#Japanese Battleship Yamato

[lonestarbattleship]

Combined Fleet Resupplying for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in Brunei Bay. From left to right, Mogami (最上) in front of Musashi (武蔵), and Chokai (鳥海) in front of Yamato (大和).

Date: October 21, 1944

Colorized by Irootoko Jr: link

[the-art-of-dieselpunk-war]

Makoto Kobayashi

[mikurulucky]

Might as well show y'all a track from that record I mentioned before. Sung by Kei Tomiyama himself, more well known as the voice of Susumu Kodai in Space Battleship Yamato and the narrator in the Time Bokan series, but to me will always be the voice of Tochiro Oyama. 💖🥺💖

[the-delta-42]

#pyro 1/1200 #imsyamato #imperialjapanesenavy #yamato #battleship #worldwar2 #worldwarII #ww2 #wwii #modelship #modelbuilding #convertiblemodelship #fullhullmodel #waterlinemodel

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[cinemablogs]

Space Battleship Yamato

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Japan, 2010 Starring: Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki, & Toshirô Yanagiba

[aaronmakaimura]

Tsuppari Yamato

"いってきます!"

( itte kimasu! )

From Kasou Taishou 76 (2006) - #30 Tsuppari Morning

[redsamuraiii]

Ryosangata Riko: Puramo Joshi no Jinsei Kumitate Ki (Ep 4)

The reason why some people like myself love old school models like RX-78-2 Gundam, VF-1 Valkyrie and Space Battleship Yamato is because they've been weathered by life, seen countless battles and been through a lot but they keep on fighting the good fight.

[genkinahito]

Kurosaki Maon THE MOVIE “Moshi Kimi ga Anohi no Boku ni Nattemo”, Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love 4K Remaster, The IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors Part 3, Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief, BLOODY ESCAPE – Jigoku no Tosogeki Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the second and last trailer post of this week. Seven Japanese films have been included. There is another film, a Cinema Kabuki screening but I’m not covering that. The previous trailer post detailed two films released on January 02nd, both documentaries but very different in terms of the subject matter. There was also an indie film and a major feature debut. I also published my Top…

[mary-queen-of-longbeach]

Japanese battleships Yamato (left; orange) and Musashi (right; magenta). These are my original designs for them:

And these are their new, updated forms!

Here are the changes in detail:

-Their armor has a lot more detail now, including the little ties which I believe keep the pieces together. This on its own did wonders for their aesthetic and made the armor look more distinctly samurai whereas before some elements could have easily been mistaken for European plate armor.

-I added a few details to their helmets here. They’re meant to look like the top of the ships’ masts, and as such the radar structures are carried over from the original design, but now they also have some further detailing on top as well. They also feature the kamon design I made for the Yamato class, as real samurai helmets often have similar adornments (datemono) meant to easily identify what group a warrior belongs to.

-They have swords now! Specifically, they’re tachi, a common type of samurai sword, and their design is specifically based on the famous Dojigiri.

-Their guns are no longer based on shotguns and are instead inspired by the Type 99 rifle; you can see the full gun design here. They wear their guns on their backs now as a reference to how real samurai would wear large swords that way - that must make it a real hassle to get through doorways!

-Yamato has a mask now too! They match, although Yamato polishes hers so it’s shinier (just like her armor is in general, although I toned that down compared to the original).

-For the ships themselves, I made them a bit beefier than they were before, as I previously thought they’d come out looking too skinny and frail to fight effectively and wield those huge guns. I also edited their facial features a bit for a more unique, mature look than they had before (but of course Yamato still has a side-eye that could put a corgi to shame).

[lonestarbattleship]

The broken armor plate intended for the third Yamato Class Battleship, the Shinano (信濃, Shinano Province) on display at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC. This plate would have gone on the turret face and is 25" thick!

It was captured by the American Forces after war and sent the U.S. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia for testing. This particular plate was tested on October 16, 1946 and was penetrated by a US Navy 2700-lb 16" Mark 8 Mod 6 AP with inert filler.

"Complete penetration and plate snapped in two through impact between side edge and upper end of curved gun port hollow. Hole more-or-less cylindrical, with little difference between front and back of plate. Numerous small cracks also put in plate around impact. No damage to projectile indicated, though projectile had considerable remaining velocity and ended up in the Potomac River, never being recovered. Considerable amount of lamination noted in hole (layering effect parallel to face, much like pages in a book glued together)."

Information from NavWeaps.com

If you wish to read more about the tests, click here, link and link. There's too much information for me to condense into a post.

NHHC: NH 82599, NH 82597, NH 82596, NH 82598

[the-art-of-dieselpunk-war]

Makoto Kobayashi

[mikurulucky]

So, apparently, Kei Tomiyama had a music single of some sort in 1979 with two music tracks. One of the voices of my f/o (and my favorite va of his at that) could actually sing??

I'm... almost too nervous to actually listen to it. One of the songs did end up on youtube.... I don't think my heart can take it. o//.//o

[the-delta-42]

#thelindbergline 1/1200 #imperialjapanesenavy #yamatoclass #battleship #ijnyamato #yamato #worldwar2 #worldwarII #ww2 #wwii #modelship #modelbuilding #lindberg #lindbergmodel

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[histrorybygosh]

The battleship Yamato undergoing sea trials in late 1941.

[nobbykun]

Artist - ささきいさお・ミュージカル･アカデミー (Sasaki, Isao & Musical Academy)Song - 真赤なスカーフ (Makkana Scarf)[Eng. “Red Scarf” (Space Battleship Yamato Ending Theme)]Release Date - November 1974Anime: 宇宙戦艦ヤマト (Uchū Senkan Yamato)

Listen 🎶

https://rumble.com/v26m3a4-isao-sasaki-and-musical-academy-makkana-scarf.html

My blog: Showa Music Library https://nobbykun.tumblr.com/

[canmom]

Do you think Hideaki Anno is right-wing or is it too difficult to tell from his works?

Haha that's a question.

I'll focus on nationalism rather than trying to get into, say, gender politics here, since that's the accusation that most seems to follow Anno around.

Anno's politics are... hard to pin down from his work alone, I think. He's like... a prototypical case of that generation of 'apolitical' otaku that followed after the Anpo generation, with Eva pretty much the definitive statement of the 90s psychological turn. But that said... I can definitely see the argument that there are nationalist themes in some of his works like Gunbuster, though I definitely don't buy every reading in this series (lots of dubious kanji reading). He definitely has that otaku fascination with war machinery and war media (apparently he's a big fan of The Battle for Okinawa and watched it over 100 times), which can easily blend into imperialist ideology.

But there's complications here. For example, the Animekritik series cites the setting of Gunbuster in Okinawa as something formative to the nationalist ideology they are trying to illustrate - in part in relation to the ongoing controversy over American military bases in Okinawa. Anno has at least been on record as saying he's disinterested in Western culture, and I can see the reading of Jung-Freud as an external Other who is shown up by the Japanese girls, somehow simultaneously representing the USSR, Europe and the States. But anti-Americanism in Japan can come in both left and right wing flavours (c.f. Anpo). Communists want the Americans out too! Portraying Okinawa as a military training camp in a Japan-led military coalition certainly comes across as a more nationalist take on that whole matter, but I feel like it's got about the same level of serious nationalist commitment as Doctor Who putting random British people all over space.

When Gainax has played around with nationalist imagery it's usually been in a kind of ironic sendup way - see Ash's writeup about the Aikoku Sentai Dai Nippon controversy, in which Daicon Film staff were disdainful at the accusation that their goofy toku film reflected a genuine nationalist sentiment. While Imaishi takes it further, a lot of Anno's work is also about playfully reappropriating past works. In Anno's case a lot of that is classic tokusatsu, Ultraman in particular, and also Leiji Matsumoto's scifi, notably Space Battleship Yamato, which, well... you know the deal there lol. But it's not so simple to go from that to 'Anno is a nationalist'.

Eva doesn't tend to attract these accusations, but I recall the controversy came back around with Shin Godzilla, though to my mind it's hard to find a straightforwardly nationalist reading of that movie. (It's a film about the experience of the earthquake and Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, and it's critical of Japan's bureaucracy, but equally one where the JSDF repeatedly get their shit handed to them and civilian infrastructure is what actually stops Godzilla - not to mention Godzilla is painted as quite a tragic figure here!) It all feels pretty tenuous.

I haven't seen as many of Anno's live action films as I'd like, so I can't comment as much on the more recent Shin films, Love & Pop, Shiki-Jitsu etc. And it's always possible for subtler allusions to slip by the anglophone viewer. Still, I don't personally think Anno's post-Gunbuster work is particularly nationalist in outlook. I certainly haven't seen any evidence of him favouring, say, war crime denial, anti-Korean sentiment, remilitarisation, etc etc. - he's definitely not as dubious a figure as someone like Hajime Isayama. But it's not like, anti-nationalist either! It's just kind of hard to read in those terms.

So I lean towards your second option, I'm not convinced he's a nationalist or particularly right wing. He happily associates with Hayao Miyazaki, who's definitely not a right wing guy. But Anno'll also let hilariously cooked stuff like whatever On A Gloomy Night was supposed to be into the Animator Expo. So I don't think he's particularly left wing either, he's no Ikuni! But Anno's fiction is very individual focused, full of psychoanalytic themes and internal conflict. He can vividly portray trauma and complex power dynamics. There's a lot to appreciate in works like Eva from a left-wing angle. I don't really know why this association of nationalism follows him around.

Idk, maybe there's a bunch of interviews I'm missing! Presumably you have a reason for asking this question...