History Anime / SpaceBattleshipYamato

* InfiniteSupplies: While averted in the rare situation (like the Yamato being submerged and running out of air) for the most part it's played completely straight.

* HumanAliens: The Gamilons were indistinguishable from humans in early episodes, but during the first season (perhaps as a ShoutOut to ''YellowSubmarine,'' of all things) their skin color was switched to [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue]]. Dessler actually goes from pink to blue ''before our very eyes''. The traditional joke is that Desslok had the original animators taken out and shot.

* CoolPlane: A flashback depicting ''Yamato's'' history depicts US Navy [=SBC=] Helldivers and [=TBF=] Avengers in [[ShownTheirWork loving detail.]]

* AnimeFirst: One of the earlier examples. Some fans claim that the whole idea of anime as a medium of its own and not just an outlet for manga started with this series.[[hottip:*: It actually started much earlier in the early-mid 1960s with Toei's first animated TV series Ookami Shonen Ken ("Ken the Wolf Boy").]]

* CreativeDifferences: Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto both claim they are the sole creators of ''Space Battleship Yamato''. (The court system has sided with Nishizaki.) Both have made their own separate ''Yamato'' projects[[hottip:*:the short-lived ''Yamato 2520'' {{OVA}}s from Nihizaki's camp, and Matsumoto's ''Great Yamato'' manga]] between 1983 and their settlement in the 2000s.

** Then the ''much'' better known ''Star Blazers'', with its LukeNounverber heroes and the elimination of all the [[NoSwastikas Nazi-Germany-derived names]] among the bad guys. Not to mention the ship itself becoming the ''Argo''[[hottip:*: As the Japanese title indicates, the ship is known as the "Yamato" in the Japanese version; the same name as the original WWII vessel that was unearthed.]].

* NeverSayDie: Averted...except in episodes where it isn't. In general, the dub was inconsistent about this. One episode addresses that several crew members had died, however, in the final Iscandar episode, the poisonous gas used by the Gamilas/Gamilons is portrayed as "radioactive sleeping gas", implying that anyone infected would come out of it at some point, yet Kodai/Wildstar's (and the rest of the crew's[[hottip:*:The "Star Force" moniker only exists in the dub]]) reaction to Yuki/Nova clearly indicates that she [[spoiler:had died, although just before that, she had used the Cosmo Cleaner D/Cosmo DNA [[DisneyDeath just in time for her to come out of it.]]]] Then later in the same episode, Captain Okita/Avatar is directly portrayed as [[spoiler:dying from his already existing radiation poisoning before he has a chance to see the Earth restored.]]

* SpaceIsAnOcean / SpaceSailing: Refurbished wet navy ships, complete with anchors and anti-fouling paint below the "waterline". Though it's a bit jarring to see a ship in the first episode[[hottip:*:Kodai Mamoru's vessel, which was NOT a refitted wet-navy ship]] "sinking" into the distance well before the obligatory explosion.

* WebComic: Produced by Tim Eldred, who was also the artist for the [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]] [[{{Comics}} comic book adaptation]] by Argo Press. It is dead by March 1 2013.

* WebComic: Produced by Tim Eldred, who was also the artist for the [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]] [[{{Comics}} comic book adaptation]] by Argo Press. [[http://www.starblazers.com/department.php?page_id=126&PHPSESSID=0b70566c73a7da9064373f049a27563b/ Here, check it out.]]

Also, starting on April 27, 2012, a remake of the original series called ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'' began to air. It will be a 26 episode anime based on the first series and divided into 7 films for theatrical release.

-->''We're off to outer space,''\\

''to save the human race...OUR STAR BLAZERS!''\\
--''Star Blazers'' theme

* OldSchoolDogFighting

* [[spoiler:FuroScene]]: [[spoiler:The preview of Episode 11 of ''2199'' shows Yuki and Akira in the Yamato's bathing facility.]]

* ReiAyanamiExpy: ''2199'' brings the ''Yamato'' franchise into the 21st century with its new incarnation of pilot Akira Yamamoto. "[[LampshadeHanging Call me 'Rei', everyone else does]]."[[note]][[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Akira/"Rei" says this when the question of how to pronounce her name comes up]]; "玲" can actually be read as either "Akira" or "Rei".[[/note]]

* SpaceClothes: Played with in ''2199'' — Earth's space navy generally wears traditional [[SpaceIsAnOcean naval uniforms]], with the iconic {{Latex Space Suit}}s being specifically developed and assigned for ''Yamato'' use only.

Also, starting on April 27, 2012, a remake of the original series called [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 ''SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'' began to air. It will be a 26 episode anime based on the first series and divided into 7 films for theatrical release.

Also, starting on April 27, 2012, a remake of the original series called [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 ''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'']] began to air. It will be a 26 episode anime based on the first series and divided into 7 films for theatrical release.

Also, starting on April 27, 2012, a remake of the original series called ''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'' began to air. It will be a 26 episode anime based on the first series and divided into 7 films for theatrical release.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Sanada seems to invent amazing devices on the fly to get out nearly any situation. For example, Dessler's last attack in the final Season 1 episode, firing his [[WaveMotionGun Dessler Cannon]] at the Yamato, only to have the blast reflected by a device based on Gamilon technology.. never before seen before that moment on the Yamato, and never mentioned again.
** In fairness, by that point he had had months to tinker new stuff together without interruption. There's no reason we ''would'' have seen it until the ship was finally attacked. [[ForgottenPhlebotinum Still doesn't explain why it doesn't return in the second season.]]

* TakeOurWordForIt: In the final episode of the first series (the Iscandar arc), we never actually see the Cosmo Cleaner D/Cosmo DNA being used to save the Earth. We're meant to assume that the device worked like it was supposed to, and that the Earth was saved, but considering that the original Japanese airing was in 1974, and no other installments came until a couple or so years later, one could originally never be sure it did work on Earth as effectively as it did [[spoiler:on the ship when the Gamilas/Gamilons tried to use their "radioactive sleeping gas" on everyone]]. For all the Japanese viewers knew at the time, the device may have only worked partially, if not at all.

--''Star Blazers'' theme (uses same melody as above)

In 2199, the surface of the Earth has been bombarded into an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland by an alien race from the planet Gamilon. The Gamilon fleet (Gamila in the Japanese original) is superior to humanity's few remaining warships, and the extinction of humanity is likely within a year. In the middle of a losing battle against the Gamilon fleet, a spaceship from the planet Iscandar arrives and crashes on Mars. Two space cadets investigate the wreck, and discover a beautiful woman, dead, with a message for Earth: if Earth can send a ship to Iscandar, Queen Starsha of Iscandar will give Earth technology that will neutralize the radioactive contamination on the planet, and save humanity.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Analyzer/IQ-9 has a perverse sense of humor, and the hots for Yuki/Nova.