(L+CR) Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (movie & TV)

[macdawson]

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Spoiler:

After reading the episode descriptions i had assumed that Orta and the Gamilas pilot were one and the same but it seems not. Orta is probably one of the androids kept in Sanada's lab. This seems to answer the question posed by that enigmatic "one amongst them is not human..." in the episode 7 description, maybe Orta come back on line, bidding his time till episode 9 to make its escape. It seems they stick around the Ballard Star (or whatever they call it here) from episode 8 to 9, since Ito seems to shoot Orta on the main deck with a huge red star as the background. Unless they just happen to cross paths with 2 similar red stars... Also, good to finally see the Security chief doing something besides looking creepy. Still, did you notice that even looking through a riffle's scope, he still keeps his eyes closed?! XD At least there he has a different expression.

That Gamilas pilot is hot. The only shot we got in the teaser was a quick and weird one, she looked strange) And that fight with Yamamoto...wonder if it's meant to replace Kodai's attack in the original. We are shown a flashback to when her brother was still alive, maybe this Gamilas is the very pilot who shot him down, some how, and Akira wants payback. The question i make is... when is she supposde to appear? Since she's not Orta... from the episode descriptions i don't have the faintest idea...

Speaking of Yamamoto...naked... the pundits that have been screaming bleeding hell because of the "oversexed look" of the "Yamato Bunnies" will have a field day with this. Also, besides the brief glimpse in Final Yamato's weading epilogue and Yuki's uniform being blown apart in the Andromeda II bridge in Yamato Resurrection, this is probably the longest "naked" scene in the whole saga.

The Yamato's warpout, notice the ice layer breaking away? They seem to get better at it.

Goer actually does something here, commanding an attack. Wonder if Domel has been put in charge by then. (In the original he was put in command of Balon in the Galactic Whirlpool episode, wich here is episode 10)

The Space Sargasso Sea looks awesome, like an actual sea. The old spec Gamilas cruiser looks cool. It has actual barrels in it's gun turrets and all. And yeah, Those "wings" do make it look a bit like the Arcadia.

We also get to see where the T-100 planes and Seaguls launch, though it seems this lauch will go very wrong.

Shultz, gazing at his daughter... I'm feeling more and more sorry for this guy. I actually hope he survives, maybe leading his people against the Gamilas oppression. I never felt this for the original Shultz, wich was just an evil archtype vilain.

Kodai screaming "We will return" as they say goodbye to Earth and the echo... nice.

[Shinji103]

Wow, that's some serious classic Japanese singing there. And I'm all sorts of Yamato win in that preview.

Some old nostalgic material from original Yamato coming back.

More KodaixYuki.

Character focus for Analyzer? I can't help but chuckle at that..

I couldn't help but laugh a little at Kodai's echoing "WE'LL COME BACK HOME!" for some reason.

And some HAWT Yamamoto fanservice.

*drools*

...........oh right, some Yamamoto character focus too.

[Ithekro]

Hmmmm. So many things.

Spoiler for Episode preview stuff:

I am trying to figure out what type of craft the Gamilas pilot came in on. Not only is it red, but I can't immediately match it up against other fighter types. My guess is that she is from the older Gamilas cruiser in the Space Sargasso Sea. Though I am curious as to where her and Yamamoto are fighting. It looks like an average home with it raining out the window. That is assuming she is not the android under that blue skin (which would be a waste of fanservice potental and other things).

I can guess the Wave Motion Gun is used twice in this set of episodes. Once t get past the Red Star and another in an attempt to escape the Space Sargasso Sea. Also there are at least two different Gamilas battleships seen this time. Schultz's battleship and Gruir's battleship. It looks like Schultz gets assigned to deliver the Exo Gas to Yamato. Through then one has to wonder how they got it. At least it seems like they will close a few oddities from the original in those episodes. Yamato was attacked a few times by missiles, the Exo Gas and encountered a fighter patrol...all without any clue given as to where these attacks were from. Never shown is the ships or bases these weapons were deployed until after Dommel arrives at Balan.

It seems Yamamoto is popular enough to keep her focused some more. Though my guess is that some others will also get their spotlights as well. Especially when they call back to Earth.

The Captain can be seen clearly without his hat? Drinking even.

Some scenes are had to judge without context. There is a shot of a Gamilas officer taking shaky aim at someone on a Gamilas ship. My guess is that he's from their interal security or intelligence office (his uniform reminds me a little of Celestria's). Best guess is he's on the Gamilas Cruiser that seems to aid Yamato in the Space Sargasso Sea. Also there is the scene with the bridge crew (minus a busy Shima) saluting to port. Best guess this is to the Gamilas ship after Yamato escapes. Maybe they have a new long term friend for this voyage? The other option is Earth, though then why to port? Usually they'd do that sort of thing towards the main viewscreen if it was Earth.

Another thing I can't place is the one image of a woman that is hand drawn. No idea what that is suppose to be.

The Gamilas warpout is different from the Earth warpout. Aside from the red in it, there is also that spiral effect.

I'm not sure if all the scenes are finished. The scene with the Type 100 recon craft seems uncomplete somehow. Though maybe that is because I am trying to place where on the ship that is and why there is so much curve to the hull openning.

It does look like Yamato will get into a proper fight with the Gamilas fleet. No telling how or where though.

Of course this is basically a minute and a half out of 100 minutes of episodes. They have a lot of room to shift things around.

[August138]

Spoiler for CHAPTER 3 PREVIEW:

Macdawson said, "After reading the episode descriptions i had assumed that Orta and the Gamilas pilot were one and the same but it seems not."

They are most definitely not. They are two, completely different characters. The female Gamilas pilot probably appears in Episode 7, as the "one amongst them."

Macdawson said, "It seems they stick around the Ballard Star (or whatever they call it here) from episode 8 to 9"

You're thinking of "Barnard's Star" — an actual celestial body — while in the original series it was Alpha Orionis, also known as Betelgeuse. For YAMATO: 2199, the star has been changed to Gliese 581.

Macdawson said, "That Gamilas pilot is hot. The only shot we got in the teaser was a quick and weird one, she looked strange) And that fight with Yamamoto...wonder if it's meant to replace Kodai's attack in the original. We are shown a flashback to when her brother was still alive, maybe this Gamilas is the very pilot who shot him down, some how, and Akira wants payback. The question i make is... when is she supposde to appear? Since she's not Orta... from the episode descriptions i don't have the faintest idea..."

Episode 7. The fight is probably happening in the Holography Room (don't forget that important aspect of the Yamato), which has been programmed to look like someone's home back on Earth.

Macdawson said, "We also get to see where the T-100 planes and Seaguls launch, though it seems this lauch will go very wrong."

This hanger is also seen in Episode 6.

[macdawson]

The hangar is seen on episode 6 but from the inside with no hint as to where on the ship it is. Here, we can finaly see the hangar open and its location. That's what i meant.

You might be right about the holography room since that looks like a room like the ones shown on Earth in episodes 1 and 2 (though i doubt it would rain in the underground cities).

I doubt that they would shift the focus of episode 7 from the goodbyes to Earth to capturing an enemy pilot... but then, this show has thrown a couple curve ball so far so i guess anything is possible.

[August138]

Originally Posted by macdawson

The hangar is seen on episode 6 but from the inside with no hint as to where on the ship it is. Here, we can finaly see the hangar open and its location. That's what i meant.

I see.

Originally Posted by macdawson

You mught be right about the holography room since that looks like a room like the ones shown on Earth in episodes 1 and 2 (though i doubt it would rain in the underground cities).

Remember, the Earth was not bombed until 2191... Plus, there's no way a room on the Yamato looks like this, with rain outside the window, even. This scene must be set in the Holography Room.

Originally Posted by macdawson

I doubt that they would shift the focus of episode 7 from the goodbyes to Earth to capturing an enemy pilot... but then, this show has thrown a couple curve ball so far so i guess anything is possible.

After what has transpired in the first six episodes, I don't think it's a stretch; the synopsis already states that while the crew is saying their goodbyes, there is a non-human among the crew — that's exactly what this is (it has to be, to fit into the next four story synopses).

[Ithekro]

Well there is also Episode ten where they are trapped with that other Gamilas ship. That pilot could be from their.

Though if the fighter or whatever craft is not a Gamilas ship the Humans have seen, they might not learn until late she is a Gamilas.

[August138]

I'm not stabbing in the dark; my information comes from a reliable source. We'll see how it pans out.

[Ithekro]

Interesting. More condensing if that is the case. Though that also means the Orta plot will not be as close to the captured pilot plot from the original, if they us that part of the plot with this female pilot and her interaction with Yamamoto.

Though I wonder about that. Since they have more crew to show off in communicating with Earth, plus possibly Yamato Radio to show off, will there be time for a Gamilas subplot? As I recall the original was one of the few episodes that nothing exploded. There was no fighting, just character development.

[August138]

That all changes. As Supervising Director Izubuchi said, after episode 6, everything changes. But, that seems par for course with 2199. So, we shall see; we already know that the "Farewell to Earth" episode, already has a subplot of "one amongst them is not human".

[Ithekro]

From the preview, I get the feeling they will use the winged Gamilas ship to open a small hole into the edge of the dimensional sea they are in, and then blow it up with the Wave Motion Gun to get free. Or perhaps they will use one of the many other dead ships in there for that and then use the Gamilas ship to tow Yamato out through the rift.

I saw this because it looks like thre is a target that Yamato fire at to open the rift.

If they use the Gamilas ship to escape,they would (probably) have to take the crew off. If they just both use their own traits to helf both ships escape, than the Gamilas ship can go off on its own as a "friend", or at least a ship that will hesitate to fire later on. (Allies for Earth on such a long trip into the heart of the Empire might be worth it).

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[Kamijou Touma IB]

Finally a release date for the first OST

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=LACA-15248

[August138]

Oh yeah, that was announced last week, and was reported over on the Official Star Blazers Website's Facebook page, and my blog. Here's Amazon Japan's link: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B008YINR6E

[GundamFan0083]

Wow is a that ship a variant of the Gamilas Battlecruiser or is it an entirely new design?

Looks interesting what ever type it is.

[Ithekro]

The drawing of it reminds me of a mix of Gamilas and Galman designs, but that might just be because of the artist rather than the actual CG model.

macdawson already screencapped the preview, so these are from his set of images.




Being so heavy into sci-fi ships, I am very curious about this ship.

[Roger Rambo]

The Yamato is AWFULLY close to what looks like a hostile Gamilon ship. The Yamato agreeing to parley work with some party in the next episodes?

would explain hot alien pilot ace being onboard the Yamato.

[Ithekro]

Likely they need each other to escape wherever they are (sort of like the Animated Star Trek episode "The Time Trap" which aired in 1973.)

[Roger Rambo]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

Likely they need each other to escape wherever they are (sort of like the Animated Star Trek episode "The Time Trap" which aired in 1973.)

...if a Gamilon commander agreed to that deal, then they must have not had ANY idea how dangerous the Yamato was as a warship.


The Yamato is such an overt threat to the Gamilon civilization that it's pretty much dereliction of duty to not pursue a surefire way of destroying it...even if that means the total loss of a single ship. It'd be like a US Navy ship cooperating with an enemy boomer submarine that they KNEW was going to launch dozens of MIRV's at America. The severity of the threat posed by ship makes stopping the threat more important than what pursuit of self preservation military discipline normally allows.

[Ithekro]

We don't know the situation. That Gamilon commander might not either. Earth, as far as most of Gamilon knows, does not have faster than light capable ships. The Humans don't know they are heading into the heart of the Empire, and the Gamilons probably don't know what a Yamato is yet. I imagine this Gamilon ship may have been in wherevere they are from before Yamato launched, so it would have no idea of anything that has happened to Pluto and the like.

So it would be more like a temporal displaced World War II American heavy cruiser helping a 1970s Soviet boomer out of the ice field they were both caught in. The Americans would either think the ship is a new weapon to use against the Germans, or just something else. The Soviet sub might not be on a mission to take out Washington, D.C., (they are on their way to Cuba) but those orders might come after this event and the Americans could stop them here.

The Gamilon ship may have no idea what has happened on the outside for a while now.

Spoiler for Wild idea:

That is, if the ship isn't carrying prisoners from the destroyer Yukikaze. If that is the case, well, this might be a very interesting plot development.

[Roger Rambo]

As I said. If they had ANY idea of what the Yamato was.


The Yamato's particular mission at the moment doesn't make it any less of a threat either. Even if they can get to Iscandar without running into Gamilon space...the Gamilons have to assume the first thing earth leadership will do is order the Yamato to initiate offensive operations into Gamilon space. They're still a threat, and the Yamato is the only offensive option.

There are really only three ways this scenario can end.

-The Gamilons decide to sue for peace
-The Yamato annihilates Gamilon civilization
-The Yamato is destroyed

...of course if the Iscandar earth rescue operation fails, then the Gamilons and the grief stricken Yamato crew are stuck with the last two options, aren't they?

Originally Posted by Ithekro

So it would be more like a temporal displaced World War II American heavy cruiser helping a 1970s Soviet boomer out of the ice field they were both caught in. The Americans would either think the ship is a new weapon to use against the Germans, or just something else. The Soviet sub might not be on a mission to take out Washington, D.C., (they are on their way to Cuba) but those orders might come after this event and the Americans could stop them here.

Not quite a good analogy, considering the open state of war between Earth and Gamilas.

It'd be more like...The Soviet Union invading a small and obscure land locked country...who through convoluted means gain access to a boomer submarine, and they plan to use that to nuke the USSR. They and a soviet destroyer get caught in an ice-field, and not knowing that they're enemies armed with nukes, agree to help each-other out.