Errr, why has the spaceship been built in shape of a marine battleship? it's named after battleship Yamato or whatever, so what? (and I just don't want ot get into why it is firing cannons, jeez, 50' sci-fi movies make way more sense even now) maybe it has nothing to do with sci-fi and it's only a live-action Anime, which is cool and I have to admit it looks really cool!