Space Battleship Yamato aka Star Blazers

[WildStar]

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A ship that looks like a cross between a naval battleship and a submarine. Say it isn't so!?! *laughs* Honestly, this was probably one of coolest series I watched in the 80's. It ranks up there along with shows like Voltron and Macross Superdimensional Fortress : Robotech.

I never read the manga. At the time I was only really watching dubbed anime with the occasional subbed stuff my father brought back from Japan. Simply amazingly quality for way back then. Maybe this is just a testament of how much more time was spent in creating anime.

I think Star Blazers is the most well known anime of its time outside of Robotech in the 80's here in the states. I must get my hands on this again.

[Jigen Daisuke]

I liked Star Blazers alot. I haven't watched the complete series..only the first two parts. The second being very good. Leader Desslock is an awesome character. The editing is annoying, but than again this was aired in America. They didn't want to traumatize and children.

[symph lizard]

I would love to see this subbed, or even faithfully dubbed. Is this the one that was all anti-American in the original, or was that Gatchaman?

Also, the first inkling that I got that anime was anime and Japanese was a friend of my (much older) brother coming to our house on Saturday morning and watching (at least one of) those two with me, Gatchaman and Star Blazers. He thought they were hilarious, since he had just seen the originals in Japan a couple of years earlier. I don't remember right now which one we watched, or if it was both- I'd have to look up dates to be sure. But he ended up sending me a handful of raw VHS tapes when he went home. I really wish I could find them; I never did figure out what any of them were.

[Tharos]

I once dated a girl named Starcia who apparently was named after a character in this show.

[cristeto19181]

This was a great series. I watched it a lot before. :)