ANIME TOP TEN (LIST #1) - #10: Space Battleship Yamato (1974)
Submitted by Penguin Truth on January 29, 2012 - 4:12pm
Director(s): Leiji Matsumoto, Noboru Ichiguro
Screenplay: Eiichi Yamamoto, Keisuke Fujikawa, Maru Tamura
Music: Hiroshi Miyagawa
The brainchild of producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto, Space Battleship Yamato is considered a classic, and with good reason. It's groundbreaking in the way it sells its themes and characters and fleshes out its concepts. The story of a humanity on the brink of extinction, driven to desperate measures when a sudden hope appears, hunted by a deranged enemy that is perhaps no so unlike us, the spaceship Yamato cruises the sea of the stars in search of a cure to a diseased future. The point of view is mostly through the combat team leader Susumu Kodai (Kei Tomiyama), a brash youth whose family has died, who has little else but his own skills as a pilot. But he's far from the only character: the fatherly captain, Okita (Goro Naya), the cooler headed pilot Daisuke Shima (Shuusei Nakamura), the bionic scientist Shiro Sanada (Takeshi Aono), and Kodai's love interest Yuki Mori (Yoko Asagimi), the crew's seemingly sole female, also compliment the story. A story of triumph and tragedy, perserverance and humanity, Yamato soars above other works of science fiction with grace and nobility.
This was an amazing series,
This was an amazing series, more so considering its age. I really appreciated the story elements, as well as some of the battle moments, which were taken from World War II moments. My only problem with this series is Yuki, whom I joked was everything from the serving wench, to the doctor's assistant, to pilot, to whatever. I think that at the beginning of the series, there were other female characters shown, but for whatever bizarro reason, they were all dropped so that Yuki could service the entire crew (or something like that). *_*
I am looking forward to the remake anime with the modern graphics. Providing they don't change the underlying story and themes, while removing certain 70's cheese elements, it should be quite good.
After the episode where the
After the episode where the ship leaves the solar system, all female crew members disappear and Yuki is the only one. I hope that in the remake either there'll be many female crew members or just Yuki, but not many and then just her.
I'll vote for the first
I'll vote for the first option. ^_^
Post new comment