November 17, 2015
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
So I just powered through the 26 episodes that I downloaded in 2012.... There's a lot like that on the drive.
There's a lot more character and refinement then in the "Star Blazers" of my youth, and a lot more fan service. And for the purposes of this, they expanded the distaff portion of the crew so as to improve on the Smurf Village demographics the old series had.
But when I talk about fan service... Christ, I've joked about "Perineum-Cam", and "vacuum-sealed for freshness" flight suits, but the combination.... added to the artistically included seams and zippers in said catflightsuits, only the coloration avoids looking like something much less seemly.
In fact, it seems to be a trend in mecha and space shows to design women's uniforms and spacesuits with suggestive outlines. Even the innocent Moretsu Space Pirates featured space suits with an outline emphasizing a certain area. and the men's suits did not feature similar "relief ports."
Watch this space, I'm gonna collect some screencaps. Purely for research purposes, I promise.
There's a lot more character and refinement then in the "Star Blazers" of my youth, and a lot more fan service. And for the purposes of this, they expanded the distaff portion of the crew so as to improve on the Smurf Village demographics the old series had.
But when I talk about fan service... Christ, I've joked about "Perineum-Cam", and "vacuum-sealed for freshness" flight suits, but the combination.... added to the artistically included seams and zippers in said catflightsuits, only the coloration avoids looking like something much less seemly.
In fact, it seems to be a trend in mecha and space shows to design women's uniforms and spacesuits with suggestive outlines. Even the innocent Moretsu Space Pirates featured space suits with an outline emphasizing a certain area. and the men's suits did not feature similar "relief ports."
Watch this space, I'm gonna collect some screencaps. Purely for research purposes, I promise.
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I saw a couple of episodes and it seemed quite worthy, but something didn't come together for me to watch it.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at November 18, 2015 08:12 AM (XOPVE)
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I think because the original Yamato series was so much longer, the new one suffers from trying to put that much story, and more, into 26 episodes. They hit all the right notes, but only briefly. Still, some of the sub-plots, like the attempted Mutiny by those supporting a human colonization plan over the Yamato plan are a lot more mature. But the scale of the show contracts a bit when they go into the Yuki being kidnapped and mistaken for an Iskandarian princess portion of the story.
Posted by: Mauser at November 19, 2015 01:00 AM (5Ktpu)
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