I can kind of accept that the situation was desperate enough at that point that nobody really hesitated at the whole desecration-of-a-war-grave thing, but just from a practical standpoint, the whole idea is wack. I mean, all the other incomprehensible things about making a starship out of a sunken WWII battleship aside, there's not likely to be much left of the wreck by 2199.

Loved the show as a kid, respect it for its significance to the history of Japanese animation now, but... yeah. Makes no dang sense at all.

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That is quite different from Yamato, which was a 150 year old sunken wreck of a surface vessel. Surely other preserved ships would be better candidates. Or leveraging existing submarine manufacturing facilities. It was awesome to watch as a little kid, and the relatively-recent live action movie was pretty cool.