Trailer for Yamato 2199 Chapter 5

[Logan Darklighter]

I think a lot of that is just "dramatic time expansion" in play. Sort of a visual shorthand in order to keep everything comprehensible to the viewer. I also think some of it might also be another type of stylistic choice - the whole "wet navy in space" thing. Though the way they are choreographing the fights I'm noticing that they break free of that concept more than any of the old shows did. The producers/animators aren't slaves to the whole idea of having an arbitrary flat plane that the big ships fight in. There's some of that, to be sure, but it's not as near universal as the old show was.