{"id":1511,"date":"2013-06-25T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2013-06-25T05:37:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T05:37:17","slug":"408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/408\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Pluto Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/407'>Back up to previous segment<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40801.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40802.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Yamato<\/em>&#8216;s fighters fly into action. In Version A they fly into dark, empty space. Version B is enlivened by more colorful, dramatic backgrounds and mist effects.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40803.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40804.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Kodai and Yuki fly into a dogfight together and he is wounded by shrapnel. Fortunately, the Cosmo Zero&#8217;s canopy is not breached for some reason. Version B adds mist effects to these cockpit scenes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40805.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the dogfight, <em>Yamato<\/em>&#8216;s guns rotate to deliver the knockout blow against Lugal&#8217;s fleet. <em>Yamato<\/em> took some hits, and smoke flows through the scene in Version A. It was deleted in Version B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40806.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>The guns fire. The frame shown above left is the same in both versions. The beams arc down toward the Dinguil ships in a new scene for Version B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40807.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Kodai watches the fireworks, relieved. The fireworks shine much brighter in Version B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40808.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Version B also inserts a couple extra scenes of destruction as the ships explode and collide.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40809.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Lugal De Zahl watches his ships go down in flames. The flames burn much hotter in Version B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40810.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Lugal&#8217;s view of the carnage is framed and colored differently from A to B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40811.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Lugal&#8217;s ship turns to escape. Version B adds lighting effects to make this more visible.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40812.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>The closing shot of this sequence is vastly different from A to B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40813.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40814.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Kodai and Yuki fly on ahead of <em>Yamato<\/em> to scout for more enemies, leading into a song sequence that revisits some romantic moments from the past. Here we get a strange artifact from <em>Be Forever<\/em>, part of which was animated in widescreen format. The widescreen scenes are compressed in Version A, then corrected with an anamorphic lens in Version B. (That part of <em>Be Forever<\/em> has been a problem for home video since day one.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40815.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40816.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Yamato<\/em> parts with the remnants of the EDF fleet (apparently just one ship) and sets course for Planet Aquarius. The departure shots are completely changed from A to B.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/feb10\/40817.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>The final shot of this sequence is slightly different; some of the landscaping on the surface of Pluto has been repainted.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/409'>Continue to Part 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back up to previous segment Yamato&#8216;s fighters fly into action. In Version A they fly into dark, empty space. Version B is enlivened by more colorful, dramatic backgrounds and mist effects. Kodai and Yuki fly into a dogfight together and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/408\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}