History Anime / UchuuSenkanYamato

** The Bolar Wars to some extent as the story in the movie ''Final Yamato'' took place in 2203 (events in ''Space Battleship Yamato III'' took place in 2205)

** Also in The 1985 Bolar Wars season, the cast includes someone who [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine may now be familiar to sci-fi fans]] although back then he would have been marginally familiar from [[{{Benson}} a then popular sitcom]]. That was none other than Rene Auberjonois voicing Sandor.

* {{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.

* {{Affirmative Action Girl}}s: The live-action movie and ''2199'' embrace this trope to avoid the extremes of TheSmurfettePrinciple Yuki fell into. The movie {{Gender Flip}}ped several of the classic characters, while ''2199'' is also introducing several human and Gamilas {{Canon Foreigner}}s to its cast.

** CompositeCharacter: Both characters fill roles held by Yuki Mori (Nova) in the original series -- [[BridgeBunnies Bridge Bunny]] and [[HelloNurse medical care]], respectively.

** Averted in the LiveActionAdaptation, in which some main characters receive a GenderFlip, including Aihara and Dr. Sado. There are also a number of women seen throughout the ship in various interior shots.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Halfway through the movie ''Be Forever Yamato'', the film changes from 4:3 to widescreen just as the Yamato emerges from a NegativeSpaceWedgie into the mysterious home galaxy of the film's villains. (Promotion for the film only described this as "Warp Dimension".)

-->''Saraba Chikyuu yo!'' (Goodbye Earth!)\\
''Tabidatsu fune wa,'' (The departing ship is,)\\
''Uchuu...Senkan...YA-MA-TO!'' (The Space Battleship Yamato!)\\
--''Space Battleship Yamato'' theme

** Interestingly, the WaveMotionGun was [[UnbuiltTrope not treated as something invincible]]: at the end of the first season Dessler'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 {{WaveMotionGun}}s 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 Dessler and charging the gun, only for having Dessler mining the space before the muzzle and getting a good laugh as the ''Yamato'' couldn't fire without being destroyed by her own weapon).

After decades of dispute, the Yamato franchise has been resurrected in a big way. [[http://yamato2009.jp A new film]], titled ''Space Battleship Yamato: Rebirth Chapter'', was finally made and released to Japanese theaters on Dec 12, 2009. It ignored the events of ''Final Yamato'' and took place in 2220. Funimation has licensed it under ''Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection''.

After decades of dispute, [[http://yamato2009.jp a new film]], titled ''Space Battleship Yamato: Rebirth Chapter'', was finally made and released to Japanese theaters on Dec 12, 2009. It ignored the events of ''Final Yamato'' and took place in 2220. Funimation has licensed it under ''Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection''.

** Interestingly, the WaveMotionGun was not treated as something invincible: at the end of the first season Dessler'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 Dessler and charging the gun, only for having Dessler mining the space before the muzzle and getting a good laugh as the ''Yamato'' couldn't fire without being destroyed by her own weapon).

* WorldOfHam

* StayInTheKitchen: At the start of the third season, it initially looks like the show is going to avert TheSmurfettePrinciple by having a lot of females (mostly nurses). However, once it becomes apparent that the mission is not going to be just exploration but will also involve a lot of combat, all the women except one (guess which one!) are sent home on a transport ship that appears out of nowhere. (Please someone tell me if this only happened in ''Star Blazers.'' I don't have access to the original version of this season.)
** Nope, it happens in the original Japanese version too. There's even a shot of all the women waving at the ''Yamato'' when it leaves.

Compare to SpaceCarrierBlueNoah (aka Thunder Sub in English-speaking countries) for a thematically similar anime, with which it even shares a producer, Yoshinobu Nishizaki. The rumor goes that it was created because Nishizaki was at the time involved in copyright dispute about ''Yamato'' with LeijiMatsumoto, and wanted to have a [[CaptainErsatz back-up property]] to capitalize on ''Yamato'''s runaway success should he lose the legal battle.

* SpaceClothes

Compare to SpaceCarrierBlueNoah (aka Thunder Sub in English-speaking countries) for a thematically similar anime, with which it even shares a producer, YoshinobuNishizaki. The rumor goes that it was created because Nishizaki was at the time involved in copyright dispute about ''Yamato'' with Leiji Matsumoto, and wanted to have a [[CaptainErzats back-up property]] to capitalize on ''Yamato'''s runaway success should he lose the legal battle.

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

* {{Affirmative Action Girl}}s: The live-action movie and ''2199'' embrace this trope to avoid the extremes of TheSmurfettePrinciple Yuki fell into. The movie {{Gender Flip}}ped several of the classic characters, while ''2199'' is also introducing several human and Gamilas CanonForeigners to its cast.

After decades of dispute, [[http://yamato2009.jp a new film]], titled ''Space Battleship Yamato: Rebirth Chapter'', was finally made and released to Japanese theaters on Dec 12, 2009. It ignored the events of ''Final Yamato'' and took place in 2220.