NYPD Band playing Space Battleship Yamato theme in Macy's Parade (25 Nov 2010)

The 2010 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade had a weird bonus for American anime fans. The New York police department marching band appeared playing the opening theme from Space Battleship Yamato (Despite the NBC talking heads' claim that it's "Yamamoto.") This resulted in nationwide facefaults and cries of "What the hell?!"

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Entertainment

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• Space
• Battleship
• Yamato
• theme
• Macy's
• Thanksgiving
• parade
• 2010
• 宇宙戦艦ヤマト
• OPテーマ

[basspig]

The audio is so muddled that I can't discern the melody.

[DocSane]

@basspig Yeah, well, they weren't really concerned about the music. It was all about them talking over it, before moving on to Spider-Man.

[lynxvosmia]

That's pretty cool that's what they choose to play! Odd that they feel the NY police only deserve about 5 seconds of air time. You can hear where, in the US version they would have sung 'Our Star Blazers"

[mebobbygillis]

Yeah..too bad I couldn't hear any of the music because these talentless dolts wouldn't shut their yapping ,stammering pie holes.

[KabutoHunter]

I was never less thrilled to see Spider-Man

[solidsnake2234]

@SailorCallie The announcer probably got mixed up Yamato with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in which case, the announcer still fails

[scalesofjustice0]

@basspig The 3 prong test has not been met. There is no elements existing to believe that a crime is about to be committed, has been committed, or about to be committed. There is no articulable reasonable suspision. These cops are on a fishing expedition which is against the law. There is case log on this.

[SailorCallie]

Dear NBC, It's "Yamato", and not Yamamoto. Signed, Me.

[zephyer21]

wtf its yamato...(ya-ma-toe) lol thats how you say it.

[RetroToledo]

@DocSane Sad we can't have it all the time.

[oldgamergeek]

@kenshiro69 Hollywood types = those who make a living in front of a T.V / Movie camera and think I want to hear them babel incessantly over others. It don't matter where they are from or where they are at.

[kenshiro69]

@oldgamergeek Hollywood?! They're in New York.