Space Battleship Yamato soundtrack (Columbia)
Yamato is experiencing a huge boom with a movie, TV reruns, and records. Check out the color photo spread in this month’s issue. Yuki-chan is just so cute!
In the year 2199, Earth is under attack from alien invaders, the Gamilas, and humanity is on the brink of extension.
The surface of Earth is ravaged by radiation, turning red and festering. The seas are dry, and people have taken refuge in underground cities. However, even there, the radioactive contamination is rapidly in encroaching, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction with only one year to go.
At that time, a message arrives from Iscandar, a planet of love and peace, which is the twin planet to Gamilas. They say to come and get the Cosmo Cleaner, the only way to remove radioactive contamination and save Earth.
The message then concludes with blueprints for a Wave-Motion Engine that can warp spacetime and propel a spacecraft beyond the speed of light, enabling a round-trip of 296,000 light years within one year.
They immediately build the Wave-Motion Engine and attach it to the Space Battleship Yamato. Under the command of Captain Juzo Okita, the crew, including Susumu Kodai, Daisuke Shima, and Yuki Mori, set off for Iscandar.
However, along the way, the Gamilas fleet is waiting to thwart the plan, and a fierce space war begins. Many crew members fall, and Yamato is severely damaged and pushed to its limits, but Captain Okita and Kodai’s indomitable fighting spirit finally allows them to complete their mission, defeat Gamilas, receive the Cosmo Cleaner, and bring it back to Earth, saving humanity from the brink of extinction.
The sheer terror and surrealism of a ship flying through the air, reminiscent of the infamous “ghost ship of the desert” sends shivers down your spine, and that’s precisely where the allure of Space Battleship Yamato lies.
The Enterprise, from the American sci-fi drama Star Trek, has a similar warp drive and weapons, such as phasers and photo torpedoes, and looks very much like a spaceship. In contrast, the fact that this ship that seems absurd but feels so real when you watch it, must be because there is something fascinating about a ship that is supposed to float on water, but flies through the air.
Although cleverly stylized, Yamato, which is almost identical in shape to the battleship Yamato, sails through the vast expanse of space, twinkling with countless stars, with a sense of weight (let’s not even mention zero gravity right now) creating an unforgettable and inspiring site.