Uchuu Senkan Yamato
Space Battleship Yamato

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Before I even get into the review, I have to mention the other reviews, because they're wrong; this series is a manga adaptation of the anime, not the other way around. So, because this series is a drawn version of the anime, the pacing is weird, the story is scattered, and the ending is just a random spot where the publisher (or artist, I'm not entirely sure), decided to stop the manga and call it a day.

My 6 rating is because the story of yamato is fantastic, and the art in this is passable enough to make it readable. However, I would not recommend ... buying this novel set because the art is a bit blurry, and it feels like, as a whole, the the manga is not of a high quality (which goes back to it being a physical adaptation of an animated series).

I wouldn't recommend reading it online either. Your best course of action, if you're interested in the series, is to simply watch the anime.

This classic, unfortunately didn't age very well, it has some of the times mannerisms (some characters are much archetypes than real human beings and the comedic moments dont pay off), and, for me, the worst part is that it seems that important chunks of the story were missing (for example: a major conflict in the first volume ending was completely cut, showing just his end result), it feel like watching one of the Zeta Gundam movies, where big part of the story were cut in order to fit in a movie format, and, as a consequence the narrative was compromised. I still think that the ... manga is worth reading for historical purposes, but I wouldn't it will be a very pleasant reading.

Space Battleship Yamato, a classic that shaped Japanese military sci-fi fiction, a work that would later me remade and reimagined many times, her is where it began. Question is, how well did it age?

Among the first things that one could notice is that the original manga has only 3 volumes, while the first adaptation has 26 episodes. While I haven’t seen the anime yet, I can say that the manga does feel a bit bare-bone, like a draft for future works. There is a feel of absence of “fillers”, something to add between the start of the journey and its end. The plot is too ... streamlined, and in this case some extra material would be welcomed.

The world-building also lacks, as the reader is told only very little details when being thrown into a story, which feels like a part of larger franchise instead of an isolated story. Well, to be fair it later became a larger franchise, but chronologically speaking when released, it lacked. The end too feels abrupt and non-concluding, which is the main reason I have given it only 6 out of 10.

That said, it certainly wasn’t a bad read and I was entertained by it, it’s just that this title should be seen as more of a prototype. Which is even a reason to read it, its historical significance as a point of origin. The art also isn't bad in any way, it's simple yet effective.