Serving as Harlock's first mate on the Arcadia, he is typically depicted as comic relief throughout the series, yet he stands by the captain's side whenever a battle against alien threats looms. He is also a gifted mathematician with a strong passion for constructing plastic model kits of ships; in one episode, he was even shown building a scale model of the Arcadia. The character of Yattaran is based on manga artist Kaoru Shintani, best known for Area 88, who worked for Matsumoto early in his career, building models for reference.
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