So I was pleasantly surprised. It’s very well done. It’s on Crunchyroll in Canada. It has more character development and more female characters than the original. The dubbed English version is quite good but they keep the Japanese names this time so Captain Avatar is now Captain Okita(which was his name in the original Japanese version).
One clever change is they explain an animation error in the original show - some of the enemy Gammilon leaders looked human. And later others had blue faces. This is explained in the new show that there are second class citizens who are from conquered civilizations and some look human. But only the pure Gamillon race is blue skinned.
I love the original series but the new one is very very good.
I pretty much stayed away from Crunchyroll so far. I don't remember why.
I have an account at Anyime (spelling?) so I can watch transformers rescue bots, and something else.... Never watch much either one of them for some reason. Don't seem to remember liking the app very much....
The remake nailed it. Great animation, fantastic story, as long as you don't watch the dub you will probably think it's amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6LFkMniuTk
No, really, don't watch the dub... please... its really bad... I think.... I couldn't make it past the first episode when they directly translate a japanese sailing song and try to sing it.... without any rhyme scheme or meter.
Do not worry. I was a fan of the original, and the remake is fantastic. The Comet Empire season goes off the rails a little in the last few episodes, but the two seasons of the remake are both awesome.
I ended up buying the remake on iTunes/Apple TV so I could watch it. It was expensive, but I’m glad I did. I don’t know if it’s available elsewhere for cheaper.
The Space Battleship is the IRL Yamato battleship. In the show they took the hull of the shipwreck, repaired it, converted it into a spaceship, and refitted it with advanced weaponry such as lasers, missles, particle cannons, and most importantly, the Wave Motion Gun.
The Yamato class battleship is listed at nearly 863 feet in length. 5000 of these stood upright end to end would total over 817 miles. Distance to space is a bit subjective, but Google says 62 miles.
So you'd be well within the range of most low earth orbiting satellites and such.
Or I could use them to conquer first earth and then Space. I am sure I could arrange to crew the first one from a bunch of anime nerds and people who just want to go to space. The rest can be recruited from my conquests as I will make sure to keep the self destruct command codes to myself.
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u/Kiyohara 5d ago
Make it the Yamato Class Space Battleship and you got a good idea.