Space Battleship Yamato( 1974)

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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.

Leiji Matsumoto
Creator
Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Creator

Series Cast

Kei Tomiyama
Susumu Kodai
Gorō Naya
Juzo Okita
Shūsei Nakamura
Daisuke Shima
Yoko Asagami
Yuki Mori
Takeshi Aono
Shiro Sanada
Ichiro Nagai
Hikozaemon Tokugawa
Kenichi Ogata
Analyzer
Yoshito Yasuhara
Kenjiro Ota
Taichiro Hirokawa
Mamoru Kodai
Sachiko Chijimatsu
Shima's Mother
Michiko Hirai
Starsha (voice)
Masatô Ibu
Heikuro Todo
Michihiro Ikemizu
Sukeharu Yabu
Akira Kamiya
Saburo Kato
Keisuke Yamashita
Yasuo Nanbu
Haruko Kitahama
Beemera Queen
Osamu Kobayashi
General Domel
Akiko Tsuboi
Akiko Kodai
Shinji Nomura
Yoshikazu Aihara

Current Season

Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars

1980 | 25 Episodes

Space Battleship Yamato III is the third TV season of the Space Battleship Yamato franchise, produced in Japan in 1980. The story begins at an undisclosed date, but was traditionally believed to have taken place in the year 2205 due to statements made in several of the publications devoted to Yamato III. However, the sequel film, Final Yamato, explicitly took place in late 2203, so after the film was released, the date of Yamato III was assumed to be early 2203.