Space Battleship Yamato

Overview

Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America.

It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime.

Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Episodes

SOS Earth!! Awaken, Space Battleship Yamato

S01E01 SOS Earth!! Awaken, Space Battleship Yamato

October 6, 1974 30 min
Earth is losing to a superior foe, as the very survival of the planet lies within a message from a distant galax
Fire the Signal Gun!! Space Battleship Yamato Takes Off

S01E02 Fire the Signal Gun!! Space Battleship Yamato Takes Off

October 13, 1974 30 min
The hope of the Earth lies within an old battleship found at the bottom of what used to be the Great Eastern Sea.
Yamato takes off!! The 296,000 Light Years Challenge

S01E03 Yamato takes off!! The 296,000 Light Years Challenge

October 20, 1974 30 min
The Earth Defense force mission is clear - take the newly rebuilt Yamato 148,000 light years to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a machine called the Cosmo-Cleaner D which will save Earth from its irradiated...
Astonishing World!! The Yamato Exceeds the Speed of Light!

S01E04 Astonishing World!! The Yamato Exceeds the Speed of Light!

October 27, 1974 30 min
The Yamato tests out the Wave Motion Engine's warp capabilities, which will allow them to travel 148,000 light years to Iscandar and back in one year. But will the Gamilas stop them?

S01E05 Escape from the Floating Island!! The Wave Motion Gun Draws Danger Near!!

November 3, 1974 30 min
The Yamato is trapped by Jupiter's gravity.

S01E06 Space Destroyer Yukikaze Rests on a Field of Ice!

November 10, 1974 30 min
The Yamato searches Saturn's moon, Titan, for a rare mineral.

S01E07 Sunken Yamato!! Destined Fortress Seizure Battle!!

November 17, 1974 30 min
The Yamato faces disaster on the planet Pluto.

S01E08 Deperate Yamato!! Destroy the Reflective Satellite Cannon!!

November 24, 1974 30 min
The Yamato destroys the Reflective Satellite

S01E09 Revolving Defense!! Asteriod Belt!!

December 1, 1974 30 min
Limping along, the Yamato comes up with a new defensive strategy.

S01E10 Farewell, solar system! From the galaxy, with love!

December 8, 1974 30 min
The Yamato says goodbye to their families before leaving the solar system.

S01E11 Resolution! Break through the Gamilons' absolute defense line!

December 15, 1974 30 min
Gamilas Supreme Commander Desslar unveils a trap that will destroy the Yamato: space mines. But these mines have a sinister function..

S01E12 Certain death! The wishing star of Orion, hell-star!

December 22, 1974 30 min
Dessler prepares another trap for the Yamato: an energy net that captures them. The only way out is in the direction of a massive sun, as a huge secret is revealed that might affect the...

S01E13 Hurry, Yamato!! Earth is suffering!!

December 29, 1974 30 min
A Gamilas pilot is captured and the Yamato interrogates him, as Kodai personal tragedy comes into play.

S01E14 The galaxy's ordeal! The year 2200 advances!

January 5, 1975 30 min
Tensions mount on the Yamato as she is trapped in a space storm.

S01E15 Desperate escape! The galaxy's different dimension!

January 12, 1975 30 min
Desslar commissions Gamilas General and war hero Domel to defeat the Yamato. The Yamato travels near a galactic whirlpool, but as assist from afar saves their mission.

S01E16 Planet Beeland, underground prison of condemned criminals!

January 19, 1975 30 min
Analyzer and Yuki fly down to a planet looking for food for the crew, but are captured by the inhabitants. Analyzer reveals a secret to Yuki that will change both of them.

S01E17 Charge! Balanosaurus special attack group!

January 26, 1975 30 min
Gale, the general Domel replaced on Balan, devises a plan to destroy the Yamato. Captain Okita is critically ill, and Kodai steps into action.

S01E18 Floating fortress island! Two men brave death!

February 2, 1975 30 min
The Yamato comes across a Gamilas fortress that emits Magnetron waves, which set vibrations into metals and rips them apart. Kodai and Sanada board the fortress using a new seamless plane that Sanada created. They...

S01E19 Homesickness of space! My mother's tears are my tears!

February 9, 1975 30 min
Chief Communcations Officer Aihara is worried about conditions on Earth. But what does he know that the crew doesn't?

S01E20 The day planet Balan's sun dropped!

February 16, 1975 30 min
The Yamato reaches planet Balan, the halfway point in their mission to Iscandar. But Domel is waiting on his base there, and springs a trap that might destroy both the Yamato AND the base...

S01E21 Desperate Challenge from Domel's fleet!

February 23, 1975 30 min
Gamilas General Domel, pardoned for his failure at Balan, challenges the Yamato to one final battle.

S01E22 Decisive battle! Fight for honor at the rainbow star group!

March 2, 1975 30 min
The Yamato battles Domel for the last time.

S01E23 Finally arrived! Crest of the Magellanic Cloud's wave!

March 9, 1975 30 min
The Yamto finally arrives at the Magellanic Cloud and "Iscandar"... but have they found their hope for survival, or their enemy's haven?

S01E24 Death struggle! God, weep for the Gamilons!

March 16, 1975 30 min
The Yamato fights on Gamilas, as the Yamato survival depends on wiping out an entire civilization.

S01E25 Iscandar! A dying planet of love!

March 23, 1975 30 min
The Yamato finally arrives at Iscandar.

S01E26 Mother Earth, the Yamato is back!!

March 30, 1975 30 min
The Yamato Returns Home! With the Cosmo Cleaner D, they are ready to save Earth. But one final battle may cost them a crew member closest to Kodai...

Cast

Kei Tomiyama
Kei Tomiyama
Susumu Kodai
Gorō Naya
Gorō Naya
Juzo Okita
Shūsei Nakamura
Shūsei Nakamura
Daisuke Shima
Yoko Asagami
Yoko Asagami
Yuki Mori
Takeshi Aono
Takeshi Aono
Shiro Sanada
Ichiro Nagai
Ichiro Nagai
Hikozaemon Tokugawa
Kenichi Ogata
Kenichi Ogata
Analyzer
Yoshito Yasuhara
Yoshito Yasuhara
Kenjiro Ota
Taichiro Hirokawa
Taichiro Hirokawa
Mamoru Kodai
Sachiko Chijimatsu
Sachiko Chijimatsu
Shima's Mother
Michiko Hirai
Starsha (voice)
Masatô Ibu
Masatô Ibu
Heikuro Todo

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