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Space Battleship Yamato

- Our lone hero ship fights the enemy above earth and is ready to ram the enemy until another solution presents it's self.

etc..

Well except for the film version where the lone hero did ram the enemy.

Thats slightly ambigous, I think the wave motion gun went off right before the Yamato hit the Gamalon missile. Of course the Yamato had the Gamalon muzzle on, so the ship exploded to I would assume.

Here is a nitpick, in the whole time it took to come back to Earth they never cut that Gamalon muzzle off the ship??
 
- Our lone hero ship fights the enemy above earth and is ready to ram the enemy until another solution presents it's self.

etc..

Well except for the film version where the lone hero did ram the enemy.

Thats slightly ambigous, I think the wave motion gun went off right before the Yamato hit the Gamalon missile.

Actually I was refering to the movie version of the Comet Empire story
 
You know theres something I just realized after watching the first season of Space Battleship Yamato, am I crazy or did anyone else notice that J. Michael Straczynski's Crusade have a lot in common with this show?

Only on the surface, Crusade would've gone beyond the plague storyline soon enough.

I think it's more that the Excalibur's main 'Vorlon' weapon had the EXACT same weakness as the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun afyter firing.

(And as usual, if you try to question JMS about it - he never watched any 'Japanese Anime'.:rofl:)
 
You know theres something I just realized after watching the first season of Space Battleship Yamato, am I crazy or did anyone else notice that J. Michael Straczynski's Crusade have a lot in common with this show?

Only on the surface, Crusade would've gone beyond the plague storyline soon enough.

I think it's more that the Excalibur's main 'Vorlon' weapon had the EXACT same weakness as the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun afyter firing.

That and the uniforms the cast switch to using.
 
^^^ Have you heard if they will be putting multi-lingual subbed translations on it? Also, do you know if it will be Region-Free or for Europe/R2 only?
 
I think it's more that the Excalibur's main 'Vorlon' weapon had the EXACT same weakness as the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun afyter firing.

Which is a perfectly natural weakness for a powerful weapon to have -- it uses so much energy that it needs time to recharge afterward. I mean, heck, any remotely competent writer is going to know that if you're going to give your characters such a powerful advantage, you need to balance it out with a commensurate disadvantage so they don't just casually use it to solve every problem. Having their superweapon drain their power and leave them vulnerable is the obvious disadvantage to use there. So it's hardly unlikely that two creators could've come up with the same idea completely independently.
 
Here's a question - I've been seeing references on eBay and Amazon about "Space Battleship Yamato: The Final Battle". Now, I thought this might be a re-packaging of "Final Yamato", but now it's starting to look like it's the new live-action movie. Anyone know which one it is?
 
Here's a question - I've been seeing references on eBay and Amazon about "Space Battleship Yamato: The Final Battle". Now, I thought this might be a re-packaging of "Final Yamato", but now it's starting to look like it's the new live-action movie. Anyone know which one it is?

Just look at the description - if it states 'animated' anywhere, it's not the new live action film. Also, the latestest animated Yamato (released in 2009) was titled "Space Battleship Yamato - Rebirth"; so it's probably not that either.
 
^^^ Have you heard if they will be putting multi-lingual subbed translations on it? Also, do you know if it will be Region-Free or for Europe/R2 only?

I just checked the official website of the label, and though the menu will be in English, subs or in German and Dutch only. And, as almost any official DVD-release in Germany, it'll be R2.
 
But can't VLC read blu-rays? If so, it would be easy to buy a Region 2 (B) and play it on a computer, find the English subtitles, grab and drag them and voila, no?

I think that paragraph needs English subtitles, because I have no idea what it's saying. ;)
 
I've just bought the Blu-ray! Yay me!

Any 'Eglish subtitles' option? ;)

Nope, sorry. But can't VLC read blu-rays? If so, it would be easy to buy a Region 2 (B) and play it on a computer, find the English subtitles, grab and drag them and voila, no?

VLC cannot read Blu-rays, you have to rip it to disk first and play the mt2s file, which is a challenge in itself for the casual user.

Basically there are no legit freeware Blu-ray players because the AACS decryption keys are licensed and only sold to a select few software manufacturers. Presumably to maximise sales of certain software players. That's why there are only a handful of media players with Blu-ray support.
 
I've just pre-ordered the Blu-ray that will come out on September 30th here in Germany - German sub, Japanese original, German and Dutch subtitles.
 
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