[Fwd: Yamato: Why did I watch it?]

I tried to sent this message yesterday. For some reason I didn't get through.

Mark Last night while cruising the local video store, I swung by the Anime
section to see what I could find. I was looking for something in the "space
war" genre in order to get my FULL THRUST creative juices flowing. After
careful consideration of the titles I decided to rent the japanese animated
"classic" (who is doling out the classic status) "Space Battleship Yamato."
After spending 158 minutes of my short life watching this movie I came to a
vital revelation:

THIS THING REALLY SUCKS!!!!

I can't tell what I thought was worse: The chessy dialouge (Maybe it just
didn't translate into subtitles well.), the bad animation

(Its like "Speed Racer" only with starships.), or the insane plotline (A

starship built from the wreck of a WWII Japanese battleship? That's one

way of taking nationalism one step too far.) I don't know what the Anime fans
see in this thing. "Akira" was good anime, "Robotech" was good Americanized
Anime, even "Voltron" was good Anime when compared to this leaker.

My next adventure into Anime will probably be the "Mobile Suit Gundam" series
(If I can find it on video.). Before I blow another buck

and a half on something that could be terrible, can I get some
dime-store reviews.
BTW I recieved a URL for FT conversion to Gundam capital ships (the Mecha is
considered fighters). You can find it at:

        http://www.javanet.com/~scottd/Gundam/gun-ft.html

I plan on adding this URL to my page (along with some others) ASAP.

Later,