Editing Space Battleship Yamato (section)

===''New Space Battleship Yamato'' (2004, cancelled)===
In March 2002, a Tokyo court ruled that Yoshinobu Nishizaki legally owned the ''Yamato'' copyrights. Nishizaki and Matsumoto eventually settled,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Schilling|first=Mark|title='Space Battleship Yamato'|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2010/11/26/films/film-reviews/space-battleship-yamato/|website=Japan Times|date=26 November 2010|access-date=25 October 2020|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211142/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2010/11/26/films/film-reviews/space-battleship-yamato/|url-status=live}}</ref> and Nishizaki pushed ahead with developing a new Yamato television series. Project proposals for a 26-episode television series were drawn up in early 2004, but no further work was done with Tohoku Shinsha not backing the project. American series expert Tim Eldred was able to secure a complete package of art, mecha designs, and story outline at an auction over Japanese store Mandarake in April 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/869/ |title=New Yamato Proposal Plan |date=7 June 2013 |publisher=Ourstarblazers.com |access-date=12 May 2016 |archive-date=4 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404161517/http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/869/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Set 20 years after ''Final Yamato'', the series would have shown Susumu Kodai leading a salvage operation for the remains of the ''Yamato''. The ship is rebuilt as the Earth Defense Force builds a second Space Battleship Yamato to combat the Balbard Empire, an alien race that has erected a massive honeycombed cage called Ru Sak Gar over Earth, in a bid to stop the human race's spacefaring efforts. A feature film to be released after the series ended would have featured the original space battleship fighting the Balbards' attempt to launch a black hole at Earth. Kodai, Yuki, and Sanada are the only original series characters who would have returned in the series.