The official website for the Space Battleship Yamato remake anime series announced today that the next fourth chapter of its latest installment, Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199, will start theatrical screenings in Japan on October 10, 2025. The title of the fourth of the new seven-chapter series (consisting of 26 episodes) is “Mizuiro no Sasha” (“Light Blue Sasha”).
The site also released a teaser trailer and visual for the next chapter. The teaser visual was newly drawn by Kia Asamiya, who is in charge of image drawings for the Yamato 3199 series. The tagline on the visual reads: “The one shot makes the world go crazy.”
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199
Chapter 4 Teaser Trailer
Teaser Visual
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 is based on the feature film Be Forever Yamato (Yamato yo Towa ni in Japan) in 1980, and also includes some elements from the third original TV series Space Battleship Yamato III in 1980-1981.
The first chapter “Kuro no Shinryaku” (“Dark Invasion”) released in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2024, with the second chapter “Sekijitsu no Shutsugeki” (“Sortie of the Red Sun”) following on November 22, 2024. The latest third chapter “Gunjou no Asteroid” (“Asteroid of the Ultramarine Blue”) opened in Japan on April 11, 2025.
The main staff includes:
Original Story: Yoshinobu Nishizaki
General Production Supervisor/ General Writings Supervisor: Shoji Nishizaki
General Director: Harutoshi Fukui
Director: Yamato Naomichi
Series Composition/Screenplay: Harutoshi Fukui
Screenplay: Hideki Oka
Character Design: Nobuteru Yuki
Mechanical Design: Junichiro Tamamori, Yasushi Ishizu, Mika Akeki
CG Producer: Hiroyuki Goto
CG Director: Shosuke Uechi
Music: Akira Miyagawa, Shu Kanematsu / Yasushi Miyagawa
Sound Director: Tomohiro Yoshida
Animation Production: studio MOTHER
Animation Production Cooperation: Satellite
Distributor: Shochiku ODS Division
Crunchyroll is now streaming the first six episodes (of a total 26) of Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 for members in United States, Canada, Great Britain, Channel Islands, Malta, Gibraltar, Isle of Man and Eire, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Central and South America.
Crunchyroll describes Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 as such:
In 2207, two years after Gamilas and Iscandar vanished, a colossal object, the “Grand Reverse” appears, effortlessly breaching Earth’s defenses. Swarms of troops and multi-legged tanks swiftly conquer Earth’s capital city. Amidst the chaos, the old Yamato crew receives a secret order and now begins a voyage for unseen dimensions while humanity’s fate hangs in the balance.
Source: “Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199” official website / X (formerly Twitter)
© Yoshinobu Nishizaki/Space Battleship Yamato 3199 Production Committee
