Susumu Kodai

 is a fictional character appearing in "Space Battleship Yamato". In the "Star Blazers" localization, he is known as Derek Wildstar.
Character commentary.
In "Space Battleship Yamato" he is a battle group leader, from the latter half of his work he also serves as captain. In "Farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi", after the death of the Captain Avatar, he took over as the new captain. Captain of the "Space Battleship Yamato III".
Destroyer Yukiko 's captain' s ancestor is an elder brother.
According to Matsumoto Zaishi 's comment at the bunko version "Space Battleship Yamato" [citation disabled], it was originally planned to be like Adachi Shota of "Men Oddo" and Adachi Taito of "Original giant tatami mato half story" However, it became the current appearance with the sponsors' request as "Hiroshi Go Town" looks cool.
What became the origin of the name is the hero of the Matsumoto version "Speed Esper" "Ancient Eisai". In addition, the name "Susumu" itself was taken from Matsumoto Susumu (brother Matsumoto's younger brother).
Remake animation.
In this series with the first work of "Space Battleship Yamato 2199" [remake] work of "Space Battleship Yamato", the settings were reconstructed from the original animation series (hereinafter referred to as old works) The tactics department, the position was the tactical chief, the rank became lieutenant (first squad). Born in 2178 July 7
Appearance in the play (remake animation).
Also involved in things that were not deeply involved in animation, such as:
live-action movie.
"Space Battleship Yamato" which is a live-action work of "Space Battleship Yamato"] was born in 2166 October 31, and the age at age 33. He was the Ace of the Cosmo Zero Corps. On one mission he led his team in attempt to shoot down the Gamilas planetary bomb headed for earth, but ended up deflecting it. Victory was declared as the earth was spared from destruction but what he didn't know then was that the planetary bomb was deflected into the path of a space station orbiting earth. Unfortunately, Kodai's parents happen to live on that space station. They will killed that day.
Some time later. Kodai left the flying corps and started living in an underground city and collects rare metals on the radiation filled surface of earth. Reason unknown. One day on the surface. A capsule from space with an artifact on board crashes near his location. The impact destroys his radiation protection suit. But he survives thanks to the artifact. He was then picked up by the military for decontamination and debriefing.
He later re-enlist into military again upon hearing the call for volunteers for a mission to an alien planet known as Iskandar to retrieve an terraforming device which would save humanity and restore the earth to the way it was before.
He is assigned to the space battleship Yamato and appointed as the ship's tactical officer. Although he is reluctant and thinks that he is unworthy. Kodai would later take on the role as acting captain of the Yamato.