You don't want me to open up my can of Yamatos. They're extra Space Battleship-y. 

I believe in the original anime, The Space Ship Yamato wasn't the WWII Battleship Yamato, but instead was a new built in the profile of the WWII Battleship Yamato and in the spot of its wreckage to hide the fact that Humans were building a new ship. So I am not sure but in the image of the Space Ship Yamato rising of the ground, there looks to a bunch of metal tubes in the dirt facing off to the side, which to me reminds me of the triple barrels of the turrets. Might be a call back to that.

TWO HOURS OF SACRED COW !!!!! HAIL THE GREAT MAKER !!!!! BLESSED BE THE DOCK MASTER !!!!

The Iskander probe only gave the Terrans the Wave Motion Engine, _Yamato's_ FTL drive. The humans figured out a way to use the thing as a weapon, too, and the Wave Motion Gun is kind of a bolt-on expansion of the drive system. Essentially, using either the FTL or big gun both puts them both on cooldown. Since there was a time and resource crunch, and they didn't even know if their experimental weapon based on a never-tested xenotechnology would work, they didn't build a second Wave Motion Engine for just the gun. Prototypes, amiright?

Admiral Okita's cruiser in the opening battle looks very similar to the TCS Concordia in the live action Wing Commander movie. The alien tech recovered by Kodai, in the original series was expected. The entire battle was a decoy to allow an Iscandarian ship, the Amaterasu, to make it through to a rendezvous on Mars... Again, so many changes made and none for the better.

Finally he did it, SBY does take the rule of cool to an awesome height. This is a video I would definitely waste my time watching. I suggest digging into the 2199 and 2202 which has more information than the live action could provide. In that series the Yamato uses it's shock pulse cannons on that IPBM. You'll love the look of the space ships featured in the anime shows.

It is easy to explain why "Bad Boy" got assigned to the crew. The Earth had gotten pounded, which means the HR had a relatively small personnel pool the draw from. Why the "Battleship" movie makes a little bit more sense than "The Battleship Yamato," is because Battleship's production crew actually sought advice from navel personnel, and then ignored most of it.

Only seen 2199, now I know what I wasn't missing in the live-action movie. Really disappointed they didn't appear to include my favorite part about the Space Battleship Yamato: it's 18" guns were hybrids with ye 'olde kinetic chemical solution still available in the breach. In 2199, I think they only used them twice: the first time to provide indirect fire around Pluto to get at a laser using mirror satellites to ground her, and the second near the finale. The anime used more of a hyperspace than a wormhole, so there were several instances of hostile action while in hyperspace, but the gaseous high-energy state of hyperspace meant nobody could use their energy cannons for ship-to-ship unless they wanted to blow themselves up. So naturally when the BBEG with his flagship follows Yamato into hyperspace after they start their journey back home, he calls the hummies barbarians when he realizes they're lobbing metal rocks at him with explosive timers inside instead of letting him ram them.

Both battleship movies are metastatic mind viruses: the more you think about them, the more damage they do. And, yes, Space Battleship Yamato (and a number of other Japanese cultural tropes (I am looking at you kaiju)) are a direct result of being the only country to have been unceremoniously nuked in anger (as opposed to those nuked out of love or curiosity.)

The way the wave cannon works, they should have recommissioned the Yamato as the Gustav.

I had a feeling you were going to do the live action one. But a part of me was actually morbidly curious what you would say on the animated one. Maybe one day we can see the anime cube version?

The thing on the ventral side is actually the *tertiary* bridge.

"Hysterically bad escape pod systems" you say? Awesome. And I'm not worried, I'm told resistance will be random and light.

On the hole crew thing its stupid to have so little crew in the anime 2199 1 the crew was 999 2 the yamato had missiles/torpedoes 3 they had iscandar designed wave motion shields 4 the hangar was alot more complicated 5 the windows had blast doors 6 side note pour kitty 7 I forgot got to mention that in the anime when the yamato tested the wave motion gun it fired it at a floating continent the size of Australia on Jupiter it drained the yamato but the results were far above what they originally expected it to do

1:36:30 oh you think that one is wild? In the original anime they had this big-ass bomber thing which dropped a drill/torpedo thing right down the wave motion guns throat. Upon impact the drill activated and made its way down the barrel and towards the reactor. It was wild.

Those hatches on the side of the ship reveal torpedo tubes

I really don't want to come off as a nit picker, but the IJN Yamato's last mission wasn't to beach itself in defence of Iwo Jima, but to beach herself off the coast of Okinawa.

Wow, what an amazing coincidence! (And it _IS_ an extra-long video!) I'm looking forward to this...

31:48 the base is definitely a G36k.

Outstanding. Now we just need you to get with venomgeekmedia and talk trek.

So, going by the VLS bins, the torpedo tubes, the akak guns, poorly placed CIWS, and various other features, I'd say the model designer really TRIED to make a "plausible" space warship, at least, within the theme of "gotta look like an outdated wet navy ship". Its just, the "art director" apparently didn't know what any of those things were, so it didn't get used in the battles? Edit: Dang, but them coffin racks are ENORMOUS! Apparently they went full on Cadillac for their berthings. Heck, berthings on the Essex were 4 or 5 high, and 4 deep per aisle?

Space Battleship Yamato, in any of its iterations, is a case study in limiting the "Rule of Cool." Once you start asking the question, "why that..." everything falls apart. Eastern writing is bad in general. They generally don't trust the intelligence of their audience to put pieces together or make inferences on their own. Somethings are well thought out, while others are not. "I got a great idea. We'll give it fighters. And we'll launch them at high speeds. It'll all look so cool!" Except the launch bay faces aft, which means the >launched< fighters have to kill their momentum as they turn around, to lead the ship... Why not just dump them out? "Nonono catapults are COOL!!!" Ok, now I've taken issue with Normandy's forward facing shuttle bay, but a forward facing launch bay makes sense. "Nonono the front is where all the armor is..." or somethin...

Just wanted to mention that as bonkers as the movie is, it's budget was only 12 million dollars if I'm remembering correctly. I don't love it, but that's a lot of CGI and effects for that money.

Im gonna say now, this is why most diehard SBY fans hate the live action. All of the ships are stupidly redesigned, basically the movie director tried to fix what wasn’t broken. I would suggest reviewing the anime series as the ships are much better.

I'd be curious to see the Dockmaster review The Hunt For Red October movie some day. His rant about bridge nightmares makes me suspect he'd be pleasantly surprised by the scenes on the bridges of the various ships and subs in that movie, and just in general I'm curious how correct it really is. I've heard a lot of good things about it, but I bet his take would be particularly interesting.

I have not seen this film, but after listening to two hours of commentary on it i now want to see the film proper if only to experience the sheer redonkculousness for myself

The imperium demands that you mr SCS make an video on how superior the ships of the imperiuns Navy are to their xenos scums flying space junk.

I meant to give you an idea of the popularity, the original was better known/liked in japan than *star wars*, and if that doesn't say it all I don't know what will. This film is a weird one too. It sort of gets the key ideas of the main plot but changes an absolute ton at the same time and... it's not as good. Gamilas is handled especially poorly, several quite key things are changed (they're not robots for one thing but rather a whole empire that has quite a bit to it). Not the worst thing I've seen though. (I also hadn't realised but some of the human ships (that aren't yamato), well... they look like the old Gamilas ships! (Aside from the guns anyway.) The pointy noses, the way the engines are aligned, just paint them green and you'd be right there! Why did they do that?...)

Battleships main guns fired in the void of space = newtonian equal and opposite reaction ie recoil without counter forces and a projectile uninhibited by air resistance, windage etc, until finding a planets atmosphere 😂😂😂also crossing the T is the oldest manoeuvre used in Old Time Fleet on Fleet battles

Can't remember whoooo, but someone tried to argue with me that SBY 2010 *wasn't* that full of anime tropes. Your suffering was not unappreciated, Dockmaster. Nicely done.

To be fair, if you're looking for ANY hard sci-fi from the Space Battleship Yamato universe, you're in the fucking wrong place. A) It's guiding material was a kid's show for fucks sake. Albeit a kid's show with a pretty heavy backstory, and could be surprisingly philosophical at times. If you're looking for realistic spaceship designs though, you'll probably come up empty. Rule of Cool rules the design ethos here (with a heavy dose of navy influence). At least the most ridiculous elements didn't make it into the film, such as that droid who loves to look under that nurse's skirt, or the chief engineer always sucking on bottles of sake. Hence every design flaw you can find reason to curse at. The lack of underside cannons. The exposed bridge. The giant, oversized prow. Some of these design flaws are at least addressed in future designs throughout the series. B) I had no idea that they redid the story with the adrift Gamillon, where we learn that they weren't trying to poison all of humanity, so much as terraforming Earth to serve as a new home (and the Gamillon hierarchy just didn't care - sucks for the Humies that they can't handle a lot of radiation I guess!) In fact, I recall the Gamillon trying to first escape custody, and then kill himself when that failed. And Kodai then went to starting beating his ass when he found that the Gamillon's were surprisingly human-like. And humans shouldn't be so willing to kill themselves! This was no doubt to contrast how much Japanese society had changed from the Imperial era, where Japanese soldiers would commit suicide without hesitation rather than face capture. C) The Garmillas Empire ships have ALWAYS had an organic design ethos. They probably will until the universe dies from heat death. D) The Yamato breaking out of the dead sea floor is an ICONIC scene. Of course it was going to be in the film, just as the animated show it was based on! Realistic, not so much... E) Humies bred modern cats from domesticated felines. No humies, no cats. P.S. I was laughing like a hyena throughout the video!

10:35 because Yumee ship main armament cant pen enemies ships at longer range .

1:05:27 The running lights being color coded left=green,right=red makes no sense either. It's space; 3-dimensional; no up or down to tell you what left or right are on the ship you are looking at. You can't really communicate movement direction with 2 light colors spaced perpendicular to the direction of movement. 2 light colors _aligned_ with the direction of movement (that the white/colored light distinction on in-athmosphere airplanes provides you) is still very much possible without over-complicating things, and it would directly tell you the one thing you want to know first: "Is that thing on a collision course with me?". If you don't see the tail color, the thing is coming right at you. (Design flaw: the tail light is not visible from this angle, even though the craft is definitely not coming in this direction.) If the green light is to the left of whatever color is mounted on the tail, then the craft you are looking at is pointed to the left. For the tail color you probably want to match the color of the engine exhaust; which are either red if "cold", blue if "hot", or white if at sun-equivalent temperature, but usually never green. Also, space is big (i.e. minimal chances of colliding into each other). And finally, your direction of movement in space isn't necessarily the same as your bow-stern axis (or whatever the equivalent on airplanes is called). I.e. your position lights would have to have the ability to swivel, or at least change color - at least if they are supposed to indicate your _movement_ direction. And finally, finally, since this is the future, you probably only need those lights as a backup to some more precise collision avoidance systems, for which 2 colors may be plenty. So, yeah. Green=forwards makes way _more_ sense than the in-gravity red-green-white color scheme. Some mechanic should have a look at the bulb for the tail indicator, though.

I recommend you watch Yamato 2199.

Ya know now I kinda want to see you take a look at greyhound or Das boat

And for not "doing the whole anime thing" you intentionally submitted yourself to an extra dose of suffering because, in 99,99% of the cases, the life action version of the anime SUCKS SPACE BALLS, salty, sweaty space balls.

With the WaveMotion Gun and Engine being linked... Probably skipped in the movie, but I know in the more recent series, it's mentioned that the tech from the aliens was just the Engines. Humey Engineers designed the Weapon after studying the tech and thought "That's a shit ton of energy! More Dakka!"

Yeah the fun part is that this movie completely glosses over the fact that the wave motion gun works is by creating a cavitation in space time and how the first time the warp drive is used they are legitimately afraid it would collapse the universe

It's a battleship! In space! What's not to love! Oh... Oh dear

He's officially the drachinifel of spaceships with this monster of a video

Dockmaster you have NO idea how many of your questions are answered in the anime and how much i'm restraining myself from making 20 paragraphs to explain it all

Fun fact: as an infant, I was exposed to radiation courtesy of Chernobyl. Years later, I develop thyroid cancer. During my radiation treatment, I learned that patients undergoing some types of radiation treatment are supposed to limit their exposure to others to prevent risk of exposing others to potentially harmful radiation. Though, the coolest thing was setting off metal detectors and radiation detectors at transit centers and dumps.

Fun fact the main gun turrets on the Yamato were the same weight as a Fletch class DESTROYER...... yeah let that sink in. It had three destroyers to house the primary artillery.

Fun fact the sets in this movie are from Battlestar Galactica Reimagined. If you want to attempt the animated series Dockmaster just do the reboot of 2199 Yamato. It's pretty much a refined version of the original story.

the large hatches on the lateral sides are meant to be recovery bays for the "Cosmo Zero" which had it's own separate launch system using the Yamato's original fighter catapults you touched on earlier. Small Recovery-craft and/or science craft could also be launched from there. And in regards to the fighter compliment of the ship. It was SO MUCH WORSE than what this movie portrays. The yamato carried some thirty, yes, 30 Combat Fighters (Cosmo Falcons I believe they were called.) and were stored via rotating platforms on a drum setup that somehow worked around the ship's main reactor and drive engine. Later renditions of the Yamato featured the Cosmo Marines using Powered Armor deploying out of a ventral hatch somewhere between the #1 and #2 turret wells.

"WTF is that?" I love it when you come across something so bazar that you can't think or swear at it's obsurdity. The engineers and design team must have thought that "more crap = intimidation" No clue HOW they got it all up there... the gap between 78 and 2010 may have given them time, but not enough to change anything from the original blueprints. Your universe is fun. Breath my friend... or meditate or whatever you do to calm your mind.

Yeah, if you dig deep the original is a space fantasy dressed around webo "japan could have won WW2" wish fulfilment. As it went on, it was more and more space fantasy. Moving in line towards the enemy to use the lead ship as a metal/meat shield for the rest of the formation, as Spock said, thinking tacitly in 2 dimensions. All the weapons on one side of a ship, well in space you could flip.

SCS... You should have watched Yamato 2199 instead of this. There most of the things that you pointed out are addressed, for example: The smokestack on Yamato is a VLS silo. Those hatches on the side? Side torpedo launchers. The underside isn't defenseless because it is covered in VLS silos so anyone who tries to approach from below will get a Macross missile massacre to the face. The plane catapults are actually for a pair of experimental fighters and thus do something and the ship has a CIC (Granted it was only used once). Not to mention all the story changes they did for this movie because they had to cram 5-6 hours of content into a 2-hour movie. You could say that other than having a ship named Yamato with a crew bearing familiar names, this thing and every other thing barring the Yamato brand have about as much in common with each other as classic Star Wars and TOS/TNG Star Trek had in common.

I know they had to make loads of changed to make this movie length but really, it was too many. The big opening battle should have been out by Pluto, not Mars. Kodai was in the military and stationed on Mars, not a civilian scavenger on Earth. The Yamato's MD was male but was recast as female. Yuki Mori was blonde and was never a fighter pilot, she was in charge of bridge ops, mainly the sensors. Iscandar and Gamilas were separate planets in the same system not two sides of the same world. Many many more changes made, none for the better. The Yamato in the 2199 series did have shields. They were so powerful that an enemy ship clamped onto the Yamato and detonated, it did no harm to the Yamato. Granted the fleet in this initial battle did not have the technology for generating the shields.

I love the original Yamato and all the upgrades Sanada pulled out of his ass, as a kid i experienced that moment from the simpsons when professor Frink ask the cast if anyone watched Tron but when asking my school friends if they watched Yamato, funnily enough the same happened in later in 87 when i asked if they watched Tron...

Yamato is the first ship to get shields. Correction: in the anime this statement is true.

The flank doors are broadside missile/torpedo launchers. The "funnel" is a VLS for missiles. There were also supposed to be ventral VLS doors as well. And of course they had forward and aft torpedo launchers

I reeeally wanna see this guys opinion of macross, especially the variable fighters

16:47 It would probably help watching 2199 to explain the director/producer's mind set when the movie was made: (don't quote me but...) In both versions of the TV show (1974/2012) Earth's war with the Galamas Empire began after the completion of the Earth/Mars Civil War. The primitive ships weapons were designed to fight their own, not aliens (not right away) so the lack of AA fire against the Gamalas Plasma rounds is probably more of 'No point, since the AA can't stop the shots anyway' than directors OPPs (they could?). The designs were also a means to draw in larger numbers of people because those movie ships looked more like WWII dreadnoughts than other, more traditional space-based designs like in Star Trek, Mobile Suit Gundam or NuBSG I wont compare Star Wars because many of the SW designs look more compared to SBYLAM than anything else, either)... same deal with the torps. They were used against Martian ships but useless against the bioships....

You have forfeited your right to complain about what you do until you review a proper anime movie. Now do this again. It is good.

Oh hell yes! Please do an episode on Spirit of Fire from Halo Wars.

To be fair the tentacles thing was happening long before the extinction balls were dropped.

I have Disgust the Movie Battleship, Dockmaster may have Discussed it too , but All I heard was the disgust-tion We’re heading off to Iscandar You can’t get there in a rental car We’re heading off to Iscandar, we don’t know where we are. Ps an action movie based off the two player game battleship When do we get the 4 player hungry hungry hippos action movie.

Fun fact: the Yamato really did have AA shells for it's main guns. Called "San Shiki", these were basically fragmentation/incendiary shells, which made those guns the mother of all shotguns... these shells existed on multiple calibers from 5" and above. Their efectiveness could only be described, from a US' pilot's point of view, as "meh... pretty shots..."

A suggestion: "Great shipyard in the sky" should become the standard exclamation phrase for this channel.

The TV series was made before they located the wreck so they didn't know she broke in two. They kind of just ignored that for the more recent remakes. In the 2199 show it was confirmed the wreck was on the old sea floor in the region of Cape Bonomisaki, where the IJN Yamato went down. The facility for construction of the SB Yamato was part of the underground "cities" that had been built to survive the planet bombs sent by the Gamilas.

Use of English signage is not unusual. The military is a combined Earth Defence Force under UN auspices. It's just that most of the characters are Japanese because that is where the Yamato was being built and the crew recruited. Oh and the cat? Original character. The ships doctor did have a ginger cat in the original and remake anime.

At least in the 2199 animated reboot, the Yamato was never reconstructed. Instead, the humans hollowed out the space underneath the wreck, and built the Space Battlesuit Yamato under the rusted shell of the original Yamato to avoid satellite detection. This caused the upper level of the SB Yamato to inherit the superficial structure of the original. Most UN Spacy ships in the 2199 anime do have turrets on the top and bottom of the hull, with the SB Yamato being the main exception. The belly of the ship was taken up by the Wave Motion Gun, Wave Motion Engine, missile systems, and the hanger bay. While you will absolutely have qualms about the SB Yamato, I think you'll like the designs overall from 2199 better than the live action remake which are just weird. Rule of thumb for Japanese media, if there is an anime and live action movie adaptation, the anime will usually be better and more complete.

One point on raising the _Yamato_ : at the time this entire franchise started, 1974, no one even knew exactly even where the ship was, let alone it's condition. It was only in the 1980s that it was found, and only then it was realised it was in two pieces. But by then the franchise and it's basic storyline had been established, so I guess the producers stuck with that.

WHYYYYYYY!!!!! \o/ The Remake is Beautifully done!!!! :D (Seriously you really should make an exception for 2199 and 2202). Btw what is the range of a torpedo / missle in space? Also the original used its main guns to shootdown planes (beehive rounds) so why not missiles. As a story of resilience in the face of overwhelming odds. I see no difference in the crew of the then Yamato facing the American fleet in a bid to delay the inevitable at Okinawa to that of the fantasy Yamato's journey to Iskandar. Except one failed and the other through writer's magic succeeded. As for the ship in the live action does not do it justice, to see what I mean you would have to watch the re-make (2199 and 2202) which addresses majority of the pointed deficiencies in this video. If you find it hard to fathom why one would willingly give up their lives in a clearly suicide mission, let me point out that these are the same people who despite of having their property taken from them and their families imprisoned - still fought for said country that did those to them and acquitted themselves admirably. Hence the 2 nukes to make them give up. Also unfair comparison Battleship is about "Battleship" - Live action Space Battleship Yamato is about the anime that came before it. And before I forget MORE PLEASE!!!!!

Short version: the show feels more grounded than the film. I love it anyway. I love that the wave motion gun is, basically, an absurdly powerful laser that uses micro black holes as a capacitor. I'm a hard core fan of the series, realism be damned. That said, the TV show is better in designs for the Human equipment. Stuff that makes sense...well, more sense. Also, of note, any time you're taking a 25 hour TV show and trying to fit it into a feature film, there's a lot that will be stripped. That's actually what causes most of the issues. Unfortunately, the movie makes the UN incredibly stupid because they condense so many events and cut out characters. They did a good job spiritually keeping it right, but there's a lot of fascinating details that just get lost. Character moments, tech, world building...I'm gonna nerd our a bit here, and spoilers do follow. Originally Iskandar and Gamilas are a pair of twin worlds on the same orbit. Not unlike Earth and Luna, but even closer in size, the Gamilas Empire is, essentially, Nazis in space, and their ships and tech, while more advanced, isn't organic. The main weapon used by the Earth Fleet prior to gaining vacuum energy taps (wave motion core) is a particle beam. However, this is insufficient against Gamilas armor. Without a more potent reactor, there's a limit to how powerful the ships of humanity can get. The Yamato, on the other hand, has her primary and secondary turrets fitted with positron guns. These are entirely able to punch through Gamilas armor. Of note: the wave motion core is a gift from the Iskandarian civilization. They are more advanced than Gamilas, but they're also near extinct. The Gamilas tech is based on that of Iskandar, albeit inferior copies. This is why Earth tech has that huge jump in power when comparing Yamato to older Cosmo Navy ships. There were more powerful weapon designs, but without a good enough reactor, they weren't able to be built and used. When considering that the Yamato core is a genuine Iskandarian one instead of a copy, it explaines why Yamato is able to outperform Gamilas vessels with less powerful reactors. The Yamato was designed around a very well built quantum power tap and can simply draw and channel more energy for weapons, shields, and engines. TV show uses a lot of missiles too. If you're not gonna watch the show, at least check out some of the battle sequences from the remake.

Just a small minor technical note on "rangefinders" The turret mounter rangefinders were every bit as good at the primary and secondary rangefinders however being closer to the water they could not see quite as far when on a surface ship on an ocean. So targets had to be NOT over the horizon to hit. Still you really do not want to have battleships sized guns hitting your ship as they do tend to make a horrific mess. Also of note is large ocean going warships really aren't as maneuverable as folks think. Newtons laws of motion are in full effect and at speed most large warships tend to have a turn radius in excess of a Kilometer. Dontcha just love it when know it computer gamers watch your stream.. Of course you do.. not all Humies are stupid.... just well not so much stupid as phenomenally ignorant. It's a major issue.. I don't see a solution happening any time soon.

I've always found the mythology surrounding one of the most... overstated... battleships in history to be the most interesting thing about Yammie.

THIS IS THE GREATEST EPISODE OF ALL TIME

Wait, there's a live action/cg space battleship Yamato, since when?

Wing Commander-y starfighters in the Yamato movie were more Wing Commander-y than the ones in the actual Wing Commander movie.

"Like say, Barney." Watch your language SCS! I'll not tolerate anymore of that vile filthy utterances! Now wash your speech code before it infects your entire system!

A live-action or rather a bastardization/sacrilege of a Super Robot anime from the 70s by a philippine production I’m looking forward to your reaction to that.

Why did You bring up that Abomination Babylon 5 Ranger Show That just released a Cringe in the Force

The Movie doesn't make much sense, because it is a much longer series, shortened into film length. In the Original series you see what the third bridge is for, as well as many other things that don't make sense in this fleshsuit adaptation.

Organic ships, the Dockmaster hates them, I mean have you tried to clean the organic gunk out of a crusher after cubifying one? That is why ;)

Lol thank you, i really needed a laugh.... Decent story line for sure, techs a lil janky... Im a dog person myself... ya know....cause raisens... Oh damn ya went there... That warp scene in Guardians had me pissing myself the first time i saw it lol. Funniest scene in the MCU imho. Lol

Talking about penetration of rounds, I am reminded of the Battle off Samar where some Japanese ships mistakenly identified US ships as being of larger classes than they really were (so what they thought were cruisers were really destroyer escorts, and what they identified as fleet carriers were escort carriers), causing them to use AP rounds which completely penetrated clean through the US ships, in one side and out the other, causing minimal damage. LOL! They did eventually realize their mistake and switched to HE rounds and then the US ships had a bad time of it, but what an embarrassing mistake to have made in the first place!

More two hours of snark. Hail the Dockmaster! One thing that irks me about shows set on a ship like this is that the main characters are the "jack of all trades but master of everything" types. Bridge officer + ace pilot/wing commander + grunt general. Most of them shows don't even have marines on board. Borrowing from that mutated humie called Deadpool: "All I ever see is you guys. It's as if the studio couldn't afford another cast member."

Yamato 2199 is so much better.

Small correction: Yamato was steaming to Okinawa, not Iwo Jima. Small quip: Most of the torpedo hits were largely overkill - at which point Yamato would have taken a few more hours to sink at best, or would have been scuttled by her crew at worst. After The first torpedo salvos (which defeated Yamato's flawed torpedo protection - the other Yamato-class hulls Musashi and Shinano similarly failed), Yamato's crew never got the flooding under control - Japanese counter-flooded the other side of the ship to prevent capsizing, precisely because the torpedo flooding could NOT be controlled. It only delayed the inevitable, and every subsequent torpedo and bomb hit after the first Salvo of torpedoes simply made Yamato sink faster. And that doesn't mention the fires progressing to detonate Yamato's magazine.

While I generally love Leiji Matsumoto's depictions of space battleships as slightly space-ified seafaring vessels, I must admit that the lack of any ventral weapons on the Yamato always bugged me. Even his other notable creation, the Arcadia, has always been depicted with at least one ventral turret. (One of my favourite depictions, BTW, is the one from the more recent 3d animated movie that came of it. That one has a very interesting mechanism for bringing her armaments to bear on the enemy - I'd almost say the movie is worth watching for the brief experience of that system alone.) All and all, it's still important to note that for Leiji, the ships were always more of a storytelling vehicle than an actual combat one. So he was more than willing to go wild and send a zeppelin and a (I shit you not) steam locomotive, complete with passenger cars, into space. Great artist, regardless.

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts. Repeat to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax." ;) In all seriousness. Dude, 2 hours of episode? You are spoiling us. :)

Ah yes, live action Yamato. First half of the movie was excellent and in my opinion one of the best adaptations of rather goofy anime designs into something areal person would wear and use, actors fit their roles, etc. Then the shark jumping moment aka reveal on movie version of Gamilus and how they handled the whole Islander and Gamilus situation - it's not BAD bad, it still follows the major story beats, it's just borin, uninspired and to a degree very generic. As a bonus fun fact, Russian version of the movie was sold as "Spcey Odissey 2199"

Personally I don't like the live action movie. It differed a lot from the anime. 40:32 The tabby ginger cat is belong to the ship doctor in the original anime. 1:05:16 Actually it's the present day's representation of the original Cosmos Falcon. Though I much preferred the SBY2199 version where the fighter has bubble canopy. 1:57:09 LOL. The side wrote "King Cobra" but the snake's color pattern is Coral Snake.

the legs are probably for when the aircraft has to land on rough Terrain and abducted fans are probably too allowed to land and take off vertically that part makes sense the part that doesn't make sense is the movie Cocktail that shit is just weird then again f-35b is a thing thanks America so very much maintenance was always so very easy

would you be willing to do something like this or at least a breakdown of the main ship from space pirate captain harlock? the 2013 movie ones, not the original series. nothing against the series, but i think you might enjoy the 2013 movie ones.

Good gods man, I can feel the irritation from here!

The Wave Motion Gun. A weapon so cool, sunglasses are required to operate it.

Smoke stacks on the Yamato contain VLS missile launch tubes, referred to as stack missiles. There are also VLS cells in the underside of the hull. So although no gun turrets down there there are weapon systems. Launch catapults were used to deploy the two embarked Cosmo Zero fighters. The remaining fighters, the Black Tigers, we launched from a bay below and between the two auxillary engines.

Byeah, the animated series does a LOT better in story and world building.

Satellites and other current spacecraft have radio masts / booms. And the Starblazers ships aren't the *worst* examples, they do have guns on the bottom and sides and such as well, but yes are essentially WWII Japanese naval vessels (for real in the Yamato's case...) converted into spacecraft, which is just dumb on a great many levels.

Along with hand rails I also saw spot lights! Did you notice the red lead paint on the lower hull? WTF? All the communist understood those stats but in the future can we use freedom units? 🤣 In their defense, the wreck wasn't discovered until the 80's and when this was invented it was thought to be in one piece. Bismark was found to be in one piece. I met a pilot that ejected from an old A-7 Corsair where you go through the canopy. He said he looked at the wreckage later and noted how small the hole in the canopy was and couldn't imagine both he and the seat fitting through the hole despite the fact that they had indeed made said hole. I bet the XO was PISSED when the brig rat was made CO. I love how in the future we have tires that can survive reentry! That APC just hangin out would have burned to slag! You'll really shit yourself when you watch Captain Harlock. Bravo Zulu! Keep up the good work sir!

That moment I realized this was 2 hours was the moment I realized I needed to get some popcorn.

I am so sad he put himself through the pain of the live action SBY movie

Didnt know i needed to hear about a ship having a huge schnoz. :D

Many of your complaints of the live-action movie are valid. The live-action movie is generally considered by us (Japanese) to be non-canonical. Some of the stupider surface-navy silliness in the original TV series (anime is considered by us to be the same as live-action TV shows) was fixed in the remakes, but the silliness that appeals to our military-otaku culture was left in. Wing Commander's starfighters are inspired by Uchuu Senkan Yamato's starfighters and not the other way around. Yamato is so popular that the OG main theme is used as alternative and unofficial national anthem in Japan. So much so, baseball games routinely kick-off with the Yamato theme instead of the official national anthem. One of the reasons why Uchuu Senkan Yamato is so loved in Japan is due to the view that the anime Yamato redeems the IJN Yamato and makes it a defender of Earth, rather than a symbol of Emperor Hirohito's ego. There are four Japanese TV shows that are MUCH better at capitol starship combat than Yamato. These are "Legend of the Galactic Heroes," and its remake, "Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These," "Crest of the Stars," and the sequel of CotS, "Battleflag of the Stars."

TBF: when the original was made in the late 70s, we didn't know the Yamato snapped in two. See also: Raise the Titanic.

I absolutely love this channel

So I gotta ask when are you gonna talk about the atrocity of both artistic design and scientific literacy that is star trek 32nd century ships with their space magic detached nacelles, their space magic detached saucer sections, the fact that each ship is now the size of a god damned city, or the even worse fact is that they are all solid grey and designed to look like German brutalist architect from the early 40s designed them.

Your first mistake was watching live action anime. Anime is like sushi its not for everyone but live action anime is like gas station sushi generally a bad idea for even people who actually like it to start with. Should have listened to that internal voice saying anime in a sk8n suits creepy