It has been announced that the fourth chapter of the latest installment of the remake series of the popular anime "Space Battleship Yamato", "Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199", titled "Sasha, the Light Blue Maiden", will be released on October 10th. A teaser visual drawn by Kia Asamiya, who is in charge of the image drawings for the film, and a special trailer featuring Sasha and Desler have also been released. The special trailer features an impressive image with the line, "Uncle, please fire the Wave Motion Gun."
"Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199" is a new interpretation of the original third movie "Be Forever Yamato" released in 1980. Harutoshi Fukui is the general director, and is also in charge of series composition and scriptwriting. Fukui was in charge of series composition and scriptwriting for the remake series "Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love" and "Space Battleship Yamato 2205: A New Voyage", and will also be the general director for this latest film. Yamato will be the director. There are seven chapters in total, with the third chapter starting screening on April 11th.
The first Space Battleship Yamato anime series was broadcast in 1974, and other films have since been produced, including Space Battleship Yamato 2, Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato , Warriors of Love, and Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection. A remake of the first film, Space Battleship Yamato 2199, was screened in theaters and broadcast on TV from 2012 to 2014, and a sequel to 2199, 2202, was screened in theaters and broadcast on TV from 2017 to 2019. A two-part series, 2205, was screened in theaters in 2021 and 2022.
