History Anime / UchuuSenkanYamato

Compare to SpaceCarrierBlueNoah (aka Thunder Sub in english speaking countries) for a thematically similar anime.

* AdaptationalBadass: in the 2010 movie, Analyser is a belt-mounted PDA[=/=]"[[NewGods Mother Box]]" before being installed into his traditional robot body - except ''it's over 20 feet tall.''

** The death of Kodai's brother Mamarou is [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] in the ''2199'' remake. In the original series, Mamarou refuses to retreat due to HonorBeforeReason, since he can't live with the shame of retreating. This leads to his death being a arguably pointless one. In ''2199'', his death is played as a straight HeroicSacrifice with him staying behind to ensure Okita's ship can withdraw safely.

** Similarly, the resemblance between Starsha and Yuki is lamphaded with [[spoiler:Yuki temporarily ''becoming'' Starsha.]]

* NeverSayDie: Averted...except in episodes where it isn't. In general, the dub was inconsistant 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.]]

* OhCrap: Deslar gets one at the end of the first season, when the ''Yamato'' [[spoiler: reflects back at him a shot from his [[WaveMotionGun Deslar Cannon]]]].
** Deslar gets back at the ''Yamato'' crew for that in the second season by merely warning them [[spoiler: he's still alive]].
*** He later provokes another one in episode 23: the ''Yamato'' is preparing to launch the last, desperate attack at the Comet Empire when a Gamilas bomber materializes before the ship, signaling that not only Deslar is back in battle but that he's using one of the more devastating tactics of the series, one that the ''Yamato'' survived the first time only due to sheer luck.
** Deslar apparently loves causing OhCrap faces: in the third season he provokes a series of them by [[spoiler: asking his generals why they attacked the ''Yamato'', a ship he SPECIFICALLY warned them not to attack as he's now an ally of Earth. Poor generals expected to be executed in some horrible fashion, by the look of their faces...]].

** Except the BeePeople, who get to look a little more insect-ish. Their [[TheQuisling traitorous queen]] looks much more human than the rest of them.

** Interestingly, the WaveMotionGun was not treated as something invincible: at the end of the first season Deslar's one was reflected back at him (after coming back, he'd always be VERY careful at using his WaveMotionGun against the ''Yamato'', taking care to neutralize or prevent the deploying of the WMG reflector before firing), and in second season we have three different incidents of WaveMotionGuns utterly failing in their job (first was the Comet Empire's vanguard fleet flagship firing her Magna Flame Cannon while inside Saturn's ring only for the energy beam to explode against the rings' particles, giving Earth's fleet the time to reach their weapons' range and annihilate the vanguard fleet; then the Earth Defense Force fired ALL their Wave Motion Guns at the Empire's comet fortress and failing to make any damage; third was the ''Yamato'' finding herself attacked again by Deslar and charging the gun, only for having Deslar mining the space before the muzzle and getting a good laugh as the ''Yamato'' couldn't fire without being destroyed by her own weapon).

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: See SecretTestOfCharacter above.
** Strangely, this was mostly excised in the dub, making it come across as more warlike than the original. In the dub, Starsha is portrayed as regretting not telling Earth that Iscandar and Gamilon [[spoiler:were twin planets, which happened to also be true in the Japanese version as well.]]

* Flanderization: Totally averted with Shiro Sanada (Sandor). It's easy to forget that he has bionic limbs. Because they never really bring it up again.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: The Argo rams Desslok's ship in Farewell Yamato and the remake, season 2, and all it did was ''bend some metal''. Desslok's ship fares worse in the remake: the engine is actually damaged by the ram rather than [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Wildstar running through the halls, shooting robots and grenading the engine to kingdom come.]]

* FrothyMugsOfWater (The TropeNamer, after ''Star Blazers'' and Doctor Sane's "spring water". Some people see it as 88((NostalgiaGoggles))an]] [[{{Woolseyism}}improvement]].)

* ''MomentOfAwesome'': In season 2, in one of the episodes close to the end. Leader Desslock had earlier accepted a commission from Prince Zordar to defeat the Star Force, so he pins the Yamato by teleporting mines over to surround it. To escape, the Yamato executes a small warp and rams Desslock's ship. Deputy Captain Derek Wildstar boards the Leader's ship. The two of them face off on the bridge. Desslock slowly levels his pistol at Wildstar, while goading Wildstar to shoot him. But Wildstar, already injured earlier, falls to the deck while drawing his. His love interest, Nova, dashes out of hiding, grabs the pistol, blocks Desslock's aim, then aims Derek's pistol at Desslock. Moments later, she drops the pistol, places Derek's head in her lap, and comforts him while he remains semiconscious. Desslock gets his Villainous BSOD as he is witnesses Nova's simultaneous display of extreme bravery and extreme devotion. It makes him change his mind about pursuing the Star Force, he declares to Nova that the war between Gamillon and Earth is over, and he offers her advice on the Comet Empire's one weak point in its mobile fortress. Doubles as a ''MomentofHeartwarming''!

* FrothyMugsOfWater (The TropeNamer, after ''Star Blazers'' and Doctor Sane's "spring water". Some people see it as [[{{Woolseyism}} an improvement]].)

* ''CrowningMomentOfAwesome'': In season 2, in one of the episodes close to the end. Leader Desslock had earlier accepted a commission from Prince Zordar to defeat the Star Force, so he pins the Yamato by teleporting mines over to surround it. To escape, the Yamato executes a small warp and rams Desslock's ship. Deputy Captain Derek Wildstar boards the Leader's ship. The two of them face off on the bridge. Desslock slowly levels his pistol at Wildstar, while goading Wildstar to shoot him. But Wildstar, already injured earlier, falls to the deck while drawing his. His love interest, Nova, dashes out of hiding, grabs the pistol, blocks Desslock's aim, then aims Derek's pistol at Desslock. Moments later, she drops the pistol, places Derek's head in her lap, and comforts him while he remains semiconscious. Desslock gets his Villainous BSOD as he is witnesses Nova's simultaneous display of extreme bravery and extreme devotion. It makes him change his mind about pursuing the Star Force, he declares to Nova that the war between Gamillon and Earth is over, and he offers her advice on the Comet Empire's one weak point in its mobile fortress. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming!

* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:the 2010 movie ends with Yuki ''and her son with Godai''.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice : Most of the other ''Star Blazers'' voice actors were never heard in anything else, and a few remain unidentified. The big exception is Sgt Knox who is voiced by Chris Latta (in what may be his very first voice acting role) who would later become legendary as the voice of [[{{GIJoe}} Cobra Commander]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Transformers}} Starscream]]. His voice for Knox sounds a bit like Steeler, another ''GI Joe'' character that he voiced.

* 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 since 1983.

* AdaptationalBadass: in the 2010 movie, Analyser is a belt-mounted "Mother Box" before being installed into his traditional robot body - except ''it's over 20 feet tall.''

** this likely comes from the compilation movie of the first series being titled Space Cruiser Yamato because it sounded less threatening to the foreign audiences.

* HeyItsThatVoice : Most of the other Star Blazers voice actors were never heard in anything else and a few remain unidentified. The big exception is Sgt Knox who is voiced by Chris Latta (in what may be his very first voice acting role) who would later become legendary as the voice of Cobra Commander and Starscream. His voice for Knox sounds a bit like Steeler, a Gi Joe character that he voiced.

* AwardBaitSong: Steven Tyler's [[NarmCharm NarmCharmy]] "Love Lives", for the live-action film adaptation.

* OhCrap: Deslar gets one at the end of the first season, when the ''Yamato'' [[spoil: reflects back at him a shot from his [[WaveMotionGun Deslar Cannon]].

** And again in both the Movie and TV series versions of the Comet empire story. The final, massive battleship of the Empire is defeated not by the then-crippled Yamato, but by Trelaina.

Originally made in the early 70s, it was dubbed under the title ''Star Blazers,'' and aired in afternoon syndication during the late 70s. It was the first Japanese anime series to air in the U.S. that required every episode to be shown in its proper order. The show returned to American airwaves as part of SyFy's Anime block starting April 21, 2011.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: episode 25 is a massive CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the ''Yamato'' and her crew, as the battleship, nearly crippled in the last battle with Deslar, first chase off Earth the space fortress Gatlantis, then launch an AirstrikeImpossible to pave the way for a commando raid that cripples the target, and then the ''Yamato'' destroy Gatlantis. A space fortress that four episodes earlier had wiped out the entire Earth Defense Force fleet without even trying!!!
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by a random bystander in the crowds when ''Yamato'' reappears: "It's ''Yamato!'' We still have ''Yamato!'' We're going to '''WIN'''."

* CulturalTranslation (or {{Woolseyism}} or {{Macekre}}/{{Americanitis}}, depending on who you ask): In "''Star Blazers''", the scenes showing Wildstar's backstory go out of their way to avoid mentioning that he lived in Japan. His home is called "Great Island" and sushi (clearly shown on screen and looking like nothing else besides sushi) is called "chocolate cake".