DECEMBER 1
Discussing the appeal of the Bolar Federation
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The Bolar Federation makes a brief appearance in Chapter 2. After receiving a report from Governor Boroze that he had seen the “Light of Uralia,” the Bolar Federation dispatches a large fleet to Earth. At that time, it is Darya who gives orders from the home country.
The moment I saw Ludomi Darya, I almost fainted at how cool she was. I absolutely love these kinds of female officers. Since she gives orders to Governor Boroze, she must be a general or a marshal in terms of rank. Considering that it’s an anime, she’s probably in her late 30s to early 40s. She has big breasts, slim legs, and an excellent figure, but it’s amazing that she’s been able to maintain that figure until this age. Moreover, her cold-hearted and overbearing attitude is irresistible.
At the time, I didn’t even know her name, but later I found out on Twitter it is “Darya.” I’ve become a big fan of this character. I hope she survives until the end.
And what’s more, Bemlayze has become really cool!!
In Yamato III, Bemlayze was the “Prime Minister” for some reason, even though there was no president or king. I speculated on my blog that the reason for this was that he staged a coup and overthrew the president or king, but in 3199 he actually staged a revolution and became the Supreme Chairman.
In III, he was such a creepy character that it was hard to imagine him as a rival to Dessler, and he also had a very creepy voice, so he didn’t have any presence at all.
However, in 3199, while the basic design is the same, he has an overwhelming presence, and the way he smokes his cigarette makes him look like Al Capone, which is cool. I’d love for Bemlayze in 3199 to have a deep, husky voice like Mugihito’s.
When Ⅲ was airing, I was in the third grade, and I had the image that the Soviet Union was evil and that its coldness was cool. Even as a third grader, I knew that the Bolar Federation was modeled after the Soviet Union, so I liked it too.
When I became a university student, I started doing doujinshi activities. I was bad at drawing, so the doujinshi I drew didn’t sell well at first, and sometimes I only sold two copies. However, I was active in a members-only circle, and there were several members who were exceptionally good at drawing.
At the time, we were active in the anime OVA scene, and due to the influence of that anime being made into a TV anime, I temporarily sold a decent amount. However, as soon as the anime ended, my popularity declined, and my doujinshi sales also dropped. I had thought of ways to deal with this, but it fell apart much faster than I expected. Everything we did was done too late, and in the blink of an eye, our circle was on the verge of collapse. It was just like the Soviet Union right after the German invasion.
I had been abused by my mother since I was a child. And my stepfather turned a blind eye. So I had no place in the world. I thought that the same was true for doujin activities, so I thought about quitting. But I would have regrets if I just gave up, so I thought I would draw one last book with my own efforts, and if it didn’t sell, I would quit.
The Soviet Union was invaded all the way to its capital, Moscow, but they fought back and defeated Germany, so I thought I would take after Stalin and use the pen name “Seiren” but pronounced “Stalin.” So I read a lot of books about Stalin and World War II.
“Can we defend Moscow?” Stalin asked Chief of the General Staff Zhukov. “I’m embarrassed to ask you this, but…”
“With 200 more tanks, we can definitely defend Moscow,” General Zhukov replied.
This is an episode from The Soviet Red Army’s Offensive and Defense History II, and this one sentence really encouraged me. It was the first time I wrote so many pages by myself, and I realized how hard everyone else had to work to draw manga. I ended up staying up all night to finish the manuscript, but even when I went to work I wasn’t sleepy, since I was so excited to have finished.
I’m not good at drawing, so I thought I would write an interesting story. I felt like I’d given this doujinshi everything I had, so if it didn’t sell, I would give up. The first sale was at a small doujinshi gathering in Kobe, but I sold 13 copies. Then, at events in Osaka and Fukuoka, I sold 100 copies in a month, and I thought I could sell 300 copies. People who read the doujinshi brought their friends, so I reprinted it again and again, and in the end, I sold 1,000 copies.
I didn’t intend to use the pen name Seiren for long. But so many people know me by that name, and Stalin gave me courage and made a place for me when I had no place in the world, I decided to continue using it, even now that I have stopped doing doujin activities.
After that day, my love for the Soviet Union accelerated even more. Not only did I read books about it, but I also received a Soviet flag from a fan of mine and collected NKVD goods myself. At the same time, I grew to like the Bolar Federation more and more.
Dessler is my favorite character in the Yamato series, so naturally, the Gamilas Empire and the Galman-Gamilas Empire are my favorite interstellar nations, but my second favorite is the Bolar Federation. In fact, I think the Bolar Federation is the second strongest interstellar nation after Gamilas, but this is getting long, so I’ll write the rest next week.
Come and discover the appeal of the Bolar Federation with me!!
DECEMBER 8
The Bolar Federation’s Black Hole Cannon is the strongest weapon in the history of Yamato!!
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Today, I’m going to deviate from the review of Chapter 2 a little, but I’m going to talk about the Bolar Federation. I’ll mainly be explaining the black hole cannon. I think the Bolar Federation’s Black Hole Cannon is the strongest weapon in the history of Yamato. I became interested in space because of Space Battleship Yamato, but the more I learn about space, the more I think the black hole cannon I saw as a child was a crazy weapon.
An atomic bomb uses plutonium or enriched uranium to cause nuclear fission, and a hydrogen bomb uses an atomic bomb as an explosive to cause nuclear fusion using deuterium and tritium. Nuclear fission converts 0.1% of the mass into energy, while nuclear fussion converts 1% of the mass into energy. So nuclear fusion is more energy efficient.
The sun has been around for 5 billion years, but if it conducted nuclear fission instead of nuclear fusion, it would end its life in a much shorter time.
The reason we use deuterium and tritium to cause nuclear fusion is because the pressure of an atomic bomb explosion is not enough to cause nuclear fusion with hydrogen. You can only cause nuclear fusion with hydrogen when there is pressure similar to that at the center of a star as large as the sun.
When a star about eight times the size of the sun reaches the end of its life, an iron core is formed and it becomes a neutron star. When a star is 30 times larger than the sun, its own gravity crushes even its neutrons, and it becomes a black hole.
A black hole is not a hole, but the remains of a star that has been compressed so much that even light cannot escape once it enters a certain range. If you get close, your matter is stretched by the spaghetti phenomenon, and it is said that no matter how strong the structure of an object, it is impossible to withstand it. In other words, neither Goruba, nor the city fortress, nor the home planet of Dezarium can withstand the gravity of a black hole.
Furthermore, the stronger the gravity, the slower the flow of time becomes, and it is said that time almost stops at the center of the black hole. There is also a theory that the end of the black hole is connected to another universe.
At the center of the galaxy, there is a super-massive black hole proportional to the size of the galaxy, so I predict that there is another universe beyond the black hole in the Milky Way Galaxy, and that the home planet of Dezarium is there.
I’m getting off topic, but isn’t the Bolar Federation’s technological capability amazing to be able to create an artificial black hole? It’s not like making a giant comet or creating special armor that’s resistant to Wave-Motion Guns (lol). I love the Soviet Union and the Bolar Federation, so I want everyone to understand the awesomeness of this crazy weapon!!
I hated the Dark Nebula Empire the most out of all the interstellar nations that appeared in Yamato, so I can’t stand the idea that the Bolar Federation is weaker than someone like Dezarium.
Plus, Chairman Bemlayze and Darya, who appeared in 3199, are so cool I nearly fainted. Darya was newly added, but it seems she’s a first secretary. Even though she’s Chairman Bemlayze’s adjutant, it’s unnatural for a non-military person to give orders to military personnel, so I’m sure she has a military rank as a political officer.
Sinking half the Garmillan fleet in 2205 and destroying the Bolar fleet in 3199 makes Dezarium even more unforgivable!! I want Dezarium to lose like Germany did in World War II.
It would be a shame to let Chairman Bemlayze and First Secretary Darya die, so I’d like the Garmillan Empire and the Bolar Federation to make peace and invade Dezarium’s home planet as an allied force, completely destroying it with the Hyper Dessler Cannon and Black Hole Cannon!!
In any case, I have high hopes for the Bolar Federation in 3199!!
DECEMBER 15
The Story of Major Alphon and Dezarium
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Today I will write about Major Alphon. In Be Forever, he was in a good position, but he didn’t have a cool-looking face, so he didn’t seem like Kodai’s love rival (lol). Also, there probably wasn’t enough time to develop the character in a 2 hour, 25 minute movie.
In comparison, in 3199 he is a realistically good-looking guy, and the concept that he can transfer his consciousness between multiple bodies is good. Moreover, he has high combat power, so he is a much more attractive character than in the original. He has also been made a major. I don’t think Alphon would be a major at his age, but it is an anime after all (lol).
If Dezarium has the technology to transfer consciousness, it means that they can initialize the brains of Earthlings with a Hyperon Bomb and transfer their consciousness into them. However, if they just wanted bodies, they would only have to detonate the bomb right away, so they probably need Sasha, a fragment of Iscandar, more than that.
I think it’s pretty certain that the Dezarium are not an Earthlings from the future, so I wonder if their goal is to complete the time fault for military use? Also, it seems odd that they’d go to the trouble of colonizing Earth with Dezarium civilians so early on. Dezarium has more military power, but if they relocate civilians, it could lead to trouble with Earthlings, and there’s a possibility of a terrorist attack resulting in many civilian casualties.
To be honest, I don’t know Dezarium’s true purpose at this point.
I like the contrast between Isidore’s cute appearance and his high combat ability. If Yamato was an anime for young girls, I think he’d be popular.
Ranbel is a hot-blooded character, and in a Berger-like position.
Skaldart has a moderate image, but I’m sure he’ll become an ugly character as the story progresses.
Sada seems ruthless, and seems like an attractive evil female executive, but after seeing Darya of the Bolar Federation, her appeal fades.
I like Kazan’s villainous face. I thought it was amazing how they could portray such villains (lol).
I think they’re deliberately depicting the ordinary people of Dezarium, but they have a cold, impersonal feel to them. I think that after Earth wins the war, the civilians of Dezarium will be massacred, like the Yuan soldiers who were left behind after the typhoon during the Battle of Koan.
I’m also curious about Mother Dezarium, whose true identity hasn’t been revealed yet.
Some people have suggested that Mother Dezarium is a goddess of the Shalbart religion, but if they go that far, the story will get confusing and difficult to understand, so I personally don’t think that’s the case. But there’s also the story of the “Light of Uralia,” so Dezarium must have been connected to the Milky Way Galaxy in some way.
DECEMBER 22
REBEL 3199 Future Predictions
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Today, I’ll write about my predictions for Chapter 3 and beyond.
(1) Dezarium’s true identity is not humans from the future
I saw Be Forever when I was in the third grade of elementary school. Even I, a third-grader at the time, was astonished at the underhandedness of the Dark Nebula Empire, who pretended to be Earthlings despite possessing powerful weapons from the Dezarium home planet like Goruba. So I thought that the Dezarium people in 3199 would be real Earthlings from the future.
At the time, I predicted that they were either (a) Earthlings from a parallel world who continued to use the dimensional fault, or (b) survivors of the Martian government that lost the Earth civil war. However, the fact that these points were not mentioned in Chapter 2 suggests that this possibility has disappeared. Dezarium’s true identity is probably aliens.
So why do they talk about future Earthlings? I think it’s because (a) they kidnapped Sasha, completed the Cosmo Reverse, and got back their Dezarium bodies, and (b) as a backup plan in case (a) failed, they detonated a hyperon bomb to initialize the Earthlings’ brains and write Dezarium memories into their bodies.
(2) Dezarium’s home planet exists in another universe beyond the black hole
As I expected, Yamato heads for the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. At the center of the galaxy, there is a black hole proportional to the size of the galaxy. And there is a theory that another universe exists beyond the black hole.
The space-time node is probably a “wormhole.” Dezarium exists in another universe beyond the wormhole, and it probably advanced into the Milky Way Galaxy using technology to slip through wormholes that normally cannot be passed through.
(3) The true identity of the light of Uralia
From the above hypothesis, it can be speculated that the true identity of the light of Uralia is the Dezarium army that emerged from the black hole.
Since Major Alphon said, “The wave engine cannot cross the space-time node,” it seems to be common sense that you cannot travel to another universe in this world. So, a Bolar Federation fleet was probably destroyed by the high energy generated when crossing the space-time node, or by the Dezarium fleet that appeared at that time.
(4) The alternate universe where Dezarium’s home planet exists is being eroded by wave energy.
From the line “abominable wave energy,” it seems likely that every time the Wave-Motion Gun is fired, it has a negative impact on the alternate universe where Dezarium exists, causing the environment to deteriorate and corroding their bodies.
Is this why Dezarium hates the Iscandar civilization and wave energy?
(5) Why Dessler is with Sasha
When Yuki attacks Major Alphon’s body, the body of the one who had stolen Sasha would also become uncontrollable, wouldn’t it? That’s probably how the Dessler fleet, which happens to be sailing nearby, rescues Sasha.
Could it be that Sasha grows up quickly because the Dezarium army forced her to grow up in order to develop the Cosmo Reverse? Since Sasha inherited Iscandar’s memories, she probably has knowledge proportional to her physical age.
(6) Why Dessler and Yamato are fighting
Perhaps Dessler mistakenly thinks that the Dezarium army, which destroyed the Garmillan home planet, is stationed on Earth, and that Dezarium and Earth have formed an alliance.
It’s probably a pattern like in Mazinger Z vs Devilman, where they tickle the childish mind by saying “It’s exciting to see these guys fighting,” and then they quickly reconcile and fight a common enemy. It’s probably just a feint to attract viewers. Even at my age, I can’t forgive that movie. If they did the same thing now, I think they would be criticized for “fraudulent business practices.” (lol)
(7) There is no scenario in which the Garmillan Empire’s planet-destroying missile hits the sun
As I wrote above, the misunderstanding will be completely cleared up, and the Garmillan Empire and Earth will return to an alliance.
Some people say that the Garmillan Empire’s planet-destroying missile will hit the sun like in Yamato III, but with Dezarium’s technology, they would be able to control the sun, and if Earth was occupied by Dezarium and the sun’s lifespan was accelerating, the story would become confusing and viewers would not understand.
Dessler will talk to Kodai and understand the situation on Earth. Besides, the Garmillan Empire will be too busy fighting the Bolar Federation, so the Garmillans will probably just wait and see what happens with Earth for the time being.
(8) The Bolar Federation will mistakenly assume that Earth and Dezarium have allied and will attack Yamato
The Bolar Federation will probably assume that Dezarium has allied with Earth because the Dezarium forces are defending Earth, and will try to attack Yamato, which is their pawn. The Bolar Federation probably doesn’t know that Dezarium destroyed the Garmillan home planet, so they may become anxious and think that they are in a big pinch being attacked by three countries: the Garmillan Empire, Earth, and Dezarium.
By the way, I really like the Bolar Federation that has become more Soviet-like. Prime Minister Bemlayze, who used to be just a creepy guy, has become more dignified and cool, and Darya is super cool.
I hate Dezarium even more now that they not only destroyed the Garmillan home planet and massacred the Garmillans, but also beat up the Bolar Federation fleet. So, personally, I’d like to see the Garmillan Empire and the Bolar Federation make peace and join forces with the independent Earth faction to fight Dezarium.
The Bolar Federation is a communist dictatorship, so Governor Boroze should just push the responsibility onto Chairman Bemlayze for starting a war with the Garmillan Empire without permission, purge him, and allow the Garmillan Empire to claim half of the Milky Way Galaxy, including the planet Garmillan.
It would be thrilling to see the Dezarium home planet surrounded by Yamato, the Garmillan fleet (including the new Dessler ship), and the Bolar fleet including Zespaze, attacking all at once with the Hyper Dessler Cannon and Black Hole Cannon.
The Bolar Federation in the remake is so cool that I can’t bear the idea of going to war with the Garmillan Empire!! “Stop fighting, stop these two countries!!” (lol)
DECEMBER 29
Is Gol Hainey still alive?
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I don’t have much time this time, so I’ll stick with this: I can’t imagine that Hainey, who has been a good character since 2199, would die so easily. If he really was going to die, they would have made it more dramatic.
Moreover, the scene where Hainey dies was not clearly depicted, and it is only assumed that he died based on the circumstances. So I think that Hainey is alive and will have a dramatic moment in 3199.
In Be Forever, I felt it was sad that Sasha, who only lived for a year, had to die for the sake of Earth, so I think it would be good to have Hainey, who is held prisoner by Dezarium, escape and rescue Sasha in 3199.
After massacring the Garmillans on the Garmillan home planet and destroying the Bolar Federation fleet on Earth, my anger toward Dezarium has reached its peak. So I really want Hainey to survive and give Dezarium a taste of their own medicine.
Dezarium’s methods are too underhanded, such as falsely claiming to be Earthlings from the future, so I want the Dezarium home planet to be destroyed and the Dezarium people who immigrated to Earth to be massacred like the Mongolian army left behind during the Mongol invasions. Also, I want collaborators with the enemy like Nobuno Todo and Kozo Nanbu to be arrested after the war and executed by Earthlings.
I don’t really like Alphon because of the image I have of him from the previous series, and Isidore has a cute look so I don’t hate him, but Ranbel is annoying. Kazan is also a character that makes me feel a physiological aversion to him. I’m sure Alphon’s death is a given, but I wonder if Isidore will die too?