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3 unusual facts about Space Battleship Yamato


Space Battleship Yamato

Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the video game Street Fighter, credited the Space Battleship Yamato series and a battleship's missile system "Hadouho" as the inspiration for the special move Hadouken from the fighting game.

In the English Star Blazers dub, the ship is noted as being the historical Yamato, but is then renamed the Argo (after the ship of Jason and the Argonauts).

Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection

As far as other ships go, a new model Earth battleship, "Super Andromeda", appears, as well as the Earth flagship, Blue Noah.


Compilation film

Examples of compilation films include the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex films The Laughing Man and Individual Eleven, Space Battleship Yamato and the first three Mobile Suit Gundam films.

Martian Successor Nadesico

There are many anime references, particularly to the series Space Battleship Yamato (the name Nadesico is a play on the phrase "Yamato nadeshiko", which represents the traditional Japanese ideal of femininity, and also the name of a flower).

Wandering Sun

Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yasuhiko Yoshikazu were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later again collaborate on the ground-breaking and genre defining series Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam.


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