Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese science fiction trilogy anime series Space Battleship Yamato I, II & III (宇宙戦艦ヤマト, Uchū Senkan Yamato), first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular English-translated anime that had an over-arching plot and storyline that required the episodes to be shown in order. Even while being toned down a bit by editing, it also dealt ...
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Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese science fiction trilogy anime series Space Battleship Yamato I, II & III (宇宙戦艦ヤマト, Uchū Senkan Yamato), first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular English-translated anime that had an over-arching plot and storyline that required the episodes to be shown in order. Even while being toned down a bit by editing, it also dealt with much more mature themes than any other productions being aimed at the same target audience at the time. As a result, it paved the way for the introduction and popularity of future arc-based, plot-driven anime translations.
In 1978, before the debut of the American Star Blazers series, the Japanese 1977 Space Battleship Yamato movie (or Space Cruiser Yamato as it was known at the time) was dubbed into English and re-titled Space Cruiser. The movie poster illustration for this little known release contained several inaccuracies such as the...
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