Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is a oVA anime that premiered in spring 2012, produced by Xebec.

About the production: the story comes from an original script, there are 26 episodes of about 25 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, drama and sci-fi, with themes such as Space, Space Opera, Aliens and Military.

On AniList, Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 has an average score of 80%, a very good score, and appears on 31,522 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi.

The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader's assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth. It contains humanity's last hope: the planet Iscandar on the other side of the Magellan Galaxy has the technology to defeat the Gamilos and restore the planet. The space battleship Yamato is entrusted with this task, but they have only one year before humanity ends. (Source: Anime News Network)

Official synopsis from AniList.