kontextmaschine:

Based on the fact that the Yakuza series is basically about “being Japanese”, and having previously been exposed to Japan, I guessed from the start the “secret of Onomichi” was going to involve the fucking battleship Yamato rising from under the sea

SURE ENOUGH

this puts Martian Successor Nadesico’s rise-from-underwater (Yamato + Nadesico, or rather なでしこ= “yamato nadeshiko”, the idealized Japanese woman, the joke was the series was a Space Battleship Yamato/Gundam/Macross riff as a ‘90s harem comedy) at almost the midpoint between Space Battleship Yamato ‘s and Yakuza 6’s