After the Alliance headquarters is destroyed, and when the collapse of the central Milky Way Alliance is imminent, the Great Yamato "Zero" embarks on a mission to assist the Milky Way Alliance in one last great battle. The capsule yields blueprints for a faster-than-light engine and an offering of help from Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Space opera generally involves large-scale conflicts between opponents with powerful abilities and technology. ヤマト A scientist is a person engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge that describes and predicts the natural world. This is given as the original work credit in the OP. Along the way, they discover the motives of their blue-skinned adversaries: the planet Gamilas, sister planet to Iscandar, is dying; and its leader, Lord Desslar (Desslok in the Star Blazers dub), is trying to irradiate Earth enough for his people to move there, at the expense of the "barbarians" he considers humanity to be. [citation needed]. The Yamato, under new captain, Yamanami, travels to the aliens' home galaxy only to discover what appears to be a future Earth—defeated and ruled by the enemy. Earth has a space fleet, but they do not yet have interstellar capability, and they are hopelessly outclassed by the Gamilas. A continuing story, it features the declining health of Yamato's Captain Okita (Avatar in the Star Blazers dub), and the transformation of the brash young orphan Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar) into a mature officer, as well as his budding romance with female crewmember Yuki Mori (Nova Forrester). Yamato appears to not understand Luffy's use of nicknames, as evidenced by the attempt to correct Luffy with the former's actual name,[8] as well as Ulti's name when Luffy gives her a nickname as well. [1][3] Yamato then trusted Luffy enough to request his help in achieving Oden's dream of opening Wano's borders,[3] and then expressed a wish to be freed from Kaido and an intent to leave Wano as part of Luffy's crew in order to be free and explore the sea like Oden did. Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, and omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem. Susumu and Yuki also get married. Enormously powerful, it can vaporize a fleet of enemy ships—or a small continent (as seen in the first season, fifth episode)—with one shot; however, it takes a brief but critical period to charge before firing. The first season was made in 1974, and the story was about aliens who attack the Earth with radioactive comets during 2199. The success of the Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars, leading to the production of a second movie that would end the story. It is obvious that the personalities chosen by producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki were meant to instill immediacy, friendship, tragedy... all the finer points, while remaining closely relevant to 70s based storytelling. Set 17 years after the events of Final Yamato, Resurrection brings together some members of the Yamato crew, who lead Earth's inhabitants to resettle in a far-flung star system after a black hole is discovered, which will destroy the solar system in three months. In the story, the Sun is hit by a stray proton missile from a nearby battle between forces of the Galman Empire and Bolar Federation. Action anime usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force.