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The new TV Commercial for the December 2010 Live Action movie version has gone YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=jExoH_JjMZg

Holy Frak.

The second promo trailer is now up on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoHXxWg7pw4

As noted on several anime boards, it now looks like they're taking elements from the 2nd Yamato anime movie & TV series involving the Comet Empire, and adding it to the Iscandar voyage.

Konichiwa!! Both trailers are sooooo COOL!! I grew up up on the "americanized" version of the original Anime and to see this Anime brought tp life is amazing!


Abayo!!

The official movie site has put up a very impressive trailer (with the new Steven Tyler song)

http://yamato-movie.net/movie_yokoku.html

I can't wait to see this...could Macross be next???

It's funny, I was telling a guy at the office about Space Battleship Yamato, after I finally saw it for the first time earlier this year. He looked a little queasy, lol.

The very next day, I learned of the live action coming out. I don't think he will be interested in seeing it, but I am sure going to go.

The original link I posted appears to have gone dead.

Here's the official English-language version of the website, with a sub-titled version of the trailer:

http://yamato-movie.net/en/index.html

First review of the live-action movie that was privately screened in California recently (some spoilers):

http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/SearchA ... e6393.aspx

Sci-Fi Japan's review of the live-action movie that screened in L.A. earlier this month (spoilers):

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2010 ... d-tragedy/

Anyone in the U.S. watch the Macey's Paraid? The NYPD marching band was playing the theme song to Space Battleship Yamamoto, they even anouced that was the song they were playing on the commantary on NBC.

Gallennon wrote:Anyone in the U.S. watch the Macey's Paraid? The NYPD marching band was playing the theme song to Space Battleship Yamamoto, they even anouced that was the song they were playing on the commantary on NBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHWJ4ncNjU

Gallennon wrote:Anyone in the U.S. watch the Macey's Paraid? The NYPD marching band was playing the theme song to Space Battleship Yamamoto, they even anouced that was the song they were playing on the commantary on NBC.

That's pretty neat even if Al Roker mangled the pronunciation of "Yamato" a little bit.

On a similar note, here's a video of a Japanese Coast Guard band playing the theme song from Neon Genesis Evangelion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjIy0XQGi4

Yamato movie lead actor, Kimura Takuya, is a member of the band SMAP, and their FujiTV show has been showing footage from the movie that opened yesterday (Japan time).

[Spoilers, obviously]

The first two minutes of the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk5AyXPfVZs

The launch sequence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nIej5weq1U

Nice to hear the original theme music used again to good effect.

I wanted to get this to have on hand before my friend from Japan comes back in town... there is no word anywhere on the 'net for a region 1 (U.S., etc.) release. Looks singularly awesome.
Have you folks heard anything?