Kodoani.com – Towa's Yamato is: Rebel 3199 (Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199), the next project in the remake series Space Battleship Yamatohas revealed a new trailer and images for the second film titled “Sekijitsu no Shutsugeki” (The Assault of the Burning Sun) on Friday. This second film will be released on November 22and participating theaters will provide the disc Blu-ray Special limited edition for the duration of the show. The film will then be available for retail on disc Blu-ray and DVD on the day January 29.
The first film of the series, “Kuro no Shinryaku” (Dark Invasion), released on July 19 and collect 58,863,050 yen (about US$385,100) in the first three days of release. Project Towa's Yamato is: Rebel 3199 is expected to launch as seven movies.
New cast members joining the project include:
Makoto Furukawa or Alphon
Shun Horie or Isidore
Takuya Eguchi or Lambell
Yuto Uemura or Takeshi Ageha
Kousuke Toriumi or Seiya Kitano
Naomichi Yamato (From the New World, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans episode director) will direct this anime. Harutoshi Fukui continues to serve as head writer and supervisor, alongside Oka Hideki co-writer. Nobuteru Yuki returns to handle character design, and the mechanical designs will be handled by Junichiro Tamamori, Mika Akitakaand Yasushi Ishizu undertake. Hiroyuki Goto is a CG producer, also Shōsuke Uechi as a CG director. Tomohiro Yoshida in charge of sound director.
Like previous anime seasons, the late producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki is credited with the original work, while his son, Shōji Nishizakiserves as production and copyright supervisor. Akira Miyagawa will return to composing music, collaborating with Shu Kanematsu (My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses). Besides, Akira's late father, Hiroshi Miyagawathe original composer of Space Battleship Yamato, is also credited with the music.
This project is a sequel to the movie Uchū Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi – Kōshō -STASHA- (Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage Part II: Stasha), released February 2022.
Name Yamato yo Towa ni (Be Forever Yamato) was also the title of the 1980 film, which continued the anime series Yamato origin. Although the story in the 1980 film does not take place in the year 3199, the animated series Dai Yamato Zero-go 2004 is set in that year.