- Juzo Okita: Attention, all remaining ships and battle groups. We will retreat. We no longer have a single ship that can prevail.
- Mamoru Kodai: Captain Okita, this is Yukikaze, Captain Mamoru Kodai! I cannot obey your command to withdraw! I could never show my face to the friends I've lost!
- Juzo Okita: Whether you agree with it or not, the withdrawal is my order, Kodai. We're all that's left to defend the Earth. A true man bears the humiliation of today for the sake of tomorrow.
- Mamoru Kodai: I don't think so! Even if it's hopeless, we can still take our enemies with us! Isn't that what a man does?
- Juzo Okita: Kodai! Hear my order: Withdraw!
- Mamoru Kodai: I'll fight while you withdraw, Captain Okita!
- Juzo Okita: Kodai, don't say such a stupid thing!
- Mamoru Kodai: Captain Okita... we're proud to have fought with you.
- Narrator: Space stretches into infinity. Countless stars die as others are born. And thus, space is alive.
- Yuki Mori: Saving Earth won't matter, nothing will matter if you're not there with me!
- Susumu Kodai: But I will be! If I save the Earth, I'll be there in every tree, flower, and blade of grass!
- Susumu Kodai: Attention all personnel. This is Acting Captain Kodai. Our landing is about to commence. This will probably be the last battle in our long journey of 148,000 light-years. In April of 1945, the battleship Yamato set sail to bring a ray of hope into a time of utter despair. We do the same. The coordinates we were sent may be a trap. We may only be playing into the enemy's hands. But as long as there is one faint ray of light in the dark, as long as we have even a chance, we must go forward. That is the destiny of any ship named Yamato. And that is the mission we have been assigned. I ask you all to remember that. Let us win this fight and transform a faint chance into real hope!