoto's semi-aborted "Dai Ginga" (Great Galaxy) effort from a decade ago.
I wonder if it's a tip of the hat to Matsumoto's semi-aborted "Dai Ginga" (Great Galaxy) effort from a decade ago.
Shinano would be for if they make a carrier variant. Also they had a Shinano in Resurrection as a sort of large missile boat that was inside Yamato. They also had a Shinano carrier design for that film, but it didn't make it. Only Musashi made it into the Director's cut.
As for Galaxy, it might also be a Star Trek reference (With the Galaxy-class having a USS Yamato...now the Yamato-class has a UNCF Galaxy.) The real question is always Enterprise. I know the producer of the show was asked about if they might do a homage to Star Trek: TNG with an Enterprise. Perhaps they decided on Galaxy instead.
As for Galaxy, it might also be a Star Trek reference (With the Galaxy-class having a USS Yamato...now the Yamato-class has a UNCF Galaxy.) The real question is always Enterprise. I know the producer of the show was asked about if they might do a homage to Star Trek: TNG with an Enterprise. Perhaps they decided on Galaxy instead.
Heh...ironic, since one of Matsumoto's designs (either "Dai Ginga" or "Dai Yamato", can't remember which) had a distinctively Galaxy-style saucer attached to it that seemed to be used as a fighter launch platform. A very strange design, IMO, with additional shades of Harlock's Arcadia thrown in there:
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Actually, I feel the same way (and when I originally saw the "Star Blazers: Comet Empire" version in the 1980ies when I was a lot younger, I liked it better than the original "Space battleship Yamato" myself. I do like many of the changes and the addition of the unique consequence they added into the story about what using the 'Cosmo Reverse System' did/caused; and what Earth and Gamilas did as a result.
Overall, I still do enjoy SBY:2202, and they've still done a good job updating the material; but right now, not as much as I did SBY:2199. That said, I'll have to see the whole thing completed before I can access my final feelings on the second series.
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I'm the opposite - watched it again in recent times and felt there was a lot of filler in there and the sub plot where Venture had the hots for Starsha irked me no end (it would be no great loss from SBY:2202).
Yeah it seem to suffer from taking the movie plot and having to stretch it out for 26 episodes.
Second half of Yamato 2199 with English dub from Funimation will be out in November.
https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articl...ion-announcements-relife-final-/1100-6461099/
https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articl...ion-announcements-relife-final-/1100-6461099/
Oh goodie. Probably not doing much of a deluxe version release on this one seeing as part of the selling point of the one for part one is the box being big enough for Part 1 and Part 2.
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