Space Battleship Yamato
Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Overview
Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Episodes
1. SOS Earth!! Awaken, Space Battleship Yamato
Earth is losing to a superior foe, as the very survival of the planet lies within a message from a distant galax
2. Fire the Signal Gun!! Space Battleship Yamato Takes Off
The hope of the Earth lies within an old battleship found at the bottom of what used to be the Great Eastern Sea.
3. Yamato takes off!! The 296,000 Light Years Challenge
The Earth Defense force mission is clear - take the newly rebuilt Yamato 148,000 light years to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a machine called the Cosmo-Cleaner D which will save Earth from its irradiated state. But will the Gamilas stop them?
Cast & Crew
Kei Tomiyama
Susumu Kodai
Gorō Naya
Juzo Okita
Shūsei Nakamura
Daisuke Shima
Yoko Asagami
Yuki Mori
Takeshi Aono
Shiro Sanada
Ichiro Nagai
Hikozaemon Tokugawa
