Space Battleship Yamato (1974)
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.
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Episode 1 - SOS Earth!! Awaken, Space Battleship Yamato
Release Date: 1974-10-06Earth is losing to a superior foe, as the very survival of the planet lies within a message from a distant galax
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Episode 2 - Fire the Signal Gun!! Space Battleship Yamato Takes Off
Release Date: 1974-10-13The hope of the Earth lies within an old battleship found at the bottom of what used to be the Great Eastern Sea.
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Episode 3 - Yamato takes off!! The 296,000 Light Years Challenge
Release Date: 1974-10-20The 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 state. But will the Gamilas stop them?
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Episode 4 - Astonishing World!! The Yamato Exceeds the Speed of Light!
Release Date: 1974-10-27The 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?
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Episode 5 - Escape from the Floating Island!! The Wave Motion Gun Draws Danger Near!!
Release Date: 1974-11-03The Yamato is trapped by Jupiter's gravity.
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Episode 6 - Space Destroyer Yukikaze Rests on a Field of Ice!
Release Date: 1974-11-10The Yamato searches Saturn's moon, Titan, for a rare mineral.
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Episode 7 - Sunken Yamato!! Destined Fortress Seizure Battle!!
Release Date: 1974-11-17The Yamato faces disaster on the planet Pluto.
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Episode 8 - Deperate Yamato!! Destroy the Reflective Satellite Cannon!!
Release Date: 1974-11-24The Yamato destroys the Reflective Satellite
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Episode 9 - Revolving Defense!! Asteriod Belt!!
Release Date: 1974-12-01Limping along, the Yamato comes up with a new defensive strategy.
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Episode 10 - Farewell, solar system! From the galaxy, with love!
Release Date: 1974-12-08The Yamato says goodbye to their families before leaving the solar system.
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Episode 11 - Resolution! Break through the Gamilons' absolute defense line!
Release Date: 1974-12-15Gamilas Supreme Commander Desslar unveils a trap that will destroy the Yamato: space mines. But these mines have a sinister function..
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Episode 12 - Certain death! The wishing star of Orion, hell-star!
Release Date: 1974-12-22Dessler 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 crew.
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Episode 13 - Hurry, Yamato!! Earth is suffering!!
Release Date: 1974-12-29A Gamilas pilot is captured and the Yamato interrogates him, as Kodai personal tragedy comes into play.
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Episode 14 - The galaxy's ordeal! The year 2200 advances!
Release Date: 1975-01-05Tensions mount on the Yamato as she is trapped in a space storm.
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Episode 15 - Desperate escape! The galaxy's different dimension!
Release Date: 1975-01-12Desslar 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.
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Episode 16 - Planet Beeland, underground prison of condemned criminals!
Release Date: 1975-01-19Analyzer 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.
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Episode 17 - Charge! Balanosaurus special attack group!
Release Date: 1975-01-26Gale, the general Domel replaced on Balan, devises a plan to destroy the Yamato. Captain Okita is critically ill, and Kodai steps into action.
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Episode 18 - Floating fortress island! Two men brave death!
Release Date: 1975-02-02The 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 destroy the base, and the Yamato flies on.
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Episode 19 - Homesickness of space! My mother's tears are my tears!
Release Date: 1975-02-09Chief Communcations Officer Aihara is worried about conditions on Earth. But what does he know that the crew doesn't?
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Episode 20 - The day planet Balan's sun dropped!
Release Date: 1975-02-16The 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...
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Episode 21 - Desperate Challenge from Domel's fleet!
Release Date: 1975-02-23Gamilas General Domel, pardoned for his failure at Balan, challenges the Yamato to one final battle.
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Episode 22 - Decisive battle! Fight for honor at the rainbow star group!
Release Date: 1975-03-02The Yamato battles Domel for the last time.
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Episode 23 - Finally arrived! Crest of the Magellanic Cloud's wave!
Release Date: 1975-03-09The Yamto finally arrives at the Magellanic Cloud and "Iscandar"... but have they found their hope for survival, or their enemy's haven?
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Episode 24 - Death struggle! God, weep for the Gamilons!
Release Date: 1975-03-16The Yamato fights on Gamilas, as the Yamato survival depends on wiping out an entire civilization.
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Episode 25 - Iscandar! A dying planet of love!
Release Date: 1975-03-23The Yamato finally arrives at Iscandar.
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Episode 26 - Mother Earth, the Yamato is back!!
Release Date: 1975-03-30The 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...