Forum - View topicNEWS: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Gets 5.7% & 5.9% Ratings
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vulcanraven01
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It's a shame this isn't getting streamed officially.
I thought FUNimation might have licensed this and streamed it considering they licensed the Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection movie. Ah well... |
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
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For the record, it's still listed in the Spring lineup: animenewsnetwork.com/anime-spotlight/2013/spring/#short It might come down to either a lack of time, or a lack of access to the episode.
There very well may not be any announcement of a licence for this series outside of Japan for quite some time. They're selling the Blu-Rays region-free with English subtitles so it's likely that they want to maximise their sales overseas of the Japanese discs before they'll entertain eating into that with any overseas licences. If any company does have a licence agreement now, it may not be contractually allowed to disclose its possession before an agreed-to date. |
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yuhsaku
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Yes, the story does move faster. I really like that the characters are given more depth and improved upon. For example, Yuki has specific functions now instead of all-knowing all-around role. Those roles are now given to the new girls on board. More attention are given to details (for example, maneuvering thrusters , impact of weapons etc). They retained most of the original sound effects and modernized them. Not to mention that they retained the music and introduced new ones. They want a remake that doesn't lose most of the atmosphere of the original series. Basically, it improved on the original Yamato series. I can't wait to see the next episodes. |
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TheAncientOne
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No doubt the same way The Nielsen Company here in the United States would have the same data on any broadcast TV show; via a sample of selected people that consented to be monitored. It could also be done via something as old fashioned as a telephone survey of a small percentage of households. Either way, nothing scary about it at all. |
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ZeetherKID77
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I hope Funimation gets this for simulcast even if it's a late announcement.
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Angel M Cazares
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Thanks to all who replied about my questions on how Yamato 2199 compares to the original. I already suspected that it had a better executed, more tight story telling. I am glad about that. As much as I love the original series, I feel that certain elements could have been done better.
I have seen several clips and trailers of 2199, and two things stand out to me. The first is having more female protagonists. I am especially intrigued by Kaoru Niimi and Akira Yamamoto (I think she is the white haired girl). The other thing that also attracts me is that the Gamilus side of things seems to have been better fleshed out. |
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Gambeno
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This show is amazing! I have been importing the BD volumes and they look fantastic. The video quality is top notch and the story and music, everything is amazing. I love that they kept the 70's style music just arranged it. Really amazing.
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
Posts: 432 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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The people running the show know their audience. The bulk of the target audience are the original show's fans. They want to see something that keeps very very close to the original but has improved animation and storytelling. That they have delivered without problem. The music is a very big part of delivering that. The show wouldn't be the same without the original music (for me personally the Yamato soundtrack is my favourite soundtrack of all time of anything, to me it eclipses even Star Wars), so they kept it pretty much the same as the original. The big reason it sounds so much like the original is that it was arranged by Akira Miyagawa, the son of the original composer Hiroshi Miyagawa. The younger Miyagawa has already added a few completely new pieces to the series. The first volume of the soundtrack has been available since late last year, and the second volume of the soundtrack will be released in late May around the same time as the fifth Blu-Ray/DVD. |
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penguintruth
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I'm a big Yamato fan, but I haven't yet gotten to the new series in any real way, aside from clips here and there. It seems as though, and I could be wrong, that they've added some blatant moe elements to it, which I feel doesn't belong in Yamato.
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stararnold
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Hopefully, this show will continue going strong in the ratings. And I hope that commercial successof this series will convince Enagio to get back to working on a sequel to 2009's Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection (the fifth theatrical film set in the original SBY Universe) spoiler[since the story that began in that film isn't yet complete as Susumu Kodai still has yet to find his missing wife Yuki Mori (note the text shown at the end of the film's end titles)]. It would be a dumb idea for Enagio to not go back to the original SBY Universe's timeline spoiler[while the Yamato Resurrection story is left unfished]. Last edited by stararnold on Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:26 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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ValkyrieZeroZeroOne
Posts: 432 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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This is how spoiler tags are used. Kindly use them when revealing the plot of a movie that many in the forum won't have seen yet (largely because Funimation are yet to release it). |
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penguintruth
Posts: 8459 Location: Penguinopolis |
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Granted, and I'm glad you brought that up. But I feel like there was more of an elegance there rather than just a warm and fuzzy "I want to protect this woman" ideal. I guess you might consider Yamato Nadeshiko (pun intended) to be a kind of moe, but I don't find any compulsion to see Yuki Mori as being necessarily a subject of feelings of protection any more than any other character in the show, other than being the main protagonist's love interest. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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How can you even stand to watch Evangelion? You should be hating Asuka and Rei for their blatant moe qualities. Will your rebuttal be: "No, that's different because I say it is!" ? Yamato added more women and stopped being as sexist, what is your goddamn problem? How dare they add women? |
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stararnold
Posts: 227 Location: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada |
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I apologize for the error. I should have stopped to think about the Funimation part, even though it did get shown at the Fanatsia film Festival 2010. I guess for a while, I was starting to lose hope on the R1 DVD release ever occuring so as to explain my error in this forum. Again, sorry. |
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Frazmataz
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There is only one character who comes across as particularly moe in design or personality (the 17 year old Misaki), but that's about as far as it goes as far as I can tell. It's made pretty clear that the female characters can look after themselves and don't require protection - they're members of a fighting force with the same duties, responsibilities and abilities as the male complement. The show's not even particularly fanservicey, save for the uniforms and one or two specific moments. They've also completely eliminated Analyzer's skirt-flipping tendencies, which is a welcome change for me. |
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kinda scary 
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