History Trivia / SpaceBattleshipYamato

* DatedHistory: It turns out that the wreck of the ''Yamato'' is [[http://battleshipyamato.info/wreck.html rather less intact than Leiji Matsumoto and company thought]]. Converting it into a spaceship, while [[RuleOfCool incredibly cool]], is simply not realistic no matter what the level of technology available might be. This fact wasn't discovered until over a decade after the anime was conceived.

* CreativeDifferences: Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Creator/LeijiMatsumoto both claim they are the sole creators of ''Space Battleship Yamato''. (The court system sided with Nishizaki.) Both made their own separate ''Yamato'' projects[[labelnote:*]]the short-lived ''Yamato 2520'' {{OVA}}s from Nihizaki's camp, and Matsumoto's ''Great Yamato'' manga[[/labelnote]] between 1983 and their settlement in the 2000s. Ironically, the one remake/revival that actually managed to be a success was ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'', in which neither of them had any involvement.[[labelnote:*]]Though to be fair, Nishizaki not having any involvement is inevitable, as he had died by the time ''2199'' premiered.[[/labelnote]]

* ScienceMarcheson: Quite a bit of this in the original series (which was broadcast in 1974), notably Titan is shown as a frozen moon with a clear atmosphere and Pluto is indicated to be "half the size of Earth" (although the show does correctly guess it has at least one moon, possibly more than one as it's named as "a" moon of Pluto). Both would be revealed to be quite different in a few years due to Voyager 1 revealing Titan's haze and the discovery of Charon allowing estimates of Pluto's mass to be corrected to being considerably smaller than Earth's own moon.

* CreativeDifferences: Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Creator/LeijiMatsumoto both claim they are the sole creators of ''Space Battleship Yamato''. (The court system sided with Nishizaki.) Both made their own separate ''Yamato'' projects[[labelnote:*]]the short-lived ''Yamato 2520'' {{OVA}}s from Nihizaki's camp, and Matsumoto's ''Great Yamato'' manga[[/labelnote]] between 1983 and their settlement in the 2000s. Ironically, the one remake/revival that actually managed to be a success was ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'', which neither of them had any involvement in.[[labelnote:*]]Though to be fair, Nishizaki not having any involvement is inevitable, as he had died by the time ''2199'' premired.[[/labelnote]]

* TheOtherDarrin: Series 3 (''The Bolar Wars'') was dubbed by a different team that the previous two seasons, and thus the entire cast was replaced.
* ProductionNickname: The Mexican voice actors of the dub of the film tended to call the titular ship as ''Acorazado Espacial Clamato'' (Space Battleship Clamato) after the (in)famous brand of tomato juice.
* ScienceMarcheson: Quite a bit of this in the original series (which was broadcast in 1974), notably Titan is shown as a frozen moon with a clear atmosphere and Pluto is indicated to be "half the size of Earth" (although the show does correctly guess it has at least one moon, possibly more than one as its named as "a" moon of Pluto). Both would be revealed to be quite different in a few years due to Voyager 1 revealing Titan's haze and the discovery of Charon allowing estimates of Pluto's mass to be corrected to being considerably smaller than Earth's own moon.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before Creator/LeijiMatsumoto joined the project, the Yamato wasn't even in it, instead there was a ship made from a hollowed out asteroid called the Icarus. The show was originally pitched as essentially "''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' InSpace", with the crew suffering a catastrophic breakdown in discipline during their voyage through deep space. Virtually the only thing both versions had in common was that both involved a quest to find a planet called Iscandar. Fortunately, many of the concepts Matsumoto threw out when he took over were later used to make ''Anime/InfiniteRyvius''.

** Also, the first season was originally supposed to be 39 episodes instead of 26. The extra 13 episodes would have been used to introduced a new series character named Anime/CaptainHarlock.

** ...and he's in most of the promotional materials produced from the early drafts of the script, the first novelisation and it's in both manga versions - Matsumoto's and the "official" tie-in version... and there's no implication about it - it's outright stated, and he's treated as a major character! In said novelisation there's an even bigger shock that didn't make the final cut: [[spoiler: Captain Okita is his father... though anyone who's seen Matsumoto's manga version of the [=WW2=] Arcadia of my Youth flashback might have had a suspicion or two, given the character design for the elderly Harlock in the framing story...]]

* ScienceMarcheson: Quite a bit of this in the original series (which was broadcast in 1974), notably Titan is shown as a frozen moon with a clear atmosphere and Pluto is indicated to be "half the size of Earth" and without a moon. Both would be revealed to be quite different in a few years due to Voyager 1 revealing Titan's haze and the discovery of Charon allowing estimates of Pluto's mass to be corrected to being considerably smaller than Earth's own moon.