English Dub Review: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 “The Fated Showdown”

Time to FIGHT!…next week.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

In the  “Resurrection Chapter” finale, the Yamato is officially put back together and ready to run, however, the party may be short-lived as we’ve learned that Dessler is teaming up with the Gatlantians to take out Earth’s finest heroes. We fade to black as several important decisions are going to have to be made in a number of different areas, but we won’t get answers until the “Nova Chapter”.

Our Take

Episodes of anime that literally spend 10-15 minutes on just talky talk only to give us a “to be continued…” type of ending don’t make any sense, especially at the END of the arc. I get it, you wanna get people excited for the next arc, but maybe a few more fight sequences would’ve done this one better. We get a little bit of action near the end, not a lot and Dessler’s attack on Yamato was probably going to happen sooner or later anyway so I wasn’t entirely shocked here. There were some interesting developments that had went down and I’ll be curious to see the outcomes of Dessler’s nephew and about the traitor that’s inevitably going to rear his ugly head on the main ship. I’m hoping all of this leads to a colossal battle of epic proportions. The final stand between Earth and the White Comet looks like it’s gonna be fun.