Space Battleship Yamato 2205
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Yeah, the Star Blazers Facebook page translated the press release and it's celebrating 50 years of Space Cruiser Yamato.
There's some other interesting tidbits in the press release I won't spoil.
Looks like they’re giving their 50th treatment a lot more love than Paramount did for Trek’s 50th. Granted, they were going through their big merger, but still…. The Yamato show runners have demonstrated how to do a proper reboot from the very beginning of 2199.
And 2205, or an English language of Celestial Ark (cos to move from 2199 to 2202 without CA seems like we're missing something).
By the way, here you can watch (LEGALLY) the first part of The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202, the recap movie of 2199 and 2202 told in form of documentary
Since the narrative voice speaks clearly and slowly (well, like a documentary!) the automatically generated subtitles are of excellent quality and I understood about 90% of the story. I just have a couple of doubts.
1) Where did the alien ship found on Mars come from? It is reduced to such a state that it is not immediately identifiable. Don't even the protagonists know it or has the subtitle generator simply failed?
2) Okay, the Earthlings shot first. But would it really have changed anything? The Garmillas never seemed very accommodating to other civilizations and it was obvious that they DESPERATELY wanted Earth (I mean it was in another galaxy and they still made huge efforts to garmiforming it) I can understand a vague sense of guilt, but I think that at most trying to establish diplomatic relations would have postponed the inevitable. But in the series the characters behave as if they had discovered that Kennedy's assassination was an inside job.
3) If shooting first was such a terrible thing, why didn't those who ordered it pay the consequences, especially considering the new Earth-Garmillas alliance?
Since the narrative voice speaks clearly and slowly (well, like a documentary!) the automatically generated subtitles are of excellent quality and I understood about 90% of the story. I just have a couple of doubts.
1) Where did the alien ship found on Mars come from? It is reduced to such a state that it is not immediately identifiable. Don't even the protagonists know it or has the subtitle generator simply failed?
2) Okay, the Earthlings shot first. But would it really have changed anything? The Garmillas never seemed very accommodating to other civilizations and it was obvious that they DESPERATELY wanted Earth (I mean it was in another galaxy and they still made huge efforts to garmiforming it) I can understand a vague sense of guilt, but I think that at most trying to establish diplomatic relations would have postponed the inevitable. But in the series the characters behave as if they had discovered that Kennedy's assassination was an inside job.
3) If shooting first was such a terrible thing, why didn't those who ordered it pay the consequences, especially considering the new Earth-Garmillas alliance?
At the time (in universe) the documentary was made, Earth had not encountered the race of the ship that crashed on Mars. However in Yamato 2205, we see that Gamilas encounters that race at the beginning. It is a Bolar ship. We see them in the Rebel 3199 teaser shooting at the giant weapon thing.
Well, the Japanese BD also had an English subtitle track on it. (I know because I bought the disk direct from Japan once I knew it was the case via CDJapan, back when it first released. I got the Japanese BDs of SBY2199 for the same reason as they released back in 2012 - 2013 via the same source. Wasn't cheap, but it was worth it to for once get an Anime I enjoyed the same time as it was being released in Japan.
)Of course once Funimation struck a deal with the Japanese before the release of the SBY2202 BDs - those didn't have a English subtitled track - so I waited for the sub/dub like everyone else.
And it seems Funimation/Crunchyroll didn't do a deal for SBY 2205 at all so far.
Basically the 2202 film and 2205 currently don't have official English subtitles. Add to this the two 2199 films don't have English dubs.
I imagine that 2205 and 3199 might get those together if someone offered a package deal. The 2202 film might flow into that as it is a leading for 2205. But that depends on who and how the rights for those things is handled. The film and two series would give someone a lot to put out.
I imagine that 2205 and 3199 might get those together if someone offered a package deal. The 2202 film might flow into that as it is a leading for 2205. But that depends on who and how the rights for those things is handled. The film and two series would give someone a lot to put out.
Thank you. From a world-building point of view, why do you think they introduced this element compared to the original series? To be able to justify how Earthlings managed to hold their own against an intergalactic empire at least for a while?
It didn't bring up English auto-subtitles for me?
You have to use the "translate" function
IDK - even in SBY2199, the Earth isn't seen as 'holding their own'. They do show (eventually) that the Human Fleet ship fired first (in fact commanded by Capt. Okita and he disagreed with the order, but ultimately followed it); and started the conflict (yes the Earth found out that the Gamillas Fleet was coming to force them to join the Empire, but they didn't know that when they fired.)
Then we're told the Earth made it's stand against the Gamillas Fleet at Mars, an the Earth Fleet and Mars base was wiped out, and that the Earth Defense Force could do nothing to stop the Planet bombs, and Earth was now on the verge of being wiped out.
And the 'final stand' at Pluto is ultimately shown to be a diversion so that a ship from Iscandar can get to Earth without being stopped/intercepted by the Gamilas Fleet.
My point? Until the Yamato was refit (with info and assistance from Iscandar as the refit was started 1 year earlier when the first message was received and the second ship was bringing a needed component Earth science couldn't create), the Earth really wasn't 'holding its own'..
In fact we also find that the Gamillas Fleet assigned to the Earth front is composed mostly of second class Gamillas citizens and equipment.
Earth doesn't come to the attention of Dessler and the main Gamillas Fleet until they saw the Yamato had FTL capabilities and they suspected Iscandar was involved.
Earth's resistance over Mars was enough for Gamilas to shift tactics from direct combat and invasion to long range planetary bombardment. It was easier to just lob planet bombs and giant missiles at Earth rather than attack Earth directly.
When the Gamilas recon fighter was over Yamato with a carrier, it was suggested that they had never come that close to Earth before. The Moon Base was under attack as well, with Kirishima launching, even damaged to attempt to interpret the giant missile and defend the Moon.
When the Gamilas recon fighter was over Yamato with a carrier, it was suggested that they had never come that close to Earth before. The Moon Base was under attack as well, with Kirishima launching, even damaged to attempt to interpret the giant missile and defend the Moon.
I wonder why Funimation did not continue to release English dubs of the movies and series?
FYI - Looks like the production company in Japan are releasing 4K remasters of the first two ORIGINAL Space Battleship Yamato films (in the US Space Cruiser Yamato and Final Yamato) and have really gone all out with the restorations of the original 35mm film negatives:
https://starblazers-yamato.net/4kremaster/
^^^
If you use Google Translate on the site - it has some interesting info about what they are doing.
https://starblazers-yamato.net/4kremaster/
^^^
If you use Google Translate on the site - it has some interesting info about what they are doing.
There will be a subscription based gimmick 1/350 scale model of the Earth Patrol Cruiser starting in April prior to the release of Rebel 3199. 50 issues.
This particular ship is names Pacific. No idea yet why this ship rates such a kit. But we will likely find out. Best guess this is Kodai's command while Yamato is in refit
https://hcj.jp/patrol/home.html?fbclid=IwAR11M_k4CMJ_vBWHprMq9Phr_WRIqyhR7kriaPEBbRlY2YjS7Lb0du9UggY
This particular ship is names Pacific. No idea yet why this ship rates such a kit. But we will likely find out. Best guess this is Kodai's command while Yamato is in refit
https://hcj.jp/patrol/home.html?fbclid=IwAR11M_k4CMJ_vBWHprMq9Phr_WRIqyhR7kriaPEBbRlY2YjS7Lb0du9UggY
I’m sad I missed out on these. Just couldn’t afford them in the budget. Falling behind on the Eaglemoss/Master Replicas re-releases, too. 
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