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Jul. 30th, 2011 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaSPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO (a.k.a. Star Blazers)
Genre: Science Fiction
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: We get a quick overview of the backstory as the opening credits roll. Basically: life sucks, Earth is under attack by aliens, the options seem to be Brave Last Stand (which gets you killed) or Run Back Home To Nearly-Dead Earth (which hardly solves the issue, given the aliens are still oncoming). Any and all interesting echoes with Japanese history are, of course, purely coincidental. Right. Sure.
Anyway! Fortunately for the humans, they get a message from a different alien species, wherein they are all, Come to Iscandar! We can help! "I believe you will come to Iscandar," says the beautiful alien queen on the recording, and kindly does not point out that at this point, the surface of the earth is a scorched desert, the invaders are somewhere around Pluto and gradually closing, and humanity's choices are basically Fuck and All. The question is really not so much whether they will take her offer, as how.
Cue our hero Kodai. His older brother served as the example of the Brave Last Stand earlier in the episode, so Kodai the younger is out to make up for it, or get revenge, or...look, he isn't so much a character as a walking plot point, at least so far. He's the one who goes out, and stumbles across the long-sunken Battleship Yamato, which is apparently important because a scout ship zeroed in on it. And with the introduction of the ship of the title, the first episode ends.
I know that this is the same continuity as such epic classics as Space Pirate Captain Harlock. But I have to admit, this appears to be requiring more patience to get to something really interesting than I'm necessarily willing to give.
Overall opinion: Maybe if I could marathon my way through it, and get to the good stuff that way. But as it stands, I have no interest to watch any more.
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Kay and Stef are discussing language tracks mix-ups - there was apparently one series Kay tried to watch wherein putting in Japanese language and English subtitles got you English language and French subtitles. (Putting in English language got you French, and putting in French got you something that Kay says was still not Japanese. "I don't think the options we wanted were on that disc at all.")
24 hours, 49 posts, for the benefit of the Nature Conservancy, sponsored by XamJapan. My dice is not being sufficiently random: I may have to get Stef to start rolling for me. Either that or go do more magical girls.
Genre: Science Fiction
How much seen: one episode (subbed)
What it's about: We get a quick overview of the backstory as the opening credits roll. Basically: life sucks, Earth is under attack by aliens, the options seem to be Brave Last Stand (which gets you killed) or Run Back Home To Nearly-Dead Earth (which hardly solves the issue, given the aliens are still oncoming). Any and all interesting echoes with Japanese history are, of course, purely coincidental. Right. Sure.
Anyway! Fortunately for the humans, they get a message from a different alien species, wherein they are all, Come to Iscandar! We can help! "I believe you will come to Iscandar," says the beautiful alien queen on the recording, and kindly does not point out that at this point, the surface of the earth is a scorched desert, the invaders are somewhere around Pluto and gradually closing, and humanity's choices are basically Fuck and All. The question is really not so much whether they will take her offer, as how.
Cue our hero Kodai. His older brother served as the example of the Brave Last Stand earlier in the episode, so Kodai the younger is out to make up for it, or get revenge, or...look, he isn't so much a character as a walking plot point, at least so far. He's the one who goes out, and stumbles across the long-sunken Battleship Yamato, which is apparently important because a scout ship zeroed in on it. And with the introduction of the ship of the title, the first episode ends.
I know that this is the same continuity as such epic classics as Space Pirate Captain Harlock. But I have to admit, this appears to be requiring more patience to get to something really interesting than I'm necessarily willing to give.
Overall opinion: Maybe if I could marathon my way through it, and get to the good stuff that way. But as it stands, I have no interest to watch any more.
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Kay and Stef are discussing language tracks mix-ups - there was apparently one series Kay tried to watch wherein putting in Japanese language and English subtitles got you English language and French subtitles. (Putting in English language got you French, and putting in French got you something that Kay says was still not Japanese. "I don't think the options we wanted were on that disc at all.")
24 hours, 49 posts, for the benefit of the Nature Conservancy, sponsored by XamJapan. My dice is not being sufficiently random: I may have to get Stef to start rolling for me. Either that or go do more magical girls.