History Awesome / SpaceBattleshipYamato2199

** Episode 19 confirms it, showing the preparations of Domel's task force composed by his flagship and four carriers crewed by young recruits and recalled veterans, plus a group of volunteers from Zalts with a special task: [[spoiler: board the ''Yamato'' and kidnap Yurisha]].

** This is one especially for the ''Yamato'', that has just taken on ''ten thousand warships and '''won'''''. Of course, that gets Domel sicked back on them with orders to destroy the ''Yamato'' or die trying...

* The ''Yamato'' versus Wolf Frakken's space submarine in episode 13.

* Episode 25 sees the return of Wolf Frakken: [[spoiler: Coming to arrest Goer (and helping the Yamato) his ship "surfaces" and he proceeds to lecture Goer. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/3517a66eab902dc41e8eb9513259db26/tumblr_mvlqz2vDX21stghmoo2_r1_500.png Standing on top of the ship, in a space suit, BadassArmFold and all.]] Because doing it from the bridge was probably not awesome enough for him. His crew promptly comments [[LampshadeHanging that he must have a good time doing it.]]

* Episode 25 sees the return of Wolf Frakken: [[spoiler: Coming to arrest Goer (and helping the Yamato) his ship "surfaces" and he proceeds to lecture Goer. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/3517a66eab902dc41e8eb9513259db26/tumblr_mvlqz2vDX21stghmoo2_r1_500.png Standing on top of the ship, in a space suit, BadassArmFold and all.]] Because doing it from the bridge was probably not awesome enough for him. His crew promptly comments [[LampshadeHanging that he must have a good time doing it.]] ]]

** And the BGM? Its title is ""White Comet (Disco)". That's right: Domel is so awesome he can ''[[TheDayTheMusicLied use the enemy theme song as his own]] ThemeMusicPowerUp''.

* In his first appearance on screen, Domel is seen [[CurbStompBattle annihilating a fleet of the Comet Empire]]. The CasualDangerDialogue between him and his immediate subordinates implies it's not the first time.

* The ''Yamato'' surviving episode 8. Before them lies a star, behind them, courtesy of Deslar, there's a gaseous thing that will absorb the ''Yamato'' if it touches her and Shultz with his battleship (both to deliver Deslar's gift and to make sure the ''Yamato'' can't escape), and everywhere else there's an artificial sunstorm that will destroy the ship if they go anywhere else. How do they survive? Easy: ''flying near the star'', to the point of grazing the corona. Thus, the star absorbs the gaseous thing ''and'' kills Shultz when he tries to finish the ''Yamato'', and they survive the star's corona by ''shooting at it with the WaveMotionGun'', thus opening a path in the same plasma tendril that destroyed Shultz's ship. By surviving all of that (and a trap organized by ''[[MagnificentBastard Deslar]] himself''), the ''Yamato'' got promoted from "plaything" (in fact Deslar was treating Shultz's transmission as an entertainment) to WorthyOpponent.

** Also, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome the death of Shultz and his subordinates]]. After the gaseous thing got destroyed, their direct superior Goer was berating them when Ganz, Shultz's second in command, cuts the transmission and smile, after which they charge at the ''Yamato'' aiming to either destroy her with gunfire, throwing her in the star or ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming it]]'' (survival was not important, only taking down the ''Yamato''), and when they saw that the ''Yamato'' had escaped and they were about to be hit by the plasma tendril [[FaceDeathWithDignity they simply wished long life to their home planet, facing the plasma until it hit them]]. Not only Deslar honoured them by giving them a posthumous promotion of two ranks, naming their families as honorary citizens (of ''higher'' social status than pureblooded Gamilas citizens) and cutting off Goer's transmission when he tried to blame them for the failure, but this drove home that [[TookALevelInBadass Shultz, Ganz and their subordinates are not the jokes they were in the original series]].

* Susumu Kodai's HeroicSacrifice, especially if compared to the original version. In the original he did it out of HonorBeforeReason, and only fired a couple missiles before being blown out of the sky. In this version, he not only did it to [[YouShallNotPass cover Okita's retreat]], but he ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome charged at full speed at the Gamilas fleet firing like a madman, causing the Gamilas ships to hit each other and get out of position to chase Okita before a lucky shot got his ship]]''. Also, he and his crew were singing a cheerful song about reaching Alpha Centauri all the time.

* At the end of episode 16, Yuki, Kodai, Shima and Hoshina are fighting the mutinied security, but even with Itou disarmed and Niimi unwilling to go over the MoralEventHorizon they're outnumbered and outgunned. Things look bleak... Then [[PureAwesomeness Okita shows up and calls Itou an idiot, and the mutiny ends that very moment]].

* Episode 25 sees the return of Wolf Frakken: [[spoiler: Coming to arrest Goer (and helping the Yamato) his ship "surfaces" and he proceeds to lecture Goer. [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/3517a66eab902dc41e8eb9513259db26/tumblr_mvlqz2vDX21stghmoo2_r1_500.png Standing on top of the ship, in a space suit, BadassArmFold and all.]] Because doing it from the bridge was probably not awesome enough for him.]]

-->'''Okita:''' "Prepare the Wave Motion Gun!"

* Episode 17 has an HeroicSacrifice for [[spoiler: Sanada: to activate the portal that will allow the ''Yamato'' to skip 30,000 light years, he needs to stay in a control room that will be saturated with neutrons, killing him... And he does just that.]] More awesomeness ensues when [[spoiler: Sanada subverts it: there was a pool in the room, and, knowing that neutrons have poor penetration in water, dove into it before the room was saturated]].

* Episode 17 has an HeroicSacrifice for [[spoiler: Sanada: to activate the portal that will allow the ''Yamato'' to skip 30,000 light years, he needs to stay in a control room that will be saturated with neutrons, killing him... And he does just that.]] More awesomeness ensues when [[spoiler: Sanada subverts it: there was a pool in the room, and, knowing that neutrons have poor penetration in water, dove into it before the room was saturated]].
* The very first moment of awesome comes in the first episode with this exchange.
-->'''Radio operator of the ''Kirishima'':''' "The Gamilan fleet is demanding our surrender. What do I tell them?"
-->'''Okita:''' "Idiots."
-->'''Radio operator of the ''Kirishima'':''' "What?"
-->'''Okita:''' "Tell them: idiots!"

* Episode 17 has an HeroicSacrifice for [[spoiler: Sanada: to activate the portal that will allow the ''Yamato'' to skip 30,000 light years, he needs to stay in a control room that will be saturated with neutrons, killing him... And he does just that.]] More awesomeness ensues when [[spoiler: Sanada subverts it: there was a pool in the room, and, knowing that neutrons have poor penetration in water, dove into it before the room was saturated]].

* Episode 19 has not been released yet as this is written, but the [[OnTheNext next episode trailer for it]] shows that Domel and the ''Yamato'' crew will still have their ultimate CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[spoiler: the attack of the teleporting starfighters that nearly destroys the ''Yamato'', and the crew not only surviving but ''annihilating his carriers'']].

* At the end of episode 16, Yuki, Kodai, Shima and Hoshina are fighting the mutinied security, but even with Itou disarmed and Niimi unwilling to go over the MoralEventHorizon they're outnumbered and outgunned. Things look bleak... Then [[PureAwesomeness Okita shows up and calls Itou an idiot, and the mutiny ends that very moment]].

** Also, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome the death of Shultz and his subordinates]]. After the gaseous thing got destroyed, their direct superior Goer was berating them when Ganz, Shultz's second in command, cuts the transmission and smile, after which they charge at the ''Yamato'' aiming to either destroy her with gunfire, throwing her in the star or ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming it]]'' (survival was not important, only taking down the ''Yamato''), and when they saw that the ''Yamato'' had escaped and they were about to be hit by the plasma tendril [[FaceDeathWithDignity they simply wished long life to their home planet, facing the plasma until it hit them]]. Not only Deslar honoured them by giving them a posthumous promotion of two ranks, naming their families as honorary citizens (of ''higher'' social status than pureblooded Gamilas citizens) and cutting off Goer's transmission when he tried to blame them for the failure, but this drove home that [[TookALevelInBadass Shultz, Ganz and their subordinates are not the jokes they were in the original series]].

** Also, Domel being there. Knowing that the ''Yamato'' could exit from warp in one of four places due a pulsar, he guarded all of them, and as soon as she was in one of four places he had the rest of his ships move in for the kill. Had he been dealing with a lesser enemy, he would have won then and there, and with ease.

** Also, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome the death of Shultz and his subordinates]]. After the gaseous thing got destroyed, their direct superior Goer was berating them when Ganz, Shultz's second in command, cuts the transmission and smile, after which they charge at the ''Yamato'' aiming to either destroy her with gunfire, throwing her in the star or ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming it]]'' (survival was not important, only taking down the ''Yamato''), and when they saw that the ''Yamato'' had escaped and they were about to be hit by the plasma tendril [[FacingDeathWithDignity they simply wished long life to their home planet, facing the plasma until it hit them]]. Not only Deslar honoured them by giving them a posthumous promotion of two ranks, naming their families as honorary citizens (of ''higher'' social status than pureblooded Gamilas citizens) and cutting off Goer's transmission when he tried to blame them for the failure, but this drove home that [[TookALevelInBadass Shultz, Ganz and their subordinates are not the jokes they were in the original series]].

** Also, Domel being there. Knowing that the ''Yamato'' could exit from warp in one of four places due a pulsar, he guarded all of them, and as soon as she was in one of four places he had the rest of his ships move in for the kill. Had he been dealing with a lesser enemy, he would have won then and there, and with ease.

* Susumu Kodai's HeroicSacrifice, especially if compared to the original version. In the original he did it out of HonorBeforeReason, and only fired a couple missiles before being blown out of the sky. In this version, he not only did it to cover Okita's retreat, but he ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome charged at full speed at the Gamilas fleet firing like a madman, causing the Gamilas ships to hit each other and get out of position to chase Okita before a lucky shot got his ship]]''. Also, he and his crew were singing a cheerful song about reaching Alpha Centauri all the time.

* The Yamato gets jumped by Domel's whole fleet and has to fight its way out. On their route lies Domels Dreadnought Flagship. Already damaged and low on power, they can't penetrate its armor on normal ranges. They then proceed to ''ram'' it, scrape alongside its length, blasting all the while point black with one of the main gun towers. From the look in his face, even Domel considered this as awesome.

** And that lucky shot? They got him only because he had slowed down to turn and make another passage.

* Susumu Kodai's HeroicSacrifice, especially if compared to the original version. In the original he did it out of HonorBeforeReason, and only fired a couple missiles before being blown out of the sky. In this version, he not only did it to cover Okita's retreat, but he ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome charged at full speed at the Gamilas fleet firing like a madman, causing the Gamilas ships to hit each other and get out of position to chase Okita before a lucky shot got his ship]]''. Also, he and his crew were singing a cheerful song about reaching Alpha Centauri all the time.