Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Difference between revisions

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

** And the dubbed US version was pretty catchy, too...

* [[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.}}

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]

* [[Artificial Gravity]]

* [[The Asteroid Thicket]]

** The ''Yamato'' can use its naval anchors to build one as a shield around the ship.

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

* {{spoiler|[[Back ~~From~~ 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''}}

* {{spoiler|[[Back from 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''}}

** {{spoiler|Desslok. Makes more sense in the American dub, where he was in a dimension where time worked differently, and was merely trapped a moment ''from'' death.}}

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

* [[Backup Twin]]: Sasha and Starsha appear to be identical twins. Yuki also looks suspiciously like them, apparently by coincidence; Starsha actually briefly mistakes Yuki for her sister when the Yamato arrives at Iscandar.

** Fighter pilot Saburo Kato sacrificed himself in a mission near the end of the second season, and had an identical twin show up to fill his role. (Since Kato's ''Star Blazers'' counterpart, Pete Conroy, never died, the replacement issue never came up.)

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

* [[Bee People]]: Literally. A bee-like insectoid race from the planet [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Beeland.]]

* [[BFG]]: Wave motion gun. Need I say more?

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* [[The Bridge]]

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: ''Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato'' which led to a remake of the whole Comet Empire arc in the second series.

** 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)

* [[The Captain]]: Okita/Avatar

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

* [[Composite Character]]: {{spoiler|Yuki briefly turns into Starsha in the 2010 movie.}}

* [[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]] aplenty.

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* [[Cool Starship]]

* [[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]] from Nihizaki's camp, and Matsumoto's ''Great Yamato'' manga</ref> between 1983 and their settlement in the 2000s.

* [[Culture Clash]]: A meta example. American viewers might wonder why Japanese would choose the Yamato(which was something of a [[Guy in Back]] most of the war) instead of a ship with such a distinguished combat record as, say, the [[Worthy Opponent|IJN Zuikaku.]] After all Americans chose the formidably battle-seasoned USS Enterprise to give to [[Star Trek|Captain Kirk.]] However the Yamato was something of a Japanese icon and to this day it has a model in the Etajima museum.

* [[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".

* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: Starsha's sister Sasha dies in the first episodes getting her message to Earth. In ''New Voyage'' and ''Be Forever Yamato'', we find out that Starsha and Kodai's brother Mamoru named their daughter "Sasha".

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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: {{spoiler|''Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato''.}}

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

** The dub into English was rather hilarious in this respect, because they left the original Japanese characters in there, so you'd get something like this (the specific numbers are made up, but the effect still happens):

{{quote|'''Narrator:''' Hurry, Star Force! There are only 103 days left!

'''Audience:''' Wait! At the bottom, in Arabic numbers, it says 187! }}

* [[Explain, Explain, Oh Crap]]: in the live-action movie, Kodai as acting captain asks Nanbu if the blocked wave motion gun has enough energy to fire.

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

''(everyone looks at Kodai with [[Going Down with the Ship|realization]])'' }}

* [[Find the Cure]]

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* [[Floating Continent]]: [[Trope Namer]]. There was one floating in Jupiter's atmosphere.

* [[Forgotten Superweapon]]

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

* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: Gamilon space suits, including Dessler when he wears one

* [[Gender Flip]]: Aihara (Homer), the communications officer, and Dr. Sado (Dr. Sane) are both females in the 2010 [[Live Action Adaptation]].

** [[Composite Character]]: Both characters fill roles held by Yuki Mori (Nova) in the original series -- [[Bridge Bunnies|Bridge Bunny]] and [[Hello, Nurse!|medical care]], respectively.

*** 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.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Sasha from the movies ''The New Voyage'' and ''Be Forever Yamato''

* [[Heel Face Turn]] ({{spoiler|Dessler / Desslok}})

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* [[Honorifics]]: In the original Japanese version, "Leader Desslok" is referred to as "Dessler-sama", which can be best translated as "Lord Dessler".

* [[Human Aliens]]: The Gamilons were indistinguishable from humans in early episodes, but during the first season (perhaps as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Yellow Submarine]],'' of all things) their skin color was switched to [[Amazing Technicolor Population|blue]]. Dessler actually goes from pink to blue ''before our very eyes''. The traditional joke is that Desslok had the original animators taken out and shot.

** 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

** All the unambiguously good aliens (Iscandarians, Teresa) look exactly like humans.

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: There's still [[No Export for You|no western release]] for the three seasons of the original Japanese version.

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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Comet Empire villain Sabera's name in ''Star Blazers'' is "Invidia", the Latin word for "envy". The alien planet Iscandar is apparently named after the Egyptian city of [[wikipedia:Alexandria|Iskandariyya,]] an important capital of ancient [[wikipedia:Hellenistic civilisation|Hellenistic civilization.]]

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: The Yamato's attacks push the volcanic activity of {{spoiler|Gamala}} up to a point that the planet explodes. When they arrive at Iscandar, the learn that {{spoiler|the attacks on Earth were the Gamalans' last ditch attempt to establish a new home, as their own planet was dying. The attack merely sped up this destruction.}}

* [[~~Mis Blamed~~]]: ''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.

* [[Misblamed]]: ''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.

* [[Military Mashup Machine]]

* [[The Movie]]: Currently five movies with a [[Revival]] movie (after years of rights disputes) released in late 2009, plus a 2010 [[Live Action Adaptation]].

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

* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Dessler and the Gamilons in general. {{spoiler|which makes his subsequent [[Heel Face Turn]] kind of disturbing}}

* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted...except in episodes where it isn't. In general, the dub was inconsistant 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.}}

* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Sanada seems to invent amazing devices on the fly to get out nearly any situation. For example, Dessler's last attack in the final Season 1 episode, firing his [[Wave Motion Gun|Dessler Cannon]] at the Yamato, only to have the blast reflected by a device based on Gamilon technology.. never before seen before that moment on the Yamato, and never mentioned again.

** In fairness, by that point he had had months to tinker new stuff together without interruption. There's no reason we ''would'' have seen it until the ship was finally attacked. [[Forgotten Phlebotinum|Still doesn't explain why it doesn't return in the second season.]]

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* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: At the start of the third season, it initially looks like the show is going to avert [[The Smurfette Principle]] by having a lot of females (mostly nurses). However, once it becomes apparent that the mission is not going to be just exploration but will also involve a lot of combat, all the women except one (guess which one!) are sent home on a transport ship that appears out of nowhere. (Please someone tell me if this only happened in ''Star Blazers.'' I don't have access to the original version of this season.)

** Nope, it happens in the original Japanese version too. There's even a shot of all the women waving at the ''Yamato'' when it leaves.

* [[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.

** And again in both the Movie and TV series versions of the Comet Empire story. The final, massive battleship of the Empire is defeated not by the then-crippled Yamato, but by Trelaina.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Captain Yamanami (for Okita) and Sasha Kodai (for Yuki while she was playing [[Damsel in Distress]]) in ''Be Forever Yamato''.

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** And how would Analyzer know how to speak Gamilon anyway?

* [[Touched by Vorlons]]: the 2010 movie omits Starsha's message and has the capsule land on Earth instead (in the original series, it landed on Mars), so they reinforce their claim to remove the radiation by curing Kodai despite him being at ''ground zero'' of the crash. Dr. Sado is justifiably spooked.

** 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 ~~From~~ the Dead]] later on.}}

** 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 from 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 oftenly called by his family name, Kodai, for some reason the subbtitles 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!")

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Dessler/Desslok in episode 24.

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** ''Star Blazers'' even has one bizarre [[Woolseyism]] in which a funeral for dead crew-members is translated into a funeral for dead ''enemies'', to show the respect that both sides have even as they try to slaughter one another. It would have worked if you wouldn't have been able to see the obviously human bodies inside the caskets.

* [[Xenafication]]: Yuki/Nova in the 2010 live action film, where she becomes the leader of the Black Tiger fighter squadron.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: {{spoiler|Gamilas remnants catch up to the Yamato at the end of both the original series and the 2010 movie.}}

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: In the 2010 Live Action Adaptation, {{spoiler|Kodai fits this when he fires the jammed [[Wave Motion Gun]] to destroy the last Meteor Bomb. Because the barrel is jammed, the ship blows up, along with Kodai who stayed behind to keep the bomb from falling.}}

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