Star Blazers

Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime series, Space Battleship Yamato I, II, and III . Star Blazers was 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. It dealt with somewhat more mature themes than other productions aimed at the same target audience at the time. As a result, it paved the way for future arc-based, plot-driven anime translations. In 1976, before the debut of the American... Star Blazers series, the 1977 Japanese Space Battleship Yamato was dubbed into English and re-titled Space Cruiser. This film was sold and released in several countries, including the U.S., France, and Britain. The U.S. release was extremely limited, and eventually ended up airing on television in the Los Angeles area in 1978.
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