If you haven't already seen these two films you might want to skip this page. Each film is the final installment of their respective storylines and so are also involved with some pivotal events between Kodai and Yuki. Neither provide the grand romantic climax of, for instance, Lisa Hayes and Rick Hunter getting married in Robotech: The Sentinels, but the climax is there all the same.

At the opening of Farewell, Kodai is returning to earth. In three days he and Yuki are scheduled to be married. While Kodai has a nice little picture frame for Yuki's snapshot on the bridge, he seems emotionally detached from anything involving the wedding or their lives together. Sure, there's the White Comet and that weird message from out in space on his mind. When these two take priority over everything else to the point where the old crew of the Yamato unite to defy orders and lift off, Yuki seems to kiss her dream day away on a sigh as she offers to gather Kodai's things.

So why wasn't Yuki automatically included in the new expedition? She had been a member of the crew as much as anyone else. It seems that we're suppose to assume Kodai wants to keep her safe on earth. Well, Kodai can't keep Yuki from doing what she wants, as she stows away and hides out in the medical center. He's pretty irritated when he finds her and orders her off the ship somewhere in the vicinity of Jupiter. Guys, take note--this isn't the best way to treat your fiancee.

Don't expect sparks flying on the bridge, or at least not until the ending of the film. First Yuki blocks a laser shot aimed at Kodai, for all intents and purposes saving his life. But no, he's convinced she'll pull through, and the selfless Yuki encourages him to believe in her recovery. This is all rendered moot fairly quickly when a shot to the bridge kills Yuki. Still, it's the other lost members of the crew Kodai obviously mourns--at least until he's alone on the bridge with Yuki's corpse ready to plunge the Yamato into Zordar's battle fortress. Then it becomes an almost mystical kind of marriage for Kodai and Yuki.

Final Yamato is a happier tale for Kodai and Yuki. Granted, she is brought to believe that the Yamato has returned home with a dead crew, and she attempts to shoot herself rather than live without Kodai. But much later when Kodai is injured and yet takes on a recognizance mission, at least he doesn't bite her head off for insisting on going with him. There's more of a sense of harmony and coupledom in this film.

A lot has been made of the original wedding sequence at the film's end which contained the sex scene pictured in the galleries here on this site. It's hardly hentai, but the distributors got nervous all the same. The most recent edition features footage suggesting Kodai and Yuki's wedding.