This is a review that i wrote after i watched the first season of this show remastered , in other words Space Battleship Yamato 2199 . Also beware , there are spoilers ahead , and some big ones i might add . By the way , i will compare this with the Yamato 20199 , so if you didn’t watch that i suggest that you won’t read this . First of all i have to say this season had some plot holes that could've been avoided , spoilers incoming . In the end Teresa could've just teleported Kodai near Zorder and killed him there andshe wouldn't had to die . Yamamoto could've ejected not salute Kodai like a idiot and Saito would've lived if he didn't go Guns Blazing ...
For some reason i find anime this old influenced by cartoons of the same age , you will see what i am talking about if you will watch Yamato 2199 and after that this as a second season , and no , i am not talking about the animation , sound , voice acting and so on , from my point of view this lacked the anime feeling that nowadays shows have .
The biggest dissapointment was character interactions , in the first season ( Yamato 2199 ) when Yuki ‘ died ‘ our protagonist was devastated in the least , he acted , if you can say that , like a normal anime character , but when Shima ‘ died ‘ in the second season he was trembling for a few seconds after that he had nothing , but why would he , it was just his best friend that just died , he was a minor character like that Arakome guy ( Rookie ) after all .
And that’s not all it felt like there was some kind of distance between characters , they acted like robots or maybe that’s what I was seeing .
If we get passed this point there is still something that bothered me , the plot holes that I talked about earlier . There were a lot of chances to avoid stupid battles and stupid deaths , but for some reason the author wanted some of the crew to die just to get things more emotional , I for one don’t find that a good idea , some of you might think that I watched to much Bleach where characters refuse to die , but meaningless death is retarded , even in anime .
Ok , now that I said what I didn’t liked about this , let me say what I liked about this show .
Lets start with the story , a generic one , like the first season they take Yamato and go to a lady that summoned them for a reason that will be told after a few episodes . Personally I don’t dislike this kind of story , even if it was used a hundred times at least , but saving the Earth from bad aliens never gets old .
Animation is good if you think 30 years in the past , as some other reviewer said the animation was top notch then by those standards and I have to agree with him/her .
The OST is just perfect for this anime , better said it wouldn’t fit for any other show except this . The opening song is something very catchy and I found myself listening to it almost every eps , talk about weird , the music when Yamato was in danger or when it was almost certain of victory fit like a glove . But what could’ve they done better was the sound of the engines of the ships and those lasers , damn that sounded like someone scratched the blackboard .

I think I said enough of the characters , if I will add some more someone might trace my IP and wait for me at nearest corner with a bat .

For some closure I will say that this could’ve been done better , but still I found this rather enjoyable .
My only wish is that this season and the third one will get a remaster version .
Thanks for reading .