The year is 2199. The once blue and green planet Earth has been reduced to a radioactive desert wasteland by constant attacks by the hostile aliens from the planet Gamilus which force the remaining population underground. However, a friendly alien race from the planet Iscandar contacts the humans and gives them the blueprints to build a powerful space battleship capable of retrieving a device to clean the planet before humanity disappears. The United Nations Cosmo Navy - whose space fleets have been decimated by Gamilas forces - resurrects the long-sunken battleship Yamato and applies the alien technology to its interior, transforming it into the vessel for which the series is named: Space Battleship Yamato.

The manga centers around Noemi Kohiyama, a second-year student at Count High School, a school with no established reputation in the world of tankery. Her first match as a tank commander is against Saunders University High School. She directs the crew of her tank with her orders, and she follows the orders of their team leader. At that time, she remembers the words that her senior said to her.

In the deteriorated future city of Tokyo, Lena operates an antique shop. She judges the level of energy within each piece, and sells only those antiques that have received an ample amount of love from their previous owners. Read about her life, as she struggles with the various emotions that the previous owners held for their pieces.

I'm going to tell you a story - an old story about when I was called a witch. I was 16 at the time, and even though many of my memories are now wrapped up in the cloak of time, I can still clearly remember the feelings of that time.... The story of Edith, a girl who can sense other people's thoughts and feelings. (Source: MangaZ, translated)

An anthology comic of Strike Witches by various mangaka.