Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko

Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko
Screenshot of the series' logo
それゆけ!宇宙戦艦ヤマモト・ヨーコ (Soreyuke! Uchū Senkan Yamamoto Yōko)
Genre	Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Original video animation
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Studio	J.C.Staff, Kadokawa Shoten
Released	March 6, 1996 – June 5, 1996
Runtime	30 minutes
Episodes	3
Original video animation
Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko II それゆけ!宇宙戦艦ヤマモト・ヨーコⅡ
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Studio	J.C.Staff, Kadokawa Shoten
Released	August 6, 1997 – December 22, 1997
Runtime	30 minutes
Episodes	3
Anime television series
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Studio	J.C.Staff, Kadokawa Shoten
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	4 April 1999 – 26 September 1999
Episodes	26

Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko (それゆけ!宇宙戦艦ヤマモト・ヨーコ, Soreyuke! Uchū Senkan Yamamoto Yōko^?) is a sci-fi anime series based on novels by Shoji Takashi. There have been two 3-episode OVAs from J.C.Staff. The series was released in the United States by The Right Stuf International on DVD in 2003. There also was a 26-episode television series which as of July 2008 has not been licensed in the US.

The series is set in 2999 AD, where two factions—TERRA and NESS—are engaged in a space war game to control planets. They fight with spaceships, which have been made to teleport their pilots back to the mother ship upon destruction. This results in the battles having no true casualties. Since the reflexes of people in the 30th century have greatly deteriorated, a TERRA engineer, Curtis Lawson, uses a time machine to go back 1000 years in time. There, he recruits the four protagonists of the story to fight for TERRA.

The following is from the back of the US DVD release:

A thousand years from now, the great battles between civilizations have been reduced to the shoulders of a handful of chosen champions. When a war is waged, each side picks its representatives, gives them spaceships and the fight is on! Of course if their champion loses, they must admit defeat and give in to the wishes of the other. Very handy, very civilized—unless you don't happen to have any good fighters.

Terra team has had it tough lately: Ness' "Red Snappers" team has had things their way. Even with technically superior ships, things are bleak for Terra.

To make matters worse, they only have three pilots. Despite a concerted effort to recruit girls from the past, the team simply keeps losing! Now they desperately need someone special... someone powerful, capable, and who possess a killer instinct. A pilot of extraordinary skill to crew the new model ship. They need... Yamamoto Yohko!

Yohko Yamamoto is an active girl who loves playing space flight video games. While playing at an arcade however, she feels frustrated and unsatisfied with the controls. Following a note she made in her organizer, she goes to a storeroom in her school, only to be met by Momiji Kagariya. Momiji is pleasantly surprised, and pushes Yohko into a starship. In the midst of battle, Yohko regains her lost memories and wins the battle.