08-26-2015, 09:49 PM
(08-26-2015, 11:10 AM)Saberuneko Wrote:(08-26-2015, 05:51 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: ...after watching Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, having the bridge outside and on top isnt all bad, in case the ship is too badly damaged it can detach and fly away assuming no one shoots it first.
The only issue I see with the SB Yamato is that the only defense it has on the bottom on the ship is a painted floating line to disuade enemies from getting under it.
No cannons on the ship's belly, none. xD
In SBY 2199 the anime, it doesn't need them. Though is true that the main guns are only on the gun deck, and the painted line is in fact where the water line should be, it is demonstrated to have a multitude of bottom-firing torpedos and side-mounted machine guns.
Consider though that Space Battleship Yamato was originally a 1970s anime, and in fact set many of the conventions associated with scifi and space battles in anime such as the lengthy and detailed engine start sequence with flywheel status callouts that have continued even into more modern works featuring craft that would not have needed a flywheel at all or would not have had to monitor flywheel status so closely.
SBY 2199 is a remake of that original 1970s anime, modernizing the artwork and making a few changes to the script and crew arrangements. It has more women aboard than the original for instance, as well as the hull itself being different- in the original anime, the Yamato was in fact the very same Yamato from WWII, presumed in the 1970s to have sunk largely intact. In the time between the original and the remake it was discovered that the Yamato wreck was badly damaged, and since there were discrepancies between the hull dimensions given in SBY and Reality the remake script changed it to where the original yamato was merely a camoflage shell inside which a new Yamato was constructed. They kept the iconic shape though.
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