Here’s the first new material from Version B, another shot of colliding planets. We then cut wide to see their impact
Yamato makes its entrance. The ship art is the same, but the background is positioned differently. Version B also features a swarm of debris and mist effects.
A wide shot shows Yamato pushing through the flying debris. Again, mist effects were added to Version B.
A super-wide shot shows Yamato approaching the Galman-Gamilas home planet. This was the first case of a caption in Version A that was later dropped. There will be many more.
Dessler’s Palace gets a caption in Version A. Both shots pan vertically, but A pans down where B pans up, ending at the top of his leaning tower.
Wide shot of the capital city in ruins. Color enhancement made Version B more visible.
Version B then offers a new shot of a destructive cloud expanding over the surface of the planet.
Yamato flees the expanding cloud, which is color-enhanced in Version B.
We jump to our next location, which is helpfully captioned in Version A. Such captions were a staple of previous Yamato productions, but this was the first time one included English. The title reads Unfa System 4th Planet Dinguil. Version B dropped the caption and the foreground cloud layer.
Another new shot from Version B: Aquarius drifts into the frame toward Dinguil. By now, the galactic collision isn’t part of the story anymore. We only saw its effect on Galman-Gamilas.
Aquarius unleashes its planetary flood on Dinguil. Color enhancement and mist effects gave it a very different appearance in Version B.
Another new shot from Version B, the roiling waters plunging through space.
The water tendril stretches out toward the planet. The red clouds were removed from Version B.
New shot from Version B: the water hits Dinguil
The camera flies through a Dinguil city. An extra layer of black clouds was added to Version B to enhance the danger.
City Satellite Uruk lifts off to escape the flood. The foreground and background art was changed and the shot was widened for Version B.
New shot from Version B: Uruk rises into the stormy atmosphere. But we still don’t get a good enough look at it to know what it actually is.
Yamato warps into the vicinity. The background was entirely different in Version B.
A view of Dinguil through the bridge windows. It was repainted in Version B to look flooded.
First view of conditions on the ground. The art was the same in both versions, but lightened considerably in B.
New shot from Version B: the camera zooms in on a temple being flooded.
Two new shots from Version B: Yamato descends into the atmosphere
This was the only descent shot common to both versions, lightened in B.
Another shot new to Version B.
Yamato climbs away from Dinguil in two very different shots. The A version was actually borrowed from later in the film with Yamato soaring over Earth’s moon on the way home.