is the third theatrical film based on the classic anime series
Space Battleship Yamatois a Japanese science fiction anime series and the name of its eponymous space craft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers; an English-dubbed and partly edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television under the...
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The Black Nebula Empire, last seen in
Yamato: The New Voyagewas a television movie that was first broadcast on Fuji TV. This was the third movie in the Space Battleship Yamato saga...
launched a huge fortress into Earth's solar system. It plunged through Earth's defensive systems and landed on Earth, sending out invasion forces. A Black Nebulan fleet wiped out Earth's space fleets. The invasion fortress contained a bomb capable of destroying half the planet.
is the third theatrical film based on the classic anime series
Space Battleship Yamatois a Japanese science fiction anime series and the name of its eponymous space craft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers; an English-dubbed and partly edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television under the...
(known as
Star BlazersStar Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese science fiction trilogy anime series , first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular English-translated anime that had an over-arching plot and storyline that required the...
in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
).
Synopsis
The Black Nebula Empire, last seen in
Yamato: The New Voyagewas a television movie that was first broadcast on Fuji TV. This was the third movie in the Space Battleship Yamato saga...
launched a huge fortress into Earth's solar system. It plunged through Earth's defensive systems and landed on Earth, sending out invasion forces. A Black Nebulan fleet wiped out Earth's space fleets. The invasion fortress contained a bomb capable of destroying half the planet. The Nebulans would use it if attacked by Earth.
The Star Force was launched from a secret base in the asteroid belt with the mission of finding the Black Nebulan mother planet. It is from this planet that the bomb is controlled. Nova gets left behind on Earth and is captured by a kind Black Nebulan officer, Lt. Arufon. Wildstar's brother, Alex, dies (technically for the second time, because he was thought to have died in the quest for Iscandar) while escaping capture. The Earth government collapses.
The Black Nebula is a double, spiral galaxy very near the Milky Way. The disc that faces Earth is made of black, inert matter which obscures all light from the other disc. For this reason, it had never been seen before. The Star Force's encounter with the Black Nebulans in Yamato: New Journey is the only reason the Earthers now know of it.
The Star Force gets three new crew members. First is Cory Conroy, the original Conroy's younger brother. The original Conroy had died in the battle with the Comet Empire (as had Sgt. Knox, Hardy, O'Ryan, and possibly Trelaina [but with Trelaina, who knows what death means?]). The second member is Sasha, daughter of Starsha and Alex. Sasha has grown from infancy to a teen in about 1 Earth-year. This is the Iscandarian aging process. Amazingly, her education has kept pace. I guess it would not have made much sense to have an illiterate teenager who wasn't potty-trained manning the CosmoRadar. The third new member is a new captain, Captain Yamanami.
The Star Force reaches the other side of the Black Nebula, through a vortex at its center, revealing a grand, white galaxy, similar to the Milky Way. They follow a beacon signal to a planet that looks just like Earth. They land, and are greeted by an apparently-human woman, Sada, and two officers from the Black Nebulan Empire. They meet the Emperor, Scaldart, who also appears to be a human. He tells them that they are actually back in the Milky Way, in the year 2402. The vortex was a hole in time. The Earth has been under Black Nebulan rule for 200 years, and he is the (puppet) governor. Scaldart shows Derek and the landing party all sorts of collections of Earth's famous artwork, and, up on the Argo, the video screen scans the surface of the planet to find all of Earth's famous landmarks.
Scaldart shows them a time viewing machine which tells the history of the Star Force from 2199 up until the present. Then he shows them the future. The Argo, in orbit above Earth, is destroyed by the enemy's fleet and its flagship, the Grodaze, in 2402.
The landing crew returns, demoralised, to the Argo... except for Sasha who seems to have foreknowledge of her true destiny. She abandons the party and remains on conquered Earth. Alone on Earth's surface, her mother Starsha appears in a vision. She tells Sasha that she was born between Iscandar and Earth, and that her destiny is to die far from both, in service of both.
In orbit, the Argo is attacked by the Grodaze and its fleet. Beta particle guns rain fire onto the ship. But the Star Force's fateful instant of death does not come. Sandor figures out that the woman on the planet was not really human, and that the artworks were all frauds. Might the Earth below them not be Earth?
The Star Force turns around and fires the Wave Motion Gun at the Grodaze and its fleet, destroying them. But, the tachyon- based energy of the Wave Gun has an unexpected reaction with the beta particle energy systems of the exploding enemy ships. A huge cascade explosion forms over Earth, burning up much of its surface. The Earth, where Sasha remained, dissolves away in fire.
Within the fire is revealed the black skeleton of a planet, its twisting ribs formed into a sphere. It is not Earth, but the Black Nebulan mother planet, Dezarium. It was all an elaborate hoax designed to demoralize and defeat the Star Force. Scaldart pulls off the mask he wore to reveal his true Black Nebulan face.
Back on Earth, Lt. Arufon frees Nova, who then leads an assault on the fortress. She has a showdown with Arufon, who is then shot by another Earth trooper. Nova runs to catch Arufon's fall. Arufon tells her that his people are a race of cyborgs, who gave up most of their flesh for longer life through Mechanisms. But they almost lost the ability to love in the process. Arufon gives Nova the plans to the fortress, including instructions on how to disarm its hyperon bomb, and dies in her arms.
Sasha managed to survive the incineration of the surface by running into lower levels of the planet. She reaches a sub-control center and sends a communication to the Star Force, telling them that to destroy Dezarium, they must reach its core through a huge conduit she is about to open. Scaldart interrupts her message to warn the Star Force that if it proceeds any further, he will detonate the hyperon bomb on Earth.
From more than 200,000 light years away, Nova's radio message interrupts Scaldart telling the Star Force that she is alive, that the Earth forces have immobilised the fortress, and that the double-nucleus hyperon bomb has been disarmed.
The Argo speeds though the conduit, dodging all sorts of enemy fire. It reaches the center of the planet where it finds a huge crystal city all bound up in a spherical arragement... (looks something like a glass sea urchin). Buildings fly off and burst into missiles. The Argo is hit and Captain Yamanami is killed. Wilstar prepares the Wave Gun, but stops when he realises this will kill Sasha. But Sasha again radios the Star Force, insisting that they fire. This is her destiny. Scaldart finds and shoots Sasha. An enraged Wildstar pulls the Wave Gun trigger.
The blast sets off another explosive chain reaction. The Argo does a 180-degree turn and rushes out of the internal chamber entering into an emergency warp as it reaches the conduit exit. Dezarium explodes behind them, destroying the delicate gravitational balance between the two sides of the Double Galaxy. They crash into each other, becoming the birth of a new galaxy.
The Star Force warps home while Nova looks towards the glowing horizon for their return.
Cast
- Kei Tomiyama
' , born ', was a Japanese actor, seiyū, and narrator from Anshan, Manchukuo. During his life, Tomiyama was affiliated with Aoni Production and Production Baobab....
as Susumu Kodai
- Shuusei Nakamura as Daisuke Shima
- Youko Asagami as Yuki Mori
- Akira Kamiya
is a veteran seiyū who was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama. He has been represented by Theater Echo, Aoni Production, and others. He is currently represented by Saeba Shoji.-Career:...
as Shiro Kato
- Banjou Ginga as Grotas/Takashi Tanaka
- Ichirô Nagai
is a male seiyū from Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. He was formerly represented by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, but is now represented by Aoni Production.-Television animation:*Akuma-kun *Bikkuriman...
as Dr. Sakezo Sado
- Kazuo Hayashi
' is a Japanese actor and seiyū from Tokyo. He is affiliated with Theater Echo, and is skilled in Buyō.-Television animation:*Ippotsu Kanta-kun *Legendary Giant God Ideon *Pocket Monsters...
as Yasuo Nanbu
- Keiko Han
is a seiyū born on April 5, 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. She attended Tōyō Eiwa Jogakuin, going on to study theatre arts at Nihon University. She gained experience in theater while attending school by obtaining work through Aoni Production, singing the theme songs in productions such as Story of the Alps:...
as Sasha/Mio Sanada
- Kenichi Ogata
is a male seiyū from Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture.Some of his most notable projects have been Ranma ½ as Genma Saotome, Mahōjin Guru Guru as Kita Kita Oyaji, Case Closed as Professor Hiroshi Agasa, Atashin'chi as Father, and InuYasha as Myōga.The work in which he voiced the most characters was in the...
as Analyzer
- Masatô Ibu
-Films:*Maison Ikkoku *Empire of the Sun as Sgt. Nagata*Sukeban Deka *Dr. Akagi *Taboo *Godzilla vs. Megaguirus *Onmyoji II *Azumi *Godzilla: Final Wars *Azumi 2: Death or Love...
as Heikuro Todo
- Michio Hazama
' is a Japanese seiyū.-Television animation:*Anne of Green Gables *Game Center Arashi *Master Keaton *Monster *Star of the Giants...
as Narrarator
- Mikio Terashima as Sho Yamazaki
- Miyuki Ueda
, is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is married to singer Isao Sasaki and is a childhood friend of fellow voice actor Katsuji Mori.-TV anime:*Weiß Kreuz *Space Battleship Yamato **Space Battleship Yamato: The New Journey...
as Starsha
- Mugihito
, better known by his stage name of is a Japanese voice and stage actor from Musashino, Tokyo. He is employed by Media Force. Mugihito was formerly credited under his birth name and also...
as Kazan
- Nachi Nozawa
is a male seiyū, actor, and director from Tokyo.-Television animation:*Monkey Typhoon *Reign *Glass Mask *Mobile Fighter G Gundam...
as Alphon
- Osamu Kobayashi
Osamu Kobayashi may refer to:*Osamu Kobayashi in Tokyo. A Japanese voice actor*Osamu Kobayashi , animation director and founder of Ajia-do Animation Works*Osamu Kobayashi...
as Keisuke Yamanami
- Shinji Nomura as Yoshikazu Aihara
- Taichirou Hirokawa as Mamoru Kodai
- Takeshi Aono
is a seiyū and actor from Asahikawa, Hokkaidō affiliated with Aoni Production. He graduated from Hokkaidō Asahikawa Higashi High School....
as Shiro Sanada
- Tohru Furuya as Tasuke Tokugawa
- Tōru Ōhira
is a male Narrator and seiyū from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. He is a representative of Ōhira Production.One of his best known roles is the dub voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars...
as Skulldart
- Yoshito Yasuhara
is an actor and seiyū born on November 17, 1949 in Aioi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He is a member of Theatre Echo, a theatre troupe and talent management firm known for its comedy sketches...
as Kenjiro Ota
- Yumi Nakatani as Sada
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