Uchū Senkan Yamato: Aratanaru Tabidachi

After the battle with the White Comet Empire, Yamato returns to Earth for repairs and gains some new crew members. Desler returns to his home planet to pay a final tribute but finds the fleet of the Black Nebula Empire stripmining the planet for ore. With the Black Nebula Empire targetting Iscandar next, Desler engages the help of Kodai and the Yamato crew to save Queen Starscha.
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TV movie aired in Japan on July 31, 1979.
Animated by Toei Animation and Office Academy

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[edit] The ↗Space Battleship Yamato franchise:

Main Series:

• (1974) Uchuu Senkan Yamato (26 TV episodes)
• (1978) Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2 (sequel, 26 TV episodes)
• (1980) _ Space Battleship Yamato 3 (sequel, 25 TV episodes)

Movies:

• (1977) Uchu Senkan Yamato Movie (alternate retelling, 130 minute film)
• (1978) Saraba Uchū Senkan Yamato - Ai no Senshi-tachi (sequel, 151 minute film)
• (1979) Uchū Senkan Yamato: Aratanaru Tabidachi (sequel, 93 minute TV special)
• (1980) Yamato yo Towa ni (sequel, 143 minute film)
• (1983) Uchuu Senkan Yamato - Kanketsuhen (sequel, 163 minute film)
• (2009) Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu Hen (sequel, 135 minute film)

Yamato 2199 Series:

• (2012) _ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Movie (first movie, 50 minutes)
• (2012) _ Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Desperate Struggle in the Heliosphere (second movie, ?? minutes)
• (2012) _ Space Battleship Yamato 2199: The Endless Voyage (third movie, ?? minutes)
• (2013) _ Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Defense of the Galactic March (fourth movie, ?? minutes)
• (2013) _ Space Battleship Yamato 2199: The Redolence of Intergalactic Space (fifth movie, ?? minutes)
• (2013) _ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (26 TV episodes)

Other Spinoffs:

• (1994) _ Yamato 2520 (4 OVA episodes)
• (2004) _ Great Yamato No. 0 (5 OVA episodes)
• (2010) _ Space Battleship Yamato Live-Action (131 minute live-action film)