Space Battleship Yamato
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| Name: | Space Battle Ship Yamato 宇宙戦艦ヤマト Cosmoship Yamato Star Blazers |
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| Creator: | Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Leiji Matsumoto, Academy Productions |
| Date(s): | Anime 1974-1975, see below |
| Medium: | Light novel, anime |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
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Space Battleship Yamato is a an anime franchise consisting of an anime, TV series, manga, and several films (both animated and live action). It is one of the most influential anime franchises.
An American adaption, called Star Blazers, had a dedicated western fandom in the 1980s and was important to the early history of American anime fandom. YamatoCon, the first independent anime convention held in the United States, and earlier "Star Blazer Minicons", had Starblazers/Yamato as its main topic.[1][2]
Canon Overview
Remakes
See Wikipedia for remakes/spinoff history, but the 2013 series Space Battleship Yamato 2199 garnered some attention among Western anime fans.
Major Characters
Reception and Popularity
Meta and Community
Among anime fans more generally, the franchise was known for the 1983 sequel film Final Yamato holding the record the longest animated film at 163 minutes (though this record was surpassed in 2019). [3]
Star Wars and SBY have been compared for their similar settings and plot beats, although Yamato predated Star Wars by several years. [4]
Fanon and Tropes
Relationships
Susumu Kodai and Yuki Mori share a deep connection in the series, and are a couple in both of the movies Farewell Space Battleship Yamato and Final Yamato. They're a very popular ship in the fandom.
Communities
- CosmoDNA, Archived version Star Blazers and Space Battleship Yamato English language fandom archive
Selected Fanworks
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Fanfiction
Fanart
Fanvids
Cosplay
Meta
- Fusing Nationalisms in Postwar Japan, The Battleship Yamato and Popular Culture, Archived version, academic paper by Shunichi Takekawa, 2012
Zines
- Argo Notes by Mark Hernandez, 1983[1]
Resources
- Battleship Yamato Wikipedia
- CosmoDNA, a fan-run Yamato information and fandom history website
- Yamato Fan wiki at Fandom.com
- Space Battleship Yamato on TvTropes
- r/StarBlazers subreddit
- Pixiv tag
- AO3 tags:
- Starblazers at Fanfiction.net
- Yamato Rose: a shrine to the Kodai/Yuki ship
References
- ^ a b Fred Patten (2004). "Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years Of Essays And Reviews [PDF]". Archived from the original on 15 September 2022.
- ^ Dave Merrill (29 June 2013). "Star Blazers Chronicles: YamatoCon!". CosmoDNA Fandom Archive. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ^ Wikipedia:Final Yamato
- ^ "Star Wars Place in Anime and Manga". Anime News Network. 23 September 2021. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021.