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Yes, three theaters sold out in two days! Supplies running low at the seven remaining theaters (glad I had one snagged for me)! When Yamato makes the "cover" (a mock cover featured on the back cover) of the "Shukan Post"? Yes, Yamato Fever is beginning to heat up!
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2012-04-09, 06:11 | Link #262 |
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I guess they want to give homage to those early gamilons who weren't colored right.
Though man, how did that fubar get through? Did someone REALLY forget to send a note to the guys doing the coloring that the Gamilons are supposed to be blue skinned aliens?
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2012-04-09, 11:38 | Link #263 |
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So who are voicing Dessler and Domeru?
Because I can see the voice actors names...but I don't recognize the characters used in those names (I can't even find it online so far) And because the whole thing is a picture, I can't just copy paste it to do a better search.
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2012-04-09, 14:33 | Link #264 | |
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That wasn't it. They weren't blue, originally. That was a decision made during production; it was felt that the Gamilas looked too human, and that the audience might have a hard time differentiating the Earthers and the Gamilas, so it was determined that they needed a more distinctive look. So, they became blue.
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2012-04-09, 15:25 | Link #265 | |
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It makese sense (for budget reasons) on a live action TV show to sometimes have *aliens* that don't have any distinguishing physical features from humans at all. Though a bit strange in animation where rubber forehead aliens cost the same to animate as the human. I guess it was something they just didn't think of. ...though can you imagine what would have happened to the Yamato franchise if they hadn't turned the Gamilons blue? Maybe they'll have some comical explanation for why the Pluto base Gamilons are all pink skinned...perhaps it's the effect of the terraformed atmosphere on pluto? Or maybe even not explain it at all. Kinda like that episode of Deepspace 9 when they traveled back to TOS, and they realized there was something odd about the Klingons. (00:35 to 1:18)
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2012-04-09, 15:36 | Link #266 |
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While the voice actors for Dessler and Domel haven't been announced, Shultz/Schultz is being voiced by veteran Yu Shimaka (Misha in GUNDAM 0080: THE POCKET WAR) and Ganz is being voiced by Cho (who is also voicing Analyzer and Yabu).
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A lot of the original production plans, intentions, decisions, and changes in the making of the Yamato saga, are throughly documented on the official Star Blazers website. So, I recommend checking it out!
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Which in a way is a rather depressing commentary about human beings in general, and our prospects about dealing with aliens in the future. Humans are good at killing eachother from a distance, when it's made abstract, and we don't have to worry about humanizing our opponents. But if the enemy ARE bug eyed monsters? Even if we had to see them up close, we probably wouldn't feel any sympathy towards them. Entertainment about how we should think about aliens as people reminds me about how most people probably would never regard aliens as people. Quote:
A story element like that does bring up the question of how good of an idea Earth's continued resistance to the Gamilons has been. The Gamilon are definitely the aggressors here, since they attacked us out of the blue. Though at a certain point you do have the balance the principle of resisting naked aggression, with the preservation of the human race being attacked by seemingly unbeatable force. The Gamilon are certainly willing to exterminate humanity...but they're also willing to accept surrender. I suppose to the Gamilons we're just a bunch of crazy suicidal fanatics. If we'd just surrendered the Gamilons would have been forced to kill so many people, and we wouldn't have gone out and destroyed their empire with wave motion guns. I think I understand why the crew seemed so conflicted after they'd blasted Gamilon. They probably were thinking "was the death of so many humans and Gamilons worth the independence of humanity?"
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2012-04-09, 22:15 | Link #272 |
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Currently playing on my 40" LCD: Episode 2 of YAMATO: 2199!
Shultz and Gantz discuss keeping the Yamato firing on their carrier to themselves (and in an alien language, no less!) Lots of background information detailed in this episode! Wow! Don't know if I should post them or not...
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2012-04-09, 22:40 | Link #273 |
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Well aside from magazines, interviews, websites, and the like, we aren't getting anything else until the end of June and even those that ordered the BD aren't getting them until the end of May at the earliest.
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2012-04-10, 00:10 | Link #275 |
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Well not everyone can know someone. And even if they did there is a chance that that person would know six to ten people...and they were allowed only one copy.
Considering it was ten threaters and they seem to be selling out. It is a matter of luck and connections. Usually business connections, considering you are a translator last I checked. I use to have a contact in Japan, but that was a very long time ago. In the AIM days.
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2012-04-10, 01:59 | Link #276 |
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I wasn't trying to be a jerk, so I apologize, just saying that I'm sure that other Americans (and I know a few) and some Japanese fans are sending copies to folks in the US, and I'm sure one of them will inevitably upload them — that's a hard one to stop at this point. I just happened to have had a fellow San Franciscan who was there, and returning the day after the premiere, who agreed to indulge me. Some of my other friends said, "Hey, it's only one per customer, and I'm buyin' it for myself!" So, I was just very lucky this time... *whew*
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2012-04-10, 03:37 | Link #277 |
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Heck, I'm in charge of the BD subtitles (not actually translating them, though), and even _I_ don't have a copy of the final BD...
All I have is the ~320x240 squeezed work mpeg-1 videos we worked off of
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2012-04-10, 14:42 | Link #279 |
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If I read their site correctly. Half the theaters are sold out of BD already.
Could mean that this show will have rather good sales and thus generate a lot of income. And encourage them to make Yamato 2201.
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2012-04-10, 16:36 | Link #280 |
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A photograph of Okita's children in Episode 2. So, while his son wasn't on the Yukikaze — and seems to have been in Command — he still lost in him during one of the skirmishes against the Gamilas. Perhaps the "Second Battle of Mars" mentioned in Episode 2?
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