lol, found the Final Yamato sex scene on YouTube.
It’s more tasteful than I had thought it would be. Then again, I should have figured it wouldn’t be all out porno. I guess it’s pretty progressive for its time, except not, given the scene was cut out in subsequent releases.
So, that was the end of Yamato. I’ve pretty much seen all of it now, except for the third series, which I hear was as much of a non-event as this movie was, so whatever. I am really disapointed that the version I got didn’t have the scene in which Yuki and Kodai fuck. Unless Macias and Wikipedia are lying to me. I guess I gotta track that down, somehow.
In the meantime, does anyone happen to have the mp3 for this Yamato BGM that they play all the time? It’s called Mugen ni Hirogaru Daiuchuu. thx
It works just as well, if not better without text, too.
A simple one this week, and there’s going to be another simple one next week. Reason being I want to focus on doing some non-comic art for a bit. fun start soon now is always neglected, and I want to flesh it out with some pictures. I always get ideas, but I never find to time to put them to paper past very rough planning sketches. As you can see, I just updated the art site with some (slightly NSFW) Halloween-themed art. There’s also a wallpaper of it.
I just finished Yamato 2, and overall I felt it was a big step above the previous series. The only real bad parts were how near the beginning the Yamato was just owning entire battleships with one shot (lol, Jesus Yamato) and the ending. By the end it seems they wanted to stick as close as possible to the end of the movie version, just with less people dying. Because of this, they kind of write themselves into a corner, then bring out a magical Deux Ex Machina to save the day. I came to like Dessler a lot more in this series. He seemed kind of lame in the first one, but he really came into his own as a True Anime Badass in this one, truly deserving of this song. Now, all I have to do is finish Rocket Girls, then move on to Yamamoto Yoko, and then finally finish off Planetes. After that, I think I would have had enough of spaceships, so I think I’ll move on to re-watching some old sexy comedies. HiMM and Shuffle! are far overdue for a good re-watch…
That’s it for this week. Catch you guys again later.
This entry will have spoilers for FAREWELL SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO. But spoiling Yamato is like spoiling King Kong so no one should care.
…except it wasn’t that epic?
Like every anime fan should once in his lifetime, I sat down and watched the highly influential Space Battleship Yamato. However, I came out rather underwhelmed. For a show that’s been remembered throughout the years as a classic, I expected a bit more. On the whole, the entire production seemed fairly amateur. I’m not talking about animation or audio quality– just the basics like storytelling and character development. It’s all very simple, and that isn’t especially a good thing.
Yamato is old though. Like a friend of mine said yesterday, Yamato is just Yamato. In the same way Pacman is Pacman. You can’t rate Yamato by today’s standards, as things were simply different back then. Obviously animation wasn’t that great, but the medium of Japanese animation was still coming into itself as a means of storytelling. People probably just started with what’s a easy, and monster of the week is pretty damn easy! Yamato wasn’t meant to have the kind of constant “to be continued” found in most anime, it’s just a simple TV show.
What I do find funny is how taken I am with the original Gundam. From roughly the same era, and suffering from the problems, the Gundam TV series is one of my favourites. I think it’s probably because you can tie random events together better in a war setting (as they change the course of war) but Yamato is random events happening along a journey, and everything gets fixed in the next episode.
I am dowloading the movies now, and plan to watch series 2, but all for educational value. I learned a lot through Yamato, surprisingly enough. If I happen to find it really good then I guess that’s a plus.
This comic isn’t very funny. It’s just me saying Gundam 00 will suck. Again. But the art is pretty so that makes up for it. Also, I think I’m making some kind of hamfisted point by having Ideon and original Gundam posters in the background but I’m not sure what exactly that point is yet. I don’t have a solid idea for next week yet which is troubling. Maybe I’ll talk about the Bokura No director, or mock Xenoglossia, or talk about Gurren Lagann. I dunno. Oh yeah, got a bit of fanart. It can be found here.
I could not have said it better myself.
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