Space Battleship Yamato III (Actually Yamato's 4th Chapter while the title itself refers to this being the saga's 3rd T.V. series installment, but don't ask!)

Format
25-Episode T.V. Series (later edited as a T.V. Film)
Release Date for T.V. Series Cut
10/11/1980-04/04/1981
Release Date For T.V. Film Cut
12/28/1983
Japanese Title
Uchuu Senkan Yamato III (lit. "Space Battleship Yamato III")
International Titles
-Space Cruiser Yamato III (for T.V. Series Cut)
-Space Cruiser Yamato III: Destruction Of The Solar System (for T.V. Film Cut)
U.S. Title
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars
Other Alternate Title
Yamato III (short title)
Featured Songs
-"Space Battleship Yamato" by Isao Sasaki
-"Galaxy Legend" by Hiromi Iwasaki
-"Be Forever Yamato" by Isao Sasaki
-"Parting" by Mitsuko Horie
Story Date
2205 A.D. (changed to 2203 A.D. for sequel film "Final Yamato" for reasons best known to the Anime multiseries' production team)
Sequel to
Be Forever Yamato
Story Description
Two warring organizations, the Gamilus-Galman Empire and the Bolar Federation end up tearing the universe in two while fighting for dominance of it. Things take a turn for the worse when the Gamilus-Galman Empire accidentally launches a planet-destroyer missile into Earth's sun while tempting to attack a Bolar ship, causing the sun itself to become nuclear. After scientists predict that the nuclear reactions on the sun will soon destroy all life on Earth in 365 days, the Yamato crew, now officlaly under command of Susumu Kodai and with the inclusion of new recruits who just graduated from their military academy training, enter a voyage to find a new planet suitable for humans to live on as they need to get all humans off Earth or perform a difficult task to find the requirements to prevent a supernova from resulting from nuclear fusion in the sun. During the voyage, the Yamato crew end up getting caught and intervening in the war between the Gamilus-Galman Empire and the Bolar Federation, with the Galman side of the Gamilus-Galman Empire attacking the Yamato, not knowing that the ships' crew are friends of Lord Dessler until later on. Eventually, the Yamato crew meets Princess Ruda of Shalbart, who manages to help them by giving them a weapon capable to destroying the nuclear fusion in Earth's sun. In the end, the Yamato saves Earth from the nuclear fusion and the Bolar federation is defeated.

Episode Titles for T.V. Series Cut

• Episode 1: The Solar System Faces Destruction!
• Episode 2: The Great Battle In The Milky Way!
• Episode 3: Yamato Sets Sail At Dawn!
• Episode 4: Hit Mars!
• Episode 5: SOS! Spaceship Rajendora!
• Episode 6: Fierce Battle Near Planet 11!
• Episode 7: The Rough Seas Of Planet Alpha!
• Episode 8: The Last Pioneer!
• Episode 9: Duel At Planet Barnard!
• Episode 10: Counterattack Of Dagon's New Fleet!
• Episode 11: Yamato In Danger! The Demonic Cygnus Airspace!
• Episode 12: The Penal Colony In Space!
• Episode 13: Dreadful! The Bolar Federation!
• Episode 14: The Dimensional Submarine Galman Wolf!
• Episode 15: Yamato Is Captured!
• Episode 16: The Day Of Dessler!
• Episode 17: Critical Moment Of Dessler's Empire!
• Episode 18: The Angry Sun!
• Episode 19: The Way To Planet Phantom!
• Episode 20: Phantom Planet!
• Episode 21: Shattered Hope!
• Episode 22: Farewell, Planet Of Dreams!
• Episode 23: Fierce Battle! Skalagek Star Cluster!
• Episode 24: The Secret Of Planet Shalbart!
• Episode 25: Yamato, Shoot The Sun!