The BEST episodes written by 出渕裕
#1 - Memories of the Blue Planet
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 26
The Yamato is on the last leg of its journey back to Earth. However, Kodai has little to celebrate as Yuki did not survive the wounds she suffered in the last battle. However, witnessing the suffering of his brother, Mamoru's spirit appears next to him to create a miracle.
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#2 - A World I Once Saw
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 11
Melda Ditz, a Gamilan pilot under the custody of Yamato, claims that their attack on Earth was not unprovoked and that it was the Earthlings who first fired without warning during the first contact between both races years before. Daisuke, whose father was killed in the attack, does not believe her at all until Yamazaki, the sole survivor of his father's ship, reveals to him the truth about what really happened that day.
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#3 - The Trap on All Sides
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 5
Before leaving the Solar System, the Yamato launches an attack to destroy the Gamilan facilities on Pluto to stop their bombardment of Earth with planet bombs. However, the ship ends up falling for a surprise attack from the enemy's secret weapon, and the crew of Yamato sends their pilot squadron to shut down the Gamilan base.
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#4 - What Lies Beyond
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 12
General Domel of the Gamilans is called back from the front lines by Dessler and reassigned to the Milky Way with orders to stop the Yamato. As the Yamato approaches the edge of the galaxy, the crew becomes under attack by an extra-dimensional submarine.
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#5 - Toward a Sea of Stars
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 2
Susumu brings the Wave Motion Activation Core to Earth which allows mankind to complete its first interstellar spaceship, the "BBY-01 Yamato". With Okita as the captain, Shima as the navigator, and Susumu as its battle chief, the Yamato is assigned to travel to planet Iscandar, in the Great Magellanic Cloud, with orders to retrieve a device able to restore Earth's environment. Before the Yamato can start its journey, it must counter a Gamilan interplanetary ballistic missle aimed at them.
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#6 - A Choice for the Future
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 16
Badly damaged and in need of provisions, the Yamato lands on a lush, fertile planet named Beemela. As a ground team makes a startling discovery, there are doubts if the ship still has a chance to complete its journey in time and the security force attempts a mutiny.
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#7 - Messenger of Iscandar
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 1
In the year 2199, Earth is ravaged by attacks from alien beings of the the planet, Gamilus, which have devastated the surface of the Earth and forced what remains of mankind to take shelter underground. To save the Earth, the last of the Earth's space forces must distract the Gamilan forces while a non-Gamilan ship, the Amaterasu, lands on Mars to deliver the Wave Motion Activation Core to the Earthlings. While Captain Mamoru Kodai contains the enemy attack to allow fellow captain Juzo Okita to escape with his forces, Mamoru's brother Susumu and his friend Daisuke Shima investigate the Amaterasu that crashed on Mars. Inside the ship there is the corpse of an alien female, the messenger sent to Earth to make the important delivery to the Earthlings. Susumu and Daisuke return to Earth on the Kirishima, the only ship to return from the battle at Pluto. On the Kirishima, Susumu learns of his brother's death. When the Kirishima reaches Earth, Susumu Kodai looks for Captain Okita to know whether his brother was a decoy or not and meets Yuki Mori, who directs him to the hospital wing. Kodai confronts Okita, who says that it was he who led Mamoru to his death.
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#8 - Escape from the Jupiter Sphere
Star Blazers 2199 - Season 1 - Episode 3
On Pluto, Gantz suggests sending out a fleet after the Yamato. Schultz turns down the suggestion, preferring to see what the Yamato does before attempting anything. After making a space warp, the Yamato 's main engine isn't transferring energy correctly, so Captain Okita orders the Yamato to land on a floating continent orbiting Jupiter, to make repairs to the engine. On the floating continent, Captain Okita orders the crew of the Yamato to go out and collect samples from the continent. After analyzing some of the plant samples from the continent, XO Shiro Sanada discovers that the floating continent is artificially made by the Gamilans. Meanwhile Raleta, commander of the Gamilas resupply base on the floating continent, gets a message from Gantz, ordering him to dispatch the combat fleet of four ships to attack the Yamato. The Yamato destroys three of the four ships sent after them, and then takes off from the continent. Okita orders Kodai to test fire the Wave Motion Cannon at the floating continent. Kodai fires the gun, destroying the entire continent. Nanbu is thrilled at the power of the weapon, but Okita says that the Yamato 's weaponry is for self-defense only, questioning whether they have done the right thing.
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