History Anime / SpaceBattleshipYamato2199

* BittersweetEnding: The second season. The Gatlanteans are stopped once and for all, but [[spoiler:a good chunk of the Yamato's crew is dead, a huge chunk of the Navy is dead, the Time Fault is gone, weakening Earth's infrastructure considerably, and it's been revealed that the Gamilas homeworld is dying and they need to find a new world suitable to move everyone to somewhere - and since Dessler had been looking in two galaxies for decades before the series started, such a thing must be hard to find.]]

** A single shot of a Wave Motion Gun can inflict a Planetary Class 5-6. [[spoiler: Iskandarians]] in the past inflicted Planetary Class X on people who dared to cross them with whole barrages of Wave Motion Gun blasts.

* HeroicSacrifice: Mamoru Kodai and his ship stayed behind to ensure that Okita escaped safely. Also, the whole Operation M is a giant sacrifice to retrieve the Iskandarian message pod.

** The number on Okita's ship Kirishima in episode 1 is [[{{Anime/Interstella5555}} 555]]. The station where Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima stayed on Mars when they waited for the Iskandar ship is built in the former [[{{Anime/CaptainHarlock}} Arcadia]] station.

* WhatTheHellHero: After finding out that Iskandar and Gamilas are in the same place, Akira angrily calls out Yurisha for not telling them in advance.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Quite a few involving the use of English on the Yamato's displays and signage. [[spoiler:In episode 25, freeze-frame the shot of Dessler's crippled flagship just before the explosion. Notice anything unusual?]]

* DisobeyedOrdersNotPunished: ** Kodai disobeys Sanada, the ship's XO, after Okita tells him that sometimes you have to say ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight, and launches a Seagull recon-plane to place dimensional sonar buoys to determine if a dimensional submarine is still in the area. He's too late to stop the Yamato from releasing a dimensional sonar ping that gives away their location, but he is able to track the enemy's torpedos, making it possible to shoot them down before impact, and then cripple their periscope. He submits himself for punishment but is spared severe consequences for saving the ship.

* CallBack: In the first episode, while Mori is explaining the history of Earth's war with Garmillas to a group of children, she theorizes that Garmillas is bombarding the Earth in order to terraform its environment to be more suitable for their colonization. This was the reason Garmillas bombarded the Earth in [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato the original series]]. It even turns out to be true in the second season - Dessler started his expansion policies in the hopes of finding a world that was naturally suitable for relocating their population to.

* DisneyDeath: If you're a named member of the ''Yamato'''s crew, chances are very likely you won't die, even if it looks like you should've given up the ghost. [[spoiler:Ito averts this: when he gets shot on a Garmillan prison planet, he dies. Okita also averts this at the very end of the series. Seriously averted in the second season, where quite a few people die in the final battle.]]

** In the battle of Pluto in the first episode, the Garmillas ships were completely impervious to human beam weapons (due to a special coating used on their armor according to supplementary materials), and literally the only casualties they suffered were from the Yukikaze's torpedoes. Why the humans still bothered using those beam cannons is anyone's guess.

* ASharedSuffering: Both Susumu and Akira lost their family to the war with the Garmillans: Susumu's family died from planetary bombs, and he lost his brother during Operation M; while Akira's parents died during the Garmillans' attack on Mars, and her brother was a fighter pilot who was shot down.

** "A Clockwork Prisoner" explores this at length: when a Garmillan android that had been captured by the ''Yamato'' crew begins to exhibit some sentience in its pursuit of the vessel's "goddess", Sanada and Itou debate about whether the android is a living being. Sanada states that there's little difference between the human brain and the android's artificial intelligence, and when Itou sarcastically asks Sanada if he thinks the android has a heart, Sanada straight-up questions whether ''[[SmugSnake Itou]]'' has a heart.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Quite a few involving the use of SurprisinglyGoodEnglish on the Yamato's displays and signage. [[spoiler:In episode 25, freeze-frame the shot of Dessler's crippled flagship just before the explosion. Notice anything unusual?]]

** Played with with field medic Makoto Harada, whose [[GagBoobs bountiful chest]] is quite obvious even when she's wearing what would be a non-form fitting suit on most other female crew members.

* {{Made of Explodium}}: Most starships, bar the titular 'Yamato' explodes when damaged. It seems that most damaged ships simply explode rather than forced to withdraw from combat. [[{{A Million is a Statistic}} Then we realize each of those ships have tens, if not hundreds of crew...]]

* CastingGag: This is not [[Film/{{Avatar}} the first time]] Creator/TakayukiSugo (Juzo Okita) has to fight against [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue-skinned aliens]], except this time, the blue-skinned ones ''are the bad guys'' and Okita is one of the heroes, not the [[ColonelKilgore other way around]].[[note]]For extra hilarity, Okita's name in the English dub of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' was Abraham ''Avatar''.[[/note]]

* CastingGag: This is not [[Film/{{Avatar}} the first time]] Creator/TakayukiSugo (Juzo Okita) has to fight against [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue-skinned aliens]], except this time, the blue-skinned ones ''are the bad guys'', not the [[ColonelKilgore other way around]].

%% Doens't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: Shima develops one about halfway through the series when Melda claims that humanity started the war with the Gamilas. Shima takes this as a firm insult to his father's honor [[spoiler:because his father was not only a firm believer in a friendly relationship between aliens and humans but was also the first human casualty in the war. His reaction to finding out the truth is truly heartrending.]]

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: How Berger eventually figures out who's been playing everyone in the ''Ark to the Stars'' movie; [[spoiler:Neredia not reacting to the fact that Mikage looks ''exactly'' like her deceased sister, as well as her not using his first name, were big warning signs.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As Zaltz were similar to humans in terms of appearance, a squad of them were sent to infiltrate Yamato in UNCF uniforms during a battle in Episode 20. [[spoiler: Their plan was exposed a brief moment after they exited their spacecraft when Hoshina became suspicious about the "unfamiliar" crews.]]
** The second season, Space Battleship Yamato 2202, avoided NoOntologicalInertia after [[spoiler: Cosmic Reverser restored life back on Earth]]. Earth's population is a quarter of its pre-Gamillas war and many areas are shown to be arid even with the Earth's surface becoming habitable. Furthermore, many children--[[spoiler: one of whom being Kato's own son]]--are suffering from Planet Bomb Syndrome congenitally due to their parents' exposure to them in the past despite their resistance. This is not counting many people who were already succumbing to the aforementioned syndrome before Yamato's return.

* BerserkButton: Shima develops one about halfway through the series when Melda claims that humanity started the war with the Gamilas. Shima takes this as a firm insult to his father's honor [[spoiler:because his father was not only a firm believer in a friendly relationship between aliens and humans but was also the first human casualty in the war. His reaction to finding out the truth is truly heartrending.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Frakken and his submarine in Episode 25.]]
** Also the arrival of the Andromeda and the EDF fleet at the battle of Saturn.