Yukodai

Yukodai is the het ship between Yuki Mori and Susumu Kodai from the Space Battleship Yamato fandom.

Original series (1974-2009)
Susumu Kodai and Yuki Mori meet shortly before boarding the space battleship Yamato. Kodai is walking down the hall of a hospital, along with his best friend Daisuke Shima. They'd just returned from mars after finding a dead Iscandarian princess, Sasha, with a wave motion core and message to go to Iscandar to get the Cosmo Cleaner D, a device to save the Earth from the radio active planet bombs. Kodai and Shima pass by Yuki in the hall and stop for a second to look at her, shocked at how much she looks like Sasha. Yuki passes by them and they ask Dr. Sado who she was. Later Kodai is upset after finding out about the death of his brother, Mamoru Kodai. Yuki asks Shima is hes alright and if she can get him anything, Shima informs Yuki of what had happened to his brother. They soon find out about the Yamato and they take many people from around the world to go on the long journey to the Large Magellanic Cloud, to Iscandar.

The Quest for Iscandar
Starting in the year 2199, Yuki and Kodai seem to get along as great friends at the start of their voyage to Iscandar together. Yuki is the head of Radar and Analysis and also a Nurse. In episode 12, they pass near the star Alpha orionis, more known as Betelguese, Kodai finds Yuki looking out a window to the star. He asks what shes doing and she tells him shes praying to it. He thinks thats unscientific and says "girls are weird." She laughs and before they can really talk any more the Yamato is shaken and they both fall to the ground, and have to get back to work. They end up having to go so close to the star itself to avoid the Corona, a trype of gas that the more it gets shot the bigger it gets, and it could suck up the Yamato. Theres a huge flair and they use the Wave Motion gun to go though it. Ends up working out in the end and Yuki is Back to her praying. Kodai finds her once again and asks why shes wishing again, even after what the star had put them through. She says that its alright because her wish will find another good star to make it come true. Kodai asks her what shes wishing so hard for? She tels him its a secret, like before. Kodai tries to get her to tell him and she finally says; "I wished for a certain person to fall in love with me" Kodai laughs at the silly with but stops and asks who exactly what person is? She tells him thats definetly a secret and runs away laughing as Kodai chases after.

In another part of the voyage Kodai is in the suntanning room atlking with Saburo Kato and Analyzer. He comments on how human Analyzer is. Analyzer being the perv he is, talks about how much he is in love with Yuki and wants to marry her. Kodai seems to be a little annoyed by that. Jealous of the robot. Yuki has to go down to planet Beemela to search for food or life forms, along with Analyzer. The people of Beemela are working with the Gamilas against their will. The Queen is forcing them to. The bee people mistaken Yuki and Analyzer for Gamilas, and threaten to kill them in front of their queen as revenge for making them work and die. Luckily Kodai and the Black Tigers are there to the rescue and Yuki runs into his arms not thinking twice about it.

Throughout the rest of the voyage to Iscandar they have many interactions, a memorable one being when they decide to take a picture of them both as a memory for when they got to the Magellanic Cloud. Kodai goes to put his arm around her but as soon as the camera snaps the shot, she slaps his hand away from her. He tells her that it hurt but she says not to be such a baby, and that it will be good memories. She says that children can laugh about mom and dads youth. She then leaves Kodai confused about what she meant. When they get to Iscandar, Kodai finds out his brother is alive, and has been on Iscandar with Starsha this whole time. Mamoru ends up staying with Starsha on Iscandar instead of going home to Earth with the Yamato. Starsha confesses her love to him before he leaves, and he races after her and stays. They leave Iscandar, and just when they thought they were safe from the gamilas, they warp straight to the Yamato and board it, filling it with radioactive gas. Yuki, worried that Kodai is in danger, rushes to the Cosmo Cleaner D to use it to clear away the radioactivity. Sanada tries to stop her, saying it hasn't been tested yet. She convinces him to let her use it and just as she activates it and saves the ship, she had taken in the gas and fell unconscious. Falling down the stairs and to the ground. Kodai runs in to see Sanada in the hall, he asks if everyone is alright to which Sanada replies; "Kodai...Yuki died." Kodai runs up to her "lifeless" body and screams her name, crying and holds her tight. As they get closer to Earth, he takes her body and carries to to the main bridge. He tells her how much he'd fallen in love with her, and that he was going to tell her how much he loved her when they returned to Earth. He cries and brings her into the first bridge. He sits her down on his seat and points to Earth and says thats where they're going to live happy together. He picks her back up, to take her to Dr. Sado, then feels her move. He stops and sees Yuki opening her eyes. He puts her down and hugs her tight before picking her up again and spinning around "She's alive!" HE puts her back down again and she lays her head on his shoulder, looking at Earth. It is now

The Comet Empire
In the year 2200, The second season of the series starts off with Kodai now as acting Captain of the Yamato, doing a space check. He comes home to Earth with Yuki eager to see him. She runs towards him at the airport and they spin around a few times and then Yuki walks with him, holding his arm tightly. She notices a small injury so she takes him to the hospital. Sado says that his injury isn't a big deal and they shouldn't have come to the hospital for something this small, Analyzer says that it was just Yuki wanting to spend more time with Kodai. They go eat out together at a restaurant, and talk about how amazing it is how they can finally be on the surface again. Yuki said she never thought she'd ever be here, eating out with him like this. They're later in the car together and Yuki notices something isn't right with Kodai, they go down to the old underground city from before they went to Iscandar. She leaves him for a second, saying she'll be right back. She goes off to cry. She knows hes going to leave, because he knows theres danger.

He doesn't tell Yuki that hes getting the Yamato crew back together. She just knows, also partly because of Sado. She begs him to let her go, and he finally gives in. The Yamato takes off and shortly after the old Black Tigers arrive, everyone is in the cafeteria having lunch or dinner. Kodai runs off, chasing Mi-kun the cat. He stops when he sees Yuki pick up the cat and run off, he chases after her and asks her why shes here. She says she is a part of Yamatos crew, so she should be there too. He tells her that shes a fool, and should have stayed on Earth, he wanted her safe because he couldn't fear to lose her, but tells her to put on her uniform and get ready. He softly says her name and she runs into his arms as he embraces her.

Yuki throughout the Gatlantis war is always worried about Kodai. After Shima returns from Telezart, leaving his love Teresa, he tells Yuki that she and Kodai should get married soon, because they don't know how much longer they have. Referring to the fact that he'd lost Teresa. Which then switches to a scene of Kodai and Yuki. Yuki asks if they will make it back to Earth, and once again, he hugs her.

When its bearing the end of the season, things get more intense with everything. Kodai has an injured shoulder and looking for Dessler, while Yuki is going everywhere looking for him. She was told to stay on the Yamato, but as always, if Kodai goes, she goes. She finds him and Dessler both pointing guns at each other, and Kodai, losing blood, falls unconscious. Yuki jumps from her hiding spot and rushes towards him crying out his name. She grabs his gun and points it at Dessler. Dessler let's them go, he realizes he never should have done any of this, and leaves them. Yuki brings Kodai back to the Yamato. Him, eager to still try and captain the ship and work, tells Sado and Yuki to let him go back to the main bridge. They both refuse.

And to the last part of the season, Kodai, Saito, and Sanada go down to the Comet Empire, along with the Black Tigers, and the Marines, some dying on the way, And the rest of the Marines dying in Gatlantis. Saito sacrifices himself while Kodai and Sanada make it out with Kato, who dies while bringing them back to the Yamato. With the few crewmembers left, they go on medical shuttles back to Earth, while Kodai stays on the Yamato. Yuki walks up to him, he thought that she went back to Earth and is upset because he knows that hes about to ram the Yamato into the Comet Empire, and doesn't want her to die too. She tells him that even if they save Earth, Earth means nothing to her without him there. She also talks about a cancelled ceremony, meaning that they were probably about to get married soon but had to cancel because of the new threat to Earth. Kodai hugs her and tells her that he will always be with her.

As they are about to go and sacrifice themselves, Teresa appears with Shima. She says she will take care of Zordar. She kills him and destroys the Comet Empire. Kodai, Yuki, and Shima get back to Earth safely.

Yamato New Voyage
Year is 2201. In the beginning of the new voyage, there is a memorial for all the dead crew from the battle with the Comet Empire. And afterwards, whats left of the crew sit down and all talk together. Shima asks when Kodai and Yuki are getting married, and that the dead crew will become impatient up in heaven waiting for it. Kodai states that they've extended the wait, and aren't getting married for a while. He says that its alright because no matter what, Yuki is near to him always. Yuki says she is happy with the arrangement.

With a new crew, the Yamato is off on its way for training with the new crew, although they end up having to go to Iscandar again because its now in danger. Mamoru and Starsha have a daughter now, Sasha. Starsha refuses to leave Iscandar and Mamoru takes baby Sasha to the Yamato as Starsha blows up her own planet, dying along with it. Sasha seems drawn to Yuki with her similarities to Starsha.

Be Forever Yamato
Year is 2202. Kodai is in space and Yuki is waiting for his return once again. Although the new alien race we saw in New Voyage, the Black Nebula Empire, are attacking Earth. Kodai returns and Yuki seens him, he sees her too and they both run towards each other beside an area that seems to be on fire. They embrace each other and look into each others eyes, it looks as if Kodai is about to kiss Yuki but he doesn't. "I've found you..." Yuki says. Then giving him a message from Sanada. They have to go back on the Yamato once again, as they're going to the shuttle to get to the Yamato, it isn't working, so Yuki goes to fix the problem. The ship starts to take off and she runs up to it, getting shot in the shoulder by one of the Dark Nebulas. She falls to the ground and Kodai extends his hand to her, they grab hands and he tries to pull her up, but she falls. Kodai tries to jump out of the flying ship after her, but Aihara grabs him before he can. Yuki is left down on Earth and says they will meet again, before falling unconscious.

Kodai then meets "Mio Sanada", Sanada's "neice" that he brought on the Yamato to fill Yuki's place as radar. Kodai later finds out this is actually his neice, Sasha. Mamoru and Starsha's daughter. She is mostly grown up now, because Iscandarians grow at a much faster rate than humans. Kodai misakens her for Yuki a couple times, and accidentally calls her that, because of how much she misses her.

Yuki however, back on Earth was saved by Alphon. A man of the Black Nebula Empire. Alphon saved her after she'd been shot. She cries, wondering where Kodai is. Is he dead? Alive? She has no way of knowing. Alphon says hes fallen in love with her, and asks if she will accept his love. She tells him only if Kodai is proven to be dead, she will. He ends up helping her in the end to save Earth and dying in her arms.

The end of the movie shows Kodai and Yuki running towards each other in dream world of clouds and sunshine. They run into each others arms and Kodai spins her around and holds her tighter.

The Bolar Wars
Year is 2203. Earth finds out the sun is going to explode in the near future. SO of course, our favorite spaceship, the Yamato has go go find another planet for humanity to live on. Kodai and Yuki are seen on a balcony, probably at their own home. Yuki congradulates him on his promotion. Kodai is wondering if they can make this journey, Yuki says he can always do it, Kodai says that she has to work hard too. Then she takes his hand and says they'll do it together. Then she rests her head on his shoulder and they both look up to the sky.

As the Yamato is nearing its take off, Kodai is worried. He says he should be the one wanting to go, but he doesn't. She hugs him tight.

Another scene, later in the season, after Kodai is injured, Yuki takes care of him. He asks why hes here and she tells him he was hurt. Kodai being Kodai, just wants to get up and captain the ship. Yuki tells him not to move or it'll make it worse. She says that Shima, Sanada, and Domon can handle everything. She lays him back down, and tells him to just rest. He tells her to go back to her position too, she replies; "I'm now a nurse. It's inevitable to stay by my patient." She tells him that they are Captain and Lifestyle Commander, and that it's their promise. He apologizes and she says hey, they can finally be together. All because hes hurt, and she'll be taking care of him. He puts his hand on her shoulder and says her name. We see a few newer crew members looking through the window into the medical room, saying; "Oh yes, do it captain!" A few others ask how he is and what they are looking at. Another says "Oh! Holding hands!" and another "Let me see!" With all the bumbing around, they end up opening the door and interrupting Kodai and Yuki's moment.

In the end Princess Ruda gives them a device to help the sun and they need to shoot it at the sun. Kodai shoots with the help of Yuki by his side.

Final Yamato
The year is still 2203, late 2203. In just the first bit of the movie, Kodai was exposed to radiation and is left unconscious on the Yamato. Yuki, Sado and the rest of the medical team go to find any survivors. Yuki sees Kodai unconscious on the ground, screams and runs towards him collapsing onto him screaming "Please don't die!" thinking hes dead, she takes him gun out of his belt and points it at her neck. Luckily, Sanada wakes up in time to hit the gun away from her. She looks at Kodai's body and cries.

Later its seen that Kodai wakes up in the hospital with Yuki holding his hands. She tells him that hes so glad hes alive and he asks where he is, she tells him they're on Earth. Kodai, being Kodai, like every time before, tries to get up and move. Yuki pushes him back telling him it'll just make it worse. He asks what happened to the crew and she tells him they died. He blames himself for it and falls into a deep depression. He resigns the Yamato and Yuki tells Todo that he won't talk to anyone. They now need a new Yamato captain, Todo give Yuki a paper and tells her to get this man to captain the Yamato. We see Yuki gasp, and we don't know who the strange man is. Later finding out the old Captain Okita, has been brought back from the dead. He was still slightly alive and they froze him when they came back from Iscandar in 2200.

Yuki and Kodai, once again, as always, are now off on another journey with the Yamato.

In one scene, Kodai is going in a jet to fight. Yuki goes with him and says that he needs someone on radar right? He reluctantly agrees to let her stay, like back in season 2, not wanting her in danger. He get shot in the shoulder, and Yuki asks if hes okay, he replies with; "Sure, you're here" and smiles. Hes losing blood fast though, and needs to get back to the Yamato. He falls unconscious and Yuki screams into the radio telling Okita that hes unconscious and they're coming back to the Yamato, and cries out to tell Kodai to hang on a little longer. Then we get a sequence of Yuki remembering all the times she spent with him, all of they're moments. With a song about wanting to live happy with someone forever, syaing they could find happiness now. Shes so scared shes going to lose him. After her flashbacks finish, she tells Kodai that they're almost back.

Shima gets shot and doesn't tell anyone about it until Yuki notices, on his deathbed, he tells Yuki that he was in love with her, and she met him before Kodai. Yuki cries. Shima tells Kodai to make Yuki happy, and if he hurts Yuki he'll never be able to forgive him. He dies with Kodai, Yuki and the crew by his side.

Near the end of the movie they all salute, crying as they watch the Yamato, and Okita both sacrifice to save Earth once again. But this time Yamato isn't coming back. Kodai wanted to die with it too but Okita convinced him not to, he said that Kodai needs to stay with Yuki and live with her. Yamato sinks on Dingir.

The post credit scene shows the crew all running on the beach together to watch the sunset. Kodai and Yuki look at each other and then back to the sunset. The whole crew is shown looking out into the sea with wind blowing. The fight is finally over.

The rest of the crew fade away, leaving just Kodai and Yuki. They turn to each other and have a long look into each others eyes. Which then fades to Yuki turning around in her wedding dress. Its finally their wedding. She walks towards him and he puts his hands on her shoulders. She smiles and flies into his arms, he embraces hr and then, is finally, their first onscreen kiss.

The next part includes a sex scene of them. Nothing too explicit but we definitely know whats going on.

Yamato Ressurection
The year is 2220. Nothing happens for them in this movie, Yuki dies within the first 10 minutes. We do get to see their child though, Miyuki Kodai. She blames her dad for the death of her mom, although Kodai never really believes that Yuki is dead. He says when the battle with the SUS is over, they'll go looking for her.

Remake (2012-present)
The remake portrays Kodai and Yuki in a different, but still very similar way to the original. They meet a little differently, still with Kodai and Shima seeing Yuki and thinking she looks like Sasha, but instead of Yuki just passing by them, or asking if Kodai is alright, she straight up is just rude and asks what they're doing here, and that they're way out of line. Then leaves with Nanbu.

Space Battleship Yamato 2199
In 2199, Kodai and Yuki start out a lot differently than in the original. They don't seem to get along at first. They fight all the time, Yuki says that Shima and Kodai are just simple minded boys who are full of themselves. Theres also a few obstacles in the way of their relationship. One being Akira Yamamoto, who was a man in the original but is now a woman and has a crush on Kodai, if you hadn't seen the original you'd probably think they're going to end up together. Another obstacle is Yasuo Nanbu. Who is in love with Yuki and wants to marry her. As the series progresses we see both him and Akira very jealous of Kodai and Yuki.

When they go down to Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, Makoto Harada is giggleing about the chemistry between Kodai and Yuki in the back of the ship, Analyzer is confused. Kodai asks Yuki if he can ask her something weird. Makoto says "Here it comes!" Thinking hes going to ask her out or something, but Kodai just asks if shes related to any aliens, and Makoto faceplants in the back of the ship, then gets up and starts laughing again. Makoto rambles on to Analyzer about the tension between them

On Enceladus, Yuki and Kodai get a bit closer, from fighting with each other, to Kodai saving her and she thanks him for it.

When they leave the Solar System, Yuki sees Kodai with Yamamoto and seems quite jealous. We know she likes him, but is hiding it well. NAnbu is looking for her though, before he can find her he gets trapped by a drunk Makoto in a maid dress falling and stumbling around everywhere.

Yuria Misaki's radio show, radio Yamato, talks about a wishing star. Much happens like in the original for this. Although Yuki and Kodai didn't have a conversation about it. He sees her praying to the star but we don't know what shes wishing for, but we all know what it really is, judging from the original.

Kodai and Yuki's friendship grows as the voyage progresses, less fighting now and more normal conversations. Yuki tells him how she lost her memories and only remembers the past year. Kodai is sitting in one of the jets and Yuki asks if she could hever pilot one of these, Kodai says no way and they both laugh.

In episode 14, Yuki again asks if she can pilot, but this time they're actually flying in space in it. Kodai says no and she begs to let her do it, they laugh and start a playful argument. Little to they know, everyone can hear them on the Yamato through the radio. Nanbu looks upset and Tokugawa smiles saying its nice to be young. They come back to the Yamato to find no one on it at all, besides Yuria. But shes acting very off. Kodai and Yuki grow even closer in this episode and at the end, finally have that conversation that should have been in the prayer star episode, with Yuki's famous; "It's a secret!" line.

Unlike the original, its Kodai who goes to Beemela in the remake instead of Yuki. Kodai along with Analyzer, Yuri(sh)a and Hirata. When Kodai returns he is met, once again like the original, with Yuki running into his arms, and saying shes so glad hes okay. Nanbu sighs.

Later on, Yuki is kidnapped by Gamila spys, looking for the Iscandarian princess Yurisha on board the Yamato. They mistake Yuki for Yurisha given their extremely similar appearances. The real Iscandarian is possessing Yuria, but they wouldn't know that. Yuria looks nothing like an Iscandarian. Kodai is upset. He tries to get them but Yuki is kidnapped and he punches the wall in anger for not being able to save her. The real Yurisha then walks up to him, having woken up from her coma after Yuria's reaction to Hoshina being shot. Kodai looks at Yurisha and mistakes her for Yuki, wondering how she got there. Yurisha replies; "No friend, I am not Yuki. Don't you know? I am Yurisha Iscandar."

Yurisha and Kodai go looking for Yuki. Well, Yurisha sneaks her way into Kodai's ship. Their original plan wasn't meant to save Yuki, because Kodai had no clue where she was. Yurisha asks Kodai if he wants to save Yuki. Kodai says he has no time to talk and she should just leave, he would go find Yuki if he knew where she was. Yurisha says shes on Leptapota, and says that there, now he knows. Yurisha states she loves Yuki, and asks Kodai if he loves Yuki too? Kodai is startled by her sudden wierd question.

Yuki, mistaken by the Gamilas for Yurisha, is put into traditional Iscandarian clothing and has to stay with Norran watching over her. Shes later exposed for not actually being Yurisha by asking what that planet is up there, near Gamilas. Is it a moon? Norran tells her that she should know, because its her "home" planet Iscandar. She asks how long hes knows she wasn't Yurisha for, he tells her he did already know.

Yuki gets blown out into space after Norran betrays her. Kodai is left in his ship floating in a pile of space junk, he thinks hes lost Yuki, but then seens something off in the distance. Its Yuki. He climbs out of the jet and floats towards her. He takes her helmet and puts it against his while shes upside down. She asks if hes dreaming and he tells her that this is all real. He takes her hand and flips her right side up and she pushes herself closer to him. They look ahead to see planet Iscandar before them.

Fanon
Yukodai is a ship shipped by most likely, every single Space Battleship Yamato fan out there. They are the main couple of the show, and both the remake and original focuses mostly on them. Fans of the original series were definetly happy to see that kiss at the end of 2199, unlike the original. The original didn't have an onscreen kiss until their wedding! It took 10 years of 3 seasons and a pile of movies before they FINALLY kissed onscreen. Took them long enough! In the remake they kissed right after Yuki came back from the dead. Also kissing again in 2202, even though Yuki doesn't remember him, she still loved him.

Fandom
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