Final Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Anime Film Previewed in
Teaser Video
The official website for the Star
Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai
no Senshi-tachi or Space
Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love) anime sequel project began streaming a teaser video on Thursday for the
seventh and final film in the project, subtitled "Shinsei-hen" (Nova
Chapter).
The film will open in 35 theaters in Japan on March 1, 2019. As
with previous films in the series, theaters screening the film will begin
selling a limited-edition Blu-ray Disc of the film on March 1. The film's
standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc will ship on April 26.
The sixth
film opened in 35 theaters in Japan on November 2. The anime
project's television version premiered on October 5 in Japan.
The project's
first film, subtitled "KÅshi-hen" (Starting Chapter), premiered in
Japan in February 2017. The second film, subtitled "Hasshin-hen"
(Departure Chapter), opened in Japan in June 2017. The third film,
subtitled "Junai-hen" (Pure Love Chapter), opened in Japan in October
2017. The fourth film, subtitled "Tenmei-hen" (Karma Chapter), opened
in Japan on January 27. The fifth film, subtitled "Rengoku-hen"
(Purgatory Chapter), opened in Japan on May 25.
Nobuyoshi Habara (Fafner and Fafner EXODUS director, episode
director and storyboard writer for Star Blazers 2199) is directing the new
anime, and Harutoshi Fukui (Mobile Suit Gundam UC original novel
writer, screenplay for Harlock: Space Pirate) is writing and overseeing the scripts. The late Yoshinobu Nishizaki is credited with the original work, and his son Shoji Nishizaki (Star
Blazers 2199 planning, producer for Space Battleship Yamato
Resurrection)
is the executive producer. Additionally, Makoto
Kobayashi is
serving as assistant director, and JunichirÅ Tamamori and Yasushi Ishizu are the mechanical designers. Nobuteru Yuki is the character designer, and Akira Miyagawa is composing the music.
Crunchyroll began streaming the anime on May 9, and Funimation also began streaming an English dub on the same
day.
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