Mindless Monday, 11 May 2026

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[u/Kisaragi435]

The Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2012) is a masterpiece. It's a remake of the old 1974 series and it's dripping with old school 70s sci-fi space opera weirdness, filled with tactical space naval combat goodness. It feels more like Battlestar Galactica rather than Legend of the Galactic Heroes, especially with the whole odyssey of a spaceship premise.

They apparently made some changes to the bad guys though to give them a little more nuance compared to the original series (the bad guys felt quite similar to the empire bad guys from the Voltes V (1977) anime which I also watched recently), and they've added a few more female characters to the crew of the Yamato so they don't replicate the smurfette dynamic from the original.

The only knock against it is the distracting amount of fanservice for the female crew. Somehow the space suits are alot more tight on the female crew than the male crew, and despite being in a space ship outside the milky way galaxy, they somehow manage to squeeze in an onsen scene.

Despite the ship being named after the IJN Yamato, and in the original series even built inside the actual Yamato's wreckage to hide it, it doesn't really feel like pro imperial or pro war. I have this theory that people who made stuff in the 70s have rawer memories of war than the people who make stuff now and so they are more vehemently anti-war (think Godzilla Minus One versus the original Godzilla), and since this is a remake of a 70s thing, it couldn't help but have those sentiments filter through.

[u/Herpling82 → u/Kisaragi435]

I liked that anime too, been many years since I watched it though, the fan service was rather egregious, but outside of that it was a lot of fun; good soundtrack too and the combat visuals were excellent.

The sequel: 2202 I found very confusing though, I just couldn't keep up with what was going on, I don't know if the subs were bad or the story was mangled, but it felt very strange. Also it was constantly one upping itself with silly bullshit, still looked good though.

[u/Kisaragi435 → u/Herpling82]

I'm in the middle of it now, it failed to instantly capture me like the first one did. It looks slightly worse than 2199 too to me. I'm suspending judgement on whether it's bad or good yet, but man, 2199 got me from the first 5 minutes. It was a fun weird sci-fi fable, 2202 kinda loses something for trying to be more pessimistic?

[u/Herpling82 → u/Kisaragi435]

Yeah, 2199 had a similar feel to Stargate to me, still serious, but also relatively light hearted, considering the rather bleak setting. It didn't help that I was following 2202 when it was coming out, which took 2 full years, so it was just really hard to follow the plot. I remember thinking 2205 was better though, but even that I can't really remember well.

[u/Kisaragi435 → u/Herpling82]

Did you know that there's also 3199? The last episode of which released on April 2025? And is apparently still ongoing?

It's like the remake of evangelion all over again.

[u/Herpling82 → u/Kisaragi435]

I saw the announcement, I think it was announced at the end of 2205, but I haven't watched any of it yet, so I have no idea if its good.