Reviews

Yamato 3 starts out with a pretty ok premise. The Sun is heating up due to a stray missile hitting it and now the crew needs to set out to find a new habitable planet. The Idea is pretty good but the execution is very mediocre and doesn't live up to the previous two series. First the good parts of it, and that would be the new expansions to the universe with the new enemies. Although the bolar federation is not nearly as good of a villain as Gamilus or Gatlantis, they are a massive improvement over the black nebula empire from be forever Yamato.

Now for the bad. the show introduces several new characters in which next to nothing is done with. Domon and Ahega are completely flat and dry and I completely forgot Ahega existed for half the show. I was expecting them to be built up as new overconfident rookies who have to learn the ropes and slowly fill their roll on the Yamato, however both get barely any screentime for their development. Even the returning characters feel like they're not even present. The bridge crew seems to have lost all of the personality and character from the previous series. Kodai just feels like the generic space opera protaganist, In Yamato 1 Kodai goes through many emotional struggles regarding his parent's death but here he just has nothing going for him. Shima barely even feels like he's there, he seems to just have almost no screentime whatsoever. The space battle scenes are also not as good and so much of the first half feels extremely pointless.