History Anime / SpaceBattleshipYamato2199

* BeachEpisode: While the Yamato is on dock in Iscandar in episode 24, [[HelloNurse Harada]] suggests the crew go for a swim in Iscandar's ocean. {{Fanservice}} ensues.

** ApocalypseWow: An orbital view of the aftermath shows ''craters the size of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo Borneo]]''.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: "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.

* HopelessWar: Before the ''Yamato'' was launched, Earth was fighting one. In the first episode, their remaining fleet was down to just a single heavily-damaged Battleship. As the Earth was constantly bombarded with Planet Bombs, the surface has become uninhabitable to the point of humans being forced into the underground. To make matters worse, the Planet Bombs are loaded with an invasive flora that released poisonous spores that penetrated the underground cities that are also suffering from food and energy shortages with only a year to live.

** Also, inn episode 25, the fighter pilots re-purpose a Cosmo Zero's cannon to fight off boarders.

* 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]].

* 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.]]

** [[spoiler:One ''Yamato'' fighter pilot has a photo of him and his girlfriend in his cockpit. He doesn't survive the series.]]

* HearingVoices: Something that happens to both Berger and Mikage in the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie. [[spoiler:It's actually the mental promptings of Lerelai, a Jirellian who's observing the interactions between the Terran and Gamilon soldiers while they're trapped in the mental prison she's created.]]

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Yuki can barely remember anything past a year ago. [[spoiler:This was because she was injured in the same terror attack that put Yurisha in a coma]].

* LineInTheSand: Kodai gives one to the crew of the Yamato before they start off to Terezard in ''2202'', as their going without orders is mutiny. [[spoiler:Only one member of the crew is shown ''not'' coming aboard at the first possible opportunity - Makoto, who has to care for her critically ill infant son.]]

A sequel series based off of ''Space Battleship Yamato 2'', titled ''Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love'', had a limited theatrical run, with its first installment released on February 25 2017. It then had a home release the following March and a TV run. Funimation has also picked up 2202 and streamed it as part of their [[https://www.funimation.com/blog/2018/03/23/spring-2018-best-season-ever/ Spring 2018 SimulDubs]].

* YearInsideHourOutside: As Mikage soon finds out at the end of the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, she and the rest of the away team have been trapped in the illusion for more than a week, and yet barely a day had passed as far as the Yamato was concerned.

A sequel series based off of ''Space Battleship Yamato 2'', titled ''Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love'', began a limited theatrical run on with its first installment on February 25 2017. It then had a home release the following March. Funimation has also picked up 2202 and will stream it as part of their [[https://www.funimation.com/blog/2018/03/23/spring-2018-best-season-ever/ Spring 2018 SimulDubs]].

For American and some Western viewers viewers, Yamato (via its edited version ''Starblazers'') would be their GatewaySeries into anime.

** Justified in that the Type-3 shells are stated as [[AntiArmor Armor-Piercing]] [[NuclearOption Thermonuclear]] [[DepletedPhlebtoniumShells Rounds]] when the [[WordOfGod author was interviewed]]. That said, shells and propellants are NOT something the Yamato can get easily, if at all, given her mission. Energy weapons, conversely, can be fired without such worries.

* NuclearOption: The reason why Yamato's kinetic rounds are so deadly: they are [[AntiArmor Armor-Piercing]] [[DepletedPhlebtoniumShells Thermonuclear Shells]]. Sucks to be that Gamilas destroyer on the receiving end of [[NoKillLikeAnOverkill such a salvo]], I guess.

[[caption-width-right:350:Not your parents' Yamato. ''Better''. It's your parents' ''and yours'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:Not your parents' Yamato. ''Better''. It's your parent' ''and yours'']]

** Wolf Frakken seems to openly enjoy battling the ''Yamato'' because it proves a worthy challenge to him. He's also not a big fan Dessler's policies but is loyal anyways. He remains loyal to the Gamilan government after [[spoiler:Dessler's disgrace and removal from office]] and hunts down officers who refuse to recognize the new government. He even assists the ''Yamato'' at one point by killing [[spoiler:Goer]], who was pursuing them.

** 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. 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 are succumbing to the syndrome before Yamato's return.

* RealityEnsues: 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.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Gamilas General Gremto Goer]] may be a DirtyCoward and a [[SmugSnake useless boob]] ready to [[ScapeGoat blame his subordinates for defeats that were not their fault]], but would never send all his ships in dangerous collision courses while firing at each other nor he does condone treason.

* RealityEnsues: 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 right brief moment after they exited their spacecraft when Hoshina's suspicion towards the "unfamiliar" crews.]]

* GreatOffscreenWar: There have been at least two "Inner Planet Wars" in recent history with at least the second one involving Mars (Rei was born during the second one and was forced to move to Earth where all of them except her and her brother were killed by Gamilan orbital bombardment; her brother was killed later in battle against Gamillas, leaving her the only survivor of her family).

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: As shown by the ''Ark of the Stars'' movie, the soldiers of Gatlantis are re-imagined to be like this. While in-series we've heard only heard about their "barbarism" second-hand from Gamilons, in the movie this aspect is brought to the fore. Think the Klingons from StarTrek, but with green skin rather than forehead ridges, and it's pretty close.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Mori Yuki's resemblance to the princesses of Iscandar becomes an actual '''plot point''' this time around, rather than an accident of Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's signature art style, leading to ''in-universe'' WildMassGuessing as to why this is so. [[spoiler:Episode 18 finally puts all speculation to rest however.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Done accidentally when they test fire the Wave Motion Gun on a Gamilon base situated on the floating continent base in Jupiter. However, instead of destroying the base, the beam just straight up destroys the entire continent. Oh, and did we mention that the continent was ''roughly the size of Australia?''

* {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler:Yabu, one of the engineering crew on the ''Yamato'', is shown to have joined the crew of Frakken's space-submarine in the penultimate episode.]]

* HopelessWar: Before the ''Yamato'' was launched, Earth was fighting one.

** Though it wouldn't be the [[SpaceBattleshipYamato first time]] [[spoiler:Dessler]] has [[JokerImmunity got away]] with that.

[[caption-width-right:350:Not your parents' Yamato. ''Better''.]]

** There is a Planet Stalag17 in episode 21.