Space Battleship Yamato (Yamato's First Chapter)
Format
26-Episode T.V. Series (later edited as a Theatrical movie)
Release Date for T.V. Series Cut
10/06/1974-03/30/1975
Release Date for Theatrical Movie Cut
08/06/1977
Japanese Title
Uchuu Senkan Yamato (lit. "Space Battleship Yamato")
International Title
Space Cruiser Yamato
U.S. Titles
-Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (for T.V. Series Cut)
-Space Battleship Yamato (Video Title for Theatrical Movie Cut)
-Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie (DVD Title for Theatrical Movie Cut)
Other Alternate Titles for Theatrical Movie Cut
-Space Cruiser: Guardian of the Galaxy (U.K. Video Title)
-Space Cruiser (U.K. Theatrical Title)
-Space Cruiser Yamato: The Movie
Featured Songs
-"Space Battleship Yamato" by Isao Sasaki and Musical Academy
-"Scarlet Scarf" by Isao Sasaki and Musical Academy
Story Date
2199-2200 A.D.
Story Description
In the year 2199, Gamilus Empire (a.k.a. "Gamilas Empire"), whose homeworld Gamilus (a.k.a. Gamilas) is dying, attacks Earth with radioactive bombs, tempting to alter the planet's environment in order for the planet itself to be suitable for them to live on, even if it means killing all humans in the process. However, there are humans who survived the disaster, but are forced to live underground and because radiation effects are travelling through the surface as well, it appears that humanity has only a year left to live. Just as all hope seem lost, the humans receive a message from Starsha, the kind-hearted queen of the planet Iscandar, telling them not only the instructions to build a space warp device for spaceships known as "wave motion engine", but also the fact that they need to get to her planet to get the Cosmo Cleaner D, a device capable of giving life to a lifeless planet and restoring life to planets that lost life. After resurrecting the WWII Battleship Yamato, a group of Earth Defense Force (EDF) soldiers, led by Captain Juzo Okita, convert the ship into a spaceship with the wave motion engine installed, and then enter a voyage towards Iscandar, but face a number of obstacles, including conflicts with the Gamilus Empire, who intend to stop at nothing but to stop the Yamato from filliing its mission to save Earth. However, the Yamato overcomes those obstacles and succeeds in its mission on time.
Episode Titles for T.V. Series Cut)
- Episode 1: SOS Earth! Revive Battleship Yamato!*
- Episode 2: The Opening Gun! Space Battleship Yamato Starts!*
- Episode 3: Yamato, Take Off! The Challenge of 296,000 Light Years!*
- Episode 4: World of Wonder! Yamato Leaps Past Light!*
- Episode 5: Escape The Floating Continent! Crisis Calls The Wave-Motion Gun!*
- Episode 6: Space Destroyer Yukikaze Sleeps In The Icefield!
- Episode 7: Yamato Sinks! Fateful Battle To Destroy the Enemy Stronghold!*
- Episode 8: Yamato Braves Death! Destroy The Reflection Satellite Gun!*
- Episode 9: Revolving Defense! Asteroid Belt!
- Episode 10: Farewell, Solar System! From The Galaxy With Love!*
- Episode 11: Resolution! Break Through The Gamilas' Absolute Defense Line!*
- Episode 12: Absolute Death! The Wishing Star of Orion, Hell-Star!*
- Episode 13: Hurry, Yamato! Earth Is Suffering!*
- Episode 14: The Galaxy's Ordeal! The Year 2200 Approaches!
- Episode 15: Desperate Escape! The Galaxy's Different Dimension!
- Episode 16: Planet Beemera, Underground Prison Of Condemned Criminals!
- Episode 17: Charge! Balanodon Special Attack Group!
- Episode 18: Floating Fortress Island! Two Men Brave Death!
- Episode 19: Homesickness Of Space! My Mother's Tears Are My Tears!
- Episode 20: The Day Planet Balan's Sun Dropped!*
- Episode 21: Desperate Challenge From Domel's Fleet!*
- Episode 22: Decisive Battle! Fight For Honor At The Rainbow Star Group!*
- Episode 23: Finally Arrived! Crest Of The Magellanic Cloud's Wave!*
- Episode 24: Death Struggle! God, Weep For The Gamilas!*
- Episode 25: Iscandar! A Dying Planet Of Love!*
- Episode 26: Earth! Yamato Returns!*
*The theatrical movie cut of the series uses footage from episodes 1-5, 7-8, 10, a bit from 11, 12, 13, 20, 21-25, and a few from 26. However, keep in mind that the theatrical movie cut takes place in a non-canon continuity separate from the T.V. one as the movie cut itself ignores the tragic chain of events in ep. 26 where Dessler's attempt to attack the Yamato with his ship's radiactive poisoning during Yamato's trip back to Earth from Iscandar results in Susumu Kodai's girlfriend Yuki More's act of self-sacrifice to save her beloved ship from being fully contaminated by the poisoning with her death being temporary.
