Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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".

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Dessler

* [[Demoted to Dragon]]: Desslok in The Comet Empire

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

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

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

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

** [[The Smart Guy]]: Shiro Sanada (Sandor)

** [[The Chick]]: Yuki Mori (Nova Forrester)

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

* [[Forgotten Superweapon]]

* [[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]].

*** 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''

** In the 2010 movie, {{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die|several folks including Kodai himself]].}}

** The death of Kodai's brother Mamarou is [[Retcon|retconned]] 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.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: Sanada/Sandor

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

** 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.

* [[Made for TV Movie]]: ''The New Voyage'', which basically established the format for anime.

* [[Mecha Show]]

* [[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.

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Halfway through the movie ''Be Forever Yamato'', the film changes from 4:3 to widescreen just as the Yamato emerges from a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] into the mysterious home galaxy of the film's villains. (Promotion for the film only described this as "Warp Dimension".)

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Fighter pilot Yamamoto/Hardy goes into ''combat'' with one eye obscured. This is probably to be expected in a series by the creator of ''[[Captain Harlock]]''.

* [[Post Script Season]]

* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]

* [[Redshirt Army]]: The Earth Defense Forces.

* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]: The ''Yamato'' was renamed the ''Argo'' in ''Star Blazers'', for the Greek mythological ship in which Jason and the Argonauts set sailed upon.

** In the ''Star Blazers'' dub, some perfectly humanoid alien opponents are called "robots" to minimize the heroes' body-count, thus making them "ridiculously human" on at least two levels.

* [[Robo Speak]]

** The English version ends with the narrator speaking over the closing shot of the ship above Earth, saying definitively to the accompaniment of triumphal music, "In the year 2200, the Star Force returned... and saved Earth." It's a very satisfying moment, and if it's not present in the original Japanese, then it counts as a [[Woolseyism]].

* [[Translation Convention]] / [[Translator Microbes]] / [[Aliens Speaking English]] ([[Mind Screw|or something]]): except for one case early in the series where Analyzer has to translate the Gamilus language for his human friends, all the aliens speak Japanese (and, in the dub, English) both to the humans and to each other, even in the case of different races that you wouldn't expect them to have a common language.

** 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.

** Strangely, this was mostly excised in the dub, making it come across as more warlike than the original. In the dub, Starsha is portrayed as regretting not telling Earth that Iscandar and Gamilon {{spoiler|were twin planets, which happened to also be true in the Japanese version as well.}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Before [[Leiji Matsumoto]] 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 "''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' [[In Space]]", 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 ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]''.

** 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 [[Captain Harlock]].

* [[World of Ham]]