Space Battleship Yamato Movie - Recommendations

• Vol: 9+; Ch: 52+
• 2012 - ?

In the year 2199, unrelenting attacks from the planet Gamilus have forced all life on Earth into underground dwellings and raised radiation levels to near-toxic levels. The only way to clean up all this harmful radiation is by using the Cosmo Cleaner, which the Queen of the planet Iscandar has generously offered to humanity. Unfortunately, Iscandar is 148,000 light years away, but Earth only has one year before rising radiation levels make it uninhabitable! The only vessel capable of making the journey is the Yamato - a spaceship equipped with advanced technology and modeled after the famous WWII battleship. Can the crew of the Yamato make it to Iscandar and back before the extinction of all life on Earth?

• Vol: 8; Ch: 58
• 1990 - 2002

A sci-fi retelling of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungen", starring Captain Harlock.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 21
• 1978

In order to become a stronger person, a young boy named Hiroshi stows away on a freighter bound for planet Daibaran. The freighter comes under fire from an Afressian fleet, but is saved by the appearance of a mysterious spaceship. Upon reaching his destination, Hiroshi finds a job in one of the roughest saloons on the planet in order to toughen up, but ends up in an unfair fight when the Afressians begin to search for the one who attacked them. He is eventually rescued by a cloaked woman, who reveals herself to be Emeraldas, captain of the mysterious ship that saved him before. Stung by two defeats, the Afressian leader Bararuda decides that there is only room for one queen in space... but can a single ship piloted by one woman stand against the fury of a whole empire?

• Vol: 28+; Ch: 210+
• 2015 - ?

This manga tells the story of a distant future within the Milky Way Galaxy, where the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance are constantly at war. The story begins with the young Reinhard von Müsel, a boy in the Galactic Empire that lives with his drunk father and his beautiful sister Annerose. He becomes close friends with the boy next door, Sigfried. After his sister is taken to become the Kaiser's concubine, young Reinhard is determined to take down the Empire in order to rescue her. He and his loyal friend Sigfried join the military academy together as the first step in Reinhard's plan. 

• Vol: 5; Ch: 34
• 1980 - 1983

The planet Lar Metal exists in a state of near-perpetual winter, but every thousand years, it approaches Earth’s orbit and enjoys a fleeting spring. During this short time near Earth, a Millennia Queen is sent over, to rule over mankind in secrecy until her Lar Metalian successor arrives, one millennium later. This exchange has gone on smoothly since the beginning of time, but in the year 1999, the last year of Prometheum’s reign as Queen Millennia, something goes amiss. Lar Metal’s orbit has shifted, setting it on a collision course with Earth. As the distance between the two planets closes and natural disasters ravage Earth’s surface, is there any way for Prometheum to save the planet and people she loves?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 1998 - 1999

• Vol: 4; Ch: 35
• 1986 - 1989

• Vol: 9
• 1989 - 1991

• Vol: 10; Ch: 94
• 1982 - 1987

The “golden brat” Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the empire’s enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute—yet benevolent—dictator. His rival, the humble Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance, wishes to preserve democracy even if he must sacrifice his political ideals to defeat the empire. Their political and military battles play out over a galactic chessboard in an epic saga fifteen centuries in the making!

• Vol: 1
• 2018