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Macross Delta's Kenji Yasuda Directs Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Anime
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for the Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi or project on Monday. The website also revealed that Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 will receive a compilation anime film in 2020.
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As previously Yoshinobu Nishizaki, is returning as executive producer. While the announcement does not specifically state the new anime's format, the use of the word "jōei" (screening) indicates that the anime will have theatrical screenings.
The sequel anime will premiere in fall 2020.
The Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi Nobuyoshi Habara, who is returning from the series to direct the project.
Other staff returning to the compilation project from the television series include executive producer and production general supervisor Nishizaki, scriptwriter Fukui, and character designer Yuki. The previous anime's studio Xebec is also contributing to the project.
Yamato 2202 is itself a sequel of the Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune anime film then opened in Japan in 2014.
Yamato 2202's first film, subtitled "Kōshi-hen" (Starting Chapter), premiered in Japan in February 2017. The second film, subtitled "Hasshin-hen" (Departure Chapter), opened last November. The seventh and final film, "Shinsei-hen" (Nova Chapter), opened on March 1.
Yamato 2202's television streaming a simuldub of the second part of the sequel project on February 2.
Sources: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 anime's website, Comic Natalie
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