@@abdullahiaderinto5153 the wave motion gun uses the same energy as the wave motion engine and because of that the ship has to shut down to fire the gun , it uses all of the ship's energy so it has to recharge afterwards but there is also the wave motion shield which is time limited so yeah every wave motion system on the ship has to recharge
The Sound of the cannon charging Is Amazing. It Is used even by bad guy into Sci fiction. In RoboCop Clarence makes this sound before shot with a shotgun to Murphy' hand
@@abdullahiaderinto5153 In this version Yamato uses a Hawking radiation generator: the generator creates a micro black hole that instantly evaporates converting all the mass into energy.
The original intention was just to destroy the gamilon base located on the continent. This was the first test of the wave motion gun, built with alien technology. The crew had no idea of the device's destructive power until then. The captain is horrified by the result.
To Quote Mass effect on that This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-b*tch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law? Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir! No credit for partial answers, maggot! Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir! Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
There’s something timeless and iconic about the bandicam watermark in screen recordings. I just can’t express how much more it makes me love this scene. Best anime ever made.
@@user-kl9du2fm4q Yes the wave motion gun is an effective weapon. However you and Chalres Kirkland must remember that with GREAT power comes GREAT responsibility. So the WMG must only be used for DEFENSE and never for ATTACK.
Part of what I love about the wave gun is they didn't use it immediately. They waited until they really needed a hail mary and gave it a lot of buildup.
I've always loved the Japanese animators imagination. Whether it's the Spaceship Yamamoto's Wave Motion Gun or Gatchaman's "Fiery Phoenix"/"Firebird Mode" it's all amazing creativity.
Fiery Phoenix was all right. The Whirlwind Pyramid was less impressive, where they stand in a pyramid formation and the guys on the bottom run in a circle.
@@phantomwraith1984 Terrans were based upon many human factions of variety of Scifis. Blizz took Lucas's Starwars for one of many referrences. their navy however loosely based on SBY / Star Blazers Season 2 EDF Fleet, Actually these 'battlecruisers' were more like Andromeda or Dreadnoughts of Season 2 settings.
The intent here was to destroy the base, only. However the gun greatly exceeded its expected firepower and obliterated the entire continent. This solemn lesson resulted in a hesitance to use the gun again except when there was no other option.
Well, that was the first time it was fired outside of a computer simulation. They never factored in the energy bleed off and thought it was going to “just” be a precise ultra-long range beam weapon. Like the Gravitational Beam Emitter from the animated version of BLAME!
the original "beam nuke" and still the coolest since 1974 that charging sequence gives me chills every time, nothing says "big gun" like having to put on fucking welding goggles to fire it
@alxxpspqr Anything not being big enough can be easily destroyed by that big gun. Now Wave Motion Gun fire control mechanism is fine tuned. but one must turn a knob and not an entire pistol grip. while this one is a remake of 1794 Anime. i'd prefer the fire control mechanism of live action movie over this one.
After all these years,the wave motion gun still gives me shivers!!! Even way back when this legendary Sci-fi series came out during the 80's!!! And i still love that original series to this day!!!
Yeah because there's never been anyone power hungry before the British Empire. Let's not forget Imperial Japan, who built the actual Yamato. Besides, 99% of Americans don't want military conflict. Problem is certain people in the government get rich off of it. It's not all of us, it's the few of them.
One of the most ,,Realistic" Sci-fi I've ever seen... Long firing and aiming preparation... Turning off modules... Charging... EYE PROTECTING GLASSES! (Look at this Starkiller bullshit... Shot just like nothing)... Damn... That was the best scene...
3:37 Enemy: “What is it?! What is going on??” Most likely meant it in the most literal way possible. All of a sudden, everything just turns bright blue and literally everything around you is being disintegrated.
Space Battleship Yamato (the original one) is responsible for my flawless ability to count from 10 to 1 in Japanese, but not count up....without a mild hesitation, anyway.
This has become my top favorite anime, I absolutely Loved everything about 2199 and 2202, the sound design, the animation, the story, and the ships, my god the ships!. Yamato is my enterprise, Andromeda is my Millennium falcon. I look forward to watching the entire anime again.
May I suggest the TV show Andromeda to you? It’s sorta similar to this, but was originally created by Gene Roddenberry himself: the designs laid dormant until his wife found them after he died, at which point they got a crew together and made the show! Even better, the first season’s theme song was written by Alex Lifeson, one of the members of Rush.
@@GreyKnightsVenerable while the Death Star does more damage the space Yamato can do what the Eclipse SSD can, and that ship can crack a planet's crust with a tertiary beam from the Death Star, in a much smaller package. Imagine a fleet of these ships vs the Death Star hell I'd give Yamato the win vs the Death Star.
A motion gun. In one of the Episodes, it shows a flashback scene of the ancient Iscandar empire blowing up large rocky planets with just 3 WMGs, and in the new 2202 series, the Terran navy makes hundreds of them
My favorite animation of all time. This was my afternoon snack after school. The passion continues. Get them subs into outer earth space, let them swim the outer waters in space and reach the stars.
Wildstar had to have it pointed out to him by Captain Avatar that after they vaporized a game changing scientific discovery that their Wave Motion Gun was way more powerful than they imagined it would be.
"you see that armada of enemy spaceships?" "Yes Sir" "its ruining my view of the nearest nebula from my quarters" "Roger That Sir, Initiating Wave Motion Gun Firing Sequence!"
Think about it. The "floating continent" is a low-orbiting moon. The size of Australia. Moons are planets that stayed in orbit. The killed a planet. In the OG Yamato/Star Blazers, it did the same to Gamilas/Gamilon, and the Dessler cannon did in a Saturn-sized planet in 2199. BTW: Lucas was in Japan when the OG series went into first reruns.
Was the Wave Motion Gun George Lucas's inspiration for the Death Star main laser? It's fascinating to contrast Tarkin against Okita's views on using power at this magnitude.
syaondri I'm pretty sure Hawking radiation beats Schrodinger's Cat. Much as I would wish otherwise. Besides, between the trope namer feline and Pixel, the Cat who walks through walls, Earth cats basically have the market cornered. Incidentally, sociologists and anthropologists have concluded that cats moved in with the Egyptians so they'd be fed. Having had that happen in my own household a couple of decades ago, I can assure you cats do this.
@@CaptainRufusuh unicron would either destroy the yamato before it can fire the WMG or the yamato fires and hits it but it only does medium to minimum damage due to unicrons sheer size plus the matrix is the only thing that can "stop" him so
It still amuses me to no end that Takashi Nishiyama originally based the Street Fighter Hadouken off the Wave Motion Gun. I mean, just imagine if Ryu had this kind of power?
Safe to say that the Gamillon and that cat won't be in the next episode. The Wave Motion Gun. The ultimate 'please don't point that weapon near my planet' weapon...
Back then Gamilon commander didn't keep a pet cat :P Gamilon cats have longer ears!? well this one is not Leiji works. in his Leijiverse, all cats shares the looks of earth cats. (and specifically his pet cat, Miikun)
Well the precise aiming was done as this was the first time Yamato's Wave Motion Gun was fired they had no idea on how powerful it was truly going to be
There was a debate over which was stronger, Yamato or Death Star, but in the end, the one who fired first would win. However, in terms of the dramatic shooting, the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun is an overwhelming victory. The Death Star's laser beam is powerful, but the production is simple and not very impressive.
I could just read this in the voice of that Russian Mob Boss in John Wick: "I wouldn't call the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun on par with the Death Star. The Wave Motion Gun is what you call on if you want to _kill_ the fsking Death Star."
Someone said in another video: If Yamato is even just twice or thrice its size, it can easily surpass Death Star in actual firepower and planet-destroying capabilities. Yamato's firepower relative to its size is insane.
@@DavidFoxfire It's even *more* powerful than that. Bear in mind, this was a floating continent the size of *Australia.* The Death Star is only 120km wide, whereas *Australia* is over 30x that wide. And it *vaporized the whole continent,* left a glowing spot the size of the *Great Red Spot,* and left a *Neptune-sized* scar outright. The Great Red Spot is *THREE TIMES* the size of Earth. And that is the size of the glowing mark left by the firing of the Wave Motion Gun. Make of that what you will.
that moment when unusually Caucasian, Japanese speaking space sailors flying a formerly sunken ww2 battleship turned spaceship decide they dont like some old lady and her cat that are living on a floating paradise island.
For the record, they're not Caucasian at all, Anime characters tend to have "white" skin because Japanese are fairly light skinned, especially compared to other people in the area, but they still have clearly defined Japanese face shapes/facial features. If you look how they draw actual white characters they look totally different.
I was watching a guy builds the Yamato at one point and there were these odd panels that came out that he couldn't explain what they were for. They're Yamato's wings!
Yeah, 6x of the capacity, to add. They ended blowing up a Black hole thats about 1.47×10^16 in volume, out of existence. AND then the ship blew up. well half of its bow, that is
Esta serie magnífica de anime japonesa de los 70's y su remake del 2013 marcaron mi niñez de manera alegre y no me la perdía acá en SLP México los sábados por la mañana
I've started on 2202. I really like how in the second episode of 2202... *spoilers* At the Yamato crew reunion at Okita's grave Nanbu makes perfectly clear he hates that the wave motion gun is being reproduced. I remember him being super for using the main cannon willy nilly in 2199. Nice character moment.
@@kellenwong1321 Hmm from what I recall watching it I feel like it was a weaker follow up...but I feel like when it had its high-points they surpasssed the previous season. Favorite scenes include Mir (I think his name) the next in line after Zworder, being persuaded and was depressingly very briefly willing to not fight with humans...before getting gunned down by security. Or the mech pilot realizing he was a living spy/bomb and he takes the leap to 'cut his strings' strongly implying he will die from the radiation anyway and then he dies free and making a difference.
@@Irrelevant402 Those are all amazing moments. But I would also include the entirety of episode 13, the crew are forced to make a devil's choice they can't back out of and Goland and Nol's final moments showing how Gatlanteans can be and ARE human, but simply were never given the chance to be. Dessler's redemption arc too, was also really good. And for me, the final moments of episode 24 where all the civilians put their trust in the Yamato after initial fear and Okita's statue staring down the White Comet. Moreover, I feel like 2202 is the stronger season in terms of philosophy, and themes of humanity and morality. Also, I feel that Gatlantis is quite terrifying. I think they embody the feeling of existential dread quite well.
@@kellenwong1321 Oh yeah 13 was great. I don't know, I feel like they did the best they could with re-deeming Dessler...but it's REALLY HARD to come back from 'lol I'm gonna destroy the capital city because I said so LOL GOOD BYE!' The previous season was pretty damn perfect with their mix of new and old characters. 2201 sort of shuffles some away well, Niimi is hurt and Kato's wife is staying with their sickly baby, fine. But then all four new characters rush out to open the dock doors or something and have to sit out for a good chunk of the season. Sort of just the lazy lumping. At least Akira got to stick around. But some potential plot lines or ideas just seemed sorta...under developed or random? So I feel like the whole season could have used one more re-draft to iron on details such as.. -I liked Mori getting her old memory back but forgetting the new. Then her suddenly getting it back in the final episode felt a little underwhelming. -Those little red balls that showed up for like half an episode felt like they were supposed to have a full episode but they lost interest in it quickly. -Now I REALLY liked the new Earht fleet idea where the goal becomes 'hey if we outlast Gatlantis we'll buy time for another fleet...then another...and another.' Basically becoming Gatlantis in the process...But then the captain of the ship is introduced and has a sudden character development and decides that isn't the way to do it either. Can't recall her name but the Japanese director's daughter. -That one Gatlantis fleet that was spared...they are distressed and confused they were spared rather than out-right killed...they vow to have another fight with the Yamato...only for Dessler to be given the task to eradicate the 'failures' and that's that.
@@Irrelevant402 I understand your opinions but Yuki regaining all her memories was meant to help end an otherwise grim and tragic season on a happy note and serve as a middleman approach to Farewell Yamato's depressing ending and the happier, but deus ex machina ending of Yamato 2. It also adds to the "love transcends time and space" metaphors, if you ask me. The space fireflies episode is actually WAY better than it's original series counterpart: a lot less silly and more character development. I use to not really like that episode too, but have found a new appreciation upon rewatching it. Dessler destroying Admiral Mazer and Cosmodart's fleets was done due to the reboot's different take on his redemption arc and while also wanting a callback to an important moment from the original source material. Also, if you were forced to shoulder the burden of living up to your family legacy, saving your people and getting incredibly close to getting the woman on the planet next door and accomplishing your goals, only to have a single battleship from a backwater world ruin your plans, I'd say you'd go borderline insane too. The four characters, while I partially agree on their exclusion feeling like missed opportunities, was deliberately done to set up the tone of 2202, as these are some of the more optimistic characters from 2199. In addition, it serves as a metaphor for sacrifice without bloodshed, because sacrifices WITH bloodshed are a prevalent theme throughout the season. As for Saki Todo's character shift, I don't think it is sudden. Even she, who rejects idealism in the fear of becoming weak, is realizing and dreading that the war would just keep on going, with humanity becoming more and more mechanized, ending with Earth's destruction, and that she and the Ginga's crew are getting ever closer to rejecting their humanity entirely in order to become baby-making machines. In fact, if you look closely, you can see her eyes watering during that scene. But when Yamato, savior of mankind and physical manifestation of hope(something that AI will ever understand), is found to be alive(undying hope, if you will), is what finally pushed her to make that change of heart. Her character shift serves a powerful message that made me really appreciate 2202 a lot more upon second viewing.
Using the gravity field as a weapon... the damage to the entire system would be... unimaginable. The planet itself would be diverted from its present course. The stress on the tectonic plates of the planet. Not to mention, how large the field even grew. If the shot even released the energy it built up. the range of such an attack would be that of several planets, not only at the speed of light but at the speed of existence. In theory, that's how fast a wave motion gun would work, as it draws power from gravity itself and bends space time to form a beam. Such a weapon is something that makes me hard.
In context, of course, the scene makes perfect sense. Out of context, it looks like they went to a whole heck of a lot of trouble to blow up Crazy Cat Lady.
@@konker420 maybe, but without context, did the cat she was holding deserve it? I mean, I know cats are a-holes, but did that cat truly deserve the Wave Motion Canon?
And to think the original animation was impressive enough as it was. If there was any doubts in the audience about surviving a blast like that, Yamato 2199 just vaporized them. What makes in unintentionally funny, is the fact that the Yamato's own crew had no idea just how powerful the wave-motion gun would be, until they actually fired it. So even they were badly shocked when the beam cut through the whole floating continent like a hot knife through butter.
That’s Because up till then they only simulated it firing and never added in the energy bleed off from the beam. If they did that they would know how powerful it was from the start.
They had NO IDEA how potent and destructive this weapon was! You are just thinking "okay we wipe out the base with one shot", not knowing you wipeout the base, the land the base is on and heck the whole CONTINENT! Given the fact that despite you have to have the equivalent of welders goggles to protect your eyes from the flash of the gun, and after polarizing the windows to boot! In comparison this is way more destructive than the Death Star and if the Yamato (or Argo, if you prefer) was even double the size, it could nearly wipe out half a star system! That's power that is extremely concentrated in a compact size! So in a Yamato vs. Death Star, while the Empire would be laughing at the Yamato, once they let loose with "The Baby", only thing left of the Empire's mighty weapon would be a memory!!!!!
@@nikolaiorr8383 Get vaporized, I guess. Transit Wave Motion Gun is kinda like the Hypercannons from Necron backstory, which were used to shard the C'tan.
For any One-Punch (webcomic) fans here I like to think this is what ONE had in mind with King's "Ultimate Hellfire Wave Motion Blast Cannon" lol Also, this is a truly awesome scene.