UTS Anime Review: Space Battleship Yamato 2199

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1. i couldn't leave without saying a big thank you for this review....
2. 1:23 NICE!!!!
3. i just loved this series and i can't wait for Yamato 2202
4. 87
5. Your forgetting about the machine that make what ever they need
6. What you said was correct. The series started in 2012 and ended in '13.
7. Yamato, under the title of StarBlazers, was my first experience of anime and was directly responsible for my anime addiction...
8. i watched the original as a kid and it was the start of my love for anime.
9. I agree with you on everything but the fact that going back and watching the original Yamato. I thought the original is a good way to be introduced to the series ahead of this so you can truly grasp the story.
10. Loved this show. It was so unashamed in it's naval aesthetic (the "dimensional submarine" attests to that), and even though I never saw the original, or much old sci fi, it made me nostalgic anyway. Even if, yeah, the threats to the Yamato became a bit hard to take seriously after they'd plown through a fleet of 10.000 Gamillian ships with almost no effort (to be fair, they didn't blow all of them up, but they never had a problem) And yet when drama requires it, a single ship is suddenly supposed to be a threat. Still, I enjoyed the anime immensely.Does anyone know any good anime like this one, preferably just a little more realistically grounded? I know of Legend of Galactic heroes, but while the story was nice, the presentation was a bit too stilted and the visual badly needed a 2199-like update. Anyone have any recommendations? (Other than praying that some Anime producer picks up a Honor Harrington book by chance and decides to adapt it. C'mon, this needs to happen! Nimitz looks like he walked out of an anime anyway. Plus, the longlivity treatments that make people look much younger that they are will finally justify a starship that looks like it's crewed by high schoolers.)
11. YES I LOVED THIS SHOW
12. -The overwhelming odds Yamato can survive was adressed as in 2199 the ship has something no other ship (as far as its known) has: shields.. this , as well as its way bigger energy generation (firepower) comes from Iscandar tech adapting.. wich is superior to all other races
    -If you think the Yamato repairs fast here you should see the original series.. one episode had the Yamato nearly ripped in half with her ENTIRE botton blown out (nearly half ship) and next episode the ship is totally intact.. In 2199 the ship every time it takes damage you can see repair crews next episode working.. and if you pay attention to the dates told at the end of each episode you would see sometimes those repairs take weeks.. one of them (battle of rainbow cluster) took an entire month in a drydock to repair.
    -Crew loses are similar to the old series.. but in the old series Yamato had barelly 116 crew.. now she has 1000 crew.. so even similar casualties she still has about 950 at the end
    -Episode 25 was to adress directly the last episode of the original series where Dessler boarded Yamato..and its much better writen and adressed here ...specially concerning the future.
    -Yamato uses an OMC (organic matter converter) wich works roughly like an Startrek replicator: converts biomass into edible food ... thats what keeps then supplied as long as they dont have much loses or damage.. at one point the OMC breaks down and they need to stop in a planet to temporaly resuply until the OMC is fixed.. as for ammo they dont use much as their main weapons is the energy based shock canons.. they can fire 18" shells (wich they do) but not much of those are expend.. and while fighters use regular ammo its easy that the Yamato carries enought for the trip (as any normal carrier) as the fighters only shorty like 4 or 5 times in the entire trip
    
    -About Gamilon loses the show do handles them.. Ditz didnt wanted to directly ally with the humans because the huge loses at the battle of Ballun. and in the later movie "oddysey of the star voyaging ark" its more directly dealt with
    
    -the great thing about soundtrack and effects is that nearly ALL the music (save for a couple of pieces) and nearly ALL sound effects come directly from the original series.. but wiselly done .. it fits perfectly
13. Im buying a model of that gamilon U boat from the sub episode.. it looks cool :)
14. can toy really blame the cgi since it does it better then most.
15. This series was excellent in most cases. If anyone is new to the series never seen before, it's a must watch and done very well. But I want to warn the die hard fans of this show....if you are a Desslar/Desslok fan, you may be disappointed, as I was. Unlike the Desslok of old, this Desslok has no care or regard for his people and would kill them in a heartbeat. They both love Starsha, but this new Desslok is so nuts over her, that everything he did was to try and gain her interest, while the original Desslok created this war as a new home for his people that were living on a dying planet. I felt this change did great injustice to the character, turning him into a more 2 dimensional obessed bad guy than the more developed character of old who was a balance of good and bad making him feel more realistic. Desslok was my favorite character and watching what they did to him I felt disappointment and injustice to the character. But he was the only problem I had. I used to like Lysis as well, and I really loved what they did with him. They fleshed him out much more than before.
16. The original series does introduce a machine that can create anything they want, and even show a demonstration. It would not be farfetched to say that their ability to create the necessary replacement parts for the ship's repair work is explained, had they explained it in the remake.
    The remake did talk about the technology they used to create things such as food... where they advise that you don't want to know what the resource is. xD
17. Thank you!!!! This show is one the best (like Avatar. the last airbender) It's better than most movie that i watch for years. Damn! After Yamato i can't watch "walking dead" and "game of thrones" thay start to feel unfocus. is this just me??
18. Well, actually since Yamato's journey is so long one can say that is why repairs appear to be done so quickly is because they are made them while off screen. Another thing is the supplies, didn't they collect a decent amount of materials at the old mining station. For ammo I think that the weapons are primarily energy based allowing them to pull the energy from the Wave Motion Core. In Episode 3 I think it was stated they couldn't fire the shock cannons until they could bypass the system. As for man power, you got me there. Unless of course the surviving enlisted pulled double duty.
19. Soo... uhh... which or who is most op, Kirito (from SAO) or the Space Battleship Yamato?
20. By a long shot the BEST anime I have seen in a very very very long time, perhaps the best since Zeta Gundam.
    
    FYI the Yamato's self-repair capabilities were addressed in the original series when its explained that due to the length and isolation of the journey, besides the large amount of space given over to the wave motion engine/drive/gun systems, the vast remander of the ships interior was given to automated manufacturing and fabrication facilities, hence they could reproduce almost every aspect of the ship during the journey, the actual crew areas was restricted to what little area of the ship was left, like the bridge island and upper decks. Granted the makers of this kinda took that aspect for granted that we all knew that from the original series ;-)