Audience reviews
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thewiru
It's OK.
Yamato is remembered for being a work that started a mini "otaku boom" around this time, as well as being the inspiration of future works such as Gundam, Macross and Gunbuster. This review comes from the PoV of someone who has problems with Tomino stuff, likes Macross and Gunbuster, and is trying to get into older anime.
Yamato starts slow, it takes up until episode 3 for the namesake ship to finally be flying in space (Granted, Macross also had the same issue of a slow start, though I must say it was a "more varied" one), for most of the anime the secondary cast is mostly interchangeable (If a colorblind person watches this and thinks that Sanada and Shima are the same character, they aren't missing much, and in fact merging both would indeed make them feel like "a full charact…
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I saw something about the show and the premise, and it was just too absurd but also too creative to not check it out. As a Gundam fan, I can clearly see the inspiration Gundam received from this series. I was quite hooked from the beginning, and the show does a good job of showing you the stakes by repeatedly looming the countdown to Earth's total destruction at the end of each episode. I never felt like the pacing was lagging or that we were just spending unnecessary amounts of time in one place after another; everything moves at a quick speed.
My biggest complaint is that it takes a little while for the characters personalities to shine through. Near the beginning, I felt like Kodai and Shima were pretty much blank slates with one-dimensional personalities, and their places could be swa…
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The story and impact of Space Battleship Yamato is one of the most inspiring and important events in the history of anime. When it first appeared in 1974, it shook the foundation of what TV manga could do. It would be the strong, innovative, and emotional writing of Yamato that would partly aid the medium towards gaining the name anime. It's cited as an inspiration for many valuable works such as Evangelion, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and Mobile Suit gundam. Now that I think about it, Hideako Anno did quite a harvest on his influences. If you look at early mecha, there is a series with a character named Rei Asuka, for example. Another example: the song "Original Yamato Theme" was slightly recycled and used in Evangelion as the song "Background Music II."
There were already several…
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Yamato... I have a really deep love from the bottom of my heart for Yamato Anime and Manga.
I am a soldier's boy who grew up in Military Lodgings until i was 13. When i was 9 or something in the early 90s at one of those Military Lodgings, there was a Unripe Almond Tree, which the children including me called, The Yamato. We climbed on it, 4 boys and 1 girl and played Yamato most of the time when we were outside in Military Lodgings, playing. We would eat the unripe almonds on the branches of The Yamato on summer, it was our space battleship Yamato. We all loved the Anime Space Battleship Yamato, so much.
Those were really fun times which will never come back... I wonder if The Yamato is still alive, i hope they didn't cut it down. I would like to climb on it one last time and scream ''…
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Space Battleship Yamato or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Warcrimes
Story : 8/10
The story is quite simple and any person with a functioning brain should be able to follow it. I won’t go into detail as I don’t want to spoil and you can read the synopsis anyway, but basically the Yamato must travel across space to reach the planet Iskandar and bring back a machine that can purify the irradiated surface of the Earth. So in short, the battleship Yamato is renovated into a space battleship and has to save the earth from an alien civilization that seeks to exterminate humanity. This is quite problematic since as told in the beginning of the series, the Yamato, largest battleship of its time, was the symbol of japanese pride and japanese military supremacy. The episode that shows…
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Notice: This review covers all seasons and movies of the franchise. Reading it is like reading about all of them.
Battleship Yamato (known as Star Blazers in the American dub) is an early work of Leiji Matsumoto and the first example of what a good animated series can be all about. As basic and silly as it may seem today, this series happened to be amongst the most mature titles of its era and opened the way for others to pick up the style and work on it. Anime back then were really childish and crude but this one tried its best to be serious with scientific explanations trying to reason all the weird technology in the series; even the means the animators used were top notch at that time. Thus you need to have an open mind if you want to properly enjoy it for what it is or you may find yo…
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Space Battleship Yamato. Not something I would consider ordinary, nor was my encounter with the show exactly ordinary either. While looking up IJN ships on Wikipedia, I moved to an article about the Yamato Museum, a Japanese war museum that didn't stand out to me much, apart from one thing, and that was that it screened this show, which I'd never heard of. The IJN Yamato is refitted to become a spaceship, and has to travel across the galaxy to obtain a 'Cosmo Cleaner' to save the world from pollution. Well, that's such an absurd set-up that I had no choice but to watch it. But from all that, I gathered it was some sort of parody of space opera - a Japanese Spaceballs, if you will. But not only was it not a parody, it actually pre-dated Star Wars, perhaps the biggest sci-fi franchise of all…
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I first saw this series as a kid in the early 80s. It was branded in the U.S. as "Star Blazers" and I would wake up extra early on Saturday mornings to watch it. Along with (but vastly superior to) Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer it was my intro to anime and it sparked several lines of interest in my life that have continued to the present.
It basically brings the outline from the Jason and the Argonauts myth and updates it into a very entertaining space drama.
This is a classic series and as such the artwork, music, and characters are not nearly as well polished as something more modern. But taken for what it is it was an astonishingly good work for the time period. The recent "Space Battleship Yamato 2199" is a completely updated re-make for those of you who can't get past the d…
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Space Battleship Yamato, otherwise known as Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar is based on the work of Leiji Matsumoto and was directed by Noboru Ishiguro. This show from 1974 is by some concidered the inferior version of Yamato, with the remake 2199 being hailed as the better version. Is that really true though?
The story of Yamato goes something like this. In the year 2199 the earth is under attack from aliens known as Gamilas. Humanity has been forced underground to escape the irradiated surface, but the deadly radiation is seeping underground and humanity will be destroyed within a year. Earth recieves a transmission from a planet called Iscandar, who claims to have a device that can get rid of the deadly radiation on earth. However they have to travel 148000 light years from Earth…
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Written by Leiji Matsumoto, I was super excited to watch this. Known as Star Blazers in America, its debut was in 1979 and the broadcast consisted of Yamato with its' two sequels. It wasn't until I re-watched the original Mobile Suit Gundam for the x-th time and wanted more space opera-type shows that I discovered Matsumoto's work. However, until now I had only watched his shows in scattered episodes never fully completing any of his shows.
Coming out in 1974, the art is very impressive compared to previous anime with minor hiccups occasionally cropping up. The music is pretty epic like that of old Soviet hymns, and consistent throughout the show from point A-B. And, who can say that bellbottom space pants are a bad thing?
Story wise, many have probably already seen the "Humanoid alien r…
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Space battleship Yamato does not live up to it's reputation for me, however I see why people like it a lot.
Story (5.5)- For the most part the story's your stereotypical humans vs. aliens story. Though there are times when it rises above that. You might think the Yamato's plot amour (which was done to conserve the anime's budget) would sink the show however for the most part it uses interesting tactics to get out of the sticky situations the Yamato is put in. The aliens also have a concrete reason as to why they are attacking Earth. Yamato has influenced countless si-fi titles as shown by some interesting points occasionally like for example " Is it fair how the losers are treated ?", "Are the Gamilluans really that different form humans ?".
Characters (7.25)- Most of them are one note…
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I've seen this over different periods in my life.
The first was when I was a young kid and ran home from school to get there in time to watch it. I really liked it.
It was also my first experience with this type of Anime or Japanese Cartoons or Animation and I really did love the story line that I've never seen in animated shows before. It was unique.
Even though the art work was crude though it was a sign of the early times and they made some blunders in it the concept of advanced physics they tried to include made it a good science fiction story.
Like I said I've watched it over different periods in my life. This let me enjoy it as I matured and got more into the storyline as I aged. It's been a good show to re watch every few years or so.
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Well, this is my first review, so please go easy on me.
I came to be interested in the anime, since I like naval-related stuff, therefore, the name Space Battleship Yamato made me think about the very well known Battleship Yamato, the Imperial Navy's pride during WW2. I did not know ANYTHING about the anime before deciding to watch it. Now I know about it's well renowned reputation as a pioneer in the science fiction genre. It was also one of the first (if not first!) anime being broadcasted in the US (with a LOT of modifications). Luckily, I watched the original Japanese version. So here is what I think of it:
Story:
The Journey to Iscandar? I really asked myself what that could mean before I watched the anime. Well, I am not going to ruin the story, so all I am going to say is that t…
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