In order to get this device, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey.

In turn, its production budget record was broken two years later by Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin III film Castle of Cagliostro (1979).

[4] The film was a commercial success in Japan, drawing an audience of 2.3 million viewers at the box office,[5] and grossing ¥2.1 billion or $23,000,000 (equivalent to $116,000,000 in 2023).

[6] In contemporary reviews, Variety declared the film as "with a few exceptions, strictly Saturday morning tv fare" that "should bore adults silly and, owing to jargon saturated dialog, confuse the six-to-12-year-old audience that might have appreciated it.

"[7] The review commented on the animation, describing it as "flat, static, often poorly- synched and divided into segments for easy commercial insertion.