It almost looked as if they were the source of the protective white swirling outer "comet" layer that obscures Gatlantis from view at its core. Like a super-macro version of Yamato's asteroid shield. Truly a scary site.
Space Battleship Yamato 2202
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Plot summary of Chaper Two:
Plot summary of Chaper Two:
macdawson said:Episode 3 continues from what we see in the 12 minute preview, with Keyman explaining the nature of the mysterious shipyard facility. There is mention of a phenomenon called "Dance of Time" and presumably, even with those special suits, humans can only live inside the singularity for a maximum of one hour. Can't really give any more detail without subs. Sanada visits Niimi at the hospital and tells her Kodai has discovered the secret of the "Dance of Time" and has decided to take action over the vision that Yamato's crew had. He flashes back to Hijikata departing due to his disapproval of the UNCF's plans. When Sanada defends the need for Earth to arm itself, Kodai punches him (the aggression is inferred, as it happens after a fade to black, but we hear Tokugawa telling him to stop and Yuki screaming his name). Todo declines Kodai's request to investigate Telezart. But Sanada and the rest of the command staff support his decision and they decide to go anyway. Shima seems less convinced. Planet 11 comes under attack by Nazca's fleet. After a conversation in Yamato's elevator, Kodai tells Yuki he wants her to stay on Earth. Though she accepts, she runs off, leaving her engagement ring with Kodai. The colony is relentlessly bombarded. Saito and Nagakura barely manage to save Santa and the kids and run for cover. The episode ends with the colony being bombarded.
Episode 4:
In Okita's quarters aboard Yamato, Kodai and Sanada go over the plan to escape Earth. Sanada relinquishes command to Kodai, making him the ship's captain. A strike force heads for the Yamato's dome but the ship is gone, having apparently been moved underground. Kodai is in the WMG's firing gate, asking Okita for guidance and sees the captain once again. The crew arrive at the site of the underground dock, using Kirishima as a submarine. The crew goes ashore and into trucks, which are then taken underground. This is watched by Shima from afar. Having finaly determined Yamato's location, Serizawa wants to move in on them but Todo wants to talk them out of it before any action is taken. Serizawa accepts but has the battle satellite readied just in case.
All the crew seems to have answered the call, except Shima. Ota is not thrilled to become the ship's navigator. Todo calls in and gives the Yamato's crew an ultimatum to stand down. Kodai has the message relayed shipwide, so the crew can hear it. He then urges everyone to decide what they want to do. Everyone stands by their decision and preparations continue. Kodai relieves Ota and takes the helm. Just then, the main dock control room is destroyed. Yamazaki tells Kodai that without it, they can't flood the dock or open the main sea gate. He offers himself to go up to the secondary control room and get it online to operate the system from there. Troops come in and begin their assault. Nanbu uses one of the pulse lasers to detonate charges placed in crates throughout the dock. Yamazaki, Kiryu, Hoshina and Mizaki manage to start the system but are cut off from Yamato by the soldiers and the rising water. Enomoto urges Saijo to close the access hatch, as water is coming in and the others will have to be left behind. Suddenly, one of the troopers comes out of the water. Yamato leaves the dock as the trooper reaches the bridge and reveals himself to be Shima. He takes the controls and Yamato takes off. The battle satellite is destroyed quickly and Yamato leaves Earth. Serizawa decides Yamato must be hunted down. Andromeda and her fleet are seen near Jupiter.
Episode 5:
On the Moon, Makoto looks over an excited Tsubase, when she spots Kato. He tells her Yamato has left Earth but he can't go with them. The Andromeda fleet begins a massive exercise. Apollo Norm launches her fighters and the Dreadnoughts fire their cannons. Yamamoto, Shinohara and a few more pilots use this moment to abandon formation and fly to the rendaz-vous point to meet Yamato. Fighters from the Apollo Norm are sent in pursuit. Captain Yamanami is warned of the situation. Yamato approached the asteroid belt and Sanada asks Analyzer to search for an R&D file. On the Moon, Kato watches over his sleeping hailing son. Makoto tells him to go to Yamato, as he won't be happy if he's not flying. He hugs her and prepares to leave. The rogue pilots are under attack until a white Czvarke, piloted by Keyman, detonates a special jamming device which leaves the Apollo Norm's planes powerless. On the Moon, Ambassador Baler tries to convince Todo of the righteousness of Yamato's actions. In his cabin, Yamanami drinks a cup of tea and talks to a painting of Okita, wondering what the old captain would think of all this. He receives orders to pursue Yamato. Andromeda leaves the fleet to search for the renegade ship.
As Yamato dives deeper into the asteroid field, Sanada and Tokugawa find the devices they were looking for. Saijo spots fighters on radar and Yamato goes on alert. Yamamoto makes a close pass to Yamato's briddge and Kodai recognizes her style. The pilots are welcomed aboard, as well as Keyman, who insists on tagging along for the duration of the journey. Andromeda is spotted. Yamanami demands they stand down but Kodai refuses. The graviton cannons cause massive subspace detonations that rock Yamato. Sanada has the ship fire the devices which cling on to the nearby asteroids. Andromeda fires at the asteroids. From the smoke and dust rises a massive "asteroid ship". The defense system manages to divert the Andromeda's fire until they're close enough to try and make a run for it. Yamanami doesn't back down and the ships collide head on. The Wave-Motion Barriers are all that prevent actual contact, pushing each other aside. Yamanami is impressed. Before anything else can be done, Todo and the higher ups of the UNCF call off the pursuit. Convinced by Baler of Telezart's importance, the Earth Federation president has decided to authorize Yamato's mission. Yamazaki and the others are released and Kato leaves the Moon on a booster assisted Cosmo Tiger II. Andromeda sends fighters to Yamato to replenish its numbers, along with Okita's portrait, which is hung in Yamato's bridge. Kato catches up with Yamato and looking at his family's photo, swears to make it back. Yamato moves on. The long journey begins.
Episode 6:
A ship float dead in space. Inside is Nagakura, injured. Suddenly, the noise of cutting tools wakes her from her slumber. We flash back to the attack on Planet 11. Needle Slaves have massacred civilians, wherever they find them. A young Garmillan girl cries as she looks at the street, littered with bodies. A Needle Slave spots her and prepares to strike but its shot down by Nagakura. They hide as more Slaves patrol. The little girl says she lost track of her brother. As they go down the wrecked city streets, she stops and says "Yamato". Nagakura looks and sees a Yamato model lying on the ground. Next to it, a hand sticks out from under the rubble. Its the girl's brother, unfortunately dead. Nagakura consoles her. As the sun rises, more Needle Slaves pursue a group of survivors. Gen, one of Saito's men, takes them on. A wounded soldier detonates and kills him, just after he warns Saito of the danger. Saito sees the explosion as he shepherds survivors to an underground shelter. On the command centre, Hijikata tries to reason with Nazca but to no avail. The roof collapses on him and his staff. Unable to call for help, due to the enemy jamming, Saito decides to use an escape boat to send someone off world and get help. Nagakura protests when she's chosen, thinking Saito is sending her for being a woman, but he says she's the only one that can operate the damned thing. She reluctantly accepts, as Tochiro and Kurata, the rest of the "Moon survivors", smile. They take on the attackers to allow Nagakura to take off. Once in orbit, the boat warps. Back to present time, the cutting is revealed to be done by Enomoto's men, and they take Nagakura aboard Yamato. The data she gathered before warping reveals a large fleet, blocking the planet. Todo refuses to authorize the rescue mission, as reaching Telezart takes priority. But Kodai decides that "that woman" deserves help, refering to Nagakura. They decide to make a warp straight into the planet's atmosphere. This will allow them to bypassthe blockade and mask their warp signature from the UNCF, at least long enough to avoid immediate trouble with command. The con is that the stress of warping into a gravity well on the system will cause them to lose shock cannons and Wave-Motion Barrier. Despite Kato's protests, Keyman joins the air group. Yamato warps to Planet 11.
Saito wakes up on a bridge. The woman we saw in episode 3 runs to him with the young Garmillan girl, as Needle Slaves surround them. Saito sees no way out. The oung girl says her brother told her Yamato would come if they were in danger. Saito is about to say otherwise... when Yamato warps out above them. Akira takes out the enemy bots and the air wing takes on the attacking ships. Yamato descends on the crevasse and anchors itself allowing the survivors to board through bridge 3. A Yamamoto damages a Kukulkan, but the ship splits its top hull from the underside and goes straight for Yamato. Yamato takes off and manages to avoid impact, but another Kukulkan positions itself above them and fires. Trapped in the crevasse, Kodai fires missiles and Type 3 shells and shoots the enemy down. When victory seems at hand, 6 Kalaklum-class battleships warp out in orbit. The ships converge and combine their attack rings. Commanded by Zordar, they fire a concentrated beam of energy that lights the skies, cutting across the crevasse. Yamato is seen flying right into the beam's path. Kato, Yamaoto and Keyman look at the destruction bellow and wonder if Yamato has met its end.
That's it. Sorry for the length. Some events are described as I currently understand them. Hopefully, subs will come soon.
I'll wait for a subtitled version, but I'm happy to be finding myself back in Japan in September, hopefully to find some goods in shops to take my precious imported yen - maybe if one of these is in theatres, to plunge and see Yamato on the big screen.
Crossing fingers for some ship models. Come on, Andromeda!
Mark
Crossing fingers for some ship models. Come on, Andromeda!
Mark
Megahouse comes more like a high grade toy. Fully built and painted. They are coming out with a really nice Cosmo Zero in September, but you might need a loan to get one.
Yeah...the Movie Effects versions of the Andromeda and Aldebaran are about $100 each. The smaller Dreadnought is only about $40. All 1/1000 scale, but they have to be built. The pre-built Kikan Taizen 1/2000 versions of these ships will be very nice, but those are in the $60 range.
If you happen to be in Japan...well today will probably be your last day to see Chapter Two in theaters.. However the BD should be out in another ten or so days. Still no subtitles, but there will be people working on that just like with Chapter One. Be it based on the official Italian subtitles or whatever. Though hopefully the production team will figure out who they need to pay to get an English (and other) deals going for this show.
Side note: both Andromeda and Dreadnought are very over powered in this franchise. At or over Yamato's level in terms of weaponry. The main thing that will count them is HUGE numbers of enemy warships. Legends of the Galactic Heroes scale fleets ridiculously huge numbers of enemy heavy battleships that are all bigger than Andromeda.
Side note: both Andromeda and Dreadnought are very over powered in this franchise. At or over Yamato's level in terms of weaponry. The main thing that will count them is HUGE numbers of enemy warships. Legends of the Galactic Heroes scale fleets ridiculously huge numbers of enemy heavy battleships that are all bigger than Andromeda.
So people in Japan go to movie theaters at 30 minute intervals to watch individual episodes? Are there double and triple features showing other anime?
This is not a typical show. Most anime comes out weekly on television, usually late night TV though there are some prime time anime as well as kids anime that is family oriented. With a large amount of anime being the late night block, they do not get commercial sponsorship like US television, and thus have to get their revenue based on DVD sales and other merchindise sales instead. The late night anime being more like infomercials for more anime products than typical TV.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and Space Battleship Yamato 2202 are being released in theaters first in episode blocks that are roughly feature length in size. Aside from the first chapter, the remaining six chapters are four episode blocks with a running time of around 90 minutes or more long. The episode by episode credits are removed and the episode mostly flow one into the other. On the BD the episode credits and previews are put back in. These come out roughly every three to four months and net the show a larger budget due to it being theater releases. The BD come out about a month after each theatrical release
The first chapter of both shows released as two episode movies with the first episode having no opening credits for a several minute longer episode, but the run time was still only up to 50 minutes long.
A year or so after the theatrical release, Yamato 2199 started to come out on Japanese television in a weekly format which would run approximately 26 weeks (sometimes there was a week off due to a national holiday).
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and Space Battleship Yamato 2202 are being released in theaters first in episode blocks that are roughly feature length in size. Aside from the first chapter, the remaining six chapters are four episode blocks with a running time of around 90 minutes or more long. The episode by episode credits are removed and the episode mostly flow one into the other. On the BD the episode credits and previews are put back in. These come out roughly every three to four months and net the show a larger budget due to it being theater releases. The BD come out about a month after each theatrical release
The first chapter of both shows released as two episode movies with the first episode having no opening credits for a several minute longer episode, but the run time was still only up to 50 minutes long.
A year or so after the theatrical release, Yamato 2199 started to come out on Japanese television in a weekly format which would run approximately 26 weeks (sometimes there was a week off due to a national holiday).
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Ah - got it...cool.
A scene appeared online the other day. Not sure how long it will stay there. The BD will be released on Monday.
Scene is more or less the same as Farewell to Yamato with small elements of Yamato 2. Basically Yamato taking off from Earth, and a shot of the Andromeda and her Fleet near Jupiter.
Scene is more or less the same as Farewell to Yamato with small elements of Yamato 2. Basically Yamato taking off from Earth, and a shot of the Andromeda and her Fleet near Jupiter.
Another scene appeared online today. The BD comes out in a day or two (28th of July, I was mistaken before).
This scene is mildly different from the original, while still playing on the theme of a few different scenes. It is still basically Yamato verse Andromeda, but not exactly as it was before.
Things of note:
1. The Gravitron Spread Launcher almost seems like a long range area effect weapon.
2. Andromeda's shock cannons have a very high rate of fire.
3. The system Yamato uses to defend herself is called the ARGO system (it seems the Japanese did pay attention to the North American dub version known as Star Blazers)
4. The rock ship is clearly the Deathshadow...Captain Harlock's ship prior to getting Arcadia and going pirate. I wonder if in context the ARGO system is a Martian design from the Interplanetary Wars, as there was a Port Arcadia on Mars shown in Yamato 2199.
This scene is mildly different from the original, while still playing on the theme of a few different scenes. It is still basically Yamato verse Andromeda, but not exactly as it was before.
Things of note:
1. The Gravitron Spread Launcher almost seems like a long range area effect weapon.
2. Andromeda's shock cannons have a very high rate of fire.
3. The system Yamato uses to defend herself is called the ARGO system (it seems the Japanese did pay attention to the North American dub version known as Star Blazers)
4. The rock ship is clearly the Deathshadow...Captain Harlock's ship prior to getting Arcadia and going pirate. I wonder if in context the ARGO system is a Martian design from the Interplanetary Wars, as there was a Port Arcadia on Mars shown in Yamato 2199.
I've watched the first clip a couple of times now and it finally occurred to me what was bothering me about it - there's no suspense to it. In the original version, the Yamato had to break through the doors, shake off the magnetic torpedoes, dodge the two fighters and finally avoid the battle satellite. They don't do any of that in this version. The only thing that comes close is the Yamato destroying the battle satellite before it has a chance to fire. The Commander doesn't try to talk them out of leaving, he seems utterly passive to their departure. Maybe they're confident the Andromeda and the rest of the EDF can stop the Yamato. However, if they had even included even one obstacle, the scene might have worked better.
All their obstacle are from before the scene starts. Earth command did try to stop them, but some of the crew fought their way out to the control deck and flooded the dock, driving the army away. (which is where Shima got back onboard...from the Army unit)
The scene as it is now is basically the same of from the film "Farewell to Yamato" Almost word for word until the order to charge up the battle satellite. The only suspense in the film for that scene was actually based on if Shima was coming of not, since Kodai was piloting from memory of what he'd heard Shima doing during take off, and not sure he could pull it off. Shima's arrival was the end of the tension for the film version of the scene. After that its is just glorious shots of the ship and the music.
The Commander always sided with Yamato privately. In all versions of the tale. He would put up a front to follow orders of Earth Gov, but he's go at it by the book to give Yamato's crew the time they need to escape, and even send them off privately in his thought ("Those are Okita's men").
The magnetic torpedoes I always thought was a dumb addition in the series, as they just latch on, just drop off when they take off. They don't seem to ever be an exploding threat, just a mass increase threat.
It seems most of the fighters are with Andromeda's group (which is conducting a training exercise for all the new ships and fighters.), as they come up in the following episode. Also two fighters are mostly a non-threat to Yamato. But then the battle satellite seems like a non-threat as well.
My copy will arrive on Monday so I can be sure of everything.
The scene as it is now is basically the same of from the film "Farewell to Yamato" Almost word for word until the order to charge up the battle satellite. The only suspense in the film for that scene was actually based on if Shima was coming of not, since Kodai was piloting from memory of what he'd heard Shima doing during take off, and not sure he could pull it off. Shima's arrival was the end of the tension for the film version of the scene. After that its is just glorious shots of the ship and the music.
The Commander always sided with Yamato privately. In all versions of the tale. He would put up a front to follow orders of Earth Gov, but he's go at it by the book to give Yamato's crew the time they need to escape, and even send them off privately in his thought ("Those are Okita's men").
The magnetic torpedoes I always thought was a dumb addition in the series, as they just latch on, just drop off when they take off. They don't seem to ever be an exploding threat, just a mass increase threat.
It seems most of the fighters are with Andromeda's group (which is conducting a training exercise for all the new ships and fighters.), as they come up in the following episode. Also two fighters are mostly a non-threat to Yamato. But then the battle satellite seems like a non-threat as well.
My copy will arrive on Monday so I can be sure of everything.
Seen episodes. The episodes follow basically the same as their counterparts from Yamato 2 (season two of Star Blazers). A few plot holes get filled in, though a few more probably opened up in their places.
Side note:
Earth ships are OP, please nerf.
In all seriousness, Earth ships are overpowered in Yamato 2202, because they are going to be seriously outnumbered all the time. Their shock cannons are impressive, and Andromeda shows off an incredible rate of fire (something close to 50 rounds per minutes per gun from one turret). The Apollo Norm (the battle carrier version of Andromeda) is shown launching fighters out of 48 launch tubes across the ship, launching probably her entire compliment of 180 Cosmo Falcons in under 15 seconds. Both Yamato and Andromeda have impressive shields. Previously we've seen the power of the wave motion gun and Andromeda's new duel gun system (the Dreadnoughts have a similar system, but instead of duel barrels, they have two wave motion guns in line that can shoot in parallel, or just one at half power). And it seems they've gotten better at warping to place themselves exactly where they want to be. It seems warping into a gravity field...like into a planet's atmosphere, will cause problems with the ship's gravity systems, and thus render her unable to use her wave motion shielding, or shock cannons for a time...probably to recalibrate or something like that. This may be another reason why the ships have shell launching systems as a backup to the shock cannons.
Also you can see, basically every Earth ships name on screen. All 20 or so of them.
Side note:
Earth ships are OP, please nerf.
In all seriousness, Earth ships are overpowered in Yamato 2202, because they are going to be seriously outnumbered all the time. Their shock cannons are impressive, and Andromeda shows off an incredible rate of fire (something close to 50 rounds per minutes per gun from one turret). The Apollo Norm (the battle carrier version of Andromeda) is shown launching fighters out of 48 launch tubes across the ship, launching probably her entire compliment of 180 Cosmo Falcons in under 15 seconds. Both Yamato and Andromeda have impressive shields. Previously we've seen the power of the wave motion gun and Andromeda's new duel gun system (the Dreadnoughts have a similar system, but instead of duel barrels, they have two wave motion guns in line that can shoot in parallel, or just one at half power). And it seems they've gotten better at warping to place themselves exactly where they want to be. It seems warping into a gravity field...like into a planet's atmosphere, will cause problems with the ship's gravity systems, and thus render her unable to use her wave motion shielding, or shock cannons for a time...probably to recalibrate or something like that. This may be another reason why the ships have shell launching systems as a backup to the shock cannons.
Also you can see, basically every Earth ships name on screen. All 20 or so of them.
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Side note:
Earth ships are OP, please nerf.
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Um, for good or bad, that's been an element of the SBY series from day one (be it the original 1973 version or the current one). Little late to notice it now.
Side note:
Earth ships are OP, please nerf.
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Um, for good or bad, that's been an element of the SBY series from day one (be it the original 1973 version or the current one). Little late to notice it now.
Well before Earth ships had slightly more powerful guns, slightly better range, and the wave motion guns.....but the Fleet ships still tended to go down quickly to whatever enemy came into the system. Yamato being the main exception most of the time. She was usually the only ship that didn't get one shot by the enemy. Andromeda wasn't one shot, but she still didn't come home in the original versions of the story. That still might become the case, but the Earth fleet presented here definitely has potential advantages over even Yamato, advantages that were not clearly present in earlier versions....aside from the twin wave motion guns that is. The thing is, the White Comet Empire's usual fleet ships have been shown to be basic cannon fodder for the most part, even Gamilon and old style Earth ships can face them on an even footing. But the big Cometine battleships....those are getting scary....and the preview for Chapter Three shows thousands of them. Either they get dealt with via Wave Motion Gun, or Zorder's special planet killing beam things also melts the ships firing them (which would be wasteful I would think).
I chalk it up as being akin to Yamato's magically auto-regenerating third bridge. Once you get used to it, it just is...Um, for good or bad, that's been an element of the SBY series from day one (be it the original 1973 version or the current one). Little late to notice it now.
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