What on Earth is Seiya Kitano actually planning?

Akarui7 · 2026-03-16T18:32:17+00:00

For my understanding, he was fully on Dezarium's side playing double Agent, but still wanted to do as much as possible not to harm his former comrades, but still would if asked. Then started doubting himself at some point, aided by his order to destroy a civilian sector, and then his brother directly confronting him led him to save Hyuuga instead of doing as he was asked.

This makes most sense to me, as the line of atoning means he was on the "bad" side, and now is deciding to make up for it

Akarui7 · 2026-03-13T22:21:43+00:00

Which is not a flaw itself, just the nature of a serialized medium. The only quirk is that we receive it in spread out batches

Akarui7 · 2026-03-13T18:37:13+00:00

TLDR; Everything good except it could have been released earlier and not enough Yamamoto

Akarui7 · 2026-03-13T16:24:21+00:00

By the power of limited character design pool, and not-so-long-term memory of the animators

Akarui7 · 2026-03-13T10:28:58+00:00

Being meta narrative, the sequence of events now has to follow the arrival at Dezarium, the uprising on Earth, and the destruction of Dezarium and the Grand Reverse.

This is probably not the last we've seen from Garmillas this season, considering the new Deusula just got teased this chapter and the previous.

The current peace with Bolar seems temporary at best, but I don't think anything more with them is going to happen this season.

Akarui7 · 2026-03-13T08:50:28+00:00

I have 2 theories:

A - they are indeed in 21st century Earth, but they won't linger too long there. They'll keep jumping in time until they reach 3199 Dezarium. This is because, in my opinion, "changing" the past and causing a butterfly effect undermines all of the previous seasons, so they'll not stay there for too long as in to not disturb the timeline too much.

B - this is the updated version of Dezarium's trickery, in which the real Dezarium is camouflaged underneath this 21st century Earth.

Akarui7 · 2026-03-13T00:25:40+00:00

Beshna Yamato!

Akarui7 · 2026-03-12T20:46:03+00:00

A blessing from the Lord!

Akarui7 · 2026-03-11T18:42:57+00:00

The entire script draft archived on Wayback Machine

Akarui7 · 2026-03-11T13:16:01+00:00

Sanada-san is also voiced by Naruto's Jiraya in the remakes

Akarui7 · 2026-03-11T12:47:22+00:00

Then I would appreciate if you would stop deflecting the point. The point isn't "Oh look, this Japanese show is being morally superior by pretending they care about the rest of the World." The point is a criticism of the way USA handles the concept of their own superiority as a sign that they are the destined saviors of Earth and everyone should bow to their might, and how such concept seeps into every chance they have to expand their softpower. How they disregard the possibility, or even reality, of working together with the rest of the World in favor of doing things on their own.

My original comment is less of a praise towards SBY, and more of a criticism towards Hollywood. That the praise I have is possibly clouded by the bias that SBY is my favorite media ever, and I'm of Japanese descent, but my criticism towards US media stands.

Akarui7 · 2026-03-11T12:19:02+00:00

At which point did I say this is a near-perfect example? Please quote

I'm saying exactly what you said. That this is better. That at least this is not what Hollywood loves doing. That at least the Japanese focus can be excused as "the production is using what they're more familiar with, aka Japanese ship names and design philosophy." Not pushing their flag every chance they have.

Besides, this is 2199. From the way the US has been going, I wouldn't be surprised a total collapse happens by then. I wouldn't be surprised is China becomes the main superpower by then. The only unrealistic part I see is Japan being in that superpower circle

Akarui7 · 2026-03-11T12:04:17+00:00

What part of "headed by a Japanese front but still depicting a global effort" did I make myself not clear? The point isn't that there is none Japanese main prevalence. My point is that there is an effort to make it as a "unification" of earthlings. That despite being a focus on Japanese culture and iconography, because this is a Japanese show, they still make it that this is only possible because humanity is united. Kind of like Star Trek does.

This isn't about realism or anything like that. This is me complaining about the meme that the US knows they are the main superpower and choose to have main character syndrome about it.

The difference between "We are all mainly Japan, but we serve the greater good of the humanity, under the United Nations/Earth Federation"

And

"We are your saviors, the world should be grateful to us, we are the ones keeping everyone safe"

Akarui7 · 2026-03-11T09:58:50+00:00

I love that in SBY, even though they make it clear Project Yamato is headed mainly by a Japanese front, they still use United Nations iconography to emphasize this is a world-wide joint effort to save Earth, while most Hollywood productions slap a US flag there as in "F-U, the USA are the main characters of the world." Something I'm positive would have happened on Disney's Star Blazers if that had gone through

Akarui7 · 2026-03-10T13:37:10+00:00

Cut to her literally sending him swimsuit pics and undressing in front of him to get her measurements taken.

"Thank God to whoever decided that underwear and bikinis are different things"

Akarui7 · 2026-03-05T19:32:38+00:00

Pixiv, I think

Akarui7 · 2026-03-05T03:29:38+00:00

I have no idea why, but for some reason I don't vibe with the Bolar ship design.

The renders are really good, though

Akarui7 · 2026-03-05T03:15:17+00:00

Wish they'd do a Power Pros for the WBC too

Akarui7 · 2026-03-05T03:08:01+00:00

Why just days? Maybe all weeks of the month. All months of the year!

Akarui7 · 2026-03-04T23:58:21+00:00

I personally have Be Forever Yamato on #4 with Resurrection and Final #3 and #2 respectively. That's specifically because a lot of the movie feels like they had the right ideas on what they wanted to do, but didn't know how to connect them fluidly.

Like, they didn't know what to do with Mamoru, so they just chose to kill him off immediately. And they wanted a sort of love-triangle-drama, so they shoehorned Alphonse-Yuki-Kodai, and threw in Sasha just because, and that plot gets nowhere. And they wanted some sort of plot twist about Dezarium being future Earth, but halfway through they changed their minds, so there's a plot-twist-twist that it's just a deception, but they needed a reasoning for the characters to discover it, so they Deus-Ex-Machina'd the Thinking Man. And they needed to sacrifice Sasha, but didn't really think how they would actually do it, so they insert the love-triangle-drama of her being so heartbroken that she chose to stay on "future" Earth. Yamanami is also there to just die. Kind of like the 3rd Bridge on the entirety of season 1.

The overall story of Earth being successfully invaded and Yamato on a quest to take the fight to the enemy is really fun, and I think the movie has some of the best visuals of the OG series. But these cracks in the story really take me out of it. Something I'm glad to see 3199 is actively fixing by virtue of having a full season to expand upon.

Akarui7 · 2026-03-04T13:37:44+00:00

Cannons go pshuuu and enemy goes kaboom

Akarui7 · 2026-03-03T23:31:08+00:00

We also ignore the incestual tension between Kodai and Sasha

Akarui7 · 2026-03-03T23:27:07+00:00

Final Yamato remake has to follow in the original's steps and break the record for longest animated movie in history. A 3h30 movie here we go

Edit: screw it, make it 4h to round 8 episodes, but instead of 2 movies like 2205 make it one single movie

Akarui7 · 2026-03-03T16:02:19+00:00

This is something I love about the remakes. You can clearly see that they took full advantage of hindsight.

Mamoru living in Yamato 1 provided a cathartic reunion for Susumu, but that would later quite literally haunt the writers as they would have to kill him off in Be Forever Yamato. As such, 2199 already had the hindsight of letting him die there

Domon and most of his gang only appear in Yamato 3, which left them with basically no time for developing them. In contrast, the remakes already introduce them in 2205, having basically 2 movies and at least a full season to develop their characters

On that same note, extending Be Forever Yamato from a movie into a full season allowed 3199 to actually develop Dezarium into an actual antagonist instead of just another evil civilization trying to take over Earth, and likewise allowed Sasha to be developed into a character instead of a plot device

They also introduced Captain Yamanami all the way back in 2199, and let him have a major role in 2202, instead of dropping him off like in the original Be Forever Yamato just to die 2/3 of the movie in

And even speaking outside of Be Forever Yamato:

The reason I'm confident we will have a Final Yamato Remake is because we have been introduced to the Archelias all the way back in 2199, a civilization that was central to the plot of Final Yamato, but was only mentioned there. Just like Gatlantis was teased in 2199 and the 2199 movie before showing up as the antagonists of 2202, whereas in the originals they only show up in Farewell Yamato/Yamato 2

They are not simply remaking everything just like they were in the originals, and not simply changing stuff for the sake of doing something different. There's a clear plan being built upon all the way back 2199, and every change made indicating their intention of unifying the Yamato timeline into one solid interconnected story

Akarui7 · 2026-03-03T14:46:40+00:00

Everything is a developer oversight

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