Fun Facts
In previous "Space Battleship Yamato" Anime, the Yamato was only able to fire one wave at a time with its wave motion gun. With its engine room revolver being rebuilt to be a six-cylinder machine (now called the "Transition Wave-Motion Gun"), the ship can now fire 6 waves at a time.
Coincidentally, the name of Earth's government in this movie is also the name of the Earth government in the 1979 Anime T.V. series "Mobile Suit Gundam", which was created and directed by "Space Battleship Yamato" storyboard illustrator Yoshiyuki Tomino. However, "Gundam" has nothing to do with "Space Battleship Yamato".
The Blue Noah, the Earth Federation flagship of Kamijo's assignment during during time of the SUS Empire's attack on Yuki Mori's Super Andromeda shares the name of the protagonal aircraft carrier of the 1979 Sci-Fi Anime T.V. series "Space Carrier Blue Noah" (known in North America as "Thundersub"), which was also created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki.
The dimensional rift technique utlized by Metsler's dreadnaught while attacking Yamato all around was used by the Gamilus-Galman space submarines featured in "Space Battleship Yamato III" (known in North Ameirca "Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars"). However, unlike the dimensional rifts used by those submarines (which appear in green), the rifts of Metsler's dreadnaught are colorless.
While the background music composition for this film was worked on by Naoto Otomo, some of the tracks are re-composings/re-uses of bgm tracks from previous "Space Battleship Yamato" Anime, and according to Otomo, his intentions for for his music work for this film involve a means to pay tribute to "Space Battleship Yamato" music composers Hiroshi Miyagawa and Kentaro Haneda (who also composed music for 1982's "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross"). Note the following scenes:
- The scene where Kodai enters the Yamato's main bridge for the first time since 2203 A.D. is set to an instrumental version of "Scarlet Scraf", the closing theme of the first "Space Battleship yaamto" T.V. series
- When Tasuke Tokugawa introduces Kodai to the six-cylinder revolver installed in the Yamato's engine room, an instrumental version of "Remember Yamato" from 1979's "Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage" can be heard.
- The scene where the Yamato launches its Cosmo Pulsar units to battle Goruy's fleet features a re-composing of the Cosmo Tiger theme played in 1979's "Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage" and 1980's "Space Battleship Yamato III"
- During part of the film where the Yamato enters the black hole to attack its singularity, part of music composer Kentaro Haneda's music score "1984 Yamato Grand Symphony" is played. If you have seen 1978's "Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In The Name of Love", chances are you'll notice that the track as used in this scene starts with the tune played in the Yamato ramming scene from that classic film.
This movie doesn't mark the first time for Japanese film actor Koichi Yamadera voice Susumu Kodai. He first voiced the character himself for the "Space Battleship Yamato" video games made by Japan's Bandai for the Playstation 2 console.
While in pre-production, American comic book writer Tim Eldred (famous for writing and illustrating the graphic novel "Grease Monkey") utilized this movie as basis for his webcomic serial "Star Blazers: Rebirth", but with a plot with little resemblance to how the plot of this movie appears, therefore being presented as an alternate sequel to 1983's "Final Yamato". Note the following exmaples from the webcomic:
- The story date for this webcomic is 2224 A.D.
- All characters and ships seen in the "Space Battleship Yamato" Anime use names from the English dubs of the SBY T.V. Series (ex: Sususmu Kodai being called "Derek Wildstar" and Yamato being called "Argo").
- The Gamilus-Galman Empire have a part in the story, unlike in the movie.
- Unlike in the movie, Yuki Mori's ship has a name in the webcomic, reading "Andromeda II", thus suggesting a successor to Ryu Hijikata's Earth Defense Force Battleship Andromeda.
- Kodai's daughter Miyuki serves as replacement for for mother onboard the Yamato at the Main Bride Radar post. Furthermore, while she has dark brown hair in the movie, she has blonde hair in the webcomic.
- While Kodai still remains brown-haired in the movie, his hair in the webcomic is grey.
- Both Sanada and Dr. Sado return to the Yamato crew, with Sanada resuming position of Executive Officer and Sado resuming position of Ship's Doctor.
- The plot is more about Kodai fighting ghosts from his past, including those of old foes (the Black Nebula Empire, the White Comet Empire, and the Deinguil Empire).
- The webcomic doesn't feature the SUS Empire or any of the planetary governments it occupied.
- While the Earthers intend to relocate to one planet in the movie, the webcomic shows them splitting up to go to separate colonies in space.
