Yamato‘s fighters fly into action. In Version A they fly into dark, empty space. Version B is enlivened by more colorful, dramatic backgrounds and mist effects.
Kodai and Yuki fly into a dogfight together and he is wounded by shrapnel. Fortunately, the Cosmo Zero’s canopy is not breached for some reason. Version B adds mist effects to these cockpit scenes.
Following the dogfight, Yamato‘s guns rotate to deliver the knockout blow against Lugal’s fleet. Yamato took some hits, and smoke flows through the scene in Version A. It was deleted in Version B.
The guns fire. The frame shown above left is the same in both versions. The beams arc down toward the Dinguil ships in a new scene for Version B.
Kodai watches the fireworks, relieved. The fireworks shine much brighter in Version B.
Version B also inserts a couple extra scenes of destruction as the ships explode and collide.
Lugal De Zahl watches his ships go down in flames. The flames burn much hotter in Version B.
Lugal’s view of the carnage is framed and colored differently from A to B.
Lugal’s ship turns to escape. Version B adds lighting effects to make this more visible.
The closing shot of this sequence is vastly different from A to B.
Kodai and Yuki fly on ahead of Yamato to scout for more enemies, leading into a song sequence that revisits some romantic moments from the past. Here we get a strange artifact from Be Forever, part of which was animated in widescreen format. The widescreen scenes are compressed in Version A, then corrected with an anamorphic lens in Version B. (That part of Be Forever has been a problem for home video since day one.)
Yamato parts with the remnants of the EDF fleet (apparently just one ship) and sets course for Planet Aquarius. The departure shots are completely changed from A to B.
The final shot of this sequence is slightly different; some of the landscaping on the surface of Pluto has been repainted.