The official website for the modern
Star Blazers
:
Space Battleship Yamato
anime remakes began streaming the first 14 minutes from
Uch? Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi
- Zensh? -TAKE OFF-
, the first of
two
planned films for the
Uch? Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi
(Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage) sequel
project
, on Monday. The website also posted a visual of the six members who are joining the crew. The same visual will be on an advance ticket MoviTicke Card that will go on sale on October 8 for the second film.
The first
Yamato 2205
film will open in Japan on October 8. As in prior films in the remake series, a special edition Blu-ray Disc of the film will be immediately available for purchase at the same time as the theatrical opening date, alongside digital cels, with a separate edition Blu-ray Disc and DVD release slated for November 26.
Returning cast members include (top row, left to right in image above)
Daisuke Ono
as Susumu Kodai,
Houko Kuwashima
as Yuki Mori, Houchu Ohtsuka as Shir? Sanada,
K?ichi Yamadera
as Abelt Dessler, and
Kikuko Inoue
as Starsha Iscandar.
Nobuhiko Okamoto
(bottom row, rightmost) also returns as Tasuke Tokugawa.
The new characters include (bottom row, first four from left to right)
Tasuku Hatanaka
as Ry?suke Domon,
Tomo Muranaka
as Miyako Ky?zuka,
Kento It?
as Shigeru Sakamoto, and
Wataru Hatano
as Heiji Band?.
Drawing its motifs from the 1979 television special
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
, the new two-film project's story begins three years after the war with the White Comet Empire. Kodai now commands the battleship
Yamato
with a new crew as they face another battle.
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
is a remake of the original 1974
Space Battleship Yamato
series created by
Leiji Matsumoto
and
Yoshinobu Nishizaki
. It first premiered in Japan as a series of seven movies shown theatrically in Japan from 2012 to 2013, before premiering on Japanese television in April 2013. The
Uch? Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune
anime film then opened in Japan in 2014.
As with
Yamato 2199
,
the
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202
sequel project premiered first as a series of seven films from June 2017 to March 2019.
Yamato 2202's
television
version
premiered
in October 2018 in Japan.
Crunchyroll
began
streaming
the anime in May 2019, and
Funimation
also began
streaming
an English
dub
.
Sources:
Star Blazers
:
Space Battleship Yamato
anime's
website
,
Comic Natalie