Daisuke Shima is the Yamato's pilot. He is seen on mars with his best friend and Officer School companion, Susumu Kodai during Operation M, and is present when Princess Sasha of Iscandar is killed in a fatal crash delivering the Wave-motion core for the Yamato. He is picked up by the Kirishima 3 weeks later with Kodai and returns to Earth. He joins Kodai in his confrontation with Admiral Okita and facepalms when Admiral Hijikata talks him down. He joins Kodai in a stolen cosmo zero to confront some Garmillas scout and is subsequently marooned with him when the fighter crashes, near the wreck of the IJN Yamato. ("Messenger of Iscandar")