Final Yamato - Yamato blows up. ( Star Blazers )

The climax of the movie. If you grew up with Star Blazers as a kid, you will be saddened by its destruction.

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• Yamato
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• Blazers
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[FeedbackMonitor]

Part of what made Japanese anime superior over the likes of Transformers, GI Joe, etc. was the concept of mortality. No one really died in American cartoons. That and the fact the Japanese often had cooler looking mecha and 'bots. Starblazers, Robotech, Force 5, all were great animated series. If there is a re-release, I hope it is not watered down.

[sixpackgenius]

If they do re-release it, hopefully it will be a restoration and not added in CGI. One cool way to reintroduce the series would be to include the censored footage but have it subtitled. I forgot the users name (asdf7893 or Harlockmbb or sutred101), but he did uncut episodes in which the footage was added and it turned out cool. You'll find out the truth behind the "spring water" and the royal bee jelly!

[BanjoOz]

@sixpackgenius I'd absolutely love if this someday got the Robotech Remastered treatment (kept the dub but added a much "cut footage" and violence as possible... though with Star Blazers that might be harder, as it suffered from more "alteration" than Robotech/Macross IMO. I wonder how many of the dub's voice cast are around to do new lines (again, most of Robotech's cast have come back to do video games!).

[sixpackgenius]

I too would like to see a remastered, no-edit version of Star Blazers. Some of the voice actors are still around but unfortunately some have passed, like Chris Collins, aka Chris Latta. You might recognize Chris Latta's name from doing voices like Cobra Commander and Starscream. The lady who did Nova's voice, Amy (forgot her last name), was at a convention five years ago I believe.

[sixpackgenius]

I really hope to hell that they do not remake this series. Every time someone makes a remake of a great movie or series, it turns into crap.

[shadmick]

Yes I am very much in agree with you and thank you for posting !!

This tought me in war people died and sometimes they die for a good cause.

This seen made me cry when I was a kid just a emo kid I guess..

[Takeshi357]

Eh, I'd sooner just get the original series remastered on DVD - not the VHS-sourced crap that Voyager released! And especially the TV series which is not only not available in the original format, but is ALSO similarily sourced from videotape - which is pretty fucking lame considering how many times the damn thing's been released on DVD in Japan!

[Hesuku]

@Halpin2006 The story said it wasn't Captain Okita's brain death. Dr. Sado had misjudged it and Earth Defense Federation secretly kept him in a medical clinic. In reality, when the producer thought of Yamato's final sinking, he wanted Okita to be the captain again. He is a father-figure even to the producers. They must have been thinking the Japanese soldiers who died in WW2.

[Halpin2006]

@Hesuku Okita? Captain Avatar? How did he come back to life/

[TrishaDishaWarEagle]

@FeedbackMonitor

AND the japanese didn't tack on a 3 minute PSA at the end ..because KNOWING may be half the battle, but at 630am before school watching cartoons, it just plain sucked to feel like you were being taught something..

[Hesuku]

Captain Okita - a beautiful picture of our fathers who'd give away their lives to protect us. The best anime music is here. There was nothing like "Yamato" and ever will be.

[StrahdVonZarovich1]

Darn.....finally saw the ending but it is so sad.... :-(

[effinpeaz]

I stared in shock when the Yamato blew up. :( I need to watch this movie.

[vlunney]

@sixpackgenius

I'd like to at least have as many original voice actors to come back. I don't see anyone else pulling off Desslock , same with Zordar.

[galloway6205]

@shadmick Nah we all Cried :3

[galloway6205]

The saddest part is when you can Hear the Flywheel trying to start on its own, Another hint that it could've been alive?