Susumu Kodai
Susumu Kodai is a male anime and manga character who features in Space Battleship Yamato.
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Biography
Susumu Kodai (Japanese: 古代進, 古代 進, Hepburn: Kodai Susumu)
Susumu grew up with his supportive elder brother, Mamoru. In or after 2193, most of the Kodai family was killed in the planet bombing of Earth by the Great Garmillas Empire, leaving only the two brothers. Mamoru gave their father's harmonica to young Susumu, a gift that Susumu would continue to carry with him into adulthood. Kodai followed in his elder brother's footsteps several years later and enrolled in the Space Officer Training Academy. While there, he studied under the guidance of the academy's headmaster, Ryu Hijikata, and received practical instruction from Isami Enomoto, a long-time non-commissioned officer. His academy classmates included Hajime Hirata and Daisuke Shima. At some point after graduation, Kodai was assigned to the7th Air Wing Space Tactical Division.
Kodai was stationed for a number of weeks with Shima in the ruins of Arcadia Port on Mars as part of Operation M in January 2199, waiting to rendezvous with an alien emissary. The alien vessel crashed into the Martian desert and the emissary died after ejecting, but Kodai and Shima successfully retrieved the wave motion core that she had tried to deliver. After the two were picked up from Mars by the flagship Kirishima, Kodai learned that his older brother's ship had been destroyed by Garmillan forces at Pluto in a disastrous battle that had been nothing more than a decoy. Back on Earth, he angrily attempted to confront the commanding officer, Admiral Juzo Okita, but was stopped and chastised for his behavior by Yuki Mori. Kodai relented and calmed himself, but later that day, an alarm sounded at the approach of enemy planes and a carrier. Eager for a chance to avenge his brother's death, Kodai encouraged Shima to help him commandeer an experimental Cosmo Zero fighter undergoing maintenance and flew off to intercept the intruder near the Japanese island of Kyushu. Despite being able to quickly target the reconnaissance plane, Kodai had neglected to notice that his fighter was unarmed; several seconds later, the fighter suffered engine failure and crashed into the dry sea floor. Kodai and Shima both walked away and watched from hiding as other UNCN fighters engaged the Garmillas planes, and what appeared to be an ancient sunken battleship fired on the carrier. Only after they were rescued did the two realize that what appeared to be an ancient relic would be their next assignment: the space battleship Yamato.
Overview
Personality and attributes
His older brother was Mamoru Kodai who came to be a captain of the Yukikaze.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Susumu Kodai was created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki where he featured in the setting of the Space Battleship Yamato universe.
- According to Leiji Matsumoto's notes in the paperback edition of "Space Battleship Yamato," Kodai was originally supposed to resemble Nobotta Ooyama of "Otoko Oidon," or Futoshi Adachi of "Ganso dai Yojohan o Monogatari." He was redesigned at the sponsors' request to make him "cool like Hiromi Go."
In other media
Films
Appearances
- Space Battleship Yamato:
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