AMV Of The Day: Serve and Protect (Space Battleship Yamato 2199)

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Lisa Marie Bowman

It’s been a while since we did an AMV of the Day post here at the Shattered Lens. With today being World UFO Day, this seems like a good time to rectify that situation. And what better way to do it than with an AMV that features a lot of spaceships blowing up?

I have to admit that I kinda missed the whole news cycle where the President proposed a Space Force and it would appear that most people have now moved on from it. (That’s what happens when each news cycle only lasts for 5 hours.) Personally, I think it would be kinda neat to have a Space Force, just in case the Space Bugs turn out to be real or whatever. Plus, it would probably be fun to conquer other planets. As the old saying goes, “Earth first! Makes Mars our bitch!” Though if an American Space Force conquered Mars, wouldn’t that makes Mars the 51st state or something? Or the 54th, assuming that California splits up before we get around to invading the red planet? I don’t know. I’m not really into politics so I can’t say for sure.

Anyway, if we do get a Space Force, I imagine it’ll look something like this video.

Anime: Space Battleship Yamato 2199

Song: Pitch Hammer Music — Serve and Protect

Creator: Craterkhan

Past AMVs of the Day

Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection Licensed by FUNimation (w/ bonus)

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Arleigh

This weekend was Otakon 2012. It’s sort of like the East Coast’s answer to Anime Expo. It’s the largest anime and Japanese pop culture convention on the East Coast and pretty much those who are not able to attend Anime Expo end up in Baltimore for this event. While pantsukudasai and I weren’t able to attend news still able to be had from the event by way of other means. Anime News Network has news from the FUNimation Entertainment industry panel during this year’s Otakon. This news is pretty much which new anime FUNimation has acquired the licensing rights to for the North American market.

One bit of news from this panel is that the company has acquired the North American licensing rights to the newest anime film bearing the title Space Battleship Yamato (Uchū Senkan Yamato). This Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (Uchū Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu Hen)and will take place 21 years after the events of the original series and 17 years after the anime film Final Yamato. This is very good news indeed with a new anime series already under way in Japan with the reboot Space Battleship Yamato 2199. It’s a good day to be a fan of the franchise.

It was the original series, retitled Starblazers in the US, that first hooked me into anime. I was barely 8 when I caught the series on syndication and to say that it blew my mind with it’s space opera action, drama and romance would be an understatement. For most American kids cartoons never involved such topics and themes as death, self-sacrifice, genocide and a host of other very heavy stuff. This series opened things up for me that cartoons need not be all safe and fun and games (though Tom and Jerry proved that ultra-violence wasn’t just in anime).

It’s going to be great to finally see a new series and film with the advancement in the animation process tackle this well-known franchise. It’ll be great to just see the Space Battleship Yamato ply the cosmos once again.

Here’s a 9-minute preview of the series that shows just how awesome the series is in addition to the film announced.