# | Episode Name | Original air date |
01 |
"SOS Earth! Revive Space Batteship Yamato!" | October 6, 1974 (1974-10-06) |
02 |
"The Opening Gun! Space Batteship Yamato Starts!" | October 13, 1974 (1974-10-13) |
03 |
"Yamato Launch! The Challenge of 296,000 Light Years!" | October 20, 1974 (1974-10-20) |
04 |
"World of Wonder! Yamato Leaps Past Light!" | October 27, 1974 (1974-10-27) |
05 |
"Escape the Floating Continent! Crisis Calls the Wave-Motion Gun!" | November 3, 1974 (1974-11-03) |
06 |
"Space Destroyer Yukikaze Sleeps in the Ice Field" | November 11, 1974 (1974-11-11) |
07 |
"Yamato sinks! Fateful battle to destroy the enemy stronghold!" | November 17, 1974 (1974-11-17) |
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The Yamato arrives on Pluto and launches an attack on the base that has been bombarding Earth. But the base has a secret satellite reflective gun that hits the Yamato. It manages to crash-land in Pluto's ocean only to be sunk right away. |
08 |
"Yamato braves death! Destroy the Reflex Gun!" | November 24, 1974 (1974-11-24) |
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Playing a game of hide-and-seek underwater, the Yamato distracts base command while a commando led by Kodai goes to the surface to destroy the reflective gun and meeting blob-like Plutonians along the way. The explosion floods the base and the Gamilans are forced to evacuate. |
09 |
"Revolving defense! Asteroid belt!" | December 1, 1974 (1974-12-01) |
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Gamelans who saved their fleet are told to either win or die against the Yamato. The latter is heavily damaged and goes into hiding in an asteroid belt: Sanada using the asteroids as camouflage while repairing, then as an impenetrable ring of defense. The enemy fleet is annihilated. |
10 |
"Farewell, Solar System! From the Galaxy, With Love!" | December 8, 1974 (1974-12-08) |
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Now the Yamato has some breathing room, the crew uses the opportunity to emit last minute transmissions towards the Earth, which won't be possible once they leave the solar system. Everybody is concerned by how desperate the situation on Earth has become, even if Kodai and Okita don't have anybody left to transmit to. |
11 |
"Resolution! Break Through the Gamilons' Absolute Defense Line!" | December 15, 1974 (1974-12-15) |
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The Yamato encounters a Gamilan minefield and attempts to cross it, but at some point the mines move closer on their own, so the ship has to stop and Analyzer is sent out to find the control mine and disable it, which he manages even though drunk at the time. |
12 |
"Certain Death! The Wishing Star of Orion, Hell-star!" | December 22, 1974 (1974-12-22) |
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Near Orion the Yamato falls into a three-folded Gamilan trap: a magnetic barrier immobilizes it while missiles are being fired. Then a matter and energy eating gas cloud is sent after them. Finally the only way out of the barrier is through an active star. The Yamato attempts the passage. |
13 |
"Hurry, Yamato! Earth is suffering!" | December 29, 1974 (1974-12-29) |
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On a reconnaissance mission, Kodai captures a Gamilan pilot. The crew is shocked to see Gamilans are pretty much humans. Follows Kodai's flashback of year 2192 when Japan was meteor bombarded for the time, his parents died, and his brother was enlisted as a space cadet. |
14 |
"The Galaxy's Ordeal! The Year 2200 Advances!" | January 5, 1975 (1975-01-05) |
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The Yamato sits out a space storm for three weeks, waiting for a corridor through a star cluster, as according to Shima bypassing it would take at least forty days. Tensions are high among the crew, Kodai and Shima come to blows. Yuki asks Okita to let her make New Year's mochi to lighten the mood. |
15 |
"Desperate Escape! The Galaxy's Different Dimension" | January 12, 1975 (1975-01-12) |
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Closing in on planet Balan, the Yamato gets lost in a weird time dimension where both Wave-Motion and sub engines start acting up. Unfortunately Domel and his fleet are doing manoeuvres in the close vicinity. Only Okita's shrewdness and Starsha's guidance can save the Yamato now. |
16 |
"Planet Beeland, Underground Prison of Condemned Criminals" | January 19, 1975 (1975-01-19) |
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Yuki is still being harassed by Analyzer, who declares that he wants to marry her. Okita sends Yuki and Analyzer to the surface of planet Beeland to find and bring back edible plants, but the two are captured by a group of rebels among the bee people who suspect them of being Gamilas invaders. |
17 |
"Charge! Balanosaurus Special Attack Group!" | January 26, 1975 (1975-01-26) |
18 |
"Floating Fortress Island! Two Men Brave Death!" | February 2, 1975 (1975-02-02) |
19 |
"Homesickness of Space! My mother's tears are my tears!" | February 9, 1975 (1975-02-09) |
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Aihara is suffering from severe homesickness, which sends him over the edge when he contacts Earth and sees his father die before his very eyes. After his appeals to Shima to turn the ship around fail, Aihara decides to strike out for home himself, not suspecting that he's being lured into a Gamilas trap. |
20 |
"The Day Planet Balan's Sun Fell!" | February 16, 1975 (1975-02-16) |
21 |
"Desperate Challenge from Lysis' Fleet!" | February 23, 1975 (1975-02-23) |
22 |
"Decisive Battle! Fight For Honor At The Rainbow Star Group!" | March 2, 1975 (1975-03-02) |
23 |
"Finally Arrived! Crest of the Magellanic Cloud's Wave!" | March 9, 1975 (1975-03-09) |
24 |
"Death Struggle! God, Weep For The Gamilons!" | March 16, 1975 (1975-03-16) |
25 |
"Iscandar! A Dying Planet Of Love!" | March 23, 1975 (1975-03-23) |
26 |
"Earth! Yamato Returns!" | March 30, 1975 |