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''Uchuu...Senkan...YA-MA-TO!'' (The Space Battleship Yamato!)|''Space Battleship Yamato'' theme}}

''to save the human race...OUR STAR BLAZERS!''|''Star Blazers'' theme (uses same melody as above)}}

After decades of dispute, [https://web.archive.org/web/20210601150446/http://www.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.

A [http://www.animenewsnetwork.comcc//news/2009-10-02/live-action-space-battleship-yamato-film-cast-listed live-action adaptation] hit theatres in December 2010. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131208151524/http://yamato-movie.net/movie_yokoku.html Full-length trailer's here.]

Compare to ''[[Space Carrier Blue Noah]]'' (aka ''Thunder Sub'' in english English-speaking countries) for a thematically similar anime.

* [[Anime First]]: One of the earlier examples. Some fans claim that the whole idea of anime as a medium of its own and not just an outlet for manga started with this series.<ref> It actually started much earlier in the early-mid 1960s with Toei's first animated TV series ''Ookami Shonen Ken'' ("Ken the Wolf Boy").</ref>

* [[Anime Theme Song]]: (Uchuu Senkan YAAA-MAAAA-TOOOOOOO...!)

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Pretty much everyone important as well as a lot of minor characters except the main character... and then he dies... and comes back in the sequel series as a cheap retcon.}}

* [[Award Bait Song]]: Steven Tyler's [[Narm Charm|Narm Charmy]]y "Love Lives", for the live-action film adaptation.

* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|Okita ''was'' dead at the end of the first TV series, but for some reason the writers decided to bring him back as Captain in ''Final Yamato''}}

* [[Back From the Brink]]: As described in the lede.

* [[The Battlestar]]: Both the Yamato itself (which is one of the earliest, in 1974), and more obvious by the ''Lexington''-class Battleship/Carrier hybrid.

** 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)

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: There were four comic adaptations set in the ''Star Blazers'' universe. The latest is the webcomic ''Rebirth.''

* [[Continuity Reboot]]: ''Space Battleship Yamato 2199'' retells the story from the beginning with higher production values, a different character designer, and both [[Adaptation Distillation]] and [[Canon Foreigner|Canon Foreigners]]s aplenty.

* [[Creative Differences]]: Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto both claim they are the sole creators of ''Space Battleship Yamato''. (The court system has sided with Nishizaki.) Both have made their own separate ''Yamato'' projects<ref>the short-lived ''Yamato 2520'' [[OVA|OVAs]]s from Nihizaki's camp, and Matsumoto's ''Great Yamato'' manga</ref> between 1983 and their settlement in the 2000s.

* [[Cultural Translation]] (or [[Woolseyism]] or [[Macekre]], depending on who you ask): In "''Star Blazers''", the scenes showing Wildstar's backstory go out of their way to avoid mentioning that he lived in Japan. His home is called "Great Island" and sushi (clearly shown on screen and looking like nothing else besides sushi) is called "chocolate cake".

** Then the ''much'' better known ''Star Blazers'', with its [[Luke Nounverber]] heroes and the elimination of all the [[No Swastikas|Nazi-Germany-derived names]] among the bad guys. Not to mention the ship itself becoming the ''Argo''.<ref> As the Japanese title indicates, the ship is known as the "''Yamato"'' in the Japanese version; the same name as the original WWII vessel that was unearthed.</ref>.

* [[Exact Time to Failure]] ("There are only '''X''' days left!")

{{quote|'''Nanbu:''' Enough for one shot. But like I said, [[Someone Has to Die|if we fire it, the Yamato will-]]<br />

* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]] (The [[Trope Namer]], after ''Star Blazers'' and Doctor Sane's "spring water".

*** Yuki was the nurse, the (old) doc seems to have been made into the Chief Engineer, he and the (new, female, still boozer) doc share several drinks with Kodai.

** The death of Kodai's brother Mamarou is [[Retcon|retconned]]ned in the ''2199'' remake. In the original series, Mamarou refuses to retreat due to [[Honor Before Reason]], since he can't live with the shame of retreating. This leads to his death being a arguably pointless one. In ''2199'', his death is played as a straight [[Heroic Sacrifice]] with him staying behind to ensure Okita's ship can withdraw safely.

** The Deingilian race from ''Final Yamato'' were descendants of humans who escaped from [[The Great Flood]] (caused by the water planet Aquarius) by a alien spaceship

* [[Mis BlamedMisblamed]]: ''Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato'' is advertised as "the film that almost got Matsumoto lynched". Leiji Matsumoto was actually very much opposed to the [[Kill'Em All]] ending that Yoshinobu Nishizaki had insisted on.

** Similarly, the resemblance between Starsha and Yuki is lamphadedlampshaded with {{spoiler|Yuki temporarily ''becoming'' Starsha.}}

* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted...except in episodes where it isn't. In general, the dub was inconsistantinconsistent about this. One episode addresses that several crew members had died, however, in the final Iscandar episode, the poisonous gas used by the Gamilas/Gamilons is portrayed as "radioactive sleeping gas", implying that anyone infected would come out of it at some point, yet Kodai/Wildstar's (and the rest of the crew's<ref>The "Star Force" moniker only exists in the dub</ref>) reaction to Yuki/Nova clearly indicates that she {{spoiler|had died, although just before that, she had used the Cosmo Cleaner D/Cosmo DNA [[Disney Death|just in time for her to come out of it.]]}} Then later in the same episode, Captain Okita/Avatar is directly portrayed as {{spoiler|dying from his already existing radiation poisoning before he has a chance to see the Earth restored.}}

** Deslar apparently loves causing [[Oh Crap]] faces: in the third season he provokes a series of them by {{spoiler|asking his generals why they attacked the ''Yamato'', a ship he SPECIFICALLY''specifically'' warned them not to attack as he's now an ally of Earth. Poor generals expected to be executed in some horrible fashion, by the look of their faces...}}.

* [[Real Time]]: Sort of. The ''Yamato/Argo'' has one year exactly to complete its mission -- imission—i.e., one season -- andseason—and at the end of every episode, a countdown of how many days are left before the destruction of Earth is displayed.

** SuprisinglySurprisingly ''averted'' in the 2010 movie: {{spoiler|the first time the WMG appears, it is fired at a Meteor Bomb beyond visual range and nails it dead-on}}. Then brought back once more in the finale when {{spoiler|the WMG's muzzle is jammed about halfway through the film so Kodai flies the Yamato right up to the target before pulling the trigger, [[Taking You with Me|vaporizing both the Meteor Bomb and the Yamato]]}}.

** As the only woman on this ship, Yuki's duties include serving tomato juice to other (male) crewmemberscrew members and ''doing their laundry''. Her title in the EDF may as well have been "[[Team Mom|Mom]]". Even worse, in the episode the showed her washing the uniforms, most of them suffered [[Clothing Damage]] later, mocking her efforts.

** Tim Eldred's Star Blazers [[Web Comic]] (see below) lampshades how many unrelated jobs Nova was shown performing and says she is acclaimed as a brilliant jack-of-all-trades RennaissanceRenaissance woman.

* [[Space Is an Ocean]] / [[Space Sailing]]: Refurbished wet navy ships, complete with anchors and anti-fouling paint below the "waterline". Though it's a bit jarring to see a ship in the first episode<ref>Kodai Mamoru's vessel, which was NOT''not'' a refitted wet-navy ship</ref> "sinking" into the distance well before the obligatory explosion.

* [[Supernatural Aid]]: In the first episode, the Earth is told of a gift that will save the planet, and the season is then all about the journey they have to take to retrieve it.

** This might be a [[Mythology Gag]] to the original series, where {{spoiler|Yuki activating the untested Iscandar purifier by hand when Dessler was flooding the Yamato with radiation apparently lets her come [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] later on.}}

* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Philippine fans of ''Star Blazers'' snickered when they first heard the original Japanese name of the lead character. "Susumu" sounds exactly like a playful way of saying "Susu mo," which means your nipple. Though he was much more oftenlyfrequently called by his family name, Kodai, for some reason the subbtitlessubtitles of the subbed release kept calling him by his first name, making certain dramatic moments Narm. (You hear "Kodai! Kodaaaaiiiii!" while you see "Susumu! Susumuuuuuuu!")

** Interestingly, the [[Wave Motion Gun]] was not treated as something invincible: at the end of the first season Deslar's one was reflected back at him (after coming back, he'd always be VERY''very'' careful at using his [[Wave Motion Gun]] 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 [[Wave Motion Gun]]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 Deslar and charging the gun, only for having Deslar mining the space before the muzzle and getting a good laugh as the ''Yamato'' couldn't fire without being destroyed by her own weapon).

* [[Web Comic]]: Produced by Tim Eldred, who was also the artist for the [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] [[Comics|comic book adaptation]] by Argo Press. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120521012528/http://www.starblazers.com/department.php?page_id=126&PHPSESSID=0b70566c73a7da9064373f049a27563b/%2F Here, check it out.]

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: [[Half-Human Hybrid]] Sasha, due to her Iscandarian origins, is ''one'' year old in ''Be Forever Yamato'' despite looking like a teenager.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: In addition to using a [[Trap Door]] to dispose of men who laugh at their own jokes, Dessler is known to shoot subordinates ( {{spoiler|Vice President Hisu in the first season and Admiral Vandeburg in the second season}}) with a gun that is only shown smoking after the act. An exact inversion of [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: in a series where Family Friendly lasers actually would be expected, this guy seems to prefer old-fashioned guns.

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