Space Battleship Yamato 2202

First 20 minutes of the in-universe style Yamato 2202 documentary style film:

 

I don't speak Japanese, but they are trying to explain why the Yamato wreck was in one single piece?

 

It wasn't They showed the bow section on the ocean floor (which is upright). They reconstructed the ship from 2141 to 2145, making the new version longer (345 meters long), and than sank it as part of a world wide ceremony to let the old nationalistic ideals sink away. The world had avoided another world war since 1945, and in the two hundred years, since it was decided that humanity should never fight itself on Earth again. Sort of like Japan sinking its old demons once and for all. Humanity as a whole laying to rest their own nationalistic pride and letting it sink into the depths with Yamato.

 

Well, so it is now :P

 

By the way, in the "documentary" they say that Gamilas shot first in the war..?

 

Looks like you can buy the first 2 series on AppleTV now...

 

They said that during the 2199 series remake as well.

Spoiler

It was shown to be false BTW - humanity did fire first - but that's the Space Force's claim and I guess they're sticking with it.

 

What I want to know is - why did they get a voice actor to do the famous Kennedy "going to the moon" speech? I've seen/heard that same speech over the years in multiple productions with the real Kennedy. Surely anything a President says is in the public domain? Why didn't they go with the original?

 

I wonder if things would have turned out differently if they had waited before doing it. But I don't think so, it's not that Gamilas was famous for its "diplomacy".

 

IMO - it's pretty clear it wouldn't have made a difference in that, I'm sure once the Gamilas had demanded Earth's surrender and that we were now a Gamilas colony world and subject to their rule, war would have begun; but I liked that they wrote it the way they did with the Admiralty be so certain of Earth's technology being superior - they decided to 'shoot first to be safe' - and that Captain Akita was against the order; but ultimately followed the chain of command and carried it out.

 

I really don't known why, from a narrative point of view, they did that choice. Nothing would change. Just to allow the captured pilot to feel superior to the Earthlings? "See? No one is really innocent!".

 

『宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205　新たなる旅立ち 前章‐TAKE OFF‐』本予告 - YouTube

New trailer. Looks like the Dark Nebula is going after Desslar and Gamilas.
Edit to add - Oh Wow! I just did a slow-motion watch of the trailer and the brief glimpse of the Dreadnaught-class ship firing its main guns is actually one of the new angled deck carriers shown in the sketchbook a few months ago.

 

Watched the film. Essentially a documentary about what happened to Earth and Yamato through the end of the year 2203. Most of the new footage is at the beginning with the background history of Earth until 2199. There are a few other new scenes, most just the interview with Sanada. There are a few new graphics for the battles, usually in the form of maps of unit positions.

But there is something very important added to this film. Dates. While dates in Yamato 2199 could be derived from the "x days left" at the teaser for the next episode, there were hardly any dates for Yamato 2202. Now there are. The story more or less takes place between December 2nd, 2202 and June 2nd, 2203, with the last episode taking place during December of 2203 (the last shot in the story being on December 31st, 2203).

 

Would you briefly explain the "Martian Wars", please?

 

From what I can gather (still no subtitles or dub), the Martians found a wrecked alien ship on Mars and reserved engineered it as much as they could. Using Helium 3 based fusion engines they built up a small warfleet in the 2160s and went to war with Earth (one assumes this was for independence from the Earth governments, as that is usually why there are wars between Earth and Mars). By 2170 Earth had managed to reverse engineer the Martian ships and designed the Marusame, Isokaze, and Kongo types. The wars lasted for a while, so Earth built the underground cities as shelters for if or when the Martians decide to throw rocks at Earth or attempt orbital bombardments. Earth won the war, but the damage to the partial terraformed Mars would take a while to fix, thus the Martians returned to Earth.

Earth was unable to identify the wrecked alien ship as it was destroyed, either during the Interplanetary Wars or in the war with Gamilas. (it was a Bolar ship).

 

Can’t wait till they get out English versions of this.

 

I’m not so optimistic about that seeing as Aro of The Stars still doesn’t have an English version.

 

The one I have does, at least, have English subtitles. But, yeah, no dubbing.

 

The original Japanese release of it has an English subtitle track. I know because I ordered it directly from Japan when it was first released.

 

The Saturn launch was lovely…more real space anime please!