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4th Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Movie Gets New Trailer, Visual, & Cast


Get ready, folks, because passage to Iscandar begins this month!

Earlier today, the official website for Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love (Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi) updated with a new teaser trailer and visual, as well as two cast reveals for the upcoming fourth film.

We break the details down below:

Promo Video

The two-minute teaser offers a brief overview of the upcoming fourth film in the franchise, which is subtitled Tenmei-hen (“Karma Chapter”). Isao Sasaki’s theme song plays asa background track through the promo.

Key Visual

The new visual features Susumu Kodai standing before the Yamato. The front shot of a face can be seen drawn in gold among the cosmos.

Cast

The film will add the following roles:

  • Desler: Kouichi Yamadera
  • Miru: Kouki Uchiyama

Visuals for both characters were also unveiled, which you can check out below:

Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love – Karma Chapter is the fourth of seven planned films, which tell the tale of the Yamato after its safe arrival at Iscandar. The feature will open in Japanese theaters on January 27.

Nobuyoshi Habara (D.N.Angel, Fafner) is directing the project at Xebec, with Nobuteru Yuki (Vision of Escaflowne, Orange) providing character designs. Harutoshi Fukui (Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is in charge of series composition for the movies.

Akira Miyagawa is scoring the soundtracks for the films.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Susumu Kodai: Daisuke Ono
  • Yuki Mori: Houko Kuwashima
  • Daisuke Shima: Kenichi Suzumura
  • Kaoru Niimi: Aya Hisakawa
  • Mikage Kiryu: Eriko Nakamura
  • Zwordar: Hideaki Tezuka
  • Hajime Saito: Hiroki Touchi
  • Klaus Keyman: Hiroshi Kamiya
  • Susumu Yamazaki: Hiroshi Tsuchida
  • Shirō Sanada: Houchu Ohtsuka
  • Yasuo Nanbu: Kenji Akabane
  • Isami Enomoto: Kenjiro Tsuda
  • Lauren Barel: Masaki Terasoma
  • Osamu Yamanami: Masashi Ebara
  • Yoshikazu Aihara: Masato Kokubun
  • Hikozaemon Tokugawa: Mugihito
  • Akira Yamamoto: Rie Tanaka
  • Teresa: Sayaka Kanda
  • Dr. Sakezō Sado: Shigeru Chiba
  • Kotetsu Serizawa: Tesshō Genda
  • Heikuro Todo: Toshihiko Kojima
  • Ryu Hijikata: Unshō Ishizuka
  • Sifar Sabera: Yuko Kaida
  • Kenjiro Ota: Yuuki Chiba
  • Yuria Misaki: Aya Uchida
  • Shiori Nagakura: Kazusa Amagai
  • Jiro Tsurumi: Keisuke Koumoto
  • Miki Saijo: Satomi Moriya
  • Juzo Okita: Takayuki Sugo
  • Earth Federation President: Yuji Mikimoto

The third film, Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love – Karma Chapter, opened in theaters on October 4, 2017. Twenty-five theaters are carrying the film, which is up from the previous movie’s twenty theater reach. Folks who can’t hit the box office will be able to rent the feature via streaming services starting today.

Much like the previous run, folks who attend the screenings will be able to purchase a special edition Blu-Ray of the film.

Source: Twitter (pKjd)

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