Final Yamato (6/15)

[Hesuku]

The legendary words of Yuki: "That's why I'm going with you, Susumu" when she was told they may never be able to return. Tears!! I wonder if Yoki had got a permission from Captain Okita when she went with Susumu. She certainly has her own job in the main bridge...

[Hesuku]

Yuki's nerve is truly admirable... Unbelievably incredible, sweet beautiful lady...

[stylesIkon]

1) These Duikilians are chickenshit bastards! Even Dessler at his worst, even Zordor, even the Dark Nebula guys, and even the damn Bolars had some sense of honor and fair play!

'Kay. I know in real life there are lots of a-holes like these guys, and they piss me off, too.

2) Liked Okita, but I'm not sure how I feel about his resurrection.

3) Are they just writing Dessler out? Surely he deserves better than that....some kind death scene is order for him, ain't it?

[Hesuku]

@stylesIkon 1) Please see the contrast between the Dinguil Imperial family and Okita/Kodai. The former kills his own flesh and blood for greed, and the latter is bonded with near-perfect love and trust though they were not a real father and son. 2) Remember Yamato is a cartoon. Anything is possible to make a point. Haha. These producers directly experienced the end of WW2.

[vlunney]

what a dirty trick! like launching an attack while your negotiating a peace treaty...

[KoutaSeto]

yay again ammi's vs japanese in their final battle! (YES YOU AMERICANS SLOUGHTERT WOUNDET SOLDIERS TOO!)

[Hesuku]

@KoutaSeto nice spellings...

[dave19941000]

The argument Hesuku and demonlordpiccolo had makes it sound like freedom was a gift the US brought to the world (sigh). I can only think of 3 countries the US has brought freedom to, and with all 3 they had the help of the allies. No, the US did not give me my freedom, England did, a long proses that did not involve fighting, and now my country is a major economic power, but our pop. will only alow us to becaume and economic super-power, and not a full super-power.

[Hesuku]

@dave19941000 Canada got independence easily because Britain got a lesson from dealing with USA.

[dave19941000]

@Hesuku And if you go back to 1800 and ask any Brit if they think Canada (only the size of twice Alaska at the time) if they thought Canada would ever be independent they would tell you it would only be a matter of time.

[Hesuku]

@dave19941000 I'm not sure if Canada's independence has a lot to do with winning freedom and democracy around the world. Britain was never that oppressive on anyone but USA in the latter 1700's, wasn't it?

[dave19941000]

@Hesuku Acually, neither the US, Canada or Austraila where oppressed at all in our history as colonies (mainly because we where mostly european colonists), and the only reason the US declaired independece was because they had low taxes (still to this day) but they didn't have any social survices (something some people are acually against now for some reason). The expretion "No taxation without representation" means "Don't tax us without giving us survises.

[Hesuku]

@dave19941000 I don't think things were that simple. In any case, Dave, USA has liberated and is liberating around 230 nations on earth so far, not just 3, because all nations in each region are closely linked to each other.

[dave19941000]

@Hesuku How can the US have "Liberated" 230 nations if there are only 218 in the world? And most have never done anything with the US. No trade, no deplomacy, ect. Give me a list of countries the US has liberated (with or without help from others) in it's hisstory, and the Philopines does not count.

[Hesuku]

@dave19941000 There are supposed to be 229 nations in all. I gave you a round number. Liberation is sometimes indirect. You do things as you watch. You mean Philippines? It was freed from Imperial Japan's occupation by Americans.

[dave19941000]

@Hesuku I don't mean Philippines as in WW2, I mean Philippines as in Spanish-American war, where after the Philippines was a colony or territory (whatever you like to call it) of the US. Directly or Indirectly, I can't think of many countries freed by the US (all where during, and only during, WW2) and I can think of none the US has done alone.

[Hesuku]

@dave19941000 So it's a free, civilized nation with a sane constitution with English fluency. What do you want more for Philippines?

[wirehoncho]

You know, its a mess when you have to bring people back from the dead to save Earth! wish they would make just one movie (yeah a new one) where the rest of the EDF pulls their share of the load! Perhaps that will take place in a live action movie?

[pandaphil]

@wirehoncho No kidding. I think Yamato 2 (The Comet Empire) was the only time the EDF actually pulled its weight. And it STILL got wiped out. I love Yamato, but the whole 'aliens arrive and destroy the earth fleet, leaving only the Yamato to save us.' got really old and tired.

[Hesuku]

@pandaphil Yamato is not Yamato, if it's not Yamato the last and only hope for the home planet. That's the whole idea; you must expect it when you watch Yamato.

[hyperhamsters12]

a couple things to say, one, kodai was insane for going out in that condition, two, that was a really mean trick, three, i totally agree with hesuku that it is so sad. i love how SBY has real feeling in it. its what makes it different from everything else ive seen.

[schnellbomber87]

2:22, aren't those Gamilus torpedos?

[ReiPuma]

No wave cannon and one turret, correct. It seems odd that the destroyers didn't make more use of their missile barrage boxes, but then again they were supposed to be sacrificed in this scene.

Yamato's ability to lob ballistic weapons in vacuum is profoundly remarkable: always keen to revenge herself on carriers.

[tsuyoshi15]

were the other ships that were with the YAMATO destroyer class's? I think so since they only have one turrent and that they don't carry a wave motion gun (hadoho, did I spell this correct?)

[Hesuku]

What a battle. It's especially hurting to see the other fleet perishing protecting Yamato. How heroic. When someone dies like that in "Yamato," it makes me cry and remember, though I'm a foreigner, the real Yamato setting out for the combat they knew they could not return alive in 1945.

[fatpigslim1989]

It is a bit similar to the actual Yamato's last mission. Operation Ten-go. Just think about it, 9 destroyers plus Yamato herself.

[Hesuku]

Thank you. Now that's worse than the Battle of Pluto in the 1st episode of Yamato I. Hope no real soldier has to set out to a battlefield in the actual Yamato's condition. It's insane tragic.

[DE1VOLK1]

@Hesuku they didn't thought it..they were sure about it...and that's why i admire all of the remnants of Imperial Japan

[Hesuku]

@DE1VOLK1 It was great injustice and insanity that Senkan Yamato had to set out in such condition. It was devotion placed in wrong objects. Also, many of those remnants were simply forced to fight in the lost war.

[Hesuku]

@DE1VOLK1 And if you knew how much evil and stupidity those imperialists/emperor-worshiper­s did, you wouldn't say you admire them.

[DE1VOLK1]

@Hesuku it wasn't the peoples fault! IT WAS THE FAULT OF EMPEROR HIROHITO!

[Hesuku]

@DE1VOLK1 Also the military authorities'. It was a whole movement. Whatever the nation's stance, each individual still decides what he does.

[demonlordpiccolo]

@Hesuku True, but individuals don't last long against their nation's military and police forces. The decent people end up dead or imprisoned for life. We may see that in America shortly.

[Hesuku]

@demonlordpiccolo It's usually courageous individuals who change the course of history for good. After all, cowards end up dying, too - everyone for that matter. What's a worth of a human life? Isn't it what's been asked in a work like "Yamato"? I think people should worry about the injustices in their own nations instead of the fate of USA.

[Hesuku]

@demonlordpiccolo And if you are American, let America continue to help others until she expires.

[demonlordpiccolo]

@Hesuku When our freedom is gone, freedom shall perish from the Earth. We also aren't exactly helping people at the moment. . .just getting rid of independent governments who aren't towing the line. Expect a highly barbaric world government in the near future.

[Hesuku]

@demonlordpiccolo Our free world is so hedonistic it may actually be good to lose freedom, so people will remember where the freedom came from and why it was so necessary for human dignity. No, USA is the sole major player for human rights; she must finish her mission. The problem is that common citizens are barbaric, not governments - the reason rampant atrocities exist everywhere on earth.

[demonlordpiccolo]

@Hesuku Once it is lost, we will not get it back. America is a unique thing in all of human history since people generally do not denounce their own evil impulses in order for everyone to live better lives.

Governments are not barbaric? Who do you think has been encouraging our hedonism for over 100 years? Our envy? Our greed? It wasn't the simple people of the United States, but rather those who knew they must corrupt our people to obtain absolute power over them.

[Hesuku]

@demonlordpiccolo Well, that no one knows. America is unique that she started out so well with the Founding Father's noble ideal. A beacon of hope for all mankind. And no blame game. Simple people are as evil as people who hold absolute power( In the American system, no single party can hold absolute power, though); their scope of evil was smaller, but evil is evil. Corruption was people's willing choice, nobody's specific agenda alone.

[Hesuku]

@demonlordpiccolo What hedonists have is not freedom, but it's slavery to one's own stupid inclinations and moral chaos.

[DE1VOLK1]

@Hesuku about this,remember the scene in which Admiral Gustav did the same thing..charged the bolar fleet and destroyed them..though,the main fleet aproached Yamato very soon,and got obliterated

[Seattlecarnut]

@Hesuku Same here. This is turning out to be one of my favourite anime movies.