History YMMV / SpaceBattleshipYamato

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A dubbing example. ''Star Blazers'' was one of the earliest examples where the dubbers actually ''gave a damn'' about how the series was dubbed, and was astonishingly faithful for the time. Compared to today's dubs, the translation is a {{Macekre}}. That said, the ''voice acting'' is still head and shoulders above a lot of what's done even today.

* NightmareFuel: The reveal of Skaldart in ''Be Forever Yamato''. The soundtrack consisted of eerie, theremin-style music, and [[HellIsThatNoise including the horrifying shriek of the woman turns into grotesque banshee that resonate with the music]]. To make it more worse, the planet that the Yamato crew thought to the future Earth unveil the planet's true form - [[AlienGeometries a skeletal frame shell with a metallic core. The core is attached to the outer frame by a long tube at its poles. The name of the planet is Dezarium]].

* SpaceshipGirl: According to Tim Eldred's [[ApprovalOfGod authorized]] ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' WebComic ''Star Blazers: Rebirth,'' the Yamato has, unbeknownst to its crew, [[spoiler: played host to the spirit of Queen Starsha's dead sister Astra since the very beginning of its mission, and that's the reason the ship seemed almost alive both to its crew and to its enemies.]]

*** For ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'', they got together around 40 of the greatest anison singers, and redid the original theme music. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jnNqBHqnA As anyone can expect]], they managed to take the CMOA levels of the song up to eleven.
** What about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu_96minaAE&feature=mh_lolz&list=LLSinxtjDkC0Mkg0dnaYBTig Dessler's theme?]] It just screams MagnificentBastard!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llFG8ON_qA The lyrical version?]] Makes him sound like the HeroOfAnotherStory!
** Every invading battlestation needs [[https://youtu.be/1zA1ioeh4yQ it's own Pipe Organ]] and [[https://youtu.be/VY0ey0mukIY discoteque]]

** 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 SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}!

* AssPull: One can't help but wonder why the Gamilons use weapons that make the earth uninhabitably radioactive, if their goal is to colonize it. In the last episode of the first series, [[spoiler: we learn that a radioactive environment is their natural habitat.. although the pilot captured earlier in the series didn't seem to need it. And it never comes up again in later seasons, where there appear to be NoBiochemicalBarriers.]]
** Actually, a bit of FridgeBrilliance since [[spoiler:considering their sister planet had the technology to clean up the radiation, the Gamilons would have that technology too. They were merely waiting for humanity to die off before moving in and cleaning everything up.]]

* FridgeLogic: If Queen Starsha could send them the plans for the Wave-Motion Engine, why didn't she just send them the plans for the Cosmo Cleaner D/Cosmo DNA instead? [[spoiler:Answer: It was a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]

** [[https://youtu.be/1zA1ioeh4yQ Every Battlestation needs it's own Pipe Organ]] and [[https://youtu.be/VY0ey0mukIY and discoteque]]

* ValuesDissonance:
** In the live-action film, the speech about how the Yamato previously sailed on a desperate mission in the time of Japan's greatest need might not have precisely the intended reaction among non-Japanese audiences (especially Americans, Chinese, New Zealanders, Koreans, British, Australians and South-East Asians) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII if they think about it]].

*** For ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'', they got together around 40 of the greatest anison singers, and redid the original theme music. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jnNqBHqnA As anyone can expect]], they managed to take the CMOA levels of the song UpToEleven.

* OlderThanTheyThink: ''Star Blazers'' is occasionally {{MisBlamed}} for being derivative of ''Franchise/StarWars,'' which is impossible because ''Space Battleship Yamato'' premiered in 1974. On the other hand, ''Yamato'' arguably ''was'' inspired on some level by ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' (1968) and ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' (1973). See also FollowTheLeader.
** One of the biggest changes in the 2010 film, where [[spoiler: [[NotHisSled Iskandar and Garmillas are both the same planet]] ]], was used in [[http://scifiscripts.name2host.com/cartoon/starblazer.txt a rejected script]] from when Disney [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was trying to make]] a ''Star Blazers'' film in the 1990s, though some of the details are different.

** In the live-action film, the speech about how the ''Yamato'' previously sailed on a hopeless mission in the time of Japan's greatest need might not have exactly the intended reaction among non-Japanese audiences (especially Americans, Chinese, Koreans and South-East Asians) [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII if they think about it]].

** Prime Minister Bemlaze of the Bolar Federation has enslaved the people of the first season's villain Abelt Dessler, the Gamilas people, in cruel tyranny after Dessler's HeelFaceTurn. When the prisoners try to resist, Bemlaze orders them massacred and later has the [[EarthShatteringKaboom entire planet blown up]] out of spite just to kill the rebellious prisoners. Pursuing the Yamato to destroy it, Bemlaze arrives when the battleship is attempting to stabilize the sun to save earth, intending on destroying Earth and Yamato by dooming the former to cooking from the heat of the sun out of sheer spite.