History Awesome / SpaceBattleshipYamato2199

** Shortly after the above, the Gatlantis 8th task force arrives, composed of ''six'' superdreadnoughts... That combine their weapons to form their own wave motion gun effect.
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* What does Creator/KoichiYamadera (Dessler) think of the [[AllStarCast All Star Voice Cast]]? [[http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/928/ "To be honest, I trembled at the thought of playing a charismatic leader in front of such masters."]]
* When it appeared in Videogame/SuperRobotWarsV, the creators, and the iconic nature of the Yamato, meant that they were allowed to set an edict where it's most iconic weapon was limited except against the FinalBoss, purely since it would be massive overkill...
** Admittedly, It '''''is''''' an overpowered OneHitKO GameBreaker when it is usable.
* Voyager Entertainment planned to release it as a direct remake of Starblazers, only for them to encounter mastering issues and effectively retire any further plans in 2014. There's then an announcement of a new anime 3 years later on Funimation... 'Starblazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199', with a dub that retains both aspects of Starblazers that everyone is familiar with, but ''also'' has minimal editing and uses the ''original Japanese names''.
* Decidedly on the nerdier side of "awesome", but the fact that the creators decided to update the series with scientific advancements & knowledge that weren't available during the original run.
** The look of the Large Magellanic Cloud (which wasn't observed well until the Hubble Space Telescope).
** The engine is described as utilizing compacted higher dimensions (dimensions higher than the 4th were first formally theorized with String Theory in 1971, with Superstring and finally M-Theory effectively codifying their existence in accepted models, far too late for the original series to make use of), with the WaveMotionGun explicitly using the resultant micro black holes' Hawking Radiation as a directed weapon.

* 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 SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome [[spoiler: the attack of the teleporting starfighters that nearly destroys the ''Yamato'', and the crew not only surviving but ''annihilating his carriers'']].
** Episode 19 confirms it, showing the preparations of Domel's task force composed by his flagship [[spoiler: fitted with the teleporters]] 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'' with Frakken's help and kidnap Yurisha]].

** Episode 20 finally has the Battle of the Rainbow Cluster. The awesomeness defies words, so we'll just say the result: [[spoiler: after the toughest battle in the series, the ''Yamato'' destroys the carrier and survives Domel's final SuicideAttack, but the commandos have kidnapped Yuki (who they believed being Yurisha) and delivered her to Wolf Frakken, who escapes with the prize.]] That, and one single moment: one of the old veterans, discharged due old age before being recalled, ''muzzled the WaveMotionGun and nearly destroyed the ship with a repurposed [[ThisIsADrill drill for asteroid mining]], only for Niimi and Analyzer to commandeer it and use it to destroy two carriers, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard including the one that had launched the bomber that fired the drill]]''. The only reason this is not spoilered is that it comes straight from the original series, so you should already know of it...

* 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 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://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yamato/images/3/35/Vlcsnap-2013-11-04-20h18m53s228.png/revision/latest 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.]]]]
** After which he [[spoiler: takes on twenty-eight ships and ''win'']].
** But before that we had [[spoiler: Goer]]'s awesomeness, for pulling a manouver worth of Domel: he managed to [[spoiler: sneak up on the ''Yamato'' with ''thirty ships''. Had he been there to destroy it instead of sending her into Dessler's ambush, he would have succeeded]]. That, and Frakken's intervention didn't prevent him from doing his part in [[spoiler: Dessler]]'s plan.
*** Oh and he nearly ''killed Frakken'': his squadron had hit the subdimensional engines of the submarine, and without an emergency repair (performed by [[spoiler: ''former'' Yamato '' crewmember Yabu'']], of all people, they would have remained exposed to the enemy fire.
** We also have [[spoiler: Dessler]]'s plan that cost [[spoiler: Goer]] his life: lure the ''Yamato'' in the subspace portal, where radar and normal energy weapon don't work and ''board it with an army of robot'' and a detachment of his AmazonBrigade. Could have worked... Except [[CrazyPrepared Niimi and Sanada had long prepared a virus to deactivate Gamilas' war robots]], and deployed it. Poor [[spoiler: Dessler]], wounded by [[spoiler: Celestela]] in a failed attempt at MurderSuicide to boot, found himself forced to run...
*** After the boarding was repelled, [[spoiler: Dessler]] tried to destroy the ''Yamato'', but the positron weapons of the ''Deusura'' didn't work inside the portal. He thus started charging the [[spoiler: [[NoKillLikeOverkill Dessler Cannon]]]]... And the ''Yamato'' wrecked it and the ship with [[RockBeatsLaser Type 3 shells fired by the main battery in conventional cannon mode]]. The ''Deusura'' exploded immediately thereafter.

* Zoellik's HumiliationConga in episode 18 is one for everyone involved in delivering. In order, the ''Yamato'' interrupts his RousingSpeech to the ten thousand ship that he was trying to [[spoiler: have as support for his coup]], then in the battle he ruins his image before supposed TheDragon Goer and the fleet, and when the ''Yamato'' appears to have been destroyed Deslar [[spoiler: reveals he survived his apparent assassination and reveals the culprit was Zoellik himself]], at which point Goer gets fed up with him and [[spoiler: shoots Zoellik in the back ''with his own gun'']]. And finally, to ruin even the possible glory of taking down the undefeatable battleship that not even Domel had been able to destroy, the ''Yamato'' re-emerges from Balan's atmosphere (where they had hid) and wrecks the planet and the Gamilas' PortalNetwork with the WaveMotionGun.

** Episode 23 continues the battle... And Okita's countermove is to [[spoiler: break through the Imperial Guard's fleet and attack ''Dessler's palace. By '''[[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming it and through an Imperial Guard battlecruiser]]'''.'' Dessler is forced to run with the ''Deusura II'''s command ship...]]
** After that, Dessler replies by [[spoiler: [[ColonyDrop detaching a piece of the new spaceborn capital and throwing it at the ''Yamato'' and the old capital]]. Okita's reaction?]]

** As for [[TheDragon Hyss]]... [[spoiler: [[EvenEvilHasStandards He orders the evacuation of the capital and repudiates Dessler]].]]
** After the [[spoiler: ColonyDrop]] failed, Dessler tries again with the Dessler Cannon. Due to Yuki and Nolan's sabotage, it blows up on his face, [[spoiler: with the explosion wiping out the space city and the Imperial Guard]].
*** [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Nolan also saves Yuki at the cost of his life]].]]

** Kodai's scout group and Berger ''not'' trying to kill each other in the face of [[spoiler:Lorelei using her vast psychic powers to manipulate them into that]]. Made more notable because Berger has a personal vendetta against the crew of the ''Yamato'' and [[spoiler:Lorelei]] managed to get a group of Gatlanteans from the same unit to kill each other.

** Berger [[spoiler:surviving his own HeroicSacrifice through sheer badassness]]. If Gamilas ever needed another Domel, this guy is on the right path to become just that.
** The titular Celestial Ark: [[spoiler:a PlanetSpaceship with [[StealthInSpace a cloaking device]] for its whole immense mass, serving as the last refuge for the survivors of the Jirelian race]].

** Shortly after the above, the Gatlantis 8th task force arrives, composed of ''six'' superdreadnoughts... That [[spoiler:combine their weapons to form their own wave motion gun effect]].

*** Knowing they would not survive a second shot, the ''Yamato'' goes in a nearby cave planet, only to be assaulted by energy-draining lifeforms that are immune to normal weapons. How does the ''Yamato'' survive? [[CrazyAwesome Warping out at low energy]].

** The duel between the ''Yamato'' and the ''Megaluda'', with such moves as [[CrazyAwesome Goram throwing the wrecked Magna Fire Cannon at the enemy and Kodai using the rocket anchor on the enemy to throw off their aim]].

** The Gamilans being sore losers, they one-up him in episode 11, when Domel's fleet perform a very similar manouver ''with an entire naval division of destroyers, heavy cruisers, high speed cruisers and at least one battlecruiser''. Needless to say, the poor enemy, a fleet of the ''Comet Empire'', [[CurbStompBattle gets annihilated]].

** The Gatlantean squadron has the Magna Fire Cannon, that uses Gamilan teleporter technology to attack from beyond the range of enemy weapons. Thing is, it's the same technology that Domel used at the Rainbow Cluster... And with this, the ''Yamato'' can anticipate the incoming attack and tell everyone when to dodge.

** This is one especially for the ''Yamato'', that has just taken on ''ten thousand warships and '''won'''''. And left the bulk of Gamilas' fleet unable to give chase. Of course, that gets Domel sicked back on them with orders to destroy the ''Yamato'' or die trying...

** Note that the ''Yamato'' fought this battle without the WaveMotionGun, as Starsha muzzled it when she gave Earth the Cosmo Reverser. Some doubted of their ability to pull it off if attacked... And yet, they were barely slowed down.

** The look of the Large Magellanic Cloud (which wasn't observed well until the Hubble Space Telescope)

** After that, Dessler reply by [[spoiler: [[ColonyDrop detach a piece of the new spaceborn capital and throw it at the ''Yamato'' and the old capital]]. Okita's reaction?]]

** As for [[TheDragon Hyss]]... [[spoiler: [[EvenEvilHasStandards He orders the evaquation of the capital and repudiates Dessler]].]]

** Which gets even more awesome in the Funimation dub by one simple thing... It's translated almost verbatim, as the HistoricalInJoke it's mean to be.

'''Okita:''' "Nuts."\\

* Voyager Entertainment planned to release it as a direct remake of Starblazers, only for them to encounter mastering issues and effectively retire any further plans in 2014. There's then an announcement of a new anime 3 years later on Funimation... 'Starblazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199', with a dub that retains both aspects of Starblazers that everyone is familiar with, but ''also'' has minimal editing and uses the ''original Japanese names''.

-->'''Radio operator of the ''Kirishima'':''' "The Gamilan fleet is demanding our surrender. What do I tell them?"
-->'''Okita:''' "Nuts."
-->'''Radio operator of the ''Kirishima'':''' "What?"

* 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'']].

** When the ''Yamato'' crew decides to answer Teresa's call for help in defiance to government policies, Serizawa sends troops to seize the ship before the crew can board it... Except the ship isn't there anymore: [[GenreSavvy expecting Serizawa's move]], Kodai and the other officers have already moved the ship in the old underground city and hacked the surveillance system to make it seem the ship was still there.

* What does Creator/KoichiYamadera (Dessler) think of the [[AllStarCast All Star Voice Cast]]? [[http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/928/ "To be honest, I trembled at the thought of playing a charismatic leader in front of such masters."]]