Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato
	Cover of Leiji Matsumoto's manga adaptation
宇宙戦艦ヤマト; (Uchū Senkan Yamato)
Genre	Military sci-fi, space opera
Created by	Leiji Matsumoto; Yoshinobu Nishizaki; Eiichi Yamamoto;
Manga
Written by	Leiji Matsumoto
Published by	Akita Shoten
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment;
Magazine	Bōken Ō
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	October 1, 1974 – November 1, 1979
Volumes	3
Anime television series
Directed by	Leiji Matsumoto
Produced by	Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Written by	Story; Yoshinobu Nishizaki; Screenplay; Eiichi Yamamoto; Keisuke Fujikawa; Maru Tamura;
Music by	Hiroshi Miyagawa
Studio	Academy Productions
Original network	NNS (YTV)
Original run	October 6, 1974 – March 30, 1975
Episodes	26
Sequels
	TV series: Space Battleship Yamato II (1978); Space Battleship Yamato III (1980); Animated films: Space Battleship Yamato (1977, compilation movie); Arrivederci Yamato (1978); Yamato: The New Voyage (1979); Be Forever Yamato (1980); Final Yamato (1983); Yamato Resurrection (2009);
Spin-offs
	Yamato 2520 (1994, OVA series); Great Yamato No. Zero (2004, OVA series);
Remakes
	Space Battleship Yamato (2010, live-action film); Yamato 2199 (2012, TV series) Odyssey of the Celestial Ark (2014, film); Yamato 2202 (2017, TV series); Yamato 2205 (2021, film duology); Yamato 3199 (2024, TV series); ;

Space Battleship Yamato (Japanese: 宇宙戦艦ヤマト, Hepburn: Uchū Senkan Yamato; also called Cosmoship Yamato and Star Blazers) is a Japanese science fiction anime series written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, and produced by Academy Productions. The series aired in Yomiuri TV from October 6, 1974 to March 30, 1975, totaling up to 26 episodes. It revolves around the character Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar in the English version) and an international crew from Earth, tasked during an interstellar war to go into space aboard the space warship Yamato, derived from the World War II battleship of the same name, in response to a message of aid from the planet Iscandar in order to retrieve a device which is able to reverse the radiation infecting Earth after being bombed by the Gamilas (Gamilons).

Space Battleship Yamato is one of the most influential anime series in Japan. Its turn toward serious themes and complex storylines influenced later works in the medium, including Gundam, Macross, and Evangelion, in addition to influencing the style of video games such as Space Invaders.