Space Battleship Yamato

Original title: Uchû senkan Yamato

TV Series
1974–1975
30m

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In the year 2199, the space battleship Yamato embarks on a voyage to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth.In the year 2199, the space battleship Yamato embarks on a voyage to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth.In the year 2199, the space battleship Yamato embarks on a voyage to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth.

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Trivia
This series is considered a groundbreaker for NOT being based on a manga, but instead making its debut as a manga (comic) and a television series simultaneously. Beforehand, every animated series in Japan had been based on a comic; the manga would have to prove itself before its television adaptations (known as "terebi manga" - television comics) followed. However, the success of this series generated a new term - anime.

Quotes
Chorus: Saraba chikyu o, tadibatsu fune wa, uchu senkan Yamato... Bid farewell to the Earth, for our ship is setting off, the Space Battleship, Yamato...

Connections
Alternate-language version of Star Blazers (1979)

Soundtracks
Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato)
Lyrics by Yû Aku
Musical Arraignments by Hiroshi Miyagawa
Performed by Isao Sasaki & Musical Academy
Courtesy of Columbia Records, Asahi Sonorama

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STAR BLAZERS is born

Recently the original two hour SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO movie was shown at a local university. Watching it offered more questions than answers in pondering how the 120 minute movie was edited into the first STAR BLAZERS series. What stands to memory is that STAR BLAZERS had its storyline given more detail and enrichment. However, either version is fun to watch.

The story, the music, the space battles, the animation... the two words to describe it is PURE FUN!

Enthralled, simply enthralled watching the STAR BLAZERS TV series for the first time 20 years ago. I have seen a fair number of Japanese cartoon series and no characters remain as vivid and real as the crew of the Argo.