Star Blazers / Uchū Senkan Yamato
Genres: action, adventure, drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: aliens, flying battleship, military, space, space navy
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In the distant future, the war between the human race and the Gamilon has taken its toll on the planet Earth. Constant bombardment of radioactive asteroids has rendered the planet’s atmosphere uninhabitable. As a means of relief aid, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutalize the radiation off the planet. For this task, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey. However, the crew of the Yamato has only one Earth year to travel to Iscandar and back, or the human race will come to an end.
Number of episodes: 26
Vintage: 1974-10-06 to 1975-03-30
Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection / Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen (movie)
Genres: action, adventure, drama, science fiction
Themes: aliens, black hole, flying battleship, military, space, space battles, space navy
Objectionable content: Mild
Vintage: 2009-12-12
Plot Summary: In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on course towards the solar system. As the people on Earth prepare to relocate to planet Amare, whose ruler offers refuge, the tyrants known as the “S.U.S. Empire” attack the first Earth evacuation fleet. After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he intends to not only help humanity once again, but also find Yuki in the hope of helping his relationship with his daughter Miyuki, who puts the blame on him for her mother’s disappearance. But in order to fullfil the mission, the Yamato must go through battles against the SUS Empire, who intend to spoil humanity’s hopes of finding a new place to live in and turn Earth into energy for their own selfish needs.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 / Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199 Dai-Isshō Harukanaru Tabidachi
Genres: science fiction
Running time: 50 minutes
Vintage: 2012-04-07
Star Blazers 2199 (TV)
Genres: adventure, drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: battleships, conspiracy, military, space, space navy, space opera, spaceships, war
Objectionable content: Mild
Number of episodes: 26
Vintage: 2013-04-07
Plot Summary: The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader’s assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth. It contains humanity’s last hope: the planet Iscandar on the other side of the Magellan Galaxy has the technology to defeat the Gamilos and restore the planet. The space battleship Yamato is entrusted with this task, but they have only one year before humanity ends.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark / Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune (movie)
Genres: science fiction
Themes: space, space navy
Running time: 111 minutes
Vintage: 2014-12-06
Plot Summary: A new super weapon has emerged and Gamilas ships vanish from the seas. In the meantime, the Yamato has left the Large Magellanic Cloud and is on its way back to the Milky Way Galaxy. During the voyage, the crew is hit by a gatlantean warrior fleet under command of Goran Dagam, who claims the “Yamatee” as his prey. After Susumu Kodai in command refuses to give up the ship, the Yamato makes a run and accidentally ends up inside a strange world that defies logic and the law of physics. An expedition team is sent to the surface and makes a truly mind-boggling experience that they cannot escape. Next to that the team doesn’t seem to be alone after they encounter their old foes. Time runs out and the Gamilas and Terrons walk a thin line in a world that’s not their own, having the Gatlanteans sitting in their necks.
Star Blazers 2202 (Series 2)
Genres: adventure, drama, romance, science fiction
Vintage: 2017.02.25
Episodes: 26
Star Blazers: 2205
Genres: adventure, drama, romance, science fiction
Vintage: 2021.11.26
Episodes: 8
Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199 (movies) - Vintage: 2024-07-19