Great Yamato #0 (大YAMATO零号, Dai Yamato Zero-go) is an original animated video based on Space Battleship Yamato created by Leiji Matsumoto.[1] It was initially planned as a new installment of Space Battleship Yamato. However, due to a lawsuit between Matsumoto and Yoshinobu Nishizaki over the franchise rights, the series ended up as an entirely unrelated work.
Production[]
A new Space Battleship Yamato series based on the manga Space Battleship Great Yamato was planned for TV broadcast in 2002 and theatrical release in 2003 by Leiji Matsumoto.[2]
However, after a lawsuit between Matsumoto and Yoshinobu Nishizaki over the franchise rights in 2202, which ended in Nishizaki's favor, the work could not be produced as a sequel to the Space Battleship Yamato series. The series was subsequently remade, removing all links to the franchise. It did not air on television but was reconstructed and released as OVAs under the name Great Yamato #0.
Plot[]
In 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 neighboring 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.
Cast[]
Ozuma
- Sōji Ozuma: Isao Sasaki
- Yamato Captain
- Shinma Oki: Daisuke Namikawa
- Lightning <wind> Corps member
- Yuki Hongō: Yuko Minaguchi
Yuki Hongō
- Scientific Analysis Division.
- Moore L. Prostar: Banjo Ginga
Moore
- Denzel Spear: Kenichi Morozumi
Denzel
- Captain aide
- Toshizō Iga: Takaya Kuroda
- Scientific analysis and monitoring team leader team leader
- Hiroshi Daichi: Kenji Nojima
- Chief navigator
- Sakai: Takahiro Yoshimizu
- Lightning Corps commander
- Byakusetsu (Báixuĕ): Mariko Suzuki
- Theoretical Analysis
- Apollonia: Romi Park
- lightning <wind> Corps Captain
- Tanegashima: Shiro Saito
- Chief Med Tech
- Gwangar: Masuo Amada
- Chief engineer
- Tyler: Toshio Kobayashi
- Industry and wound length
- Kuma: Katsuhisa Hoki
- Ship-General
- Kōki: Hisao Egawa
- Head, dragon cavalry captain
- Shin
- Lightning Corps <light> drone operator
- Sylphilde
- Medical Engineering
- Ivan
- Blitz Corps <wind> member
- Gugi
- Gunnery operator
- Lambor: Yugo Takahashi
- Yō Haguro: Misa Watanabe
- Captain Himiko: Kana Machikaze
- Battleship captain Mahoroba
- Tim fleet-daily leader
- Tantan: Yusuke Numata
- Tim fleet-daily leader
- X-1: Shiro Saito
- A-Galaxy Union headquarters Emperor large elder
- X-2: Masato Hirano
- A-Galaxy Union headquarters Emperor aide
- X-3: Hiroaki Miura
- A-Galaxy Union headquarters Emperor royal
- X-4: Tomohisa Aso
- A-Galaxy Union headquarters Emperor Shogun
- X-5: Toshiya Mori
- A-Galaxy Union headquarters Emperor Space Science Mathematical analysis officer
- Cain: Umeka Shoji
- Dai Ozuma: Hidemi Anzai
- Son of Ozuma
- Kei Ozuma: Miku Yoshikawa
- Daughter of Ozuma
- Holy Emperor Zarik: Ryotaro Okiayu
- Hakua Emperor ship
- Vice Emperor Wago: Yoshiyuki Kono
- Hakua Emperor ship
- Rigel commander: Takashi Nakagi
- Seven thousand fleet commander, Eunos ship captain
- Rigel assistant: Hiroshi Okamoto
- Ganon Geiler: Taiten Kusunoki
External links[]
- Dai Yamato Zero-Go Character Art Gallery
- Great Yamato #0 on Wikipedia (Japanese)
- Leiji Matsumoto’s Dai Yamato Zero-Go on Cosmo DNA
References[]
- ↑ "Yamato Copyright Suits Settled for 250 Million Yen". Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-12-15/2-yamato-copyright-suits-settled-for-250-million-yen. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ↑ From the article "Special Report! Space Battleship Yamato Takes Off Again," which was contributed to the December 1999 issue of Sankei Shimbun's monthly magazine Seiron
External links[]
- Dai Yamato Zero-go (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Dai Yamato Zero-go at the Internet Movie Database
- 大ヤマト零号オフィシャルサイト (Japanese)
- Leiji Matsumoto's Dai Yamato Zero-Go
- Great Yamato #0 @ shipschematics.net
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| TV series | |
| Original Series: Space Battleship Yamato (Episodes) • Space Battleship Yamato 2 (Episodes) • Space Battleship Yamato III (Episodes) Remakes: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Episodes) • Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Episodes) Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Episodes) • Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 (Episodes) | |
| Films | |
| Original Series: Space Battleship Yamato • Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato 2: Compilation Yamato: The New Voyage • Be Forever Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato III: Catastrophe of the Solar System Final Yamato • Yamato Rebirth Remakes: Space Battleship Yamato 2199: A Voyage to Remember Star Blazers 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark • Star Blazers Chronicle 2202 | |
| Live action films | |
| Space Battleship Yamato • Star Blazers | |
| OVAs | |
| Yamato 2520 • Great Yamato #0 | |
| Manga | |
| Space Battleship Yamato by Leiji Matsumoto • Space Battleship Yamato by Yuki Hijiri • Space Battleship Yamato by Akira Hio Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage • Be Forever Yamato Space Battleship Yamato III by Takayuki Masuo • Space Battleship Yamato III by Hiroshi Aizawa • Final Yamato •
Space Battleship Great Yamato | |
| Comics | |
| Star Blazers • Star Blazers : The Magazine of Space Battleship Yamato | |
| Novels | |
| Space Battleship Yamato novelizations • Space Battleship Yamato Dawn: Aquarius Algorithm • Space Battleship Yamato Dawn: The Malignant Memory Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love Side Stories • My Heart is Like This | |
| Video games | |
| The Distant Planet Iscandar • Warriors of Love • Reminiscences of Iscandar • Revenge of the Dark Nebula Empire • Collapse of the Double Galaxy Super Robot Wars V • Space Battleship Yamato arcade game • Space Battleship Yamato for PC • Space Battleship Yamato for Game Boy Space Battleship Yamato for WanderSwan Color • Final Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 BFI Chapter 2: The Romance of the Endless Sea Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Iscandar • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Cosmo Guardian • Space Battleship Yamato 2199: The Last Hope 365 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Hero's Record • Space Battleship Yamato 2202: A Long Journey • Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow | |
| Radio | |
| Stereo Gekiga Space Battleship Yamato • All Night Nippon Space Battleship Yamato Special • YRA Radio Yamato | |