List of Space Battleship Yamato characters

Yamato Crew

First season

• Captain Juzo Okita : The stern captain of the Yamato, utterly devoted to his mission to save Earth from the Gamillas threat, even at the cost of his own life. He is in fact dying, and becomes increasingly ill during the course of the first season, but remains convinced that he will live to see his home world again. He regards Susumu Kodai almost as a replacement for the son he lost in battle, and sorely regrets his son's death in battle at Pluto, along with the apparent death of Kodai's older brother, Mamoru. Even when his illness leaves him bedridden, he remains a source of advice to the crew, and to Kodai in particular. In the movie Final Yamato, it is revealed that he was kept in cryogenic suspension for some time until the Earth physicians could revive him and cure his sickness. He then went on to lead the Star Force again in its fight against the Deingillians. In the English edition, it was revealed that he was revived from death by residual energy from the Cosmo DNA's cleansing of Earth, but was bereft of nearly all of his memories as a result. He was kept in hiding by Doctor Sane until later in the series. In Final Yamato it became partially true, as he was shown to be held into a cryogenic sleep to be cured from his otherwise fatal disease.
• Susumu Kodai : A young orphan, it was the death of his parents during a Gamillas planet bomb attack on the Miura Peninsula that drove him to follow in his older brother Mamoru's footsteps and join the Earth Defense Force. He is initially hot-headed and prone to bursts of anger, and at first blames Captain Okita for the death of his brother in battle. However, he matures during the first season thanks to his responsibility as the Yamato 's battle chief, and ultimately Okita nominates him acting captain when he is unable to continue. Kodai continues commanding the Yamato and its crew for most of the rest of the franchise, only relinquishing command twice: to Yamanami in Be Forever Yamato, and to a revived Okita during Final Yamato. He is also a talented pilot, flying his own Cosmo Zero fighter as the leader of the Black Tigers, and in the second season frequently joining the Cosmo Tigers in battle. His Japanese given name means "to go forward, to improve". He remains the lead character throughout the original timeline serving as the Yamato's commander until Final Yamato when a revived Okita retakes command. He retires from the military afterwards, joining the merchant fleet raising a daughter with Yuki Mori although the relationships become estranged as he spend more time away from Earth. Sanada recalls Kodai to command a rebuilt Yamato in Resurrection after Mori's ship goes missing. In the 2010 live-action film, his story begins as a scavenger who left the Earth Defense Force five years prior. He blamed himself for redirecting a Garmilas bomb toward a space station, killing his parents and Daisuke Shima's wife. He re-enlists prior to the launching of the Yamato as the ship's gunner before eventually being promoted by Okita as acting captain. Though the Yamato succeeds in retrieving the means to restore Earth's surface, the remaining Garmilas ship cripples it before preparing a missile to destroy the planet. After ordering all surviving crew to abandon ship, Kodai sacrifices himself and the ship to destroy the missile and save Earth.
• Mamoru Kodai : The older Kodai/Wildstar brother and captain of Missile Ship 17, the Yukikaze, Mamoru appears to die in the first episode while holding off enemies so Okita's stricken flagship may escape the battlefield. In the original, Mamoru was insisting he could not face the souls of his dead comrades if he fled whereas in Star Blazers he dies for the sole purpose of providing cover for Okita's ship. In fact, it emerged his ship had crash-landed—in one piece—on Titan, and he had been captured alive by the Garmilans, but the ship in which he was a prisoner crashed on Iscandar, where Queen Starsha healed him. He fell in love with his rescuer and decided to stay on Iscandar, fathering a daughter named Sasha. His Japanese given name means "to protect". He sacrificed his life in Be Forever, Yamato in order to save Admiral Heikuro Todo from execution.

• Yuki Mori : Initially Dr. Sado's nurse, Yuki gained the additional responsibilities aboard Yamato such as operating the radar, performing computer calculations, taking care of the crew's morale and, along with Kaoru Niimi, searching planets for food sources. She is from the outset attracted to Susumu, but conceals her true feelings with girlish glee. As the only significant female crew member, she was occasionally the subject of fan service in the form of skirt-flippings by Analyzer, though only in early episodes before the tone of the series becomes generally more serious. Her Japanese name means "forest snow", creator Matsumoto being fond of female characters with "Yuki" as part of their name. She serves faithfully aboard the Yamato throughout the series run and finally is married to Susumu Kodai at the conclusion of Final Yamato. She and Kodai raise a daughter Miyuki who becomes a vet nurse working with Dr. Sado. Mori rises to the rank of Captain and is commander of a vessel supporting the Earth Federation battleship Blue Noah when the ship goes missing at the start of Resurrection. It is implied that she survives but with the two planned sequel films cancelled her ultimate fate is uncertain. In the 2010 live-action film, Yuki is an Earth Defense Force ace pilot who initially is at odds with Susumu, even after he saves her when debris from a destroyed Garmilas ship cripples her Cosmo Tiger fighter and ruptures her oxygen supply. Upon arriving at Iscandar/Garmilas, her body becomes the host of Iscandar's power to restore Earth's atmosphere.
• Daisuke Shima : A quieter and more level-headed complement to his best friend Kodai, Shima becomes chief navigator and helmsman of the Yamato. He suffers from a lack of self-confidence in his ability to control the mighty vessel, despite skillfully saving it on many occasions. Shima and Kodai have frequent arguments in the first series, some of which escalated into physical brawls, but the end results only made their friendship stronger. In the second season, he falls in love with Teresa of Telezart by interstellar radio, and is heartbroken when she elects to remain on her world in the face of the Comet Empire, though he vows to carry on the fight in her name. He was blown into space by Gamillas troops but was rescued and revived by Teresa. He loses his life in the line of duty in Final Yamato. In the 2010 live-action film, Shima is a widower, having lost his pregnant wife in the first year of the war after a Garmilas missile destroyed the space station where she had lived. Their son was saved, but was rendered mute.
• Jiro Shima : Shima's pre-pubescent younger brother who remains on Earth during the series. He remains confident in the ability of Yamato to save the world, particularly with his older brother at the helm, and even in the face of public doubt. His Japanese given name means "second son". He re-appears in Resurrection as a Cosmo Navy officer working as adjutant to Admiral Sanada.
• * Japanese voice artist: Junko Sakata, Noriko Ohara, Chika Sakamoto, Ryōtarō Okiayu
• Shiro Sanada : The science officer aboard Yamato, Sanada is earnest and dedicated, his ideas frequently saving the ship from destruction. His limbs are bionic, the result of a childhood accident which claimed the life of his sister and left him bitterly resentful of science's arrogance. He was a classmate of Mamoru Kodai, and blames himself for not having repaired the Yukikaze properly before it went into battle. When Susumu Kodai becomes acting captain, Sanada is frequently a source of advice. Sanada is the elder spokesperson for the crew after the deaths of Okita and Engineer Tokugawa. Along with Kodai, Mori and Sado he is a rare survivor all the way to the end of the original series in Resurrection where he has risen to a command rank in the military. In the 2010 live-action film, Sanada sacrifices his life while detonating a bomb that destroys the Gamillas power supply on the planet Iscandar/Gamillas.
• Dr. Sakezo Sado : The most humorously drawn character in the series, Dr. Sado is frequently a source of comic relief, usually through pratfalls resulting from his love of Japanese wine. Though originally a vet, he becomes the ship's surgeon. He is good humored and always willing to give advice, but he can become deadly earnest when chiding others' behavior. His Japanese given name is written with the same kanji as the word shuzo, though his drinking habits were significantly toned down for Star Blazers, his sake given as spring water or soy milk. Along with Kodai, Mori and Sanada, he survives through to the series end in Resurrection where he has returned to veterinary science running an animal sanctuary with Kodai and Mori's daughter Miyuki Kodai. For the 2010 live-action film, Dr. Sado is rewritten as a female character who only occasionally drinks sake.
• Mi-kun : Dr. Sado's pet cat, apparently the closest he has to family. Left behind on Earth during the first season, he is brought aboard the Yamato in the second season. He is based on Leiji Matsumoto's own cat Mī-kun. Note that in Star Blazers Mimi is female. Mi-kun has also appeared in other Leijiverse stories such as Captain Harlock where he was Doctor Zero's cat.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōichi Yamadera
• Analyzer AU-09 : A squat, human-sized robot who originally worked in the EDF's hospital, Analyzer joins the Yamato crew on his own request, believing it to be the only place he can truly prove himself. He is capable of extending his arms, separating into independently moving pieces, lifting and throwing enemy tanks, withstanding force fields and sensing various forms of energy, but is unable to restrain himself from sexually harassing Yuki on several occasions. He is in fact in love with her, but when she proves unable to return his affections, he settles for friendship. Something of a wisecracker, he frequently forms a double-act with Dr. Sado. He is also capable of becoming intoxicated, narrowly avoiding disaster on one occasion. In the 2010 live-action film, Analyzer is Susumu's robot assistant in a smartphone-like device carried by the latter. His physical body is stored in Susumu's Cosmo Zero unit, and is deployed in combat during the raid of Iscandar/Garmilas. Analyzer is ultimately destroyed by the overwhelming number of Garmilan troops. In 2199, Analyzer is illustrated just like the original, but the robot is portrayed as the purpose built autonomous sub-computer of the Yamato, and is more behaved and a bit of a deadpan. Analyzer is equipped with a "suit" that expands his capabilities, though used only once in Beemela-4. He is later often seen with Dr. Sado pouring sake for him.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ken'ichi Ogata, Chō
• * American voice artist: Sonny Strait
• Chief Hikozaemon Tokugawa : The middle-aged, balding chief engineer aboard Yamato and an old comrade of Okita. He left behind a grandchild on Earth of whom he is extremely fond. Determined to remain at his post no matter what happens, he suffocates in the last episode of the second season as the engine room fills with fumes. His death was not shown in Star Blazers. In the 2010 live-action film, he is killed during the attack by Desler's ship upon the Yamato's arrival near Earth. He made it to the end in 2199, him being the man Okita can trust with the Yamato's engine. He, owing to their seniority, is also one of a few people aboard the Yamato with strong influential power other than Captain Okita, the others being XO Sanada, Dr. Sado, and Engineer Yamazaki.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ichirō Nagai, Mugihito
• * American voice artist: Gordon Ramsay, R Bruce Elliot
• * Live-action actor: Toshiyuki Nishida
• Sukeharu Yabu : Tokugawa's portly assistant engineer. He believes the Yamato is doomed to fail in its mission to save Earth, and thus decides that humanity should make a new home on Iscandar; hence he and nine other mutineers kidnapping Yuki to a crystal island, where a tsunami and volcanic eruption killed them, though Yuki is rescued. His death and the deaths of the other mutineers is not shown in Star Blazers, but indicated from later dialogue. In 2199 the mutiny occurs much earlier at Beemela 4, as he is part of a faction that supports their stay on Beemela, though they were overcome and arrested. Yabu is one of two mutineers to survive after the brig is damaged in a subsequent battle and is accidentally left behind on the Garmilas prison planet Leptapoda. Assumed to be of the Zaltzi race, he joins Captain Flakken's ragtag crew aboard the Garmilas dimensional submarine UX-01, who later helped sink General Goer's fleet.
• * Japanese voice artist: Michihiro Ikemizu, Ken'ichi Ogata, Chō
• * American voice artist: Ben Phillips
• Yoshikazu/Giichi Aihara : Chief communications officer, Aihara becomes homesick for his native Kitakami, Iwate during the journey to Iscandar after discovering his father on Earth was dying. In his madness, he steals a spacesuit and attempts to float home before being rescued by his comrades. Note that in Japanese, the kanji for his given name can be read in two ways; the reading "Yoshikazu" is used in episode 10 of the first season, but he gives his name as "Giichi" in the third season. For the 2010 live-action film, Aihara is rewritten as a female character. In 2199 he is a cheerful character and serves as Mori's deputy as communications officer. In 2202 he has joined Kodai and Nanbu.
• * Japanese voice artist: Shinji Nomura, Masato Kokubun
• * American voice artist: Michael Bertolini, Aaron Roberts
• * Live-action actress: :ja:マイコ |Maiko
• Yasuo Nanbu : Bespectacled sub-chief of ship's defenses, operating the gun turrets in Kodai's absence, in 2199 he falls in love with Yuki, however is disappointed when he finds Kodai speaking to her instead.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kazuo Hayashi, Kenji Akabane
• * American voice artist: Eddie Allen, Stephen Fu
• * Live-action actor: Toshihiro Yashiba
• Kenjiro Ohta : Portly, freckled radar operator, frequently heard identifying missile attacks on the Yamato.
• * Japanese voice artist: Yoshito Yasuhara, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yūki Chiba
• * Live-action actor: Kensuke Ōwada
• Saburo Kato : The leader of the Black Tiger fighter squadron, Kato is a gifted though level-headed pilot, often putting his life on the line for his comrades. In the second season he is leader of the first squadron of the Cosmo Tigers, piloting a later model of fighter craft and stationed on the Moon; he and his men volunteer to join the Yamato under Kodai's command. He dies flying Kodai and Sanada back to the Yamato safely; however, this was covered up in Star Blazers, and indeed the original Japanese makers appeared to regret killing the character, as they later introduced his identical twin. In 2199, Kodai and Shima ran afoul of him when he punched them for stealing and crashing his personal Cosmo Zero. The beef between him and Kodai went as so far as warning Kodai that, even if he is his commanding officer, he will never forgive him if he sends any of his men to a needless death. Kato's disdain for Kodai slowly disappeared as Kodai gradually earned his respect throughout the course of the series. He is portrayed as the son of a priest, and he is sometimes heard chanting whenever he is aboard his plane or playing darts in their waiting room. He is also portrayed as a traditional guy, preferring that he and Makoto wear traditional clothing during their wedding.
• * Japanese voice actor: Akira Kamiya, Keaton Yamada, Yoshimasa Hosoya
• * American voice actor: Mike McFarland
• * Live-action actor: Kazuki Namioka
• Akira Yamamoto : One of the Black Tiger pilots, recognizable by the lock of hair covering his eyes, Yamamoto has only one appearance in the first season, in which his fighter is shot down just before the Yamato undergoes a major warp speed test. Almost left behind, he is waved into the hangar by Kodai, and is injured in a crash-landing. He has a more significant presence in the second season, as commander of the Cosmo Tigers' second squadron; his plane is also stolen by the space marine Saito, who towers over him. He is killed in the final attack on the Comet Empire when his plane is shot down and crashes. In 2199, Yamamoto is seen as a female fighter pilot with a brother who was KIA. Yamamoto has more appearances fighting alongside Kodai in a Cosmo Zero. In Star Blazers he was given a southern United States accent, and in his single first season appearance, he was mistakenly referred to as Conroy.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kazuyuki Sogabe, Rie Tanaka
• * American voice artist: Jeannie Tirado
• * Live-action actor: Takumi Saito
• Admiral Heikuro Todo : Mustached leader of the Earth Defense Force, who in the first season sends the Yamato on its voyage to Iscandar to save the world, and reports to it via long-distance communication. In the second season, he attempts to stop Kodai and the other crew from stealing the Yamato, but becomes convinced by their faith that he must let them go, as they are "Okita's children". His Japanese name is believed to come either from Tōdō Heisuke of the Shinsengumi, or Admiral Heihachiro Togo.
• * Japanese voice artist: Masatō Ibu, Shinji Ogawa
• * American voice artist: Bradley Campbell
• * Live-action actor: Isao Hashizume
• Cook Kaoru Shintani : Chief cook of the Yamato galley. He tells Captain Okita to get out of the kitchen in episode 10. Based on Leiji Matsumoto's assistant Kaoru Shintani who eventually became a manga artist and creator of Area 88. Matsumoto would more directly base another character on Shintani in the form of Yattaran from the Captain Harlock series.
• * Japanese voice artist: Akira Kimura
• Akira Nemoto : One of the Yamato's Commandos, he accompanies Kodai on the mission to destroy the Reflection Satellite Gun on Pluto. He is electrocuted when he steps into an electrified corridor. His death was covered up in Star Blazers, and his survival is further implied by an off-hand reference to "Lance" in a subsequent episode.
• Kazuhiko Sugiyama : Another commando on the mission to destroy the Reflection Satellite Gun on Pluto, he is shot by guards protecting the gun. His death was edited out of Star Blazers.
• Shigeru Hayashi : A member of the Navigation Group, he is seen on the 2nd Bridge during the coffee break in episode 15.

  Second season

• Captain Ryu Hijikata : A famous captain whose battle tactics are legendary, and is given command of the new super-battleship Andromeda. Kodai comes to his attention when the Yamato refuses to give way to the larger ship; initially dismissing the acting captain as an upstart, he is charged with preventing Kodai from stealing the Yamato, but the younger man's confidence inspires him to let him leave. Hijikata later leads the EDF's battle against the Comet Empire's fleet, and it is only his inspired thinking that defeats them. He is ultimately killed battling against the Comet Empire's space station, Gatlantis, when he rams the Andromeda into it in order to give the Yamato time to escape. Before he does so, he tells Kodai Gatlantis' weak point is its lower hemisphere. In the alternate version of the story presented in Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, Hijikata is the captain of a crippled spaceship at the edge of the Solar System who assumes command of the Yamato when rescued, but dies during the battle against the Comet Empire. He appears earlier in 2199 as Yuki Mori's guardian and a comrade of Captain Okita, who tried convincing him that he should go in his place, given his condition.
• * Japanese voice artist: Akira Kimura, Unshō Ishizuka
• *American voice actor: Bill Jenkins
• Kotetsu Serizawa : Staff officer at EDF HQ under the command of Heikuro Todo. He is enraged by the Yamato crew's insubordination and uses every tool at his disposal to stop the Yamato from leaving Earth for Telezart. This includes using magnetic missiles and the Battle Satellite.
• * Japanese voice artist: Mahito Tsumura
• Company Commander Hajime Saito : The commander of the Space Cavalry 1st Armored Division stationed on Planet 11, rescued by the Yamato after a fierce Comet Empire attack. Uncouth and belligerent, he and his men refuse to respect the crew of their new home and frequently get into fights, frustrated at their reduced role as "passengers". However, on the surface of planet Telezart, inside Desler's flagship and within the Comet Empire's own space station, Saito and his men prove their worth in ground combat. Saito is the last surviving member of the team, and sacrifices himself to detonate explosives in the Comet Empire's power centre. In the 2010 live-action film, Saito is briefly possessed by Desler, who uses his body to tell the Yamato crew of Garmilas' true motives of bombarding Earth. Saito wears a Hachiman amulet, as his mother believes it will shield him from physical harm. Ultimately, he is killed while covering for Sanada during the raid of Iscandar/Gamillas.
• * Japanese voice artist: Isao Sasaki
• * American voice artist: Chris Latta
• * Live-action actor: Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
• Hyōgo Tōdō : Second-in-Command of the Space Marines. He was likely killed inside the White Comet Gatlantis in the final battle.
• * Japanese voice artist: Toshihiko Kojima
• Jirō Tsurumi: Cosmo Tiger 3rd Squadron commander. Tsurumi got little screen time. His fate is unknown, but he was likely killed in the final battle with the Comet Empire with the other Cosmo Tigers.
• * Japanese voice artist: Shigeru Chiba
• Yasuhiko Yamada : Yamato's interrogator. He tortured Mazor in a futile attempt at extracting intelligence from him.
• * Japanese voice artist: Rokurō Naya
• Hyota Arakome : An extremely nerdy scientist cadet, addressed by all but Kodai—including his superior officer and senpai Sanada—as shinmai. Despite his clumsiness, he proves his worth as a scientist and engineer, and in one episode comes up with an idea to use the wave motion gun as propulsion to save the ship that even Sanada did not think of. He is killed in the final battle against the Comet Empire shortly after locating Gatlantis's power centre.
• * Japanese voice artist: Yūji Mitsuya

  ''Yamato: The New Voyage''

• Tasuke Tokugawa : Son of the late Chief Tokugawa, he is a cadet training to follow in his father's footsteps. He later becomes Yamazaki's assistant engineer aboard the Yamato and is the Chief Engineer in.
• * Japanese voice artist: Tōru Furuya
• Sho Yamazaki : Chief engineer aboard the Yamato from Yamato: The New Voyage until Final Yamato.
• * Japanese voice artist: Mikio Terashima
• Shigeru Sakamoto: An ace fighter pilot who joins the training mission. A born hot-dogger, his stunts earn him a slap in the face from acting captain Kodai. He is not seen again after The New Voyage, although he does appear in the PlayStation 2 games.
• * Japanese voice artist: Toshio Furukawa
• Tetsuya Kitano: A trainee navigator, he is put in charge of ship's weapons during a battle simulation, but when he panics and fires too soon, he nearly destroys the fighter squadron. He is later punished along with Sakamoto to run a lap in the ship with only underwear on. He is not seen again after The New Voyage, although he does appear in the PlayStation 2 games.
• * Japanese voice artist: Makio Inoue

  ''Be Forever, Yamato''

• Captain Osamu Yamanami: 2nd captain of the Yamato, and a former colleague of Okita and Hijikata.
• * Japanese voice artist: Osamu Kobayashi
• Shiro Kato : Cosmo Tiger pilot and younger brother of the late Saburo Kato. When he appears in the English translation of Space Battleship Yamato III, Saburo and Shiro, who look identical, are for all intents and purposes regarded as the same "Conroy" character since Saburo's death was edited out of the preceding Comet Empire series of Star Blazers.
• * Japanese voice actor: Akira Kamiya
• Sasha: Introduced as Sanada's niece Mio Sanada, she substitutes for Yuki aboard the Yamato. It emerges that she is actually the half-human daughter of Mamoru Kodai and Starsha, and like all Iscandarians has grown into the equivalent of a human teenager in the space of a year.
• * Japanese voice artist: Keiko Han

  Third season

• Ryusuke Domon : A new recruit assigned to the Kitchen. Originally resentful of his position, he quickly learns to accept it. A focal character in Series 3, he often becomes involved in missions outside of his kitchen duty.
• * Japanese voice artist: Hideyuki Tanaka
• Takeshi Ageha : A new member of the Cosmo Tigers. His father did not support his decision to become a pilot, but allowed him to remain with the Yamato at his wife's insistence.
• * Japanese voice artist: Toshio Furukawa
• Hajime Hirata : A veteran member of the Kitchen crew, he serves as a mentor to new recruit Domon. He is killed in the Yamato's first battle against the Galmans when the ship is infiltrated by enemy soldiers.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kazuyuki Sogabe
• Namio Sakamaki: Yamato 1st Cannon Gunner; very short.
• * Japanese voice artist: Shigeru Chiba
• Goro Raiden : A very tall, hulking member of the Navigation group.
• * Japanese voice artist: Shingo Kanemoto
• Heiji Bando : A new recruit assigned to the Science group.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kaneto Shiozawa
• Dairoku Akagi : Works in Engine Room. Former space trucker.
• * Japanese voice artist: Daiki Takayama
• Haruo Nishino : A 1st Cannon gunner. He is a friend of fellow gunner Sakamaki.
• * Japanese voice artist: Akira Murayama
• Tsutomu Makunouchi : A husky, bespectacled member of the Kitchen crew.
• * Japanese voice artist: Satoru Inagaki
• Akiko Todo : Granddaughter of Heikuro Todo and works as his secretary. Has a mutual attraction with Aihara.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kazuko Sugiyama

  ''[Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection]''

• Susumu Kodai: After retiring form the military, Kodai becomes the captain of a cargo vessel as a means of escaping Earth after the destruction of the original Yamato. When two Emigration Fleets are destroyed and his wife Yuki is presumed killed by an unknown new enemy, he takes command of the Third Emigration Fleet, and becomes captain of its lead ship, the newly rebuilt Yamato.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōichi Yamadera
• Yuki Mori: Years after the sinking of the Yamato on Aquarius, Yuki becomes the captain of an escort battleship with the First Emigration Fleet, presumed lost in action.
• * Japanese voice artist: Noriko Yume
• Miyuki Kodai: Daughter of Susumu Kodai and Yuki Mori. She is Dr. Sado's veterinary assistant, and has grown distant from her father due to his never being home, as well as his attachment to the Yamato.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ayumi Fujimura
• Shiro Sanada: In this movie, the former Science officer of the Yamato is now Secretary of Science for the Earth Federation. He especially wanted Kodai to lead the Third Emigration Fleet.
• * Japanese voice artist: Takeshi Aono
• Jiro Shima: Head of the Earth Federation's Migration Fleet.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ryōtarō Okiayu
• Dr. Sakezo Sado: Head of a Safari Park in Africa. Stays on Earth rather than joining the crew, and even stays behind when the Yamato sent a rescue craft to evacuate him and Miyuki.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ichirō Nagai
• Analyzer: Dr. Sado's assistant at the Safari Park.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ken'ichi Ogata
• Kosaku Ohmura: Executive officer, killed on a suicide mission aboard the auxiliary space battleship Shinano against the SUS mothership. He is one of Captain Kodai's crew aboard the freighter he captained.
• * Japanese voice artist: Chafurin
• Ryo Kamijo: Battle chief. He survived the SUS attack on the Blue Noah and was rescued by Captain Kodai's crew.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kentarō Itō
• Maho Orihara: Chief Navigator and in-charge of the Yamato's onboard computer. She is known as "The Child of the ECI."
• * Japanese voice artist: Ryōka Yuzuki
• Miharu Sasaki: She is the Yamato's doctor, but she prefers flying a Cosmo Pulsar.
• * Japanese voice artist: Fuyuka Ōura
• Jun Kobayashi: Chief Pilot. Hot-headed and at first, he came into conflict with a few personnel, notably Ryo. Spends most of his time trying to impress Miharu-sensei.
• * Japanese voice artist: Daisuke Namikawa
• Yoichi Sakurai: Radar Operator.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kenji Nojima
• Ryohei Nakanishi: Communications Officer.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kappei Yamaguchi
• Saburo Kinoshita: Science Officer.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōsuke Toriumi
• Minoru Goda: Chief Gunner.
• * Japanese voice artist: Akimitsu Takase
• Tasuke Tokugawa: Former Engineer of the Yamato, leaves his position as a commanding officer at the Earth Defense Force's Moonbase to become Chief Engineer of the Yamato. He is the son of the Yamato's first chief engineer, Hikozaemon Tokugawa, whom he briefly mentioned in the 2199 series.
• * Japanese voice artist: Tōru Furuya
• So Tenma: Engineering Maintenance.
• Sho Tenma: Engineering Maintenance.
• * These twins are also responsible for rebuilding the Yamato's engine room.
• * Japanese voice artist: Daisuke Sakaguchi

  ''[Space Battleship Yamato 2199]''

• Master Chief Petty Officer Isami Enomoto: Boatswain. He is revealed to be Susumu Kodai's naval academy trainor.
• * Japanese voice artist: Keiji Fujiwara
• * American voice artist: Bryan Massey
• Lieutenant Kaoru Niimi: Technology Department, Information Chief. She is also part of the faction that attempted to mutiny aboard the Yamato; however she was later pardoned after some time in the brig. Also, Mamoru Kodai broke up with her before heading for Pluto into battle.
• * Japanese voice artist: Aya Hisakawa
• * American voice artist: Mikaela Krantz
• Ensign Akira Yamamoto: Assigned to Accounting, but she desires to be a pilot to avenge her brother, a pilot who was KIA against the Garmilans. Because of this, she was, at first, at odds with the Garmilan pilot named Melda Ditz; but would later become good friends. She is a Marsinoid, a human born on the planet Mars.
• * Japanese voice artist: Rie Tanaka
• * American voice artist: Jeannie Tirado
• Makoto Harada: Civilian Health Officer, and is Saburo Kato's love interest.
• * Japanese voice artist: Rina Satō
• * American voice artist: Felecia Angelle
• Warrant Officer Yuria Misaki: Operations Specialist Cadet. Born with minor psychic abilities, she sensed something special in the Yamato's automatic navigation system. Drawn to investigating the central core, she allowed within her the consciousness of Yurisha Iscandar, whose body was being transported home in cold sleep due to Yurisha's comatose state as a result of a traffic accident on Earth. When necessary, Yurisha's personality dominates, then allows Yuria to resurface. The two personalities can be distinguished both by behavior and by hair style. Yuria wears her hear bound in twin pig-tails, Yurisha wears her hair loose. The association proves to be anywhere from useful to life-saving starting from episode 14. She is in charge of running the onboard radio station.
• * Japanese voice artist: Aya Uchida
• * American voice artist: Sarah Wiedenheft
• Second Lieutenant Hiroki Shinohara: Pilot of a Cosmo Falcon, he flies a captured Garmilas interceptor into the heart of the gathering at the base at Balun. He is a friend of Akira Yamamoto and names the captured interceptor "sword 3" in favor of Yamamoto's brother who was killed in action.
• * Japanese voice artist: Daisuke Hirakawa
• * American voice artist: Eric Vale
• Lieutenant J.G. Shinya Ito: Security Chief. He is actually the leader of the pro-Izumo faction that infiltrated and then mutinied aboard the Yamato in favor of staying on Beemela-4. Killed on the prison planet Leptapoda.
• * Japanese voice artist: Toshihiko Seki
• Warrant Officer Toru Hoshina: Security Officer. Working under orders from Director Todo, He alerted a few personnel aboard the Yamato of a few pro-Izumo faction members infiltrating the Yamato crew, and helped quell the mutiny. He becomes Yuria's love interest.
• * Japanese voice artist: Motoki Takagi
• * American voice artist: Justin Briner
• Petty Officer 1st Class Miki Saijo: Radar operator who occasionally fills in for Yuki Mori.
• * Japanese voice artist: Satomi Moriya
• Petty Officer 3rd Class Shinpei Iwata: Third Deck operator
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōki Harasawa
• Leading Seaman Kiyoshi Toyama: Third Deck operator
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōji Yusa
• Engineer Susumu Yamazaki: Assistant Engine Room Chief Engineer. He revealed to Daisuke Shima who really fired the first shot in the war between the humans and the Garmilans.
• * Japanese voice artist: Hiroshi Tsuchida
• * American voice artist: Robert McCollum

  Allies of humanity

• Starsha: Queen of the dying planet Iscandar, and one of its last survivors, Starsha reaches out to the endangered people of Earth in the first season, offering a device called Cosmo-Cleaner-D, which would cleanse the planet of deadly radiation. She sends her sister Sasha to the Solar System bearing this message, together with plans for a faster-than-light space drive. However, when the Yamato arrives, she confesses that she had actually possessed the means to send the device to Earth, but had wanted to test humanity's worthiness to survive, an action she regrets. Though willing to help Earth, she chooses to remain on her homeworld and face its ultimate fate with dignity. She has also rescued and healed Mamoru Kodai, who chooses to remain with her. In Yamato: The New Journey she sends her husband and child away from Iscandar before detonating the planet's doomsday bomb in order to defeat the plans of the Black Nebula and prevent Desler from sacrificing himself. Her spirit appears to her daughter in Be Forever, Yamato. She and Sasha are nearly identical in appearance to Yuki, though this is a coincidence. In 2199, she did not only give the Cosmo-Cleaner-D/Cosmo Reverse System, but also reworked the Yamato to be the device itself. It is also implied that before Mamoru Kodai died, they may have fallen in love with each other and left Starsha with a child. The character of Starsha does not appear in the 2010 live-action film, but Miyuki Ueda does the voice of the spiritual embodiment of Iscandar.
• * Japanese voice artist: Michiko Hirai, Miyuki Ueda, Kikuko Inoue
• * American voice artist: Lydia Leeds, Monica Rial
• Sasha : Starsha's identical sister, also of royal blood. Sasha travels to the Solar System to deliver Starsha's message to Earth, but her ship is shot down and crashes on Mars. After leaving her escape pod she suffocates in the Martian atmosphere before being found by Kodai and Shima. In 2199, the last active earth fleet distracted the Garmilans from noticing the arrival of her ship. Her ship encounters engine failure just before landing on Mars and, despite using an escape pod, she perished when Kodai and Shima found her.
• Yurisha: In the 2199 series, she is the second Iscandarian princess who went ahead of Sasha to deliver the blueprints for the Wave Motion Engine. She met an accident on Earth which involved Yuki Mori and became comatose. She was loaded onboard the Yamato in that state in a capsule as the core of the ship's Automatic Navigation System, as they need her memories as the humans even don't know where Iscandar is despite having maps supplied to them--a kept secret until Captain Okita revealed it to the crew. She possessed Yuria Misaki at first to manifest her presence and her consciousness until she awakens from her coma, and remained as an observer who reported to Queen Starsha later. She reveals to Yuki that the Yamato actually making it to Iscandar is a requirement for the Cosmo Reverse System to work. She stayed on Iscandar with Melda Ditz as her aide in helping the people of Garmilas. She considers Yuki as her "one-time other self," as they are nearly identical in looks.
• * Japanese voice artist: Houko Kuwashima
• * American voice artist: Mallorie Rodak
• Teresa : A telepathic young woman living on the planet Telezart in a hovering palace, who has mastered anti-matter and whose prayers generate a powerful energy. She watched her world, an interstellar hub, degenerate into all-out war, but prayed so fervently that she destroyed all life forms. When the Comet Empire threatens our Galaxy, she sends messages to Earth attempting to warn them of the danger, bringing the Yamato to her world; during the Earth ship's journey she falls in love with Shima over radio. However, though she refuses to leave her world and become a part of Earth, her love for Shima overcomes her pacifism and she uses her psionic power to transform Telezart into pure energy and detonates it directly in the path of the Comet Empire in an attempt to destroy it. While the Comet Empire's plasma shield keeps them from being destroyed, Teresa's efforts blow it off its flight path and causes it heavy damage, enabling the Yamato to arrive in the Milky Way ahead of it. She survives in her spacecraft and travels to the Solar System, where she discovers Shima's corpse floating in space and resuscitates him using her own blood. With her last remaining power, she then destroys Zwordar's dreadnaught and saves Earth from destruction. What becomes of her after this is unclear. While some fans believe Teresa sacrificed her life to destroy Zwordar, others believe she is still alive somewhere in the universe, given that she easily survived the destruction of Telezart. In the alternate version of the story told in the movie Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, Teresa plays a similar role, but she is composed entirely of anti-matter, and does not fall in love with Shima. Moreover, at the end of the movie she does not destroy Zwordar's ship, but instead her spirit urges Kodai to do so using the Yamato.
• * Japanese voice artist: Mari Okamoto,
• * American voice artist: Lydia Leeds
• Princess Luda
• * Japanese voice artist: Keiko Han
• * American voice artist: Corinne Orr
• Lord Desler: See below.

  Garmilas

• Leader Desler : Leader of the militant people of the dying planet Garmilas, Desler intends to wipe out the human "barbarians" and migrate his people to Earth. Initially contemptuous of humanity and its struggles to survive, he comes to respect the Yamato as it surpasses endless trials on its journey to Iscandar. He even attempts to use his dying, volcanically active planet as a weapon against the Earth ship, but the ensuing battle results in the near-total destruction of his civilization, and he swears revenge. Apparently killed at the end of the first season when his own Desler cannon backfires and destroys his flagship, he re-emerges in the second season having been resuscitated by the advanced medicine of the Comet Empire. Emperor Zordar grants him the chance to destroy the Yamato, but ultimately he comes to realize that his desire for revenge has made him no better than the Comet Empire, who live solely for conquest; it is Yuki's attempt to protect a wounded Kodai that convinces him that humans are capable of the same love he feels for his people, and he withdraws from battle, aiming to rebuild his civilization. Before departing, in the Comet Empire series, he shares an important detail about a potential weakness in the White Comet fortress.
• Vice Leader Hiss/General Hiss : Desler's toadying right-hand man, Hiss tries his best to please his leader, apologizing for every embarrassing mistake and passing his anger on to his underlings. However, during the climactic battle on Garmilas he implores Desler to make peace with the humans, earning him a bullet in the chest. In the first ten episodes, Hiss has the title of Vice Leader. With episode eleven, his title changes to General.
• * Japanese voice artist: Keisuke Yamashita, Yousuke Akimoto
• * American voice artist: Ray Gestaut
• Commanders Shultz and Ganz : The leaders of the Garmilans' frontline base on Pluto, Valke Shultz and Gelf Gantz are among the first to encounter the dangerous new Earth ship Yamato. However, even armed with a powerful weapon, the Reflection Satellite Cannon, the bumbling duo are unable to stop the Earth ship and are forced to abandon their base. Recognizing that they can never return home in disgrace, Shultz orders the entire fleet to launch an all-out attack on the Yamato, but they are destroyed; Shultz's command ship attempts a kamikaze run before being deflected into an asteroid.
• * Japanese voice artists: Takeshi Obayashi and Kenichi Ogata ; Yu Shimaka and Chō
• * American voice artists: Mark Stoddard and Tyson Rinehart
• General Talan : One of Desler's most loyal generals, Talan appears only twice in the first season; however, in the second season he has a more significant presence, as commander of the scattered remnants of the Garmilan empire. He is more level-headed than his leader and is able to convince Desler to abandon his flagship when all is lost. He is also an extremely skillful pilot, rescuing Desler from the Comet Empire's pursuing ships. He was mistakenly renamed "Sgt. Masterson" in season 3 of Star Blazers.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōji Yada, Yutaka Aoyama
• * American voice artist: Chuck Huber
• General Domel : A famed general with many victories under his belt, and a powerful physique to match his ego, Domel is put in charge of the campaign against Earth and offers to destroy the Yamato in his leader's name. However, despite using both outright force and psychological warfare, he too is defeated in battle time and again, culminating in a scheme to destroy the Earth ship on planet Balun which succeeds only in the destruction of the Garmilan base there. Offered one last battle for honor, he challenges the Yamato to meet him at the Rainbow Cluster; so meticulous is his planning that he very nearly succeeds, and it is only quick thinking on the part of the Yamato crew that destroys his fleet. He then attaches his command ship to the underside of the Yamato and self-destructs in a vain attempt to complete his mission. He is credited with the invention of a device called the Instant Matter Transporter, capable of teleporting whole battle fleets into the vicinity of an enemy vessel, which is used later by Desler himself.
• * Japanese voice artist: Osamu Kobayashi, Akio Ohtsuka
• * American voice artist: J. Michael Tatum
• Göru : Garemund Goer is one-time commander of the Garmilans' waypoint base on planet Balun, he reacts to his replacement by Domel angrily, getting drunk and trashing his decadently decorated room. Desperate to prove himself to Desler, he attempts to fight the Yamato on his own terms, but is defeated resoundingly; he also informs Desler of Domel's plan to sacrifice the base in an attempt to destroy the Yamato, leading to a critical delay which enables the Earth ship to escape. However, he comes to admire Domel's loyalty to the Garmilan cause, and assists him in his battle for honor. In 2199, he served under General Herm Zoellick, and then under General Domel; and is once the superior to everyone in Pluto Base. He himself killed General Zoellick upon knowing that he plotted to assassinate Desler. He and his fleet was destroyed by Captain Flakken's dimensional submarine as he tried lure the Yamato into the hyperspace gate.
• * Japanese voice artist: Osamu Saka, Masashi Hirose
• * American voice artist: Mike Czechopoulos, Barry Yandell
• Captains Getto, Berger, Kreuz and Heidern: Captains who serve under Domel in the battle at the Rainbow Cluster, having earned great acclaim at, respectively, the Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond and Omega war fronts. The first three command space carriers and their respective fighter, dive-bomber, and torpedo plane air groups, while the last commands a battle carrier launching a single heavy bomber which carries a drill missile designed by Domel. All four captains fly into battle themselves alongside their men, though Kreuz is not shown.
• * Japanese voice artists: Kōji Yada, Takeshi Aono, Ichirō Nagai, Isao Sakuma
• Vandevere : Commander of a Garmillan battle carrier in season 2, he sends a fleet of dive-bombers to attack the Yamato when it is paralyzed by a swarm of corrosive bacteria. However, before he can destroy the Earth ship, his own vessel is similarly rendered powerless, and he is forced to retreat in disgrace. His humiliation earns him a bullet from Deslar.
• * Japanese voice artist: Hidekatsu Shibata
• Generals Barreled Action, Sea Frage, Das Lugens, Meiser Nomdrum: Deslar's remaining generals in Season 2.
• * Japanese voice artists: Eken Mine, Yoshito Yasuhara, Kazuo Hayashi, Kenichi Ogata

  Galman Empire

• Geidel : Eastern District Army Commander.
• Dagon : A very skilled Galman fleet commander.
• Histenberger
• Keeling : Imperial Army Chief of Staff.
• Fraken . The Galman Empire's top submarine commander, nicknamed "The Galman Wolf". He appears earlier in 2199 as a redesigned character.
• Helmeyer
• Gustav
• Frauski : Technology Major Cranshaw is one of the more likable Galmans. He is scholarly and reserved. He is commissioned by Desler to find a way to restore the normal conditions of Earth's Sun. Failing in this, he cannot return to Desler honorably, and so crashes his ship into the Sun.
• Heigel
• Gehlen

  ''[Space Battleship Yamato 2199]''

• Abelt Desler
• * Voice actors: Kouichi Yamadera, Chris Rager
• Miezela Cerestella: Last survivor of the Jirel race, and Desler's minister of propaganda. She is fiercely loyal to him, but he accidentally killed her when he infiltrated the Yamato.
• * Voice actor: Minori Chihara
• Melda Ditz: A Garmilas fighter pilot who is held in custody aboard the Yamato for a short time; to the crew's dismay, she reveals that Earth drew first blood in the conflict. After a period of animosity, she befriends Akira Yamamoto. She is later released and returns to the homeworld to take part in an uprising. She later becomes a liaison for the rebel Garmilan forces aboard the Yamato until she stayed on Iscandar to help Princess Yurisha with the Garmilans.
• * Voice actors: Shizuka Itou, Katelyn Barr
• Elk Domel: In this series, he is depicted just like in the original, but he is much more serious and was realistically close to defeating the Yamato. However, despite openly avoiding it, he is eventually dragged into Garmilan politics when, just as he's about to finish the Yamato, he lets them go because he and his fleet were recalled to their homeworld so that he could stand trial for the attempted assassination of Desler. He is also depicted in the series as a soldier who praises his opponents, and just as tenacious as Captain Okita.
• * Voice actors: Akio Otsuka, J. Michael Tatum
• Elsa Domel: In the series, Elk is married to her, who is part of an anti-government group and got herself incarcerated on a prison planet, only to join Admiral Ditz's rebel forces later.
• * Voice actors: Chiaki Takahashi, Kate Oxley
• Wolf Flakken: Captain of the extra-dimensional submarine UX-01. A skilled hunter and a loose cannon, he stalks the Yamato extensively even after it detects and damages his ship. He is even considered by his peers as an uncontrollable captain loyal only to Desler. He joined the rebels when Desler was presumed dead when Second Baleras was destroyed.
• * Voice actors: Nakata Jouji, David Wald
• Herm Zoellick: Loudmouthed Inspector-General of the Garmilas Central Army, who plotted to assassinate Desler and take control of the Empire. An enraged General Goer shot him in the back.
• * Voice actors: Norio Wakamoto, Jim Johnson
• Saleluya Lareta: Commander of the Garmilas base on the floating continent above Jupiter; dies when the Yamato destroys the continent during a test of the Wave Motion Gun.
• * Voice actor: Hiro Yuuki
• Valus Lang: The commander of a Garmilas ship that was lost in the fourth dimension. His ship was destroyed by General Goer.
• * Voice actor: Tooru Ookawa
• Paren Nerge: An Imperial Guard officer who is posted to Valus Lang's ship. He tried to interfere with the rescue mission involving the Yamato, causing momentary confusion and even led Melda and Akira into a scuffle. He was killed before he could proceed any further.
• * Voice actor: Takashi Onozuka
• Redof Hiss: Otherwise Desler's accommodating right-hand, he was outraged by his actions when Desler tried to sacrifice the people of its capital by plunging part of his orbiting "new capital" in an effort to destroy the Yamato. He eventually ordered a stop to all Garmilan resistance against the Yamato when Desler was presumed dead.
• * Voice actors: Yousuke Akimoto, Ray Gestaut
• Hilde Shultz: Brigadier Valke Shultz's daughter. A second-class Garmilan, she ends up as a servant girl in Desler's palace.
• * Voice Actor: Ayano Miura
• Valke Shultz: Commander of the Pluto Forward Base that sends the planet bombs. He is portrayed in the series as a more competent commander who actually nearly defeated the Yamato, though he and the rest of his Zaltzi crew are also preoccupied with their place in Garmilan society, to a point that they bypassed regular channels just to report their "victory" to Desler. He and his remaining crew were killed trying to pursue the Yamato out of revenge.
• * Voice actors: Yu Shimaka, Mark Stoddard
• Gelf Ganz: Shultz's assistant.
• * Voice actors: Chō, Tyson Rinehart
• Wol Jarletora: Another of Shultz's men who was with Shultz since his days under General Domel's command. He covered Shultz's retreat after the destruction of Pluto Base, only for him to be killed after the Yamato destroyed his ship.
• * Voice actors: Daisuke Egawa, Hunter Scott
• Ghader Talan: Vice Chief of General Staff and brother of Velte Talan, the head of weapons research.
• * Voice actors: Koutarou Nakamura, Brad Jackson
• Mirenel Linke: Along with Cerestella, a survivor of the telepathic Jirels until her consciousness is destroyed in an attempt to stop the Yamato.
• * Voice actor: Akemi Okamura
• Liber Droppe
• * Voice actor: Akira Harada
• Hydom Gimleh: Information officer of the Imperial Guard. He is just as ruthless in implementing Desler's policies, ranging from sending dissidents to prison planets to wiping out a rebelling civilization.
• * Voice actors: Junpei Morita, John Gremillion
• Gul Ditz: Supreme Commander of Astrofleets, and Melda's father. He is incarcerated on Leptapoda for being a co-accused in the attempted assassination of Desler, only to be freed by his daughter Melda and eventually becoming the leader of the Garmilan rebels and taking over the prison planet.
• * Voice actors: Katsunosuke Hori, Ben Bryant
• Garemund Goer: A loudmouthed yet seemingly cowardly Garmillan general who is fond of Garmilan politicking and trying to impress Desler. He is the commander of the Milky Way Theater of Operations until General Domel replaced him for failing to stop the Yamato. Despite his behavior, he is still a capable commander and soldier, even shooting General Zoellick upon knowing of his treachery. He was killed when, while on a mission to lure the Yamato into the hyperspace corridor, General Flakken's submarine sunk his and his fleet's ships.
• * Voice actors: Masashi Hirose, Barry Yandell
• Norran Ortschett: A Zaltzi in charge of escorting Yuki while under the custody of the Garmilans. He develops a crush on her.
• * Voice actors: Tetsuya Kakihara, Justin Pate

  White Comet Empire Gatlantis

• Emperor Zwordar the Great : Zwordar V of Gatlantis the undisputed leader of the Comet Empire, Zwordar's sole aim in life is to conquer and subjugate the Universe. To this aim, he travels space in an enormous city-planet, Gatlantis, surrounded by a powerful plasma shield which resembles a gigantic comet, capable of annihilating planets in its path, and launching fleets of warships to conquer any useful worlds—or destroy them if they resist. Having subjugated the entire Andromeda Galaxy, his next target is Earth. Frustrated time and again by the incompetence of his minions—and interference from the mysterious Teresa of Telezart—he takes matters into his own hands at the end of the second season, launching a massive dreadnaught from the shattered remains of Gatlantis with the intent of destroying all life on Earth. His Japanese name is based on the word "sword".
• * Japanese voice artist: Osamu Kobayashi
• * Italian Voice Artist: Ivano Staccioli
• Lady Sabera : Zwordar's mistress, though unlike other citizens of the Comet Empire she has pink skin. She has great ambition and is jealous of the favor Desler has in Zwordar's eyes; In which she works on plotting against him and Zwordar to keep her place in the Empire. It is her treachery that ruins the Gamilon leader's plan to destroy the Yamato and the main reason the Comet Empire falls. In turn the Emperor never forgives his mistress:
• in the Japanese version Zwordar leaves her behind in the destruction with Goenitz and Razela, while in the English version he only threatens to leave them behind.
• * Japanese voice artists: Noriko Ohara
• * American voice artist: Morgan Lofting, Melanie McQueen
• Goenitz and Razela : Members of Zwordar's court and co-conspirators with Sabera to destroy Desler's reputation, a plan which earns their Emperor's anger. When their plans enable the Yamato crew to cripple Gatlantis, Zwordar abandons them to destruction aboard the doomed space station.
• * Japanese voice artists: Ichiro Murakoshi and Kazuyuki Sogabe
• Miru : A political commissar placed aboard Desler's flagship, he reports to Sabera and her conspirators.
• * Japanese voice artist: Osamu Ichikawa
• Admiral Cosmodart Nazca : Young leader of the Comet Empire's vanguard force to conquer the Solar System; initially scornful of the aging Earth ship Yamato, when defeated he begs Desler for help, only to be turned away. Likely named after the Nazca Lines.
• * Japanese voice artist: Hiroya Ishimaru
• Admiral Goland : Sadistic leader of the Comet Empire's missile fleet and famous hunter of dinosaurs. Despite being placed under Desler's command at Telezart, he violates orders and engages the Yamato head-on, but his arrogance leaves him at the mercy of the Earth ship's wave motion gun.
• * Japanese voice artist: Shōzō Iizuka
• General Zurvival : Scar-faced commander of a tank contingent stationed on planet Telezart to meet the Yamato, he faces Saito's space marines in intense ground combat. Fighting to the last man, he is killed in a pistol fight with Saito himself. His Japanese name is based on the word "survival".
• * Japanese voice artist: Kosei Tomita
• Mazor: A pilot captured by the Yamato, he refuses to answer questions—even under torture—but loosens up when Dr. Sado introduces him to sake. However, it is but a ruse to enable him to escape and return to his fleet, but they spurn him as a former captive. Such is his loyalty to the Comet Empire that he makes a kamikaze run into the Yamato, killing himself, rather than join the Earth crew.
• * Japanese voice artist: Ikuo Nishikawa
• Destar: A sub-commander in Goland's missile fleet, he refuses to allow the former captive Mazor to return and orders him to his death. This provokes a deadly attack from the Yamato which destroys him and his ships.
• * Japanese voice artist: Masaru Ikeda
• Gern : Commander of the Comet Empire's carrier fleet. In the final assault on the Solar System he is stationed too far away from Valsey's battle fleet and is caught unawares by a full-scale attack by Earth fighter-bomber squadrons; unable to devise a strategy to resist the assault, he commits suicide in shame shortly before his ship explodes.
• Admiral Valsey : In charge of the Comet Empire's main warfleet, stationed at Procyon and Sirius and thus missed by the Yamato during its journey to planet Telezart. As Gatlantis approaches our Galaxy, Valsey's fleet begins its advance on the Solar System, routing Earth's defences and very nearly driving home the invasion thanks to the main weapon of Valsey's flagship, the Flame Direct-Hit Gun, a wave motion gun which fires into a teleportation field. However, Hijikata leads them into the rings of Saturn, where the weapon proves to be a liability, and Valsey and his fleet are destroyed.
• * Japanese voice artist: Chikao Ohtsuka

  Dark Star Cluster Empire

• Deider: commander of the flagship Pleiades. When the Gamillas fleet attacks the Black Nebula forces mining their homeworld and cause the planet's destruction, Deider in turn attacks them and pins them down in the seas of Iscandar. When the Yamato attacks, he attempts to position his ship between the Earth vessel and Iscandar to discourage use of the Wave Motion Gun, but is destroyed when Iscandar moves to safety due to volcanic eruptions.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōsei Tomita
• Mölders: Supreme commander of the Black Nebula Empire's forces in the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading from his massive space fortress, the Autostar Goruba, which fights off both the Yamato and Desler's fleet.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kōji Nakata
• 2nd Lt. Alphon: An intelligence and technology officer in the Dark Star Cluster Empire's invasion of Earth, he gains his own quarters on the conquered planet, and saves the life of a wounded Yuki, with whom he falls in love. When she proves unable to return his affections, he releases her to join a human resistance movement, and vows that if she defeats him next time they meet, he will help her to stop the invasion. In fact he is mortally wounded by another soldier, but he dies in Yuki's arms, confessing to her that life has been empty and meaningless for his people since their conversion to bionics.
• * Japanese voice artist: Nachi Nozawa
• Great Emperor Skulldart: Leader of the Dark Star Cluster Empire.
• * Japanese voice artist: Tōru Ōhira, Banjō Ginga
• Sada
• * Japanese voice artist: Yumi Nakatani
• Kazan
• * Japanese voice artist: Mugihito
• Commodore Grotus: Commander of the Gorba fleet.
• * Japanese voice artist: Banjō Ginga

  Bolar Federation

• Bemlayzé : Prime Minister of the Bolar Federation.
• Gorsakov
• Balcom
• Harkins
• Governor-General Borroughs
• Levars
• Ram

  Dingirians

• Lugal: Supreme leader of the Dingirians, he escapes his drowning homeworld aboard the enormous space station Uruk. He is impassive when told his wife and younger son perished, believing that only the strong should survive, and decides that Earth should become the new home of his people, planning to use Aquarius to flood it. Spurning the very idea of "charity", he sets about exterminating the human race, ensuring it cannot even leave Earth before flooding. He kills his own elder son when the latter fails to destroy the Yamato, shows no concern when he accidentally shoots his younger son, and self-destructs Uruk—killing all living within its city—when its purpose has been served. He is also seen to ride into battle alongside his troops. The word Lugal is Sumerian for "king".
• * Japanese voice artist: Taro Ishida
• Lugal de Zahl: Elder son of the Dingirian leader, a young military commander who shows no mercy to his enemies, and has no qualms about firing on unarmed civilian transports, or even rescue ships tending to the wounded. However, when defeated by the Yamato he is humiliated before his father, and becomes ever more determined to destroy the Earth ship, but when the rest of his fleet is destroyed, he turns tail and flees the battlefield, only to crash into the Neutrino Beam Shield of Uruk.
• * Japanese voice artist: Masane Tsukayama
• Dingir Boy: The younger son of the Dingirian leader, and the only survivor of the drowned homeworld rescued by the Yamato crew. He stows away aboard the Earth ship when it sets off to fight deZahl's fleet, hoping to learn more about humanity. He learns the alien concept of self-sacrifice when he sees another warship take a deadly missile hit for the Yamato; he is so impressed that he jumps in front of Kodai and is shot by his own father. His real name is never given and is just called Bōya.
• * Japanese voice artist: Kazue Ikura

  Great Urup United Star Systems

SUS

• Admiral Metzler: Metzler is at the head of the SUS, which is technically the leader of the Interstellar Alliance. He systematically deceived all members of the Interstellar Alliance into thinking the Earth is into invading their territories. One member sees through his deception, and, with help from members, the Yamato found a way to defeat the SUS. He later appears to the crew of Yamato as an interdimensional being responsible for the black hole that threatened Earth.
• Admiral Barthman''': Metzler's second-in-command.
• * Voice actor: Shōzō Iizuka

  Amarl

• Queen Iliya: Queen Iliya is the reigning monarch of the planet Amarl, the planet that gave the fleeing citizens of Earth refuge. They were caught in double jeopardy since they are a member of the Interstellar Alliance, but only because of the protection the Interstellar Alliance offers in exchange for resources only available on their planet. Inspired by the Yamato, they declared themselves independent, triggering a war against the SUS-led Interstellar Alliance.
• * Voice actor: Atsuko Tanaka
• Admiral Pascal: Admiral Pascal is the leader of Amarl's space naval forces. After advising Captain Kodai and the Yamato to leave in order to avoid angering the Interstellar Alliance under the SUS, he was inspired to support Queen Iliya and the Yamato in open revolt against them.
• * Voice actor: Kazuhiko Inoue

  Etos

• Admiral Gorui: Admiral Gorui is the leader of the space naval forces of the planet Ethos, a member-planet of the Interstellar Alliance. Seeing the senseless massacre of the First and Second Earth Emigration Fleets on orders of the SUS, he began to doubt the motives of Metzler. His suspicions are confirmed during his first encounter with Captain Kodai and the Yamato, and, despite threats of wiping out the entire planet Ethos, helped them and the kingdom of the planet Amarl in open revolt against the SUS. He used his flagship in a kamikaze attack on Metzler's own flagship in an attempt to kill him.
• * Voice actor: Masatō Ibu
• Seagull Captain: He is captain of Gorui's flagship.
• * Voice actor: Takehito Koyasu