The first ideas for what would eventually be Space Battleship Yamato began in 1973 by producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, but the project underwent a number of revisions and overhauls before settling on the … See more

In the year 2199, an alien race known as Gamilas (Gamilons in the English Star Blazers dub) unleash radioactive meteorite bombs on Earth, rendering the planet's surface uninhabitable. … See more

Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (1978)
The success of the Yamato movie in Japan led to the production of a second movie that would … See more

Yamato 2520 (1995)
In the mid-1990s, Nishizaki attempted to create a sequel to Yamato, set hundreds of years after the original. Yamato 2520 was to chronicle … See more

Live-action film (2010)
Released on December 1, 2010, Space Battleship Yamato is the franchise's first live-action film. … See more

With the retelling of Arrivederci Yamato as the open-ended Yamato II television series (ending in late 2201), Arrivederci was redesignated as a … See more

Space Battleship Yamato (1974)
Leiji Matsumoto had written adaptations of Space Battleship Yamato, published in Akita Shoten's Bōken Ō magazine from November 1974 … See more