Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi

Three years since the return of the legendary Space Battleship Yamato, Earth has begun rebuilding itself and has made peace with the Gamilans. However, this recovery comes at the cost of utilizing the forbidden Wave Motion technology.

Meanwhile, the notorious former crew members of the Yamato, who have each gone their separate ways, receive a psychic message from the mysterious Goddess Teresa. She urges them to return to their beloved ship and travel to the distant planet Terezart. They are promised a revolutionary power to combat the unprecedented threat of the relentless Gatlantis Empire, who are approaching Earth with all but innocent intentions.

Unable to resist her plea, the crew reassembles and sets sail on another perilous intergalactic voyage, one that will test their sheer courage and versatility in the face of an even greater foe.

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Kodai, Susumu Main

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Mori, Yuki Main

Kuwashima, Houko Japanese

Okita, Juuzou Supporting

Sugou, Takayuki Japanese

Desler, Aberdt Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Yamamoto, Akira Supporting

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Sanada, Shirou Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Niimi, Kaoru Supporting

Hisakawa, Aya Japanese

Frakken, Wolf Supporting

Nakata, Jouji Japanese

Analyzer Supporting

Cho Japanese

Kiryuu, Mikage Supporting

Nakamura, Eriko Japanese

Habara, Nobuyoshi Director

Hoshino, Makoto Episode Director

Itoga, Shintarou Episode Director

Yano, Takanori Episode Director

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Jul 21, 2024

MarsRed22

Recommended

I honestly don't know, what to do with that Anime.
There where scenes that where really great, there where scenes, that where not so good, interesting, boring, puzzling, very important, unnecessary, a lot of mixed stuff but unequally distributed.
Overall the show was really god, but there where a lot of smaller flaws that made me struggle to rate the Anime between 7 and 10.
It is not a old Mobile Suit Gundam or Legend of Galactic Heroes, but it is close to be one.

First of all: The staging of the show was overall great:
- Epic Music, that sticks.
- Epic Battle scenes, that are actually meaningful and where ... you feel with the characters, because you are invested in them.
- And some emotional rides, filled with love, hate, despair etc.
You really could feel with the characters.

The show also manages to display the relationship between alien nations, that don't understand each other, but want to, very well.
And in the end nothing has feeled, like it was there just to happen or drive the plot.
Everything made sense and was logical in therms of behavior of characters or how the story developed.

But I have some issues with the Anime:
- The first part is just that classical journey, you know from the previous season and it got boring after a while.
The second part was much more interesting, especially when the stakes where raised and the evil came closer.

- Sometimes there where to much Alien characters and races and it was hard to follow, how they are connected and why they are, how they are.
It made more sense in the end, but the situations in between where sometimes explained not good enough.
You just get puzzeled over their names and history.
Also since they all have sub-groups with own goals and organisation structure.

- And I had some issues with the storytelling at some points.
There where scenes, where the characters where talking to much and especially to much nonsense.
In particular the monologues of the hero or the evil enemy where a bit to much sometimes, since they still talked although they had made their point already.
And while the animation quality was high class during the battles, the animation during monologues was quite bad.
Mostly just a static image, with 2 or 3 looped frames of mouth or eye movement.

- It would be good to cut out some scenes and therefor take a bit more time for some of the romantic relationships.
The Anime was sometimes focused to much on the main goal and battle.
Give the characters more room to breath. You know why some characters have fallen in love with each other, but the fun, happy scenes (beach, shoppingcenter or whatever you could imagine), where they actually come closer and had a meaningfull time where missing.
Do you really develop a relationship, by just working on a bridge the whole day or by flying next to each other on you own fighter plane?


In the end the show was well rounded, but could use some more equal distribution of polishing.
Some stuff seemed to perfectly flashed out, in the cost for the other ones.
And while most Anime want to work with some key scenes, that stuck, I want to rate the whole experience.
It is cool to bring back some interesting characters and concepts for the finally, like the space submarines, but keep an eye on the rest as well.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 5, 2022

robert788

Mixed Feelings

Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi (2017)

I think people need to calm down, it really isn't as bad as people think. Yes, it has a lot of copy-and-paste space fights but then the source it is based off is ancient compared to the shows people compare it with. The story I can admit was a bit heart-gushing compared to the previous one and is effectively the exact same storyline essentially but with a more powerful enemy. An enemy let us not forget in the first season that was held on a prison planet as weak now are coming from this absolutely unstoppable force.

Artistically ... speaking the show is just a more polished version of what we got before but that isn't bad since it makes the show bearable and not like watching something completely different. Seeing the new city and the old city used was a nice touch comparing the 2 seasons. I will say especially towards the end how the city on earth looks almost exactly the same as Atlantis from the Stargate Atlantis series, like literally an anime version of the CGI city with people living in it. Or maybe Stargate copied the design from the source here, who knows in the end.

The sound was pretty good, and a variety of SFX from battles along with the sometimes striking art was really great.

The characters were interesting and yet the same. Since it was essentially more or less the same show it was difficult to really get sucked into the stories. That said you do get some surprising events that happen along with a pretty rushed end.

With how the show ended I was left wanting more from the enemy, not just develop 0-100 in 2 seconds. It is a pretty enjoyable show all things said though.

8/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 1, 2019

solidbatman1

Not Recommended

As the credits finally began to roll for the last time of Yamato 2202 and Yamato Yori ai wo Komete played, I felt a sense of relief that this dreadful re-imagining of the 1978 Space Battleship Yamato II had reached its ill fated conclusion. I had gone into 2202 with incredibly high hopes after the spectacular Space Battleship Yamato 2199 introduced me to this wonderful universe. After completing 2199, I went back and watched nearly every single Yamato series and movie (season 3 is the sole exception here with no decent subtitles existing to my knowledge) I could get my hands on, eager to immerse ... myself into the trials and tribulations of the Yamato and her crew.

And then this series happened. Featuring a different director than 2199, and new character designs, Yamato 2202 failed spectacularly to capture any of the enjoyment and adoration I have for the rest of the franchise. The story is mostly made up of philosophical musings from the leader of the White Comet Empire revolving around the notion of love and humanity that never really develops into anything except a plot device to copy the ending of Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato and give it a new twist. Every time Zordar spoke, I found myself rolling my eyes at how shallow and silly the writing was. I am supportive of attempting to change the formula. After all, this is a re-imagining and not a full fledged remake of the original season 2. The execution, however, is conducted with all the skill and grace of a 12 year old writing a fan-fiction in their head during school as they day dream. The writing thinks it is far smarter and deeper than it actually is. Nothing ever quite comes together smoothly. Characters just die for the sake of dying while newly introduced characters are woefully underused despite being incredibly interesting and full of potential. Characters do not really develop much at all, save the space marines really. One character in particular is able to just magically figure things out and explain them to the audience because the show simply is unable to convey what is going on visually or through actual storytelling. In 2199, we would have been treated to scenes of characters researching and trying to understand things, allowing for explanations to the audience as they shared theories with one another and debated for an answer. In 2202, they just know things and that's that.

Visually, 2202 is a mixed bag. The space battles are wonderfully animated surpassing 2199 in the scale and quality and a magical plot device is able to keep Earth in the fight far longer than it had any right to be giving the viewer plenty of eye candy to watch during battles. Unfortunately, the character designs and direction during battles at times is jarring. Characters now look much less crisp than they did in 2199 instead with sketch lines and awkward looking faces due to oddly drawn mouths and noses. As for visual direction, there clearly was some sort of eye fetish going on. Many times in battles or even normal dialogue, the only thing we see is a characters eye/s as they stare in horror at something or just look at something in general. During one egregious part in the first episode, a large battle is taking place. As ships are destroyed, the camera keeps cutting back to Kodai over and over again as he makes the exact same determined, grit teeth, face for about 30 seconds. This sort of weird visual direction takes place multiple times during the show, with awkward, jarring cuts during dialogue and battle. At least the music is solid.

If you go into Yamato 2202 expecting nothing on the story or character development front, you are likely to find an enjoyable space action show. Otherwise, steer clear of this mangled mess of a re-imagining. As for me, I am just going to pretend that this was never made and rewatch the original season 2 and Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato film instead. That simple and basic writing of 1978 is somehow superior to the poor attempts of the 2202 team to re-imagine its namesake.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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