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Is Uchuu Senkan Yamato finished?

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In this post, we take a closer look at the current status of the series “Uchuu Senkan Yamato”, also known by the following titles:

  • Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
  • 宇宙戦艦ヤマト
  • Space Battleship Yamato
  • Space Cruiser Yamato

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Based on our analysis, the series is NOT FINISHED. ❌

Here’s how we reached that conclusion:

  • Some related entries are still listed as ongoing on MyAnimeList
  • The series is listed as ended on Trakt

Taken together, these points indicate that Uchuu Senkan Yamato is still ongoing in some form.

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Uchuu Senkan Yamato

October 1, 1974
Finished Manga
Space Battleship Yamato
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
SummaryThe human race has one year left to live. Aliens known as the Gamilas have attacked Earth, poisoning it with radioactivity and driving humans underground. As humankind grows sicker by the day, their final hope is the Space Battleship Yamato–constructed from secret plans and equipped with advanced technology. Its mission: to reach a distant planet and bring back a cure to save humanity. Will the ship and its crew rescue the Earth in time?

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

BackgroundUchuu Senkan Yamato was published in English as Space Battleship Yamato by Seven Seas Entertainment as a 3-in-1 omnibus volume on April 9, 2019. It was also released in Brazilian Portuguese by NewPOP Editora as a 3-in-1 omnibus volume on April 9, 2021.

Uchuu Senkan Yamato

October 6, 1974
Finished Airing TV
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
SummaryIn the year 2199, Earth is a mere shell of its former glory after a vicious bombardment by the Gamilas Empire. The inhabitants have been forced underground to escape the irradiated surface, but the deadly radiation inches closer and closer to the retreating population. With only one year before complete and utter extermination, time is fast running out and hope is in short supply.

So far, any attempt to escape or retaliate has been instantly annihilated by the alien empire—until an emergency transmission from the planet Iscandar in a neighboring galaxy offers a glimmer of hope to save the doomed planet. Covertly, Earth’s Self Defense Force constructs a faster than light engine for a journey to Iscandar. Armed with new weapons and a determined crew of fearless navy men, the World War II era battleship Yamato is reborn as Space Battleship Yamato. She and her crew set out on a perilous journey across the stars to save their home and the entire human race.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

BackgroundWinner of the 1975 Seiun Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Movie)

August 6, 1977
Finished Airing Movie
Space Battleship Yamato
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
SummaryIn the year 2199, the Gamilon race declares war on humans, intent on taking Earth for themselves. The fighters on Earth do everything in their might to keep the planet stable, but alien technology proves to be far too advanced, and the resulting destruction renders the surface of planet Earth completely uninhabitable. The underground shelters are also becoming weak, and if nothing changes, humans will become extinct in less than a year.

But just when all seems lost, Queen Starsha from the planet Iscandar offers a helping hand. The key to victory lies in the Cosmo-Cleaner D, which can eliminate the radiation that Earth is suffering from. However, the only way to get a hold of this life-saving device is if someone from Earth goes to Iscandar―148,000 light years away―to retrieve it. The problem is, they have less than a year before time runs out.

The fate of the entire human race lies in the hands of the crew of a salvaged WWII craft, the Space Battleship Yamato.

Saraba Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Ai no Senshi-tachi

August 5, 1978
Finished Airing Movie
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト・愛の戦士たち
SummaryIn the year 2201, one year after the Yamato saved Earth from radioactive contamination, a new threat emerges. The Yamato makes its final journey to save the Earth from this new threat.

Earth has almost recovered from the battle against Gamilus, and reconstruction has expanded to the other planets. When former Yamato crew-mates discover a strange, garbled message that seems to be coming from a white comet headed towards Earth, they hijack their old space fortress and begin a new battle.

(Source: AnimeNfo)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2

October 14, 1978
Finished Airing TV
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire
宇宙戦艦ヤマト2
SummaryA year has passed since the Star Force returned to save the Earth but another danger now approaches from deep space. A gigantic White Comet hurtles toward our galaxy, obliterating everything in its path. But it is no ordinary comet—it is the deadly Comet Empire, conqueror of worlds... and Earth is the next target! Against orders, the Star Force blasts off to investigate, but even if they can get past the flagship Andromeda, they don't yet know the true nature of their new enemy!

(Source: AniDB)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Aratanaru Tabidachi

July 31, 1979
Finished Airing TV Special
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
SummaryIt is the year 2201. The Yamato has returned from the devastating battle with Emperor Zordar and the Comet Empire. Sanada, Aihara, and Shima are released from the hospital, and go to pay their respects to the fallen crew members at Okita's memorial. They meet Tokugawa's son Tasuke, who says that he will be joining the crew once he graduates from cadet school. The next day at his graduation, he ends up capsizing a boat full of new cadets because they are all too busy staring at the Yamato to watch where they are going.

After some problems during launch due to the new engine crew hitting the wrong switches and stalling the ship, the Yamato departs on what should be a simple training mission.

(Source: AniDB)

Yamato yo Towa ni

August 2, 1980
Finished Airing Movie
Be Forever Yamato
ヤマトよ永遠に
SummaryThe Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.

(Source: ANN)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato III

October 11, 1980
Finished Airing TV
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars
宇宙戦艦ヤマトⅢ
SummaryA stray missile from a confrontation between the Galman empire and the Bolar Federation crashes into the sun, turning it into a time bomb of radiation. The Star Force once again sets off into space, this time on a quest to look for a new world for the human race.

(Source: ANN)

Yamato yo Eien ni

October 30, 1980
Finished Manga
ヤマトよ永遠に
Be Forever Yamato
SummaryManga adaptation of "Be Forever Yamato" movie, created by Akira Hio.

Yamato III

March 30, 1981
Finished Manga
宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII
SummaryLoose adaptation of the third season of Space Battleship Yamato, created by Takayuki Masuo.

Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Kanketsu-hen

March 19, 1983
Finished Airing Movie
Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter
宇宙戦艦ヤマト・完結編
SummaryThe year is 2203, not long after the Bolar Federation was defeated by Desslok's Galman-Gamilon Empire. A subspace dimensional dislocation has caused a distant Red Galaxy to be relocated in a collision course with the Milky Way. Stars and planets collide, making a wreck of the Galman-Gamilon homeworld. The Star Force is dispatched to investigate. They reach Galmania to find Desslok's palace in ruins.

As they pay their respects, tossing white roses down to the surface of the planet, a huge red planet crashes into Galmania, forcing to StarForce to escape with an immediate and uncalculated warp.

(Source: AniDB)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato Pilot Film

July 27, 1990
Finished Airing Special
宇宙戦艦ヤマト パイロットフィルム
Star Blazers Pilot Film
SummaryThe pilot film to Uchuu Senkan Yamato. It was created in August 1974 for Yomiuri Television executives but released to the public 16 years later on the Uchuu Senkan Yamato LD Box Set. The pilot was included on later releases for DVD/BD but they lack certain sounds/audio due to a copyright issue that came about in the time between the LD and DVD/BD releases.

Yamato 2520

November 21, 1994
Finished Airing OVA
YAMATO2520 [ヤマトニーゴーニーゼロ]
SummarySet hundreds of years after the original, Yamato 2520 chronicles the adventures of the eighteenth starship to bear the name, and its battle against the Seiren Federation.

On a planet harshly ruled by the Serien Federation, a group of earth teenagers discover the ancient hulk of the Earth Federation Battleship Yamato. By stealing it’s data disk the teens are able to use the Serien’s own automated ship yards to construct a new Yamato.

(Source: Wikipedia)

BackgroundYamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki's attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato, set several hundred years after the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach of copyright. Ultimately, Yamato 2520 was left unfinished after only three episodes (of planned ten) were released. The episodes came out on VHS and LaserDisc for home media. (Source: Wikipedia)

Shin Uchuu Senkan Yamato

April 1, 2000
Finished Manga
新宇宙戦艦ヤマト
New Space Battleship Great Yamato
SummaryIn 3199, 1000 years after the events from the first anime series, all the people on the Earth are faced with crisis again. When mysterious presence calling herself Yo Haguro gathers together the descendants of the original Yamato crew, the legendary battleship is restored to protect all human beings from new villain - Darqueen.

Dai Yamato Zero-gou

March 31, 2004
Finished Airing OVA
Great Yamato No. 0
大ヤマト零号
SummaryIn the galactic group there are more than 100,000,000,000 galaxies, and the Milky Way galaxy, the one which includes Earth's solar system, is only one of these... one of many in the immensity of outer space.

This story starts in the year 3199, when a mighty enemy attacks the Milky Way from a neighbouring galaxy. The enemy engages the combined forces of the Milky Way, an Alliance of many stellar nations, and defeats them one after another.

The remaining Milky Way Alliance forces are reduced to just six fleets. After the Alliance headquarters is destroyed, and when the collapse of the central Milky Way Alliance is imminent, the Great Yamato “Zero” surprises everyone and embarks on a mission to assist the Milky Way Alliance in one last great battle.

Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu-hen

December 12, 2009
Finished Airing Movie
Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 復活篇
SummaryA crisis is approaching Earth with the expansion of a moving black hole, in the year 2220. A plan is devised to move over 300-million people from Earth. When the latest transportation fleet is attacked, Space Battleship Yamato comes to its defense, the ship is now commanded by Susumu Kodai, also aboard is daughter Miyuki, child of Susumu and Yuki.

(Source: FUNimation)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199

May 25, 2012
Finished Airing OVA
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199
SummaryEarth's once green hills and rich blue oceans have been converted into a desolate wasteland by the relentless onslaught of planet bombs from the expansionist Gamilas Empire. By the year 2199, humankind has retreated to the depths of underground cities to escape the radiation.

However, all hope is not lost, as the distant planet Iscandar offers Earth its final salvation: the Cosmo Reverse System, capable of restoring Earth’s irradiated surface. In a desperate bid to retrieve this technology from Iscandar, the Earth Defense Force pours its remaining resources into the Yamato—an innovative, state-of-the-art battleship equipped with an infinite energy Wave Motion Engine.

From young talent such as Tactical Officer Susumu Kodai to accomplished veterans like Captain Juuzou Okita, the Yamato’s crew consists of many individuals, all varying in their experience on the battlefield. But despite their differences, one goal unifies them all: to complete their perilous 168,000 light-year voyage to Iscandar and save humanity from imminent doom.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

BackgroundThe series will be sold in the same theaters that show the Yamato movies on the same days, i.e. a simultaneous release. The first two episodes of the TV series (which is the same as the OVA series) were pre-aired on the Family Gekijou cable and satellite channel on 6th and 7th of April, 2012. The rest of the episodes was aired on MBS & TBS beginning April 7, 2013.

Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi

February 25, 2017
Finished Airing OVA
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202
宇宙戦艦ヤマト2202 愛の戦士たち
SummaryThree years since the return of the legendary Space Battleship Yamato, Earth has begun rebuilding itself and has made peace with the Gamilans. However, this recovery comes at the cost of utilizing the forbidden Wave Motion technology.

Meanwhile, the notorious former crew members of the Yamato, who have each gone their separate ways, receive a psychic message from the mysterious Goddess Teresa. She urges them to return to their beloved ship and travel to the distant planet Terezart. They are promised a revolutionary power to combat the unprecedented threat of the relentless Gatlantis Empire, who are approaching Earth with all but innocent intentions.

Unable to resist her plea, the crew reassembles and sets sail on another perilous intergalactic voyage, one that will test their sheer courage and versatility in the face of an even greater foe.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi

October 8, 2021
Finished Airing OVA
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205
宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205 新たなる旅立ち
SummaryGamilans are facing their biggest hurdle yet: their planet is dying at an alarming pace. To save his people and relocate them to habitable land, Aberdt Desler feigns submission to the oppressive rule of the planet Galman, which houses a race almost identical to the Gamilans. Desler's true objective is to seize control and accelerate the salvation of his nation. However, as Gamilans begin their migration, an unidentified massive power attacks them and completely warps their twin planet—Iscandar, Queen Starsha's home.

Meanwhile, Earth is celebrating the success of the magnificent Space Battleship Yamato and its heroic crew. A new generation of promising recruits joins Yamato and its two new support ships, led by Yuki Mori and Shirou Sanada. But not everyone agrees with the past decisions of its captain, Susumu Kodai. During the Yamato’s six-month-long training mission and diplomatic meeting with the Gamilans, the crew learns of the recent catastrophe, and against all orders, Kodai commands the fleet to Iscandar to aid the surviving refugees.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

BackgroundUchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi was originally released as two separate movies subtitled Zenshou - Take Off and Koushou - Stasha. Limited edition Blu-rays were released on October 15, 2021 and February 11, 2022, while the standard Blu-ray and DVD editions were released on November 26, 2021 and March 29, 2022, respectively.

Yamato yo, Towa ni: Rebel 3199

July 19, 2024
Currently Airing Movie
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199
ヤマトよ永遠に REBEL3199
SummarySequel to Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi.