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Much larger selection now that just Yuki. (Most popular on Danbooru seems to be Niimi Kaoru, though on Pixiv the popular one is Harada Makoto. Both after Mori Yuki of course.)

(Might be fair to have some of the guys shown as well...there are a lot more of them. But ships too I think)

Though my imagination says that most of them will die.



But then Akihiro Enomoto and Yutaka Izubuchi aren't Leiji Matsumoto or Yoshinobu Nishizaki. They might have a different ideology than those two who conflicted with each other several times as Yamato went on. Especially when it came to character deaths and motives for those deaths.

We will see how far they get into the combined story arcs over the course of 2199 to 2203-ish.

Though I had a thought about a theoretical third season. Yamato 2199 has a known arc that has a very defined beginning and a roughly defined ending. Yamato 2201 as a very tightly crafted story that can take two known paths depending on if the story follows the movie ending or the TV ending. The orignal third season was done after two films (one TV and one theatrical)...I would propose instead doing a third season out of those two films and elements of the another plotline that would setup the plot for a better version of what was the original third season.

Spoiler for Plot related stuff for the films and background for Yamato III (and long):

My proposal for a third season Yamato 2202 would start more or less with the as is Yamato: The New Yoyage story arc. (This would be the first two films/discs) It follows the exploits of Dessler as he heads back to Gamilus to say goodbye to it and Iscandar before going to find a new homeworld for his Empire. While he does this the Yamato, broken and newly crewless arrives back on Earth. Time passes and Yamato is repaired and a new cadet crew boards for their first training flight under the taskmaster that is Susumu Kodai.

Back at Gamilus, Dessler finds an enemy has been strip mining his home while he's been off chasing Yamato around the galaxy in 2201. He is quite upset by this and attacks. Stuff happens, Gamilus is destroyed, Iscandar is flung into deep space. As the new production staff likes things to be logical, they will either come up with a reason for the planet to warp, or not having it warp at all. Dessler calls Earth, let Kodai know.

Yamato heads out to Iscandar again...much more quickly as not only do they know the route, but also they have practical warping experiance now so they can push the engines harder than they dared in 2199.

Meanwhile Starsha and Momoru Kodai won't leave Iscandar, despite Dessler's kindness. The new enemy, the Dark Nebula Empire, attacks Dessler's fleet, and he's forced to hold out against the odds until the superior tech Yamato (and human luck) arrives to break the enemy fleet.

More stuff happens, Iscandar is destroyed to prevent it from falling into enemy hands (likely as Starsha's hand). Starsha and Momaru Kodai daughter Sasha survives with Kodai on Yamato. Dessler and Susumu Kodai part ways again. End of arc one.

Here is where things change (third film): The plot follows Yamato home long enough to get it settled, but the next arc follows Dessler. By the end of Yamato 2201 he should be pretty much a main character with a well done stoyr arc already through Yamato 2199 and Yamato 2201. Now we get to follow his advantures to find a new homeworld with what is left of his forces. All the while he and his officers will get their own kind of character building or study as they encounter their own challenges as they go deeper into the Milky Way finding fellow Gamilus species and other races under the thumb of another Empire, the Bolar Federation. Dessler, with his Fleet and some stolen tech form the Comet Empire and what little they gained from the wreckage of the Dark Nebula ships cuts their way to the Core to liberate the planet Galman, ancient homewold of the Gamilus race. With a flush of victory, Desseler declares himself Emperor, and renames Galman's sister world Starsha. The second arc ends.

We now return to Earth (fourth film). It has been many months since we last saw Kodai and the others. Yamato is no where to be seen. The Earth's defenses are mostly automated with what is left of the fleet out (maybe engaged against rogue Cometine units or exploring nearby worlds). This is the time the Dark Nebula launch their surprise invasion of the Solar System. The outer worlds are nuetralized and a giant Bomb lands on Earth followed by a massive invasion force. Earth's automated fleets attempt to defend Earth, but are destroyed fairly quickly due to them being new and untested. Earth is overrun rapidly before the rest of the Earth Fleets can respond. The Bomb acts as a insurance to keep the defenders away as Earth basically surrenders. But Yamato's crew (minus Yuki) escape. They board a refitted Yamato and brake out of the Solar System on a long range mission to disable the trigger device for the bomb (which for some reason in on the enemy homeworld...no every plot makes sense in Yamato).

The wounded Yuki is captured and stuff happens. Yamato starts its long voyage to a galaxy some 400,000 Light Years away...no time limit is given...just that it will take a while to get there. This closes the third arc with Earth's fate in doubt, by Yamato on the way.

The fourth arc takes us back to Dessler (fifth film). He's rebuild his Empire based on Galman and has had new even larger ships build to replace his aging 2199 era warfleet. His campaign to liberate his peoples from the Bolar starts to shift over the arc to one of pure conquest due to the ambition of his Galman generals (recently liberated and not part of the former Gamilus Empire). Dessler may hear news of Earth's fall to the Dark Nebula. He may even attempt to do something about it, but the Bolar hold his attention. This war continues for time until there is a stalemate and a tentative peace. A Cold War begins in the heart of the Milky Way between the Galman and Bolar. The fourth arc ends.

The fifth arc begins with Yamato warping out near the enemy home galaxy (sixth film). It has again been some time since we've seen them. Added to the crew may be Kodai's niece Sasha (Starsha's daughter) if they decide to keep her alien biology/rapid maturing nature in tact. Sasha is rather popular so if it comes to that I fully expect it to be "logic be damned" in the production circle. The ship is likely understaffed as it was not fully ready for action when the invasion happened, so again she was some of the cadets from before, most of the surviving crew from 2199, and maybe a few other people. It is also possible that Mamoru Kodai is with them as Captain of Yamato...though Admiral Yamamani (formerly Captain of Kirishima) is also possible (that was wer ewe first saw him in Be Forever Yamato), if they don't leave it as Susumu Kodai's command since Okita promotes him in 2200 to "acting captain". Either way, Yamato gets into some large combat actions and shows off her new weapons which pretty much makes her unstoppable compared to before when they tended to lose until divine intervention arrives. The story more or less follows the rest of the Be Forever, Yamato plotline from this point on. Though the fate of Yamamani, Mamoru, and Sasha are up in the air depending on the whims of the producers. The Fifth arc ends with the destruction of the outer shell of the enemy homeworld and possible death of Sasha.

The sixth arc starts with Yuki's fight on Earth to take control of the bomb and disable the trigger there (Seventh film). Back across the universe, Yamato fights the Dark Nebula homeworld defenses to gain access to the core, eventually destroying the planet. The last episode or two are epilogue for the two main character groups and to setup their eventual collision course in the next season. Yamato heads for home after whatever loses they've sustained. They ship needs to finish its refit and get a full crew again. Kodai's in charge again by the time they get to Earth, possibly having to deal with the remains of the enemy invasion force with elements of the remaining Earth Defense Fleet that had to keep their distance while Earth was threatened by the Bomb. Almost half a galaxy away, Dessler's Empire grows. His new Galman-Gamilus Fleets spead in an affort to counter the Bolar Federation outside the treaty zones. One of his new fleet admirals is showing great sucess, and happens to be on a path....for Earth.

End Space Battleship Yamato 2202.

This proposed season sets up what was the original Yamato III by filling in the backstory and motivations of the other side that were more of less crammed into one or two episodes in the middle of the series that could (or should) have been expanded on. With that sort of out the way, a new version of Yamato 2203 could not only make the Galman's more interesting, but also could give room for the originally dropped plotline for Space Battleship Arizona even in a 26 episode TV series. Since the proposed Yamato 2199 story notes suggest they are going to make the Gamilus more interesting, the logical flow suggests that they could go as far as to make Dessler a main character (if he survives of course) and thus give him a core group of interesting characters for us to follow around at times when Yamato is not really doing anything.