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* AllStarCast: Only a remake to such a legendary series could assemble all these guys in a single show. DaisukeOno, NorioWakamoto, HoukoKuwashima, KenichiSuzumura, AkioOhtsuka, AyaHisakawa, KeijiFujiwara, KikukoInoue, KoichiYamadera, RieTanaka, JojiNakata and the list goes on.
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* AllStarCast: Only a remake to such a legendary series could assemble all these guys in a single show. DaisukeOno, NorioWakamoto, DaisukeOno, HoukoKuwashima, KenichiSuzumura, AkioOhtsuka, AyaHisakawa, KeijiFujiwara, KikukoInoue, KoichiYamadera, RieTanaka, JojiNakata and the list goes on.
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* AllStarCast: Only a remake to such a legendary series could assemble all these guys in a single show. DaisukeOno, HoukoKuwashima, KenichiSuzumura, AkioOhtsuka, AyaHisakawa, KeijiFujiwara, KikukoInoue, KoichiYamadera, RieTanaka, JojiNakata and the list goes on.
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* AllStarCast: Only a remake to such a legendary series could assemble all these guys in a single show. DaisukeOno, NorioWakamoto, HoukoKuwashima, KenichiSuzumura, AkioOhtsuka, AyaHisakawa, KeijiFujiwara, KikukoInoue, KoichiYamadera, RieTanaka, JojiNakata and the list goes on.
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* FuroScene: [[spoiler:Episode 11 shows Yuki and Akira in the Yamato's bathing facility.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: 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.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: 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.]]
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It isn\'t. Both \"Akira\" and \"Rei\" are unisex names, and it\'s actually still \"Akira\" — it\'s just that both names are different readings of the same kanji, \"玲\".
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* 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.
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* HumanAliens: The Gamilons look like humans with blue skin. Most "Second-Class" Gamilions do look like humans. Later it's specified Gamilians are just humans with different skin tones, genetically.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are 36 named characters for Earth alone. The Gamilas have a little less.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are 36 named characters for Earth alone. The Gamilas have alittle less.dozen at least.
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* StandardSciFiFleet: space fighters, Destroyers, Carriers, Battleships, [[spoiler: and Space Battleshipseven a space submarine that "dives" into a dimensional rift]].
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* HeyItsThatVoice: A natural consequence of having an AllStarCast: A ship whose captain is the [[{{Naruto}} First Hokage]] and his crew include [[BlackButler Sebastian]], [[MartianSuccessorNadesico Yurika]], [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Misaka]], [[FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]], [[YuYuHakusho Kazuma Kuwabara]], [[SailorMoon Ami Mizuno]], [[GundamSeed Shinn and Lacus]], traveling to meet [[AhMyGoddess Belldandy]] while fighting [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] and his boss BlackJack, both under orders of [[CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel]].
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* HeyItsThatVoice: A natural consequence of having an AllStarCast: A ship whose captain is the [[{{Naruto}} First Hokage]] and his crew include [[BlackButler Sebastian]], [[MartianSuccessorNadesico Yurika]], [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Misaka]], [[FullmetalAlchemist Maes Hughes]], [[YuYuHakusho Kazuma Kuwabara]], [[SailorMoon Ami Mizuno]], [[GundamSeed Shinn and Lacus]], traveling to meet [[AhMyGoddess Belldandy]] while fighting [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] and his boss BlackJack, both under orders of [[CowboyBebop Spike Spiegel]].
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* AllStarCast: Only a remake to such a legendary series could assemble all these guys in a single show. DaisukeOno, HoukoKuwashima, KenichiSuzumura, AkioOhtsuka, AyaHisakawa, KeijiFujiwara, KikukoInoue, KoichiYamadera, RieTanaka, JojiNakata and the list goes on.
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* OldSchoolDogFighting: A fair bit of this between Earth and Gamilas fighters. For the most part, the Earth fighters tend to rely on this to conserve their guided munitions.
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October 1974. A 26-episode anime series entitled ''Space Battleship Yamato'', aired on Yomiuri TV without much fanfare. It told the story of humanity's last-ditch effort to avoid extinction via the irradiation of the planet Earth by a hostile alien race. Its one hope lay in the eponymous battleship Yamato -- rebuilt into a warp-capable ship -- whose crew would then use it to journey to the far-off planet where salvation was supposed to lay.
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October 1974. A 26-episode anime series entitled ''Space Battleship Yamato'', ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', aired on Yomiuri TV without much fanfare. It told the story of humanity's last-ditch effort to avoid extinction via the irradiation of the planet Earth by a hostile alien race. Its one hope lay in the eponymous battleship Yamato -- rebuilt into a warp-capable ship -- whose crew would then use it to journey to the far-off planet where salvation was supposed to lay.
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* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "There are only X days until humanity is extinct."
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* HostileTerraformingHostileTerraforming: ''2199'' puts more focus on this aspect of the Gamilas attacks on earth, describing the effects as "pollution" instead of explicit radiation like the original series and live-action movie. The Planet Bombs also seeded poisonous AlienKudzu that's shown penetrating the underground cities, [[spoiler:which is discovered as identical to the plant life on the Floating Continent]].
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* AdaptationDistillation: Some plot points are modified to address FridgeLogic issues in the original version. For instance, Iscandar made contact with Earth a year before the series began, and the ''Yamato'' was built based on their offer. Sasha was sent with a key piece of ImportedAlienPhlebotinum needed for the Wave Motion Engine - and the Battle of Pluto at the beginning was deliberately staged as a diversion to cover her arrival.
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** Several other Earth captains from the ''Yamato'' movies make early appearences; for instance, Captain Yamanami from ''Be Forever Yamato''.
** Episode 11 shows a battle between the Gamilons and the Comet Empire.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: What Earth is reduced to survive against the Garmillians' Planet Bustermissilesmissiles.
* EnsignNewbie: Kodai and Shima's high positions in the ''Yamato'''s chain of command are justified in this version because the Gamilas attack in the second episode destroyed the bunker where most of the previous officer candidates were. (Kodai's brother Mamoru was the first choice as Tactical section leader.) There's some tension because of this.
** Several other Earth captains from the ''Yamato'' movies make early appearences; for instance, Captain Yamanami from ''Be Forever Yamato''.
** Episode 11 shows a battle between the Gamilons and the Comet Empire.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: What Earth is reduced to survive against the Garmillians' Planet Buster
* EnsignNewbie: Kodai and Shima's high positions in the ''Yamato'''s chain of command are justified in this version because the Gamilas attack in the second episode destroyed the bunker where most of the previous officer candidates were. (Kodai's brother Mamoru was the first choice as Tactical section leader.) There's some tension because of this.
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* HumanAliens: The Gamilons look like humans with blue skin. Most "Second-Class" Gamilions do look like humans.
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* {{Zeerust}}: Earth Fighters seen, such as the Cosmo Nova, have a mix of high tech displays inside a Cold War fighter cockpit.
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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Many of the Japanese Cosmo Forces brass are named after Shinsengumi captains.
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* GenderFlip: Formally male Akira Yamamoto is now a woman in 2199.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: 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.]]
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** 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.
** 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.
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The show would eventually become a seminal success, becoming the first anime to win the Seiun Award (the Japanese equivalent to the Hugo award), a feat that was not to be repeated until 1985, with Miyazaki's ''Valley of the Wind''. For many it marked a paradigm shift in storytelling, and influenced generations of viewers, some of whom (like HidekiAnno) would eventually work in the industry in turn.
For Western viewers, Yamato (via its edited version Starblazers) would be their literal GatewayDrug into anime.
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The show would eventually become a seminal success, becoming the first anime to win the Seiun Award (the Japanese equivalent to the Hugo award), a feat that was not to be repeated until 1985, with Miyazaki's ''Valley of the Wind''. For many it marked a paradigm shift in storytelling, and influenced generations of viewers, some of whom (like HidekiAnno) HideakiAnno[[hottip:''note'': Who drew the storyboards for ''2199's'' Opening Titles]]) would eventually work in the industry in turn.
For Western viewers, Yamato (via its edited version Starblazers) would be theirliteral GatewayDrug GatewaySeries into anime.
For Western viewers, Yamato (via its edited version Starblazers) would be their
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* {{Affirmative Action Girl}}s: The live-action movie and ''2199'' embrace this trope to avoid the extremes of TheSmurfettePrinciple Yuki fell into. ''2199'' introduces several human and Gamilas {{Canon Foreigner}}s to its cast, as well as performing a GenderFlip on a few characters.
* TheBridge
* AlienInvasion
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* ArtificialGravity
* {{BFG}}: ''The'' WaveMotionGun.
* TheCaptain: Okita
* ContinuityReboot: ''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'' retells the story from the beginning with higher production values, a different character designer, and both AdaptationDistillation and {{Canon Foreigner}}s aplenty.
* CoolStarship
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: What Earth is reduced to survive against the Garmillians' Planet Buster missiles
* ExactTimeToFailure ("There are only '''X''' days left!")
* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: the WaveMotionGun is pointed straight forward.
* FloatingContinent: TropeNamer. There was one floating in Jupiter's atmosphere.
* FuroScene: [[spoiler:Episode 11 shows Yuki and Akira in the Yamato's bathing facility.]]
* GenderFlip: Formally male Akira Yamamoto is now a woman in 2199.
* HumanAliens: The Gamilons look like humans with blue skin. Most "Second-Class" Gamilions do look like humans.
* OldSchoolDogFighting
* 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]]
* RoboSpeak
* RubberForeheadAliens: Every alien race in the series has a body similar to humans, but a different skin color.
* SaharanShipwreck: What the audience first sees of the ''Yamato'' itself.
* 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.
* 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.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact the ships are expected to land in and operate on water as well as space, and the fact that the titular ship ''is'' a wet-navy ship in the first place.
** In ''2199'', Cosmo Force personnel use naval terminology constantly -- orbitals are the "shores" of a planet, further out are the "seas" around it, and so forth.
* StandardStarshipScuffle: Unavoidable, given the SpaceIsAnOcean setting. The battle near Pluto in the very first episode especially stands out as an example.
* StandardSciFiFleet: space fighters, Destroyers, Carriers, and Space Battleships
* WagonTrainToTheStars
* WaveMotionGun: The TropeNamer.
* WorthyOpponent: Many on the Garmillan side.
* {{Affirmative Action Girl}}s: The live-action movie and ''2199'' embrace this trope to avoid the extremes of TheSmurfettePrinciple Yuki fell into. ''2199'' introduces several human and Gamilas {{Canon Foreigner}}s to its cast, as well as performing a GenderFlip on a few characters.
* TheBridge
* AlienInvasion
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* ArtificialGravity
* {{BFG}}: ''The'' WaveMotionGun.
* TheCaptain: Okita
* ContinuityReboot: ''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'' retells the story from the beginning with higher production values, a different character designer, and both AdaptationDistillation and {{Canon Foreigner}}s aplenty.
* CoolStarship
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: What Earth is reduced to survive against the Garmillians' Planet Buster missiles
* ExactTimeToFailure ("There are only '''X''' days left!")
* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: the WaveMotionGun is pointed straight forward.
* FloatingContinent: TropeNamer. There was one floating in Jupiter's atmosphere.
* FuroScene: [[spoiler:Episode 11 shows Yuki and Akira in the Yamato's bathing facility.]]
* GenderFlip: Formally male Akira Yamamoto is now a woman in 2199.
* HumanAliens: The Gamilons look like humans with blue skin. Most "Second-Class" Gamilions do look like humans.
* OldSchoolDogFighting
* 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]]
* RoboSpeak
* RubberForeheadAliens: Every alien race in the series has a body similar to humans, but a different skin color.
* SaharanShipwreck: What the audience first sees of the ''Yamato'' itself.
* 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.
* 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.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact the ships are expected to land in and operate on water as well as space, and the fact that the titular ship ''is'' a wet-navy ship in the first place.
** In ''2199'', Cosmo Force personnel use naval terminology constantly -- orbitals are the "shores" of a planet, further out are the "seas" around it, and so forth.
* StandardStarshipScuffle: Unavoidable, given the SpaceIsAnOcean setting. The battle near Pluto in the very first episode especially stands out as an example.
* StandardSciFiFleet: space fighters, Destroyers, Carriers, and Space Battleships
* WagonTrainToTheStars
* WaveMotionGun: The TropeNamer.
* WorthyOpponent: Many on the Garmillan side.
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Initially premiered as a theatrical release (with every three or four episodes edited together to make up a movie), then as a direct-to-order Blu-Ray/DVD "OVA", the series will finally air on TV for the Spring 2013 anime season.
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October 1974. A 26-episode anime series entitled ''Space Battleship Yamato'', aired on Yomiuri TV without much fanfare. It told the story of humanity's last-ditch effort to avoid extinction via the irradiation of the planet Earth by a hostile alien race. Its one hope lay in the eponymous battleship Yamato -- rebuilt into a warp-capable ship -- whose crew would then use it to journey to the far-off planet where salvation was supposed to lay.
The show would eventually become a seminal success, becoming the first anime to win the Seiun Award (the Japanese equivalent to the Hugo award), a feat that was not to be repeated until 1985, with Miyazaki's ''Valley of the Wind''. For many it marked a paradigm shift in storytelling, and influenced generations of viewers, some of whom (like HidekiAnno) would eventually work in the industry in turn.
For Western viewers, Yamato (via its edited version Starblazers) would be their literal GatewayDrug into anime.
Fast forward to April 2012. After years of legal dispute between the series' co-creators Nishizaki and Matsumoto, the series is given a new breath of life with a remake, the eponymous '''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'''. Featuring modern production standards and a vastly-enhanced budget, the new series seeks to retell the classic story for a brand new generation, at the same time giving even long-time fans and veterans of the franchise something to look forward to, as it's ''not'' quite the same story they grew up with.
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The show would eventually become a seminal success, becoming the first anime to win the Seiun Award (the Japanese equivalent to the Hugo award), a feat that was not to be repeated until 1985, with Miyazaki's ''Valley of the Wind''. For many it marked a paradigm shift in storytelling, and influenced generations of viewers, some of whom (like HidekiAnno) would eventually work in the industry in turn.
For Western viewers, Yamato (via its edited version Starblazers) would be their literal GatewayDrug into anime.
Fast forward to April 2012. After years of legal dispute between the series' co-creators Nishizaki and Matsumoto, the series is given a new breath of life with a remake, the eponymous '''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'''. Featuring modern production standards and a vastly-enhanced budget, the new series seeks to retell the classic story for a brand new generation, at the same time giving even long-time fans and veterans of the franchise something to look forward to, as it's ''not'' quite the same story they grew up with.
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