Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202 Ai No Senshi-tachi Review

Overall	v
Story	4
Animation	8
Sound	10
Character	2
Enjoyment	vi

**Contains spoilers**

Yamato 2199 was bang-up, but not perfect: though the pacing could be meliorate, some plotlines led to nowhere, and Desler was way worse than his counterparts in all versions and remakes of the original anime (except his counterpart in the 2010 live-action), the character evolution and animation, alongside the spectacular soundtrack remade by Akira Miyagawa, the son of Hiroshi Miyagawa, the original composer of the OSTs, plot and dialog, made 2199 a great infinite opera and remake of the original.

As a issue, 2202 was expected to be even greater, bigger, and amend than 2199, given how keen its precursor was and how amazing the original material is. However, information technology would exist no like shooting fish in a barrel task, 2202 had to remake two dissimilar - nevertheless complementary materials, Farewell to Yamato and the TV series Yamato two.

While Yamato 2 had to stretch the 2-hour long story of Adieu to Yamato into a 26 episode series (and make a new ending), it succeeded in many aspects and failed in others: the overall plot of the series was better and aslope the new OST and mecha, allowed Yamato 2 to feature many new facets unexplored that the original Idiot box series and Farewell, such as villains subplots, good battle strategies, and the Yamato being unable to do anything in some situations. Nonetheless, Yamato 2 failed to touch audiences with the same drama that Goodbye had and some subplots were irksome, east.yard. Shima and Teresa'due south love story.

With that in heed, 2202 could easily accept the strong points of the originals and 2199 to craft a good sequel and remake. However, 2202 fails at information technology; "Soldiers of Love", except for the boxing at planet eleven, the presence of the space fireflies, and some other pocket-sized points, almost fully ignores the majority of the potent points of Yamato 2. No villain subplots, no iconic mecha from the series (eg. World'due south aircraft carriers), none of the battle strategies, and none of the memorable graphic symbol moments.

The new managing director Nobuyosh Haraba and scriptwriter Harutoshi Fukui chose something unlike: they would take the original plot of Farewell to Yamato and add together their new elements to the mix. Still, the idea backfired: Yamato 2202 turned out to be a mess.

Firstly, the insertion of the new philosophical element into the serial isn't done in a smart matter. Indeed, some might argue that it represents Nishizaki'south vision of love (vision of which bothered Leiji Matsumoto and so much to the point where he reportedly refused to work on the last scenes of Bye Yamato due to his ain feelings on the subject), but what one truly observes is that it, practically speaking, only serves every bit a way to explain plot devices and to allow Zordar to make some nonsensical and monotonous dialogs. The blaring and unstoppable talking about "honey" more alienates viewers than highlights the themes of the series.

When one talks about characters, the core aspect of the originals and 2199, the results are sad: almost none of them develop that much, characters that were much stronger and charismatic, such as Kodai and Kato, are incoherent to their previous counterparts of the remakes, Yuki and Akira now don't accept half of their personalities, and Desler, which surprisingly gets a retcon of his version from 2199 and whose return is not explained at all, is tedious.

New characters also don't get whatever amend, Zordar is a philosopher with a terrible motivation, Sabera, and all Gatlantis officers are simply plot devices, Teresa, Saito, Hijikata, Yamanami, equally well every bit the whole Andromeda fleet (which were supposed to be a large matter in this season) are underused, and the Ginga shouldn't even exist in the first place. The only grapheme that gets some decent development here is Kiman, who is unfortunately affected past the occasionally clucky dialog of the series.

As for the action, the use of CGI in the testify is good, but not perfect: ships sometimes feel weightless and the Yamato doesn't get the same level of detail on its big scratches after every battle as it did in 2199. 2D animation, fortunately, is in the same standard equally it was in the offset flavor.

The mecha designs are a mixed handbag: while some are adept and detailed, adding a lot to the series, others have a debatable quality, such equally the Earth'south new aircraft carriers, the Ginga with its glass dome, and the Comet Empire'southward new "true class", which completely obliterated the original design (the aforementioned here applies to Zordar dreadnought, although this one might take happened due to budget reasons).

The management of the activeness scenes is good, despite the overuse of the Wave Move Gun (which caused a loss to its dramatic effect) the action here is i of the best things in 2202, however, given how there's picayune emotional zipper to being found between the viewer and the characters, especially new ones, some scenes are frequently very banal.

Equally for the drama, it is even more than diluted than the one in Yamato 2. Characters here die for the sake of dying, Saito's, Kiman's and Higashikata'south deaths don't have a fraction of their original deaths. And Kato had a decease so mediocre it was comical.

The soundtrack is absolutely the best matter of the series, although Akira Miyagawa's style is somewhat different than the 1 from his father, being more than bombastic and colorful, his additions are often amazing (cf. Tsubasa).

Overall, Yamato 2202 is a disappointment for a show that had everything to be great but turned out to be mediocre as a show and as a remake. If you want modernistic activeness scenes, go for it, merely if you lot want a better sequel to the first season, I recall both Farewell to Yamato and Yamato two are more worth your time and investment.

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