2nd film in 2-part project opens on February 4
The official website for the modern
Star Blazers
:
Space Battleship Yamato
anime remakes began streaming the teaser trailer for the
Uch? Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi
- K?sh? -STASHA-
(
Space Battleship Yamato
2205: The New Voyage Part II: Stasha) film on Friday. The film is the second of
two
films in the
Uch? Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi
(Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage) sequel
project
, and it will open on February 4, 2022.
The teaser first appeared at the end of the first film. The website also posted a video of interviews with the main staff:
Uch? Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi
- Zensh? -TAKE OFF-
, the first of the two films, opened in Japan on October 8. As in prior films in the remake series, a special edition Blu-ray Disc of the film is 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.
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